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Jaws

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Jaws	comment	Released in June 1975, Jaws was Hollywood's first Summer Blockbuster, soon to be codified by Star Wars, and a launchpad for the career of its director, Steven Spielberg. Along with Godzilla (1954) and King Kong (1933), it also served as a key inspiration for giant animal rampage movies.When a giant great white shark starts attacking swimmers near the New England resort community of Amity Island, the town mayor tries to keep things quiet rather than risk frightening tourists away at the height of the busy summer season. But police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) investigates anyway, eventually gaining the support of two other men: Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss), a marine biologist, and Quint (Robert Shaw), a professional shark hunter.As the level of terror in the tourist-economy town of Amity â€“ and in the audience â€“ gradually grows to a fever pitch, the shark continues with its attacks, leading Brody, Hooper and Quint to spend the last third of the film completely isolated at sea, hunting the monstrous creature.The film was adapted from the 1974 novel of the same name by Peter Benchley, which it has dwarfed astronomically in terms of public recognition. The novel was inspired partly by real shark attacks and partly by Moby-Dick, with Quint's dogged pursuit of the shark sharing many similarities with Captain Ahab's hunt of the great white whale.Jaws had such a profound impact on the public that beach attendance dropped sharply the summer it was released â€“ it has been said that it filled the cinemas and emptied the beaches.The film was followed by three sequels: Jaws 2 (1978) Jaws 3-D (1983) Jaws: The Revenge (1987)It also spawned plenty of merchandise, including trading cards, toys, and four licensed games; Jaws for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Jaws: The Computer Game for Commodore 64, Jaws Unleashed for PlayStation 2 and Xbox, and Jaws: Ultimate Predator for Wii and Nintendo 3DS. The Universal Studios Theme Parks also had many Jaws-inspired rides (though the one in Orlando was deactivated to expand the Harry Potter area). A musical based around the making of the film, titled Bruce is also in the works.Although Scheider, Shaw, and Dreyfuss got top billing, the true star of the movie was a mechanical shark nicknamed Bruce (not Jaws!).
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Jaws / int_116f6f1c	type	Self-Plagiarism
Jaws / int_116f6f1c	comment	Self-Plagiarism: When the shark's mangled corpse sinks to the seafloor, it is accompanied by the same roar featured during the destruction of the semi in Spielberg's previous movie, Duel.
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Jaws / int_118bba4	type	NonindicativeTitle
Jaws / int_118bba4	comment	Non-Indicative Title: To the point that when Spielberg saw the unfinished book, he imagined if it was about dentists. Many countries went for "Shark" or some variations instead (TiburÃ³n, TubarÃ£o, Lo Squalo, "The White Shark" in German, "The Jaws of the Shark" in Greek), if not a Completely Different Title: in French it's Les Dents de la mer, "The Teeth of the Sea". Amusingly enough, in Finnish it's Tappajahai, literally: "The Killer Shark".
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Jaws / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Jaws / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: During the false alarm preceding the attack in the estuary, a man pushes two little children off their air mattress, and then proceeds to climb onto it to save his own ass.
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Jaws / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Jaws / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Peter Benchley playing a reporter. Steven Spielberg is also the voice on the radio asking for an update. Screenwriter Carl Gottlieb appears as newspaper editor Harry Meadows, who assures Brody that there never have been shark problems in local waters.
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Jaws / int_13f5b1b	type	Instant-Win Condition
Jaws / int_13f5b1b	comment	Instant-Win Condition: Part of the suspense during the final duel between the shark and Brody is that it's an automatic win for the shark as soon as the Orca completely sinks; Brody nails the shot on the scuba tank just in time.
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Jaws / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Jaws / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Complaining about a job being boring turns out to not be so boring.
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Jaws / int_1713b00a	type	Your Head A-Splode
Jaws / int_1713b00a	comment	Your Head Asplode: How the shark meets its end, with the ruptured air tank in its mouth exploding and blowing its head (and a fair amount of its upper body) apart.
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Jaws / int_1b122c5d	type	Scare Chord
Jaws / int_1b122c5d	comment	Scare Chord: A classic example. The score spikes with a horrific shriek when Hooper's flashlight picks up Ben Gardner's one-eyed floating head. And also brilliantly subverted when we get our first good view of the shark. Throughout the whole film, the audience has been conditioned to only expect a shark attack when we hear the classic, ominous music. So when the shark appears, completely un-obscured, smack dab in the middle of the frame, in road spanking daylight with no warning whatsoever, unconditioned audience members may feel the need to reach for the brown trousers.
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Jaws / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Jaws / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Felix and Pratt, the two yo-yos who catch the tiger shark. Their actors, Henry Carreiro and Dick Young, were almost as funny as their characters; Young stated that a local reporter said to casting director Shari Rhodes that she had an Abbott and Costello pair, and she replied, "No, I just have two Costellos." Charlie and Denherder, the two men who try to catch the shark off a dock using a pot roast as bait.
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Jaws / int_1e159001	type	Diagonal Billing
Jaws / int_1e159001	comment	Diagonal Billing: For Scheider, Shaw, and Dreyfuss.
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Jaws / int_1e6ca414	type	Burning the Ships
Jaws / int_1e6ca414	comment	Burning the Ships: In the climax, Quint destroys the radio when Brody tries to call for help, and later appears to deliberately burn out his engine so they can't escape their final confrontation with the shark.
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Jaws / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Jaws / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Dressed for her son's funeral, Mrs. Kintner comes to Brody with her grievance (about how unjust it was for him to let the people swim knowing the killer shark was out there).
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Jaws / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Jaws / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: What leads to Quint's death; an oxygen tank falls on his hand, causing him to lose his grip on the now sinking Orca.
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Jaws / int_1ec17e58	type	Sorting Algorithm of Mortality
Jaws / int_1ec17e58	comment	Sorting Algorithm of Mortality: Ground up and fed to the shark. Part of what makes the film so scary, even compared to films that have double or triple the body count, is how utterly merciless the shark's kills are not just in how many people it kills, but in who it kills. Hardened horror fans can watch this movie for the first time and be completely wrong about who's going to die and how. The very first victims are, in order, a beautiful lady, a dog, and a child. Twenty minutes into the movie, the audience knows that absolutely all bets are off when it comes to who's going to get eaten. While the hardened shark hunter does die, he's the very last victim, and the slimy town mayor survives.
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Jaws / int_1fe36347	type	Take My Hand!
Jaws / int_1fe36347	comment	Take My Hand!: Charlie drags Denherder from the water onto the dock this way when the shark is about to snatch the latter.
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Jaws / int_20f689e9	type	Adaptational Villainy
Jaws / int_20f689e9	comment	Adaptational Villainy: Played with. In the novel, local newspaper editor Harry Meadows is friends with Brody and offers him support. The night before he goes after the shark with Quint and Hooper, the novel version of Meadows actually pens a column condemning the actions of the town leaders while offering support of Brody, stating that Brody has been trying to act in the best interests of the town from the start, and had been overruled, and singles out the fact that he's going out on Quint's boat and risking his life to try and kill the shark, even though it's not his responsibility. But the film version of Meadows, as played by Carl Gottlieb, isn't friends with Brody and is fully-aligned with Mayor Vaughn's insistence that the threat of a shark be downplayed, and that it be said the attack was from a barracuda instead of a shark. Also played with, with Quint. Specifically, Quint's actions in destroying the radio and eventually burning out the motor and leaving them all stranded and at the mercy of the shark. The novel version of Quint has no traumatic PTSD that is shared, and remains professional throughout the hunt, having no problem returning to the dock each day. The film version of Quint takes the hunt extremely personally, leading to bad decisions that force them into a confrontation, where as the novel Quint is only in it for the money.
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Jaws / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Jaws / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun Brody's accident with the scuba tank early on at sea. One loose tank ends up being responsible for both Quint's and the shark's demise. Quint shooting at the shark with a rifle that Brody uses later. Bit of a subversion/bait and switch example: the camera lingers on the machete Quint buries in to the Orca's rail after the cleats are pulled off. It is there for him to grab during his desperate struggle later (and he gets in a few stabs) but it really doesn't affect the outcome in the slightest. Subverted: A big deal is made out of Hooper delaying tying up the first barrel while he attaches a blinking homing beacon thing. The audience could expect it to play some role in tracking the shark, but it's seemingly forgotten even by Hooper. (All three men getting drunk might have something to do with it.)
