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THE SHARK IS STILL WORKING gets an awesome trailer sure to make your JAWS nerd juices start flowing!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I've seen this film, THE SHARK IS STILL WORKING and wrote up my thoughts on it a while back.
It's not perfect. I still contend that the flow of the documentary stops dead in its tracks when they get to Jawsfest in Martha's Vineyard, but even with that pacing flaw it's still the most comprehensive look at one of the best films of all time, indeed my favorite film of all time: JAWS.
The documentary has on-camera interviews with everybody from Spielberg to Dreyfuss to Schieder to Williams. Anybody that had anything to do in the film (and who is still breathing) is in this documentary. My favorite person interviewed was Percy Rodrigues. You never see him talked about, but he played a huge role in making JAWS the success the film was. He narrated the trailer and his baritone voice was the perfect match for the images on the screen. "It was as if God created the Devil... and gave him... JAWS." "None of man's fantasies of evil can compare with the reality of... JAWS."
The smart guys behind the documentary got Percy Rodrigues to narrate their new full trailer. And he sounds the same! So cool. Yes, I'm a JAWS nerd.
CLICK HERE TO SEE THE NEW TRAILER... MAKE SURE TO SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM!
I don't think they've locked down release of this film yet, but Universal would be idiotic to ignore this packaged documentary. Seriously. Yes, it's long. Yes, it could be trimmed by about 30 minutes and be stronger than it currently stands, but the material that is there is amazing. As a life-long JAWS fan (and I'm not alone), I've been wanting a documentary like this. It's comprehensive. There are amazing stories related by our idols who experienced them... and there is precious little repeated from previous JAWS documentaries.
So, Universal... We want JAWS in HD... and this would make an amazing package or dual release, dontcha think?
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Nice trailer!
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7 times in 3 weeks.
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Too bad.
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pwetty pwease!
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What can that hack possibly add to my enjoyment or the heritage of jaws?
Cut him out of this doc. -
...how this is being allowed to go through, yet Universal seems to have a problem with "Looking Back at the Future", a Back to the Future documentary in the same vein. After it was complete and screened once, plans to sell it on DVD was abruptly cancelled. Much else wasn't said, but it was implied that Universal didn't want it released. The only thing I can think that could cause a conflict with Universal is that, since they already made a series of documentaries about the making of BTTF included in the DVDs, an independent documentary about the making of BTTF could constitute loss of revenue, breaching the fair use defense. Maybe that's why "The Shark Is Still Working" has such a large section on JawsFest, since maybe then they can claim that their movie is only partially about the making of Jaws, but really about the fans of Jaws. In that case, since Universal hasn't produced a product about jaws fans, they're in the clear. Did I just answer my own question?
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Not much to add. But how could this even have a problem getting released? You'd think Spielberg could put it out himself if he wanted.
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...one of my all-time favorite trailers; the one for the Star Wars Special Editions. Sure, looking back on it, we all have our issues with the SE versions of those films, BUT... in the latter half of 1996, seeing a trailer announcing the return of the Star Wars films to theatres, with "new footage, better sound and improved visual effects," was fucking HUGE. And the way they did it, with the prelude about watching the trilogy on TV versus watching it in a theatre - the X-Wing fighter blasting out of the TV screen... man. That was just phenomenal. A geek moment in the truest sense.
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how many great white sharks have been killed because of this movie?
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...and I thought that would be all I would ever need to satisfy my Jaws addiction. Now I KNOW I need to see this...
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I"m infected with MIME's!!! "your MIME type is not the right blah blah blah"
I don't understand why half the trailer sites can't be shown on my macbook pro, which is 6 months old, and has the newest version of Quicktime...why the fuck do I have MIME problems, why should I have to download some ridiculous software, in order to download ANOTHER ridiculous program, jsut to see a trailer? fucking put it in a normal fucking QUICKTIME format like every other fucking site that I can download and watch no problem. between this and the Indy4 site, I'm beginning to think Spielberg hates my macbook personally. fucking bullshit.sorry for being negative. I just lost $500 at poker tonight too...and I want to see this fucking trailer. -
thank god for that. fuck MIMEs
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Why live in the past when we have the JAWS remake coming out next summer!!! Starring Josh Harnett as Brody, Jason Biggs as Hooper, Christian Slayter as Quint, and Tara Reid as Mrs. Brody. Director Tim Story promises to show us the all CGI Shark in the first 5 minutes of the film. He has been mocking Spielberg's film were you don't see the shark until an hour into the first film. Can't wait! THe soundtrack will feature new songs from 50 Cent, the Cheetah Girls, and Three Doors Down.
