I see a guy yell "Help SHARK" i just laughed i knew that shark wasn't gonna help him!

Saw this in the theater when I was 12 in Wells Beach Maine while on family vacation. The whole country had the same reaction you had. In fact the sequel, Jaws 2, had the tag line, "Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water..."

They allow you to use the clips and you can get monetized with the clips in the videos?

@@Lethgar_Smith Same here, I was 12 that summer and we were vacationing at the beach in New Jersey, I didn't go in the water the rest of the trip

Bruce was named after Spielberg's lawyer -Bruce Raynor,

Though it is unfortunate that this movie led to quite a bit of poaching of Great White Sharks

Nice, thank's for sharing! I became a botanist. Edit: never make comments while you're in the field. It's thanks not that's or was my spell check over correcting again?

@@thedeepfriar745 Someone on another video said Peter Benchley really regretted that was the outcome to a fictional film. Glad we stopped doing that. Probably due to KZfaq videos showing how intelligent and pretty adorable sharks of all types, including Great Whites, can be when they trust a person to give them belly rubs

Saw it when I was five and ended up going to cal state Monterey for marine bio as well lol looks like we have similar stories 😂

Saw this at age 8 too and was too scared to learn to swim...and I live on an island. Don't like the ocean because of this movie. Still like sharks tho. I just stay out of their habitat. Lol

Spielberg regretted putting that in. He felt it cheapened what should have been the main scare when the shark emerges from the water as Brody is shovelling the chump.

It’s a good jump scare, but I think the blood test in The Thing beats it.

Exorcist III still has the greatest jump scare ever

@@scwotz yes, the jump scare with Brody was the one that got me, as well as most of the other people in the theater as well!

Nothing generated more sleepless nights and nightmares for 8 year old me than that head popping up.

Swimming in a dark pool at night is super creepy.

@Matuse I was 13 when I saw this, visiting relatives in New York state who happened to have a pool in their back yard and it just so happens the light at the dark end of the pool wasn't working. I'll never forget how terrified I was for the few brief seconds I stared into the deep end. It took years before I could ever swim in a lake again in the daytime. I still don't swim at night, certainly not in a dark pool and damn sure no swimming in the ocean. @SuperMadMardigan I got chills reading your comment. Suddenly I was 13 again. 😳

Jaws made this soon to be 8 year old scared to walk through the dark hallway of my apartment towards the bathroom to take a leak because I was scared that a shark was gonna eat me.

Very, very low IQ people

I grew up in Tucson, AZ. I was afraid to swim in my pool after seeing this as a kid. True!

Am 90% sure they made a movie about it , the guy that played Mick Hammer was in it unless am mistaken.

@@delboy7264They made a movie in 2016 called USS Indianapolis: Men Of Courage that stared Nicolas Cage and honestly its pretty accurate to the way Robert Shaw describes it in Jaws really good movie i definitely recommend it

more like After nearly five days in the water, 317 of the original 1,196 crew were finally rescued

@@Pinkielover yeah it’s harsh. I don’t think all that many were killed by the sharks although it’s pretty much impossible to know for sure. Of the 900 in the water I think most died to exposure, and stuff like salt poisoning. But still, seeing your crew mates die one by one and then the bodies being dragged away by the sharks, treading water for days… you begin to understand Quint’s vendetta

The Indianapolis delivered parts of the atomic bombs to Tinian Island and was torpedoed when leaving. Since the mission was so secret it was long after overdue that the survivors finally were rescued from the water. About a third of the crew died in the torpedoing, sharks and exposure got the rest.

The U.S.S. Indianapolis carried, "Little Boy" to be dropped on Hiroshima. The ship couldn't notify about the emergency because of security. Terrible.

Some also went mad from finally giving in and drinking salt water. 5 days at sea before they were found. There's a book called In Harms Way that covers it completely and its excellent.

I've always loved that little moment from the first time I saw the movie.

Lol, yeah you can see that "ahh shit" reaction that just can't be faked.

It's funny that you mentioned this because when I saw it, I thought it looked too real for it to be scripted.

