Since I was a teenager and saw Jaws, everytime I swim in the Swedish fresh water lakes, when there it's deep water and no sight to the bottom (which basically are most of the fresh water lakes in Sweden if it´s deep) I start hearing the "da dum, da dum" and the faster notes while swimming and then I panic a bit and start swimming towards the shore. And I have never seen a shark in Sweden, although we do have nursery sharks in the ocean, I "blame" it on the opening scene of Jaws with this music. It´s a masterpiece! However, when I was on Hawaii in the end of the 1980´s, a 4 meter tall tiger shark had been brought up on the beach still moving around, and I went in the ocean a couple of kilometers away and had the water up to my waist without panicking and this is mainly because I could see the bottom, but it´s where the sharks actually are. Funny!
Even after all these years, hearing this brilliant music has my closing my eyes and shuddering at the cold chill that goes down my spine when I imagine that menacing dorsal fin slicng through the water
The two MOST SCARY NOTES in history - I hear this I wont even go PADDLING...............I hear Martha's Vineyard hasnt seen another tourist in the ocean since 1975...........................
While you think it is still SAFE to go back to the waters let alone at Royal Albert Hall. i sense the Great White Shark is "swimming" around the corners searching for its next prey.
It was all fun & games for the audience just like in the movie's opening scene until 1:30 kicked in you heard no more laughter as they knew Jaws was coming!
A couple of years after JAWS premiered, I was driving home and suddenly developed an awful sense of impending doom. I knew something awful was about to happen, and I was desperately checking my mirrors and looking all around. Then it hit me: this theme was playing on the radio without my having noticed it starting.
The music made the film even more scary. The building tempo and crescendo evoke anxiety dread anticipation and fear. Then the horns join in to add to the nautical feel of a foghorn on a boat. Plus the meandering tune halfway through seems unconnected to the main theme but fits wonderfully to bring relief for a while until the return of the final powerful finish. The sheer brilliance of music to provoke our imaginations, fantastic.
Music that people laugh at. Yet making money from it and victims dying uuuugh humans are sinister creatures. The evidence gets more weirder and weirder. Only a close minded person will just trash me or anyone who thinks and has seen enough
I imagine all the time how it would be to float on an air mattress with closed eyes and in-ear headphones on the beach in the water (of course further out) and listening to THIS WORK ;-) Would it be relaxing? ;-)