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Jaws took a realistic situation and cranked it up to 110%, making it exciting but keeping it plausible. Modern film-makers can't register anything below 500%. Even when they adapt novels for film, they can't resist hitting the accelerator with a big leaden boot. Spielberg let the tension build, showing us only glimpses of the shark and its victims, until well into the film. Later, lesser, directors don't understand how to do this. Similarly, the film builds to a genuine, reasonably believable climax, whereas newer films rely on huge fuck-off explosions and the cliché that the creature might not be dead.
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I remember Quint getting bit in half and my mum jumping up in her dressing gown in front of the TV shouting 'right that's it you're not watching that!' while me and my wee brother tried to wressle her out the way. lol!
How the hell does Spielberg get away with PG Horror movies!? I tried my 2 year old with Jurasic park and forgot that in the opening scene a dino wrangler gets gored by a raptor! Woops! -
He plays the mayor of Amity. He even wears a cool powered blue suite with wide collars.
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Man, that Alien 3 trailer has to be hands-down one of the best of all time! Remember seeing it for the first time on the Aliens Special Edition video, was well into Aliens at that time and I must of rewound the trailer about 10 times before I even watched the fucking film! Saying that though, that trailer taught me never to judge a film by its trailer and not to get caught up in the hype of a film because of it. But that all went to shit when I first seen the Phantom Menace Trailer, same with the Godzilla one, and numerous ones since that! Love me Trailers! Alien 3 one was cool as, though.......On the subject of Jaws, ( my favourite film of all time, hence posting in this talkbalk) I remember reading a great essay on it, why Spielberg used mainly the colours of red and yellow and how when you are on land, Brody always sees picket fences so when he is on the sea and the wide open spaces, he feels especially vunerable.
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Why would James Woods be in this?
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But what I'd really like to see is a full in-depth documentary on Jaws 4. I really want to delve into the creators minds and learn the secrets behind this modern day masterpiece, including storyboard comparisons of the part where jaws ate the plane.
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I've seen Jaws in HD on HDNET Movies and it looks spectacular. Jaws is my favorite movie and this documentary looks great. Also interested in the upcoming documentary on Discovery about the USS Indianapolis.
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its great stuff ....
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Watching it is like having some one piss your mouth for 90 minutes. Everyone involved in that film should sent to Syria dressed like a rabbi.
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cant wait to see it. so cool to get the same guy for the VO!
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...and count how many 'firsts' they've had in the last three weeks, and don't comment on the specific talkback are um, pretty cool.
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Do you think the shark was going back to the island to hunt for swimmers or was he sticking w/ the Orca? If it was strictly focused on eating the people on the Orca, then those 3 dudes were already heroes. They solved Amity's shark problem just by floating around out there. They didn't even need to try to kill the shark. Damn I'm bored and don't want to be at work.
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Jaws is so great, it almost seems anti-climatic that they are going after a big fish with sharp teeth. Jaws just seems so much 'larger' than that. Its not hard to imagine that they're chasing an under-water dragon versus a shark. I suppose it isn't that much of leap...they are both ancient species (although one's imaginary...oh, forget it).
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...are not on the fucking DVD.
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Though there's a lot of classic stuff that came out of this movie it just seems mediocre to me now. Richard Dreyfuss is goofball here. They could have made it more authentic by showing a scene of the shark pooping or something.
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...trailor (as I did) is pretty trailor.
vive le grammar. -
Biggest let down from trailer to feature: Garden State
And by the way it wasn't Jaws 4 it had the much more suspenseful title: Jaws: The Revenge, worst movie ever, its just people falling in the water and getting thrown rope and pulling other people in the water. And Brody's wife makes out with Michael Caine doesn't she? -
Whenever I see this guy speaking about being "in this business" I'm amazed. With that "Mallrats" poster behind him...isn't his meter about to run out? Please?
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You mean that's how many times you've talked to a girl?