It was actually cut down because the actor said he couldn’t remember the entire speech. So they wrote it in a way that he could remember and act it and that’s what’s in the movie. Richard Dreyfus said he wasn’t even acting there he was completely memorized by the speech he just sat there listening.

The horror of our American sailors went through is unimaginable. Greatest generation.

Thank you! Definitely a masterpiece!

@@TBRSchmitt yes it is I have all the Jaws movie's

@@TBRSchmitt Fun facts: The first shark attack victim (Christine Watkins) was played by a stunt woman. She was on a pulley system and the test bites were someone pulling her from underwater. The beach scene the following morning where the crabs are crawling all over the hand actually belonged to a female member of the production crew because the prosthetic hand did not look realistic enough. The scene where Ben Gardner's head pops out of the boat was filmed in editor Verna Fields' swimming pool and milk was added to give it a murky look.

@@wrigleyville In the book Hooper was banging Brody's wife. And in the theater for part 4, Jake's presumed dead cuz he never surfaced.

Scary, was watching it , in the front row of a small theater , during its opening week in 1975, if you were 9 years old at the time! LOL. Great film. But It gets worse , - Then, about a week later my family, took a week vacation to Destin, Florida . And to make matters worse, I had the same exact float/raft, that "that Kitner boy" had, in the movie ! LOL, I knew I was dead. I was convinced at that point, being 9 years old and floating off the beach in Florida, in July-August of 1975, after seeing "JAWS" a couple weeks earlier ,that my mom and step-dad were trying to kill me with that float. LOL I made it :), but damn, that was a tense summer !

I'm the same age, and when we went to see it, my uncle went with us. I was sitting next to him while he had a drink in one hand, popcorn in the other, and when that head appeared in the sunken boat, it started raining soda and popcorn!

Oooooh....i WISH i had experienced it first run in theaters. I watched it for the first time in the late 1980s on VHS. You're lucky to have seen it in it's prime.

At least that was the ocean. We were in the middle of the country and almost no one would go in the municipal pool.

This movie did for going to the beach what Psycho did for taking a shower.

I had no problems swimming in the ocean after I saw the movie.. But I did witness the killing of sharks firsthandread my main comment

I agree it's probably my favourite movie too - certainly my "most watched" along with "The Exorcist". What others are in your top 5?

I go to sleep to jaws every single night 🤣

@@nigelw7626 Narrowing it down to Top Five is difficult and it will change over time. The list today, would be the following: (1). “Jaws” (2) “Rear Window”, (3) North By Northwest”, (4) “It’s a Wonderful Life” (5) “Rosemary’s Baby” (5) “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (5) “Harold and Maude” (5) “Sideways” (5) “Sling Blade” (5) “Schindler’s List” (5) “Stand By Me” (5) “Gran Torino” (5) “12 Angry Men” There, my top 5.

I'm with you my all time favorite movie. I try to watch it once month. Watching utube videos helps me get my jaws fix in, in under 1:00. 😆 I also love seeing the younger generation enjoying it and still getting scared.

It is also my favorite movie. There is a documentary on the making of this movie that is so amazing to watch. This movie was so hard to make.

Yeah that depends on context.

So what chur saying is that OLE-SKOOL is the best way to direct the movie

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@@toddtaylor6506 Practical effects from , 2001: A Space Odyssey , hold up still today , compared to some sci-fi movies that are nothing but CGI .

And the tagline for Jaws 2 was "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water..."

Kept me out of swimming pools.

And I was! As a kid I would feel a little scared, even in a swimming pool, thinking something like that could be nearby.

@@jowbloe3673 I thought it was "See it...before you go swimming."

Yeah and whats fascinating to me is just how much of a run of blockbusters Spielberg had single-handedly over the next 20yrs. The same thing Citizen Kane did for revolutionizing the language of cinematography, Jaws did for the narrative structure and beat sheet of kids-of-all-ages blockbusters (much of its techniques directorially were inspired by Hitchcock). That narrative structure being applied to actual kids-casted films is precisely why 80s films like The Goonies exists, but even the likes of Men In Black and Endgame are a thing thanks to Jaws.

