jobloffski
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The opening scene (teens sat around the camp fire drinking) with them obviously smoking dope. Never heard the "inhaling" sounds before and loved how just as someone put a joint to their lips Spielberg blocked the shot.
There were also a few scenes that on DVD/VHS I could of swore happened at night but as it turns out they happened at dusk/dawn. The picture clarity/sharpness/brightness is truly awesome. The Orca never looked more beautiful. And the sound of Mrs Kintners slap? Whoa!
On a side issue... We all know what happens to Quint when he finally comes face to face with the Shark, but does anyone else think that the other proposed death scene would have been better, or more fitting?
Quints leg was supposed to get snagged or trapped in a rope/wire and he gets pulled in to the sea where ol' Bruce gets his choppers round him. Brody or Hooper manage to throw Quint his knife and he goes down hacking and stabbing away at the shark. Which, though futile, is kind of cool and much more in parallel to his Captain Ahab type character (Since Ahab went down with the whale in a very similar way). This, fitted with the deleted scene in the cinema with Quint watching, and laughing his ass off at Moby Dick, would be quite fitting.
What do you think?
PS.
Love his demise now of course and this is in no way a criticism of one the greatest movies of all time............!!
Seems a little silly to me. Happier with the 'bitten in half' ending for it being to wedded to to the nightmare experience he carries with him of the USS Indianapolis. The source of his obsession, including memories of a friend bitten in half, calling his boat Orca, seeing himself as the killer of sharks in revenge for the past, ending up exactly in the situation of the worst memory nightmare from the he is trying to deal with. That's Ahab enough for me, feel the 'watching Moby Dick' thing would have been just a little bit too on the nose. And as for ineffectually fighting at the end, he does try to kick out at the shark, if I recall. Quint's obsession is more than just Ahab's self destructive pride, I feel, more tragically motivated, so too much Ahab on screen means less Quint, for me.
Bit of silliness, pronounce Quint with a French accent, now there's a character summation
< Message edited by jobloffski -- 15/11/2012 9:57:35 AM >
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RE: Happy Birthday Jaws - 
I'll get round to it sometime. 
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