The Reel Rejects - JAWS (1975) IS TERRIFYING!! MOVIE REACTION!! First Time watching!!

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Starting point is 00:00:23 Okay. I thought we would get. Okay. To land. Okay. I mean, I think that's them in the distance there. that is wow that ended really abruptly i like the line that it ended on where it's like i i can't imagine why like why he doesn't like the water but okay i thought maybe we'd get back and he'd see the kids

Starting point is 00:00:46 or his wife but i guess we don't really need that i guess not right because like mostly about them their friends that guy's dead they killed the freaking killed the shark live shark footage filmed what live shark footage that's crazy filmed in panavision y'all i'm losing my mind that was nuts holy she shi shi nuts on butts wow whoa if you are listening to us and apple spotify give us five star rating thank you to prep for helping edit down these highlights also erika nerd chronic does a great job please like comment subscribe when you do ring the bell ring the bell that way you're notified of all the that we are dropping which is a lot normally to a day um subscribe to the patreon do all of the right things do it do it holy crap holy Toledo how do you feel tell tell a bee by you feel and then

Starting point is 00:01:46 I'm going to go to the Patreon questions yes because if you're a patron you'll get to ask those questions and we get to them right away because we appreciate you for keeping us around I feel like I feel like Andrew was right. That movie was incredible. That movie was incredible. That was better than I thought it was going to be. We have literally so many questions. And I'm not surprised that the patrons, thank you for sending them in.

Starting point is 00:02:14 I'll read the first one. John F. Are you just watching the original? Are they going to watch the subpar sequels later? We're not sure about that yet. Most likely just Jaws for 4th of July and stuff like that for the release. I don't think we'll do. I mean, you're calling them subpar.

Starting point is 00:02:33 Yeah. Maybe we will. Maybe we will. I mean, you're calling them subpar, so maybe they're bad movies, but I would watch them. Yeah, I'd do it. This is great.

Starting point is 00:02:40 We'll see. Okay. Hesena Alley, so happy you're finally reacting to my favorite movie and the first summer blockbuster. This is the first summer blockbuster? That's crazy.

Starting point is 00:02:53 Do you think the film would have taken away suspense if we saw more of the mechanical shark and less music? Also, would you react to the Jaws at 50 documentary that is coming out next month on Hulu Disney? The stories of what happened behind the scenes are absolutely fascinating. One of them being the mechanical shark,

Starting point is 00:03:09 I know about that one, not working, and delaying filming, a young Spielberg worried that the movie might end his career. Whoa, I'd be down. That sounds incredible. They tell, I know about that only because they tell you about that on the Universal Studios tour

Starting point is 00:03:25 when they go and you see the shark, and then I may have watched like it was a different Netflix thing about filmmaking and they they're constantly always bringing up the fact that Jaws had an issue with the mechanical shark so many days in a row it set the shooting schedule back for like weeks on end everyone would be sitting around their stories of Richard Dreyfus and them saying like yeah we'd just be sitting and and just shooting the shit for hours on end because the the shark was a working and we all thought this movie was going to be total crap and that we would like basically lose our careers wow isn't that crazy that's insane they thought it was just going to be absolute

Starting point is 00:04:11 shite but it became one of the best most beloved movies of all time wild man he really came back from that seriously i and yes i would love to watch i'll i'll look out for that on hulu on hulu disney for sure uh you want to read the next one yeah Amanda heyward thank you for sending them the question. Love Jaws, as did we. The history of how it was shot is super cool, and there's a really cool documentary by Valerie Taylor Green on Disney Plus. Her and her husband were the ones who helped shoot the live shark scenes and the Universal toured them around the, to film, to go on different news shows to remind people that it was fictional. There were a surge, and shark hunting after the movie, not surprised, after the movie release, and they were doing

Starting point is 00:05:03 damage control. My questions are two parts. Do you find it distracting with the mix of live sharks and puppet animatronics? And do you agree with the town sentiment that the shark has to be hunted? Since they are, what is that word? Majority? Oh, migratory. Migratory. I never seen that word animals it would be it would have eventually left the area hmm i mean i get it i get i mean no to answer the first question no it was not distracting uh i thought it was really cool that they would cut in between the two i think it just added to the suspense also the fact that they barely showed the shark made it more impactful because this is more about the characters experiencing this thing than it is the shark itself and as for your second

