Jaws is TERRIFYING | First Time Watching | REACTION - LiteWeight Reacting

In this movie reaction I watch Jaws for the first time and it is genuinely terrifying!
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[@LiteWeightReacting]

Thank you all for watching!!!You can watch the full reaction over on Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/jaws-full-111868792?Link&

[@richardmaud9127]

Jaws 2 is worth watching

[@sean---the-other-one]

Spielberg already had this terror/tension thing working with his previous movie Duel.

[@deanroddey2881]

I was like 15'ish when this came out. My family was on vacation down in Florida and we went to watch it. My sister and I have not been back in the ocean since. My sister was scared to sit on the toilet for a while. The next day at the beach a school of dolphins popped up a bit out from shore, and people came out of the water instantly.

[@sean---the-other-one]

@@deanroddey2881 Pod

[@messyroomstudios]

JAWS 2 AND 3 ARE THE BEST

[@seansteyer8851]

I saw a T-Shirt once that said "The mayor in Jaws was still the mayor in Jaws 2, Local elections Matter!"

[@spinynorman887]

LMAO! I didn't realize that!

[@lyndoncmp5751]

That's because the influential townspeople were also complicit in the cover up. The mayor didn't act alone. He was merely the mouthpiece. Even the doctor and the newspaper editor were in on it. As were other town council members.

[@hcondivine]

@@lyndoncmp5751 going deep

[@isaacs3822]

@@seansteyer8851 That’s brilliant lol

[@Hiraghm]

The Mayor did his job. No amount of monday morning quarterbacking is going to change that. Based on the information he had (not speculation), based upon the consequences involved (7 people killed out of 10s of thousands; as many might have died in various other ways in the same period, vs the destruction of the town), he handled his responsibility as best he could.

[@cmtosh2409]

The USS Indianapolis monologue is one of my favorite scenes in any movie, Brody doesn’t really know about it, but Hooper *instantly* sobers up because he does.

[@richardburdon3241]

Hooper, being a shark expert knew of the story, but this was probably the first-hand account of it. That scene between Hooper and Quint was when they bonded, now Brody was the outsider.

[@AutomationDnD]

*THAT Man* ... . was very VERY good. It's WHY "Quint" (Robert Shaw) was brought on. Quint is a pivital character, and Shaw was "Hollywood Royalty" (old school) at that time. ... ............ now, it is Dreyfus and Scheider, who are "Old School Royalty"

[@AutomationDnD]

@@richardburdon3241 100% .... GREAT Scene

[@Jonno2summit]

One of the most epic scenes in movie history.

[@regould221]

The monologue is mostly true. One error is that a distress signal was sent but for various reasons it wasn't acted on. One reason is that the Japanese were sending out fake distress messages to try and trap US forces.

[@dainfarley9057]

This film is an absolute classic, the acting is first class. It’s one of those films you can watch anytime and come back to anytime in your life young or old.

[@zaphodrahja]

I saw it as a kid, it was so well done it took me a long time to go back into the water and when I finally did a shadow or a blob of seaweed would freak me out.

[@NocturnEternal]

RIP Susan Backline (Christine Watkins, the first victim). Also, the reporter on the beach is Jaws author Peter Benchley. RIP Mr. Benchley.

[@robbarton2391]

rip roy too and robert shaw

[@amusedmarine7402]

I was 11, the summer of 75. Jaws came out and needless to say captured the nation by storm. Quint's monolog of the USS Indianapolis STILL sends shivers down my spine. NEVER since have I seen or heard one so impactful. This movie has stood the test of time.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

The nation? More like the world. Jaws was the first global movie phenomenon. In Britain it broke box office records. It was a similar story across the planet.

[@alanmackie6180]

I was 9 and the three teenage girls sitting in front of us, jumped 6 feet in the air when that head popped out of the bottom of the boat.

[@amusedmarine7402]

@@alanmackie6180 As did you too... I think we all did. Did you know that scene was added after the majority of the editing was done. Spielberg filmed it in his publicists' swimming pool at night. Go figure

[@amusedmarine7402]

@@lyndoncmp5751 I was trying to be humble

[@prs149]

I was 11 years old and saw this movie when it came out

[@ChrisReise]

6:55 Fun Fact: Several decades after the film's release, Lee Fierro, who played Mrs. Kintner, walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed that the menu had an "Alex Kintner Sandwich." She commented that she had played his mother so many years ago; the owner of the restaurant ran out to meet her, and he was none other than Jeffrey Voorhees (no relation to Jason Vorhees), who had played her son. They had not seen each other since the original movie shoot.

[@ronfehr7899]

And she'd also had numerous people come up to her and ask to be slapped on the face.

[@mmxxiii9503]

That's awesome

[@alleyeditor]

I thought I knew everything about Jaws. Such a cool story. Thanks man!

[@EgbertWilliams]

I'm the sandwich. We all hugged and then they ate me.

[@mmxxiii9503]

@@EgbertWilliams 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@TK-hw2ph]

“He does such a good job playing a drunk guy” Everybody who knows the lore: 👀

[@LiteWeightReacting]

Hahaha

[@fastecp1]

You know what they say, practice makes perfect

[@socalpaul487]

@@LiteWeightReacting Richard Dreyfus and Robert Shaw didn't get along because Shaw was drunk and late to filming much of the movie. The tension between them was real.

[@drdwatkins]

and playing an American drunk guy at that!

[@kevincurr4641]

Robert Shaw, Peter O'Toole, Richard Harris, Oliver Reed, the last of the true rebels all in the same mould as all shakespeare actors were exceptional and we lack the same fire and passion today.

[@Stogie2112]

"Anyway, we delivered the Bomb." The Best, most subtly profound line of the film.

[@kevincurr4641]

Shaw delivered that monologue with such a passion, the men who were taken by sharks, juxtapositioning with the bomb part added such sorrow, to save the majority, the population of Hiroshima were extinguished and suffered for decades afterwards.

[@TylerD288]

"Y’know, the thing about a shark, he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes."

[@rabbitandcrow]

And his cold ironic smile.

