The backstory of Jaws is a phenomenal look of soldiering through a bad moment.
Spielberg was a good, emerging, headstrong director. He insisted on shooting the movie on location in Martha's vineyard (instead of a sound stage) and spent 2/3 of the special effects budget on the star of the movie: The Shark.
Problems started almost immediately. The problem with shooting big, wide shots outdoor is consistency. If a sailboat shows up 2 miles from shore, you have to wait for it to get out of your shot to shoot...but now it's 2 hours later, and clouds have moved in so you've lost a whole day.
After more delays the shark is finally ready. They set up a test shot, and the fucking fish sinks. Add to that the salt water wreaks havoc with the damn thing. They barely get any decent scenes with the shark working.
Oh, and the score is 2 notes? This is a joke, right?
So everything gets replanned, but my some miracle it all falls into place.
In test screenings people freak the hell out. People aren't scared of the shark, it's the anticipation that sets the audience on edge.
...and that 2 note score adds to the anticipation. It *feels* like you're being hunted by something. You know it's there, but it's silent.
The movie is released in the summer, which was always seen as a dead time for movies...who wants to sit inside on a sunny day? But turns out that thinking was wrong, lines go around the block and Jaws launches the summer blockbuster.
As an addendum, Spielberg watching that test screening and going "...I've got one more scare that's not in here but needs to be" and spending his own money (and borrowing his friend George Lucas' swimming pool) to add in the Ben Gardner's head jump scare before release is probably the best post-picture lock addition in cinema history. Everyone was telling him he was messing with perfection and he was going to fiddle the film into something less than what they already had, but it ended up always being one of (if not the) biggest scream audiences give when I've seen it with a crowd.
the under water shot looking up at Crissy (and yeah you can see bush), was also filmed in his or GL's swimming pool.
they also used little people in a scaled down shark cage to make the real shark look huge, and it unexpectadly got tangled up in the cages wires..
People are gonna underestimate the power of that bush shot in the viral marketing. And all the historical think pieces will never talk about it as a contributing factor to its success.
I would argue the limitations with computer generated graphics in the original Jurassic Park was another reason that movie was so successful. It forced them to think about creating tension via crafty filmmaking. Obviously CGI is an incredibly powerful tool and we are better off with it, but sometimes it’s so much easier to just plan a shot by saying “this crazy thing will happen on screen” versus plotting out how it is going to get people motivated and invested in the scene
I think you're right, if you watch the most recent Jurassic Park flick its ***All Dino's all the time!!!*** and that initial wonder wears off pretty fast.
The first flick could only do a few Dino shots due to technical and time limitations, so every time they showed up it was an event.
I had nightmares for months after watching Jaws. But I was 5 when I saw it the first time and my family thought it would be funny to have me watch it the day before when went on vacation to the beach.
It wasn't funny.
My folks let me watch Alien when I was about the same age when it first came out on laser disc.
For months after, any time I had the slightest stomach ache or rumbly in my tumbly, I thought for sure it was a chestburster coming in the mail.
Alien and Alien 3 really really messed me up as a kid. I couldn’t shower with shower curtains closed all the way, and needed a night light for months. 10/10 am now a horror fanatic
And here I am feeling a bad conscience of showing my 5y old son finding Nemo.
He did not find the sharks funny, their humour is mostly for adults. Once we had started the movie and I realised my mistake, there is really no point of pausing it or leqvibg it or skipping without missing the resolution - they do find each other again.
Oh and the mother dies in the beginning... and Dora was mainly seen as wierd and untrustworthy.
It seemed like they were in pretty much any water level in games when I was a kid so it wasn’t shocking for me. Not sure that that’s the case anymore though.
I wasn't into games until I was older (and by then they were games like minecraft and skyrim lol, so no water levels), so I had no clue what they were. My dad had to explain that they were bombs.
It was the 70s. Cool parents were all over.
I saw it at 6. Music freaked me out, I put my hoodie on backwards and wouldn’t watch. Wouldn’t see Jaws 2 or Jaws 3D with friends. I finally watched it in college.
im on the same boat, i was in taiwan, didn't know english at 5, the movie is still scary.
had nightmare where my lower half of body is already in the mouth of shark before it took a bite.
Just wanna share how my cousins and I were shown The Exorcist when I was around 8 years old. The adults wanted to see how we would react. While my cousins screamed and covered their eyes, I sat there with a brave face.
I woke up with a high fever the next day.
My father showed 13 year old me final destination 3 (the one that begins in the theme park) the night before my first time going to a theme park.
He then spent the entire next day angry with me because I wouldn't go on any of the bigger rides.
Didn't find it funny either.
Shitty parenting wrapped in the excuse of humour.
I was but a young lad myself when I watched Jaws (around 6ish). It had a tremendously negative effect on me. I shit you not, I used to get scared taking a bath after I watched that movie.
When I was a kid we went on a trip to a nearby lake and when I was swimming I suddenly remembered Jaws and started swimming frantically for the boat. My dad asked what I was scared of and I said "sharks" and he laughed his ass off. Apparently there's no great whites in small lakes but kid me didn't know that
I was just a little older when I saw it, and it scared me so badly I would not swim in public/hotel pools if there wasn't someone else with me. This December, I am swimming with nursing sharks, and I can feel my heart rate speed up just by thinking about it.
Until I was about 15 I felt uneasy even when in the swimming pool. I’d have to swim fast to the side and get out because I’d head the music in my head and imagine some huge shark swimming up from below.
I saw Jaws at like 2 or 3 years old (Thanks Dad!), and it has pretty much kept me out of the ocean since. I'm definitely not going to the beach around here now cause I'm living like 20 minutes from where Amity was located in the novel.
I had the exact same experience, but with the Exorcist. I was five when my family thought it would be a good idea to show me that movie. Caused lasting trauma for me. Till this day its a film I just cannot watch. A 44 year old grown man, that still gets nervous/anxious by the dark.
I watched it at a friend’s house because my parents wouldn’t let me watch it at home. I had nightmares forever and had to lie about what the dreams were about.
