Filmmaker reacts to Jaws (1975) for the FIRST TIME! 

Hi, James! If you haven't seen Jurassic Park yet, I would suggest you do it next.🦖🦕 Please? That includes its sequels and two Jurassic World movies.

Most of The jaws Sequels are great,so if you wanna check all The 3 sequel movies,be free to do so.

Please react to --- THE TOWERING INFERNO --- ....... BTW: I am one of those that have NOT gone to swim in the ocean since 1975 !!!! .... I quickly go ankle dip for a second that's ALL!!! .... An actual line from the film: "Is it true that most people attack by sharks is in 3 feet of water, about 10 feet from the beach?" ......... Marine biologist answer played by Richard Dreyfuss ....... "YES!!!!!!"

DUDE! You _gotta_ watch *American Graffiti.* I feel like it is _your_ kinda movie!

James have you seen and or reviewed Forbidden Planet , Andromeda Strain1969-70 or Moby Dick 1956? If not I recommend Forbidden Planet as a must see

The 19th century play "an Enemy of the People" started it.

And you can argue the TV movie "The Night Stalker" also did it to some degree in 1972.

Actually, I think that trope began a couple of years earlier in disaster movies like The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno.

@@44excalibur - it did. But jaws did it so well that every movie thriller since has an antagonistic mayor or someone who is all about the tourism.

@@anthonymunn8633 Very good point.

It's actually even worse than that. Distress calls were sent from the Indianapolis but they were ignored at several bases that received them for various reasons. Along with a screw up regarding where the ship was supposed to be meant they didn't notice it was missing for some time. The navy didn't want to admit to such a colossal screw up so they pinned the whole thing on the Indianapolis' Captain. He ended up committing suicide over it.

@@brandonvaughn7255 In addition to all that, the captain relied entirely on faulty intel regarding Japanese submarine movements, and so he wasn't zig-zagging. For that alone he must bear the full responsibility for the disaster.

@@brandonvaughn7255 It has been so long since I heard the story I forgot those details. Thank you for adding it. 😄

Well damn.

@@andrewcharles459 That is what the navy claimed, but surviving crew testified that they were zig-zagging according to regulations. He also requested a destroyer escort due to the sub threat but was denied. After the war there was even testimony from the captain of the Japanese sub who said that due to weather conditions and his proximity it would have been all but impossible for his attack to be avoided.

Oh snap! That’s actually really cool!

He's also in the movie. Reporter on the beach

Yeah, he basically spent the rest of his life trying to undo the damage he did.

This, I actually knew.

Ironically it was Jaws that upped the anti in shark science. The long term benefits of Jaws has been for the positive. The Asian shark finning industry was and is far worse for sharks.

Also really makes you wonder just how this film got a "PG" rating....That guy was eaten from the feet up by a freaking shark!

Sadly, Quint HAD to die that way. It fit in with his vivid description of the USS Indianapolis recounting. Thus, the audience had to physically experience what he was talking about.

@@leslauner5062 In 1975, the only ratings available were G, PG, R and X (later changed to NC-17). Jaws would have qualified for PG-13, but that rating was not introduced until 1984. Also, because the movie lacked gratuitous sex or gory violence or objectionable language, it did not meet the criteria for R. Then again, there was no way it could have been G, not with Alex Kintner's death scene.

@@geordischmidt No gratuitous gory violence?...Well...Ben Gardner's severed head, and Quint's spitting up blood while being eaten alive SHOULD have qualified it for an R...but it was another era.....

There was music written for the scene. Very good music, in fact. It's on the expanded soundtrack. But as you said, the scene played just fine without it.

That’s actually super badass hahaha like all things improvised and approved

Actually the line says “You’re gonna need a bigger boat.” To be fair, almost everyone remembers “we’re”. Look into the Mandela Effect.

Yes, it is true. Roy Scheider overhead the line from set builders, who complained to Spielberg that the Orca was too small to properly accommodate all of the cameras necessary for the interior shots. On a side note, the Orca was the typical size of a "large" fishing boat at the time of the production. A guy like Quint would not have had a bigger boat because he was not a commercial fisherman going for large catches.

@@DerekScottOHara I love the Mandela Effect.

Mandela effect can be explained as a psychological phenomenon (a false memory), but people get too sucked up into supernatural explanations.

Facts

One of the best monologues ever imo.

@@TheRadScientist_ You ain't wrong. Top 5 on my list.

@@TheRadScientist_ literally my all-time favorite monologue.... utterly brilliant performance

I feel it is rather the other way around - Spielberg was a master early in his career and then he progressively lost his touch. In his early days he truly was a maestro - unconventional, creative, innovative, unique, groundbreaking. His films post 1984 I find - with a few exceptions here and there - mostly generic, undistinctive and forgettable. They are usually rock solid, some even excelling at certain aspects (especially at the technical level) and I wouldn't call any of them "bad" per se (insufferable, yes, some of them) - but they are no masterpieces either. Unlike his early work.