[@AutomationDnD]

Yes

[@edinshealtiel3754]

1 of the most evil things done in human history ...😮😮

[@RobertAWolf]

John Williams score is so amazing. When this movie came out many people in the theaters were so freaked out they had to leave when they first heard the suspenseful simple notes. And this was before you saw anything scary on the screen. That's the power of music!

[@ZacCostilla]

One of the best!

[@njt2347]

12:21 The Jaws theme is so stressful because it prominently features two notes that are a half step apart known as a "minor second". Because the notes are so close together, they clash and are therefore extremely tense (I'm generalizing and simplifying here). If you are a composer who wants the to imply fear and impending doom, its hard to do better than the minor second. Also that two note theme repeats over and over getting louder each time making it sound like the impending doom implied by the minor second is getting closer and closer. It is a masterclass in building tension. John Williams knew exactly what he was doing.

[@daddynitro199]

I believe Spielberg thought Williams was pranking him with the score until he realized that it sounded like a mindless, inevitable killing machine.

[@NmDPlm31]

Fun Fact: Jonathan Searle, one of the two boys involved in the shark prank, is now the sheriff of Oak Bluffs, located in Martha’s Vinyard (where the film was made).

[@bekindandrewind1422]

"He made me do it...." :P

[@witcheshour9718]

Fun fact the last survivor of the USS Indianapolis just passed a few months ago. He told the story couple months before he passed away. May he rest.

[@LiteWeightReacting]

Thanks for sharing that! Glad he got to tell the story!

[@orangeandblackattack]

Also, I'm wondering when they stopped teaching history in high school? We had a month of WWII and its impact on human history. We were told of the USS Indianapolis my junior year in 1984, along with the Phillipines Island Hopping campaign, Major Boyington and the Black Sheep, etc. 2 weeks spent on WWI. Yet millenials and Gen Z mostly don't even know the years of the war. Pretty sure we can't fault students..teacher say, student do.

[@imahoare4742]

When I was in school WW2 was like maybe a week of watered down historical pin points. Despite the whole conflict being one of the most destructive and course changing events in human history, to the point more people than in any other war before or since, and world geopolitics changed faster in the span of the war than in any other time in history. Hell, it should be it's own course tbh.

[@brett15180]

I met one of those guys in middle TN at a WW2 reenactment. He had written a book about it.

[@tranceformeralshea]

Great reaction as always x​@@LiteWeightReacting

[@alastaircarr8518]

Another perfect reaction vid, thank you for 53 minutes of enjoyment. Side note, the newscaster on the beach was actually Peter Benchley who wrote the book "Jaws"

[@LiteWeightReacting]

Well thank you so much!! Makes me so happy you enjoyed the video!

[@terryv2006]

It’s the acting that sets the movie apart for me. So natural and nuanced that you believe you’re watching real life.

[@alanfoster6589]

Spielberg.

[@GordoFunk555]

Only Spielberg could absolutely terrify us with a moving piece of a wooden dock. Genius.

[@diegofavaratozfilms962]

The pier incident sequence is iconic and one of the best scenes

[@sophiaaldous3199]

I feel like that actor’s delivery of, “Charlie! Takemywordforitdon’tlookback, swim Charlie, SWIM!” is highly underrated.

[@Bfdidc]

It worked. Charlie swam.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

In real life the actors (actually two local extras) couldn't say their lines right so they later dubbed by two voice over actors back in Hollywood.

[@juvandy]

A lot of people are commenting on the monologue. It's my favorite piece of filmmaking ever, for several reasons. First, Shaw wrote most of it himself. He was an accomplished writer, and polished the monologue considerably. Then, it was filmed several times. Shaw really was an alcoholic, and he went a bit too serious drinking in this scene, and apparently he caused some problems on set, so he promised to film it stone sober also. The end cut blends the two together, almost seemlessly. It is fantastic filmmaking. The other part of the story is that the Indianapolis event wasn't very widely known at the time. Shaw and the other writers had really done their homework on it.

[@balthasarEF]

Quint's monologue about the USS Indianapolis is just horrifying and amazing.

[@LiteWeightReacting]

Really was!

[@balthasarEF]

@@LiteWeightReacting There's a show called The Terror on Netflix which is also based on a true story and has a few monologues like that. Worth checking out if you get a chance.

[@dabe1971]

@@LiteWeightReacting And written by Shaw himself. Don't let anyone tell you that it was Spielbergs friend John Milius, he often tells people this in interviews but Carl Gottlieb, the screenwriter gets very angry about it and is adamant the credit for the Indianapolis speech is Robert Shaws.

[@renzero9206]

@@dabe1971 Yup. I agree with Gottlieb's take. Shaw wrote the final version of the monologue we see on screen. A magnificent piece of writing and acting.

[@toddhadley9002]

One of the all-time great monologues in movie history. What's fascinating about it is that a lot of the words sound like something you would read in an encyclopedia. It's the delivery that sells it. My theory is that Quint quotes dates and numbers specifically because he has to add that technical side to it in his own mind in order to distance himself from the horror.

[@retropyro]

Robert Shaw's Indianapolis monologue is still the best piece of film ever. That scene has lived rent free in my head all my life.

[@DuchessDownunder]

agree

[@amateurnebraskafossilcolle5101]

Props for knowing quints big monologue was a true story. One thing no one gets is when quint crushes the can it was a bigger deal back when the cans were tin. Like crushing a soup can one handed

[@RossWrock]

Jaws was one of the first "scarier unseen" movies that really made use of the object of fear being out of frame. But it wasn't by design. Spielberg paid TONS of money for a fully anamatronic shark that never worked quite right. In fact, it was such a pain in the ass they named it "Bruce" on set, after Spielberg's lawyer, cause no one likes lawyers. Spielbeg had to change his whole vision of the movie based on the shark's failure, which was a happy little accident.

[@mikealvarez2322]

In the Book, Hooper has an affair with Brodie's wife and at the end he gets killed by a shark. Hooper was supposed to die in the movie but the accidental shooting of the scene where a real shark gets tangled up in a minature cage with a dummy of Hooper in it changed all that. To keep that remarkable scene Spielberg had to let Hooper live. You could say the shark saved Hooper's life.

