Let's be "Jaws" - the movie.

I'm the fear in the audience as the story of the Indianapolis is told, much scarier than the shark.

I'm Alex Kintner's mourning mother projecting guilt on to Chief Brody.

I'm the woman in the yellow outfit with the dark glasses and the curly hair at the end of the big meeting who says, "That's not funny. That's not funny at all."

OP - I screamed with your “whaaat?”. I’ll never forget the way that fat Mary delivered that line as long as I live. What also killed me was his wedding ring! Married? To a woman? Puhhhleeeezzze.

I’m the sexy bitten-off leg, clad in a white deck shoe, no sock. I look fabulous as I descend into the murky depths off of Cape Cod!

I'm Chief Brody's youngest child, playing in the sand on the Fourth of July. The audience is terrified for me when Jaws's fin glides behind me, even though when you think about it I am perfectly safe.

I’m chum.

I'm the networks that like to play this movie on Memorial Day weekend...just as all the beaches are opening up.

I’m the Lady of the Dunes. x

I’m the toothpick that Captain Quint has in his mouth throughout the entire movie.

I'm tourism/image obsessed mayor Vaughn who likes to dish out quips and jabs while I fight against doing nothing. I'm a very small scale version of a future president.

I’m Mayor Vaughn’s garishly striped sport coat, letting you know he is NOT to be trusted.

I'm Pipit the dog (I always thought it was Pippin), an oft forgotten victim of Jaws.

I'm the stick floating in the water suggesting Pipit's death.

I'm Chrissie Watkins, who thought I was gonna have a fun nightime swim and then maybe a good fuck with a cutie I met at the bonfire by the beach, but things don't really work out.

I'm Mrs. Kintner's ridiculous beachside heavy mourning veil.

I'm the old dude in the water on the Fourth of July who later talks to Chief Brody on the beach, displaying my rather substantial moobs.

I'm Gums, the world's oldest shark...

I’m Mayor Vaughn, motherfucker. And I’m telling you now, those beaches will be open! Nothing to see here.

Did I also mention I’m a Republican?

And oddly hot in a Dirty Daddy sort of way.

I'm a bigger boat. Brody, Hooper, and Quint are gonna need me.

I’m whatever is lurking underneath Brody and Hooper as they swim to the shore from Quint’s sinking boat.

I’m the bloody chum.

“You try chumming this shit”!

I was just about to post that. ^^^^^^

I'm the man in the orange rowboat with the inexplicable heavy Boston accent in the Fourth of July scene who keeps asking Michael and his friends, "Are you boys alright?" for no very clear reason. (Is he worried they were scared of the other boys playing with the fake fin? Why would he be?)

Seconds later, I had get capsized and eaten--except for one apparently indigestible limb.

I’m Chief Brody’s ever-dangling cig. You might also remember me for my role in “All That Jazz.” That’s right - same cigarette!

Dear, sweet r22 and r23,

Fuck off!

I'm Lorraine Gary. "So glad I married Sid Sheinberg!"

I'm Mayor Vaughn's natty sports coat with the anchors

I am ' duhhhh DUNT duhhhh DUNT ' and I will terrify an entire generation in the ocean, in lakes, in pools.

I'm about to be eaten alive (and the shark's final meal)

I am a can of vintage Narragansett, the gold square pattern is reminiscent of bronze studs on a piece of well used leather. I remind Quint of better days, sadly, long gone. He crushes me, tenderly.

I'm Ben Gardner's head that suddenly pops up from the boat while Hooper is diving, edited in after the first preview because it was decided that the audience needed one more good "jump scare."

I’m Bruce. Theeeeee motherfucking shark. Hello? I’m named after Steven Spielberg’s lawyer.

I'm Lorraine Gary's subtly annoying acting. I'm hard to define explicitly as I'm not overtly bad or anything.

Here's the tiger shark/fat queen clip I was talking about. Still makes me laugh.

