Me: *laughing in bushes* Edit: yea im Vietnamese and I can confirm that if you tell a joke in Vietnam, not just the bushes are the ones laughing. The ground too.
I have an amazing story to share. So when I decided to rewatch Jaws, my little brother who was 5 at the time wanted to watch it with me. I knew that there were some moments that would scare him, but what I didn't expect is what came next. As I started the movie, and the opening credits played with this theme, my brother started crying and left the room because he was too scared. Nothing on screen was happening except the opening credits and this music playing. My brother was scared of this music. And I don't blame him one bit. Thanks for reading :D
I remember once on holiday I was in a car with just my dad and his French friends husband, he didn't speak great English and we were near the coast, my dad mentioned sharks and the French man didn't know what a shark was. My dad couldn't explain very well and eventually I just said the first few notes of this score. Straight away he knew what we meant. Shows how Iconic this is.
@@melianhoover1910 yes, basically I was saying "you know that movie with the shark" because he couldn't speak English very well. Shows how immediately he knew what we were on about.
The musical score of Jaws is so incredible, and it plays such a big part in the movie. The music starts slow, and it increases in intensity as you can suspect that the shark is nearby or approaching. The eerie music mixed with the camerawork is tension and suspense at its finest. Jaws is as one of the very few movies where the music alone can scare the audience, and no other movie really does that quite as well. Because if you took away the music it’d be a lot less suspenseful, that’s for sure. And it’s still incredible in 2024 :)
I watched that movie like 3 days ago, knew it when there's Jaws poster in background also I know Jaws since 7 years and never watched it, seen clips of it
I love how you can visualise the story with the music. The slow start, the shark approaching from a great distance. As it quickens, the shark has targeted its prey and is closing in. Then the first horn that comes in, to me its the first instance where you realise this isn't an ordinary shark, its insane, or maybe even evil, rogue as Hooper says. Then when the strings come in, like in the film, you discover the unaturally colossal size of the shark and realise how big a threat it is. That heroic melody of the strings at about 1:39 or so is the bravery of three men voyaging out to stop it. And the slow big end as the two notes come to a stop. Brody finally putting an end to this unatural menace. This is a masterclass in film and film score making 😍
@@lukemckenzie0121, He meant that baby shark song. A clip of this theme is used in the beginning. Don't listen to it. It's grating as hell and *will* get stuck in your head.
I always thought that fear itself, in the most basic sense, was the feeling of being hunted. The feeling that something is after you. This music captures it.
Years back, my community pool somehow held a screening of Jaws, and I'm pretty sure the audience was supposed to be in the water. I could not say "Nope!" fast enough...
Shelley Cohen oh my god i thought i was the only one who felt like that lol i make sure my brother is the last downstairs because hes not afraid of the dark like me lol
I love how the different parts of the music capture different aspects of the shark and the movie's portrayal of it. The drumbeats: primordial, crude, evoking the tremors of an earthquake or volcano. Ancient, primordial, brutal nature. The horns: hunting music. Brings to mind imagery of hunting hounds pursuing an animal through the forest. The strings that kick in later: the openness and energy of the ocean, and the sort of natural beauty of the shark. Not evil at all, perfect in its own way, inspiring awe and respect as well as fear.
Haven't heard this theme is SOOO long. now I'm really paying attention this masterpiece...this was an amazing composition, I remembered mainly those two notes but that whole orchestra behind those two notes is what builds the suspense... easily one of the top three tension building movie theme (maybe #1)
Actually funny story I was in the deep end of the pool and all the lights went out so all I saw was pure darkness in the water, and it happen when I was fully submersed in the water, so the I'm just staring at darkness, and then I start to panic (because me big baby when it comes to darkness) so then I rush out of the pool because I felt as if something was going to drown me if I stayed.
This theme is amazing, I’ve never seen the movie but once it started getting really loud around the halfway point I was terrified and I actually needed to pause it for a second. Awesome
@@muhtesemsiyanur he's not that old. Two composers of his skill already passed: Jerry Goldsmith, most famous for composing the Star Trek: The Motion Picture/The Next Generation Basil Poldoreus. All manners of movies
That is a theme song that will NEVER get old or forgotten, no matter how many years pass. It's like with Jurassic Park and Star Wars, iconic themes that will be remembered for ages.
Idk if the film should have existed however. It made people think that great white sharks were human killers and started to hate them and started to hunt them down very massively. Even tho the film producer made his excuses about it, still because of it people almost hunted the great white sharks down to extinction. Without the film the sharks wouldn't have got such popularity but at least they would be more safe than now.
Some of John Williams’ best work, which is really hard given how this same guy also did the themes for: Star Wars, Superman, Indiana Jones, Home Alone, Schindler’s List and Jurassic Park (those last two were both directed by Steven Spielberg in 1993, talk about range). It’s probably because this is more simple than most other Williams scores.
One of my favorite movies from Steven Spielberg. He and John Williams made an excellent movie and music. I still got shivers when I’m listening this theme
Even though the concept of a killer shark is pretty simple, the way it was described on the wiki still gives me chills. "Hooper determined that Watkins was killed by a shark. An unusually large one."
Steven Spielberg laughed when he first heard John W. play this song on the piano. He was like, you're kidding, right? Just two notes? He had to eat his words. Williams knew what he was doing.
one of the most recognizable scores from one of the most well known movies and still gives me chills every time cause it evokes suspense perfectly while being so simplistic
This song says everything about the movie you're about to watch. A giant Shark starts attacking and eating humans. And the town's never dealt with anything like it. A peaceful normal little town is visited by a force of nature that is only interested in eating whatever it can sink its teeth into. Jaws Halloween And Terminator All deal with some kind of terror that sort of appears out of nowhere. And the characters are always ill equipped to deal with it, let alone survive it. Jaws sits atop the hierarchy as the single greatest suspense horror monster movie ever made, because it not only popularized this idea, it is the the top tier product of it. There has and may never be another piece of media, where upon hearing a mere two notes, keeps us out of the water. Love it
Masterpiece movie and masterpiece theme that not only has minor suspense to start with. It also gives an uneasy feeling of everlasting dread. When it goes full blown it brings about suspense and horror in a nonchalant way. Timeless classic. Glad I have watched it over 1000 times. 🙂