[@LiteWeightReacting]

This is super cool! Thanks for sharing that!

[@zmarko]

Wow, that's a cool story I never knew!

[@kevinshelley2803]

It wasn't a dummy in the cage. It was a smaller cage with a dwarf inside it, and a full size shark. What they didn't bank on was the shark going berserk.

[@GMac2776]

Spoiler alert.

[@USCFlash]

Maybe do not spoil the book, OP. 🫤

[@ChrisReise]

16:10 Fun fact: When this movie went before the production company to determine what could be kept and what had to be removed, they told Spielberg to remove this scene with the Chief and his son (Sean) because it dragged on and did not further the plot. Spielberg INSISTED that it stay in the film because it show how much of a family man the chief is and also shows why he's so passionate about keeping the beach safe. It's one of my favourite scenes in the film. There's even a callback to it in "Jaws: The Revenge".

[@danh8804]

The recognition on your face at the mention of the Indianapolis really added something to that moment. It’s like you were right there on the Orca with them

[@BigJohnLXV]

I was amazed, by her reaction. I had never heard anything about that event, prior to seeing this movie (years after its release). most reactors also have no knowledge of it. so, anticipating her horror, I was surprised to see recognition on her face, when he mentioned the Indianapolis

[@KevinAmatt]

Spielberg was only 26 when he directed Jaws. It’s amazing that Universal Pictures trusted him.

[@LiteWeightReacting]

OMG! That is truly amazing!

[@Jessica_Roth]

Well, he had already made "Boxcar Bertha" and "The Sugarland Express", to good reviews if not much box office, plus directing a couple of episodes of "Columbo". He was pretty much Universal's child prodigy. (In a later episode of "Columbo", which was a Universal series, there is a boy genius character, named Little Stevie Spielberg.)

[@Jon-z2k7j]

Spielberg got the job largely as a result of a made-for-television movie called "Duel" with Dennis Weaver. If you can find it, watch it.

[@hayatotheninja]

Robert Shaw's USS Indianapolis monologue is one of the greatest moments ever filmed.

[@jaredplantulli4288]

The scene at dinner where Brody and Sean are imitating one another is one of my all time favorite scenes in any film ever. The crap day and guilt Brody is feeling, the kid who has no idea and is just being goofy, Ellen watching on as if it was some intimately real life captured moment, the music. “C’mere….give us a kiss.” “Why?” “Cause I need it.” Absolute brilliance.

[@ronfehr7899]

Did you know that the scene with the son imitating his dad was totally improvised. Schneider, aka Brody, saw the boy doing what he was doing, and just went along with it.

[@Alex_Gorell]

“I wanna watch a movie that isn’t sad and upsetting” Cried anyway 🤣. Another great reaction

[@LiteWeightReacting]

I just can’t help it sometimes hahaha

[@SurvivorBri]

The male reporter you see on the beach is none other than the author of the JAWS novel himself, Peter Benchley. And there was a lot of tension between Richard Dreyfuss (Hooper) and Robert Shaw (Quint) on set. They didn't get along and that worked well for their scenes. By the way, this is my first time on your channel. You are intelligent and you feel things deeply. Grest reaction!

[@guymelton1094]

I met a Man named Maurice Bell at a church function here in Mobile Alabama, he was a survivor of the USS Indianapolis, he gave us his account of being it the water with the Sharks eating other men , was truly a soul shacking experience for us to hear his testimony, glad that I had the opportunity to meet the man before he passed away😢, 😊👏👏👏👍✌️🇺🇸🇮🇱

[@blix666]

Robert Shaw did a great job playing a drunk guy because he was, in fact, drunk on set at almost all times.

[@LiteWeightReacting]

Another level of method acting!

[@akyhne]

He totally messed up the first go on the monologue. They gave him an hour or so to sober up and he nailed it in second go. Im not sure you know the guy, but Robert Shaw was a pretty famous actor, unlike the other two, although they became pretty famous after Jaws. Especially Richard Dreyfuss.

[@KdotLINE]

@@akyhne IIRC it wasn't an hour or so, it was the next day, and he did it because he was so embarrassed by his lack of professionalism the previous day.

[@WinstonSmith19847]

He was British we do like to drink well a lot of us do.

[@innercircle341]

@@WinstonSmith19847 Irish

[@6sKi6z6]

That dolly zoom on Roy sitting on the beach is perfect. And the way this movie came together was nothing less than amazing. Bruce the shark kept malfunctioning, so Spielberg had to keep his appearances to a minimum. Also, Robert Shaw was drunk literally the entire time while filming.

[@LiteWeightReacting]

Omg haha it’s amazing they even got this film wrapped!

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

The dolly zoom was an expansion and improvement of a camera effect Hitchcock came up with for "Vertigo". That was so famous that Spielberg got inspired by it and found a way to make it even more impressive.

[@Steve-gx9ot]

Quint saying """ AAAAAAHHHH"!! = BEST LINE in movie history. Very original = although 47:47 a clumsy delivery!!

[@MNDHFilms]

​@@LiteWeightReacting the movie was slated for a 60 days, it took over 100 days to complete due to issues with the shark, the cast and production. This movie almost ended Spielberg's career early. But in tbe end he finally did it and released it

[@TheOnlyGazzLam]

"That monologue was incredibly well done"..... yeah, he failed to do that drunk, so they made him do it again sober.

[@CopyKatnj]

IN 1975 I was 23 years old, saw this movie and have never been in the ocean again, now at age 72. While visiting relatives in Miami at the time and playing Frisbee with my young brother in law, the Frisbee went a few feet into the ocean, I pulled out my wallet and gave him $20. Told him to buy a new one, I and he weren't going in to get it. That's the effect of this movie on me.

[@johnsmith-es7zk]

Statistics show that humans are much more likely to be killed by dogs than by sharks. Add to that the fact that you can choice to avoid sharks but dogs are an ever present in our world and we are entirely reliant on the owners to control them. The number of deaths and life changing injuries caused by dogs are staggering but not made public. This movie however gave sharks a really bad reputation.

