I saw this film in the summer of 1975 at the Lowry Air Force Base movie theatre in Denver, Colorado when I was 7 years old. We have no seas in Colorado (for the severely geography challenged), but that didn't stop me from a very real paranoia for a very long time of ANY body of water.
Jaws is a classic to me. I love the three main male characters and the mayor. I love the humour and the suspense. I love the nostalgia it makes me feel for that time. I'd go back to visit in a second. Behind Lawrence of Arabia, it is my #2 all-time movie. Thank you Steven Spielberg. Thank you for scaring the pee-waden out of a little girl. I'll never stop loving you for it. RIP to Quint (Robert Shaw), Chief Brody (Roy Scheider), and Mayor Vaughn (Murray Hamilton). And Happy 40th Anniversary Bruce!
Jaws: The Inside Story - Documentary
To: beaversmom
We need a bigger thread...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_%28film%29
On June 20, Jaws opened across North America on 464 screens—409 in the United States, the remainder in Canada. The coupling of this broad distribution pattern with the movie’s then even rarer national television marketing campaign yielded a release method virtually unheard-of at the time.
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Yeah.
It helped to normalize the depiction of gratuitous violence as entertainment.
5 posted on
06/20/2015 7:40:12 PM PDT by
Catmom
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To: beaversmom
And, now we know why you live here in Colorado.
;-)
8 posted on
06/20/2015 7:44:13 PM PDT by
RandallFlagg
("When you have to shoot, SHOOT! Don't talk." --Tuco)
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Nothing screams 1975 more than knee-high tube socks.
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After “Jaws” came out in theaters; our cousin remarked that she always looked in the commode before she sat down on it and did her business. - That made me think. - It was a scary time. - I still look in the commode before I sit down; only now, it’s the water moccassins we have out here on our place. - I just don’t trust them not to lurk out of sight and pop up when you get sat down good. - Thanks, Spielberg for making potty time a trial!
13 posted on
06/20/2015 7:45:34 PM PDT by
Twinkie
(John 3:16)
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It really caused the bar to be dropped to insipidity. They stopped making most movies for adults.
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To this day, I still fear oceans because there are creatures swimming within that can eat you in one gulp. And you don’t see them coming.
I’m more than a snack, thank you.
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I don’t know if it changed Hollywood but it sure changed the beach!
25 posted on
06/20/2015 7:56:07 PM PDT by
Yaelle
("You're gonna fly away, Glad you're going my way...")
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The lines at the theater...only seats left were in the very front. Perfect viewpoint for the shark coming out of the water. I think I moved the entire row of seats several feet backward.
28 posted on
06/20/2015 7:57:02 PM PDT by
gogeo
(If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
To: beaversmom
the exorcist is also a classic for me.
31 posted on
06/20/2015 7:58:09 PM PDT by
Coleus
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I took a date to see Jaws when it came out. The Pepsi she drank made her giggle and laugh throughout the show. It was embarrassing. (First and last date with her. lol)
The exploding diving tank...HA! I also doubted that even a fish that big could pull that many barrels of air under water and hold them under. Low and behold I find out the ‘mythbusters’ busted those two things and more years later.
A few years before, Spielberg directed the movie ‘Duel’ about a psychotic truck driver chasing a wimpy traveling salesman (Dennis Weaver). I was 17, but was already familiar with driving straight trucks, loaded or empty, and of course, cars.
I laughed at so many places, thinking how so many people would be caught up in the ‘realism’ of the film. The MOST glaring fact was the obviously loaded tanker, laboring up the mountain grades, would STILL catch up with the car when going down the other side. Then the means (by braking the car) of which they showed the truck closing the gap so quickly in Weaver’s rear view mirror, LOL! And the going around curves like it was empty, etc. In reality, Weaver had ample opportunity time and again to leave the semi truck ‘in his dust’.
And then the time Weaver’s car overheated, puking out a couple of gallons of coolant, and COOLED back down, never to get hot again!
Then the tanker (wearing ‘flammable’ placards) goes over the cliff, crashing into rocks as it goes down, and not a flicker of flame.
As Jed Clampett would say: “Pathetic..juussst pathetic.”
36 posted on
06/20/2015 8:12:52 PM PDT by
Zuriel
(Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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When I first saw the movie, the Mayor was the villan as much as the shark. But now I think he is one of the more interesting characters, and sincerely looking out for the town. And according to the research since the movie, the mayor is more scientifically correct that Matt Hooper. The shark would have left the area after a short while. (which of course would not have made a good movie)
You Yell Barracuda...
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43 posted on
06/20/2015 8:45:25 PM PDT by
MichiganCheese
(The darker the culture, the brighter your light can shine.)
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It’s amazing how if you took the script today and changed all reference to sharks to “IRS” it would still work as a movie.
44 posted on
06/20/2015 8:47:01 PM PDT by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(B. Hussein Obama: 17 acts of Treason and counting.)
To: beaversmom
Jaws was Duel, with a shark replacing the truck.
Not that I minded - both are masterfully terrifying. But very much the same masterpiece underneath.
69 posted on
06/20/2015 11:21:09 PM PDT by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: beaversmom
I love the nostalgia it makes me feel for that time. That is its most underrated quality. You really feel it, even today.
89 posted on
06/21/2015 5:50:27 AM PDT by
montag813
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