5 Things JAWS Got Terribly Wrong!

Join shark scientist Kristian Parton as he dives into the greatest shark film of all time: Jaws. But did Jaws get things wrong?

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[SHARKBYTES]

Just in case it wasn’t clear in the video guys - I love Jaws, both the book and the film! It’s an all time classic. So please do treat this as a slightly tongue in cheek video 😉

[scottjuhnke]

In fairness, one thing they got right: They really did need a bigger boat.

[michaelbuick]

Fun fact: when Spielberg heard John Williams score for the first time, he thought Williams was pulling his leg. A score shouldn't just be 2 notes, insisted Spielberg. But Williams told Spielberg to trust him, and he did, and that's how we got the most iconic theme in movie history.

[kentvikman]

In all fairness, for context, when Quint tells that story and says "lifeless black eyes, like a dolls eyes", he's describing a fairly traumatic event taking place over several days. I'm rather certain that most eyes would have seemed black and lifeless to anyone who found themselves under such circumstances. Anyway, they delivered the bomb.

[BetterOnichThanSorry]

I'd actually be really interested in you covering the Jersey shore shark attacks of 1916.

[davidbell]

Noticing the shark eyes tracking back to you honestly makes them more menacing 😂

[Pahakyy]

Jaws isn't about the shark, but human dynamics.

[lordvlygar]

For the 2-3000 years old bit; I understood it as him saying the current species of sharks have been the same for a few thousand years. I'm also guessing that was the best information they had in 1975. Obviously, that number is way off.

[w.mccutcheon]

Man, where were you when I was in 10th grade. We dissected dog fish in biology that year, and I spent an entire class period carefully removing the jaws before smuggling them home, only to wreck them trying to preserve them by boiling them 😭.

[TheAmateurEditor]

Re the 2-3 thousands years comment, I never saw this as Brodie actually thinking this was possible or that he read it is possible in one of the books he's flipping through, instead he comes of as seriously scared and frustrated that there's not much information about sharks he can use. It's out of mental fatigue that he just makes a facetious throw-away comment, in the same way someone whose scared will say they nearly had a heart-attack after getting scared by someone.

[captaincavedad]

(random future shark bait):
What kind of shark is it?
(Hooper):
Tiger shark
(Random future shark bait):
Ah

[petermcgill]

5 things they didn’t know 50 years ago, but we now know…?

[lyndoncmp]

Fun fact. The beach attack scenes with the unseen shark were filmed BEFORE they even knew Bruce was going to malfunction. Bruce was never scheduled to be used for the first half of the film. First use of Bruce wasn't planned until filming moved out to sea for the Orca based scenes.
Bruce could never have been used in the shallow waters where they filmed the beach attacks so they never planned to. The shark was hidden by design early on. Spielberg was already a suspense director, as Duel and Something Evil shows.

[Breeanna]

Fun fact: Rodney Fox still has the original shark cage. He built for jaws on the back of his shark diving boat here in Port Lincoln, South Australia. And all the real live GWS action filmed in Port lincoln South Australia 🇦🇺 🦈

[redpillnibbler]

When a film is this good I can overlook all manner of ‘imperfections’

[Bluebellwoods]

Still one of the best films ever! I was shark mad from an early age and saw it at the cinema when it was released in 1975, I was only 13 and was totally mesmerised. What a soundtrack too!!

[mike]

I was a little kid when I saw this with my Dad.... I was afraid to even take a shower for a week when we got home...

[edwardgirard]

Jaws is my favorite movie, ever. I saw it for the first time at the young age of 14, in June 1975. A true classic that does indeed stand the test of time!

[borregof]

Another thing Jaws got wrong Was at the end of Quint's monologue, he says the USS Indianapolis went down in June. The USS Indianapolis was actually Sunk on July 29th, 1945.

[JawsBites]

The beach shot was brilliantly edited and shot. Spielberg does a step zoom with organic wipes of the people walking by....then he does the dolly zoom where the foreground stays static and the background moves.