Leia jumps at the shark in JAWS (1975) Movie Reaction FIRST TIME WATCHING

[@zackiej89]

Your embarrassment over falling for the jump scare was hilarious. It got us all the first time, too, don't worry.

[@BenWillyums]

Every can used to have tabs that came off completely. In the 70s, metal tabs were everywhere

[@HeidiDenoble]

I remember before they had pop tops. Before them soda machines had can puncturers. Bore pop tops beer was sold primarily in bottles.

[@johannesvalterdivizzini1523]

I made a funky necklace of pull tabs when I was in college. Mostly beer.

[@MB-oc1nw]

They changed them in the early 80's I think

[@67psychout]

​@@johannesvalterdivizzini1523you and many others

[@michaels.5878]

I think everyone had a can top necklace at some point. Badge of honor.😂

[@coldflamebluedragon196]

The story of the USS Indianapolis recounted by Robert Shaw was historically accurate

[@rickc661]

@ C . I read the actor actually wrote half of that scene... he's written a couple novels.

[@Nighthawk_r33]

Fun fact Sharks were around long before the dinosaurs came into existence. Some would speculate that sharks were even the first creatures to appear on the planet.

[@thickerconstrictor9037]

Yes and no. The dates were off some of the details about the story where as well. The amount of people actually killed by sharks is greatly exaggerated in the movie. There were actually pockets of survivors, that didn't see sharks the entire they were so spread out the different groups experience different things. Of the people that died, the vast majority died from exposure. Either dehydration or other issues like that. While there were absolutely people who were killed by sharks, most of them were scavenged. not to discredit what these men went through at all. But this movie made it seem like all the people that went into the water were killed by sharks. And that's just not true.

[@daerdevvyl4314]

thickerconstrictor9037 Some also had injuries from the ship getting torpedoed. Also, a distress call actually was sent out. And it was heard by at least two radio operators. But because no American ship was supposed to be in that area, the distress call was dismissed as a trick by the Japanese.

[@bossfan49]

Leia in those final scenes was pulling her feet up on the chair like he was gonna get her! 🤣🤣🤣

[@51tetra69]

Remarkably, Quint’s speech about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis is a historical fact. It really happened! His vivid description of the tragedy that resulted is one of the most epic monologues in cinematic history, and is the key to his character and his obsession with killing sharks. He smashed the radio not only because he wanted to secure the bounty and reward for killing the Great White, which is strictly a secondary consideration for him, but rather because he wanted revenge - or perhaps personal redemption - for his horrific experience, which he can only achieve by killing the man-eating shark himself.

[@Thunderchild-gz4gc]

@@51tetra69 except he says June it happened in July

[@thickerconstrictor9037]

Again as I've said before, yes and no. Some of the details were off but the biggest thing that is exaggerated, is the sharks involvement. There were sharks. People were attacked by sharks. People were killed by sharks. But the vast majority of the people that died in the water were killed by dehydration and exposure or their wounds from the explosion/sinking. The men were so spread out that there were actually entire groups of survivors that didn't even know there were sharks attacking people. They didn't even see sharks. And other groups saw people who were already dead getting scavenged and other groups had people who were alive and injured that were killed and other groups had people that were uninjured but killed. But the vast majority of the deaths were not from sharks. Extremely exaggerated

[@toddhadley9002]

@@thickerconstrictor9037 All this is true, but this doesn't invalidate Quint's account. As you said, some groups didn't even know sharks were attacking people. We can also assume that some groups didn't even know that sharks WEREN'T attacking people. If Quint was in a group that was frequently being harassed by sharks, he can be forgiven for thinking the same thing was happening to the rest of the survivors. Also, sharks are scavengers as well as predators, so even someone who died of other causes might end up being eaten by sharks. If you see sharks feasting on the dead, it would not be unreasonable to believe the sharks killed those people, especially if you're in the water and have witnessed an attack or two already. I have no doubt Quint obviously believes what he's saying, even if it isn't accurate. And yes, I realize I'm defending a story being told by a fictional character. My point that it could be a true and non-exaggerated story from the perspective of at least some of the people who were in the water.

[@Cre80s]

@@toddhadley9002 Agreed. And there's an entirely different angle I don't hear anyone talking about. The possibility of something supernatural taking place. Something that was not just affecting the sharks in relation to Quint, but perhaps even “A” shark. All aboard The Orca eventually agreed that this shark was not only very unusual, but something was just not right. It's not just it's mere size. It was more than that. Perhaps there was even something more none of them were even close to realizing, that there was some connection between the shark and Quint directly, and their proximity to each other. Something supernatural, almost like a two-way curse. From the beginning of the movie, it's almost as though the shark had finally found Quint again (while albeit nearby on shore), and the kills were to pull him back out to sea and challenge him again, personally. It's almost like they were two sides of the same coin. The shark (and some help) had killed so many of the Indianapolis, but Quint was also surrounded by dead sharks in his shack. It's almost as though the closer both the shark and Quint met their demise, each became more like the other. The shark became more human, and Quint became less, meeting in the center. With all that, I believe Quint's account about the sharks around the sailors was both true and a twisted perception of reality that's been twisted by something supernatural going on. The dead was probably specifically around him... BECAUSE of him. Just how I've seen it.

