Jaws (1975)

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In the store as #131, Jaws (1975).

The Rewatchables' awards

From 'Jaws,' With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey (2018-07-04):

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

Who talked about it

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

Arachnophobia: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Jaws ⇒ Arachnophobia (the host's read). Arachnophobia is Jaws with spiders.
    “it's sort of like Jaws, but with spiders”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:34:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Empire of the Sun: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. craft (shot design): Jaws ⇒ Empire of the Sun (the host's read). Spielberg reveals Malkovich in pieces like Jaws and Indiana Jones, withholding the hero shot.
    “he introduces him both like he's Jaws and like he's Indiana Jones”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 1:38:17 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Friday the 13th: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Jaws ⇒ Friday the 13th (the host's read). Friday took Jaws' device of music for a villain you cannot see.
    “the Jaws music for the villain you can't see.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:46:35 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Twister: 1 line the host's read ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Jaws ⇒ Twister (the host's read). Jonas is the Jaws-mayor archetype, a money-motivated antagonist that became a stock character in every movie.
    “The mayor in Jaws is the character that kind of pushes against our lead person.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:54:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Connected to

Raiders of the Lost Ark: 3 lines programming ×1 people ×1 verdict ×1

  1. programming (programming): Raiders of the Lost Ark → Jaws. Bendis lives in Portland, where Raiders and Jaws play theaters every summer; his kids found both still work.
    “I'm here in Portland where Raiders and Jaws plays on theaters, at least once a summer.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 3:01:39 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90 sure it was them)

Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope: 3 lines industry ×1 unmapped ×1 verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Jaws → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Jaws has the same iconic, burned-in familiarity as Star Wars.
    “I mean, what other movies have that kind of power? I mean, Star Wars is a movie like that?”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:37:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

2010: The Year We Make Contact: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (casting echo): Jaws → 2010: The Year We Make Contact. Balaban from Close Encounters plus Scheider from Jaws makes 2010 a less sentimental, more serious-minded Spielberg.
    “I mean, you have, you have Balaban and you have Schider off of Jaws.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:28:49 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Arachnophobia: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Arachnophobia → Jaws. Arachnophobia is Jaws with spiders.
    “it's sort of like Jaws, but with spiders”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:34:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Bill Butler: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Jaws → Bill Butler. Bill Butler shot Jaws, with a great camera crew.
    “I think Bill Butler, who shot Jaws”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:36:52 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Close Encounters of the Third Kind → Jaws. Close Encounters moves too slowly for kids; Jaws is propulsive and not slow.
    “the cool thing about Jaws is it's not slow.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:48:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Empire of the Sun: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (shot design): Empire of the Sun → Jaws. Spielberg reveals Malkovich in pieces like Jaws and Indiana Jones, withholding the hero shot.
    “he introduces him both like he's Jaws and like he's Indiana Jones”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 1:38:17 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Friday the 13th: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Friday the 13th → Jaws. Friday took Jaws' device of music for a villain you cannot see.
    “the Jaws music for the villain you can't see.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:46:35 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Jenny: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Jenny → Jaws. Fennessey says the woman in the key party scene looks like Jaws, ready to eat everyone.
    “She kind of, she kind of looks like Jaws in that scene.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:25:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

John Williams: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Jaws → John Williams. Jaws on a big HD set is helped by the booming sound of John Williams's score.
    “And the sound that John Williams scored booming, you know?”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:46:01 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Jurassic Park: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Jaws → Jurassic Park. Spielberg's pre-Jurassic blockbusters: Jurassic does some of the same things as Jaws -- entertaining, not slow.
    “I think it does some of the same stuff that Jaws does, where it's really entertaining.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:52:13 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

Lincoln: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (motif echo): Jaws → Lincoln. The slaps in Jaws and Lincoln show the shift from identifying with the slapped child to the anxious parent.
    “So it's very much like almost like the humiliation of a little boy who's been slapped.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:25:32 · Bilge Ebiri (0.90 sure it was them)

Mission: Impossible: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (show callback): Mission: Impossible → Jaws. A political awards category was suggested, recalling a Jaws episode on Amity's campaign.
    “between this and you outlining Quince campaign in Amity for the Jaws rewatchables, we should have some sort of political category here.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:46:08 · Chris Ryan (0.30 sure it was them)

