Jaws

Jaws

A shark threatens residents and tourists and the town hires a shark hunter to kill him.

Genre: Thriller
Director(s): Steven Spielberg
Production: Universal Pictures
  Won 3 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 18 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.0
Metacritic:
87
Rotten Tomatoes:
97%
PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Year:
1975
125
Website
28,806 Views
Don't go in the water.
She was the first.
Do you like fish? Well, he likes you too...
See it before you go swimming.
You'll never go in the water again!
The terrifying motion picture from the terrifying No. 1 best seller.
When beaches open this summer, you will be taken by Jaws.
[from TV spot] None of man's fantasies of evil can compare with the reality of Jaws.
[from TV spot] There is a creature alive today who has survived millions of years of evolution, without change, without passion and without logic. It lives to kill - a mindless eating machine. It will attack and devour anything. It is as if God created the Devil, and gave him Jaws.
[from re-release trailer] It was seen by 67 million people. It took two years to make. It was shown in 40 countries, in 17 different languages. Nominated for 18 awards... If you forgot what terror is like, the original Jaws is back.

Hooper:
You were on the Indianapolis?

Brody:
What happened?

Quint:
Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We'd just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin' by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin' and hollerin' and sometimes that shark he go away... but sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he's got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn't even seem to be livin'... 'til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then... ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin'. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin' and your hollerin' those sharks come in and... they rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin', Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist. At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol' fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.

[Martin and the Medical Examiner walk Matt Hooper into the morgue]

Chief Brody:
Why don't we show Mr. Hooper our accident?

[Martin gets the remains out of a locker while Hooper reads aloud the paper report]

Hooper:
Uh, victim's name is Christine Watkins, female caucasian...probable boating accident. The height and weight of the victim can only be estimated from the partial remains.

[Hooper uncovers the tray of the remains, panting in nausea and shock]

Hooper:
The torso has been severed in mid-thorax. There are no major organs remaining. May I have a glass of water please?

Medical Examiner:
Sure.

Hooper:
Right arm has been severed with massive tissue loss in the upper musculature. Thank you very much.

[Hooper sips his water]

Hooper:
Partially denuded bone remaining. [to inspector] This was no boating accident. [to Brody] Did you notify the Coast Guard about this?

Chief Brody:
No. It was only local jurisdiction.

Hooper:
The left arm, head, shoulder, sternum, and portions of the rib cage are intact. [to Brody] Do not smoke in here! Thank you very much. [Holds up arm] This is what happens. It indicates the non-frenzy feeding of a large squalus, possibly longimonus, or Isurus Glaucus. Now, the enormous amount of tissue loss prevents any detailed analysis. However the attacking squalus must be considerably larger than any normal squalus found in these waters. Did you get on a boat and check these waters?

Chief Brody:
No.

Hooper:
[to Inspector] Well, this is not a boating accident! It wasn't any propeller, it wasn't any coral reef, and it wasn't Jack the Ripper! It was a shark.

Chief Brody:
This is a great white, Larry. A big one. Any shark expert in the world will tell you it's a killer, it's a man-eater!

Hooper:
Look, the situation is that apparently a great white shark has staked a claim in the waters off Amity island. And he is going to continue to feed here as long as there is food in the water.

Chief Brody:
And there's no limit of what he's going to do. I mean we've already had three incidents. Two people were killed in a week and it's gonna happen again. It happened before, The Jersey Beach, 1916. Five people were killed.

Hooper:
In one week.

Chief Brody:
Tell him about the swimmers!

Hooper:
A shark is attracted to the exact kind of splashing and activity that occurs whenever human beings go swimming. You cannot avoid it.

Chief Brody:
You open the beaches on the Fourth of July, it's is like ringing the dinner bell for Christ's sake!

Hooper:
Look Mr. Vaughn, I pulled a tooth the size of a shot glass out of the wrecked hull of a boat out there and it was the tooth of a great white.

Chief Brody:
It was Ben Gardner's boat, it was all chewed up. I helped tow it in, you should've seen it!

Mayor Vaughn:
Where is that tooth? Did you see it, Brody?

Chief Brody:
No, I didn't see it. He dropped it on the way in.

Hooper:
I had an accident.

Mayor Vaughn:
And what did you say the name of this shark is?

Hooper:
It's a Carcharodon carcharias. It's a great white.

Mayor Vaughn:
And you don't have the tooth? Look, we depend on the summer people here for our very lives-

Hooper:
You're not gonna have a summer unless you deal with this problem!

Chief Brody:
We're not only going to have to close the beach, we're going to have to hire somebody to kill the shark! I mean we're going to have to tell the Coast Guard!

Hooper:
Mr. Vaughn, you'll have to contact the Shark Research Panel. You'll have to ring this entire harbor!

Mayor Vaughn:
I don't think either one of you are familiar with our problems!

Hooper:
I think that I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and bites you IN THE ASS! Now wait a second, wait a second. There are two ways to deal with this problem: you either kill this animal, or you're gonna cut off his food supply!


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