[@michaeldavid6284]

Air is compressed. Milk is condensed.

[@islandseeker1260]

I found that amusing... it was almost like a drinking game!

[@JamesForshey]

And tomato soup

[@calvindevoe3121]

anybody else impressed by the jump Brody makes off the walkway when jaws goes into the pond?

[@67psychout]

I thought I was the only one

[@r.e.tucker3223]

The story of the Indianapolis is true. I always took the minor inaccuracies to be an old veteran telling a war story from memory. Quint is a brilliant character.

[@r.e.tucker3223]

Jaws 2 is pretty decent. I wouldn't recommend 3+ unless you're looking for laughs.

[@brandonwilliams957]

Spielberg is obviously a history buff based on his movies. He is a master of his craft and I think he likes to make films that inspire people to do research and learn. I get that feeling from his films and I think what makes him such a special director.

[@tremorsfan]

When Spielberg first heard John Williams' score he thought it was a joke. He said "That's great John, but what have you really got for me?".

[@socalpaul487]

Cans used to have pull tabs that came completely off the can. Tabs littered everywhere. People used to cut their feet at the beach. In Jr High, girls collected tabs and made vests. To reduce litter, people dropped the pull tab into the can. Removable pull tabs were outlawed after several people/children choked after swallowing the pull tabs.

[@johnmason9655]

Fifty years old, and still stands the test of time. The Indianapolis speech by Robert Shaw, still the best monologue in film history. 🦈🦈

[@NecroGrin]

Fun fact: Sharks actually predate dinosaurs. Shark fossils have been dated as far back as 450 million years ago. Millions of years before the dinos started stomping around. Great reaction btw!

[@Mecha82]

Another fun fact us that sharks don't usually attack humans and when they do they do so by mistake since they don't like taste of human meat.

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

Reminds me of a good video on YT of Prof Brian Cox explaining that we still live animals that lived with mega-reptiles aka dinosaurs today. Sharks being one prime example, the other big ones being crocs and birds.

[@Lance-b4i]

I was extremely lucky enough to get "Crissy's" autograph about a year before she passed away.

[@nealrepetti2396]

OK . Richard Dreyfuss, the actor who was in the shark cage , said in a interview, before the movie came out, that he would never make another movie with Speiburg again! When the movie came out, and made a ton of money, he publicly apologized to Speiburg and said he would make another movie with Speiburg in a minute! The next movie, he asked if he could be in it and Speiburg said yes . That movie was Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Another huge hit .

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

Yes, yes, yes, but what about Spielberg?

[@ccjjpp1966]

*Spielberg

[@minnesotajones261]

And he also did Always with Spielberg as well (Audrey Hepburn's last theatrical film).

[@gallendugall8913]

"Just ripped the tab off completely?" Yes, the pull tabs on old steel cans were designed to completely separate from the can. Robert Shaw, who here plays Quint, has played an astounding variety of classic characters in great movies.

[@michaels.5878]

And they were heavy steel, not these flimsy ones now.

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

Shaw did

[@billfinn7380]

The heavy steel cans of then is what makes the can crushing vs Styrofoam crushing scene funny. Aluminum cans of now crush easily but the old steel beer cans would be like crushing a vegetable or pork and beans can now.

[@AliveII77]

Fun facts: 1. Jaws was adapted from the novel of the same name, written by Peter Benchley. 2. Jaws author Peter Benchley has a cameo in the movie as the news reporter on the beach on July 4 3. Quint’s story about the USS Indianapolis is based on an actual event during WWII (although the date and some of the statements are incorrect). 4. In the novel, Matt Hooper and Chief Brody’s wife, Ellen, engage in an affair. 5. Also in the novel, Mayor Larry Vaughan owed money to mobsters. 6. Author Peter Benchley wrote another novel called “The Deep”, which was also adapted into a 1977 film and featured Robert Shaw in the cast. Shaw played Quint in Jaws. 7. The mechanical shark was nicknamed Bruce and kept malfunctioning during filming. 8. The movie almost didn’t get finished because it was way over budget and behind schedule. 9. Jaws was filmed on location off Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. 10. Jaws is considered the first big summer blockbuster.

[@brom00]

That jump scare gets every first time watcher. The TV reporter on the beach was author Peter Benchley. He wrote the book the film was adapted from. 🦈

[@Madbandit77]

Peter co-wrote the screenplay with Carl Gottlieb, who plays one of the fisherman.

[@aaronmcmahon7462]

The license plate and tin can in the tiger sharks' stomach is accurate of their eating patterns. Tiger sharks are known to eat practically anything, hence the nickname trash cans of the sea.

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

I think tigers get a bad rap. Where I've been surfing, swimming and fishing for most of my life on a part of the east coast of Australia there is no shortage of tigers here but the (rare) attacks are mostly down to bull sharks. I guess it depends where in the world they're living and what their primary food source is. Even off Brisbane at Flinders Reef there is a well known resident female tiger and every day classes do their open water certification without it being an issue.