I’m the Hitchcockian sled shot in every Spielberg movie:

Like the shark, my eyes roll back Into my head when I open my jaws real wide to swallow.

I’m the Jaws: The Revenge movie that seriously JUMPED THE SHARK—into the waters of ridiculousness where the big angry fish supposedly had a vendetta against certain people.

I’m the Louisiana license plate pulled out of the tiger shark killed in New York.

I’m the third barrel that will keep the shark from going down. I failed.

I'm the shooting star that Spielberg liked to use as his trademark. I'll be seen twice in quick succession, weirdly enough.

I'm the rumors that spread around the country of people who passed out or vomited in theaters while watching the movie.

OMG OP @ R35 - That clip! I screamed at that fat queen’s “whaaa?”, as loudly as I’ve done every time I see it. Thank you. 😂

Weird line/ voice readings with that actor. Sounds like a Queen on the “whaaa?” line, and then, a threatening Sopranos thug in the next.

R4

I have a feeling the fat queen was originally to read the “got a deep throat” line, but it was just - too much.

R44 - 😂

Disastrous sequence of line readings. I can’t...

R4

I'm the meorable Tshirt worn by a hunky man at Sea World during the shark's attack in JAWS 3D. I say "Let a Gargoyle Sit on Your Face," which is an advertising slogan at the time for Gargoyle sunglasses, but sounds like a come-on for demonic rimming.

You're right, R43 - his subsequent lines don't sound queeny (there's longer clips with the subsequent lines). I chalk it up to him realizing his slip up and going back to his hard/masculine cover image.

[quote] That clip! I screamed at that fat queen’s “whaaa?”, as loudly as I’ve done every time I see it.

It reminds me of nothing so much as the same "whaaa?" John Travolta delivers in CARRIE when Nancy Allen gives him a blow job (her face and his crotch hidden off-camera) and somehow (Lord knows how) simultaneously says, "Oh Billy... Billy. Billy Billy. Billy. I hate Carrie White!"

I’m the Louisiana license plate that spews from the belly of a shark during an autopsy conducted by Hooper.

Murderers! It’s not me you want! The one you want is STILL SWIMMING out there! - Dead Shark

R3 I use that quote constantly to this day. Love that bitch!

I’m the gross shark attack book that Mrs. Brody is reading while the two boys are playing in their boat.

R49, see r39.

I always took the queen’s “whaaaat” as though he was making fun of Hooper as not a rough and tough guy.

If you listen to his line reading before that, he’s not queeny before or after. He was, in effect, saying “how would you know what kind of shark it is, ya little twerp?”

I’m really very simple, boys. I’m the Orca.

I’m on screen for about 1/3 of the movie. Quint and I have seen a lot together. We’ll also die together. How poetic.

I’m the shark cage.

”You go in the cage, cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water, our shark.”

🎶Farewell and adieu to you old Spanish ladies🎶

My team uses movie quotes all the time. The quote about the cage is usually thrown out when there is a confrontation playing out.

I’m the ship-to-shore radio.

Quint busts me up, that scumbag! You really needed me after that. Karma is a bitch.

I don’t r58. That was quite the commitment on display.

^^Huh?

I’m the nails on the chalkboard that dramatically introduce Quint to the villagers:

I'm the crackers he's confrontationally eating thereafter.

I am the score the shark commissioned as motivational music.

I think I left out “agree”. It appeared to me that you thought destroying the radio was a mistake. Maybe it was, but I was hit with the extreme commitment that represented.

Like cutting off the arms of children who had been inoculated in AN.

Oh, I get it now.

Yes, I think you’re right regarding the commitment.

Like Quint saying “nobody‘s coming out to help us, I’m taking this shark in!”

I'm the aviator glasses that Roy Scheider wears throughout the movie. A very young man in Southern California REALLY wants some glasses like that—even though he doesn't wear glasses—so he goes to an optical shop, buys the exact frames and has mirrored sunglass lenses made for them. And he STILL owns those glasses to this very day, albeit now fitted with prescription mirrorized lenses.