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Jaws / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
Jaws / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: Hooper goes to a lot of trouble to attach a hi-tech beeping device with a blinking light to one of Quint's barrels. Presumably it is some kind of Tracking Device, but this is never stated on camera. The device is briefly seen again when the shark attacks the Orca that evening, but otherwise plays no part in the rest of the plot.
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Jaws / int_23781532	type	Ironic Name
Jaws / int_23781532	comment	Ironic Name: Quint's boat is named the Orca, after the species of whale known for being the only real predator of great whites, yet this particular great white ends up being too much for the boat and sinks it.
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Jaws / int_2487dbf0	type	Vomit Chain Reaction
Jaws / int_2487dbf0	comment	Hooper's narration of Chrissie's body is a classic, letting our minds do all the work as we never see the body. It also applies when Chrissie's remains are first discovered on the beach. We only see her hand with scavenging crabs at it, but what Hendricks, Cassidy, and Brody see is enough to make them all dry heave. During Hooper's autopsy he's visibly disgusted as well.
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Jaws / int_25efd080	type	Artistic License â€“ Marine Biology
Jaws / int_25efd080	comment	Artistic License â€“ Marine Biology: Suffice to say this movie gets quite a bit about Great White sharks wrong. Author Peter Benchley would admit that at the time of writing the source material, he knew absolutely nothing about sharks. Sharks do not usually attack you unless you provoke them or they can smell your blood in the water. But they will be more likely to attack you if you look like a seal or a turtle (this may be a case of Science Marches On, since sharks seem to act the same way towards their natural prey), which the little kids just happen to look like, but they (usually) won't eat you whole — so that's a relief. Although, it's easy enough to Hand Wave that this is just a particularly vicious and man-eating shark, which if nothing else is certainly bigger than the average Great White. It's rare for sharks to attack humans and rarer for them to actually target humans... but that doesn't mean it's impossible, or unheard of. note Like in 2010, when the Egyptian resort of Sharm El Sheik experienced killer shark attacks, they hunted who they thought was the killer shark, declared the beaches safe... only for the shark to attack again. Nearly all attacks in this and subsequent films have a human being grabbed and jerked straight down into the water by the unseen shark who attacks from the bottom. The problem is that sharks can't do this; sharks can't swim backward, making it impossible for them to come up, grab hold of a swimmer's leg, and then drag them straight down. A true shark attack would see the victim bit and dragged sideways or launched into the air by a polaris breach. The shark is said to be 25 feet in length. Great Whites don't grow more than 20 feet, and even that is extremely rare (10-17 feet is the average for a full-grown specimen). Although it's noted to be an unusually massive (and violent) shark, so it appears to be an aberration In-Universe. During the Indianapolis speech, Quint mentions that a shark rolls its eyes into its head when it bites. This is true, but at no point is the shark shown doing this. The shark can be heard growling, particularly when the barrels are tied to the stern. This is impossible, as sharks don't have vocal cords.
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Jaws / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Jaws / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: A little boy and an apparently young dog, too. To top it off, the incidents in question happen within seconds of each other.
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Jaws / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Jaws / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: When Brody hands Hooper the glass of Quint's homebrew, warning "Don't drink that," Hooper immediately downs it. He practically chokes his next line.
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Jaws / int_272232f7	type	Moby Schtick
Jaws / int_272232f7	comment	Moby Schtick: Of course, with Quint as an Ahab stand-in, though less so than his book counterpart.
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Jaws / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Jaws / int_2854b56d	comment	The aforementioned dog scene. We never actually get any clarification over what happened to Pippet; all we see is his owner calling frantically for him and the stick he was fetching floating in the water. It's strongly implied that Pippet was an appetizer for the shark shortly before it attacked the little boy. This is especially horrifying for animal lovers.
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Jaws / int_2bc8bdeb	type	Speak of the Devil
Jaws / int_2bc8bdeb	comment	Speak of the Devil: The Mayor, believing "it's all psychological", goes out of his way to avoid even mentioning the word "shark". He even goes so far as to tell a television interviewer that "a large predator" was killed in the area, just so people won't hear "shark".
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Jaws / int_3079b2e	type	Harpoon Gun
Jaws / int_3079b2e	comment	Harpoon Gun: How else they're gonna attach those barrels on the shark?
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Jaws / int_33d0b177	type	Attack of the Town Festival
Jaws / int_33d0b177	comment	Attack of the Town Festival: While it wasn't a festival, the town officials tried to deny that there was a shark near the town, as closing the beach would ruin the town's tourist business over the Fourth of July weekend.
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Jaws / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Jaws / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: In the novel, the Brodys have a third son, Billy.
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Jaws / int_373283c9	type	This Cannot Be!
Jaws / int_373283c9	comment	After the shark has gone under with three barrels (which Quint insisted it couldn't do), the three men just stand about for a few moments on deck, obviously unsure what to do next. Then Quint, who has spent nearly the entire movie trash talking 'the college kid' and ignoring his advice, walks quietly over to Hooper's equipment and picks it up.
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Jaws / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Jaws / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: We see Pippet's owner calling for him, and the stick that he was tossing to him floating on the water, unretrieved. Immediately afterwards, the theme music kicks in and we get Murderer P.O.V. as the shark swoops in on Alex Kitner.
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Jaws / int_39297f53	type	Bigger Is Better
Jaws / int_39297f53	comment	And this shark itself is specifically marveled at by both Hooper and Quint as being a truly unique specimen, with both of them admiring its tenacity, intelligence, and unpredictability. And size. The first time they (and the audience) get a really good look at the shark, Hooper is snapping pictures and calling it "beautiful."
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Jaws / int_39a41690	type	Adaptational Sympathy
Jaws / int_39a41690	comment	Adaptational Sympathy: Invoked, as Steven Spielberg has said he found the novel's ostensible heroes so unlikable, he actually wanted the shark to win. Hooper, who is an arrogant Jerkass in the novel who likes to flaunt his family's wealth and social status and has a sleazy affair with Brody's wife. In the movie, Hooper is much more sympathetic and allowed to survive in the end. Quint, who gets an expanded backstory and deeper motivations for his actions, chiefly the fact that he was a survivor of the USS Indianapolis. Beyond that, he's more likable and charismatic, and though tense throughout the hunt for the shark, he grows to respect both Brody and Hooper. The adulterous Mrs. Brody herself is a perfectly decent and loving wife and mother in the movie. Mayor Vaughn owes money to The Mafia in the novel, which accounts for his refusal to deal with the shark preying on tourists, but in the movie his motive for refusing to shut down the beaches is mostly due to genuine concern about the town's livelihood and a sincere belief that the shark threat is overblown. Way before suspecting about Hooper and Mrs. Brody having a fling, Brody dislikes Hooper and resents his expertise as a challenge undermining Brody's authority as sheriff. Both men make genuine efforts to put aside their differences and work together to bring down the shark but the antipathy towards each other is always present in the book. In the film however, Brody is grateful to have Hooper around as reinforcement and advise to his own efforts to solve the shark problem.
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Jaws / int_3af4d3a3	type	Hollywood New England
Jaws / int_3af4d3a3	comment	Hollywood New England: Changed from Long Island, New York in the novel. Location shooting was done on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.
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Jaws / int_3b789458	type	Recurring Extra
Jaws / int_3b789458	comment	Recurring Extra: Quint is often accompanied by a silent, shorter man with a checkered jacket, orange hat and a dog on the leash, who helps load up the Orca but doesn't accompany its voyage.
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Jaws / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Jaws / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: It's not clear whether Brody's fear of the ocean is based on a specific incident. He brusquely responds to his wife's attempt to name his condition with "Drowning!"
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Jaws / int_3c4c5d6f	type	Crowd Panic
Jaws / int_3c4c5d6f	comment	Crowd Panic: On the Fourth of July, this happens with both the fake one and the real one. In the case of the latter, everyone gathers on the docks to watch as the shark kills and eats a boater, with children in the water.
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Jaws / int_3d1f2cae	type	Barrier-Busting Blow
Jaws / int_3d1f2cae	comment	Barrier-Busting Blow: After Quint is eaten, the lone Brody ducks into the cabin of the sinking Orca to regroup. The shark suddenly bursts through the wall face first, biting away, hoping to catch the chief within its jaws. It's this moment where Brody gets the plan to finish the shark and forces the compressed air tank into its mouth.