[@peterwinters8587]

Coconuts kill 60 times more people than sharks

[@falcon215]

Considered the first bona fide summer blockbuster movie, extremely well made and your enjoyable reaction brought it all back. I saw this in the theater this first week it came out and, living on the coast fairly near where it took place it seemed like there was a shark sighting every week. I still remember every single person in the theater screaming when that head popped out of that boat.

[@irishinnj72]

My parents let me see Jaws when I was 7 years old. For years after I double checked swimming pools before I jumped in.

[@knojustenuftobedangerous2442]

Ms. Lightweight, once again your knowledge of history made your reaction refreshing. Most people have no idea of the Indianapolis, dust bowl (interstellar) and other subjects. Can't wait for more from you.

[@orangeandblackattack]

YES! I replied to another comment asking when did high schools stop teaching history? We spent 2 months on WWI and WWII and the USS Indianapolis story was included thru the bombs being dropped. Can't blame students, but I can blame the education system which is proven by the avg IQ dropping 8 points since 1980. We see that everyday.

[@LiteWeightReacting]

Woo! Glad the history teacher in me makes it better for ya!

[@TeeZee22]

Glad you got an emotional break with a more Litehearted movie about a shark playing with people in the water!

[@LiteWeightReacting]

Hahaha yeah I really know how to pick em don’t I? 🫣

[@sweiland75]

$3,000 in 1975 is worth $17,539.41 today

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

I'm always cringing a little when I read it phrased like this. It's more like: To get your money's worth of $3000 in 1975 you'd have to make $17,539 now. If you phrase it like you did, it sounds as if money increased in worth. The opposite is true.

[@DenverStarkey]

@@Quotenwagnerianer your brain works wrong then ... seriously if you say 100 dollars is worth 10,000 yen ... clearly the dollar is worth more than the yen. so to say it the way he did clearly the dollar has lost value over time if 3,000 dollars then is now worth $17,539.41. it tells you that to equal 3,000 dolalrs then you'd have to make 4x that in dollars today. Nothing was wrong with the way he said it , every thing is wrong with how your mind is viewing it.

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

@@DenverStarkey How about "different", not "wrong". ;)

[@maxwellsmith1578]

Still not enough

[@DenverStarkey]

@@Quotenwagnerianer well sorry bro , but being accurate and honest, it is wrong thinking . not different just wrong. sorry, but facts are facts. if it costed 10 dollars for 100 peices of pepperment yesterday, but today it cost 10 dollars for 150 pieces of pepermint logic and common sense should tell you that the peppermint is less valuble today than it was yesterday.

[@KS-xk2so]

The Indianapolis scene is truly one of the greatest monologues in the history of film. I've seen it dozens of times and every time it still just leaves me spellbound. p.s. you're the first reactor I've ever seen flinch at him saying "That's the USS Indianapolis." before he even tells the story. You sure know your history, but from what I can recall you're a teacher or something, so its not surprising!

[@MightyDrakeC]

I saw this movie twice in the theater, when I was 13. I didn't see it again until about ten years later, when I rented it on VHS. The thing that struck me on this later viewing was how much humor there was. Spielberg is a master at playing suspense off of humor.

[@Xehanort10]

22:08 The mayor's the film's real villain.

[@LiteWeightReacting]

Just the worst!!

[@USCFlash]

@@LiteWeightReacting The book makes him far worse...and reveals the real reason he keeps the beaches open.

[@TylerD288]

No no! I agreed with the mayor. We gotta have those beaches open!

[@allenfarrantello8503]

They reporter that was over dramatic on the 4th was Peter Benchley, the author of the original novel, making a cameo

[@FatCatGarfield]

32:41 "You're gonna need a bigger boat" One of the best ad libbed lines ever!

[@RobTheWatcher]

“I know.”

[@41tl]

it was "we're gonna need a bigger boat" in the timeline I grew up in.

[@keymaker-k7h]

​@@41tl a parallel timeline maybe.....in this world and time it was always-' you're gonna need a bigger boat...'

[@slimsantilli4476]

About 10 years ago I was at Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut. I was in line for a snack, when I noticed an old gentleman in a wheelchair, with an Indianapolis hat. I thanked him for his service as it donned on me of his story. Pretty amazing.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Well done. Good for you. 👍

[@focus2004able]

The fact that Steven Spielberg directed the movie is one of the reasons Jaws was not only a hit at the cinemas, but scared the heck out of the people who saw it, and still does to this day, I have the 30th anniversary edition on DVD, and recently got it on 4K blu-ray, it looks so much better in UHD.

[@KlassyKat45]

Spielberg is brilliant.

[@anthonyz7000]

And the fact that he was _only 26 years-old_ when he directed it! Mind-blowing

[@scottfree641]

Spielberg does a background shooting star in all of his movies it's like his signature. Also the reporter was played by Peter Benchley the author of Jaws he was asked to do a Cameo. He wrote another book about the Amazon but the title eludes me.

[@keith6485]

When this film first came out, people became scared to death to go into the ocean. Even the musical score, which I performed several times in an orchestral band, had a visible effect on some folks even years after they had seen the film. It was a first on so many levels. It was a stroke of genius that Spielberg kept the shark unseen until so late in the movie. The effect that had on the tension buildup and the horror was remarkable.

[@rumrunner5266]

Bruce was such an amazing actor, he should have received an Oscar. He went through a lot during his performance. Too bad he was typecasted and didn’t perform in any other movies.

[@ronfehr7899]

Lee Fierro, who played Mrs. Kintner, commented once that people used to approach her and, knowing her famous role, would ask her to slap them on the cheek, like she did to sherriff Brody.