I'm the aforementioned tiger shark who was minding my own business and got killed because all the Amity assholes were out for blood.

Who is that young man, r66?

I can do anything I want. I'm the chief of police.

[quote]Who is that young man, [R66]?

It was Timothy Chamlet!

Nah, it was just me, R66. I don't think Timothy Chamlet was even around back then.

All hail the fat "What???" queen, another DL favorite!!!

"I always took the queen’s “whaaaat” as though he was making fun of Hooper as not a rough and tough guy.

If you listen to his line reading before that, he’s not queeny before or after. He was, in effect, saying 'how would you know what kind of shark it is, ya little twerp?' "

Maybe, but it's just too on the nose. I'm gonna go with he's small-town closeted and let it slip.

[quote] All hail the fat "What???" queen,

You gotta say it right: “whaaaat?”

I'm the kid who lived near the beach and was FORBIDDEN from seeing it.

I’m the ad campaign for Jaws 2: “Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.”

Jaws did for the beach what Psycho did for showers.

R36, I love that shot. Is it really called a sled shot? I Googled sled shot and couldn't find anything.

Perfect casting in this movie. IIRC, in real life, Dreyfuss & Shaw did not get along with each other. The wife of Roy Scheider reminds me of Carmela Soprano.

Oh, so the friction between them was more than on screen. Cool. Never heard that.

No, I'm Lorraine Gary!

And I'm gonna be a big star, see, cause my husband owns the joint!

I’m the very timid and squeaky voiced Islander girl who is painting near the cove, and who cannot get out the words “shark”! “shark”! in an attempt to warn the beach crowd. Sad.

I'm the cardboard fin stunt.

I’m Mayor Vaughn’s tax-payer funded Mandarin Orange - Cadillac.

Style. Elegance. It’s all about me, me, me! Now everybody, get in the water!

I’m the vandalized billboard.

I’m the wine that hooper brings to dinner. Chief pours me into a drinking glass. I never got to breath.

I think Spielberg dubbed the line "a whaaaaaat?" with an exaggeratedly high-pitched voice for laughs. I think it was supposed to show the guy was really dumb, but instead he sounded like a flaming queen.

I'm lining up to be a hot lunch.

It's hard to imagine a more difficult cast than Shaw, Dreyfus, and Scheider... all legendary pains in the lass.

I'm Quint's nails, drawn against the chalkboard at the town meeting.

I'm the creaky wooden Orca boat. I lot of problems could have been avoided if they didn't use me and rather chose a steel hulled boat.

I'm rope burn.

[quote]Here's the tiger shark/fat queen clip I was talking about. Still makes me laugh.

R35 He looks like Andy Devine!

R89 I’m the machete that Quinn grabbed your stop the rope burns. I think I’m pretty cool when he plants me on the deck

R87, you were already here at r61.

Are you coming back for more saltines?

I’m “a little shakin’, a little tenderizin’ and down ya go.”

I’m one of a few lovely estates bought by the director, just after he started making a fuck-load of money.

Here I sit on Georgia Pond in East Hampton, Long Island - New York.

Care for a swim? No sharks in that pond..... I think.

I'm the flavor of ice cream Mike Brody asks for while in the hospital.

R95 - ⬆️ Excellent! I was thinking the same thing, but I couldn’t remember the ice cream flavor...

I'm Amity's interracial couple. We were the talk of the island and loved every minute of it before that damn shark showed up.

I’m Chrissie's naked butt, actually filmed in broad daylight and featured in a two-page spread in The Jaws Log. I’m passed around many a middle school cafeteria and school bus.

I don't remember Amity's interracial couple. What scenes?

I'm Chief Brody's half-assed effort at hanging on to Quint to prevent him from sliding down the deck and eventually getting eaten by Jaws.