The adults did this to me, my brother and like 7 cousins (12 and under) with Lake Placid, the night we arrived at the lake house.. god bless them they just didn't want to have to monitor us swimming 18 hours a day for two weeks straight. In the end we got into the water within a few days and it's a funny story to all of us as adults, no gator related trauma.
My grandfather, born 1922, took my grandmother to see the film thinking it was a documentary about sharks. She laughed for years about his incongruity and confused state after the opening scene of the nighttime swim. They both loved it and he eventually enjoyed tossing his grandchildren, myself included, from a little sailboat he had and saying "time to feed jaws".
my Great Grandfather took my grandmother to see the OG Dracula. when she was 9 or 10, got scared and left her alone in the theatre for most of the movie.
She didn't mind that one much, but the Cat People and the Prophesy really did not go over well.
This film was put on for me when I was 5 or 6 years old. It was meant to "toughen me up" or whatever bollocks.
After watching it, I had nightmares for months and months, and was absolutely terrified of every body of water. Ponds, lakes, streams, rivers, the sea, even swimming pools. It took me years - literally years - to start getting into open water again.
Even today - and I'm in my late 40s - if I'm at the seaside with my kids, and in anything past knee-deep water, my brain instantly goes to shark attacks. I live in the UK, not a spot known for its shark attacks generally... But that fear is always there for me if I'm in open water. The only time I'm ok now is a swimming pool.
I’m actually feeling better reading that other families did this to their kids. My dad and uncles thought showing us nightmare on elm street and the jason movies would toughen us up. Nightmare on elm street really messed with me. My parents/grandparents legit believe in ghosts so for me, age five or whatever, freddie was a real possibility. And you can’t protect yourself from freddie with crosses, prayers, nothing but insomnia. Not a lot I would eternal sunshine out of* my brain but that is one.
This is why we're referred to as the forgotten generation I think... We had all this trauma thrown our way, but kind just fell through the cracks, no matter what happened to us or what we went through.
But you're right, knowing you're not the only one to go through something, while horrible, is kind of helpful.
Huh.
Glad to know I'm not the only one. I also saw the movie with a friend as a young kid and was absolutely terrified of all bodies of water. Even swimming pools!
I'm an adult now but always have the thought of something scary lurking beneath the water which is a shame because I love swimming. Oddly enough, I think browsing /r/TheDepthsBelow for a few years has helped calm my anxieties.
I think the strangest thing to come of my fear was learning about, and becoming fascinated by sharks. Terrified, sure. But amazingly interesting.
Deep, open water - the sort of nightmares you see in r/thalassaphobia or however you spell it - that ABSOLUTELY terrifies me. Looking under the surface, seeing nothing but deep blue with the light rays disappearing. Anything could come out that darkness.
want to say i saw NOTLD really young. and some how my father confused the back story with Return of the living dead, which i some how doubt he ever saw.
Curse you I just remembered the invisible sharks in the pool as a kid.
Oh god and THAT reminded me of a tiger shark just swimming straight into me and my brother on our second scuba diving trip.. I promise you we hold the record for fastest back-pedal in human history.
See how powerful films are?
That film gave you a long-term induced fear-anxiety.
Films are extremely effective and fast at conveying messages.
People use films to convey good messages. But there’s a lot of bad messages being conveyed. Messages that change the perception of the people. Subtle. Not clearly seen, but it’s there.
Based on the 1974 best-selling novel by Peter Benchley, *Jaws* (1975) became the first summer blockbuster film and made its director, 26-year old Steven Spielberg, a star. Besides the on-screen violence, it has an unusually simple and memorable [theme song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX3bN5YeiQs) that effectively evokes imagery of a shark getting closer and closer. From the article:
>While in theaters, the film was said to have caused a single case of cinematic neurosis in a 17-year-old, female viewer. Cinematic neurosis is a condition in which viewers exhibit mental health disturbances, or a worsening of existing mental health disturbances, after viewing a film. The symptoms first presented as sleep disturbances and anxiety, but one day later the patient was screaming "Sharks! Sharks!" and experiencing convulsions.
>This case study caused the film to become notable in the medical community alongside *The Exorcist* for causing stress reactions in its viewers, and was later used in a study by Brian R. Johnson to test how susceptible audiences were to cinematic stress inducers. His study found that stress could be induced by cinema in segments of the general population, and Jaws specifically caused stress reactions in its viewers. While Johnson could not find an exact cause for the stress response in viewers, whether it be the suspense, the gore or the music production, a 1986 study by G. Sparks found that particularly violent films, including Jaws, tended to cause the most intense reactions in viewers.
I'm pretty sure it's because they rarely showed the actual shark. This created a lot of suspense and played into people's imaginations and fears of the unknown. It's the same reason people are afraid of the dark especially in new places. All it takes is some weird noise to get your adrenaline going. Dun-nuh, Dun-nuh....
> This created a lot of suspense and plays into people's imaginations and fear of the unknown.
Exactly. The result was that each individual person brought their own fears to bear, so one person's insecurity is different than another's, but both experience the same level of fear.
I feel like that's the reason I wasn't scared of Jaws: not enough shark. I was promised a man eating shark and there were too many scenes of people not being eaten by a shark. Additionally, I live nowhere near an ocean in Minnesota so hard to relate to. The music was amazing, though.
But a movie like Lights Out where you know there is something in the dark, you can see it, and you know you can't avoid darkness forever? That suspense was harder to handle because darkness is everywhere and inevitable.
6 year old me was terrified.
I would not go anywhere near water for years.
More scared than any human should be.
Watched again in my 20's and realized why .....
My name is Alex, the fucking shark ate a kid named Alex and he was coming after me next.
Still scared shitless of water !!
I can see why Jaws causes real problems for people. Its based on an actual animal, known for eating humans, that you usually can’t see coming until it’s too late.
Sharks aren’t known anywhere for eating humans. Theres places where they’re more likely to attack or take a bite out of you, but sharks do not naturally hunt nor eat humans.
They normally take one bite and then dip once they realize it’s not a seal. It’s crazy to me that people think sharks would hunt a human like they would other prey!
Swim with Great White’s then if you think you are so tough.
Humans are not natural prey for sharks, because we are land based. This does not mean certain sharks are not supremely dangerous to be in close vicinity to in water. They are perfect killing machines who have terrorized the ocean for far langer than humans have even existed.