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Jaws / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Jaws / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: After the Fourth of July attack, Brody sees the mayor muttering about saving August for the tourists. He calls out Vaughn for caring more about the tourist revenue than about getting rid of the shark. This backfires on Vaughn and he eventually agrees without protest to hire Quint. When the shark makes its appearance near the Orca, Hooper frantically yells at Brody to get closer to the bucking and exposed prow of the ship — so that he can be used for scale in the photos of the shark that Hooper is taking. (Not surprisingly, Brody refuses once Hooper explains this.)
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Jaws / int_3f13413a	type	Staggered Zoom
Jaws / int_3f13413a	comment	Staggered Zoom: An interesting use of this trope right before Alex Kintner gets eaten. Roy Scheider is framed in a medium shot. Twice passersby obscure the camera, and each time Scheider is closer when the camera reveals him again. This is done not for any dramatic effect — that comes with the famous Vertigo Effect a couple minutes later — but to demonstrate Martin's feeling of unease as he watches the beach.
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Jaws / int_40b98588	type	Adaptational Location Change
Jaws / int_40b98588	comment	Adaptational Location Change: The original novel locates Amity Island off the coast of Long Island, New York, sharing its name with the Long Island resort town Amityville.note Which would become associated with another horror franchise a few years later. The movie, however, was shot in and near Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and thus Amity comes to have a vague New England setting (with stress placed on the New Yorker Brody's outsider status).
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Jaws / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Jaws / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Mrs. Brody calls to check in with her husband right as the trio has seen the shark for the first time. Brody and Hooper are distracted as it circles the boat, so Quint picks up the radio and rattles off a made-up story completely contrary to what's going on, without even bothering to deviate in tone or try to sound like he's telling the truth.
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Jaws / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Jaws / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The shark is killed, but a bunch of people have been eaten by the shark, a child included, and due to the shark attacking out in the open during a profitable day, the town is basically doomed to going on welfare since it scared away the customers needed for the money.
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Jaws / int_437bc70a	type	Empty Eyes
Jaws / int_437bc70a	comment	Empty Eyes: Quint's legendary quote about sharks' eyes.
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Jaws / int_469e3e2f	type	In-Universe
Jaws / int_469e3e2f	comment	The shark is said to be 25 feet in length. Great Whites don't grow more than 20 feet, and even that is extremely rare (10-17 feet is the average for a full-grown specimen). Although it's noted to be an unusually massive (and violent) shark, so it appears to be an aberration In-Universe.
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Jaws / int_49d7c511	type	Half-Empty Two-Shot
Jaws / int_49d7c511	comment	Half Empty Two Shot: Our first good look at the shark comes as Brody is chumming the waters behind the boat, with the shark popping up out of the water behind him.
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Jaws / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Jaws / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Hooper's narration of Chrissie's body is a classic, letting our minds do all the work as we never see the body. It also applies when Chrissie's remains are first discovered on the beach. We only see her hand with scavenging crabs at it, but what Hendricks, Cassidy, and Brody see is enough to make them all dry heave. During Hooper's autopsy he's visibly disgusted as well. The actual attack on Chrissie counts. As horrific as the scene is, it takes place at dusk and is filmed entirely from above the water, sparing us from seeing any dismemberment and blood in the water. A stick floating on the water, unretrieved, is the only thing that tells us of poor Pippet the dog's fate.
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Jaws / int_4ba070fd	type	Drunken Song
Jaws / int_4ba070fd	comment	Drunken Song: "Show Me the Way to Go Home" (which Spielberg said became the Survival Mantra for the crew during the Troubled Production, and they cried as the scene of the three heroes singing it was shot).
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Jaws / int_4c455537	type	Plot-Driven Breakdown
Jaws / int_4c455537	comment	Plot-Driven Breakdown: Quint has his boat on overdrive causing the engine to blow up and leaving the three main characters at the mercy of the shark on the open sea.
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Jaws / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
Jaws / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: Specially the third act, which is about three manly guys hunting a deadly beast, while also doing other manly things such as drinking and comparing scars.
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Jaws / int_4e3decd5	type	A Friend in Need
Jaws / int_4e3decd5	comment	A Friend in Need: Michael's friends save him when he goes into shock after the shark eats the boater. They really are good guys.
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Jaws / int_4e6e4dc7	type	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much
Jaws / int_4e6e4dc7	comment	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much: The local authorities try to write the death that opens the movie as a "probable boating accident" instead of a shark attack. Hooper is furious when he has a chance to examine the body, as (to him) the signs of a shark attack seem obvious.
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Jaws / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Jaws / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "Michael's in the pond." Brody was prepared to ignore a woman screaming there's a shark in the pond until his wife reminds him that their son is in there. Then Brody goes Oh, Crap! and starts running. In-universe, the realization that Quint was on the Indianapolis forces Hooper to completely re-evaluate him. After the shark has gone under with three barrels (which Quint insisted it couldn't do), the three men just stand about for a few moments on deck, obviously unsure what to do next. Then Quint, who has spent nearly the entire movie trash talking 'the college kid' and ignoring his advice, walks quietly over to Hooper's equipment and picks it up.
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Jaws / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Jaws / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: The chumming scene is the first clear shot of the shark.
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Jaws / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Jaws / int_508d91a2	comment	Almost everyone knows the famous Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "Smile, you son of a B[BANG]CH!"
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Jaws / int_51d8f2e3	type	Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering
Jaws / int_51d8f2e3	comment	Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering: The town hall meeting about the shark problem quickly degrades into bickering motivated, cut short by Quint stealing the floor with his entrance.
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Jaws / int_53d302c	type	Vertigo Effect
Jaws / int_53d302c	comment	Vertigo Effect: Chief Brody's reaction to seeing the Kintner boy being attacked by the shark. Hitchcock might have invented it, but Spielberg's flawless use of the technique here is why everyone recognizes it today.
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Jaws / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
Jaws / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: Hooper spends most of his time on the Orca dealing with Quint's abuse, driving the ship, and trying to study the shark in between tying knots and playing Solitaire. But when the chips are down and his poison injector appears to be their only remaining option, he immediately acquiesces to going down into the cage, even though Brody insists the shark will tear it to pieces.
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Jaws / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
Jaws / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: Quint's speech about the ordeal of the USS Indianapolis crew contains some of it. Possibly justified since Quint, as a common sailor, could have no admission to some details regarding their mission, which were obscure in 1975, but are easily accessible today. He says that they delivered "Little Boy" atomic bomb (which was later used to nuke Hiroshima) to Tinian island. In reality, USS Indianapolis delivered nuclear components to both "Little Boy" and "Fat Man" bombs, but none of them in whole. He claims that their mission was "so secret" that no distress call was dispatched when they were sunk and they were not declared overdue for a week. Actually, declassified documents prove that not only the distress call was sent, but it was even picked up three times by other American units. However, it was deemed as a Japanese hoax and thus completely ignored, partly due to the secret nature of the ship's mission which created confusion. The fact that nobody noticed that Indianapolis did not reach her port of destination in the scheduled time also had more to do with ordinary neglect and bureaucratic chaos, rather than the secrecy of her mission. Quint declared that "eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out, and the sharks took the rest". In reality, most of the Indianapolis crew died due to dehydration, exposure, and wounds they already suffered at the time of the ship's sinking. The share of sharks in the overall death toll was exaggerated over decades, adding to their unfounded notoriety (and the movie — and Quint's speech — certainly did not help). Although it is vague enough to imply that the sharks feasted on the already dead sailors too, which did happen. He also uses the wrong date, claiming the incident occurred on the 29th of June when it was actually the 30th of July. Getting the day wrong might be justified by the fact that it was literally minutes after midnight (as in, it might have been the 29th the last time he checked before the sinking) but getting the month wrong is a fairly glaring error - though one could perhaps chalk these errors up to the character being drunk enough at the time.
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Jaws / int_57b74bd4	type	Achievements in Ignorance
Jaws / int_57b74bd4	comment	Achievements in Ignorance: Two brainless yahoos with a tire and a bit of raw beef manage to hook the shark fishing off the dock, something that a whole posse of fishermen couldn't manage and which even Quint took a long time to do. It didn't do them much good, though, since the shark just pulls down the dock and keeps swimming.
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Jaws / int_597f86b1	type	Nails on a Blackboard
Jaws / int_597f86b1	comment	Nails on a Blackboard: Quint, making his legendary entrance. As the townsfolk get caught up arguing with Brody's decision to close the beaches(and the mayor desperately tries to save face by claiming it's only for 24 hours), Quint draws their attention by scraping on the blackboard opposite Brody and showing off a doodle of a man-eating shark he made while obscured by the crowd. He then delivers his introductory Cold Ham monologue, explaining how he's the only one who is able to kill the shark.
