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Originally released on June 20, 1975. On like 400 screens.

One of the greatest and most influential films of all time, and one I've grown to appreciate even more as movies still attempt to copy it and, usually, fail.

It's aring on NBC tomorrow which sucks to watch it on, other than an intro from Spielberg.

I saw it this month at the Paramount in Austin. It's definitely a "better in the theater" movie.

Way funnier than I remembered it too.

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everyone reacts to the Ben Gardner head jump scare. Everyone. Because 1) we are only expecting the shark to scare us and 2) we’ve already been conditioned that the music is the shark 3) we are still tense because he’s in the water at night and can’t see anything around  

so, no music means no shark means no danger. Then BAM.  Gotcha. 
 

I used to watch this on TBS probably once a week back in the 90s. It’s a tough one to flip past. 

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I think about this every time I go sailing and tie this knot.

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Also, this

 

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Finally,

Quinn once was a bond villain.

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18 minutes ago, dcbc said:

I think about this every time I go sailing and tie this knot.

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Also, this

 

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Finally,

Quinn once was a bond villain.

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*Quint*

Great movie.

The monologue about the USS Indianapolis is terrific.

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1 hour ago, Pato del Muerto said:

everyone reacts to the Ben Gardner head jump scare.

Yep, happened at the recent showing. Got a reaction from me even though I'd seen it 6+ times, but forgot exactly when it was. Still got me.

 

17 minutes ago, Carl Spackler said:

*Quint*

Great movie.

The monologue about the USS Indianapolis is terrific.

Rumor was that Shaw was drunk for an early take. One, he was a drunk. But two, he figured they're drinking, so make it realistic.

The take was terrible and Shaw felt terrible about it. So he apologized and told Spielberg he'd do it again.

Showed up stone cold sober and nailed it.

Gave me goosebumps again despite watching it a dozen times. 

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love this classic. Still mad Universal Studios took the ride out at Universal Orlando.

 

from time to time when the opportunity rises, I'll always sing "ooooooohhhh show me the way to go hooome.....I'm tired and I want to go to bed....

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It was probably irresponsible of my dad to take my brother, sister, and me to see that movie in the theater. Just a few years after the divorce, maybe he thought he was being the cool dad. Maybe it was okay for my older siblings but it scared the bejeezus out of me. And for some reason I had to sleep on an old military cot next to the bed that my brother had all to himself and I had nightmares about a big shark underneath me. 

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Greatest movie ever. 
 

Spent a day at MV during Memorial Day weekend to see some of the movie locations, bridge, ferry(s), town hall. There’s a Jaws exhibit at the MV Museum that was to be open that Saturday but wasn’t ready… :( Edgartown is a beautiful quaint little village. 

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Watched it a few nights ago.  It's a movie I'll watch several times a year and definitely a top five movie for me.  

I didn't read it, but my wife was telling me she read that Dreyfuss and Shaw didn't really get along and it made the scenes between them two so good due to it.  Has anyone else seen this?

"That's a 20-footer."  "25.  Three tons of him".

Also, the rare occasion the movie is better than the book.

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6 hours ago, gofuckyourself said:

Yep, happened at the recent showing. Got a reaction from me even though I'd seen it 6+ times, but forgot exactly when it was. Still got me.

 

Rumor was that Shaw was drunk for an early take. One, he was a drunk. But two, he figured they're drinking, so make it realistic.

The take was terrible and Shaw felt terrible about it. So he apologized and told Spielberg he'd do it again.

Showed up stone cold sober and nailed it.

Gave me goosebumps again despite watching it a dozen times. 

Spielberg called John Milius at his home while production was going on at Martha's Vineyard because he felt like they were missing a scene for Quint. He asked Milius to write something for him. What Milius came back with was several pages of monologue for Quint. Shaw couldn't remember all of it, so he told Spielberg to give him some time with the pages and he'd condense it. What you see on the screen are the highlights from Milius' script. 
 

That entire scene with the monologue, Dreyfuss' quiet reaction, John Williams' music, the rocking of the ship, and the sound of a squeaky ship, makes the movie. Growing up, that was the scariest part of the film for me. Simularly terrifying is the air traffic control scene from Close Encounters. Great storytelling in both instances. 

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I first read a condensed version of the book in Reader’s Digest and then the book later. As mentioned earlier movie was better than the book or at least more fun.

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23 minutes ago, DeepEastTexas said:

Spielberg called John Milius at his home while production was going on at Martha's Vineyard because he felt like they were missing a scene for Quint. He asked Milius to write something for him. What Milius came back with was several pages of monologue for Quint. Shaw couldn't remember all of it, so he told Spielberg to give him some time with the pages and he'd condense it. What you see on the screen are the highlights from Milius' script. 
 

That entire scene with the monologue, Dreyfuss' quiet reaction, John Williams' music, the rocking of the ship, and the sound of a squeaky ship, makes the movie. Growing up, that was the scariest part of the film for me. Simularly terrifying is the air traffic control scene from Close Encounters. Great storytelling in both instances. 

It was set up so beautifully with the injury stuff and them all drinking and laughing, then Dreyfuss gets stone cold sober when he hears USS Indianapolis, so we all know to pay attention. 

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I might get this story a little wrong since it’s been a while, but Roy Scheider signed like a 5 pictures deal after jaws that he ended up wanting to get out of as quickly as possible, so even though he didn’t want to be in jaws 2 he did it when they offered to count it as 2 of the deal. In order to do that, he had to back out of a lead role in The Deer Hunter. 

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My favorite film of all time.  A true masterpiece.

Some trivia you may or may not know.  The Alex Kitnner attack scene was originally intended to be much more graphic, but Speilberg did get any shots he loved or that felt right, so they only thing that made the final cut was the tail end of the filmed scene with the shark biting the raft.  Here are some stills from the deleted scene:

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The estuary scene was also much more graphic, with the guy in the boat being dragged through the water and pushing Michael Brody out of the path of the shark, but many people already know that from various documentaries over the years. There are clips of it online.  

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Plan to watch it tomorrow night for the 50th. I bought the 4K blu-ray. My kids have never seen it. Now they're going to see that little Kitner boy spill out all over the dock. 

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Happy 50th to the greatest movie ever. 
 

The scene at dock where Hooper is questioning if the right shark is caught and explaining the bite radius to Brody and Brody’s facial expression from euphoria to doubt is just outstanding work. 

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Saw it during the summer of '75 at the Cottage View drive-in, Cottage Grove, MN. I was 5. I refused to get in the bathtub for weeks after so my dad had to hit me with the water hose in the backyard to bathe. Parenting was different back then.

Dreyfuss & Shaw hating one another during the production is quite legendary. Two drunks at different arcs of their careers with a young, unproven director who was in danger of getting fired on a daily basis equals an explosive set.

In one "making of" doc I recall hearing how Spielberg couldn't figure out how to edit together the Indianapolis scene. I think he called on many of his friends & at one point Scorsese, Lucas & maybe even Coppola joined him in the editing suite. However it came together, it made for one of the most iconic scenes in film history.

Anyway. We delivered the bomb.

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5 minutes ago, Nole-4-Life said:

He was also Lohergen in The Sting

The Sting (2/10) Movie CLIP - Name's Lonnegan (1973) HD

In the 1970a, he was in jaws, the sting, the deep, and force 10 from navarone. Pretty good run.  (Plus black Sunday)

career after the 70s was hampered by his death in 1978. 

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