People always say "not the dog, not the kids" then Spielberg says... "How about both? In one scene."

The history about the USS Indianapolis is true 100%. of the 1200 sailors, about 900 survived the sinking, but at the end only 316 were rescued alive, the other died of exposure to the elements and shark attacks, is impossible to know the exact number is estimated than more of 100 sailors were victims of the sharks. Nobody was aware of the missing ship because it was a super secret mission.

Oh my gosh Mary, when the guy's head popped out of the hole in the boat, EVERYONE IN THE THEATER SCREAMED. I have never had an experience that approaches that collective scare since.

“The kids are out there unsupervised? Even without the shark…that is confusing.” Welcome to summer childhood in the ‘60s and ‘70s, Mary! We were left to wander all over town/the neighborhood/the woods for hours on end, no adults in sight. I grew up in a suburban subdivision, and would ride my bike all over-down to the creek, or a mile away to the tiny branch library after it opened, or three blocks over to the little playground. Some of my favorite memories was catching crawdads (tiny little crustaceans) in the creek at the bottom of the hill. I didn’t have a watch, so I just had to listen for my dad’s whistle when it was dinner time (he would just poke his head out the front door, put his two fingers in his mouth, and give a deafening sound that could be heard for probably a half mile). That was my cue to ride home for the night.

Not only was the story of the Indianapolis totally true, this film ended up inversely playing a massive role in it’s story. A boy, Hunter Scott, that saw the film and became a massive fan and took an interest in the Indianapolis, learned about a controversy where the military had dumped all the blame on the captain, court-martialed him, to the crew's dismay and heartbreak, and had even committed suicide over the whole thing. This upset the kid so much that he petitioned to have history set straight, have his name cleared, and actually awarded a medal posthumously, and the crew was immensely thankful a movie and this kid 2 generations-removed was able to do what none of them were able to. As meta as this has already gotten, there's even a movie about THIS story as well now, "Left for Dead: A Young Man's Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis".

As a 12 year old growing up in California, I was forbidden by my mom from seeing this because she said I’d be scared to go in the ocean after. So I snuck out to see it with my friend. I should have listened to her. I don’t go in past my knees to this day!

The poster art is almost more iconic than the film itself. I miss the days when movie poster designs were actually hand drawn and painted

The animosity between Hooper and Quint is real. Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw didn't get along at all and it made the shoot a real pain but they managed to make one hell of a film.

I remember when this movie came out, I first saw it in a theater in 1975. This movie had a huge impact on just about everyone, all across the country! Everyone at the time was talking about the movie, asking if you've seen it yet, it was crazy. People, all across the US, were afraid to go into the ocean, and for quite a while, some never went in the ocean again. This movie had wide-spread popularity all over the world too!

Your reaction to the jumpscare when Ben Gardner's head popped out of the bottom of the boat was well worth the price of admission. Great job, Mary!

JAWS is a perfect movie in every sense of the word. The dialogue, cast, story and action it hits on every note perfectly. Great video!

Watching your heart go into arrhythmia as the head moved out of the bottom of the wrecked boat was priceless!! It so much fun to watch Jaws again with someone who has never seen it!

Saw this movie in the cinema with my dad when I was 14. We were in the back row. When the head appeared out of the boat, you could see the ENTIRE theatre leap up several inches. The worst jump scare of my life. The movie is really two smaller films, the land section which has moments when the tension is relieved and the ocean section where things just build and build. The first sign that this young Spielberg guy might be very special.

23:40 I got to meet 11 of the USS Indianapolis's survivors back in 2004 at an air show in Indiana. What an amazing group of human beings they were. Needless to say, watching this scene since then always gives me shivers and tears. R.I.P all ye who sailed and protected the seas.

_"I'll never complain about a wasp again..."_ - Gold!

31:39 -- Quint called his own demise back at the town meeting.. "Little shaking, little tenderizing, down you go...."

Mary gets married and she watches Jaws. Why am I thinking they are not going to the beach for a honeymoon? My brother and I saw Jaws on opening day. The next day we took our mutual friend Steve to see it. During the underwater boat scene where Hooper finds the tooth we both poked Steve in the sides during the jump scare and he literally jumped, turned said "not funny" and sat down. We were in hysterics while the rest of the theater was still screaming. This movie literally ruined beaches for a generation in the seventies, it's not just you Mary.

This movie is close to perfect. In the top 10 of all time for me, and still Spielberg's best work.