@@catrachocolo I don't know. Past 1984 there's Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Lincoln, Bridge of Spies.... I think it's more accurate to say that his brand of childhood whimsy has become less applicable to the modern zeitgeist, and he's grown more adept at handling more mature subject matter. The flair of his more fantastical work feels outdated nowadays, but he remains highly adept at handling more grounded material.

@@catrachocolo - I don't agree that The Color Purple, Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, Lincoln or Munich are forgettable. Spielberg decided to put away his childish things and make grown-up movies. And no one can deny that he has inspired a generation of filmmakers. I'll stack his track record against any other director, alive or dead. He's the only director that automatically gets me to spend my money.

@@mgeek1 what? Jurrasic park is forgettable? You just lost all credibility with me.

@@catrachocolo it was very much more coincidence that his actual skill. he hated idea of jaws, was afraid of being a horror movie director and wanted to pull out, but could not. the way movie was filmed was also a coincidence - the mechanical shark was breaking all the time, he was nervous and they told him he could film it through camera - shark pov. Not to mention he is jewish and always make movies for masses about popular things at the moment - aliens - ET, dinosaurs JP, holocaust - ww2 era. He is good at what he does, but in industries where everything is decided among friends and competition is really small I do not think he is a genius rather very good craftsman. Ingenuity comes much more from J. Cameron, P. Jackson, G. Ritchie, Pedro

it was good. but i always wondered why his mother was so old.

@@thegirlinquestion I mean, some mothers or parents don't have kids until their in their 40s or older. It's harder for women, but adoption was a choice back then. I always liked how real all the people looked and felt in the movie, not like supermodels!

@@jiminsjimjams9477 i understand that and not trying to be offensive but she was old

@@thegirlinquestion i used to wonder that, too, but then i realized that while it's odd that she's old, modern movies have us believe that everybody is gorgeous and mid 20s to early 30s. Even high school actors look in their 20s. (The most realistic i've seen is Freak and Geeks) Currently, we rarely see characters that dont have sex appeal. Jaws came from an era where casting would put normal looking people, like the old wrinkly guy in the stupid hat on the beach, the dorky town mortician that lies to brody, the dim deputy, and the annoying female business owner in the town meeting ("are you going. to. close. the. beaches?) Old mother? Yeah...an outlier. But that's part of the genius of this movie: the town, the characters, they all feel real and lived in. I've always loved the relationship between the chief and his wife "wanna get drunk and fool around?" "oh yeah." on a lazy sunday afternoon. That scene felt so natural and lived in, i could almost feel the dusk sun on the side of my face and smell the evening salt air.

@@slchance8839 listen i don’t think every character needs to have sex appeal i’m just like why she so old

And it got caught on screen twice.

It's animated. The scene was filmed day for night.

@@adamdallas6096 the Making of Jaws documentary shows that it’s real. Not an optical effect.

Speilberg liked it so much he then put a shooting star in all of his next movies using special effects

I always figured it was a UFO... 🛸

Hahaha I’ve watched Citizen Kane muhahaha. But yes you are absolutely correct. A lot of people forget I’m 23

@@JamesVSCinema having tons of movies to catch up on is a blessing! I'd be interested to see/hear your take on Spielberg's AI

@@JamesVSCinema Wait hold up im older 😭 im 24

Great happy accident indeed!

I had blue carpet in my room and was convinced it became the sea at night lol, I was about 6 when I saw this in the early 80s , but lucky for me my bed was my raft and my teddies were my look-outs . I was the youngest kid in my family , and because there was nearly 9 years between me and my older sister I watched a lot of things before I probably should, lol .

YEP ......... AS SOON AS MY TOE GOES IN THE WATER - a red light goes on at great white central .................

I used to have a phobia of the deep end of a pool my grandma used to take me to. I would only go in any water if I had goggles on because I needed to be able to get a lay of the land and make sure it was safe. To this day if I cant see what's under the water I'm swimming in I get ultra panicky.

To all who replied, thank you. My point, that's great movie making! It frightened a generation and even today, we can recall the affect it had on us. I love the movies, pure escapism. My first ever visit to the cinema - Star Wars (later IV: A new hope) Followed by The Black Hole When old enough to go without parents/chaperone, Back to the Future. I saw it 7 times, consequentive weekends. I was keen on a girl, and it was the best place for a cuddle and kiss. Memories!