Starting point is 00:05:54 question I think that it makes sense to me what they would hunt the shark granted I don't know if they would do it the way that they did it if it was made today but for the time and information they had available I don't blame them but yeah that's my thoughts yeah and we forgot to say because the one the question before reminding me where you're talking about Amanda because it said do you think the film would have taken away at suspense if we saw more of the mechanical shark and less of the music um I do think that they used the mechanical shark at for exactly the right amount. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:06:29 Because it was really at the end where we really got to see him and that really builds up our suspense of like, what's he going to look like? And then when we finally see his face, holy crap, that's scared to crap out of me. It was so scary. Scared to crap out of me.

Starting point is 00:06:41 I hate that there was a surge in shark hunting after this was released. I really don't like that, but I understand that people were probably very scared. I did not. find it distracting what a little bit towards the end I went that's a real shark because I could tell underneath you could see the actual like like parts of her that live uh underneath her and I was like I don't think that's all the animatronic and I didn't know that they were actually shooting

Starting point is 00:07:12 live sure I had no idea I just was like looking at it like did they really do that good of a job and now that you said that I know the shot um I didn't I a little bit but I was just like wow Is their set deck that good? I doubt it. So that was a real shark. I think that's actually pretty cool because it seemed pretty flawless to me, sort of how they worked it in,

Starting point is 00:07:35 even though that face of the real shark wasn't exactly the same. Still pretty cool. And, you know, I don't know. Like, I think just freaking keep the people out of the water for a while until the shark goes by-bye, probably. But at the same time, if it didn't go away, there'd probably be another way to, like, chum it maybe to a different area where there's not any people around so that you don't have to kill it. That would be my thing of like, well, where can we get it to go where it's not here? So, you know what I mean?

Starting point is 00:08:15 But if it's stuck around there for a while, you kind of got to do what you got to do. It's scary. Yeah, I feel like this is present day. No, there's definitely, I'm sure, many. methods of moving the shark from that area and closing the freaking beach down for you know a healthy amount of time right that's what i would recommend and and most of like what we've learned now about sharks is they don't really want to eat you they do take a buy out of a human and go okay spit it out they can play with a human like they would play with their prey but

Starting point is 00:08:45 they don't want to necessarily have you for lunch or dinner uh but breakfast though they're all they won't actually eat like they haven't for the most part they're not going to actually chomp chop chomp down like a whole entire human which is why most people when they get shark attack they're like they lose a leg or an arm or something um and they still live um but this movie really like pumped it up which it made it fun um okay Sarah Preston did you ever experience a universal ride and did spoil any of the movie well yeah you heard me talking about it a bunch during this um i don't think it spoiled any of it because the only the only two things that i remember from the ride three things they do tell me the facts that the mechanical shark uh failed a bunch so

Starting point is 00:09:33 they tell you some details about the movie when you see the shark that's awesome to me and my recollection it does it does not look as big as it does on the screen in a few of those shots i'm like is it the same shark but they say it's the same one and then the only other thing is just they have that big am amity island with the girl on it but that's not a spoiler that's just like here we are yeah that's what they show you and then you see the shark in the water and that's it so i don't think it was really it wasn't really spoiler for me it's it's been many moons since i've been to universal and let alone the universal ride the the tram ride they get tasty through the back lot and stuff but i do remember seeing the shark with the blood and i vaguely have remembered to the sign and then

Starting point is 00:10:19 when you're telling me about the shark that does sound familiar. I'm like, I'm not sure if that's something Andrew told me if that's something that I learned on the tram ride. But I have a big memory of that. But yeah, I did experience it. It did not spoil anything for me because it's been a long time. And I do nothing about it. And I'm happy that I experienced it here.

Starting point is 00:10:38 Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, you want to read the next one? Oh, Joe Star edits. Jaws. First of all, thank you. Appreciate you for sending in the question. Jaws is famous for being one of the first films to scar people to the point they developed

Starting point is 00:10:54 A Fear of the Water makes sense What was the last film that scarred you What scarred you as well as scared you? Mine is E.T. That's a great question. That's the last film that scarred me. You know what it was? Hereditary.