Fun fact: On the morning when all the tourists have arrived, the TV reporter in the sports coat, strolling the crowded beach, is played by Peter Benchley, the author of the novel on which "Jaws" was based.

If you watch JAWS backwards, it’s a heartwarming story about a shark that gives arms and legs 🦵 to disabled people.

“Are these kids unsupervised, even without the shark that’s confusing.” Child rearing in the 1970s. 🙂

After watching JAWS I was always paranoid about sharks whenever I swam in the water. Even if I was in a pool which is so absurd.

My entire childhood in the 70s and 80s was unsupervised outdoor play with siblings and neighbor kids. Thank god I was born back then.

Every once in a while, a movie is made that is a timeless classic that'll transcend time forever. THIS is one of those...A+

In the 70s and 80s, my dad would literally chase us kids out of the house, and say, "I don't want to see you back here until dark! Go play!" It wasn't a big deal then. Neighborhood parks were actually used by kids playing, not teenagers smoking and vandalizing.

Quint is played by Robert Shaw. He's a legendary character actor. He's been in a bunch of stuff. Played Henry VIII in "A Man For All Seasons", Doyle Lonnegan in "The Sting", Mr. Blue in "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3", and Red Grant in "From Russia With Love"

Robert Shaw's delivery when telling the Indianapolis stroy is one the greatest moments in cinematic history. It imho Rival's Roy Boys Tear's in the Rain from Blade Runner when it comes delivering monologues or stories in films.

Remember Webster from Band of Brothers? Webster became a writer after the Army. He wrote a non-fiction book about sharks, which became the inspiration for the novel on which this movie is based. Webster disappeared out on the ocean alone, shark fishing. This movie made Steven Spielberg's career, leading eventually to making Band of Brothers.

This movie is considered the first Summer Blockbuster. It came out just before the original Star Wars. Quite a time to be going to the movies as a teenager I’ll tell you! The scene where Hooper goes into the water at night is one of the best jump scares in the history of Hollywood.🦈

That was a really impressive collection of syllables you strung together on seeing Hooper set to go into the water to see the underside of the boat!

32:53 FUN FACT: This ending was Steven Spielberg's idea. In the novel, Hooper dies and Brody is left alone floating in the ocean while the shark heads straight toward him. Brody prays for a quick death but the shark stops before he gets to Brody and dies due to all the damage he's taken. When author Peter Benchley heard Spielberg's idea for the ending, Benchley said, "Steven that is unbelievable. A tank doesn't explode like that, it cannot be done", to which Spielberg replied, "I don't care. If I have the audience's attention for two hours, they'll believe anything I do for the last five minutes".

In 1975, few people were familiar with the idea of a "marine biologist". You could say this film put the idea into a million kids' heads, as to what they wanted to be when they grew up.

The actor who played Quint apparently had a drinking problem and his co stars said that he was drunk in all of his scenes. He played an assassin in one of the Sean Connery James Bond movies. The downside of the movie is that it created an hysteria about sharks and people just started going out and killing then for no reason. Great whites don’t behave the way the one in this movie did, when they do bite humans it’s by mistake thinking it’s a seal and they usually bite once and once they realize it’s not a seal they stop and they also can’t swim in shallow water because they will drown. You regularly see videos on Instagram of divers swimming next to huge great whites.

Fun fact: captain quint was based on a Long Island, NY fishing boat captain named Frank Mundis. The actor is Robert Shaw. He was in another ocean themed movie called the Deep.

My mother and grandma took me to see this when I was 3. 😶 On the boat head scene I literally leapt from my seat into my mom's lap. That's one of the most concrete memories of my childhood.

a security-tipp for your vacations: the absolutely most dangerous situation in jaws happened in the last seconds of the movie, when brody and hooper swam exactly into the remains of the exploded shark ... this is exactly the spot where everything dangerous will gather now. so, don´t swim near carcasses in the open sea 🙂

An entire generation of kids became terrified of the water. 😂😂😂

Nominated for 4 Oscars including Best Picture but won for Best Sound Editing Best Film Editing Best Original Score It made $470 million dollars ($1.3 billion dollars) against a $13 million dollar budget.

I think this movie should get a special award from Mary... "Movie that elicited the most startled exclamations in Mary's native language".... And, don't feel bad, Mary... I was a kid when this movie came out, and my mom saw it. My family NEVER went to the beach again after she saw Jaws. Hell, I'm 52 now, and I'm still a little wary of ocean swimming! I've watched enough documentaries to know it's a silly, irrational, fear... but still. If I'm more than waist deep, that music is in the back of my head.... Daaa-dum.... Daaa-DUM....