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Ya know how I earn a livin'....I am so buying this yesterday. Think I just had a Jawsgasm. I missed out on a trip to the Martha's Vineyard Jawsfest shit from a couple years back....so I'm kinda glad they geeked out there for me. I still hope SOMEONE calls Speilberg on the whole "Ben Gardner's HEAD" thing....Hooper & Brody kinda leave out the most important discovery of their drunk night out on the water together. 'We found a tooth the size of a shot glass'? You found a frickin' HEAD!!! Oh well....best movie of all time hands down. And it created the mess we call Summer Blockbuster...but if that shark HAD been working all of the time....it would have been a forgettable affair. The shark NOT working FORCED the filmmakers to vamp...and in vamping...they created a shark movie that isn't about the shark! If only Michael bay's CGI Transformers malfunctioned more often...he would have made a better film. Sadly...because of rampant CGI...There will never be another film like Jaws again. Smile you son of a bitch.
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Burn in hell, strosmer, Burn in H E L L.
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that universal hasn't tried to resurect this franchise in the form of a remake, or a jaws returns movie, hey, i'm glad they havent but it still surprises me we haven't seen a jaws movie in like 20 years. Yeah they should make a sequel where jaws has disapeard for 5 years and he comes back wearing the drunken dirty suit from the third movie and bores us for 2 and a half hours
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Jaws in space. Or in da' hood maybe . . .
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all how much Spielberg sucks? And that MIAMI VICE was better than JAWS.
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Dude, i saw Jaws in the theatre last month and given that that's the highest res version of the film, there would be little to no difference between the two.
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I'm one of those who say Ben Gardner's head was still attached to his body. You can see his shoulders when his head first appears. It keeps his head from moving any further toward Hooper. And Chief Brody, Brody does mention Ben when he and Hooper meet with the mayor, he says "you should've seen him!"
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Seriously beside Quint in Jaws, there was FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, THE STING, THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1-2-3 etc. The dude was tough as nails AND could write novels and plays.
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That speech scared me more than the fucking shark did when I was a kid. One of my favorite scenes from any movie.
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i remember hearing a while ago that they wanted to...but i doubt they ever will, and if they did they'd probabaly get shai labeouf to play a young robert shaw
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LOL...did you see the post where Animal also stated that The Devils Rejects was the best movie in 5 years, or something like that..yup, that and Miami Vice, the apex of cinema....anywho, I seem to recall, kind of like this summer with the Harry Potter movie and book release so soon together, that Jaws, the hardcover cover book was still number one on the bestseller charts, when the paperback version was also released, also at number one, just before Jaws , the movie came out. And as stated before, the movie made trims and character improvement, that made the movie even better. That Benchley book was insanely popular at the time, and thank goodness Spielberg directed a classic. It could've been another DiVinci Code.....
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by a another stellar performance by Mario Van Peebles. The most convincing Jamaican accent ever? I say YES. Even better than his performance in SOLO.
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..the filming of which made Michael Caine miss picking up his Oscar, and although he admitted it sucked, it did buy him a house. Smart bastard.
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when Mrs. Brody skewers the shark with the front of the boat and the fucking thing BELLOWS IN PAIN.
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yet he's dead now and the film lives on...the world is so cruel
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Jaws predates the PG-13 rating by about 9 years...
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Actually, in the original jaws, you hear the same sound, though it is very faint, when they show parts of the shark that had blown up sinking down in the ocean. Turn up the sound, its there.
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...should have been cast in Kevin Smith's role in Live Free or Die Hard. His one line reading from JAWS was miles ahead of Smith's whole LFoDH performance.
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...from the first film was a borrowed sound effect from the 1930's film "The Lost World." Spielberg had used it in "Duel" when the truck went over the cliff; and as he saw "JAWS" as a parallel to that story he wanted to bring back the sound effect. However, the shark itself was not making the sound as it was already blown into several pieces. The sound effect was layered in with the musical score.
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The Discovery channel is showing a documentary about the whole incident during Shark Week.(Wow, that approached shark-geekdom there)
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Jaws is near the top of my list of favorite movies and my kids love it too. I was traveling this week and when I called home my wife said the kids were watching Jaws. It's a movie that predates them by 20+ years and yet, when they could be watching crap on the Disney Channel (uggh... Hannah Montana) they're watching JAWS!!!!