Starting point is 00:11:17 Hereditary scarred me. Specifically, specifically the shot of the old man in the corner naked just smiling, that freaked me out. Because I'm like, oh, that's a thing that can happen. That's just weird. That's just freak. So when I see like silhouettes in my room that I'm not familiar with, I get a little spooked. Then I get my phone flashlight and flash it in. I'm like, okay, we're safe.

Starting point is 00:11:37 We're good. Yeah. Oh, man. You say ET, and all I think is that at the end of ET, I did think it was scary. but then at the end of oh you don't oh i've seen i saw et once and i don't really remember it oh well then i can't say but the um i i cried so i would that's a different thing for me um i would just say as a kind of a joke and also because my memory's bad i'm sure there's a lot of films that have scarred me as well as scared me i'm just going to say that all of the wrong

Starting point is 00:12:13 turn films that I'm currently watching with Roxy scared me and scarred me. So there's that. You can watch those with us. I'm not going to say anymore. Okay. I know nothing about those movies but that sounds wild. You got to watch

Starting point is 00:12:29 it with us and you'll see. Okay. Okay. Zeeby Kind is that really some bad hat Harry? Is that a line from the movie? I don't know. Oh, didn't he say? is that really a bad hat is that a thing from the movie we don't know man my memory is like

Starting point is 00:12:50 shite and i think there was something there that was a line in the movie maybe i don't know watch it again but yeah didn't yeah i know the bad hat harry's the uh like the production company but i didn't know if it's from this movie me neither i don't remember the line i'm sorry yeah z b k and d yeah i'm gonna i'm just going to read the last one real quick. Sorry about that. CBK and D. Send us more other questions on other films and we'll get you. We'll get you. Um, Arlene Doro. The story Quint tells us about sharks attacking capsized sailors was covered on a few other podcasts. Richard Dreyfus was in studio

Starting point is 00:13:31 when the actress recorded the drowning scene at the beginning of the movie. He said he was terrified. Yeah. Wow. Why was he in studio for that? That's interesting. I that would be that would be scary yeah I would be scared too because that was very realistic I wonder and I still wonder how they like pushed her around and I don't think they would have used the mechanical shark they would have used something else maybe a track or something because she was like moving a lot and screaming that's scary as hell oh my gosh right yeah it's terrifying I'm gonna you can answer I got to look up some No, no, no. No, I want to try something. I don't try something out. Okay. Why do you look out

Starting point is 00:14:20 trivia? We can ask the trivia man himself. Oh, I love it. Well, let's see if he answers. I'm calling Andrew right now. Hey, bud. Andrew. What's up, buddy? How you doing? I'm good. What's with all the pent of energy? So we are, we just finished watching Jaws and we are, instead of looking up trivia, we were decided to ask you the trivia man himself. Uh, to share a few facts for us about Jaws. Oh, am I being recorded right now? Yes. You are being recorded, yes.

Starting point is 00:14:52 Uh, okay. Uh, some fun facts. Hold it up to your mic. Am I on right now? Yeah. Okay, so, well, I'm probably sure it on the channel, uh, but let's see. Some fun facts of the shark did not originally work, and that's why, uh, it's like, uh, So they wanted to show the shark more, but originally.

Starting point is 00:15:17 But the reason they couldn't was because it was not tested in salt water. And so the wiring went haywire when they put it out in the ocean for the first time. And so Steven Spielberg had no adapt of why. And that's why you don't really see the shark much in the film, which I think works more for the suspense of the film anyways. Also that scene you see, which is one of the greatest monologue, I think the greatest monologue in the history of the USS in Indianapolis. that really happened in real life, by the way. Oh, my God. Yes, that really happened.

Starting point is 00:15:48 The monologue? I'm saying, I'm saying the USS in, yes, the monologue. The USS in Indianapolis were guys were stuck out there and being mauled away and eaten by sharks. But what I was going to say is where Quint, with Robert Shaw, so the first time he tried to do that scene, he was extremely drunk. And he could not, he was flurring his lines, and they could not, it was not filmable. And so he called Steven Spielberg later that night and asked Spielberg, how bad did he F up? And Spielberg said, you effed up pretty bad. But if you can just handle it tomorrow, if you can just take care of business tomorrow, it's all good.