Jaws + Star Wars

"Jaws changed EVERYTHING. We literally wouldn’t have had the past 45+ years of blockbusters (for better or worse) if it wasn’t for Jaws being the massive success that it was. Jaws is the entire reason the tent pole system exists today. To me, that’s the real legacy of Jaws. Not the (imo) irrational fear of sharks." There's another post here that mentions having seen the movie originally in the theaters and people going to the beach afterwards, but noone went deeper than the waist. While a fear of shark attacks is usually irrational, the possibility of drowning is quite common... Maybe it did save quite a few lives on that account.

Yes, they used to dump movies out during the summer because they didn't make much money then. Until Jaws became the fastest money maker ever and the summer blockbuster was born. Jaws is the reason Star Wars was released at the beginning of summer.

Whats "tent pole system" i tried to google..i mean ur not talking about actual tents are u?

You can be respectful while also criticizing said iconic scenes.

@@J0kerHecz Yes you can- but some reactors are not respectful of the classics- These 2 always have near perfect reactions!

I know😪

RIP 😔

Yes, and to know that actor Robert Shaw died just 3 years later made it even worse.

Yes. That scene scarred me for life haha, but kinda love it- it's so , I don't know how to describe it- great moviemaking.

Yeah, he was a bit of an asshole but that's no reason to die.

Now that’s a mug I have not seen in a very long time

Pity about Jaws: The Revenge. 🤣🤣

Maybe, but it's just a repeat of the first one.

@@stephendavis5530 Michael Caine is the only reason to watch that movie.

@@stephendavis5530 Jaws: The Revenge, or Jaws 4 as it is sometimes referred to is SO bad that it reaches an unintended comedic level, making the film a rather fun watch. Watching the shark at the end coming at them inexplicably gliding on its tail while roaring like a lion is pure comedy gold.

haha valid point!

I always thought it would have been a fantastic "end credit" moment to show the bloody carcass sinking into the depths, then suddenly have an even BIGGER shark swim out of the murk and snatch it up in one bite before disappearing back into the ocean depths... Perfect way to lead into Jaws 2. 😂

I like to pretend 3 & 4 don't exist. lol

Absolutely agree with your comments! What a treat!

The actress attacked by the shark suffered back injuries from being jerked around so violently by the cables attached to her underwater.

they always have great discussion afterwards, which i love to listen

I'm here to question things like why reactors never seem to watch bad movies, I mean Jaws sequels reactions would be fun to see :D

And Benchley himself cameos as the news reporter on the beach!

Speilberg has expressed regrets as well that the film gave such a negative connotation to sharks

Not really. He never regretted the book.

@@mckenzie.latham91 Sharks gave themselves negative connotations by eating and maiming people for thousands of years.

That AA like meeting they had where he introduced himself was hilarious.

Steven Speilberg named the mechanical shark Bruce after his lawyer.

I assumed he was named Bruce because he was an Aussie. But they may have given him the accent *because* of the name...

@@livebackwards So the shark in Nemo is named after a shark named after a lawyer...

Was this one named Bruce? I don't recall ever hearing that.

And that speech was written by "Quint" himself, Robert Shaw.

@@creech54 it was written by Spielberg friend and colleague John Milius. Shaw was amazed at what he had read but judged it was too long and edited it down to its final version during shooting.

@@genghispecan Call it editing, if you want, but Shaw wrote the scene we see in the movie. If they had filmed what Milius wrote, we'd all be fast-forwarding through that part of the movie.

@@creech54 "...we'd all be fast forwarding through that part of the movie." Oh...THAT is easily the most amusing thing I've heard in a couple of weeks - hat's off to you sir. And no, it was not my intent to diminish the contribution offered by Shaw, a classically trained actor/writer of many talents. Indeed, through his well-seasoned prowess , he elevated the material and crafted something that remains as hauntingly mesmerizing as it was almost fifty years ago. SMH, almost fifty years ago; where does the time go?

You can really feel a lot of John Milius in that speech - all the very specific military references.

Totally Agree! Brilliant!

Guess again. People don't jump out of their skin when the cello plays. They do it when the fish sticks his head out of the water.

Yep, one of those movies where if you don't get a card you don't get a seat.