Paul Newman: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (casting what-if): Paul Newman → Jaws. Newman turned down Quint in Jaws; Bill thinks he would have made a good Brody, but Quint is Robert Shaw.
    “he turned down Quint.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:14:57 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Richard Dreyfuss: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (actor persona): Richard Dreyfuss → Jaws. In the 70s Dreyfuss was the audience POV for nerdy filmmakers (Close Encounters, Jaws), a nice-guy hero, before becoming a true asshole in What About Bob?
    “He was this like POV character for all of these nerdy filmmakers, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:22:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)

Robert Shaw: 1 line people ×1

  1. people (people): Jaws → Robert Shaw. Shaw's performance and the comparing-scars scene.
    “every time I see those guys comparing scars in the galley of Robert Shaw's boat.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:35:15 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)

Rocky: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Rocky → Jaws. Jaws, Rocky, Saturday Night Fever and Star Wars were successive cultural phenomena in 75-77.
    “like Jaws in 75, this in 76, Saturday Night Fever in 77, Star Wars in 77”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:13:18 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Saturday Night Fever: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Saturday Night Fever → Jaws. Jaws, Rocky, Star Wars and this film mark the 70s run where pop culture and the business changed direction.
    “75, we have Jaws, which creates the summer blockbuster.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:07:23 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Satyricon: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (Oscar snub): Jaws → Satyricon. Spielberg famously missed a best director nomination for Jaws when Fellini got a surprise nomination, probably for Satyricon.
    “Fellini for like Satyricon.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:03:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Sterling Hayden: 1 line what-if ×1

  1. what-if (career what-if): Sterling Hayden → Jaws. Hayden could not take the part of Quint because he was abroad dodging back taxes.
    “he couldn't take the part of Quint in Jaws because he had he was living outside of the country”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:55:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (tension compared): The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo → Jaws. The first hour's wait for the leads to meet is likened to Brody facing the shark.
    “as if it's like Brody coming face to face with the shark.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:52:18 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

The Ice Storm: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): The Ice Storm → Jaws. Simmons says the key party became the movie's marketing hook, like the shark in Jaws.
    “it's kind of became like Jaws where it's like, 0 my god, what's this thing going to look like?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:05 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

The Lego Batman Movie: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): The Lego Batman Movie → Jaws. The Phantom Zone fills with franchise monsters, including the Jaws shark and the Jurassic Park T-Rex.
    “The shark from Jaws, the T-Rex from Jurassic Park.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:58:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

The Shining: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (release timing): Jaws → The Shining. The Shining comes five years after Jaws, which also feels deadlier than it is.
    “This is 5 years after Jaws.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:05:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (70s realism): The Texas Chain Saw Massacre → Jaws. Like Jaws, the 70s films feel true to life because of location shooting and actors who look like real locals.
    “All those people in Jaws, you're just like, you are, you do live in in this town.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:15:56 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

To Live and Die in L.A.: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): To Live and Die in L.A. → Jaws. Scenes that gloss over a shocking event: the Reagan-building explosion in To Live and Die in L.A., the Kintner boy in Jaws, Loomis in Halloween.
    “a guy explodes in the same building that that Ronald Reagan is giving a speech at, then the next scene is like, they don't even reference it.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:27:19 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)

Twister: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (lineage): Twister → Jaws. Jonas is the Jaws-mayor archetype, a money-motivated antagonist that became a stock character in every movie.
    “The mayor in Jaws is the character that kind of pushes against our lead person.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:54:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Unfriended: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Unfriended → Jaws. Unfriended is exhausting and one-and-done, not a film to rewatch and study the way you would Jaws.
    “I don't need to revisit that and study it like its Jaws”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:14:50 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)

Visions of Light: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Jaws → Visions of Light. Visions of Light recounts that Spielberg wanted Jaws locked down on tripods and the crew pushed back.
    “Steven Spielberg initially wanted everything in Jaws to be nailed down on tripods, and they were like, Steven, if we do that, people are going to be throwing up in the aisles.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:36:52 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

contrast (2)

  1. contrast (contrast): Unfriended → Jaws. Unfriended is exhausting and one-and-done, not a film to rewatch and study the way you would Jaws.
    “I don't need to revisit that and study it like its Jaws”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 0:14:50 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Close Encounters of the Third Kind → Jaws. Close Encounters moves too slowly for kids; Jaws is propulsive and not slow.
    “the cool thing about Jaws is it's not slow.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:48:18 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

craft (7)