Starting point is 00:16:26 And the next day, what they filmed on the first take is what you just watched on film. Whoa. So Quint was an alcoholic? Oh, yeah. He was a major alcoholic. And also that speech, that little quote, he says, here. the body of Mary Lee died at the age of 103 for 15 years. She, uh, uh, uh, virginity, that, that whole thing when he said that, that was an improvised

Starting point is 00:16:52 line by Robert Shaw. No way. And Steven Spielberg said, that was awesome. Uh, where, where did you come up with that? And he said, no, don't worry about that. He's like, oh, I did not. We don't want to get, like, infringed upon with, you know, copyright or anything. So you got to tell me just so we, you know, we don't get in trouble.

Starting point is 00:17:08 He said, I got that off a tombstone in Ireland. We're good. What? What? That's crazy. Yeah, and last one, Roy Scheider got the role because he was at a party

Starting point is 00:17:21 and Steven Spielberg was there and he knew that Spielberg was looking for a Chief Brody and he asked Spielberg he's like, why haven't you cast me? I should be in the movie and Stewart's like, all right. And he casted him in the movie.

Starting point is 00:17:39 Wow. I love that. Hey, do you know if the shark in the beginning of the movie it was real where they, the shark that they hung up? Oh, yes, great question. That is the, the, the shark that they thought was the real shark. Correct. I thought it was a real shark.

Starting point is 00:17:55 It looked like a real shark. It was real. So did they kill that shark or was that was dead that they, like, just used? I don't remember that, but it was a real shark, though. Narnly. Wow. Yeah. Cool.

Starting point is 00:18:09 Yes, yes, yes. Okay. Last one, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, fisherman Ben Gardner. He was also in the actor who played him. He was also in the running for Quint as well. The one that his head plopped out in the boat when Matt Hooper was looking under and you guys probably got jump scared.

Starting point is 00:18:28 Yeah, we did. We got scared real bad. Yes, that part always gets me even though I know it's coming. But he was also in the running for Quint as well. There was a lot of people in the running for Quint, but obviously they casted the right guy, but he was in the running. Well, how did the alcoholic get? get it.

Starting point is 00:18:45 Because he's such a great actor. Well, okay, so he auditioned. I don't know. Okay. I think they offered him the role, and I know he owed a lot of money in taxes or something like that, so he needed the role bad because he owed the IRS a lot of money, I think. Oh, my God. My God.

Starting point is 00:19:03 Okay. Yeah. Dude. And originally, they were talking about Josh, too, being the whole story with Quint and the U.S. tested at Indianapolis and then Universal's and Spielberg possibly directed. They're like, nope, we're just going to do a straight-up sequel with Chief Brody.

Starting point is 00:19:19 Okay. Interesting. Well, we already read Patreon questions, so hopefully we get to do the next one. But we got some other stuff to talk about. We just wanted to call you to get some trivia. So thank you for answering then. And thank you for making this reaction possible

Starting point is 00:19:35 before 4th of July. I really appreciate you, dude. Yeah, of course. I hope you guys love the movie. Thank you, man. We'll talk to you later. Talk to you later, buddy. Love it, man. Bye. Bye. Reject Nation, I don't know about you, but money used to intimidate me used to.

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Starting point is 00:21:28 tension during filming and later interviews, Roy Scheider, described his co-star as a perfect gentleman whenever he was sober. All he needed was one drink, and then he turned into a, competitive son of a bitch. Oof. According to Carl Gottlieb's book, The Jaws log, Shaw was having a drink between tanks

Starting point is 00:21:48 and announced, I wish I could quit drinking. Did the surprise and horror of the crew? Richard Dreyfus grabbed Shaw's glass, tossed it into the ocean, must to Shaw's chagrin. Shaw allegedly bullied Dreyfus for the rest of the shoot, offering $1,000 to climb the 70-foot mass

Starting point is 00:22:02 and jump into the ocean, calling him a coward, whenever he reviews, whenever he refused oh my god on one day shaw sprayed him with a fire hose causing an enraged rifeus to storm off saying that's it i don't want to work with you anymore go fuck yourself when it came time to shoot the famous uss scene shah tempted to do the monologue of right while intoxicated exactly what what andrew just told us um yeah it was done it was done in a one or the next day wow i'm surprised and what i wanted to look at