R99, it's Ellen's black friend who's already been mentioned upthread. She's the motel owner who says "That's not funny. I don't find that funny at all. I'm sorry" at the town meeting. Earlier on the beach, she tells Ellen if she's not born on the island, she's not an islander. She's with a white guy who goes over and asks Brody something while he's watching the water. She tells him to 86 the conversation.

I'm a vampiya.

I didnt see a black woman R101. I saw a white brunette.

This woman? I've seen black women who sort of look like that, but I think she's white.

Another pic

That woman is white.

Is that Ulrike Meinhof?

I'm the town Amity which always makes me think of the Amityville Horror

R76 My bad - it’s technically known as a “dolly zoom” - the slang is “sled shot” because it looks like the actors or backgrounds are moving instead of the camera. Examples here:

I'm the bad hat Harry's wearing. He may be old, but he caught Bryan Singer's eye.

My bad. I thought she was a light skinned black woman.

It's not a big deal, R111. Like I said earlier, I've seen light black women who kinda look like that.

I’m the six shot .38 Chief Brody futilely tries to shoot the shark with.

Silly man.

I'm indentation in the sea floor where Hooper hides from the shark.

I'm the writers of both the screenplay (Carl Gottlieb) and the book (Peter Benchley) making our cameos.

I'm Chief Brody's awful-in-retrospect request that his son take his boat in the pond to be safe on the 4th of July only to have the shark appear in the pond, setting of a wave of events including (1) timid and squeaky voiced Islander girl painting near the cove trying to yell "shark" (R79); (2) Chief Brody's youngest child, playing in the sand when Jaws' fin glides behind him (R6); (3) the man in the orange rowboat who keeps asking Michael and his friends, "Are you boys alright?" for no very clear reason, and seconds later has his boat capsized by the shark (R24), leading to (4) the sexy bitten-off leg, clad in a white deck shoe, no sock which looks fabulous descending into the murky depths (R5).

I love it when people refer to the shark in the story (not the mechanical shark created to play it) as "Jaws." I don't think that was peter Benchley's intention, but it is still pretty funny.

I had a friend who had an extremely aggressive kitten who would jump out at people from under a sofa and attack their ankles, and she named it "Jaws."

R117 — As noted upthread at R33, the shark's name was unofficially "Bruce." Steven Spielberg named it after his attorney, and the cast and crew referred to it as Bruce.

I’m the buoy helplessly watching the demise of Chrissie Watkins. I’ve been traumatized for life.

I'm the bonfire crowd, dressed as if a snowstorm is just offshore.

[quote]That woman is white.

That woman is Peter Bogdanovich.

I'm Chrissie Watkins' fling/hookup, the cute islander Tom Cassidy, home for the summer from Trinity U. in Hartford. I've never been so happy to have been so drunk. My therapist and I worked out that I really don't have much survivor's guilt.

I’m Polly’s printing. I’m better than that of some dippy deputy.

I'm the extra beat Speilberg should've given Polly after answering the phone. There was absolutely NO time for the medical inspector to identify himself before she hands the phone to Brody.

I'm Hooper's appendectomy scar that he wisely decides not to show Brody and Quint when they're comparing battle scars.

Dammit. BRODY'S appendectomy scar.

I’m a styrofoam cup. Matt Hooper's toxic masculinity cut my life short.

I'm Mayor Vaughn's blind dismissal of Hooper's concern, chalking it up to Hooper wanting to "get your name into the National Geographic."

Alex Kintner's mom - of heavy mourning veil fame - has died in real life due to Covid (well, Lee Fierro who played her has).

I'm Henrik Ibsen's classic play An Enemy of the People, from which Jaws stole its premise.

In the play, the officials of a well known spa town discover that their famous mineral springs are contaminated. They try to conceal it, as the spa baths are the basis of the town's economy.

It's a pretty broad premise - denying or ignoring something dangerous for profit. I'm not sure it has to be "stolen." Wasn't that the premise of Aliens, among many other films?

