And its up to its police chief Martin Brody (Schieder) to try andĬonvince the town's people and greedy mayor (Hamilton) of itsĮxistence with the help of scientist Matt Hooper (Dreyfuss).So afterįailing to hunt for it on their own, they decide to hire an experienced The story goes as follows: A peaceful seaside town calledĪmity is suddenly facing the terror of a man-eating huge great white Shark's entrEe at the films blood chilling opening Hamilton and Susan Backlinie, who should have won an Oscar award forīest enactment of a victim being devoured as Christine Watkins, the Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfus, Lorraine Gary, Murray Mixed up with the human paranoia, the end result is Jaws.Based on Peterīenchley's novel and screenplay, this 1975 deep blue horror stars When the myth surrounding the habitual feeding of these creatures is Like aliens, predators, tremors and even the bad boy Freddy Krueger fromĮlm Street, which only exist in our imagination, sharks are real. Pet named Bruce that looked really fake and failed to operate at timesĭuring shooting, giving both Spielberg, who nearly drowned, and his crewĪ hellish experience, manage to spread terror among worldwideīeach-goers?Psychologically-speaking, unlike other cinematic creatures, The "not-very-often-seen creature lurking and waiting to meat you, Water meters away from the shoreline at that time but also introduced In fact, Jaws not onlyĬhanged man's view about having a nice dip under the pale-moon lit
Run out of the theatres screaming in horror. Than fish that had a scream, according to movie reviews adult viewers Those other fishes scream"?Well, in Jaws' case it was more They don't lose their bite, and when I swim downstream, I make Perfectly Pearl White Teeth song, "Gotta brush my pearly whites, so
Unfortunate swimmer be painfully devoured or swallowed withoutĬhewing?Will, to his amazement, the Carcharodon Carcharias turn out toīe the Sesame Street Groovy Shark, who joyfully started singing the
Reveals a mouth full of razor sharp teeth. Growl benumbs the swimmer, who is now facing a shark that laughingly Grows stronger drawing death nearer with every paddle. Reverberations created by the man's splashing through the water Jaws of death approach the non-suspecting swimmer, the electric Ominous cello surging through the waters until a few days ago.As the Minutes of the hair-raising film that was enhanced by the sound of an Trailer watching the very same scene at exactly the very same momentįor about six times and never being able to watch the complete 130 Can you believe destiny's idea of a prolonged Which was the name of the ship that Quint, Brody and Hopper used to huntĭown this rogue fish. Man-eating great white in a trailer where it jumps onboard the Orca, During the pastġ7 years, on various occasions, I found myself face-to-face with this Would've sued my parents for every penny they have. So, if I were in America, which I ain't, I Or "I ate his liver with fava beans and a nice Chianti" Think of theĬonsequences: allowing a child to watch such a graphic film at an earlyĪge, I might've grown up into the next Buffalo Bill, Jeffery Dahmer Managed to slip into my already film-packed mind. Ironically, and for noĪpparent reason, Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple ofĭoom, the darkest and scariest of the archeological-action trilogy, That it was too much for a nine-year-old. Retrieved from īy Mike Derderian The first time I heard about Jaws was in 1987,Īlthough I didn't watch it until later-my parents decided then