And it was the first movie I remember where they cleared out the theater between shows. Up til then, it was quite common for people to remain in the theater to watch a movie a 2nd time.

Oh, I very vividly remember checking the movie schedule in the newspaper (though actually getting to those movies was a nightmare and basically never happened for me :/ ) and seeing the "42nd week" and similar. That was before home video (much less streaming!), if you wanted to see a movie, you had to go to the theater.

Wow that is insane! No idea it ran that long, definitely deserved though!

Back in the days before VHS and if you watched a film you saw it in the theatre

My favorite is "I'll never put on a life jacket again."

Some people who get to know the story of the USS Indianapolis kind of sees it that way. There is, in all that story, another level of "karmic" element to it (that's not mentioned in that brilliant scene of the film): the commanding officer of the submarine that sunk USS Indianapolis, Mochitsura Hasimoto, lost his entire family (wife, and three children) in the bombing of Hiroshima. Although Hasimoto and his submarine got some general news of the attacks through regular communications, he continued on patrol until August 15 when it was confirmed Japan had surrended; only after he returned to port he got cofirmation of the loss of his family. Hashimoto would go on to become the first japanese soldier to testify in an american court martial (the captain of the USS Indianapolis was court martialed for the loss of his own ship; to cover some of the bad choices that led to the disaster), something that sparked a lot of rage. Hashimoto testified (and insisted during all his life) that the captain of the Indianapolis, Charles B. McVay III, couldn't have saved the ship; the japanese submarine had all the advantages to sink it. His testimony didn't have much impact, though, and McVay was declared guilty and would, later on, take his life, unable to bear with the constant harassment from the relatives of the lost sailors of the Indianapolis. Hashimoto went on to become a Shinto priest, and during the 1990, joined the effort started by a highschool student to clear McVay's record. Hasimoto wouldn't see the success of this endeavor, sadly: he died on October 25, 2000, at the age of 91; just five days before the US Congress passed the resolution that offically cleared McVay for the whole affair.

No, because it was the act of the bomb that ended the war so swiftly, so in retrospect made it that much more significant that they had, the real retribution is as you can see, Quint utterly hates sharks because of his experience, and kills them for a living, with a zeal even, not just charters, but for fun, to take revenge from his point of view.

@@DocuzanQuitomos That's interesting stuff, thanks for sharing it.

It reminds me of the spongebob episode where the giant clam eats Mr Krabs 1 millionth dollar, and every time the clam or danger appears ominous jaws like music plays “Hurry Spongebob the musics' getting louder!”

What do you mean by "the ocean music"?

@@trevorb6 soundtrack music that plays while you are in the ocean. Which you can use to keep alert of your surroundings, by adjusting to the tone of the music. But, it was just a joke. The ocean in my experience creates a lot of muffled liquid sounds, or conveys the sounds of objects colliding or scraping each other (squeaks, bumps, etc.), and also your own internal sounds are amplified. Also, sometimes crackling.

Yes. The same reason Predator was such a great movie.

A problem with movies nowadays. Show and tell way too much.

It's realistic... you don't usually SEE sharks unless you're underwater with goggles... and a shark is NEAR.

would be even more terrifying today with IMAX, etc.

Yes me too. Always think it’s a very telling moment for Both Quint …and the movie. And to have him end that way - made a huge impact on movie watchers.

I say "You're gonna need a bigger bowl" when I'm in the kitchen.

Jaws is damn good at building tension. And its used well for that build up of what is basically the only jump scare of the movie. That's around the halfway point I think. Probably a touch past it. Still makes me flinch a bit every now and then on rewatch and I know it's coming.

That'd be the 'Indianapolis' (but I'm sure there's a USS Independence out there somewhere with a true story too 😃

Spielberg's father served in the army in the Pacific, so he had probably heard about the USS Indianapolis CA-35 multiple times. USS Independence LCS-2 is a modern combat vessel that set sail in 2009 and decommissioned in 2020. There was however a USS Independence CVL-22, but it was apart of the small fleet assembled in the Bikini Atoll atomic test site, and destroyed in the resulting blast. There have been around five US Naval vessels to use the name Independence.