I'm the Deputy's whistle, weakly signaling the find.

I'm the pictures of massive tissue loss in the book Chief Brody is flipping through.

I'm the holiday roast.

I’m the overture. Bumm Bumm

I'm the overacting mother holding a child as everyone runs back to shore.

Spare a thought for me and my brethren, cut down in our prime by karate-chopping hooligans.

Kudos to R116 for the epic recap.

[quote] I’m Chrissie's naked butt,

And I'm the beefcake to balance out Chrissie's naked butt. Spielberg wants to be fair to the gays

I'm the president who never saw "Jaws".

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."

It's long been acknowledged that Jaws was partially inspired by An Enemy of the People, r131. It's even mentioned in the film's Wikipedia article.

I'm Matt Hooper's state-of-the-art boat with sonar, communications, computers, video, scuba gear, and high-intensity lights above and below the waterline that they leave in the harbor when they go searching for the shark.

That was all thanks to me. Arrrrrrrr.

I'm the omitted fling between Hooper and Mrs. Brody.

I'm the booze Brody and his wife Ellen are gonna drink to get drunk and fool around.

I forgot in the book Ellen and Hooper have a fling but in the book Hooper is a surfer type hunk who dies too.

I'm "Show Me The Way To Go Home." The song the three drunken shark hunters are singing, badly, right before the Orca gets bumped by Bruce the shark. I hate Bruce because he cut me off.

🎶Show me the way to go home!

I'm tired and I wanna go to bed!

I had a little drink about an hour ago and it went right to my head!🎶

Can we do a Let's Be Jaws 2 thread?

We could. I've personally only saw it once and don't remember much.

I'm Robert Shaw and I deliver a monolouge about the sinking of the Idianapolis .

My speach was unscripted and I was actually drunk.

I’m Charlie’s wife and I’m pissed off at R134.

R150, your speech was scripted, but you were so drunk the first time you begged Steven to let you do it again and nailed it in one take.

I’m the shark tooth the size of a shot glass.

Alas, Matt lost me so Mayor Vaughn doesn’t believe I exist. But I do.

I’m the rubbers Chiefy forgot as he boards the Orca.

[quote]I'm Robert Shaw and I deliver a monolouge about the sinking of the Idianapolis . My speach was unscripted and I was actually drunk.

That's an impressive number of spelling errors in two sentences, BHManny. Are you drunk, too?

I am Deputy Henricks' vomit.

One word r155.

Thank you for your input. It was very interesting and helpful.

Are you kidding? You misspelled three words.

I'm the $10,000 that Amity saved.

I’m the boat propeller. I was framed.

I'm Mrs. Kittner's 80 year old husband.

I’m the black guy in Amity.

You won’t see me.

There's actually a couple black people in the crowd a the 4th of July Pond scene when they drag Brody's son onto the beach.

BTW, this is very timid and squeaky voiced Islander girl who is painting near the cove, and who cannot get out the words “shark”! “shark”! in an attempt to warn the beach crowd. (R79)

I'm the best mother fucking movie poster (one sheet) although it is based on Peter Benchley's book cover.

Frank Mundus the real shark hunter from Long island who Peter Benchley based Quint on.

R165 doesn’t know how to do a let’s be thread.

I don't care.

I’m the shark. My name is not Bruce, nor is it Jaws. I am offended at being reduced to a body part. How would you like to called Nipples or Toenails? It’s objectifying. Please respect my boundaries.

I'm the shark's victims. Were you respecting our boundaries?

Oh, great. Bruce is tender to the touch.

I’m the Fonz, and to stay relevant I inserted myself into this summer blockbuster 2 years after it was released and 20 years before it was filmed.

R167, you must be a blast at parties.

[quote]2 years after it was released and 20 years before it was filmed.

Come again.

I’m the jaws (no, not THAT Jaws! Why does he get all the glory?) on the front of the Orca.