[@dunringill1747]

Some info and trivia: - 'Jaws' is the first Summer Blockbuster movie. - Quint's USS Indianapolis monologue was based on the worst mass animal attack in history. Quint blamed all the deaths on the sharks which wasn't true, but we can excuse that because of Quint's PTSD for sharks. - Back then beer cans were made out of steel with metal tabs. It took a bit of strength to crush one in your hands, which made Hooper's foam cup crushing response a bit more funny. - They called the mechanical shark 'Bruce' after Spielberg's lawyer. - 'Bruce' the shark kept breaking down during filming so the movie was changed on the fly to be more suspenseful with camera shots from the shark's POV. - Roy Scheider's famous line, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat,” was ad-libbed during filming. - The largest Great White Sharks we have ever caught were slightly less than 23 feet long, so 25' Jaws would be a record catch.

[@gallendugall8913]

IMO Death by shark would be preferable to the reality - death from dehydration and drinking salt water.

[@tremorsfan]

The actor who played Alex Kitner stayed on Martha's Vineyard and ended up opening a restaurant. The restaurant sells a sandwich called the "Alex Kintner". One day the actress who played his mother came in purely by chance and they had a bit of a reunion.

[@JohnCiaschini]

Jaws was filmed on Martha's Vineyard Massachusetts. Amity is a fictional town. It was filmed in Edgartown Massachusetts, which is on Martha's Vineyard. The town where they caught the first shark was filmed in Oak Bluffs, which is also on Martha's Vineyard. ❤ your reactions. Hope you have a great day!

[@paulalexandredumasseauvan2357]

"y'all didn't see that" AU CONTRAIRE! 😳 "THAT" is the exact reason WHY we are here! 😁 ENJOYED your reaction! 👍☺

[@reesebn38]

Richard Dreyfuss(Hooper) Starried in 4 movies in the 70s that were massive Hits & Game changing movies. "American Graffiti"(1973) George Lucas just before Star Wars. "Jaws"(1975). "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"(1977), Spielberg again. "The Goodbye Girl"(1977). Close Encounters & Goodbye Girl came out at the same time Christmas 1977. The number 1 & 2 movies that Holiday season in 77. The Goodbye Girl was the first Rom-com to break $100 million and Dreyfuss won the Oscar for best lead actor in a Rom-com. Roy Scheider(Brody) was a great movie star of the 70s & 80s. "The French Connection"(1970), "Sorcerer"(1977), "All That Jazz"(1980), "Blue Thunder"(1983), "2010: The Year We Make Contact"(1984). All great movies to watch!

[@MATTHEW-rp3kq]

'i dont like the nylons hanging on the rods! LOL, also goodbye girl was the movie playing in the last of us hbo series while in jackson

[@Immortalheart66]

Good ole’ Ben Gardner’s head,.. strikes again. Your jump made me jump and i have seen this movie 1000 times. Saw it in the theater at 10 years old in 1975. Imagine 100 people jumping up and over their chair into the lap of the person behind them. Others during the movie were running out into the lobby vomiting. It was Epic!!! Ben’s head popping out,… best jump scare in movie history!!!!

[@skullandbones1832]

The original 1975 soundtrack to this movie is phenomenal to listen to on vinyl record.

[@redviper6805]

The compressed air tank was an excellent use of Chekov’s Gun, a narrative principle where an element introduced into a story first seems unimportant but will later take on great significance. Glad you enjoyed this Spielberg/Williams masterpiece. Loved watching your heart go into arrhythmia during those jump scares, lol. There’s a documentary about John Williams on Disney Plus. Highly recommend it.

[@inspectre27]

If you show a gun in the first act, it must be fired in the third. 😁

[@thickerconstrictor9037]

Oh and the biggest mistake that people make, Ben Gardner's head is not decapitated. His head is not severed. People think that it is because all they see is his head float over the hole. And they only made the shoulders neck and head. But it's not intended for his head to be just floating around decapitated. You can see that there's a jacket still on him. It's just supposed to be his body floating in the water and as it bobs there, it sinks over the hole so you can see his head. Now the real reason why it seems like a plot hole is because this scene was added after the fact to give the audience one more big scare. It was filmed in a swimming pool. But if people really want an actual explanation, that fixes the pothole, I can give you one. This isn't official, because they didn't think that far, but this is the only one that actually makes sense. If Ben Gardner had his head somehow bitten off why was his head still in the boat? Where's the rest of his body? How did it get back in the boat? The shark never touched him. if the shark had bitten his body off, the mayor would have no choice but to admit that it was a shark that killed him he wouldn't need the fucking tooth. Obviously he denied the girl at the beginning but that was before they saw the shark. Now he would have no choice but to admit that the shark was still around if he had another human being with bite marks out of him. however, what they found was a boat that had a hole in the bottom and Ben Gardner dead floating in the water that has collected in the hull. And he has an eye missing. How? So the shark likely attacked the boat, and either gave Ben Gardner a heart attack or caused him to fall and hit his head. The hole at the bottom of the boat allowed water to collect inside the boat so after he had a heart attack or after he hit his head he drowned. So there's no bite marks in him he's completely intact and when they find the boat it looks like he accidentally hit the rock pile that he was talking about earlier in the film. When they do an autopsy they will either find that he had a heart attack and died or he hit the rocks and hit his head and died. Without the tooth it just looks like he hit the rocks.; but I'm sure you're asking what about the damage to his face. Little fish and crabs have great senses to find decaying food. Little bait fish and scavengers crawled up into the hole in the boat and started picking at his dead body. And one of them picked his eye out. So now the mayor has an excuse legitimately why he doesn't think it's the shark. Because there's no damage to been at all besides the little scavengers. The autopsy shows a heart attack or drowning the damage to the boat is from the rocks. And without the tooth there's no proof that it's the shark. That closes the entire hole in the plot. Ben Gardner's head was never detached from his body

