The Rewatchables: 'Jaws,' With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey

Published 2018-07-04; 1:34:19 by the feed.

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Most rewatchable scene

  1. floated Honorable mention: the girl getting pulled under at the beginning
    “The girl getting pulled under at the beginning is just great.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:28:21
  2. floated Honorable mention: Hooper finding Ben Gardner's head while scuba diving
    “Drive fist, scuba diving, and running into the guy's head, which we can talk about a little bit.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:28:28
  3. floated The Fourth of July shark attack and the mother whose son doesn't come back from the water
    “The 4th of July, Shark Attack, and the woman running out and her son doesn't come back from the water is just gut wrenching.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:28:36
  4. floated Brody at the table with his son mimicking him (his favorite scene, but not the one he argues for)
    “Uh, Shider at the table is my favorite scene in the movie.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:28:48
  5. pick The Indianapolis monologue, Quint dying, and the last nine minutes through Hooper popping up and the laugh
    “The Indianapolis monologue. Quint dying. And just the last, like, I don't know, 9 minutes when he kills the shark, and then Richard Dreyfus pops up and they laugh and Quint, headshake.”
    unknown · 0:29:09
  6. floated Honorable mention: Hooper brings two bottles of wine to Brody's house and Brody pours a pint glass
    “My honorable mention is when Hooper brings the 2 bottles of wine over to the house, and Brody's basically tying one on, and he's like, he opens it up.”
    unknown · 0:29:26
  7. floated The town hall meeting after the July 4th attack, where we first meet Quint
    “I would also want to nominate the meet the town hall meeting after the July 4th attack when we 1st meet Quint.”
    unknown · 0:30:43
  8. pick Everything on the boat once the sun sets, including the Indianapolis speech and the scars
    “I love as soon as the sun sets, everything that happens on the boat.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:31:27
  9. pick From Quint dying all the way through Dreyfuss popping up; for a single scene, Brody and his son ("Give us a kiss")
    “I'm always in for the last from when Quint dies all the way through.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:34:18

Casting What Ifs · Who turned down or almost played the parts.

  1. pick Robert Duvall as Brody: Duvall turned down Brody because he wanted to play Quint; Spielberg said he was too young.
    “Robert Duvall, turn down Brody.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:43:33
  2. pick Lee Marvin and Sterling Hayden as Quint: Both turned down Quint; Hayden's reason was that he was a tax fugitive.
    “Lee Marvin and Sterling Hayden turned down Quint.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:45:24
  3. pick Oliver Reed as Quint
    “Oliver Reed turned down Quint.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:45:40
  4. pick John Voight as Hooper: Spielberg wanted him; Kevin Kline also came close.
    “Spielberg wanted John Voight for Hooper.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:45:43
  5. pick Charlton Heston as Brody: Expressed interest; the hosts agree he would have been too masculine and confident.
    “Oh, Charlton Heston was the other one.”
    unknown · 0:46:00

Dion Waiters Award · Small part, big impact. Quint is ineligible for being in too much of the movie.

  1. nominee Mrs. Kintner as Mrs. Kintner: One scene, slaps Brody, then she is gone.
    “She's looking around for a kid in the one scene, plays a real Kendrick Perkins, like, comes in, starts a fight, beats the shit out of Roy Schiner.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:46:54
  2. nominee Ben Gardner's head
    “Ben Gardner's head.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:47:08
  3. winner Murray Hamilton as Mayor Vaughn: The obvious winner, in four or five scenes.
    “Murray Hamilton is the mayor.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:47:18

Joey Pants Award · Best that guy.

  1. winner Murray Hamilton as Mayor Vaughn: A that guy for the over-55 crowd; to everyone under 40 he is just the mayor from Jaws.
    “Murray Hamilton is a great that guy.”
    Bill Simmons · 1:13:24

Apex Mountain · Where the performer's career peak sits, as the hosts define it: the recognizable-but-not-A-list star whose big movie sets him up.

  1. pick Roy Scheider as Jaws: Frames apex as the career peak that Jaws gave him, not his best-ever work.
    “Apex is like he's a guy who's not an A-lister, but a recognizable star who's been in some good things, and now is in this movie that becomes the biggest movie of all time and sets him up.”
    Bill Simmons · 1:09:06
  2. pick Roy Scheider as All That Jazz: Argues All That Jazz, where he carries the whole film and was nominated.
    “You're all that jazz.”
    Chris Ryan · 1:08:50
  3. pick Robert Shaw as no clear apex: Candidates floated: A Man for All Seasons, From Russia with Love, The Sting; no settled answer.
    “The Man for All Seasons is his best from Russia with love.”
    unknown · 1:10:17
  4. pick Richard Dreyfuss as Close Encounters: Close Encounters is the lean; one host rides for Mr. Holland's Opus and The Goodbye Girl is floated.
    “I think it's close encounters.”
    unknown · 1:11:33

What Aged Best · What about the movie has held up best.