R173 Mork from Ork built a time machine, and we was going to ALL the decades. Ayyyy!

I'm the cah pahked in Hahvahd Yahd.

[quote] I'm the shark's victims. Were you respecting our boundaries?

What part of “Me shark, you meat” is unclear to you?

“Victims“ is a loaded word. It’s nothing personal. Daddy’s gotta feed, that’s all. Was your dinner a “victim?”

You want to go into the sea? Fine. But I may eat you. It’s what I do. You knew that before you got into my territory. Don’t come crying to me about “boundaries.” It’s nature, brah.

We're the older couple that the mayor guilt-trips into entering the water, when we know damn well there's a shark out there. We look like we're heading out to our date with a firing squad.

We're the older couple that the mayor guilt-trips into entering the water, when we know damn well there's a shark out there. We look like we're heading out to our date with a firing squad.

I'm Dickie Goodman trying to recapture the success of my early 60s records

I’m Alex Kintner’s yellow raft. It was the first time I’d been out all summer. Just a few more minutes, Alex said.

I'm the $1.98 version of I Honestly Love You.

I’m the bow-legged women that Quint likes to swim with. He swims between our legs.

I'm the wardrobe supervisor who missed the memo that the film takes place in the summer.

"Nights by the ocean in in the summer up north can be breezy and cool!!"

I’m the inept Amity coroner who ruled Chrissy’s death a boating accident.

I'm massive tissue loss.

I'm the in-Mayor-Vaughn's-pocket coroner who rules Chrissie's death a boating accident because that's what I was told to do or else I'd be out of work.

I'm surprised they haven't done a remake yet.

Watching Revenge now.

The shark just arrived in the Bahamas from Amity. I hope he had a good travel agent.

LOVE Jaws: The Revenge. The Showgirls of shark movies.

I'm the Universal Studio water set they used in the finale of "Jaws The Revenge" that you could see on the Universal tour.

You can see exactly when they cut to the backlot water set in above.

I'm the audience breaking into cheers and applause when the shark explodes. Has any other film gotten that audience reaction since the end of WW 2.

Jaws Revenge gets a bad rap.

Aside from the shark following her to the Bahamas, it is a pretty solid film with some scary moments. Mitchell Anderson's sad death, etc....

Jaws 3D, on the other hand, is just pure silliness with several laugh out loud moments.

Yes R193, when Nomi gets the dancing gig in Goddess, theaters everywhere erupted with applause.

R194, there's only 2 shark attacks in Jaws: The Revenge. Completely lame for a shark movie. It was really to showcase Lorraine Gary but no one took a....bite after it was released and put her in anything else.

R193, Gigli got raucous applause at the closing credits.

If producers had truly wanted to make REVENGE a horror film then they should have just provided a plane ticket to the Bahamas for Jozsef Barsi and filmed that.

"I'll cut your throat!"

I’m film editor Verna Fields. It was my swimming pool in which the underwater part of “finding Ben Gardiner’s boat” scene was filmed, when his gnawed-on head pops out of the hole. They poured milk into my pool to give the water the texture of sea water for the shoot. I had to drain the pool after the shoot of course.

[quote]t was really to showcase Lorraine Gary but no one took a....bite after it was released and put her in anything else

Lorraine Gary was wife of MCA / Universal Pictures Pictures President Sid Sheinberg for 60 year until his recent death. She was a part time actress, she didn't have to work.

I’m the manic acting from Richard Dreyfuss that he uses in every movie.

I’m Ben Gardner’s head. I got the biggest scream in theaters. Steve S later regretted me. I was added to the film later, post production. Originally the biggest shock of the movie was supposed to be the sharks head popping out of the water while Brody is chumming, but after I was added, I was the first shock.

Steve later saw in test screenings that my reveal got a huge scream, but that reduced the effect of the shark reveal — audiences screamed less as a result. He wished I hadn’t been added. But too late — and it made me a star.