I was 11 when I first saw Jaws (thanks Dad). I was traumatized till today and I live in Hawaii. When I dive, I pirouette when surfacing to ensure I am clear 360. I have seen a large hammerhead about 3 meters while I was diving and was very scared (had a spear gun). On another dive, I was told a tiger shark was following me (I did not see) of equal size. The lesson is there are always sharks in the ocean and we are not their normal prey and the fear is unfounded but the respect should be given.

“Disgustiiiing but YAYYY!” Lmao Mary is amazing.

I saw this film in the theater with my parents when I was a kid. There really wasn't anything to compare this to back in the mid-70's. It really was the first "Summer Blockbuster", in that people literally lined up around the block to get in to see the film. Oftentimes they would leave the theater and then go get right back in line again. The scene at Ben Gardener's boat is the best jump-scare in the history of cinema. Everyone reacted exactly like you but it was 10 times worse because they also reacted to everybody else reacting. Your triumphant raising of the hands is what everyone did at the end as well, often accompanied by cheers and applause. Great reaction! Enjoy your Honeymoon!!

FUN FACT: The jaws book was inspired by a real incident that happened with a 4500 pound (2041 KG) great white shark off the coast of Long Island back in 1964.

Wow, don't know why I never noticed before but the quality of your production is really the best I've seen. (Picture size & quality, sound too)....I wish you'd give lessons to MOST of these reactors!!!! Great job, nice personality too!!!!

Read something interesting recently. The lady playing the Mom who lost her son to the shark decades later went into a seafood restaurant and mentioned to the waitress that she was in Jaws and who she played. The waitress went to the kitchen and brought out the owner. Who told her he was the actor who played her son! Also, btw the book had some differences. Hooper had a brother who went to school with the sheriff's wife. Hooper and the wife ended up sleeping together. And then as a moral I guess, Hooper got eaten by the shark. The sheriff swam back alone.

Back in '75, in the newspaper listings for theaters, some movies were listed as Held Over, meaning they were kept on for longer due to popularity. Jaws stayed on for a whole year, which was unheard of.

Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw FOREVER !!!♥️♥️♥️🇨🇦

2:09 Silhouette of girl swimming. Mary: “Maybe it won’t be as bad as I think it is.” Me: “Buckle-up!” 🤣🤣

The demise of the USS Indianapolis is true. It delivered part of the Hiroshima bomb, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine, and the crew were spotted by accident five days after the ship sunk. There are several detailed books on the subject.

“Why did they do this at night by the way? Is there a specific reason?” Because it’s *flipping* scary. Perfect movie, all time classic.

The shark attacking the cage was a real great white shark attacking a real person in a cage near Australia. The footage was commissioned for "Jaws". They used a small person, so the shark would look bigger. I don't know, if anyone was hurt, but the footage turned out better, than Spielberg expected.

Jaws did to beaches what Psycho did to showers. John Williams' score elevates this film to the next level and is arguably the real star.

JAWS Was the first giant shark movie. Up until this time sharks in movies and tv shows were these dolphin sized fish. It came as a surprise to a lot of movie goers that while the great white in Jaws was bigger than the record it wasn't much bigger and fishermen and surfers had reported seeing them this size.

Oh yea.. Back in 1975 people jumped up and RAN out of the theater when Ben Gardener's head popped out...

Jaws was shot in 1974 & released in 1975. It is considered by many film experts to be the very first Summer Blockbuster. Jaws actually created the saying, Summer Blockbuster. Also, the story about the USS Indianapolis is very real! It did happen.

Fun fact: The jump scare under Ben Gardner’s boat - one of the best jump scares in cinema history - was improvised by Spielberg after test screenings. After watching test audiences he felt he needed one more scream. The underwater jump scare was filmed in the backyard swimming pool of film editor Verna Fields (she won Jaws’ only Academy Award) on Spielberg’s own dime and without Universal’s knowledge. They poured milk into the water to make it look murky and then spliced it in to the now finished film. Retrospect is an interesting thing. Universal wanted to pull (stop production) of Jaws and issued the order to do so more than once. Spielberg, who had the fortunate circumstance of literary being on an island and as geographically far away from Universal as possible, just ignored them and kept filming. If the corporate suits had their way Universal would have lost millions of dollars and that would have been that. Instead one rebellious filmmaker made them hundreds of millions of dollars, birthed the concept of the summer blockbuster and his own superstar career, all while giving the public one of the best films ever made.