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Jaws / int_5a40d6a	type	Adaptation Distillation
Jaws / int_5a40d6a	comment	Adaptation Distillation: Very much so. It streamlined the plot but remained fairly faithful (for example, in the movie, the Orca goes out and stays out until the end, while in the book, they make several trips out, returning at the end of each day — each film encounter with the shark roughly corresponds to a single book encounter, with the Orca returning to port after losing track of the shark). Another good use of this trope is the elimination of the novel's distracting sub-plots, including one revolving around Brody's wife Ellen having an affair with Hooper and another about Amity's mayor being involved with the Mafia. The film's climax is much more dramatic than the novel's. In the novel, Hooper gets killed in the shark cage, while Quint merely drowns and the shark bleeds to death. In the movie, Hooper narrowly escapes getting eaten in the cage, Quint gets Eaten Alive, and the shark is blown to smithereens when Brody shoots the tank in its mouth. A very minor one is Quint's "fee." In the movie he demands a $10,000 bounty, whereas in the novel, he just asks for double his daily charter rate, around $400.
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Jaws / int_5aa4ec8a	type	Ambiguous Syntax
Jaws / int_5aa4ec8a	comment	Ambiguous Syntax: Quint, during his Indianapolis speech, tells Hooper and Brody that he was the most frightened when a PBY started to pick up the survivors, stating that he was waiting for his turn. It's left deliberately ambiguous if he was referring to rescue or death by shark attack with that last statement.
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Jaws / int_5d3c6435	type	The Drunken Sailor
Jaws / int_5d3c6435	comment	The Drunken Sailor: Quint is no stranger to a bottle, and all three lead characters get drunk one night at sea.
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Jaws / int_5f146203	type	Dissonant Serenity
Jaws / int_5f146203	comment	Dissonant Serenity: Quint's Indianapolis tale of watching his Navy mates eaten by sharks is horrific enough. But the sly grin playing around his face for most of the story makes it ten times more disturbing. Played for laughs a few minutes later, when the shark is attacking the boat and knocks an oil lamp to the floor, starting a fire. Brody and Hooper are rushing around frantically, while Quint says, in a very calm voice, "Chief. Put out the fire, would you?". His tone of voice is the same one you'd expect from him saying "Chief. Pour me a cup of coffee, would you?" However, Quint appears to have possibly knocked the lamp over himself, in order to distract Brody from using the radio, which may account for Quint's nonchalant attitude.
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Jaws / int_5f410c2c	type	Blood Is Squicker in Water
Jaws / int_5f410c2c	comment	Blood Is Squicker in Water: It helps the movie barely uses any red - the color mostly appears in the background, in clothing, American flags, and upholstery, among other things - so the crimson sea becomes even more disgusting/scary. This was a deliberate choice on Spielberg's part; he insisted on avoiding anything red in the costumes and scenery so that the sight of blood would be more of a shock to the audience.
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Jaws / int_61a503a7	type	Hell Is That Noise
Jaws / int_61a503a7	comment	The Shark Theme... Dun dun, dun dun...
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Jaws / int_61eb5873	type	In-Camera Effects
Jaws / int_61eb5873	comment	In-Camera Effects: The Tracking Zoom is made by having a camera on a dolly zoom in while the dolly moves away. The subject, Sheriff Brody's face, stays in the same place but the perspective of everything around it changes, generating a distorting zoom-in.
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Jaws / int_6221949c	type	Doomed Predecessor
Jaws / int_6221949c	comment	Doomed Predecessor: Ben Gardner is the first fisherman to set out after the shark. Soon after, Chief Brody and Dr. Hooper find Gardner's boat wrecked with several holes in it. Hooper finds a shark tooth in the wreckage, along with what little is left of Gardner himself.
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Jaws / int_630447d4	type	Tongue-Out Insult
Jaws / int_630447d4	comment	Tongue-Out Insult: Hooper does this to Quint after the latter dismisses the Ph. D. candidate as a "wealthy college boy". He is smart enough to wait until Quint turns his back on him.
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Jaws / int_63b3597	type	Shoot the Fuel Tank
Jaws / int_63b3597	comment	Shoot the Fuel Tank: The air tank would not blow up when shot, but Spielberg insisted on this as he felt a "big rousing ending" was necessary.
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Jaws / int_674fcb07	type	Signature Line
Jaws / int_674fcb07	comment	Signature Line: This film has at least two: The oft-misquoted "You're gonna need a bigger boat..." when the shark is first visible. Almost everyone knows the famous Pre-Mortem One-Liner: "Smile, you son of a B[BANG]CH!"
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Jaws / int_67edaf78	type	Gargle Blaster
Jaws / int_67edaf78	comment	Gargle Blaster: Quint's home brew hooch, judging from Brody's reaction to tasting it. He also warns Hooper against trying some a second later. Hooper ignores him and chokes on it.
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Jaws / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
Jaws / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: Quint's shack is a rare heroic version: The walls are lined with the jaws of the countless sharks he has killed. Doubling as a Trophy Room, the shack displays Quint's obsessive insanity and lust for vengeance against all sharks.
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Jaws / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Jaws / int_6b05b601	comment	The mayor mentions yelling "shark" on a crowded beach would just lead to a panic. He's only trying to cover up the shark attacks, but he's proven right. Two boys play a prank with a fake shark fin that scares everyone out of the water and distracts everyone from the real shark sneaking into the estuary.
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Jaws / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Jaws / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Quint's vessel, the Orca. Orcas, a.k.a. killer whales, are the only natural predators of great white sharks in the wild, and substantial documentary evidence can confirm that orcas occasionally go shark hunting themselves. And they do it in packs, just like the three humans on Quint's boat. Quint is the shark's fifth victim.
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Jaws / int_6c52e07a	type	Night Swim Equals Death
Jaws / int_6c52e07a	comment	Night Swim Equals Death: The Skinny Dipping in the opening scene may be the Trope Codifier. A young woman wanders away from a nighttime beach party with a boy and is taken by the shark after being wildly thrashed around quite a bit first when she decides to go swimming
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Jaws / int_6eb4e408	type	Artistic License â€“ Military
Jaws / int_6eb4e408	comment	Artistic License â€“ Military: While talking on the radio with Mrs. Brody, Quint (a former U.S. Navy sailor) ends the call by saying "over and out". "Over" and "Out" are never used at the same time; "Over" expects an immediate response, and "Out" marks the end of a transmission with no answer required.
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Jaws / int_6fd1837b	type	Argument of Contradictions
Jaws / int_6fd1837b	comment	Argument of Contradictions: After Hooper notes that the shark that was caught was too small to be the killer, he decides to take a boat out and look for proof that the shark is still at large. Brody, who hates water, protests that the wine he's drunk hasn't made him intoxicated enough to handle venturing onto a boat. He and Hooper get into a brief argument about it, consisting mostly of "yes" and "no". Hooper eventually wins. Played with in a later interaction, when Hooper playfully argues with Brody that it doesn't make sense for a man who hates the water to live on an island, only for Brody to playfully, (and drunkenly,) counter that it's only an island if it's looked at while being in the water.
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Jaws / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
Jaws / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Matt Hooper dies in the cage in the novel; however, after one of the sharks being filmednote unlike every other scene, parts of the underwater sequence were shot off the coast of Australia with real sharks, with a scaled-down cage and little person Body Double being used to make the standard-size (14 feet) shark appear abnormally large destroyed the prop cage before that scene was to be shot, Spielberg and crew decide to use the footage and allow Hooper to live.
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Jaws / int_77538ed4	type	Admiring the Abomination
Jaws / int_77538ed4	comment	Admiring the Abomination: Matt Hooper is a more sympathetic example than some. A shark researcher from the oceanographic institute, he knows a lot about sharks and has been fascinated by them since a juvenile thresher destroyed his boat during childhood. He does not try to "protect" the shark, however, recognizing it's a major threat and someone has to exterminate it. It doesn't keep him from experiencing awe about it, though. And this shark itself is specifically marveled at by both Hooper and Quint as being a truly unique specimen, with both of them admiring its tenacity, intelligence, and unpredictability. And size. The first time they (and the audience) get a really good look at the shark, Hooper is snapping pictures and calling it "beautiful."
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Jaws / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
Jaws / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: "Smile, you son of a [rifle firing]" [BLAM!] Only in the 5.1 and Atmos remixes though. The original mono mix has "bitch" intact and still audible over the sound of the rifleshot. Network TV airings edited Brody's "Come down here and chum some of this shit!" by having the sound of the shark surfacing drown out the last word.
