Posted on 06/24/2025 12:47:57 PM PDT by jerod
My Grandfather gave me the book spending the summer with them in Chatham MA in 1974 .
No one used the sunfishes that summer .
We were there also when Ted took his famous late night drive on Martha Vineyard .
They toasted to the end of the Kennedy WH ambitions .
My brother was in the Coast Guard on Martha’s Vineyard when the movie was made. I heard that Spielberg thought the CG a nuisance, spoiling his shots of burning boats by coming to their rescue and such.
Great Whites are not gold fish.. They will eat anything.
You’re gonna need a bigger boat.
There was little to no discussion of shark attacks in the Navy, official or unofficial.
Nobody wanted to talk about it. It was bad for morale, because there was little that could be done. If someone talked about it, everyone else including the brass shut down talk of it immediately.
But it was on everyone’s mind.
LOL, of COURSE we do.
Far more people are killed in car accidents, crosswalks, falling off mountains, etc.
But having large, bone-white triangular serrated teeth biting you in half while you are still conscious is something worthy of fear in all humans.
Let’s see. Die in a fiery plane crash or be torn to pieces by a shark? I’ll take the plane crash, even with the flames.
Scary movie scared people, news at 11.🙄
Until the day one orca says to the other, I’m in the mood for some shark liver.
The shark was a Mcguffin. It drove the plot, and that’s it.
The real point was Obsession and what it does to people. Quint was Obsessed with the Shark, Hooper was Obsessed with the Shark. Brody just wanted to protect the town and stay alive. The Shark just did Shark things.
In the book, both Quint and Hooper die. They changed Hooper’s story (to the better) but, it was close.
MUCH deeper story than just “a Shark story”
They have been caught up the Mississippi as far as St. Louis!
We live on a sailboat in the Keys. We were having issues with our dinghy engine (had to change the impeller) and had it up on the dinghy dock. While trying to work with the gear lever, a part fell in the shallow water next to the dock, where, not 5 minutes before, a small bull shark swam by.
Guess who had to go in and get the part! It was recovered and the dinghy works fine now.
Love to prove that, wouldn't you? Get your name into the National Geographic.
JAWS should've been rated R, but producers Zanuck and Brown fought tooth and nail for its eventual PG rating.
That was fun. Glad you didn’t get atacked.
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