  1. craft (shot design): Empire of the Sun → Jaws. Spielberg reveals Malkovich in pieces like Jaws and Indiana Jones, withholding the hero shot.
    “he introduces him both like he's Jaws and like he's Indiana Jones”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 1:38:17 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): The Ice Storm → Jaws. Simmons says the key party became the movie's marketing hook, like the shark in Jaws.
    “it's kind of became like Jaws where it's like, 0 my god, what's this thing going to look like?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:21:05 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Jenny → Jaws. Fennessey says the woman in the key party scene looks like Jaws, ready to eat everyone.
    “She kind of, she kind of looks like Jaws in that scene.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:25:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Jaws → Jaws. Production chaos, notably the broken shark, turned into storytelling strengths.
    “Somehow all of the bad things that happened turned into good things in the storytelling”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:36:24 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): Jaws → Visions of Light. Visions of Light recounts that Spielberg wanted Jaws locked down on tripods and the crew pushed back.
    “Steven Spielberg initially wanted everything in Jaws to be nailed down on tripods, and they were like, Steven, if we do that, people are going to be throwing up in the aisles.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:36:52 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)
  6. craft (craft): Jaws → John Williams. Jaws on a big HD set is helped by the booming sound of John Williams's score.
    “And the sound that John Williams scored booming, you know?”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:46:01 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. craft (craft): Jaws → Jurassic Park. Spielberg's pre-Jurassic blockbusters: Jurassic does some of the same things as Jaws -- entertaining, not slow.
    “I think it does some of the same stuff that Jaws does, where it's really entertaining.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:52:13 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

industry (6)

  1. industry (industry): Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope → Jaws. Star Wars and Jaws legitimized the B movie as high-quality filmmaking.
    “Star Wars and Jaws in 75 and 77.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:15:05 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. industry (Oscar snub): Jaws → Satyricon. Spielberg famously missed a best director nomination for Jaws when Fellini got a surprise nomination, probably for Satyricon.
    “Fellini for like Satyricon.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · The Lost World: Jurassic Park · 0:03:19 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  3. industry (industry): Rocky → Jaws. Jaws, Rocky, Saturday Night Fever and Star Wars were successive cultural phenomena in 75-77.
    “like Jaws in 75, this in 76, Saturday Night Fever in 77, Star Wars in 77”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:13:18 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  4. industry (industry): Saturday Night Fever → Jaws. Jaws, Rocky, Star Wars and this film mark the 70s run where pop culture and the business changed direction.
    “75, we have Jaws, which creates the summer blockbuster.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 0:07:23 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  5. industry (industry): Jaws → Jaws. Jaws basically created summer movies.
    “It basically created summer movies.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:46:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. industry (release timing): Jaws → The Shining. The Shining comes five years after Jaws, which also feels deadlier than it is.
    “This is 5 years after Jaws.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Shining with Timothy Simons (Ad-Free) · 0:05:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (4)

  1. lineage (lineage): Friday the 13th → Jaws. Friday took Jaws' device of music for a villain you cannot see.
    “the Jaws music for the villain you can't see.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:46:35 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Twister → Jaws. Jonas is the Jaws-mayor archetype, a money-motivated antagonist that became a stock character in every movie.
    “The mayor in Jaws is the character that kind of pushes against our lead person.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:54:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. lineage (show callback): Mission: Impossible → Jaws. A political awards category was suggested, recalling a Jaws episode on Amity's campaign.
    “between this and you outlining Quince campaign in Amity for the Jaws rewatchables, we should have some sort of political category here.”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:46:08 · Chris Ryan (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. lineage (lineage): Arachnophobia → Jaws. Arachnophobia is Jaws with spiders.
    “it's sort of like Jaws, but with spiders”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:34:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (5)

