Would love to see this. I hope it gets taped for PBS or something. But I feel quite privileged to have seen both his mom and dad on stage. Together in Pinter's "Old Times" in the early 70s at the Kennedy Center with the great Rosemary Harris.
I also noticed the resemblance between Ian Shaw and Sir Michael Palin. Look past Ian's JAWS-required facial hair and concentrate on his eyes and nose - he almost looks more like Palin than he does his famous pop.
Love the connection between Robert Shaw and Rutger Hauer both taking control of these monologues and creating and delivering what could arguably be said to be the definitive moments in dialogue based cinema. Maybe investment in character? Actors make great directors and writers, so... X
I've been a life long Jaws fan. In my opinion it's a perfect movie, thrills, action and great acting. Ian Shaw played his dad perfectly. I saw it at the Edinburgh fringe
1:18 This shot is so eerily similar to an on location interview between Robert Shaw and Peter Benchley. Robert is wearing a Jaws t shirt and in Quint make-up and talking about Quint's obsession with the shark and the Indianapolis speech he wrote.
@@Rippafratta I don't get that. Sailors, mariners, fisherman, anybody who makes a living on the water will tell you that there's a very specific dividing line between a boat and a ship. It's written in stone.
@@nazfrde Nope. British vs American is one issue here, ferry*boats* can be as large as cruise ships. Quote from "Boating Basics Online": "That being said, there’s really no universally agreed-upon distinction."
@@Rippafratta I could link to dozens of articles explaining the difference, but suffice to say that Brody didn't say "You're gonna need a bigger ship."
@@nazfrde I don't have an opinion on the matter, but I'll just say Brody hated the water, knew little to nothing about anything associated with it, including proper maritime nomenclature. Brody probably would have called the "Queen Mary" a "boat".
My dearest Ian, you're not alone! Before Uta Hagen took me under her wing I had a wonderful human being named John Darren as my Tech Theater Professor at Queens College. And John knew that I wanted to work for Mom one day so he goes, " If you do meet Uta don't you dare tell her that you know me. She hates my guts. " So I'm doing my first show at HB and Mom comes up to meet her new ASM and like Jonathan in WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S I go, " John Darren sends his love. " No, I didn't get fired immediately. I think by that time Mom understood that her husband, Uncle Herbert, a Holocaust survivor, really didn't need John Darren or anyone else to help him abuse alcohol. And during that Summer I would be told that Uncle Herbert's parents were butchered at Aushwitz.
Dreyfuss is still alive at 75 and his character was just mentioned in a dialogue in Jaws 2. Just Scheider appeared in the movie (he was obliged to, and it shows). Get your facts right.
"...as accurate as humanly possible," followed immediately by a scene of the same boat from the movie, which has windows that are obviously much larger than the windows of the scenery on stage. So obvious it's embarrassing. At least the windows are nowhere near the same size as the boat used in the film.
Almost the same size - and to be honest, the movie Orca‘s windows were much too big for a fishing boat of that time (in a storm, the glass would break, so actual boat windows were much, much smaller). The islanders laughed at the boat when they filmed it at Martha‘s Vineyard.
Ya a play about jaws that like the queen of England without a crown like a lobster without a tail like the wilderness without trees don’t you have to have water a boat