[@BPhillips2000]

During Steven Spielberg's episode of 'Inside the Actors Studio', he recounted his fear of 'Jaws' bombing at the box office (as 'Jaws' was only his third directorial credit, the first two being a TV movie re-edited for a decent theatrical release ('Duel') and a movie Universal declared a bomb & pulled from theaters after only 2 weeks ('Sugarland Express')). So he went to an early screening of 'Jaws' & stood at the back of the theatre, nervously watching the audience's reaction as they watched the movie, which was unremarkable...until the Kitner boy was eaten (the last part of the quote is verbatim; I'm recalling something I watched 10 years ago): "A man got up and started walking out - I thought, 'Oh my God. Our first walkout.' Then he began running and I went, 'Oh, no, he's not walking out - he's running out.' I could tell he was headed for the bathrooms, but he didn't make it and vomited all over the floor. And I just went, 'Oh my God, what have I done? What kind of a movie have I made? A man has just barfed because of my film.' But then he went to the bathroom, cleaned himself up, & when he returned to his seat, I was like 'YES!!! WE HAVE A WINNER!!', because if someone had that kind of visceral reaction, but went back, that meant he was really invested, liked the film, & wanted to finish it..."

[@jasonavery]

"You open the beaches on the 4th of July, it's like ringing the dinner bell for Christ's sakes."

[@LiteWeightReacting]

Such an amazing quote!!!

[@clarkness77]

Yeah the script is honestly amazing not a wasted line

[@BigJohnLXV]

​@@clarkness77 ''we're going to need a bigger boat'', was a wasted line, since no one heeded his advice

[@Q22_Krivanek]

Jaws is just about a curious shark who travels to Martha's Vineyard to try the local cuisine! And according to the sequels, found love along the way!

[@LiteWeightReacting]

Omg hahaha

[@markdenio4537]

Then went to the Bahamas for a winter vacation.

[@StoriesThatSuck-pw1vi]

"He does such a good job playing a drunk guy." From what I've always heard, Robert Shaw wasn't playing. 😆

[@slchance8839]

Quint's shark killing technique is actually laid out in the movie. 1.)harpoon the shark to a barrel 2.)then a second and third barrel 3.)when the barrels float, hook the rope with your stick, then tie the rope (AND SHARK) to the boat. 4.)THEN.....drive the boat home, dragging the shark harpooned up with 3 lines. On the drive home, the shark will probably down b/c it wont be dragged "facing fowarard," so water cant go over it's gills, so then it suffocates and dies. Either way, the shark you want is now tied to the back of your boat with harpoons in it's flesh and rope that's tangling him up. Quint ALMOST had step 4 when he tied the ropes to the boat and headed home. He's even smiling and happy about it. "I gotta taxidermy man gonna have a heart attack when he sees what I brung him!"

[@tomaszz8088]

Hi, I've been watching your reactions to videos for over a year now. It's nice that you react to the dramatic nature of film music. You are the only one who hears her 👍Only this video shows your natural reaction. There are more such films. But this one was the first. I suggest seeing Contact, Mission (Roland Joffe), Antarctica (Koreyoshi Kurahara), 1492- Conquest of paradise, or Juliusz (Aleksander Pietrzak). I wish you good luck and lots of emotions.

[@Chris-gz2yz]

+1 for Contact and Antarctica

[@TheDaringPastry1313]

Just like Alien, it's a masterclass at building that tension through atmosphere and not seeing the creature much. The shark was only on screen for around 4 mins, just like the Xenomorph. This movie single-handedly changed the world view of sharks in the public eye. When you didn't hear the Jaws music, it wasn't the shark on the fake outs. I really recommend Richard Dreyfuss (the scientist) in Mr. Holland's Opus since you said you were or are a teacher? As the other two were comparing scars, Martin looked down at his appendectomy scar but decided not to share it. It was a d**k measuring contest of scars and his wasn't impressive enough to share, but it still it builds a similarity between all 3 of them. Believe it or not, sharks don't like human blood, they like fish blood as a reply to your smearing blood on the tank and tossing it in.

[@magicbrownie1357]

I saw this in theatres when it came out in 1975. I was clearly too young, but loved it then, and still love it now.

[@LiteWeightReacting]

That must’ve been an awesome experience!

[@thomasbeauchamp3781]

The dog got distracted by a kid on the beach with a corndog and lived happily ever after!😊

[@LiteWeightReacting]

Yes that’s the true story!

[@JasonBodden]

@@LiteWeightReacting

[@jbwarner8626]

Sure, let's go with that 😅

[@PaulWinkle]

No matter how it ended, I am pretty sure the dog isnt alive anymore in 2024. And Doc Brown's dog in 1955 was not Einstein.

[@LucianDevine]

@@PaulWinkle He's living a happy life on a bit ol' farm on the main land!

[@garylh1462]

I've seen this film so many times I can't count. But reliving it with you has been a real joy. Thanks for sharing

[@macnachten8822]

"Some bad hat Harry" first time heard on film...then a regular at the end of every episode of Tim Allens "Last Man Standing".

[@josephlinnell9855]

I 4get who started and what TV show was produced by Some Bad Hat Harry Productions

[@MrOrthrus]

The sad tale of a shark named Bruce, who was minding his own bidness enjoying some delicious humans until he was slain by three poachers. RIP Brucie..😥🦈

[@LiteWeightReacting]

Hahaha well that’s one perspective for sure!

[@kylereese4822]

​@@LiteWeightReacting'Alex Kintner Burger' Jeffrey Voorhees and Lee Fierro's reunion happened in the same town where Jaws was filmed ... In a 2014 interview with The New Daily, a grown-up Jeffrey Voorhees recalled how his screen mom visited the restaurant he managed in the Martha's Vineyard-area town where Spielberg filmed "Jaws." The unlikely encounter reportedly took place approximately 25 years after the actors worked on the film. "At the restaurant I run, there is a sandwich called the 'Alex Kintner Burger' and one time this lady came in with her friend and I recognized instantly it was my mother from the film," Voorhees recalled. "So, I said approached her table and said, 'Can I ask you a very personal question? If you think this is a little odd tell me to go away, but do you believe in reincarnation, because I think I died years ago, and you look like my mother from a previous life.'" After Lee Fierro realized she was talking with Voorhees, she kept the gag going. According to the "Jaws" actor, his movie mom replied, "'Oh, my God, I had a son that died years ago in the ocean!' And everyone in the restaurant, including her friend, were just wondering what the hell was going on." Fierro, who reprised her role as Mrs. Kintner in the critically maligned 1987 sequel "Jaws: The Revenge" (via Rotten Tomatoes), died at age 91 of complications from COVID-19 in April 2020,

[@kylereese4822]

@@LiteWeightReacting Quint -- Shaw died in Ireland at the age of 51 from a heart attack on 28 August 1978, while driving from Castlebar, County Mayo, to his home in Tourmakeady. He was accompanied by his wife Virginia and his son Thomas. He suddenly became ill, stopped the car, stepped out, then collapsed and lost consciousness on the roadside. He was taken to Castlebar General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

[@41tl]

@MrOrthrus you should work for CNN lol...

