Jaws (film): Difference between revisions

** Also doubles as a literal [[Precision F-Strike]], as Brody fires the killing shot the moment he says 'bitch'.

* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: The scenes with the shark cage and the full shark visible were actually filmed with a real great white shark, and a miniature cage and Hooper doll. The shark was supposed to tear Hooper to pieces (Hooper is actually killed this way in the novel), but the crew could never properly provoke the shark to do so. Finally, the shark did destroy the cage and got stuck in the rope above it--but the Hooper doll wasn't in the cage at the time. Because this was the best footage they had, the filmmakers changed the script to have Hooper escape and survive.

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Quint is the town's major expert on shark hunting, and has a sizable collection of shark trophies at his shop. When we find out he was on the ''USS Indianapolis'' - Hooper stops mocking Quint [[Oh Crap|the second he finds out]] - we realize he's been hunting sharks for 30 years to get his revenge for what they'd done to his crewmates.

** And the shark currently ''hunting them'' could well be on ''his'' Roaring Rampage after Quint.

* [[Serendipity Writes the Plot]]: There were problems with getting the mechanical shark to work, forcing the creators to turn it into mostly [[The Unseen]].

* [[Shark Tunnel]]: The underwater tunnels of Seaworld in ''3''.

** At one point Hooper does a brief [[WC Fields]] imitation.

* [[Skinny Dipping]]: Chrissy in the first film picked the very worst time for it.

** In the original novel, the Mayor {{spoiler|is in serious debt to some shady and powerful men, and thus, needs the beach attendance to boost revenue to pay them back, making his insistence on keeping the beaches open significantly more understandable/plausible - he's already in fear for his life}}.

* [[Summer Blockbuster]]: The first.

** The second movie's shark goes out of its way to attack its victims - particularly the teenagers.

* [[Synchronized Swarming]]: A possible example: Brody is alarmed by a shape in the water. It turns out to be a school of fish, and the shark is elsewhere. It is not clear to the audience exactly how similar the shape was to a shark.

* [[Tagline]]: "Don't go in the water." "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water." "This time, it's personal!"

* [[Ultimate Evil]]

* [[Vertigo Effect]]: Chief Brody's reaction to seeing the Kintner boy being attacked by the shark.