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..I had thought Spielberg had considered Sterling Hayden for the role to give it more of a Captain Ahab feel. Any truth to that? And yea, theres a whole generation of actors that there's no equal to today. Lee Marvin, William Holden, etc. Who's close...Clooney? Don't think so.
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But Brody says..."You shoulda seen IT!"....not "him"....referring to Ben's chewed up BOAT....not his head. That's because the idea to have Ben's head and (you're right) shoulders pop out of the hull was added later....shot entirely in Verna Fields swimming pool in LA. Speilberg felt that beacuse the shark isn't in the first half of the movie, he needed to add more more "non shark" type scares. That was all shot AFTER the crew had left Martha's Vineyard and headed back to LA. That's how Ben's head ended up in the movie. But the scene on the beach at the billboard with the Mayor was shot months earlier....and the continuity gap in the plot was never dealt with...and most casual viewers don't even realize it. But when you watch Jaws as many times as I have....it sticks out like a sore thumb. The Mayor only asks about the "tooth"...and Hooper confesses he dropped it....that he "had an accident"....Dude...it would be a far more convincing arguement to close the beaches if they told the Mayor about "the accident"...rather than a shot glass sized tooth. Chrissy, Alex, Pippet (the dog) and now Ben Garner? The Mayor would have had no choice BUT to close the beaches.
It's a gaffe....but who cares...it's one of the scariest moments in film history...and it belongs in the movie regardless. Here's to swimmin' with bow-legged women. -
Seriously they do - for the kids that never saw the original.
Here's some tips. CGI shark, a cool black guy like Anthony Anderson or Sam Jackson as a main character, a sexy scientist to investigae the attacks and massive quantities of blood. The kids will eat it up (pun fully intended)
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On Universal HD. Looks like it was made yesterday.
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This movie is just so fucking awesome. The shark scenes aren't nearly the best parts. Like when the guys are comparing scars and Brody considers hiw own wimpy one (appendix?)...as you get older, these moments just jump right at you. Stuff that just doesn't get written today.
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JAWS is a masterpiece. Don’t doubt it. It’s the real deal. One of my top five, stranded on a deserted island movies. It brings back amazing memories for this geekboy. I can not wait until I see this documentary. Good stuff.
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after that death, he wouldnt even dare attempt to top it by doing a remake of a movie his movie owes its existance to.
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Can't beat his death scene in that one, that's for sure
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I just can't fathom it. There are some other classics that I love (even Blade Runner) that I could see being successfully remade, but Jaws isn't one of them.
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what you wrote is definitely the most spot on paragraph I have read about the problems of modern film making. You are 100% right.
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Another Behind the scenes/making of Jaws? This subject has been beaten to death...
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There's never too much about "Jaws." What I want to see is the lost home movie footage from the rental house when Steven and the fellas stayed on the Vineyard. You know there were drugs and orgies.
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And trespass on Lynn Murphy's land and chop up the ORCA??? I saw a photo of saw wacked out loon claiming to be "one of the producers" whacking the fusk out of the hull with a chainsaw. Brilliant work.
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More info: I just found out that they are Christian hoo-hah's. So apparently they were forgiven for all of their theivery and are above the law because they accepted jesus (and his brother pedro) in their hearts. Puh-leeeeeze.
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Even it was a few days later when Brody & Hooper were begging the Mayor to close the beaches...The death of yet ANOTHER Amity Islander, even if it was an old salt fisherman like Ben...is far more proof that they still have a shark problem than a stupid tooth being pulled from the hull of his boat...which Hooper dropped...BECAUSE OF THE HEAD! Ya' think Brody wants to get smacked across the face again by Ben Gardner's widow because he failed to close the beaches yet again? Think he was still smarting from Mrs. Kintner's slap the day before. Sorry, there's no logic why Matt & Martin didn't hold Ben Gardner's severed head up to the Mayor's smug face and say...in unison..."CLOSE THE BEACHES, ASSHAT"! Speaking of Mrs. Kintner...wasn't she a lil "old" to be the mother of Alex? She looked to be in her 60's!! THAT is another great scene in a movie FULL of great scenes. Chief Brody taking a smack that should have landed on Larry Vaughn's face. BTW...so glad Speilberg jettisoned the "mob" angle of why the Mayor was so set on keeping the beaches open that Benchley utilized in the book. You didn't need it...pure, simple greed is all he needed. I can do anything....I'm the Chief of Police.
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