  1. people (actor persona): Richard Dreyfuss → Jaws. In the 70s Dreyfuss was the audience POV for nerdy filmmakers (Close Encounters, Jaws), a nice-guy hero, before becoming a true asshole in What About Bob?
    “He was this like POV character for all of these nerdy filmmakers, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:22:36 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Jaws → Robert Shaw. Shaw's performance and the comparing-scars scene.
    “every time I see those guys comparing scars in the galley of Robert Shaw's boat.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:35:15 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Jaws → Bill Butler. Bill Butler shot Jaws, with a great camera crew.
    “I think Bill Butler, who shot Jaws”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:36:52 · Chris Ryan (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): Jaws → Raiders of the Lost Ark. Roy Scheider's late-70s run is called as important as Harrison Ford's iconic status.
    “I think that run of Roy Schider movies in the late 70s is pretty important.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:38:21 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)
  5. people (casting echo): Jaws → 2010: The Year We Make Contact. Balaban from Close Encounters plus Scheider from Jaws makes 2010 a less sentimental, more serious-minded Spielberg.
    “I mean, you have, you have Balaban and you have Schider off of Jaws.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2010: The Year We Make Contact · 0:28:49 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Raiders of the Lost Ark → Jaws. Bendis lives in Portland, where Raiders and Jaws play theaters every summer; his kids found both still work.
    “I'm here in Portland where Raiders and Jaws plays on theaters, at least once a summer.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 3:01:39 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.90 sure it was them)

theme (3)

  1. theme (motif echo): Jaws → Lincoln. The slaps in Jaws and Lincoln show the shift from identifying with the slapped child to the anxious parent.
    “So it's very much like almost like the humiliation of a little boy who's been slapped.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:25:32 · Bilge Ebiri (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): To Live and Die in L.A. → Jaws. Scenes that gloss over a shocking event: the Reagan-building explosion in To Live and Die in L.A., the Kintner boy in Jaws, Loomis in Halloween.
    “a guy explodes in the same building that that Ronald Reagan is giving a speech at, then the next scene is like, they don't even reference it.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:27:19 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): The Lego Batman Movie → Jaws. The Phantom Zone fills with franchise monsters, including the Jaws shark and the Jurassic Park T-Rex.
    “The shark from Jaws, the T-Rex from Jurassic Park.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Lego Batman Movie · 0:58:26 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (3)

  1. unmapped (70s realism): The Texas Chain Saw Massacre → Jaws. Like Jaws, the 70s films feel true to life because of location shooting and actors who look like real locals.
    “All those people in Jaws, you're just like, you are, you do live in in this town.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:15:56 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (globalization start): Jaws → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Movie globalization began in the 1970s when Jaws went wide and Star Wars became a phenomenon.
    “which started in the 1970s when Jaws went wide and Star Wars became a phenomenon”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:38:06 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (tension compared): The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo → Jaws. The first hour's wait for the leads to meet is likened to Brody facing the shark.
    “as if it's like Brody coming face to face with the shark.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 0:52:18 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

verdict (3)

  1. verdict (verdict): Jaws → Jaws. Jaws is the perfect movie: a script that could be silent, drama, humor, scares, great music.
    “What is a movie that has a delightful script but could be a silent film”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:34:47 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Jaws → Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Jaws has the same iconic, burned-in familiarity as Star Wars.
    “I mean, what other movies have that kind of power? I mean, Star Wars is a movie like that?”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:37:59 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)
  3. verdict (verdict): Raiders of the Lost Ark → Jaws. Raiders is a little slow now and not as perfect as Jaws.
    “It's not as perfect as Jaws.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 1:00:18 · Bill Simmons (0.55 sure it was them)

what-if (2)

  1. what-if (casting what-if): Paul Newman → Jaws. Newman turned down Quint in Jaws; Bill thinks he would have made a good Brody, but Quint is Robert Shaw.
    “he turned down Quint.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:14:57 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (career what-if): Sterling Hayden → Jaws. Hayden could not take the part of Quint because he was abroad dodging back taxes.
    “he couldn't take the part of Quint in Jaws because he had he was living outside of the country”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:55:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Jaws: Quint is the first pick for the organ you wouldn't want.
    “I think Quint's the 1st pick for the one I wouldn't want.”
    The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:43:42 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Jaws: Jaws screens at the ArcLight every July 4th; Sean can watch it once a month.
    “I now see Jaws every July 4th at the arc light when they play it.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:35:07 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Jaws: Sean's friend Nils spent days communicating only in Robert Shaw dialogue.
    “Nils would spend days at a time communicating to me and my friends”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:35:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Jaws: Bruce the shark, named after Spielberg's lawyer; the production was a train wreck.
    “Bruce, named after Steven's lawyer.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:36:32 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Jaws: Bill remembers being terrified walking a sidewalk 50 feet from the beach after seeing the ads.
    “I remember being so scared of the ads for that movie”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:46:23 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Jaws: Bill biked to where Jaws was filmed on the Cape: hallowed ground.
    “one time we biked to where they filmed some of the Jaw stuff.”
    The Big Picture · Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57) · 0:47:26 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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