One of the best American films of the 20th century. It’s nearly flawless.

Trivia #1 is that it was filmed out-of-season to the actual summer at Martha's Vineyard. Beach/air and water were cold. Trivia #2:. One the boys doing the shark-fin prank was voted in as the current Chief of Police at Martha's Vineyard, I believe it was 2021/2020.

Quint's backstory having served on the Indianapolis gives a chilling insight as to why he dedicated the remainder of his life killing sharks

Robert Shaq's Indianapolis speech has to be ranked as mone of the top moments in film history, Absolutely riveting and more or less true to the actual event..

Omg Mari I loved your spontaneous re-write of “Had a Bad Day” lol. Congrats on getting married! I wish you many years of happiness and I hope you have a nice, shark-free honeymoon.

Mary I grew up about 15 miles from where this was filmed Falmouth Cape Cod Ma. when this came out I was 12 and to this day I still swim with my back to the beach Mary the screaming from the jump scare in the theater was scarier than the floating head my father even lurched out of his seat. Mary if you would like to see Robert Shaw (Quint) along with Robert Redford and Paul Newman in a fantastic movie called The Sting. It won the Best Picture Oscar in 1973 well worth a watch by you

"One of the best dolly zooms in movie history, change my mind" Okay, I'll change your mind: It is THE very best dolly zoom in movie history.

allmost 50 years old,still impressive that they build a machine,that looks so real!

Funny trivia: The mayor refers to the "Kintner boy" as the second victim. The actor and director Billy Bob Thornton was so...."amused" by that way of referring to the victim that it became a favorite phrase of his. When he made the film Bad Santa (worth reacting to, btw), he insisted to the prop people that they make the name for the "uncrackable" safe in the film the "KintnerBoy Redoubt," and emphasized that it was legendarily uncrackable. LOL.

4:30 The actors who played that mother and child didn't see each other again after that day...until several decades later when she - without knowing - walked into the restaurant he owned, sat down and he went up to her. "MOM!"

If I recall correctly, Spielberg had John Williams add the musical "shriek" to the jump scare because the initial test audiences didn't react very strongly when the head popped out.

Mary clearly loves us all. Watching this movie weeks before going snorkeling? To use the sound effect in Mary’s videos, “No -ing way I would watch this before that sort of trip, youtube channel or not!” Mary is way braver than me!

This reaction didn't disappoint! I had to rewatch the scene with the floating head twice because it was so good.🤣

On the lake in Austin they used to (still?) do a screening of Jaws while you were floating around in big tubes. They had divers who messed with your feet (and in case of emergency) and it was the scariest thing I've ever done in my life. Never again, but if you have the chance do it.

This movie is one of the many examples that show how a well made movie can still be extremely enjoyable for decades after being made. This movie is 47 years old and still is a so much fun to watch.

Speilberg got some actual inspiration for this film from a series of real shark attacks that happened off the New Jersey coast in 1916. A large shark mauled 5 people, killing 4 of them over an 11 day span.

I remember when I saw this at the old Goshen theater, it had rows of seats that were all connected together and screwed to the wood floor. When the jump scare came, I could feel the row shake as the audience jumped backward pushing into their seats. Bowlegged is a condition when a person's legs are bowed outward, even when the ankles are together. Quint "Here's to swimming with bowlegged women"

Hey Marijke, THe Shark gave Spielberg so much trouble during the making of the movie that he had to change the way he would film "JAws". Instead of showing an awesome Shark coming out of the water terrorizing folks. Spielberg had to make the movie more of a suspense-filled affair. In which we only see parts of the Shark attacking people until almost the end of the movie. THe approach made the film become more of a classic as opposed to a cheesy B-rated movie.

This movie started the whole idea of a summer blockbuster and it still is a fantastic movie.

Several decades after the filming of Jaws (1975), Lee Fierro, who plays Mrs. Kintner, walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed that the menu had an "Alex Kintner Sandwich". She commented that she had played his mother so many years ago. The owner of the restaurant ran out to meet her - none other than Jeffrey Voorhees, who had played her son. They hadn't seen each other since the original movie shoot.

