You're Gonna Need A Bigger Boat: 20 Best Quotes From Jaws.
The infamous line from Jaws, “You're gonna need a bigger boat,” which landed at No. 3 on Hollywood's Top 100 Movie Quotes, came about during those rewrites. “It was an overlap of a real-life problem combined with the dilemma of the characters onscreen,” Gottlieb says of the origins of the line.
"Smile, you son of a--" *KABOOM!* And with it, 'Jaws' entered the history books.
The line "You're gonna need a bigger boat" from Jaws (1975) has gone down as one of the most iconic quotes in movie history. Spoken by Chief Brody moments after the eponymous shark appears behind the Orca, it's been referenced countless times in film and television, and ranks 35th on AFI's list of top 100 movie quotes.
“Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour.” At the end of his speech, Quint implies that sharks were responsible for the almost 900 lives lost at sea.
Brody : [Drunk] I'm tellin' ya, the crime rate in New York'll kill you. There's so many problems, you never feel like you're accomplishing anything. Violence, rip-offs, muggings... kids can't leave the house - you gotta walk them to school.
Quint's death scene is very disturbing as he slides in the sharks mouth and the animal chomps down on him. He screams and gargles on his own blood with Chief Brody watching in horror. The films opening scene with a female character being attacked by a shark while swimming at night is very intense and disturbing.
It's hard to take your eyes off the deranged fisherman named Quint, especially when he's eating crackers.
The main "shark" theme, a simple alternating pattern of two notes—variously identified as "E and F" or "F and F sharp"—became a classic piece of suspense music, synonymous with approaching danger (see leading-tone).
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” “This above all: to thine own self be true.” “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.” “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”
Award-winning visual effects artist Todd Vaziri attempted to debunk the myth of Jaws' shooting stars in 2018 (via Twitter), claiming that neither is real. Instead, the streak of light's reaction to motion blur effects points to the shark movie's CGI.
After Hooper, played by Richard Dreyfuss, answers the question of what kind of shark was caught, saying, "It's a tiger shark," Dick's character says, "A what?" with a prolonged emphasis on the word "What" that stills gets a jovial reaction from audiences when the movie's screened.
They believe the 1975 movie "Jaws" caused a generation of people to develop galeophobia — an irrational fear of sharks.
The long take of Shaw and Dreyfuss allows the scene to breathe, but it turns out to only be a deep breath before Brody makes the faux pas of asking about the scar on Quint's arm: It's a removed tattoo of the words “USS Indianapolis.” Suddenly, the good ribbing's oxygen vanishes from the room, and even smartass Hooper ...
So Spielberg recruited a small crew and reshot the scene in film editor Verna Fields' backyard swimming pool in Encino, California. To make the clear, chlorinated water match the murkier look of the ocean, crew members poured a gallon of milk into the pool.
You may be very familiar with the film but did you know that Jaws can be read as Jewish? For example, why is the film even called "Jaws" in the first place? It is because the title is only one syllable away from the word 'Jews'.
The first shark killed on the docks, which is supposed to be the "man-eater" in the movie, was actually a real shark killed in Florida since there was not a big enough one in Martha's Vineyard.
Jaws does not label its finned foe as either gender. However, the 1974 Peter Benchley source novel presents the shark as male.
Jaws is not a true story. It is based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. The Jaws author had a lifelong fascination with sharks and said that he came up with the concept for the novel after reading about a great white shark that had been caught by fisherman Frank Mundus in 1964 (pictured below).
In fact, “You're gonna need a bigger boat” became such a common catchphrase around the set that Scheider would start improvising the quote into various scenes throughout the film. This is how the now-famous line came to be, considering every other rendition of the phrase was cut from the film.