I took a date to see Jaws when it came out. The Pepsi she drank made her giggle and laugh throughout the show. It was embarrassing. (First and last date with her. lol)
The exploding diving tank...HA! I also doubted that even a fish that big could pull that many barrels of air under water and hold them under. Low and behold I find out the ‘mythbusters’ busted those two things and more years later.
A few years before, Spielberg directed the movie ‘Duel’ about a psychotic truck driver chasing a wimpy traveling salesman (Dennis Weaver). I was 17, but was already familiar with driving straight trucks, loaded or empty, and of course, cars.
I laughed at so many places, thinking how so many people would be caught up in the ‘realism’ of the film. The MOST glaring fact was the obviously loaded tanker, laboring up the mountain grades, would STILL catch up with the car when going down the other side. Then the means (by braking the car) of which they showed the truck closing the gap so quickly in Weaver’s rear view mirror, LOL! And the going around curves like it was empty, etc. In reality, Weaver had ample opportunity time and again to leave the semi truck ‘in his dust’.
And then the time Weaver’s car overheated, puking out a couple of gallons of coolant, and COOLED back down, never to get hot again!
Then the tanker (wearing ‘flammable’ placards) goes over the cliff, crashing into rocks as it goes down, and not a flicker of flame.
As Jed Clampett would say: “Pathetic..juussst pathetic.”
**The exploding diving tank...HA! I also doubted that even a fish that big could pull that many barrels of air under water and hold them under.***
In the book the shark ate Quint, the guy in the cage, then died because the barrels kept him slowed down so much he could not get enough water flowing across his gills.
A few years before, Spielberg directed the movie ‘Duel’ about a psychotic truck driver chasing a wimpy traveling salesman (Dennis Weaver). I was 17, but was already familiar with driving straight trucks, loaded or empty, and of course, cars. As well as Jaws, I'm also a big Duel fan. I know in so many movies they are not technically correct, but I enjoy the characters and the psychology. I love Duel for that and it was based on a real encounter author Richard Matheson had. I posted some videos on FR about it in 2008: On Spielberg's Duel (Videos 1, 2) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2667179/posts