Starting point is 00:22:38 look up Robert Shaw like what did you okay so he had worked a lot before because I was like I don't know this guy but I'm not old as old okay he was in a lot of he was in a lot of films okay in the 70s and in the 60s I had just I had never seen him before but um okay I'll read a few more fun things uh several decades after the film's release uh Lee Fierro, Mrs. Kittner, walked into a seafood restaurant and noticed an Alex Kittner sandwich on the menu. She commented that she had played his mother many years ago. Jeffrey Voorhees, the manager of the restaurant who had played Alex, ran out to meet her. They hadn't seen each other since the original movie shot.

Starting point is 00:23:26 Oh, wow. At first, I was like, Vorhees, what? I got scared. Because you know, Vorhees. Come on now. Okay, it says when composer John Williams originally played, score for the director Stephen Spilberg. Spielberg laughed and said, that's funny, John, really, but what did you really have in

Starting point is 00:23:44 mind for the theme of Jaws? Spielberg later stated that without Williams' score, the movie would only have been half as successful. And according to Williams, it jumped started his career. Man, I bet. That's so funny. Oh, my God, he ad libbed the line, you're going to need a bigger boat. Really?

Starting point is 00:24:03 Wow. And that's huge. Classic film history. Wow. Guess how many people. in the U.S. went to see this film when it was initially released in 1975. Four million. Making it the first summer blockbuster.

Starting point is 00:24:19 I'll give you one more guess. 10 million people. 67 million people. That was under a third of the country's total population. Whoa. That's what made it. The first ever blockbuster. That's crazy.

Starting point is 00:24:36 Isn't that insane? That's correct. That's freaking nuts, dude. I don't know they market it this, man. Right. I'll read one more. It says the scene where the head pops out from the whole, the boat, from the hole, the boat was not originally scripted.

Starting point is 00:24:54 Director Steven Spielberg says he got greedy after he saw the preview audience's reaction to the scene where the shark jumps out behind Brody's head and wanted one more scare. Okay. Well, you know what? I support it because all of it was really great. know what i still think it would have been just as awesome and successful even if like we saw quint maybe going down and the shark like eating the boat and maybe he goes down we don't even see him eat him and we cut away just knowing he was gone if there was problems with the shark and

Starting point is 00:25:28 we weren't able to do that i still think like everything they did with that freaking shark was amazing i and there that's all i've ever heard about this movie a lot of problems with the shark everybody talks about it and I'm like well I'm really glad that somehow the production gave you some more dough to keep but I mean they're really pushing the schedule back a bunch which is money money money but this is a long time ago um I assume ET was nope ET was made after this not 80s um yes so anyhow I'm glad that he kept you all in set and everyone thought this was going to be a fail and it was a huge success Yes, that's just very exciting to me.

Starting point is 00:26:11 I love this movie. I think it's fantastic. And I feel like I'm going to be like a Jaws girl now. You know, like I might like, I might get a bag and like a shirt, maybe a little poster, have it around. I'm going to get a poster too. That was great. I love this movie. Hell freaking to the yeah.

Starting point is 00:26:32 You got any other words you want to say about it? Yeah. I thought it was incredibly shot. I think it did a great job of building up tension without showing the shark itself. I thought the characters were interesting. They were fun. They had natural chemistry. Even if there was a lot of behind the scene stuff happening that kind of could have ruined the production or could have ruined the film.

Starting point is 00:26:56 And I think that just makes it that much more impressive, that much more interesting. And I am the better for having seen it. I agree. I am with you on that. and the acting was obviously phenomenal. No one is out of step, but I never see anyone out of step on a Spilberg film,

Starting point is 00:27:12 at least his, like, newer ones. Not newer ones. His older OG ones. Everyone is fantastic. I mean, you guys remember Drew Barrymore and E.T.? Shut up. So good. Okay. Well, I love this film.

Starting point is 00:27:26 I'm a Jaws girl now. We love your questions. Maybe we'll watch the other ones. I don't know, though. Leave us, like, leaves a comment, do all the right things. Love you guys. See you on the next one.

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