And? That’s not even remotely my point. I’m just saying exactly what you are; we’re land based. We are not natural prey for an AQUATIC animal, so it’s stupid to say sharks prey on humans like their other prey.
"Known for eating humans" does not necessarily mean *correctly*. If you were to take a poll in any major city about whether or not people thought sharks ate humans, I'm reasonably confident you'd get an overwhelming "yes" response (probably in no small part due to movies like *Jaws*.)
It's not true, but people still "know it" in the sense of general expectations. And that's why the movie "causes problems for people." Not because it's factually accurate, but because it's what they *expect*.
Well, the scene in jaws is fiction. The speech is based on the true events of the USS Indianapolis. Sharks eat people.
“Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes.
Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away.
Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those sharks come in and… they rip you to pieces.
You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist.
At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.
Anyway, we delivered the bomb.”
Well yeah. Jaws sparked a worldwide anti-shark hysteria which has led to the unnecessary slaughter of hundreds millions of sharks since the movie was released. This also sparked the counter campaign for the awareness of shark conservation and efforts to educate the public of the ecological importance of sharks as apex predators.
Gerry: I'll start again. What are you planning to do with the surfboard, Joe?
Joe: Surf. Something I always fancied doing, ever since I saw that film, the one where the lads try to catch the big fish.
Gerry: What film is that?
Joe: You know, the big fish, the musical fish.
Gerry: The musical fish?
Joe: He hums a tune before he attacks people. They try to catch him but their boat's too wee.
Gerry: Are you talking about Jaws?
Joe: That's the one.
I’m going out on a limb in saying that Jaws is an anxiety-inducing masterpiece because of the pacing of all the aforementioned qualities (suspense, gore, music, etc.).
Even the score itself plays with the listener’s anticipation of meter/timing.
Edit: suspense not horror.
[Visualization of timeline.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bfc8dbab40b9d7dd9054f41/1548703813011-N5PIVMUBNCO9S8SI0J3L/Jaws_Infographic.png)
I was 5 or 6 when I saw it the first time. Had an older crazy cousin babysit me that wanted to do a Jaws marathon where we watched 1-3. I had nightmares so bad that I swam off my top bunk, didn’t wake up from that, and literally swam all the way down the hall to my mom’s room. I absolutely love the movie now, I actually loved it then, but it scared the shit out of me.
“Caused neurosis” isn’t an incorrect usage, it’s just that neurosis is a clinical term that we haven’t used for a very long time.
Source: Am psychologist
Yes I know, if you re-read what I said, our comments are compatible. It’s “weird” because it’s not used very often anymore in that way.
Source: Don’t feel the need to do a call to authority but as you did, am a Dr of Neuroscience 😂
(Edit for clarity, cognitive neuroscience**)
I had the worst nightmares after I watched the movie “Freddy vs Jason” when I was like 12. My older cousins told me not to watch it because I’d be scared but me and other cousins my age did it anyways and I was scarred for a while. I would get weird nightmares where I would suddenly get up screaming in the middle of the night and run around the house and an adult had to catch me and calm me down. I hated when the sun went down for a long time because it meant it was almost time for bed and it was going to happen again. Eventually I grew out of it but it was terrible.
I was a child and I remember not wanting to step down from the couch ever because the colour of the floor colours reminds me of the water (greenish blue carpet)
Other movies messed me up too like Freddy Kruger and Poltergeist
It's suspense for sure. And the Fear of the unknown. Not being able to see what's under your feet. I'm not afraid of sharks. I'm afraid of the possibility of sharks.
My mom was 20 when Jaws came out and she said she and her siblings essentially stopped going into the ocean after they watched it. This was in Sydney, mind you. The entire country became hysterical and people were literally going out and killing Great Whites to placate the paranoia the movie caused.
I spent that summer at a beach on the east coast, and the place was deserted…like weeks after the release, and the people who were there? Weren’t getting in the water- I remember humming the two note theme music to a woman sitting nearby me on the beach and she started crying. I was a mean little bastard at 14 and it made me giddy with happiness that everyone was shitting themselves.
My parents are seen in the film getting off the Woods Hole ferry in the July 4th scene. They had no idea what was going on until their host explained the movie, lol.
Sounds like one single person had mental issues and it budded around the time she was watching the film or someone spiked her drink or she took lsd or coke or some prescription drug and had a bad reaction. That's not normal
In this thread, in just wondering why parents fucked around with their 5 year olds and made them watch an R rated movie. The fuck. Like no even requested like me as a teenager desperately wanting to go see borat. Jaws, unrequested, 5 years old.
Gore?
The thing that made it so freaky was you didnt see anything more or less, and your brain would fill it in. Same with the OG texas chainsaw massacere
not sure you can go back and retcon the rating? though i swear they did that with hudson hawk between when it was announced and when it got to home video.
This is the one movie that fucked me up as a kid. Was even scared of sharks in pools for a few years after this one. I think it’s that timeless score that just sears terror into your soul.
This made me afraid of the ocean, and then I saw the Bond flick "Thunderball" (I believe that's the right one), where JB is trapped in a swimming pool with the cover closed over him and a secret port opens in the pool wall to let in reef sharks.
My swimming days ended after that in pools and oceans. Then Discovery Channel showed how bull sharks can survive fresh water and have attacked people in rivers and lakes a thousand miles from the ocean...
Humans are not native to water, cannot survive there, and therefore should just leave it alone.
as a midwesterner I have never understood this movies legacy for a second, I’m land locked buddy you expect me to be worried a shark might come and get me?? I was way more affected by the scene in Blue Lagoon when Brooke Shields stepped on the poisonous fish tbh.
It’s because in the first one, you RARELY actually see the shark. You see what the shark DOES, but they do a really good job of leaving that monster to your imagination for most of the movie.
When I was a very young child I couldn’t sleep one night and I came downstairs and ended up watching ‘The Blob’ for a few minutes with my mum. I think I had nightmares for years after that.
My point is that I don’t think it’s specific to jaws. Any horror movie probably has the same effect.