[@Jjhmm]

I love the sea, crabs eew😂

[@adamkhan7736]

Main reason why I watch people reacting to Jaws is to see how they handle the jump scare ( you know the one). You did well. You were joint first. I'm sorry for doing this 🤣😭🤣😭 when you jumped. Hope you're ok. As far as the actors are concerned. Richard Dreyfuss( The scientific guy) has been in some good films. " What about Bob" is one of them. It's really funny. Stay safe.😊

[@quixote6942]

The Mayor is wearing a suit at the beach... His Kids were on the Beach... but he browbeats a fellow counsilman to get into the water. The Story of the Indianapolis is accurate. The Story of the Indianapolis and the Forrestal Fires are taught in Navy Basic Training back in 1981. Brody's scar was his backstory... He was a NY cop shot in the line of Duty, He wanted out, so he chose to be the chief of Police in a nice Peaceful Island Town. The scar seemed insignificant next to two guys comparing Shark injuries.

[@richardlukesh5807]

This film established the formula for releasing big blockbuster hits in the summer.

[@jamesdamiano8894]

Roy Scheider (chief Brody) is in a very cool thriller called Maratjon Man. Also stars Dustin Hoffman. It’s fallen by the wayside for some reason and no one reacts to it. Maybe you could get it going. The best part of watching first time reactions to this movie is waiting for Ben Gardner head to pop out. People also always think Hooper grabbing the plate of food is weird, but my take on it is. When you first meet him, one of the first things he asks is if there is a good restaurant in town. So ha probably hadn’t eaten all day or at least since breakfast and was starving. This was the first bona fide summer blockbuster. If you haven’t seen Tremors, you definitely should. It takes inspiration from this film. Kind of like Jaws on land. When Brody days you’re gonna need a bigger boat. Some variation of that line has been used quite a few times now other movies. Is It Safe? If you know, you know.

[@tomdodds8091]

I forgot that one on my list.

[@RichardM1366]

The time came to kill the the Shark. The novel has the Shark mortally wounded by a harpoon to the belly. Steven Spielberg the genius he is wanted the smash mouth ending. the head was filled with red paint fish guts and Dynamite. The explosion went off perfectly. The audience went wild and it helped Jaw to be named the first summer blockbuster.

[@joeyartk]

A great movie with Robert Shaw(Quint) is The Sting.

[@laminar0886]

@@joeyartk yeah Leia… you GOTTA watch The Sting!! 😄

[@blueroninstudios]

He's also great in Goldfinger, a classic James Bond film!

[@joeyartk]

@blueroninstudios He's actually in From Russia with Love, not Goldfinger.

[@blueroninstudios]

@joeyartk Oh that's right! My bad!

[@Enthymene]

I recall him being good opposite Walter Matthau in the original Taking of Pelham 123, as well.

[@thickerconstrictor9037]

Sean, the adorable little brother, doesn't say I don't want you in the water he says Michael i dont like you no more hahaha.

[@blueovaltrucker]

I was 8 when I watched this at the theater, and for weeks I was afraid of the bath tub, toilet, the pool, the sink..every kid at school loved this movie.

[@stevenmotchan2048]

I was 9 and I was afraid to close my eyes in the pool. Tried to play Marco Polo but couldn't do it.

[@matthewcostello3530]

the younger kid with the fin is now a sheriff on that island

[@lauraclark427]

Actually, he's the real life mayor of the town they used for filming.

[@mattp6089]

When Brody says "No she's not." to the Mayor about Mrs Kintner being right or wrong in her accusation, the subtext is "and I'm not going to let you or anyone else prevent me from doing my job anymore." Spitting on the inside of a face mask and spreading it over the glass forms a layer that stops it fogging up during your dive. Rinse it to remove excess and you are good to go. Diving is such a glamorous sport right!

[@Enthymene]

I learned that from Reading Rainbow some years before I first saw Jaws. Thanks again LeVar Burton! Also I might still be able to spot a fire coral because of that episode.

[@settermanfishing]

Great Reaction watched first 3 times in the theater 2 times just to watch 200 people getting jumped scared . 50 years later doing it again on KZbin 😂😂

[@51tetra69]

Also, the scene when they are examining Ben Gardner’s beat-up fishing boat, and Hooper pulls a shark tooth the size of a shot glass out of the hole in the hull -- just as Ben Gardner’s mutilated head suddenly appears -- is one of the greatest jump-scares of all time!

[@ramonalfaro3252]

The 1970s was peak for realistic characters in movies.

[@wiseoldman53]

Martha's Vineyard Island off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, was the filming location of the fictitious town of Amity in Jaws. Great reaction!

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

There is a town in Australia not far from where I used to holiday called Amity that is notorious for how many sharks live and transit through there, I wonder if it was the inspiration for the name in the movie.

[@tonyvoyles296]

Great reaction. I had to go back and watch that great jump scare you did when the guys head poped out of the boat underwater. Got ya

[@michaelhartsell6566]

Popcorn Roulette really has some winners doing these reactions.