[@miller-joel]

​@@LiteWeightReactingWell, those inconsiderate humans were invading his home.

[@beestingza]

"He does such a great job playing a drunk guy." Robert Shaw was a chronic alcoholic and died not long after this film at age 51 from a heart attack.

[@jsharp3165]

Shaw's biggest problem during production of Jaws was seasickness. Quint may have been a hardened sailor but Shaw couldn't tolerate it at all. He spent half of all those days on Orca puking or dizzy.

[@beestingza]

@@jsharp3165 That's not surprising. He wasn't in good health to start with. Incredible performance though. He apparently rewrote that Indianapolis speech himself. I really respect actors who know how to punch up their own dialog. That's the sign of a true artist. Carrie Fisher did this, as did Rutger Hauer. I believe Harrison Ford also went head to head against Ridley Scott over the silly idea that Deckard was a replicant. Scott totally missed the point of the story.

[@ZyggyZero]

If you watch it backwards, it becomes a movie about a heroic shark that rescues a fisherman, fixes a couple of boats, finds a lost diver, locates and heals several missing swimmers, repairs a pier, and restores calm to a panicked town.

[@markcarpenter6020]

And if you think about the thing from the aliens point of view it's the story of a brave astronaut trying to escape a planet while fighting it's hostile life forms.

[@deborahpaley21]

that's pretty funny!!

[@josephlinnell9855]

Sounds like a backwards country song. My truck is on the road and my wife loves me

[@markcarpenter6020]

@@kevinhaynes9091 to be fair the book the movie is based on barely makes sense

[@paulc7486]

@@markcarpenter6020it sold pretty well

[@jimhowe2624]

Spielberg is such an incredible director! Knows exactly when and when not to use the shark to build tension! If you haven't seen Jurassic Park, it's an absolute MUST.

[@garyzink1927]

I had same reaction to this great movie, but the exorcist made me lock the car doors going home! 2 great movies from my teens. Peace from Northern Michigan.

[@keefriff99]

When Brody lifts his shirt, I always took it to mean he was gonna show them his appendicitis scar, but thought better of it compared to all their uber-manly scars. 😂

[@macnachten8822]

Notice the Mayor was smoking in the hospital ER when he signed the voucher to hire Quint...we smoked in hospitals, on busses, airplanes and in restaurants and bars...those were the days my friend!

[@anthonyz7000]

We even smoked in movie theaters in the mid-70s

[@44excalibur]

What Brody meant was that his fear of water was because he was afraid of drowning, but after everything that he went through with the shark, he's no longer afraid of drowning.

[@herkamer98]

Excellent choice! However, this film was released in 1975 (not the 80's), and I clearly remember the day I stood in the LONG line outside the theater on a very hot summer afternoon, waiting for the current batch of people to see it - just to get inside. Finally we made it in and got our seats, and for the next 130 minutes, my entire life was changed. My goal at the time was to become an oceanographer (like Jacques Cousteau...) , but that plan changed when I left the theater. A lot of my candy was on the floor because of the jumping during the Ben Gardner scene. Yep - the movie literally changed my life, but I don't regret it a bit because it's still one of the best movies I've ever seen. Enjoy!!

[@HardRockMiner]

I lived 2,000 miles from any ocean and Jaws kept me out of the water for years!!!

[@tallvagabond6682]

Although Robert Saw (Quint) was a great actor, he was also a formidable drinker and was in fact drunk during his speech scene. In fact, he drank often between scenes. Also, during that seen when they were comparing scars. For comic relief, Chief Brody awkwardly peeks down his pants was looking at his appendix scare choosing not to brag about it.

[@Rofyle-e4v]

In that scene with the monologue, the actor who played Quint, Robert Shaw, was a notorious drunk. The day of shooting he was of course drunk and he screwed the monologue up bad. Later he felt so ashamed of himself that the next morning he went to Spielberg and begged Spielberg to let him do it again. Spielberg did and in one take he did what you saw

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Shaw was mostly a functioning drunk who only got better.

[@williammatthews693]

A kid and a dog die in the same scene. Spielberg used to be a savage!

[@nickmorgan1690]

He softened in Jurassic Park, he only put two kids in extreme danger

[@Jonno2summit]

The minute or so after 20:24 just cracked me up. "Looking like a seal" had me rolling.

[@washburn11000]

Good reaction. Here’s some more movies you should definitely check out. Eyes Wide Shut, Heat, Casino, Goodfellas, American History X, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, A Bronx Tale, Training Day, Shawshank Redemption, The Untouchables, just to name a few lol. But there ya go, that will expand your reaction videos lol, but seriously all of these movies I guarantee you’ll like…

[@JamesBlackwell-zn5mg]

When we go in the ocean to swim we put ourselves at the bottom of the food chain, great reaction and thank you!!!

[@dabe1971]

43:47 Yep, the famous husband and wife filmaking couple Ron & Valerie Taylor filmed real sharks for these scenes. The shark getting stuck in the cage wasn't planned but when Spielberg saw the footage he changed the story to be able to incorporate it. Also a dwarf diver, Carl Rizzo was used to make the real 16 foot shark appear even larger on camera.