I’m Richard Kiel. I was thrilled to see this thread until I read the words “the movie.”

I’m Dolly Sharp, I would have killed it as Chief Brody’s wife

I’m Dick Richards, the first director of Jaws. I held an early meeting with producers and studio execs in which I sketched out my initial thoughts about the opening scene in the movie.

The camera emerges from the water. It looks out into Amity at night from the water. The next cut is to the whale itself.

I was fired after that first meeting. They brought in some kid who had made a movie about a killer truck.

"I’m the manic acting from Richard Dreyfuss that he uses in every movie. "

I absolutely love Dreyfuss in this movie, his hyper energy and ability to be as irritating as hell totally worked in this role! I've met obsessive scientists who don't have a great grasp of certain normal human things, and yes, Dreyfuss nailed that part of the character.

I also adore the scene where he takes Brody out on his boat, and reluctantly admits that it was paid for out of family funds. Other actors would have gone for the easy way to make the character annoying, play that moment as the thoughtlessly spoiled rich boy. But Dreyfuss understood how a scientist would feel about the situation - embarrassed because he couldn't get a grant for his research vessel!

I’m the hate fuck waiting to commence between Quint and Hooper.

Yeah, R200, but she WANTED to work.

[quote]I'm the audience breaking into cheers and applause when the shark explodes. Has any other film gotten that audience reaction since the end of WW 2.

There was the scene from[italic]Snakes on a Plane[/italic] in which the horribly annoying chihuahua got eaten by an anaconda, in which the audience at the theater I saw it in went wild with cheering, hooting and clapping. God, that dog was an asshole.

I'm the crowds that stood online for hours on hot summer days.

I'm the tourists disembarking at the dock, little knowing what lies in store........

Look man, I’m a shark. I live here! You are in my playground. So what do you expect?

Sorry, not sorry.

"I'm the fisherman's wife's holiday roast.

I'm the shooting star that makes an unaccredited cameo flying past just after the shark initially bashes in some planks of the Orca's hull. A shooting star is said to possess a bit of magic, which means positive vibes and good luck for anyone who happens to gaze upon one. Too bad Quint was looking down at the water.

I'm the trailer when trailers were cool and didn't give everything away. You only see a glimpse of a fin but you had to pay if you wanted to see the shark.

I’m the tiger shark that someone catches after Mrs Kitner runs her reward ad. I’m not a prop, I’m an actual tiger shark. I wasn’t caught off Martha’s Vineyard. I was caught off Florida and shipped up.

I’m dead. I was out of the water a good week or so before the scene was filmed on the dock. I smelled pretty bad by then, and my internal organs broke loose when they hung me up like that and bulged just above my mouth. I wasn’t fun to shoot with, to say the least.

Yeah, I’d seen better days, swimming free in the warm waters off FLA, eating bluefish and occasionally trying to take a bite out of a sea turtle. I was in pretty rough shape, but still, I was in one of the biggest movies of all time, and the first summer blockbuster, and you weren’t. So fuck you.

I’m the summer I spent on Martha’s Vineyard when Jaws was being filmed.

I'm the deserted beaches of Amity Island, and the accompanying local recession, in the summers of 1976 and several years after! Nobody wants to spend their weekends at a beach where little kids got eaten by sharks, no matter what they dragged out of the water afterwards.

I'm the song "Show Me The Way to Go Home" by the inebriated crew on board.

^ sung by.

To R81 -

You almost got it right.

The mayor's car was a Cadillac, but it was a '74 Coupe deVille, not the '75 Sedan deVille which you have pictured.

R221 = The Mayor, who lives to correct others, and constantly wonders why he never gets invited to parties.

Oh, and “Mayor” is a proper noun, and should be capitalized. You almost got it right. See how that works?

"The mayor" is NOT a proper noun. Mayor McCheese is a proper noun.

I get the feeling R222 never made it past 8th grade.

I’m r225 and I’m calling r222 cranky.