[@mikefixx7177]

The science guy as you call him is Richard Dreyfuss and a big actor. He also played in What about Bob which was excellent and he plays in Close encounters.

[@dciach12]

It's always a good watch with Leia, hoping she actually gets scared on occasion! 😂❤

[@tomdodds8091]

Roy Scheider (Brody) had a long career. He was in Jaws 2, of course, but his two other biggest hits were probably Blue Thunder and All That Jazz. Richard Dreyfuss (Hooper) has a really impressive resume. You've probably heard of at least most of these: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, American Graffiti, Mr. Holland's Opus, Stand By Me, The Goodbye Girl, Red, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Tin Men, Postcards from the Edge, and The Big Fix... and a ton of others. Robert Shaw ("Pirate Pete") had a huge list of credits going all the way back to 1939, but he died in 1978 so they're probably almost all too old for you to have heard of them. Maybe The Sting, The Deep, or The Grapes of Wrath?

[@billmckee1123]

Leia, awesome reaction! You are my dream girl btw… 🥰😉 I love your 70s style and your beautiful smile.! 😍❤️

[@konowd]

Jaws is the ultimate shark film, will never be topped or equaled

[@Boomerbox2024]

The reason people thought that sharks might be immortal is that they are unlike other fish, in ways that make it hard to determine their age. Usually, an animal's teeth reveal its age by the wear marks. Sharks constantly shed and replace their teeth. It is also rare to find dead sharks washed ashore because unlike other fish they have no swim bladder for buoyancy, so they sink to the bottom when they die. It is hard to discover the lifespans of shark species in the wild.

[@Lance-b4i]

The tv reporter on the beach is Peter Benchley, author of JAWS the novel, that the movie is based on.

[@MarcoMM1]

Great reaction Leia like always Jaws is adapted from author Peter Benchley’s bestselling novel of the same name, which Benchley based on a series of shark attacks that occurred off the coast of New Jersey in 1916 and after an incident where a New York fisherman named Frank Mundus caught a 4500-pound shark off the coast of Montauk in 1964. Benchley himself can be seen in a cameo in the film as the news reporter who addresses the camera on the beach. There's a great story about Lee Fierro, who played Mrs. Kintner in "Jaws", as she went to eat at a restaurant. As she looked at the menu, she noticed that they served an "Alex Kintner Sandwich". She commented to the server that she had played the mother of Kintner in the movie years earlier. A few moments later, the owner of the restaurant, Jeffrey Voorhees, ran out to meet her. Voorhees was the boy who played Alex. They hadn't seen each other since the filming. Keep up the good work.

[@08191906]

Nah, Leia, you shouldn't be embarrassed by your reaction to cinema's greatest jump scare. Just imagine a theater-ful of screams! EVERYONE jumped & screamed. What I appreciate most is the sublime groan of disbelief by first-time watchers when Hooper walks from the cabin in his wetsuit to go IN the water at Ben Gardner's half-sunken boat.

[@HeidiDenoble]

Jaws is not a Horror movie. It has terror and suspense but it's more of an adventure/ thriller.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Yep, Jaws cannot be pigeonholed into one genre.

[@ChrisReise]

Fun Fact: Richard Dreyfuss, who plays Matt Hooper has a small role in the 2010 film, "Piranha 3D". The character is a fisherman named Matt and when we see him, he's in a boat fishing and drinking Amity Beer.

[@garyzink1927]

LOVED your reaction! As an eighteen year old watched this and exorcist when they came out. One made me fear the ocean the other gave me nightmares! Try both! Peace from Northern Michigan!

[@ChrisReise]

Fun Fact: As the shark is sinking after being killed, you can hear the sound effect of a dinosaur. That SAME dinosaur roar is ALSO heard as the truck goes over the cliff in "Duel". Spielberg got the sample from the 1957 film, "The Land Unknown".

[@nealrepetti2396]

First thing I want to say is this movie 🎥 is credited for starting what we call now The Summer Blockbuster. I'm 66 years old now and I saw this when it first came out. I haven't bin in the ocean since. It scared the shit out of me!

[@mikegilgenbach4840]

Sharks are older than dinosaurs. They showed up over 400 million years ago, almost twice as old as dinosaurs.

[@51tetra69]

There is a good example of foreshadowing in this movie that everyone seems to miss: when Chief Brody is looking through books about sharks, researching the subject, while thumbing through the books, he comes across a photo of a giant shark with a compressed air tank from a diver in its mouth. Of course, this comes full circle at the end of the movie when Brody destroys the shark by shooting the compressed air tank in its jaws. I am always surprised that no one ever points that out; it seems like such an obvious oversight to me…

[@lyndoncmp5751]

It's a bitometer, not an air tank. That's a bull shark. No bull shark is that huge. Bitometers look similar. They were used to test the bite force of sharks.

[@51tetra69]

Both the “Jaws” novel and the movie were inspired by a series of deadly shark attacks along the Jersey shore over a short period of time, resulting in multiple fatalities, all of which were caused by a single rogue bull shark. In short, incidents like those portrayed in Jaws do indeed take place in real life. Check the shark attack records for Florida, Australia, and California for more evidence.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

There is no consensus on that, or that it was even a bull shark. The creek wasn't fresh water. It had a high salt content. At least one of the ocean attacks (Charles Bruder) appears to have been done by a large great white. As with the 5 attacks in Egypt in 2010, there were probably multiple sharks involved. Obviously the 3 creek attacks were the same shark but there is no evidence the other two were by the same shark, and the wound and attack patterns were different.

