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Top drawer film. Robert Shaw is utterly stupendous in it. I flicked around last night, and caught this on ITV4 just as Hooper was examining the remains of the first victim.... a superb film.
Jaws was almost a completely different film.
The original screenplay had much more airtime for the mechanical shark prop.
Due to their unreliability, the filming was changed to just give "hints" of the shark (the barrels, the floating pier etc etc)
My view, is this is one of the things that makes the film so bloody good. (along with the chemistry between Quint/Hooper/Brody)
Jaws was almost a completely different film.
The original screenplay had much more airtime for the mechanical shark prop.
Due to their unreliability, the filming was changed to just give "hints" of the shark (the barrels, the floating pier etc etc)
My view, is this is one of the things that makes the film so bloody good. (along with the chemistry between Quint/Hooper/Brody)
kiteless said:
Great lines:
You're gonna need a bigger boat
So many good lines in that film.....You're gonna need a bigger boat
SMILE you son of a B***h!!!
Probably my favourite scene in the film is just before Hooper and Brody discover Ben Gardner's fishing boat.... Brody is questioning Hooper about all of the technology aboard his boat, and Hooper looks at the sonar and "fish finder" and says:
"Wait a minute....... there's something else out there...."
With the music and the photography, it really builds the suspense beautifully, culminating as we know with probably one of the scariest moments I ever saw in a film as a youngster!
Roy Scheider is ace.
Benchley wishes he never wrote it now, glad he did. Also glad of the changes made in the film, makes it a solid story.
edit, just read the wiki, Marvin as Quint wuld have been good.
Also jogged my memory, a lot of locals were used to make it more real. The woman who slaps Brody really whacks him (not realising that in acting perhaps you don't use full force), they didn't expect this and the face on Brody when it happens is real. just read up on this and it was multiple takes.
Benchley wishes he never wrote it now, glad he did. Also glad of the changes made in the film, makes it a solid story.
edit, just read the wiki, Marvin as Quint wuld have been good.
Also jogged my memory, a lot of locals were used to make it more real. The woman who slaps Brody really whacks him (not realising that in acting perhaps you don't use full force), they didn't expect this and the face on Brody when it happens is real. just read up on this and it was multiple takes.
Edited by Halb on Sunday 6th November 10:01
Edited by Halb on Sunday 6th November 10:03
Melvin Udall said:
Halb said:
Roy Scheider is ace.
Benchley wishes he never wrote it now, glad he did. Also glad of the changes made in the film, makes it a solid story.
Well, the only reason he wishes he never wrote it was because it severely changed people's attitudes to sharks. Benchley wishes he never wrote it now, glad he did. Also glad of the changes made in the film, makes it a solid story.
Hooper: Ha, ha - they're all gonna die.
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