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RE: In a Pig's Ear - Day 478: 5 Minute Freewrite: Sunday - Prompt: pig's ear
I'll have to watch The Deep - the only thing I remember about **Jaws is that my mean sister Lori was the ONLY ONE in the theater who laughed when heads bobbed on the water. Everyone else was screaming. "Bad Bruce" - there's another one I should make sure I don't miss. I don't even remember the classic road movies with Paul Newman and McQueen. None of the best stuff is on NetFlix. Gotta dig deeper to find online movie rentals. LOL - I'm not surprised you'd side with the shark! I always felt bad for grizzly bears getting gunned down in movies even if they did kill people first.
Jaws is an absolute do-not-miss film, one of the finest of the man-against-nature genre, and the chemistry between the three lead actors is simply amazing and wonderful. They clearly had fun during filming.
And John Williams' score helped to make it truly spine-tingling, and thrilling during the chase scenes. Still one of my favorite film scores.
My sister saw the film before me, so I had some minor foreknowledge, though she was careful not to tell us too much. I saw it with my mom the first time, and we were a tad concerned when a couple with two little kids sat in front of us, but the kids were fine . . . the little boy sat in his mom's lap throughout, and the little girl climbed up in her dad's lap for the scary parts. They were better behaved than some of the adults attending.
My favorite moment came when some dimwit commented that he could tell the shark was fake, which I could have agreed with at the end when the shark leapt onto the stern of the boat, but he made the comment during one of the scenes filmed by Rod Taylor in Australia, of a very large, alive and real great white shark. ;-)
Of course, since I was already a shark nut at the time, all my friends wanted to see the film with me, so I wound up seeing it eight times that summer.
Now I want to see it again. ;-)