[@blueboy4244]

no ..... we all saw it.. we all tuned in JUST to see that

[@BouillaBased]

I usually judge the quality of the reaction video in large part on when Ben Gardner's head appears. I have a feeling this is going to be a good one.

[@MATTHEW-rp3kq]

the scene where his son mimics him came from them sitting and the boy startrd mimicking roy scheider, speilberg made it part of the movie

[@kennethmarrow3131]

Fun fact: Pippit, the black Labrador appearing at 7:59 of the movie was miraculously not eaten by JAWS. The dog had apparently wandered off to the far end of the beach and began frolicking with a German shepherd who was in heat. The two dogs plus a mixed litter of pups were discovered weeks later under the boardwalk.

[@AlbertHuebsch]

She would be bleeding. the problem is that it's supposed to be dark enough after sunset that you wouldn't be able to see the blood.

[@michaelwolf7840]

The spit in the mask help to prevent it from fogging up

[@edgarcia4794]

I was around at this time. After the movie came out my dad having a fishing boat out of Oceanside ca. I made a few bucks taking people out to see a large Great White. I get a 70's vibe from you so yeah I think you'd fit in alright.

[@thickerconstrictor9037]

So there are a lot of myths surrounding this movie. You'll probably get a bunch of people saying derp derp fun fact.... First off, this movie was not at all inspired by the Jersey shore attacks of the early 1900s. That was originally written by a newspaper or journal I don't recall which, in which they were forced to print a retraction from Peter benchley. Bentley himself as well as his wife has stated in numerous interviews that the inspiration for Jaws was an article on Frank mundis catching a very large white shark on rod and reel. And it got benchley thinking what would it be like if a larger great white attacked an island community. So no the Jersey shore attacks were not an inspiration for jaws. Also the you're gonna need a bigger boat line was not improvised. In an interview with Carl gottlieb that is available on KZbin from Jaws fest 2005 Carl who was one of the screenwriters on the film as well as one of the actors, stated that he originally thought that the line was improvised until Roy scheider himself said that it was in the script. It was partially improvised in a sense that it was a running joke around the set and everyone would always say youre gonna need a bigger boat or we're gonna need abigger boat. So they eventually put it in the script. And then Roy scheider said it on multiple occasions after that and they ended up putting it in the movie more than once. But that is a video that is available on KZbin. Jawsfest 2005 Carl gotlieb peter benchley. Also the shooting stars are not real. People forever and ever have thought that they were but many scenes in this movie were filmed during the daytime but with a lens that made it look like night time. A couple examples are the opening scene with the girl getting attacked, the scene where the dock gets destroyed, and also the shooting star scenes. It is obviously daytime in both of those scenes with a lens that makes it look like night time. In addition to that there is so much cloud cover that it would be nearly impossible to see shooting stars. Joe alves said in his book that it was an effect that they added afterwards. Obviously they didn't have CGI back then but there were tricks that they could use to make types of effects like that. Also the Indianapolis speech is mostly a true story. Some of the dates were off and some of the details were wrong. And while many people did die and even though sharks did scavenge and also kill people, the amount of people killed by sharks in quints speech, is greatly exaggerated. The vast majority of the people who died died from exposure or dehydration. And many others died from the torpedo itself and the ship sinking. Most of the people that were eaten by sharks were scavenged although many injured people were attacked as well, and there were people that were mostly unharmed but were killed by sharks also. But overall the numbers of people killed by sharks are nowhere near as much as they have stated in the film. There were actually pockets of men that survived, that didn't even know that sharks were attacking they were so spread out they couldn't even see each other sometimes. and some of the groups didn't even see sharks. Not taking away anything from the speech it is phenomenal and the men who survived are true heroes. And the ones who lost their lives is tragic and they're definitely were sharks and definitely were people are killed by sharks. Just not as many as they seem to lead on in the film

[@Cre80s]

While everyone's pointing out the dialogue about the USS Indianapolis being true, everyone's leaving out how this film's influence has looped back around and massively affected the historical event. A young fan of the film was so affected by the story, he'd researched it and learned how in the aftermath the captain was totally scapegoated by the navy in an attempt to save face, court-martialing him, to the bewilderment of the entire crew, who deeply admired him and did not blame him for anything. The same caused the captain to later commit s__cide, further hurting the survivors. The kid who learned all this interviewed the survivors and was motivated to head up an awareness campaign and fought to restore the captain's name, including the actual, literal commander of the Japanese U-boat that actually sunk the ship! The kid's efforts were totally successful, writing himself into the lore itself, and wove the movie into the event in a very oddly validating way. Now THAT'S something more fans of the film should know and share.

[@TheBTG88]

The engine blew up when he over-drove it. Spitting on the inside of the mask is to keep it from fogging.

[@1MahaDas]

You folks have to do something about the AUDIO portions of your footage. They are obviously distorted for some reason, though it doesn't take "too much" away from your program. Maybe you should consider a change to your microphone?