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Jaws / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Jaws / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: The constant problems with the mechanical shark props resulted in using the barrel floats to indicate the presence of the underwater shark instead, since otherwise a lot of expensive production time would have gone to waste waiting around. As Spielberg later admitted, the "barrels=shark" gimmick actually proved more effective, since it gave the shark's appearances that much more impact, and Nothing Is Scarier... A minor example is the town of Martha's Vineyard's constant nagging of the production company, to the point they almost weren't allowed to build the set for Quint's house. This resulted in one of his demands to Brody:
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Jaws / int_78d0ebcf	type	Crying Wolf
Jaws / int_78d0ebcf	comment	Crying Wolf: Subverted. After the first sighting of the "shark" in the water during the Fourth of July turns out to be two kids with a cardboard fin, when another person starts screaming she saw the shark head into the estuary, Brody's initial reaction is this. It's only after Ellen reminds him Michael is in the estuary that he starts moving, and as more and more beachgoers seemingly confirm the sighting, he's in an all out sprint with a large number of beachgoers trailing him to save his son.
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Jaws / int_7921ad77	type	Actually, I Am Him
Jaws / int_7921ad77	comment	Actually, I Am Him: Hooper initially goes to Brody in search of the police chief. After a bit of conversation, Brody reveals that he's who Hooper's looking for.
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Jaws / int_794f3589	type	Adaptation Explanation Extrication
Jaws / int_794f3589	comment	Adaptation Explanation Extrication: In the novel, the Mayor Vaughn's main reason for keeping the beaches open was his ties to The Mafia, who owned real estate in Amity Island. This subplot was deemed unnecessary for the film and it was dropped, leaving concern for the town's livelihood as his motivation.
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Jaws / int_7f390ebc	type	Developing Doomed Characters
Jaws / int_7f390ebc	comment	Developing Doomed Characters: While Spielberg read the book, he found the characters so annoying that he started rooting for the shark. So in the movie, he cut some subplots and developed the main characters better so it would not fit this trope.
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Jaws / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Jaws / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: When Hooper and Brody realize that the shark is still in the water, Hooper takes a protesting Brody to find it on his boat. They find the remains of Ben Gardner's fishing boat, and Brody points out they could just tow it in and examine it on the safety of land for proof. Hooper insists on diving under to find evidence of the shark; he finds a Great White tooth lodged in the remains. Unfortunately, seeing Ben Gardner's corpse makes him drop it as well as his flashlight and the Mayor is skeptical when they tell him the next day. If he had listened to Brody, the tooth would have remained in the boatnote though the flow of the water could easily have knocked the tooth loose during a tow.
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Jaws / int_826f71ed	type	Obscured Special Effects
Jaws / int_826f71ed	comment	Obscured Special Effects: The mechanical shark was used sparingly, not so much because it was unconvincing, but because it was malfunctioning all the time. Therefore, Spielberg cut out the parts where the shark was constantly malfunctioning. This decision helped rack up the suspense, making the film all the more effective.
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Jaws / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Jaws / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Ben Gardner has a mate with him during the shark hunting scene. It's unknown if the man was aboard his ship when the shark sunk it and killed Gardner, although Brody and Hopper's claim that the shark has killed two people in a week -namely Alex and Gardner- likely means either the mate survived or they Never Found the Body.
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Jaws / int_87a18d19	type	Gonna Need More X
Jaws / int_87a18d19	comment	Gonna Need More X: Perhaps the most famous example of someone suddenly realizing they need more of something as a situation gets out of hand. When the shark surprises Brody while he's chumming, he drops this iconic quote after taking in the sheer size of the huge fish for a second:
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Jaws / int_8acdb476	type	Suddenly Sober
Jaws / int_8acdb476	comment	Suddenly Sober: Hooper, right after Quint mentions the Indianapolis. All three of them once they realize the shark is attacking the boat.
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Jaws / int_8fcb5843	type	The Hunter Becomes the Hunted
Jaws / int_8fcb5843	comment	The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: Provides a perfect example as Brody, Hooper and Quint set out together to hunt down the killer shark...only for the tables to turn when they don't have the means to beat this shark that defies everything they throw at it as it changes the hunt into a quest to survive.
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Jaws / int_9059bd5d	type	Peek-a-Boo Corpse
Jaws / int_9059bd5d	comment	Peek-a-Boo Corpse: When Hooper searches under the wrecked boat for Ben Gardner, his severed head (which is missing an eye) suddenly shows up, terrifying the audience and Hooper, who drops the Great White tooth he was going to use as evidence in his panic.
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Jaws / int_91697559	type	Half the Man He Used to Be
Jaws / int_91697559	comment	Half the Man He Used to Be: During his recollection of events from the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, Quint notes how one morning he found his friend missing everything from the waist down. There isn't much left of poor Chrissie, either.
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Jaws / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Jaws / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: After being slapped by Mrs. Kintner, Brody realizes that she is right, and that he's partly responsible for her son's death after he failed to get the beaches closed. Mayor Vaughn eventually has one when he realizes that he endangered his own kids by insisting that the beaches stay open.
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Jaws / int_95bca4c9	type	Tuckerization
Jaws / int_95bca4c9	comment	Tuckerization: The mechanical shark used in the film was nicknamed "Bruce" after Steven Spielberg's lawyer Bruce Ramer.
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Jaws / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Jaws / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Quint's legendary monologue on the sinking of the USS Indianapolis. Robert Shaw, an accomplished writer himself, made major contributions to the script for that scene. He believed there should be some explanation for his character's antipathy towards sharks. In Real Life, however, more of the sailors on the Indianapolis died from exposure, dehydration, and wounds suffered in the sinking than from sharks. The scene where Mrs. Kitner confronts Sheriff Brody when the townspeople catch a shark they think is responsible. She slaps Brody, accusing him of indirectly letting her son die by letting the beaches stay open after the first attack. It's what leads Brody into his drinking binge during the middle part of the film, and explains why he tags along with Quint and Hooper to catch/kill the killer shark during the final act.
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Jaws / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Jaws / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: When two hoaxers with a fake shark fin are surrounded by the heavily-armed anti-shark patrol, one immediately points at the other and blubbers, "He talked me into it!"
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Jaws / int_991c7101	type	Hazardous Water
Jaws / int_991c7101	comment	Hazardous Water: There's a killer shark. And the last third is in deep sea to make it more dangerous.
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Jaws / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Jaws / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: "I'll never wear a life jacket again." So says Quint, who would rather drown than be eaten by a shark. He doesn't get a choice.
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Jaws / int_9a03fce0	type	The Day the Music Lied
Jaws / int_9a03fce0	comment	The Day the Music Lied: A pair of locals, Charlie and Dernherder, very unwisely try to catch the gigantic killer shark by fishing off the dock with a pot roast. They actually succeed...only for the shark to yank the dock loose and pull part of it out to sea with Charlie on it. When he tries to swim back, the shark goes after him. After a few very tense moments, punctuated by the infamous theme, Charlie manages to get back to safety.
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Jaws / int_9a2aee13	type	Heroic Bystander
Jaws / int_9a2aee13	comment	Heroic Bystander: The actions of numerous ordinary people who keep their heads and courage during a crisis prevent the shark from adding additional people to its death toll. During the second shark attack, all of the parents start pulling their kids and any other swimmers out of the water. As a result, Alex and Pippet are the only casualties. The same happens when the shark attacks on the Fourth of July. One woman shouts in alarm and points at the fin heading towards in the pond, notifying Brody to act when he realizes Michael and his friends are there. One boater yells at the boys to reel in their boat, before the shark attacks him. He probably saved their lives with the warning. People get out of the water and drag anyone else who's in shock with them to safety. Brody takes charge, but it's his sons' friends who ultimately get Michael out of the water. They could have left him behind but instead got him out.
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Jaws / int_9a6990	type	Skinny Dipping
Jaws / int_9a6990	comment	Skinny Dipping: The first victim of the Shark is a woman named Chrissy Watkins who is skinny dipping. There's a boy with her who tries to follow, but he's too drunk to reach the water.
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Jaws / int_9ae69919	type	Indignant Slap
Jaws / int_9ae69919	comment	Indignant Slap: Mrs. Kintner famously delivers one to Sheriff Brody upon learning that he kept the beaches open after discovering that a young woman had already been killed in a shark attack, leading to her son Alex's death.