Jeez. I took his post as good fun and interesting. Then again, I love cars.

I’m the spool in the rod that had to have water dumped on it to cool it down.

(Fascinating shit, r216 r217!)

I'm Bess Armstrong thinking 3D will thrust my career into the stratosphere!

I'm the day for night shooting during Chrissy's death.

A hwaaat?

We're assorted uncredited nubile teen bikini girls in the beach shots. After what we had to do for Spielberg in his "auditions" we are done with acting forever.

I'm the untrained local extras, particularly the gray haired woman who notices Alex Kittner's shark attack, and then turns her head to look straight at the camera.

R229, seriously?

We're the lawyers from Lerner & Loewe who made them reshoot the original musical finale.

I’m Peter Benchley’s anger. I was born out of Spielberg’s decision to change the ending to what is basically a silly gimmick. I was so big I got Peter banned from the set in the last weeks of shooting.

God love ya, r233. That brought back so many wonderful memories. My brother and I used to sing those lyrics all the time. The line about "floating bits of Robert Shaw" was our favorite.

I just watched Pete Davidson's new standup special on Comedy Central. He did a whole number on the "a whaaaatttt?" line referenced by OP and other posters. He said he thought the "actor" was probably someone that Spielberg owed a favor to, since the s scene "didn't belong in the movie at all."

[quote] I just watched Pete Davidson's new standup special on Comedy Central. He did a whole number on the "a whaaaatttt?" line

Determine when that was filmed. If it was after Op's post of 06/01/2020 you can be certain he got the idea from here.

Robert Shaw got permission to rewrite the Indianapolis soliloquy in the script by himself and then ad libbed most of the take used in a drunken stupor.

It worked.

Shaw was a brilliant actor who died just a year or two after Jaws, far too early.

Shaw died from a heart attack at age 51, just a year or two after Jaws.. Many people felt it had to do with his addictions to alcohol and drugs. What a brilliant actor. What a waste.

We've kind of moved away from the "let's be" stuff, but it's so fun to see how much people still love this movie.

I read that Robert Shaw accepted the role in Jaws solely so that he could pay off a huge US tax debt he owed from previous movies. He basically made no money off Jaws. He a Dreyfuss had an ongoing feud during filming that echoed their characters' disdain for one another. There are interviews with Dreyfuss (politely) talking about it.

And yeah, Shaw wrote his own version of the Indianapolis speech and turned in one of the greatest moments in contemporary cinema. Don't know if he was drunk while filming the scene, though... I don't think I've ever heard that. John Williams' eerie score in the Indianapolis scene helped a bit, too. Truly remarkable stuff.

I’m the novelty song based on the movie.

[quote] And yeah, Shaw wrote his own version of the Indianapolis speech and turned in one of the greatest moments in contemporary cinema. Don't know if he was drunk while filming the scene, though.

It’s in one of the behind the scenes or making of.

Shaw was so drunk the first night of filming that scene that the footage was virtually unusable. Shaw called Spielberg and begged him to let him do it again. Spielberg relented and they did it in one take, brilliantly I might add.

Mrs. Kintner looked more like she could be Alex's grandmother, not mother.

She was ahead of her time, 244 - having a child late in life. She basically had her version of a Sex And the City life in her 20s, 30s, and part of her 40s, then got pregnant with Alex and moved to Amity. Believe it or not she was a HOT number when she was younger.

Thank you r 238.

The speach was basically ad libbed.

Brilliant.

Why do posters argue when the're dead ass wrong?

And fuck off r152.

Why should I fuck off?!

I’m only going by Spielberg’s and Dreyfus’ own words ya dick.

Here’s one article.

Then when you’re done reading that, watch this video starting at 1:07:00 for who WROTE the speech and skip to 1:10:00 for the story of how Shaw was so drunk they had to reshoot.

When you’re done, go fuck yourself you prick.

R249 and R250: Awesome stuff! Thanks for sharing!