[@USCFlash]

True but Rizzo was not a diver, he was a stuntman who it turns out, had zero experience. He also was not a dwarf, just small (dwarves are considered as such if 4'10 or below, Rizzo was 4'11). Also true, he was later found hiding in the boat, with a bottle of gin.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Little known fact. That sequence was shot in February 1974. Spielberg and co were not completely satisfied with it initially and rehired Ron and Valerie Taylor to go back and get more footage in March, but local abalone divers followed them out and threatened them. They didnt want the Taylors chumming in the sharks. Abalone diver Terry Manuel had been recently killed by a great white elsewhere in South Australia and they had the jitters. The Taylors couldn't get anymore footage. They tried again in April, but bad weather put paid to their plans. Spielberg had to make do with the footage from February.

[@USCFlash]

@@lyndoncmp5751 That's a very interesting story... the Taylor's filmed the original scene much closer to Port Lincoln and very near to the infamous Dangerous Reef in Spencer Gulf, as opposed to Streaky Bay area where Terry Manuel was killed in January 1974. Did they go closer to Streaky Bay to film the next proposed footage, since where Manuel was killed was 185 miles northwest of Dangerous Reef? I can understand the local abalone divers causing problems if this new proposed shoot was much closer to Streaky Bay....or were the new abalone divers that caused trouble in the Port Lincoln area?

[@lyndoncmp5751]

​@@USCFlash No the Taylors still went back to Dangerous Reef in March and April. According to Valerie Taylor many of the abalone divers knew each other and so those in Port Lincoln were friends with Terry Manuel. As I said the fatal attack on Terry must have given them the jitters and they didn't want the Taylors chumming up the sharks around Dangerous Reef. Truth is though, the sharks are there anyway because of the sea lions. They aren't attracted to the general area by chumming. Chumming just attracted them to the Taylors and their cages. I actually took a boat trip out to Dangerous Reef in January 1996 when I backpacked around Australia. Never saw any great white sharks though. Just a load of sea lions. Man did Dangerous Reef stink. Masses of sea lions give off a tremendous stink. That must be as much of an attraction as throwing horsemeat and blood into the water (not really natural for great whites). I also stopped off at Streaky Bay too. Interestingly there was a fatal attack there about a year ago.

[@USCFlash]

@@lyndoncmp5751 Yes I agree with you regarding the sharks already being there, obviously. That is interesting that the streaky bay divers and the port lincoln divers were so in sync regarding trying to push the Taylors out. I absolutely concur with you regarding the stench of dangerous reef....while I have not been there, I have been around other seal/sea lions rookeries and haulout sites throughout california and in new england and they are PUTRID. Might as well be a neon sign (or neon stench in this case) saying "EAT HERE, GREAT WHITE SHARKS". Nothing the Taylors did there once a year had any upwards effect on the sharkiness of that site. It is like selling girl scout cookies, once a year in front of the Chips Ahoy cookie factory, and thinking it makes a diference. Though I do understand the divers' concern....I would put "Abalone Diver in South Africa, Australia and CAlifornia" on my absolute lowest point of choice of employment opportunities, right behind "interior cleaner of active nuclear reactor core" Thanks for the extra info.....do you happen to have any newslinks to reports from South Australia around that time regarding the incidents with the divers and the Taylors, or was it kept largely out of the local news?

[@Bringmethehorizondude]

34:53 yes mam, it’s because he legendary was actually drunk for most of the filming. Spielberg even had an assistant drive him and chaperone him to keep him from drinking, but he ended up just getting the assistant drunk with him. Haha

[@LiteWeightReacting]

That’s some great lore honestly!

[@igloo2158]

Just saw this lol. Typed out the same thing. Sorry.

[@hollownation]

But also this scene specifically they were all actually drunk and improvising

[@igloo2158]

@@hollownation Yes but Shaw was completely blitz to the point they didn’t think he’d make it through. Then he drops the lines of the movie.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

And the assistant says he himself just got blitzed while Shaw actually got better. Shaw was a functioning drinker, who's performances never suffered at all. That one time with the Indianapolis monologue was a one off. It never happened at any other times during filming. Shaw was a true professional.

[@richardb6260]

The tagline for Jaws 2 was "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...Jaws 2" The sudden loss of music is like " Why did the orchestra stop playing? Do they know something?". There was a funny ad edit while I was watching this. When Brody was trying to shoot the tank and he says "Smile you son of a..." and fires, it immediately cut to an ad for The Daily Show and John Stewart saying "BANG! BOOM!". It was so perfect, you'd think it was planned.

[@fw1421]

The Mayor Was played by Murray Hamilton who had a very long acting career and was in a lot of big films like On the Waterfront and The Graduate. He did a great job as the despicable Mayor.

[@RedstormHunter74]

Part of the magic with the first half of this movie is the monster in the closet idea, where you never really get a good look at it. Using your own imagination against you can be super effective. This is a great example of it. Love this movie though it marred me for life when watching it as a little kid haha.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Yes and contrary to the myth, that was done on purpose. Keeping the shark hidden. Spielberg was already a suspense director. That's was his style, as Duel and Something Evil shows.

[@JimPack-jy3rr]

The reason you don't see the mechanical shark until the last 40 minutes or so in the film was not actually to build the suspense, per se, but because "Bruce" the mechanical shark kept breaking down; as it turned out that was a blessing in disguise. "Bruce" made the film better by not being in it so much.

[@ericwallace3175]

"They have been, karating the picket fences" is one the best lines in cinema.

[@PaulWinkle]

Must be these Cobra Kais

[@whitecompany18]

Ans the picket fences outside the rental shop that have been karate chopped 😃👍

[@nathanmeece9794]

I rode the JAWS ride at Universal Studios in Orlando,Florida in the mid 90s. I also remember seeing the hanging shark

[@Dallas1722]

First time watching - excellent job! I'm sure you are becoming quite a movie expert so you might already know this but you can use it on friends and family. What if I told you I was going to take you to a concert at the Hollywood Bowl on a beautiful late summer 's night and there would be 20,000 people there. Then I would tell you you probably don't know the name of the star of the show but you would know every song for two hours. That's what happens every year at the John Williams Hollywood Bowl concert. He performs 50 years of movie history. From the Olympic theme, to Jaws, Star Wars, Close Encounters, Indiana Jones, ET, Jurassic Park, Home, Alone, Schindler's List, Harry Potter, etc. He conducts the LA Philharmonic behind the film clips. It's an amazing night. One of the best things to do in LA to get a "Hollywood" feel. Afterwards go for drinks at the Roosevelt Hotel which is close by. Bogart, Bacall, Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor etc all used to hang out there and it feels like you walked into a time warp - 1940's.