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Jaws / int_9af54b9d	type	Double Take
Jaws / int_9af54b9d	comment	Double Take: Brody has one after the shark breaches the water right behind him while he's slopping chum overboard. The shock sends him reeling upward into the dead center of the frame, his cigarette trembling in his lips.
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Jaws / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Jaws / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In his first speech, Quint forecasts his own demise. Early in the film, Brody is flipping through a book about sharks. One of the pics shows a great white with an oxygen tank in its mouth. That's how he kills the shark in the end. Ellen Brody comes across an illustration of a shark attacking and damaging a small wooden boat. This foreshadows the shark attacking and damaging the Orca, and later returning to finish the job. We later find the remains of Ben Gardner's boat, torn to pieces, the crew all dead, and bites taken out of the boat itself. The same thing happens to the Orca. A lot of what Quint said foreshadows his own death. When he sings Farewell and Adieu to You Ladies of Spain the first time, it's in response to seeing Hooper's anti-shark cage, and he ends it after the second stanza, where the lyrics mention never seeing you again. The last time Quint sees Hooper is as he's being lowered into the water in the shark cage. Hooper is warned twice that his shark-proof cage is no match for this shark, first by Quint when they are preparing to leave Amity: Then by Brody, right before preparing the cage: When frantically telling the others to untie the roped shark from the boat's stern cleats, Quint exclaims, "He'll pull out the transom!" Soon the shark will smash the whole transom when it lunges onto the stern. The film makes a point of showing how hard it is to secure the oxygen tanks, mostly due to their bulk and weight, and that they tend to shift during an unexpected movement of the ship. Sure enough, during the climax the oxygen tank rolls onto Quint's hand, crushing it and forcing him to let go of his handhold at the worst possible moment. The mayor mentions yelling "shark" on a crowded beach would just lead to a panic. He's only trying to cover up the shark attacks, but he's proven right. Two boys play a prank with a fake shark fin that scares everyone out of the water and distracts everyone from the real shark sneaking into the estuary.
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Jaws / int_9ee065ab	type	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Jaws / int_9ee065ab	comment	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: Jaws is set around the Fourth of July. It actually becomes a plot point because the town council refuse to close the beaches after the first attack because of the revenue generated by summer tourists, leading to further deaths and the hunt for the shark.
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Jaws / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Jaws / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: The Shark Theme... Dun dun, dun dun... In the extras on the DVD, Spielberg talks about getting an excited call from John Williams, wanting to demonstrate said Leitmotif. Cue John Williams playing that incredibly basic two-note dun dun... dun dun... on his piano. The director remarks wryly, "Johnny always had a great sense of humor. I thought he was joking." It apparently took some time before it really sank in that yes, just those two notes would do it. Quint sings "Ladies of Spain", and the tune repeats in the background as his stubborn insanity drives them further into peril. The first two times Quint sings it are after talking about shark attacks (mocking Hooper about the cage and the story about the Indianapolis). The third time he sings it is as he speeds the boat to shore in a desperate attempt to drown the shark, knowing that the engine will most likely burn out before that and leave them stranded and helpless on a sinking boat. It is heard a fourth time, incorporated into the soundtrack, played after the Orca is immobilized and Quint goes below to inspect the damage. It ends on a sour note when his eyes rest on a pair of soaked life preservers hanging on their hooks.
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Jaws / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Jaws / int_a2b38d3b	comment	A classic example. The score spikes with a horrific shriek when Hooper's flashlight picks up Ben Gardner's one-eyed floating head.
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Jaws / int_a3912d0e	type	Sexy Discretion Shot
Jaws / int_a3912d0e	comment	Sexy Discretion Shot: Chrissie goes swimming naked, but it's hard to see the naughty bits because of how dark it is.
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Jaws / int_a49914aa	type	Bowdlerization
Jaws / int_a49914aa	comment	Bowdlerization: The closed captions render Quint singing "Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum, 15 men on a dead man's chest"; his actual words are "15 men on a dead woman's bum" (slang for "butt").
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Jaws / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Jaws / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Between comedy and horror, done expertly. Chrissie's grisly death scene is intercut with shots of the guy she was going to go skinny-dipping with acting clumsy and then falling asleep on the shore. Back and forth after Quint's Sudden Morbid Monologue. To lighten the mood, Hooper starts singing "Show Me the Way to Go Home," and soon all three are in a drunken, hand-banging singalong. Then the barrel breaches the surface again, and ominous thumps start sounding in the Orca and parts of the hull start bowing in. . . A classic example when we get our first good look at the shark. Brody is muttering to himself while irritably tossing chum overboard, not expecting anything to happen... then BAM, there's the shark. Especially effective because every previous shark attack has been heralded by the iconic theme music, this one pops up with no warning whatsoever.
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Jaws / int_a6bd04e0	type	Rule of Scary
Jaws / int_a6bd04e0	comment	Rule of Scary: The shark does some things against the boat that would in actuality compromise itself, but the sheer shock of a 25 foot shark jumping into the back of the boat was enough to overlook that logic. Richard Dreyfuss recalls that he first heard about Jaws at a party, overhearing someone (possibly Spielberg) talking about how to achieve that exact shot. He also recalls thinking something along the lines of "Good luck with that!" Spielberg has said that the last few minutes of the movie were a case of "If they've come this far with me, they'll go the last mile."
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Jaws / int_aa79bac	type	Parting-Words Regret
Jaws / int_aa79bac	comment	Parting-Words Regret: The last thing that Chrissie's suitor says to her is, "I'm coming, I'm coming," being too drunk to respond to her cries for help. When he's called later to identify her body, he has a horrified, grieving expression on his face that he wasn't able to pull her out of the water. Defied on the fourth of July; Sean tells Michael, his older brother, that he hates him when Michael refuses to let him come on the sailboat with his friends. Then the shark goes into the pond, where Michael gets knocked into the water. While his friends get Michael out, Sean is sobbing Tears of Remorse on the beach.
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Jaws / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Jaws / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: When the shark's mangled remains sink to the bottom, the soundtrack momentarily turns from triumphant to gentle and somber, almost mournful.
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Jaws / int_abcb9af1	type	Eaten Alive
Jaws / int_abcb9af1	comment	Eaten Alive: While every one of the shark's victims are this, Quint is the only one explicitly shown.
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Jaws / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Jaws / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: When the shark, who was only driven by the instinct to eat, is finally blown up to pieces, strangely sad piano music from the soundtrack is playing in the background while the shark's corpse is slowly sinking to the bottom of the sea.
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Jaws / int_aca54dad	type	Discreet Drink Disposal
Jaws / int_aca54dad	comment	Discreet Drink Disposal: Brody does not enjoy Quint's home brew.
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Jaws / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Jaws / int_ad1db87c	comment	"Michael's in the pond." Brody was prepared to ignore a woman screaming there's a shark in the pond until his wife reminds him that their son is in there. Then Brody goes Oh, Crap! and starts running.
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Jaws / int_b1e81ef2	type	Dead-Hand Shot
Jaws / int_b1e81ef2	comment	Dead-Hand Shot: All we can see of Chrissie's remains is her hand.
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Jaws / int_b349aa46	type	Premiseville
Jaws / int_b349aa46	comment	Premiseville: Amity Island, which is peaceful and friendly enough when sharks aren't lurking.
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Jaws / int_b39def3c	type	Deathly Dies Irae
Jaws / int_b39def3c	comment	Deathly Dies Irae: The iconic Threatening Shark motif sometimes gains an additional note to become "dies irae," prominently heard in "The Pier Incident, usually when the shark is closing in on its intended victims. Death is coming.
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Jaws / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Jaws / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: To the town of Martha's Vineyard, which, in the name of preserving its value as a tourist spot, insisted that the production not make a single change that wasn't taken down by the end of the day (for instance, the "Welcome to Amity" billboard had to be built, all the filming done, and then immediately torn down again). The producers had to put up a bond ensuring the set for Quint's house would be taken down, and furthermore get a variance because part of it would be built below the mean water line. Thus, Quint's line while haggling with Brody:
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Jaws / int_b7059dd5	type	Looking a Miffed Animal in the Mouth
Jaws / int_b7059dd5	comment	Looking a Miffed Animal in the Mouth: The famous scene where a bored, mildly annoyed Chief Brody is tossing chum into the ocean, only for the shark to leap up from the water, mouth open.
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Jaws / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
Jaws / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: Quint as he's being chowed down on.
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Jaws / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
Jaws / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: In fact, the film overshadowed the book.