  1. pick John Williams' score, Quint, the Hitchcock move of hiding the shark, and widescreen HD TVs: Adds that a big HD TV on Netflix makes it feel like being in the ocean.
    “John Williams' score.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:35:05
  2. pick How it captures summer in a beach town
    “I would I would throw in just the general way it captures summer at a beach town, both in terms of the power base being really like business leaders, a mayor who probably has a little too much power, a police chief who's just like trying to coast through my like 2nd half of my life with some some ease.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:35:43
  3. pick Never showing the shark for most of the movie
    “I would say for me, it's the, it's the never seen the shark for most of the movie because I do feel like that became an iconic way to do a horror movie”
    unknown · 0:39:43
  4. pick The music
    “I'm going music.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:40:13

What Aged Worst · What about the movie has held up worst.

  1. pick The mechanical shark: Worst when it is obviously not a shark, such as Quint getting eaten ("a big piece of latex").
    “The mechanical shark.”
    unknown · 0:40:16
  2. pick The town has no minorities: One host adds that almost no women appear other than matriarchs and kids; another says it is not offensive, just a white movie.
    “No minorities at all.”
    unknown · 0:41:30

Picking Nits · Nitpicks of a film they love.

  1. pick The movie dropped the book's mafia subplot that explains why Mayor Vaughn keeps the beach open
    “In the book, the mafia is blackmailing him to keep the beach open.”
    Bill Simmons · 0:50:13
  2. pick Mayor Vaughn is sociopathically committed to keeping the beaches open
    “I still, I just have a weird problem with Mayor Vaughn being sociopathically committed to keeping the beaches open.”
    unknown · 1:15:51
  3. pick Quint destroys the radio and keeps them out on the water
    “I don't and this is an interesting nitpick is Quinn really fucks them.”
    unknown · 1:26:51

Best Quote · The best line in the movie.

  1. pick "You're going to need a bigger boat": Poses it as hard to beat; the others mostly add lines rather than replace it.
    “Best quote, is there anything better than you're going to need a bigger boat?”
    Bill Simmons · 1:16:20
  2. pick The scars scene: Hooper's chest hair and "Mary Ellen Moffatt. She broke my heart"
    “Uh, just because, um, the low-key best line in this movie is when Dreyfus is saying, I got the creme de la creme right here.”
    unknown · 1:16:32
  3. pick Hooper cleaning his mask: "I got no spit": A small line that shows how scared he is.
    “That's such an effective line of dialogue.”
    unknown · 1:17:48

Unintentional Comedy · What makes them laugh that isn't meant to.

  1. pick The shark while the boat is sinking and Quint is being eaten
    “Like I said, I feel like the shark, when the boat is sinking and Quinn is being eaten, I kind of laughed.”
    unknown · 1:13:36
  2. pick Mrs. Brody realizes from an old book illustration that a shark could bite a boat
    “One thing, actually, one scene that I always thought was really good, but then made me laugh a little bit when I just rewatched is when the Schider's 2 sons are out on the water after the 1st attack”
    unknown · 1:13:56
  3. pick The man in the boat who offers Danny a hand after he falls in
    “I have to say that I, for some reason, always laugh when that guy in the boat comes up to help Danny once he's fallen in.”
    unknown · 1:14:42
  4. pick Olivia Newton-John's "I Honestly Love You" playing before the shark attack
    “There's a song playing on the beach and it's Olivia Newton John's.”
    unknown · 1:15:25

Unanswerable Questions · Questions the movie leaves open.

  1. pick Did Mayor Vaughn get reelected?: The hosts say probably not.
    “Did Mayor Vaughn get reelected?”
    Bill Simmons · 1:19:23
  2. pick What happens in Quint's life between 1945 and 1975?: The hosts estimate he drank on the order of 150,000 drinks.
    “What the, what's what happens in Quince's life between 1945 and 1975?”
    unknown · 1:20:31
  3. pick How was Quint's barrel plan supposed to kill the shark?
    “Does then do you guys really understand what Quint was trying to accomplish that?”
    unknown · 1:21:34

Sequel, Prequel or TV · The follow-up or show they would watch.

  1. pick A Netflix series about the making of Jaws and the crew's island romances: Described as Adventureland while making Jaws.
    “A movie about people who fall in love, like it was a lot of guys who were working as teamsters are working as like on the crew of Jaws.”
    Chris Ryan · 0:55:11
  2. pick A Cobra Kai-style series set 40 years later, with a Brody as police chief and a Kintner as the mayor
    “You don't remake the movie.”
    unknown · 1:22:58

Who Won the Movie · Who came out the biggest winner from the movie.

  1. winner Steven Spielberg: It set up his career for 30 years; the most entertaining movie of the last 40 years.
    “I want to say Spielberg.”
    unknown · 1:29:13
  2. winner Steven Spielberg: Under anyone else this is a fiasco; every cut and fix he made worked.
    “It's indisputably Spielberg.”
    Sean Fennessey · 1:29:54
  3. nominee Robert Shaw as Quint: Makes the case for Quint as a top-10 character while agreeing Spielberg wins.
    “I'm just going to quickly make the case for Quint.”
    unknown · 1:30:43

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