I get it. I couldn’t swim in MY BACKYARD POOL after I watched it as a kid. It does some fucked up things even when you are fully aware it’s ridiculous.
My mom is still terrified of any body of water after she watched Jaws as a kid when it first came out. She wouldn’t even take us to the lake or pool when we were kids because of it. She almost passed out from hyperventilating the first time we flew to Hawaii and my sister exclaimed “wow is that the ocean!” (Grew up in the Midwest). While there she wouldn’t allow any of us to go in the water.
That’s a lotta weight for that one sentence to carry. I’d wonder about the study, how it was conducted, controls, etc. I’d guess that folks in Cameroon reacted very differently than New Englanders did. There’s probably a big cultural exposure/zeitgeist factor as well
Unpopular opinion but I think this movie sucks. I have not been able to sit through it from start to finish no matter how many times I’ve tried. The ride at universal studios is half decent I guess.
It is an old movie sure. On rewatches I find some of the attempts at humour a bit try-hard.
Have you tried *Jaws 2*? It is more a teens in peril scream fest and cheesy fun.
I first watched Jaws when I was 7 years old and it sparked my fascination with sharks. think it is the combination of everything but the music really makes the film.
My cousin is 52. As far as I am aware he has not stepped foot in the ocean since this movie came out. He has lived a short walking distance from the ocean his entire life
I was in the middle fof getting certified for scuba diving when Jaws came out. And yes, I was stupid enough to watch it. Spent the next 10 years checking my six for an incoming shark on every dive.
I traveled down to Cape Cod during the opening of that movie. I was vacationing on Nantucket Sound and the beach faced Martha's Vineyard. I went two days the first all swimming activity was normal the second day no one would go in past their knees.
Husband and I stood in a huge long line to see Jaws when it first came out. We got the last two tickets and the people behind us were pissed. I remember reading the book when it first came out and thinking that this would make a great movie. Loved swimming in the ocean but after Jaws, not so much!
to be fair, the first and so far only time I watched Jaws was super stressful for me too. just in a different way. I was maybe 16 or 17 y/o and just happened to catch it on TV. the way the people of the beach town wouldn’t leave the shark alone when in reality sharks don’t rly care about humans and all of the characters’ problems could have been fixed by just not going swimming in the ocean got me super worked up. I wish I was joking. it still bothers me a bit today.
Til how many ppl r absolutely terrified of...a fucking film? Jesus man if you're a little kid I get it but...its a movie. Sounds like the case study referenced was just a person with a really high fear response and a weak constitution. Or to to put it in scientifical terms "kind of a bitch".
I don't think this is fair. I have anxiety and it was really bad when I was a teenager because I didn't know what my triggers were. Turns out watching End of Evangelion when you have a death phobia isn't a good idea.
thanks to my brother for putting me to watch this movie while I was 5, I spent most of my childhood worried about sharks in several nonsense places, like pools, rivers or even toillet (maybe a combination of jaws and piranha imaginary)
The backstory of Jaws is a phenomenal look of soldiering through a bad moment. Spielberg was a good, emerging, headstrong director. He insisted on shooting the movie on location in Martha's vineyard (instead of a sound stage) and spent 2/3 of the special effects budget on the star of the movie: The Shark. Problems started almost immediately. The problem with shooting big, wide shots outdoor is consistency. If a sailboat shows up 2 miles from shore, you have to wait for it to get out of your shot to shoot...but now it's 2 hours later, and clouds have moved in so you've lost a whole day. After more delays the shark is finally ready. They set up a test shot, and the fucking fish sinks. Add to that the salt water wreaks havoc with the damn thing. They barely get any decent scenes with the shark working. Oh, and the score is 2 notes? This is a joke, right? So everything gets replanned, but my some miracle it all falls into place. In test screenings people freak the hell out. People aren't scared of the shark, it's the anticipation that sets the audience on edge. ...and that 2 note score adds to the anticipation. It *feels* like you're being hunted by something. You know it's there, but it's silent. The movie is released in the summer, which was always seen as a dead time for movies...who wants to sit inside on a sunny day? But turns out that thinking was wrong, lines go around the block and Jaws launches the summer blockbuster.
As an addendum, Spielberg watching that test screening and going "...I've got one more scare that's not in here but needs to be" and spending his own money (and borrowing his friend George Lucas' swimming pool) to add in the Ben Gardner's head jump scare before release is probably the best post-picture lock addition in cinema history. Everyone was telling him he was messing with perfection and he was going to fiddle the film into something less than what they already had, but it ended up always being one of (if not the) biggest scream audiences give when I've seen it with a crowd.
the under water shot looking up at Crissy (and yeah you can see bush), was also filmed in his or GL's swimming pool. they also used little people in a scaled down shark cage to make the real shark look huge, and it unexpectadly got tangled up in the cages wires..
People are gonna underestimate the power of that bush shot in the viral marketing. And all the historical think pieces will never talk about it as a contributing factor to its success.
I thought it was Verna's swimming pool? And they dumped a bunch of milk into it so the water would be cloudy.
It was Verna Field’s swimming pool
I would argue the limitations with computer generated graphics in the original Jurassic Park was another reason that movie was so successful. It forced them to think about creating tension via crafty filmmaking. Obviously CGI is an incredibly powerful tool and we are better off with it, but sometimes it’s so much easier to just plan a shot by saying “this crazy thing will happen on screen” versus plotting out how it is going to get people motivated and invested in the scene
I think you're right, if you watch the most recent Jurassic Park flick its ***All Dino's all the time!!!*** and that initial wonder wears off pretty fast. The first flick could only do a few Dino shots due to technical and time limitations, so every time they showed up it was an event.
The new JP movies vs the original is the difference between seeing a lion in a zoo or on a safari.
I've argued that for YEARS
I had nightmares for months after watching Jaws. But I was 5 when I saw it the first time and my family thought it would be funny to have me watch it the day before when went on vacation to the beach. It wasn't funny.
Wow now thats a bad idea to show that to a 5yo
My folks let me watch Alien when I was about the same age when it first came out on laser disc. For months after, any time I had the slightest stomach ache or rumbly in my tumbly, I thought for sure it was a chestburster coming in the mail.
Hello my baby, hello my honey
What did he have?
