Jaws

[sixtyten]

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Nice Collection

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Did somebody mention JAWS??? I'm a bit of a fan myself

This is my ongoing collection

http://www.jawsmoviearchives.com/mem...ilia_main.html

and I had an exhibition featuring some of my memorabilia here in Liverpool back in 2008

http://www.jawsmoviearchives.com/mem...gg_5_main.html

These items are among my favourite treasures.









I first saw JAWS on the day it opened here in the UK (Boxing Day 1975) and have been hooked ever since, football and the like passed me by and it was JAWS all the way, great movie!


Ed

[Hooper68]

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If anyone wants to read a good book on how they made Jaws and all it's sequels can I recommend"Just when you thought it was safe a Jaws companion"by Patrick Jankiewicz.
It's a great read for anyone who loved the Jaws films

[curmudgeon]

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In a bizarre and out of character bit of bad parenting, my dad took me to see Jaws when I was 12. Had nightmares for weeks, not about shark attacks, but about severed heads popping out of the hulls of shipwrecks.

[Derekflint]

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I love that the scariest bit on the film with the head was shot in a swimming pool.

Roy Scheider was perfect as Brody.

[Richard1978]

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It's slightly ironic that the mechanical shark was supposed to be visable in more scenes, but it kept breaking down so many shots had to be implied, which acutually made it more effective.

[branny]

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My favourite bits are THAT shot where the camera zooms in on Brody on the beach. Hoopers histerical outburst and "You're gonna need a bigger boat". The less is more definately worked because it looked far from convincing when it's biting Quint in half but didn't really notice 1st time I saw it cos I was only 8.

[Etch-a-sketch]

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...plus going to the toilet in the midlle of the night was a life-or-death deccission as Jaws used to live under my bed!

I laughed when I read that because it was the same for me!!! I saw it when I was 7...in summer...on the Xmas holidays in my grandparents BEACH home town...in Western Australia!!! Yes, becahes and hot weather. Worst film I could have seen at the time. It didn't matter HOW hot it got that summer (and I'm talking 35C plus) I just couldn't go beyond the surf that year...and I was always a water baby.

But yes, it was scary and still is. It's a lot like Alien because you don't SEE anything til the end. The hint of it is always there...but the direction was so well done that the terror just builds up inside. At 10 years old, I also thought the Alien face-hugger was under my bed too.

I have to tell a funny story though...the cinema where I saw Jaws was in a country town, so maybe seated 150 people. It was a full house and the audience was reacting to every scary thing. Anyway...we get to the end where Quint has gone and Brody is about the shoot the tank in the sharks mouth. Everything is silent then BANG - shark blows up! So this guy down the front stands up and punches his fist in the air and screams out (it was loud!!) ..."You f***in' beauuuuttty!!!!!'

Everyone just lost it laughing. Ahhh...good times. That was 1977 for ya

[kazboot]

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Probably my favourite scene in any film ever for brilliant acting is Brody, Quint and Hooper on the boat out at sea, drunk and talking about their scars! Excellent.

[Derekflint]

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The boat hook looks more like a dentist's pick. Sure enough, that was my preferred method of play. Even a Great White should have access to decent dental care.

[rossobantam]

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twas mine that game..sold it 6 months ago on ebay

[HG]

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You'd think he'd have had enough sense not to sit with his chin over my head for that jump-out-of-your-seat bit where the head rolls out of the boat . That must have hurt!

Ouch!

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I made the mistake of going to see it with someone who'd seen it before. Ruined all the suspense by putting his arms around me and reassuring me "It's all right poppet..." in advance of every scary bit.

You'd think he'd have had enough sense not to sit with his chin over my head for that jump-out-of-your-seat bit where the head rolls out of the boat . That must have hurt!

[Hooper68]

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I want it!!!!!!

[rossobantam]

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