The story that Quint/Shaw is referring to was IIRC declassified shortly before the movie was made making it fresh news. It had been classified as that was the ship that had carried the atomic bombs over to Asia that were ultimately dropped on Japan. I though I'd heard that Shaw had taken the story to make that monologue and originally it wasn't in the script. I'm not sure how true that part was.

My friends great uncle was on the Indianapolis. Said his uncle lost a part of his hand to a shark

@@joeees7790 The only part that was declassified was the fact the USS Indianapolis carried the atomic bombs, not that the vessel was sunk. It wasn't widely known about but it wasn't a secret that the vessel had been sunk. When the crew was rescued it made it into the news at the time, and a trial was held too after the war. The Captain was being blamed, since they weren't doing the zig-zag pattern they were suppose to do, to attempt to avoid submarines. Of course, the Japanese commander of the submarine said under oath that it wouldn't have mattered, that they had been following the Indianapolis for quite some time before attacking. Its a shame what was done to Captain Charles B. McVay III. He committed suicide in 68, since the blame was laid upon him.

The original B&W?

@@Paul_Waller Also worth a watch to be fair, but I'm referring to the 1986, Jeff Goldblum version.

Coming in October!

@@TBRSchmitt The perfect month for such a film too hehe! Looking forward to it :)

Haha had to give credit to that perfectively timed camera trick!

6:28 "The dog's gone? Oh f..., why can't it go after the lady?" 😂😂😂 🐕+🦈=😭 🙋‍♀️+🦈=😐

Awesome! Fresh eyes can sometimes reveal new perspectives!

@@TBRSchmitt was 12 when it came out....scared me 4 life of any body of water lakes beaches ponds u name it.

Sorcerer is a remake of a film called 'The wages of Fear' Both are great. William Friedkin's Sorcerer is very underrated. This is a suspenseful, gnaw-off-your-fingernails movie. None of the characters is likable which is a credit to the movie and how intense it is, even when you don't like the characters you're on the edge of your seat. Maybe if the film had a different title it would have been successful. I enjoyed it. All that Jazz- another great film. Scheider kills it.

I hope they didn't want to WATCH Duel. SPOILER ALERT! 😧

Yeah he really hated that so many people were terrified of sharks due to his book and the movie based on it.

A 'voiceo'?

O Nice!

@Aniwayas Song Gremlins and Back to the Future are the same "Hill Valley" movie set. Universal Studios. On November 6, 1990, an arson fire on the Universal Studios Hollywood backlot destroyed much of Courthouse Square, the setting in which all the other time periods were filmed.

Oh, when I saw a re-release, a friend saw it with me, the second that "COme down here and chum some of this shit", her ass levitated out of her seat.

"This was the late 70's" Mid 70s. This came out the summer of the 1975.

alucard624 Correction it was G/PG/R/X and it almost got X rating because of the girl stripping naked at the beginning.

@@lestatdelc Fixed it.

I think Red Dawn was the first PG-13 movie.

@@rpg7287 You're right.

and he never puts one on, like he said he’d never do again.

this was also the first blockbusters

I think you nailed it about a “B movie” especially when you consider Zanuck/Brown’s previous film was Sssssss! “Sssssss did ok let’s make this shark picture it’ll play well during the summer at the drive-in.” 😂

My father was a search and rescue diver. The condition of the head was accurate

@@MrSnyder1961 My comment was about the opportunity to add to the jump scare, not about condition.

Not that that stopped anyone from trying. lol

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Star Wars. The Godfather. Gone With The Wind.

@@redrick8900All good, not better.

@@johnmc3862 Well they are better.

Still scares me every time, great movie moment.

I saw Jaws with my jaded teenage daughter in a Harkins Classic Tuesdays showing a few years ago and that moment still worked - on her and the rest of the audience.

@@DeanStrickson Haha Ben Gardiner's head bringing the generations together in terror. Magical. :)

Seriously I was waiting for them to freak out, still a scary moment 46 years later. One of the best reshoots ever.

Jaws 2 is a too similar rehash, with some even more ridiculous attacks, and seriously lacks the chemistry between Scheider, Dreyfuss and Shaw.