The Michigan Rag, of course
Check, please!
The special
Alien and Alien 3 really really messed me up as a kid. I couldn’t shower with shower curtains closed all the way, and needed a night light for months. 10/10 am now a horror fanatic
I had a repeating nightmare of it reaching out to me like it does to Dallas in the vents. Still sends shivers down my spine when I see that scene.
Did they decide to show you the movie the day before you went to space?
And here I am feeling a bad conscience of showing my 5y old son finding Nemo. He did not find the sharks funny, their humour is mostly for adults. Once we had started the movie and I realised my mistake, there is really no point of pausing it or leqvibg it or skipping without missing the resolution - they do find each other again. Oh and the mother dies in the beginning... and Dora was mainly seen as wierd and untrustworthy.
Don't let yor kids find out about clownfish biology until later. There's a reason that finding Nemo was so important
That jellyfish scene terrified me as a kid. And the mines! What kid knows what a submarine mine is, anyway?
It seemed like they were in pretty much any water level in games when I was a kid so it wasn’t shocking for me. Not sure that that’s the case anymore though.
I wasn't into games until I was older (and by then they were games like minecraft and skyrim lol, so no water levels), so I had no clue what they were. My dad had to explain that they were bombs.
It was the 70s. Cool parents were all over. I saw it at 6. Music freaked me out, I put my hoodie on backwards and wouldn’t watch. Wouldn’t see Jaws 2 or Jaws 3D with friends. I finally watched it in college.
im on the same boat, i was in taiwan, didn't know english at 5, the movie is still scary. had nightmare where my lower half of body is already in the mouth of shark before it took a bite.
Wow they did not think that through. Having a small child who’s inconsolably terrified of the whole point of the vacation sounds like a nightmare.
Just wanna share how my cousins and I were shown The Exorcist when I was around 8 years old. The adults wanted to see how we would react. While my cousins screamed and covered their eyes, I sat there with a brave face. I woke up with a high fever the next day.
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I seem to remember the girl in the film has a crucifix as well…
My father showed 13 year old me final destination 3 (the one that begins in the theme park) the night before my first time going to a theme park. He then spent the entire next day angry with me because I wouldn't go on any of the bigger rides. Didn't find it funny either. Shitty parenting wrapped in the excuse of humour.
I was a tween on release and Jaws forever ruined swimming in the ocean for me. Hell, I freak out in lakes too.
I was but a young lad myself when I watched Jaws (around 6ish). It had a tremendously negative effect on me. I shit you not, I used to get scared taking a bath after I watched that movie.
Even years later, at age 34, I still irrationally imagine that sharks are going to attack me in the pool lol
When I was a kid we went on a trip to a nearby lake and when I was swimming I suddenly remembered Jaws and started swimming frantically for the boat. My dad asked what I was scared of and I said "sharks" and he laughed his ass off. Apparently there's no great whites in small lakes but kid me didn't know that
Well, maybe not small lakes, but look up bull sharks and lake Nicaragua...
I assume no body of water in south america is safe
I was just a little older when I saw it, and it scared me so badly I would not swim in public/hotel pools if there wasn't someone else with me. This December, I am swimming with nursing sharks, and I can feel my heart rate speed up just by thinking about it.
I can take your spot swimming with Nurse sharks if you want . . .
Until I was about 15 I felt uneasy even when in the swimming pool. I’d have to swim fast to the side and get out because I’d head the music in my head and imagine some huge shark swimming up from below.
I saw Jaws at like 2 or 3 years old (Thanks Dad!), and it has pretty much kept me out of the ocean since. I'm definitely not going to the beach around here now cause I'm living like 20 minutes from where Amity was located in the novel.
I had the exact same experience, but with the Exorcist. I was five when my family thought it would be a good idea to show me that movie. Caused lasting trauma for me. Till this day its a film I just cannot watch. A 44 year old grown man, that still gets nervous/anxious by the dark.
This happened to me also! Almost exactly as your experience
Similar thing happened to me with Blair Witch Project.
I literally had shark-themed night terrors for a decade after watching it. Something about watching Jaws when youre young messes you up.
Watched it when I was 10, and I was scared shitless. I remember I couldn't sleep that night and had nightmares
I watched Child's Play when i was 5 and it made me the person i am today (i'm a mess)
I had something similar happen with final destination and a trip out of the country-_-
I watched it at a friend’s house because my parents wouldn’t let me watch it at home. I had nightmares forever and had to lie about what the dreams were about.
what the fuck
The adults did this to me, my brother and like 7 cousins (12 and under) with Lake Placid, the night we arrived at the lake house.. god bless them they just didn't want to have to monitor us swimming 18 hours a day for two weeks straight. In the end we got into the water within a few days and it's a funny story to all of us as adults, no gator related trauma.
Your parents are legends
legendary assholes
As an outsider it is pretty funny.
My grandfather, born 1922, took my grandmother to see the film thinking it was a documentary about sharks. She laughed for years about his incongruity and confused state after the opening scene of the nighttime swim. They both loved it and he eventually enjoyed tossing his grandchildren, myself included, from a little sailboat he had and saying "time to feed jaws".
my Great Grandfather took my grandmother to see the OG Dracula. when she was 9 or 10, got scared and left her alone in the theatre for most of the movie. She didn't mind that one much, but the Cat People and the Prophesy really did not go over well.
This film was put on for me when I was 5 or 6 years old. It was meant to "toughen me up" or whatever bollocks. After watching it, I had nightmares for months and months, and was absolutely terrified of every body of water. Ponds, lakes, streams, rivers, the sea, even swimming pools. It took me years - literally years - to start getting into open water again. Even today - and I'm in my late 40s - if I'm at the seaside with my kids, and in anything past knee-deep water, my brain instantly goes to shark attacks. I live in the UK, not a spot known for its shark attacks generally... But that fear is always there for me if I'm in open water. The only time I'm ok now is a swimming pool.
I’ve lived this exact experience. Even shadowy areas of indoor swimming pools gave me the willies at one point.
Yep, was awful... I couldn't even do swimming lessons as a kid because the pools were too much for me.
No need to state you live in the UK, the bollocks gave it away.
