Alex Kintner's death in JAWS (Pic)
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Alex Kintner's death in JAWS (Pic)
Click on link to see a pic of the original death scene. Damn just looking at it freaks me out! Anyone else seen this before? I know this wasn't shown in the shortened documentary on the CE DVD, but what about the full 2 hour Doc on the laserdisc? Any mention of it?
http://jawsmoviearchives.com/del2_main.html
http://jawsmoviearchives.com/del2_main.html
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Trust me, that pic was DEFINITELY not in the laserdisc box set. I've seen those stills and the extended laserdisc documentary and it does not show that.
Good thing though --> Not showing the shark is a 100 TIMES scarier than shoving an all-too-obvious shark under our noses 1/3 into the movie.
My guess: Bruce looked too fake, so Spielberg resorted to the old 1st-person point of view.
Good thing though --> Not showing the shark is a 100 TIMES scarier than shoving an all-too-obvious shark under our noses 1/3 into the movie.
My guess: Bruce looked too fake, so Spielberg resorted to the old 1st-person point of view.
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JAWS...still scary after all these years.
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Originally Posted by Rivero
"You knew there was a shark out there. You knew."
"Um...yeah. It's called the ocean, lady. Plenty of sharks live in it. Bitch."
:walks away:
"Um...yeah. It's called the ocean, lady. Plenty of sharks live in it. Bitch."
:walks away:
The death scene really got me as a kid, because Mrs. Kintner looked almost exactly like my mother.
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Originally Posted by Charlie Goose
The death scene really got me as a kid, because Mrs. Kintner looked almost exactly like my mother.
that's weird because a) it scared the shit out of me as a kid and b) it reminded me of my mother
that scene always made me feel horrible, for some reason. I even switch away when I'm watching it on tv.
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Are there any better uses of the old "zoom in, dolly out" or "Hitchcock zoom" effect? I know this has been used a hundred times or more since Hitchcock used it in Vertigo but this scene from Jaws seems to be the one that I remember as being the most effective. Others, anyone?
Hitchcock zoom
Hitchcock zoom
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I thought Spielberg was the first to do it that way. he also was one of the first to use that edit as people walk by and it jumps closer and closer. It's clear how influenced he is by Hitchcock, as that technique was used in Rope .....among others. Spielberg really does it beautifully, though.
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Originally Posted by obscurelabel
Are there any better uses of the old "zoom in, dolly out" or "Hitchcock zoom" effect? I know this has been used a hundred times or more since Hitchcock used it in Vertigo but this scene from Jaws seems to be the one that I remember as being the most effective. Others, anyone?
Hitchcock zoom
Hitchcock zoom
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Originally Posted by obscurelabel
Are there any better uses of the old "zoom in, dolly out" or "Hitchcock zoom" effect? I know this has been used a hundred times or more since Hitchcock used it in Vertigo but this scene from Jaws seems to be the one that I remember as being the most effective. Others, anyone?
Hitchcock zoom
Hitchcock zoom
I guess that's why he was teaching the intro course.
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Actually, you CAN see the shark coming out of the water when Bruce bites down on Alex Kitner -
Watch for the shot RIGHT AFTER the shark's first person point of view coming up towards Alex's splashing legs - On the horizon, you can see the silhouette of the Great White turning (you see its dorsal fin REALLY clearly) as it comes up from under water, with the boy and the raft already in its mouth.
It's a shadow and hard to make out, but its there.
JAWS.
Watch for the shot RIGHT AFTER the shark's first person point of view coming up towards Alex's splashing legs - On the horizon, you can see the silhouette of the Great White turning (you see its dorsal fin REALLY clearly) as it comes up from under water, with the boy and the raft already in its mouth.
It's a shadow and hard to make out, but its there.
JAWS.
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If I remember correctly, the shot in particular where you see Bruce -
-- the shark is turning clockwise - Alex and the raft are already in the shark's jaws, and first you see Bruce's right side fin and then you see the dorsal fin come out of the water, along with the raft and Alex's arm waving hysterically.
-- the shark is turning clockwise - Alex and the raft are already in the shark's jaws, and first you see Bruce's right side fin and then you see the dorsal fin come out of the water, along with the raft and Alex's arm waving hysterically.
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Originally Posted by jeffkjoe
Alex Kitner's death still haunts me.
The fact that they showed someone my age (at the time in 1975) getting killed - ripped apart and mauled - is just shocking.
The fact that they showed someone my age (at the time in 1975) getting killed - ripped apart and mauled - is just shocking.