Posted on 06/01/2014 10:49:14 AM PDT by Eddie01
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Wait until you have grandchildren. 101 Dalmatians, Cinderella, The Lady and the Tramp, Tangled, Frozen ...
OTOH, I get to cuddle with the kids during the scary parts, and dance with them during the songs and ending credits.
He had a hangover. He tried it the day before drunk. It didn’t work. The whole movie was a disaster from the beginning because nothing went right. The next day and still hungover Shaw delivered his lines about the Indianapolis on the first take. Read the story behind the making of it and you’ll see why they almost didn’t finish the movie. Spielberg thought it would be his LAST movie as a director when the movie was over. Little did he know it would skyrocket him to the front of the line.
I remember the scene underwater when the head popped up. Scared the crap out of me! Great movie. I need to watch it again. Just in time for beach season, too.
LOL, when my kids were little I must have watched The Spongebob Movie about 50 times.
My favorite part of “Jaws” is when Roy Scheider is trying grab the rope that is hooked to the barrels with the long stick. The suspense was a killer. When I first watched the movie in the theater I was holding a coke and when the shark jumped up my hand jerked and some of the coke went flying over the seat behind me.
I saw this in a Jaws special. Not only did he nail it on the first take, he did it all in only one single take.
And then gets eaten out of the shark cage.
Shaw was an amazing actor....He was even good in that dud of a movie “The Battle of the Bulge”.
As for that famous speech:
Steven Spielberg: I owe three people a lot for this speech. You’ve heard all this, but you’ve probably never heard it from me. There’s a lot of apocryphal reporting about who did what on Jaws and I’ve heard it for the last three decades, but the fact is the speech was conceived by Howard Sackler, who was an uncredited writer, didn’t want a credit and didn’t arbitrate for one, but he’s the guy that broke the back of the script before we ever got to Martha’s Vineyard to shoot the movie.
I hired later Carl Gottlieb to come onto the island, who was a friend of mine, to punch up the script, but Howard conceived of the Indianapolis speech. I had never heard of the Indianapolis before Howard, who wrote the script at the Bel Air Hotel and I was with him a couple times a week reading pages and discussing them.
Howard one day said, “Quint needs some motivation to show all of us what made him the way he is and I think it’s this Indianapolis incident.” I said, “Howard, what’s that?” And he explained the whole incident of the Indianapolis and the Atomic Bomb being delivered and on its way back it was sunk by a submarine and sharks surrounded the helpless sailors who had been cast adrift and it was just a horrendous piece of World War II history. Howard didn’t write a long speech, he probably wrote about three-quarters of a page.
But then, when I showed the script to my friend John Milius, John said “Can I take a crack at this speech?” and John wrote a 10 page monologue, that was absolutely brilliant, but out-sized for the Jaws I was making! (laughs) But it was brilliant and then Robert Shaw took the speech and Robert did the cut down. Robert himself was a fine writer, who had written the play The Man in the Glass Booth. Robert took a crack at the speech and he brought it down to five pages. So, that was sort of the evolution just of that speech.
This was the result, probably one of the most brilliantly written and best acted movie scenes of all time.
It starts out rather humorous with Quint and Hooper drinking and comparing their scars and Brody having nothing to compare it to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLjNzwEULG8
Then Quint tells them about the Indianapolis.
LOL - I jumped at that scene again last month. My wife laughed her butt off and asked “HOW many times have you seen this? 200??”.
I sheepily mumbled, “ I forgot about that part.”. Dang you, Spielberg.
PS - As an aside, I interviewed Carl Gottlieb on a radio show I used to produce. He was only 1 of only 2 ‘celebrities’ who ever acted like a jerk behind the scenes. I dumped him off the show.
I liked “Duel” a bit better also.
One of the most frightening movies ever.
Being very familiar with Edgartown made “Jaws” fun for me. My late aunt’s house can be seen the background in one scene.
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I was riding the shore road between Oaks Bluff and Edgartown and saw the location for the final scene. The ship was 75% submerged and was only 10 yards from the beach.
Glad to see that others have read the book. I was surprised that it wasn’t that good. I loved Benchley’s, “The Beast,” (The TV movie of that one sucked).
No wonder Spielberg booted Benchley off the production.
Once knew a lady called Mary Lee
Died at the age of a hundred and three
For fifteen years she kept her virginity
Not a bad record in this vicinity.
Lol its been ages since I’ve watched that movie when I was a kid. That scene is the only one I remember and it scared the living daylights out of me.
Ditto on the audio aspect of the film. One facet of this is Spielberg’s uncanny ability to record overlapping dialog, BOTH streams of which are important to the story and yet avoid cacophony. He does it several times in the film and it always strikes me when I watch it.
That makes more sense
I saw that movie in 1975 and it wasn’t until around 1982 that I was able to wade out into the ocean over my waist again.
Spielberg STILL hasn’t gone into the water since ‘JAWS’ and he has no plans to do so.
Right on! shark cage scene now.
The continuity guy from that movie should have been taken to a field and machine-gunned.
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