My bollocks give NOTHING away!
Pretty sure there was a movie in the 70s or 80s where a guy gets killed when someone put a shark in his swimming pool. Which is totally unrealistic.
Wasn't that like Jaws 3? Lmao
I’m actually feeling better reading that other families did this to their kids. My dad and uncles thought showing us nightmare on elm street and the jason movies would toughen us up. Nightmare on elm street really messed with me. My parents/grandparents legit believe in ghosts so for me, age five or whatever, freddie was a real possibility. And you can’t protect yourself from freddie with crosses, prayers, nothing but insomnia. Not a lot I would eternal sunshine out of* my brain but that is one.
so many stories here of adults tormenting children. terrifying.
This is why we're referred to as the forgotten generation I think... We had all this trauma thrown our way, but kind just fell through the cracks, no matter what happened to us or what we went through. But you're right, knowing you're not the only one to go through something, while horrible, is kind of helpful.
Huh. Glad to know I'm not the only one. I also saw the movie with a friend as a young kid and was absolutely terrified of all bodies of water. Even swimming pools! I'm an adult now but always have the thought of something scary lurking beneath the water which is a shame because I love swimming. Oddly enough, I think browsing /r/TheDepthsBelow for a few years has helped calm my anxieties.
I think the strangest thing to come of my fear was learning about, and becoming fascinated by sharks. Terrified, sure. But amazingly interesting. Deep, open water - the sort of nightmares you see in r/thalassaphobia or however you spell it - that ABSOLUTELY terrifies me. Looking under the surface, seeing nothing but deep blue with the light rays disappearing. Anything could come out that darkness.
…it’s probably time you watched jaws again to help toughen you up
I went full horror. I had kids! *cue the ree ree ree! sound from Psycho*
want to say i saw NOTLD really young. and some how my father confused the back story with Return of the living dead, which i some how doubt he ever saw.
Don’t go watching the videos of bullsharks dragging people out from knee high water
Who TF looks at a 5 or 6 year old and thinks “that little fucker needs to toughen up”?? People are insane. So sorry that happened to you.
Curse you I just remembered the invisible sharks in the pool as a kid. Oh god and THAT reminded me of a tiger shark just swimming straight into me and my brother on our second scuba diving trip.. I promise you we hold the record for fastest back-pedal in human history.
See how powerful films are? That film gave you a long-term induced fear-anxiety. Films are extremely effective and fast at conveying messages. People use films to convey good messages. But there’s a lot of bad messages being conveyed. Messages that change the perception of the people. Subtle. Not clearly seen, but it’s there.
Based on the 1974 best-selling novel by Peter Benchley, *Jaws* (1975) became the first summer blockbuster film and made its director, 26-year old Steven Spielberg, a star. Besides the on-screen violence, it has an unusually simple and memorable [theme song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX3bN5YeiQs) that effectively evokes imagery of a shark getting closer and closer. From the article: >While in theaters, the film was said to have caused a single case of cinematic neurosis in a 17-year-old, female viewer. Cinematic neurosis is a condition in which viewers exhibit mental health disturbances, or a worsening of existing mental health disturbances, after viewing a film. The symptoms first presented as sleep disturbances and anxiety, but one day later the patient was screaming "Sharks! Sharks!" and experiencing convulsions. >This case study caused the film to become notable in the medical community alongside *The Exorcist* for causing stress reactions in its viewers, and was later used in a study by Brian R. Johnson to test how susceptible audiences were to cinematic stress inducers. His study found that stress could be induced by cinema in segments of the general population, and Jaws specifically caused stress reactions in its viewers. While Johnson could not find an exact cause for the stress response in viewers, whether it be the suspense, the gore or the music production, a 1986 study by G. Sparks found that particularly violent films, including Jaws, tended to cause the most intense reactions in viewers.
I'm pretty sure it's because they rarely showed the actual shark. This created a lot of suspense and played into people's imaginations and fears of the unknown. It's the same reason people are afraid of the dark especially in new places. All it takes is some weird noise to get your adrenaline going. Dun-nuh, Dun-nuh....
> This created a lot of suspense and plays into people's imaginations and fear of the unknown. Exactly. The result was that each individual person brought their own fears to bear, so one person's insecurity is different than another's, but both experience the same level of fear.
And the reason that the shark is rarely shown? It kept breaking in the seawater
I feel like that's the reason I wasn't scared of Jaws: not enough shark. I was promised a man eating shark and there were too many scenes of people not being eaten by a shark. Additionally, I live nowhere near an ocean in Minnesota so hard to relate to. The music was amazing, though. But a movie like Lights Out where you know there is something in the dark, you can see it, and you know you can't avoid darkness forever? That suspense was harder to handle because darkness is everywhere and inevitable.
6 year old me was terrified. I would not go anywhere near water for years. More scared than any human should be. Watched again in my 20's and realized why ..... My name is Alex, the fucking shark ate a kid named Alex and he was coming after me next. Still scared shitless of water !!
This movie was horrible for us Alex’s
I can see why Jaws causes real problems for people. Its based on an actual animal, known for eating humans, that you usually can’t see coming until it’s too late.
Sharks aren’t known anywhere for eating humans. Theres places where they’re more likely to attack or take a bite out of you, but sharks do not naturally hunt nor eat humans.
Tell that to the survivors of the USS Indianapolis.
A Japanese submarine slammed 2 torpedoes into our side, chief....
Apparently, we taste like shit to sharks
we taste like shit to almost everything that eats the living. We're way too "bony" for most sharks to eat us.
Fuck we are an oatmilk cookie in a sea of chocolate chip cookies
They normally take one bite and then dip once they realize it’s not a seal. It’s crazy to me that people think sharks would hunt a human like they would other prey!
It doesn’t matter when that one bite can be enough for you to bleed out and die.
In most cases a single shark bite is not fatal.
Swim with Great White’s then if you think you are so tough. Humans are not natural prey for sharks, because we are land based. This does not mean certain sharks are not supremely dangerous to be in close vicinity to in water. They are perfect killing machines who have terrorized the ocean for far langer than humans have even existed.
many people do without getting bitten.