[@Roadghost1969]

Thank you for posting this!, I saw this when in the theater when I was six (In my top 15 favorite movies). I worked at a hospital in the Chicago area. I had the pleasure of meeting two of the Indy Survivors and becoming their friends. Over the years, I went VFW's and American Legion's where they would speak with some other survivors from the mid-west. Besides, serving on the same ship together they all seem to have many of same triggers for PTSD. One was they could not sleep on water beds It would put them right back into the ocean In their minds and bring about horrific dreams. and if would smell like a oil water mixture could bring on flash backs. Both of the survivors that I knew have since passed on. I believe that one survivor (mot the ones I was friends with) remains as of today. The crazy thing many of those men suffered from dementia and Alzheimer's, But those memories are forever burnt in the minds. One story I heard from one of the survivors was, He tried not to talk about the tragedy did not want it brought up. I guess one day he was having a tough time at work came home and wanted a warm bath. He dozed off int the tub and awakened to his skin pruning from being in the water too long . He saw his hands and lost it and it caused hallucinations. All this because back in 1945 when they were rescued, their skin was so wrinkled and pruned and being in salt water ,when pulled into rescue boat their skin would tear. The two survivors that I knew passed away in 2009 not far apart as I remember. My late father Passed in 2020 and is at rest in a military cemetery not too far from one of my USS Indianapolis friends. It was strange because my dad was put to rest during covid we could not pick a spot. When I visit dad I also visit my friend in the same section of the cemetery.

[@blueroninstudios]

22:06 The severed head of Ben Gardner claims yet ANOTHER RECORD JUMPSCARE! To be fair Leia ... everybody jumps at that scene. Heheheh!

[@ChrisReise]

16:27 This woman is the late Lee Fierro, she plays Mrs. Kintner, Alex Kintner's mother. Interesting story about her: Several decades after filming "Jaws", Lee Fierro walked into a seafood restaurant called "The Wharf Pub", located at 3 Main Street in Edgartown, Massachusetts. While she was there she 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 - none other than Jeffrey Voorhees, who had played her son. They hadn't seen each other since the original movie shoot.

[@Gort-Marvin0Martian]

The reporter on the beach on the 4th of July is Peter Benchley. He wrote the book Jaws, which the film is based on. He actually wrote a series. Some of which have been made into films. Great reaction. As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.

[@arjaylee]

Watching peoples reaction to the Ben Gardner Jump Scare is one of my guilty pleasures

[@vytallicaq.6881]

Also watch the great chase movie Spielberg did before this, "Duel". Very suspenseful, all the way through. 😬

[@mattrismatt]

She mentioned that she did so in the intro to this reaction.

[@vytallicaq.6881]

@@mattrismatt Oops! I guess I skipped over that part. I'll check it out. 👍

[@williamjones6031]

1. Jaws was the first "Summer Blockbuster". 2. Boy Scouts don't need to do the mile swim to get their merit badge. It's an accomplishment all its own. 3. Lee Fierro/Mrs. Kentner actually slapped Roy Scheider. It took 17 takes. Once was so hard it knocked his glasses off. 4. The jump scare at Ben Gardner's boat was put in on purpose by Spielberg because they were having problems with the shark "Bruce" and his appearance was delayed, and the movie needed something earlier. Works every time.🤣 5. IRL Dreyfuss and Shaw didn't get along, so Spielberg used the animosity to fuel their feud onscreen. 6. The boy that said, "He made me do it' is now the Police Chief of the town where this movie was filmed. 7. Hooper was wrong. The fish that hit the line was "our fish". 8. To me the best scene framing work was the pullback to the vandalized Welcome sign. 9. Movie magic: An animal that large couldn't hit the side of the boat as rapidly as it did UNDER WATER. 10. I suspect Quint's story about the Indy gave him PTSD flashbacks and contributed to his behavior after he told the Indianapolis story. It' personal. 11. I was in the Navy, and we were instructed to go for the eyes when confronting a shark. 12. Aside from the pool used in the Ben Gardner boat scenes, all of the shipboard scenes were filmed entirely at sea, 13. In the book not only does Hooper die, but he was also having an affair with Mrs. Brody. 14. JAWS II is the only other one worth watching. It revolves around the Brody kids and their friends. Including the mayor's son. 15 The third one was so bad that Scheider read the script and said NO. Note: Regarding "Drowning the shark", sharks need water flowing through its gills to provide oxygen. Sharks stop swimming, no oxygen. The more you know.🧐

[@edwardslizewski3296]

❤️❤️❤️ I never went back swimming in the ocean after I watched this movie. 🦈

[@vytallicaq.6881]

Nice reaction! Be sure to watch Spielberg's great UFO movie "Close Encounters". Richard Dreyfuss is in that too. The military is finally admitting that UFOs are REAL. 🛸

[@frankmartin3600]

@@vytallicaq.6881 yeah, the military always tells the truth.😆

[@vytallicaq.6881]

@@frankmartin3600 Yeah, it could be a ruse to make the Russians and Chinese THINK we have access to alien technology. I did have a co-worker once tell me though, that he actually saw one. Hovering silently over his head, before it zoomed off outta sight in an instant. He said it was unmistakable. And he was never the type to exaggerate or lie. So who knows? I'd still have to see one myself, to be 100% sure.

[@lauraclark427]

Haven't seen anyone mention this bit of trivia yet: 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, who had played her son. They had not seen each other since the original movie shoot.