@@eumaeus I, too, am an 80's kid, and somehow this movie is both responsible for my fear of and love of the water at the same time. I was a chubby kid, but a fantastic swimmer, and the water was the only place where I felt quick and graceful. Still...I always had to make sure I could see around me at all times, in the ocean, even rivers (once I found out that bull sharks could swim upriver into brackish water, that wasn't safe), lakes and swimming pools- anything bigger than a toilet bowl, basically. As an adult, I mostly feel sorry for sharks in movies, I love the ocean, would 100% go down to the depths rather than up into space. Swimming with sharks is on my bucket list. Except for bull sharks, they can go f themselves.

Dick Warlock.... What a great fucking name!!!

Thank you!

Exactly. My older brother owned a fast food concession stand at an amusement park that was only open two weeks a year. Not only didn't he have to work the rest of the year, he put himself through university too.

I always thought she was just being dramatic lol

And a summer holiday to boot. Closing on or around July 4th, up north, in a beach town? You can't make up the money.

@@d3l3tes00n I saw this movie like 100 times as a kid and always thought she was being dramatic as well. I think I figured it out just a few years ago.

The only part that wasn’t true was that most of the sailors died of exposure and not from shark attacks. But that’s one of the best monologues in movie history.

I saw a documentary about one of the surviving sailors and he told about the shark attacks, watching some of his crew mates being taken by sharks. It was horrific. 60 years later and he still had tears.

The real story is so much scarier and fucked up though

That’s amazing! I’m glad I saw your comment

Happy they could work it out!

The two of them at each other throats, but making up with each other after the Indianapolis scene sounds suspiciously like a couple of method actors letting things get out of hand. Were either method actors?

@@TheBTG88 OR...he was just being a dick to him, but since he's dead now, nobody wants to say anything negative about him, so it's more comforting to just believe he did it for noble reasons. Like...COME ON! You'd have to be a douche to even PRETEND to be a douche to someone for the amount of time it takes to shoot a movie. And that's not just during takes; it's all the time waiting around between takes, during lunch breaks, at any promotional committments... An actor's working day is long as Hell, and you have to make someone else feel like shit the entire time, just cus you believe it will make for a better movie? I don't buy it. It just sounds like typical Hollywood legend-making. It's 20X the work, for no extra money

@@ashscott6068 CLEARLY, you are not aware of all the shit actors do to make for a better movie. William Friedkin, director of The Exorcist, once fired a pistol without actor Jason Miller expecting it, just to get a REAL reaction out of him instead of an acted one. People working on film do shit to get the best possible result even if it may not be "nice." You're not there to make friends.

@@TheBTG88 I've seen it. Dreyfuss really gets choked up talking about Shaw and meeting his granddaughter

So damn good!

LMFAOOO

That moment he sees the shark for the first time 0_o

The dolly zoom was Hitchcock's invention. He used for great effect in Vertigo. Spielberg perfected it in this film.

The reporter on the beach is Peter Benchley.

@@JamesVSCinema You also joke about a related shark -- but that's a premise for a later sequel

The fact you remember that moment is so damn cool!

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@@saviourself687 I think he's referring to the head that pops out of the boat.

@@jp3813 and all done in Verna Fields' swimming pool. Her house was put on the market maybe a year ago, a cute little bungalow in Southern California, complete with the pool that scene was filmed in AND the little sunporch where she edited the movie. I hope that the person who bought it appreciates the significant film history that occurred there.

Ay that’s so awesome to hear man!

Appreciate that!

High key I wonder what kind of movies PRIME Steven Spielberg would make today 🤔. Because he’s made more “kid-friendly” films over the years. Though I’m sure there’s people who still like some of his recent movies and there’s nothing wrong with it. Maybe it’s cause he got older and mellowed out. Or because of Schilnder’s List. I know he was REALLY shaken up by it, possibly even traumatized from what I read about his experience filming it back then. I’m not sure. 🤔

Yep Duel is also amazing from his early career, such a simple premise for a movie but you will LOVE it, from a Directing point of view

Duel. Yes, 1000%.

The one thing that annoyed me about Duel is the dude constantly looks over his shoulder instead of his rear view mirror haha

The shooting star was added on an animation stand. The scene was shot in the middle of the day. It is not being shot at night

Spielberg always has one in his movies.

@@TheBTG88 Not sure if they're via CGI though.

Fyi the scene was shot smack in the middle of the day. The night is created by under exposing the film and lab timing. There is no night here at all.

Hahaha the trauma this movie did is actually hilarious haha much love my friend! 🇲🇽

Damn good wife right there!

Lee Marvin was originally offered the role. I guess his wife didn't read the script. (Though a lot of the actual script was written while they were filming.)

Unfortunate that she never got to see its success and her husband’s newfound stardom 😞. She died in 1974.

I only know him for those two roles. And he's a legend to me from those two performances alone.