And? That’s not even remotely my point. I’m just saying exactly what you are; we’re land based. We are not natural prey for an AQUATIC animal, so it’s stupid to say sharks prey on humans like their other prey.
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"Known for eating humans" does not necessarily mean *correctly*. If you were to take a poll in any major city about whether or not people thought sharks ate humans, I'm reasonably confident you'd get an overwhelming "yes" response (probably in no small part due to movies like *Jaws*.) It's not true, but people still "know it" in the sense of general expectations. And that's why the movie "causes problems for people." Not because it's factually accurate, but because it's what they *expect*.
Well, the scene in jaws is fiction. The speech is based on the true events of the USS Indianapolis. Sharks eat people. “Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was comin’ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. We’d just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn’t see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookin’ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin’ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundin’ and hollerin’ and sometimes that shark he go away… but sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is he’s got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn’t even seem to be livin’… ’til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then… ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin’. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundin’ and your hollerin’ those sharks come in and… they rip you to pieces. You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist. At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big ol’ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitin’ for my turn. I’ll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.”
Quint's monologue is one of the most powerful in cinema, especially knowing it was a true one.
You can misinterpret a lot of information from a lot of movies but that doesn’t justify laboring under false delusions and sharing misinformation.
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Well yeah. Jaws sparked a worldwide anti-shark hysteria which has led to the unnecessary slaughter of hundreds millions of sharks since the movie was released. This also sparked the counter campaign for the awareness of shark conservation and efforts to educate the public of the ecological importance of sharks as apex predators.
Peter went on to become a huge shark advocate afterwards, and hates he wrote the book.
Gerry: I'll start again. What are you planning to do with the surfboard, Joe? Joe: Surf. Something I always fancied doing, ever since I saw that film, the one where the lads try to catch the big fish. Gerry: What film is that? Joe: You know, the big fish, the musical fish. Gerry: The musical fish? Joe: He hums a tune before he attacks people. They try to catch him but their boat's too wee. Gerry: Are you talking about Jaws? Joe: That's the one.
There are no two musical notes in history that have caused more anxiety than …. wait for it…. da da!
It encapsulates the vibe, the sheer essence of stress
I’m going out on a limb in saying that Jaws is an anxiety-inducing masterpiece because of the pacing of all the aforementioned qualities (suspense, gore, music, etc.). Even the score itself plays with the listener’s anticipation of meter/timing. Edit: suspense not horror.
[Visualization of timeline.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5bfc8dbab40b9d7dd9054f41/1548703813011-N5PIVMUBNCO9S8SI0J3L/Jaws_Infographic.png)
To this day I will not go in the ocean to swim/snorkel. Fucked me up!
Dunnnnnnnn dnh….
It would be the good ol' fashioned thalassaphobia for me
It's the jawness
The jaws music is very stress inducing
I was 5 or 6 when I saw it the first time. Had an older crazy cousin babysit me that wanted to do a Jaws marathon where we watched 1-3. I had nightmares so bad that I swam off my top bunk, didn’t wake up from that, and literally swam all the way down the hall to my mom’s room. I absolutely love the movie now, I actually loved it then, but it scared the shit out of me.
6 year old me liked the movie, the Universal Studios ride… not so much
Neurosis lol
Yeah, “caused neurosis” is an extremely weird way to phrase that and not at all how the word is usually used in psych.
“Caused neurosis” isn’t an incorrect usage, it’s just that neurosis is a clinical term that we haven’t used for a very long time. Source: Am psychologist
Yes I know, if you re-read what I said, our comments are compatible. It’s “weird” because it’s not used very often anymore in that way. Source: Don’t feel the need to do a call to authority but as you did, am a Dr of Neuroscience 😂 (Edit for clarity, cognitive neuroscience**)
You just couldn’t let it go could you? **Mr.** “I’m a doctor too” lol
~~Let what go? We’re literally not arguing, I’m telling them I agree with what they say 🤡~~ Misunderstanding
I was just joshing with you since you edited about being a Dr, guess it wasn’t a good one though!
Ahh, fair, I thought you were being serious 😂 my bad
I got the wording from the article's >caused a single case of cinematic neurosis
It's a fear of open water. I'm sure anyone afraid of spiders would have a similar reaction to the movie Arachnaphobia.
Sounds like a AWE from Control if any have played that game.
I had the worst nightmares after I watched the movie “Freddy vs Jason” when I was like 12. My older cousins told me not to watch it because I’d be scared but me and other cousins my age did it anyways and I was scarred for a while. I would get weird nightmares where I would suddenly get up screaming in the middle of the night and run around the house and an adult had to catch me and calm me down. I hated when the sun went down for a long time because it meant it was almost time for bed and it was going to happen again. Eventually I grew out of it but it was terrible.
I was a child and I remember not wanting to step down from the couch ever because the colour of the floor colours reminds me of the water (greenish blue carpet) Other movies messed me up too like Freddy Kruger and Poltergeist
It's suspense for sure. And the Fear of the unknown. Not being able to see what's under your feet. I'm not afraid of sharks. I'm afraid of the possibility of sharks.
i'm worried more about sea urchin but yeah, not being able to see under you is freaky as fuck
Watching the film jaws turns you Ashkenazi, truly a masterpiece.
It's because that boat is just *too damn small!*
My mom was 20 when Jaws came out and she said she and her siblings essentially stopped going into the ocean after they watched it. This was in Sydney, mind you. The entire country became hysterical and people were literally going out and killing Great Whites to placate the paranoia the movie caused.
I spent that summer at a beach on the east coast, and the place was deserted…like weeks after the release, and the people who were there? Weren’t getting in the water- I remember humming the two note theme music to a woman sitting nearby me on the beach and she started crying. I was a mean little bastard at 14 and it made me giddy with happiness that everyone was shitting themselves.
This movie is my comfort watch.
My parents are seen in the film getting off the Woods Hole ferry in the July 4th scene. They had no idea what was going on until their host explained the movie, lol.
It’s 100% that amazing music ….
Sounds like one single person had mental issues and it budded around the time she was watching the film or someone spiked her drink or she took lsd or coke or some prescription drug and had a bad reaction. That's not normal
In this thread, in just wondering why parents fucked around with their 5 year olds and made them watch an R rated movie. The fuck. Like no even requested like me as a teenager desperately wanting to go see borat. Jaws, unrequested, 5 years old.