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Jaws / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Jaws / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: As Brody and Hooper try to convince Mayor Vaughn of the need to close the beaches: Brody, right before we get a good look at the shark for the first time: "'Slow ahead.' I can go slow ahead. Come on down here and chum some of this shit."
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Jaws / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Jaws / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: invoked Initially averted when Brody tries to shoot the shark with his service revolver in a genuinely realistic depiction of just how hard it is to hit a moving target with a handgun, and one he can't see or hit properly due to being mostly underwater at that, but later played straight when he hits the gas canister in the shark's mouth from a not-inconsiderable distance. Arguably, an easier shot due to him using a rifle this time, but the director admits he wasn't exactly aiming for realism with this one. Although, to be fair, in the latter case it did take him 6 shots to hit the scuba tank. Plus, the shark was coming straight at him, and getting closer all the time.
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Jaws / int_be6f7ae7	type	Brief Accent Imitation
Jaws / int_be6f7ae7	comment	Brief Accent Imitation: Brody's first scene has his wife encourage him to talk more like the locals. He busts out "They're out in the yahd, not too fah from the cah," and she replies that he sounds like a New Yorker.
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Jaws / int_bf5a5757	type	Crisis Catch-and-Carry
Jaws / int_bf5a5757	comment	The same happens when the shark attacks on the Fourth of July. One woman shouts in alarm and points at the fin heading towards in the pond, notifying Brody to act when he realizes Michael and his friends are there. One boater yells at the boys to reel in their boat, before the shark attacks him. He probably saved their lives with the warning. People get out of the water and drag anyone else who's in shock with them to safety. Brody takes charge, but it's his sons' friends who ultimately get Michael out of the water. They could have left him behind but instead got him out.
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Jaws / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
Jaws / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: Spielberg already had one when the shark suddenly appears behind Brody, and he decided to add another when Hooper finds Ben Gardner's body. It worked so much the original had less of an impact.
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Jaws / int_c181a846	comment	Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the novel, Quint drowns and the shark bleeds to death. Neither of these were deemed satisfactory enough for a film, so Quint gets eaten by the shark, which is blown to pieces by Brody.
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Jaws / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: After the shark leaps onto the stern of the Orca, Quint loses his grip and slides to his death when a scuba tank rolls onto his hand. The same scuba tank that Brody then uses to kill the shark.
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Jaws / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: As Chrissie thrashes around, she manages to grab onto a buoy. Judging from her evident relief, the shark apparently lets go of her at this point — only to immediately grab hold of her again and finish her off. During Quint's Indianapolis speech, he mentions being the most frightened when the survivors started getting picked up. When they have the shark snagged with two barrels and are dragging it back to shore, it looks as if they have the upper hand... until the shark starts pulling loose the railing the lines are tied to.
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Jaws / int_c57386af	comment	"Jaws" First-Person Perspective: The Trope Namer.
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Jaws / int_c6dccfb7	type	Musical Spoiler
Jaws / int_c6dccfb7	comment	And also brilliantly subverted when we get our first good view of the shark. Throughout the whole film, the audience has been conditioned to only expect a shark attack when we hear the classic, ominous music. So when the shark appears, completely un-obscured, smack dab in the middle of the frame, in road spanking daylight with no warning whatsoever, unconditioned audience members may feel the need to reach for the brown trousers.
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Jaws / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Jaws / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: At one point, Hooper does brief Robert Newton and W. C. Fields imitations. A subtle homage to The Searchers: Deputy Hendricks digging in the sand with his knife after finding Chrissy's remains. Multiple shots are very similar to ones found in Creature from the Black Lagoon, such as the underwater monster viewpoint of a woman swimming on the surface of the water, as well as the fact that early on in both films we barely glimpse the monster at all. "Farewell Spanish Ladies" is also sung in Moby-Dick, just as the crew have found out that they're hunting the white whale.
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Jaws / int_c9cde4cb	type	Shark Fin of Doom
Jaws / int_c9cde4cb	comment	Shark Fin of Doom: While the armed men are patrolling the beach watching for the shark, a fin appears in the water, and people panic and flee the water. When the men in the boats approach the fin, it turns out to be kids with a fake fin pretending to be a shark. At other times in the movie, the real shark's presence is revealed by its fin appearing, such as when it attacks the boats in the estuary/pond and while Brody, Hooper and Quint are out on the ocean hunting it.
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Jaws / int_ca81eae7	type	Hollywood Darkness
Jaws / int_ca81eae7	comment	Hollywood Darkness: Denherder's and Charlie's attempt to capture the shark. Chrissie's Skinny Dipping scene during the beginning was filmed at day, and a blue filter was added to make it look like dusk.
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Jaws / int_cb092754	type	Musical Pastiche
Jaws / int_cb092754	comment	Musical Pastiche: "Ladies of Spain" for Quint. It's the iconic sea shanty he sings, so a little variation of it plays when he's the only one on screen.
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Jaws / int_cdd835ce	type	Dude, Not Funny!
Jaws / int_cdd835ce	comment	Dude, Not Funny!: Mrs. Taft's reaction during the town meeting when Denherder jokes if the reward money for the shark's capture comes in cash or check. The mayor's reaction to the shark fin some prankster added to the "Welcome to Amity" billboard. Brody has another when his deputy flippantly describes the aftermath of Denherder and Charlie's shark fishing attempt on the dock.
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Jaws / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
Jaws / int_cdfe12c3	comment	The constant problems with the mechanical shark props resulted in using the barrel floats to indicate the presence of the underwater shark instead, since otherwise a lot of expensive production time would have gone to waste waiting around. As Spielberg later admitted, the "barrels=shark" gimmick actually proved more effective, since it gave the shark's appearances that much more impact, and Nothing Is Scarier...
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Jaws / int_d0c9634e	comment	Animals Not to Scale: Quint estimates the shark to be twenty-five feet long and three tons, which would make it bigger than any of the largest reliably recorded great whites ever (which were around twenty feet and two tons) and equal to the largest unreliably reported great white sharks. He also refers to it as male, but only female Great Whites are known to reach 20+ feet long. Males run 16-18 feet.
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Jaws / int_d0f0a80d	comment	One-Word Title: Jaws In Brazil and Mexico the title is Shark.
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Jaws / int_d4f087b1	comment	Tourism-Derailing Event: The mayor of the town works hard to downplay the first shark attack, apparently strong-arming the coroner to change the cause of death to a "boating accident" and convincing the sheriff to go along. He does it because, as he explains to the sheriff, if someone yells "Barracuda!", no one will care. If someone yells "Shark!", then the beaches will be empty and the town will suffer.
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Jaws / int_d78d5f96	type	Inconveniently Vanishing Exonerating Evidence
Jaws / int_d78d5f96	comment	Inconveniently Vanishing Exonerating Evidence: When Ben Gardener's head pops out of the wreckage, Hooper accidentally drops the shark tooth that would have proven the existence of the Great White to the mayor.
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Jaws / int_dbb414ed	type	Hand Wave
Jaws / int_dbb414ed	comment	Sharks do not usually attack you unless you provoke them or they can smell your blood in the water. But they will be more likely to attack you if you look like a seal or a turtle (this may be a case of Science Marches On, since sharks seem to act the same way towards their natural prey), which the little kids just happen to look like, but they (usually) won't eat you whole — so that's a relief. Although, it's easy enough to Hand Wave that this is just a particularly vicious and man-eating shark, which if nothing else is certainly bigger than the average Great White. It's rare for sharks to attack humans and rarer for them to actually target humans... but that doesn't mean it's impossible, or unheard of. note Like in 2010, when the Egyptian resort of Sharm El Sheik experienced killer shark attacks, they hunted who they thought was the killer shark, declared the beaches safe... only for the shark to attack again.
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Jaws / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Jaws / int_dbca2c99	comment	The scene where Mrs. Kitner confronts Sheriff Brody when the townspeople catch a shark they think is responsible. She slaps Brody, accusing him of indirectly letting her son die by letting the beaches stay open after the first attack. It's what leads Brody into his drinking binge during the middle part of the film, and explains why he tags along with Quint and Hooper to catch/kill the killer shark during the final act.
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Jaws / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
Jaws / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Chief Brody's son is named Martin Brody Jr. in the novel, but is called Michael in the film, possibly due to the One-Steve Limit.
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Jaws / int_de04e30c	type	Tears of Remorse
Jaws / int_de04e30c	comment	Defied on the fourth of July; Sean tells Michael, his older brother, that he hates him when Michael refuses to let him come on the sailboat with his friends. Then the shark goes into the pond, where Michael gets knocked into the water. While his friends get Michael out, Sean is sobbing Tears of Remorse on the beach.