This movie was such a huge blockbuster, it was still playing in a lot of theaters over a year later in the summer of 1976. That is when I first saw it, in a theater in a beach town, because it was too hot for my Dad and he wanted to take us to a place that was air conditioned. 😁😁✌✌

Fun fact: It is not a good idea to name your dog "Shark" and go to the beach with him. 🦈

Mayor: "You do what you have to do to make them *safe* " also Mayor: "Please, *get in* the water"

12:40 What I love about Mary's reactions is how articulate she is 😂😂😂

Great reaction Mary! I kept thinking, “Oh, that’s it for Mary and going to the beach!” That’s ok, put that out of your mind! I saw this movie at the Cinerama Dome in 1975, and have enjoyed the beach many times since. Mostly, sharks are looking for seals, or fish, which they usually encounter. People, not so much. I never understood why surfers wear black wetsuits, which makes them look more like seals. And shark vision is not really very good, so swimming near dawn or dusk is also a really bad idea. So, wear those brighty colored swimsuits, and avoid dimly lit conditions. And, if a shark just happens to bump into you, bump back! Enjoy your honeymoon!

"Jaws" is a perfect analogy to the Covid Pandemic.

It is pretty crazy how well it looks for 1975. Loved the reaction.

Thank you for doing this for our pleasure. 😂

One of the greatest films ever made. Fun fact: Almost the entire cast are not actors. They were locals. Chrissy, both Brody children, Ben Gardner Mrs. Kintner. Heck, the coroner was played by the town’s actual coroner.

I was twelve in 1975 when I saw Jaws at the cinema. I still remember the whole row of seats moving backwards when Ben Gardeners head appeared. It was like everyone was trying to push themselves away from the screen... me included lol

“Are these kids unsupervised?” Yes. Many of us were raised free range. I grew up in the 80s, and while not quite so free range as the previous generation, I just had to tell someone if I was leaving the property. A lot of the time I’d tell my parents I was going to my friend’s house and we would spend an afternoon playing in the collapsed barn behind her house. My brother and his friends used to play laser tag in the cemetery behind our house and I would go sledding down the hill in the cemetery. The rule is if we saw any adults, we needed to leave out of respect. That’s how we played.

49 years later, the head-popping jump scare never fails! Great reaction! 👍

Sharks are like dogs. They come up grinning and waving a fine, take a nip. Only they don't know how delicate humans are.

I'm 70 and saw this the Week it opened. In High School and College we used to go down to Long Beach Island in NJ and swim a half mile out and back! Sometimes we'd swim at night. I have never been in the Ocean since!

Mary, you got that duck working overtime in this movie! The idea behind the yellow barrel system, is to stick as many of them to the shark, as needed to: 1. Keep the shark from diving deep. This way, you can keep track of where it's located at any given moment. - AND - 2. To tire the shark enough, that it doesn't have any fight left in it after a short period of time. This makes it easier to capture and kill.

The Great Lakes are perfect for your vacation. Beautiful water, no salt, no sharks.

This movie never scared me. It actually helped. Whenever I heard the music I would just get out of the water.

i love this movie, the most unassuming character gets the shark kill, Quint and Hooper showing off battle scars at the table, shark bites, moray eels, and Brody gets it done. that was one of my fav part of the movie too, "Show me the way to go home,.." hilarious. great reaction! 🏃‍♂🦈

When I was a kid, I went to summer camp on Catalina Island right after seeing Jaws in the theater. I was snorkeling in the ocean and I saw a patch of light sand on the bottom that I was suddenly sure was a great white shark headed right for me! I pulled my head up and some sort of buoy line snagged on my mask, pulling it down and adding to my horror as I lunged above water, gasping for my last breath before being dragged down to my doom. FULL panic! But no shark. :)

A shark would never ram into a wooden boat. It's got nothing to ram with except it's teeth and it's snout is extremely delicate and one of the most sensitive parts of it's body.

I saw this in the theater along with my entire boy scout troop. We were on a week-long campout near a large lake and spent much of the time water skiing. I lived near Houston (Texas) at the time, right by the Johnson space center, and one of our leaders was an actual astronaut. He had seen the movie before, so the poor kid sitting next to him got grabbed simultaneously with every jump scare in the movie. When Quint called the oceanographer a bleepety bleep astronaut we all turned to look at him, he said afterward that he'd forgotten about that line.

The big daddy of summer blockbusters. It's amazing how this movie still holds up even now, with great actors, a fantastic director and cinematographer and of course, Bruce the shark.

You’ve just seen one of the best movies ever made. Don’t stress about sharks on your honeymoon. Shark attacks are super rare. Congrats btw.

Robert Shaw (Quint) starred in The Sting. Richard Dreyfuss (Hooper) starred in The Goodbye Girl (1978 Best Picture), Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Always, The American President, Stand by Me, and What About Bob? Jaws was the very first summer blockbuster.