[@USCFlash]

Spring 1976, I was 4 and a half years old, when i was deemed "old enough" to see this towards the end of its theatrical run. I spent my summers as a kid by the beach at my grandparents house....the entire summer of 1976, every time I went waist deep in the ocean I saw huge fins....even started seeing them in the swimming pool. An amazing film as well as cultural psychological event.

[@LiteWeightReacting]

Yeah I can really imagine this would’ve made a lot of people weary of the water!!

[@USCFlash]

@@LiteWeightReacting Well I still love the ocean 48 years later....but i still look around every once in a while!!!! 😮 Of course in the early 2000s my curiosity finally got the best of me and I went cage diving with Great Whites in Mexico....I breathtaking, amazing, terrifying experience....and seeing four of them, less than 3 feet away was incredible.

[@LucianDevine]

If you get attacked by sharks in the swimming pool, then you are just destined to die of a shark attack.

[@USCFlash]

@@LucianDevine Or you are on LSD or are psychotic, or both.

[@NicholasAGLeonard]

⁠@@LiteWeightReactingSaw Jaws on TV when I was 5 or 6, a few years before my first encounter with an ocean. I’m 42 now, and while I love the physical sensation of ocean waves crashing against me, to this very day I contend with a subtle, creeping dread every time I venture into the surf deeper than my knees.

[@jarvismane6700]

50 First Dates, Ghost (with Patrick Swayze) or 8 Mile for the next react? 😊

[@spinynorman887]

Just so you know: Robert Shaw (Quint) DID play an amazing drunk. This was because he was actually drunk during most of the shoot, including the boat scenes. He was hammered when he did the Indianapolis monologue. The movie used a mix of live shark footage (mostly in the cage scene), and mechanical shark. Spielberg is a master of building tension, and of using minimal exposure of the enemy to increase the terror. Before Jaws he did a movie called "Duel" where a motorist driving through the desert gets terrorized by a trucker. 90% of the movie is nothing but the motorist (Dennis Weaver) reacting to the trucker, whose face we never see. Finally, when Brody lifts his shirt during the scar-comparing scene, he's looking at his appendectomy scar. Fun fact: the scar is real, not a prosthetic or makeup.

[@MATTHEW-rp3kq]

also he kind of bullied dreyfuss and the soda cup scene really happened

[@thumper8471]

You just reminded me of something I heard in a small documentary of sorts about how Hollywood uses sounds of different things for effects in their movies when you mentioned Duel. The sound you hear when the shark is sinking to the bottom is the same sound they used in the movie Duel. Since she hasn't seen that yet, I don't want to make any spoilers, but I will say the sound is at the end of that movie too.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

@MATTHEW-rp3kq He antagonised Dreyfuss because Dreyfuss was sometimes a pain in the arse, complaining about being stuck there instead of being feted and signing autographs in New York etc.

[@JohnCiaschini]

When they were all on the boat comparing their wounds. When Chief Brody lifted up his shirt. He was looking at the scar where he had his appendix out. Love ❤ your reactions.

[@aaronlewis4369]

Glad you enjoyed Jaws LITEWEIGHT can you react to other shark films like 47 meters down , the meg , meg 2 : the trench for next summer please?

[@ItApproaches]

Barrels are meant to wear them down. Imagine someone ties a rope around you that weighs 100lbs and you try to run away...no matter how strong you are, you will get tired and when the shark runs out of energy and can't fight anymore, you can finish it off.

[@Hiraghm]

also known as the "rope-a-dope".

[@elrey8876]

*MY FAVORITE* Spielberg film. He had budget constraints and all kinds of problems with the shark and filming around the water - and it forced him to be extra-creative with the basic film-making.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

He's underselling himself. Much of the creativity, such as not seeing the shark early on, was planned. He was already a suspense director after all. The barrels were in the book and the early storyboards. They weren't dreamed up because the shark didnt work.

[@zacharyjoy8724]

The second attack definitely showed that this movie wasn’t messing around. Typically, pets and kids were always safe in stories like this. Not anymore.

[@mapex3636]

This movie is better everytime you see it. Great reaction, you felt it, and understood it. :)

[@thatsoundslikeblue]

At 35:35 when Brody pulls up his shirt he's looking at his appendectomy scar. 😂 It always cracks me up how he slides the shirt back down slowly like he's going, "Yeah...with all the scars those two have this probably isn't worth mentioning." 🤣🤣

[@anthonyz7000]

Yes! I always imagined him thinking, "What a city-boy scar this is, compared to those guys."

[@liaml.e.5964]

Fun Fact: the Shark's name is Bruce, and they named the great white shark from finding Nemo in his honor.

[@jiimmyd1815]

39:45 ... quotes tagline for "Jaws Revenge" 😂

[@margisama]

The reason "why no whistles?" Is because it could cause a panic which would lead to people trampling others getting out of the water (which did happen).

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Actually Bruce was never scheduled to be used for the first half of the film. First scheduled use of Bruce wasn't until the Orca based scenes out at sea. The water where they filmed the beach attack scenes was way too shallow for Bruce. It couldn't be used there, even if it didn't break down. First scheduled use of Bruce wasn't until July 1974. The beach attack scenes were filmed in May and June. The pier scene was the first shark incident filmed, late May. At that point they had no idea Bruce would malfunction. They didnt find out Bruce had mechanical issues until late June. The shark was kept hidden by design.

[@spirittammyk]

One of the very best reactions I have ever seen! You knew what to showcase in your reactions. Great job, you definitely earned this subscribtion.