@@okradiohead7430 Check him out in: A Man For All Seasons (although his part is not huge), The Sting and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

Same. My best friend's dad was a commercial fisherman and we spent a ton of time either on the river or on beach. I actually am afraid of the ocean at night. It is so black and vast. I wonder if that came from this movie. I hadn't thought of that. hahah. Sunrises on the Atlantic are my favorite thing, though.

@@daffy8995 - sitting out near the jetties in our small boat at night was eerie. You’d here sounds you didn’t in the daytime and it travels a long way over the water.

There was an actual stat within a couple years after this movie coming out that shows how effective this movie was. It physically effected beach tourism all around the US and some of the world for 2 to 4 years after release.

Now that you mention it, it may have been the very first "summer blockbuster". I can't remember an earlier one - maybe a James Bond movie, but I can't remember if they released in the summer or not.

Oh sweet!

Certainly it's a common theme with movies... Greed taking precedence over lives, but I often think it's a bit unnuanced and the greedy people are too easy to hate. I'm from a small town myself. It used to have a trainstation, 2 banks, car repainting, a mechanic, smith, grain facility, bakers, multiple hair dressers, grocery store etc. ... Now there's barely a school and a grocery store left. And evolution is simply down to more people getting cars and allowing for centralizing those things in bigger stores/factories etc. No shark attacks, toxic water or other people scaring things... But my point is that, sadly, there is also a real danger of towns dying from bad economy, which also has grave consequences for people... So I kind of understand people getting desperate and stubborn (not to the point of idiocy / maliciousness tho).

Actually, Hooper and Ellen had lunch, during which Ellen mostly asked how the old neighborhood was. I don't know why writer Peter Benchley had Hooper lying and obfuscating about the whole thing, making Brody think he and Ellen were cheating. It took up too much of the book.

@@geordischmidt no they definitely meet up at a hotel and have sex. i clearly remember it because i was so shocked, having seen the movie many times before then.

@@coalblack666 i can back that up. i read their affair and was soo glad they left it out.

you know...i've worked in a public office and can tell you how spot on all the politics in this movie are: decisions are based on (1)money (2)public opinion. If the decisions are good for one person or the public in general.....that's a bonus, but mainly they dont happen if the money or public opinion arent appeased. Moreover, the people who work in these public offices are normal people (good and bad) just trying to keep their jobs. The mayor makes flawed decisions the same way a guy who's hungover lies about why he's late to his job at McDonalds or for the same reason we make up excuses to the police officer about why we exceed the speed limit: because people often do things to save their own butt. common self-interest. I never blamed the mayor: he's doing what people in his position do. Moreover, from HIS point of view, the Mayor only saw the shark twice, so he might have lived in that town his WHOLE life and think...."2 shark victims in 50 years....nah, we'll be fine. But...we NEED summer dollars or my voters/childhood friends lose their businesses and homes to foreclosure. " He was wrong, of course. And made the wrong decision. But he's not watching himself in a movie, WE ARE...so he's a man making rational decisions based on a lifetime of experience in a sleepy, peaceful, beautiful beach town.

Yeah... the first sequel is watchable. It's /not/a Spielberg film. The rest of the sequels don't rise to the level of "watchable".

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Sounds like my mom actually hahaha

I think I’m gonna have to disagree with you on that one

Super good! Was not expecting the suspense to be THIS GOOD.

@@lino522 what’s a better one then? Tho I must bring this up, Mulholland Drive is up there in masterclass tension building. And if you’ve seen it then you know what I mean 🥶

@@JoJo-zd5tm let’s just state the obvious: halloween Don’t get me wrong, i still love this movie and it’s tension, but i just prefer the way the built the tension in halloween

@@lino522 Agreed

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I’ve heard of that! I’ll add that!

@@JamesVSCinema The Patreon version of the reaction should absolutely have the ten minutes you'll spend staring at the last frame of the movie trying to figure out what' what.

I’ll be hitting Scarface soon!

Untouchables... Blowout...

Best comment. Appreciate the understanding! At the end of the day im having a damn good time with these films I’m finally getting too!

Beautifully put.

True. I’m a movie buff myself but only recently watched Snatch. Awesome movie but at the time of release I just couldn’t stand all the hype and then more or less forgot about it. It happens.

@@JamesVSCinemaI'm new to your channel and have to say I'm loving reliving the 'first view' of these movies. There's a vast catalogue of incredible movie waiting for you, and us taking the journey with you. Movies, as with books create a period of escapism from daily life.

YYOO if you ever watch Halloween then please avoid any spoilers of the film. Man what I would give to see it for the first time without any outside influence 😩. Hopefully you can have an experience like this. Just wanted you to know.

That second fun fact is WILD!! Thank you for sharing!

Agreed, I absolutely love that film