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Jaws / int_de2ee4e8	type	Two-Act Structure
Jaws / int_de2ee4e8	comment	Two-Act Structure: The first half of the movie takes place on Amity Island as it's being terrorized by the shark's attacks; the second half is three characters: Brody, Hooper and Quint going out to sea to hunt the shark on Quint's boat, the "Orca".
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Jaws / int_df41acb	type	Casual Danger Dialogue
Jaws / int_df41acb	comment	Casual Danger Dialogue: Quint doesn't even bat an eye when the shark attacks the boat the first time and it knocks a lantern over on the deck. Although, it appears that Quint may have knocked the lantern over himself, to distract Brody from trying the radio again to call for help.
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Jaws / int_e0656f36	type	Somber Backstory Revelation
Jaws / int_e0656f36	comment	Somber Backstory Revelation: Quint after a night of drinking together and comparing scars with Hooper, sobers everyone up quickly, by revealing to Brody and Hooper that he was a survivor of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, and explaining why he hates sharks and will never again wear a life preserver.
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Jaws / int_e2cd1428	type	Widow's Weeds
Jaws / int_e2cd1428	comment	Widow's Weeds: Mrs. Kitner is wearing a black veil to show she is in mourning for her son.
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Jaws / int_e460b44e	type	The Radio Dies First
Jaws / int_e460b44e	comment	The Radio Dies First: Quint sabotages the radio when Brody tries to contact Amity for help.
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Jaws / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
Jaws / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: A series of shark attacks along the New Jersey shore in 1916 along with an anecdote to the wartime sinking of the USS Indianapolis.
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Jaws / int_e603890a	type	Artistic License â€“ Music
Jaws / int_e603890a	comment	Artistic License â€“ Music: In a deleted scene, Quint goes to a music store to buy piano wire for his fishing. The clerk is shown getting a reed for a boy with a clarinet, saying that the #3 reed should be softer than the #2. Reeds actually increase in hardness from 1 to 5.
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Jaws / int_e634b394	type	Sudden Morbid Monologue
Jaws / int_e634b394	comment	Sudden Morbid Monologue: Hooper and Quint go from laughing and comparing scars to Quint's tale about the Indianapolis. Hooper takes a second to realize that the mood has changed, and then the smile disappears from his face.
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Jaws / int_e8cae797	type	Freudian Trio
Jaws / int_e8cae797	comment	Freudian Trio: Quint is the Id, being a zealous, over-the-top and emotional Cold Ham who takes charge of the situation. Hooper is the Superego, being a nerdy oceanographer who knows all the technical facts about sharks but doesn't have Quint's years of shark-hunting experience, so he and Quint butt heads frequently since Quint sees Hooper as an overly logical Upper-Class Twit who's in over his head. Chief Brody is the Ego, being a cop with the least nautical experience who does what both of them tell him to do, but ultimately rises up to the situation and uses a combination of both Quint and Hooper's skillsets(Quint's Garand and Hooper's oxygen tank) to save the day.
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Jaws / int_e8e3807	type	Aside Glance
Jaws / int_e8e3807	comment	Aside Glance: After the first chase when the shark has submerged and disappeared, Hooper gives the camera a very annoyed glare.
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Jaws / int_ea6abe17	type	Every Scar Has a Story
Jaws / int_ea6abe17	comment	Every Scar Has a Story: Quint and Hooper show off their scars and explain how they received them. This leads to Quint telling the story of the USS Indianapolis. Meanwhile, Brody surreptitiously checks his appendectomy scar, but remains quiet and sort of embarrassed, as he can't compete with the seasoned seamen. He does appear to have a few bullet-wound scars, suggesting why a New York policeman who hates being on the water might have moved to a quiet little town like Amity, but he doesn't remark on those either.
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Jaws / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Jaws / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: The ones in charge of Amity come across as such. Mayor Vaughn and the local business owners especially, they are clearly more concerned about loosing money/business than people's lives and they attempt to ignore and cover up the attacks rather than risk bad publicity.
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Jaws / int_f1d3f0c9	type	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
Jaws / int_f1d3f0c9	comment	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Brody snaps when Quint destroys the radio before they can call for help. Smashing the baseball bat on the destroyed radio he condemns Quint for being "certifiable" rather than calling him a more common term such as "crazy" or "insane."
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Jaws / int_f46eebb	type	Betrayal by Inaction
Jaws / int_f46eebb	comment	Betrayal by Inaction: Mrs. Kintner confronts Chief Brody, slapping his face and blaming him for her son's death. All the while, Mayor Vaughn, who overuled Brody to keep the beaches open, stands there and doesn't say a word to the grieving mother and lets Brody take all the blame.
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Jaws / int_f51f4509	type	Tagline
Jaws / int_f51f4509	comment	Tagline: "Don't go in the water."
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Jaws / int_f97df10b	type	The World's Expert (on Getting Killed)
Jaws / int_f97df10b	comment	The World's Expert (on Getting Killed): Quint has the most experience hunting sharks and surviving their attacks, but he's the shark hunter who dies. Hooper, an oceanographer, is the next-most knowledgeable, and he was originally scripted to die as well.
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Jaws / int_f9ab4501	type	R-Rated Opening
Jaws / int_f9ab4501	comment	R-Rated Opening: Chrissie's skinny dipping opening. Spielberg said they barely avoided an X rated opening, since they shot her completely nude from below.
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Jaws / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
Jaws / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: As proven when MythBusters tested it, shooting a compressed oxygen tank won't cause it to explode like a bomb. Rather, it would turn into something like a rocket as the air is forced out the bullet hole. It would still almost certainly kill the shark, though, so long as the canister rocketed through the shark's body.
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Jaws	hasFeature	Meaningful Background Event / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Moby Schtick / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Monster Delay / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Monster Media / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Mook Horror Show / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Mouth Cam / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Murderer P.O.V. / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Musical Pastiche / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Musical Spoiler / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Nails on a Blackboard / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Network to the Rescue / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Night Swim Equals Death / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Noisy Shut-Up / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Non-Idle Rich / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Not the Nessie / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	#1 Dime / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Obscured Special Effects / int_b36c38cd
100 Scariest Movie Moments	seeAlso	Jaws
Jaws	hasFeature	Overly Narrow Superlative / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	P.O.V. Cam / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Parody Episode / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Peek-a-Boo Corpse / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Pop-Culture Pun Episode Title / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Premiseville / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Production Nickname / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Randomized Title Screen / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Rated M for Manly / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Same Content, Different Rating / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Scar Survey / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Scare Chord / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Scenery Dissonance / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Scientist vs. Soldier / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Second-Hand Storytelling / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Secretly Wealthy / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Shaky P.O.V. Cam / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Shark Fin of Doom / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Shark Stories / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Skeleton Crew / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Skinny Dipping / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Skippable Boss / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Slashers Prefer Blondes / int_b36c38cd
Snowy	seeAlso	Jaws
Jaws	hasFeature	Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Somber Backstory Revelation / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Spared by the Cut / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Speedy Techno Remake / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Spoiler Opening / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Stock Animal Diet / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Stock Animal Name / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Stock Sound Effects / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Stopped Numbering Sequels / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Sudden Morbid Monologue / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Suddenly Sober / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Suit with Vested Interests / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Symbol Motif Clothing / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Talk Like a Pirate / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Talking the Monster to Death / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	The Daily Misinformer / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	The Day the Music Lied / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	The Everyman / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	The Film of the Book / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	The Hunter Becomes the Hunted / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	The Mockbuster / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	The Radio Dies First / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	The Three Faces of Adam / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	The World's Expert (on Getting Killed) / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Threatening Shark / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Title: The Adaptation / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Tongue-Out Insult / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Tourism-Derailing Event / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Troperiffic / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Trophy Room / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Ultimate Authority Mayor / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Unabashed B-Movie Fan / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Underestimating Badassery / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Unseen Evil / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Unseen No More / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Vertigo Effect / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Villain-Based Franchise / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Villainy-Free Villain / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	What Measure Is a Non-Cute? / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	What the Hell Is That Accent? / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Widow's Weeds / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Word Sequel / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Working-Class Hero / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	You're Insane! / int_b36c38cd
Snowy	seeAlso	Jaws
Jaws	hasFeature	AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies / int_b36c38cd
Jaws	hasFeature	Dramatic Deadpan / int_b36c38cd

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