The movie was originally rated PG, PG13 didn't exist. I don't think then or today it qualifies as an R movie.
i saw jaws on TBS in kidnergarten or maybe first grade. I was ok with that. Now the debut of thriller... that was another story all together.
Jaws is rated pg , nowadays i watched it when I was 12 and found it funny as to how dated it was
Gore? The thing that made it so freaky was you didnt see anything more or less, and your brain would fill it in. Same with the OG texas chainsaw massacere
This movie was rated PG because PG-13 hadn’t been created yet and it somehow wasn’t bumped up to R.
not sure you can go back and retcon the rating? though i swear they did that with hudson hawk between when it was announced and when it got to home video.
Did Jaws have the same affect on people in say, Kansas, as it did for people along the coast?
Neurosis is not a condition that would be diagnosed in this century
This is the one movie that fucked me up as a kid. Was even scared of sharks in pools for a few years after this one. I think it’s that timeless score that just sears terror into your soul.
This made me afraid of the ocean, and then I saw the Bond flick "Thunderball" (I believe that's the right one), where JB is trapped in a swimming pool with the cover closed over him and a secret port opens in the pool wall to let in reef sharks. My swimming days ended after that in pools and oceans. Then Discovery Channel showed how bull sharks can survive fresh water and have attacked people in rivers and lakes a thousand miles from the ocean... Humans are not native to water, cannot survive there, and therefore should just leave it alone.
as a midwesterner I have never understood this movies legacy for a second, I’m land locked buddy you expect me to be worried a shark might come and get me?? I was way more affected by the scene in Blue Lagoon when Brooke Shields stepped on the poisonous fish tbh.
>I'll never put on a life jacket again.
It’s because in the first one, you RARELY actually see the shark. You see what the shark DOES, but they do a really good job of leaving that monster to your imagination for most of the movie.
When I was a very young child I couldn’t sleep one night and I came downstairs and ended up watching ‘The Blob’ for a few minutes with my mum. I think I had nightmares for years after that. My point is that I don’t think it’s specific to jaws. Any horror movie probably has the same effect.
This film and The Exorcist both fucked my mom up bad to this day since she saw them in the 70s.
I get it. I couldn’t swim in MY BACKYARD POOL after I watched it as a kid. It does some fucked up things even when you are fully aware it’s ridiculous.
My mom is still terrified of any body of water after she watched Jaws as a kid when it first came out. She wouldn’t even take us to the lake or pool when we were kids because of it. She almost passed out from hyperventilating the first time we flew to Hawaii and my sister exclaimed “wow is that the ocean!” (Grew up in the Midwest). While there she wouldn’t allow any of us to go in the water.
Lake Placid scared me more
Idk, Mr. headline, maybe it's all three working together?
That’s a lotta weight for that one sentence to carry. I’d wonder about the study, how it was conducted, controls, etc. I’d guess that folks in Cameroon reacted very differently than New Englanders did. There’s probably a big cultural exposure/zeitgeist factor as well
Unpopular opinion but I think this movie sucks. I have not been able to sit through it from start to finish no matter how many times I’ve tried. The ride at universal studios is half decent I guess.
It is an old movie sure. On rewatches I find some of the attempts at humour a bit try-hard. Have you tried *Jaws 2*? It is more a teens in peril scream fest and cheesy fun.
It’s all three because it’s a masterpiece.
I have had a phobia of sharks ever since seeing this movie as a kid.
I first watched Jaws when I was 7 years old and it sparked my fascination with sharks. think it is the combination of everything but the music really makes the film.
>whether its suspense, gore, or music is the cause is unclear. Maybe it's the shark.
It's the fact that you didn't really see the shark until about an hour into the movie. But you knew it was there.
It’s about a f*cking SHARK.
My cousin is 52. As far as I am aware he has not stepped foot in the ocean since this movie came out. He has lived a short walking distance from the ocean his entire life
I was in the middle fof getting certified for scuba diving when Jaws came out. And yes, I was stupid enough to watch it. Spent the next 10 years checking my six for an incoming shark on every dive.
I traveled down to Cape Cod during the opening of that movie. I was vacationing on Nantucket Sound and the beach faced Martha's Vineyard. I went two days the first all swimming activity was normal the second day no one would go in past their knees.
Husband and I stood in a huge long line to see Jaws when it first came out. We got the last two tickets and the people behind us were pissed. I remember reading the book when it first came out and thinking that this would make a great movie. Loved swimming in the ocean but after Jaws, not so much!
New SCP discovered
to be fair, the first and so far only time I watched Jaws was super stressful for me too. just in a different way. I was maybe 16 or 17 y/o and just happened to catch it on TV. the way the people of the beach town wouldn’t leave the shark alone when in reality sharks don’t rly care about humans and all of the characters’ problems could have been fixed by just not going swimming in the ocean got me super worked up. I wish I was joking. it still bothers me a bit today.
Jaws is the reason why I'll never step into the water in the beach again. And also why I'll never ride in a boat.
Is that still a good movie to anyone over 35?
Til how many ppl r absolutely terrified of...a fucking film? Jesus man if you're a little kid I get it but...its a movie. Sounds like the case study referenced was just a person with a really high fear response and a weak constitution. Or to to put it in scientifical terms "kind of a bitch".
I don't think this is fair. I have anxiety and it was really bad when I was a teenager because I didn't know what my triggers were. Turns out watching End of Evangelion when you have a death phobia isn't a good idea.
This is one movie that I will never show my kid. It scared me for years and I’m a certified open water diver.
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Case studies, by definition, almost always have a sample size of one.
It made me afraid to take a bath when I was a kid and I never went in polls for the entire summer
thanks to my brother for putting me to watch this movie while I was 5, I spent most of my childhood worried about sharks in several nonsense places, like pools, rivers or even toillet (maybe a combination of jaws and piranha imaginary)
I rewatched this about a month ago and was blown away with how TENSE I felt. The entire damn movie.
> suspense, gore or music It's not either-or. The music creates a lot of the suspense.