[@dwaynelawrence8963]

Some funs facts about the movie. The reporter on the beach is actually the author, Peter Benchley, who wrote the Jaws novel, that the movie is based on. Sadly the actor who played Quint, Robert Shaw, unexpectedly died 3 years after filming the movie. Richard Dreyfuss has been in over 60s films, 3 by Steven Spielberg (Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Always), other very popular movies include: American Graffiti, directed by George Lucas, Stand by Me, The Goodbye Girl, and What about Bob (with Bill Murry). I just was on vacation in Boston this past Sept. and took a day tour of the Martha's Vineyard Island, in Mass., where Jaws was filmed. The bus driver of the tour was born & has lived his whole life on the island. He said that just about every person on the island was in the movie as extras. He said that the boy (a local) with the fake fin, who said "he made me do it", is currently the chief of police on the island. The small town on the island with all the pickets fences is called Edgartown, there still is a lot of picket fencing in town. The chief's home was at the north side of the island, near another small town on the island, Oak Bluffs, but the house was demolished and is no longer there, the dock where his son's boat was tied up is still there. The bridge that the chief runs across & jumps off was replaced with a newer bridge, but it is in the same location and looks very similar. I saw the Jaws movie when it first came out in the theaters in 1975. It did have lines around the block (the 1st of what was to be known as a Summer Blockbuster), and everyone was afraid to swim just about anywhere for years after that summer that Jaws came out. What made the jump-scare of the head falling through the hole in the bottom of the boat was even that much scarier due to, if you could imagine it, a whole theater packed with people instantly screaming all at the same time. Being that I was in my teens, it was the first scary movie I saw in a theater, and before going into the theater I wondered if was going to be too scary? Steven Spielberg wanted to use the shark more earlier in the movie, but due to mechanical issue it wasn't possible. It turned out the similar to the technique that Alfred Hitchcock used in his suspense movies/TV shows, not actually seeing something directly can be much more impactful to the audience, because your mind fills in something far worse than what they could have shown.

[@Zealdave2223]

Back in the day, when you opened the tab on a can, yes, the whole tab came off. The can were also steel and were not easy to crush, unlike the cans we have today.

[@ronp1903]

Excellent jump scare Leia, that was funny! I always wait for that head to pop out and watch the reactions! Lol 😆

[@harveylee51]

Iconic movie ! love the way the suspense is built up and all the performances are great in particular Robert Shaw as Pirate Pete as you called him LEIA 😅 [ yes he played QUINT !] Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss round out the SHARK hunting trio here and they had great chemistry between them . The original summer blockbuster and still an awesome thriller . Thanks for your reaction Leia ! CHEERS .😄

[@faygodrinker]

That monologue kills me every time

[@EntertainmentFan11]

"You're gonna need a bigger boat."

[@ChrisReise]

15:13 Fun Fact: This scene was not in the original script. This shark was just coincidentally caught while filming. Peter Benchley (writer) was on location so he was asked to write a scene to include this shark. Peter Benchley can later be seen on the beach as the news reporter.

[@BobCrabtree-ev4rz]

So...I guess we can start calling you chicken of the sea.

[@popcornroulettereactions]

As long as you tuna in

[@BobCrabtree-ev4rz]

@popcornroulettereactions Ha Ha Very Finny.Sorry...my apologies.Cod knows I try to keep it under control.

[@MATTHEW-rp3kq]

a lot of this was filmed on marthas vineyard off cape cod.

[@quixote6942]

Beer Cans back then were made mostly of Tin, not like the weaker Aluminum Cans of today... and they had Pull Tabs that had to be pulled completely off.

[@popcornroulettereactions]

They made the transition from the pull tabs to the attached tabs in the 80s but I bet this is wild for younger generations to see

[@4Kandlez]

Sorry Leia but that jump scare was epic, and yes we did all see it 😁🥰

[@MrYoup11]

Roy Scheider (Sheriff Brady) was dumping the chum off the back of the boat, it was the first time he'd seen the Shark during shooting. When backs startled, he really was, he had no idea the shark was going to be that big.

[@nomiau]

"Condensed air" made me laugh!

[@lyndoncmp5751]

Robert Shaw who played Quint was a great English actor, novelist and playwright. Sadly died just a few years after Jaws. His real voice and accent was nothing like Quint .

[@Paul_1971]

Condensed air?! LOL

[@TheHessian123]

In the 1970s, we knew little about sharks. We have learned a lot since then, mostly because people do not immediately kill a shark when they see it.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

@@TheHessian123 And we know a lot more about sharks now because Jaws initiated mass interest in them, including a boom in shark research.

[@WiseGuy5674]

Sharks have been fully evolved for millions of years. A shark from 1 million years ago has the same exact physical traits as a shark today. Shark teeth have been discovered in mountain ranges.😎😁

[@kennethjoseph6362]

45:37 spit cleaning on the inside of the mask keeps it from fogging up. another amazing film, and a great reaction!

[@Carlos-Dangerous]

I think Quint’s character struggled with PTSD from the shark attacks in WWII which is why he hunted sharks as a profession to deal w the trauma. I also think that is why he acted so recklessly at the end of the movie. I don’t think he was trying to protect his reward, I think killing the shark became his obsession.