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Or, read In Harms Way and the true story of the sinking and survivors of the USS Indianapolis.

You’ll never see that scene of Quint speaking about it with Chiefy and Hooper the same way again. I promise.

Genius improv on Shaw’s part.

The “real-story” is worse than than he has times slotted to describe.

“I’ll never wear a life jacket again….”

Damn straight.

It was so bad for those Mofo’s they were trying to commit suicide by intentional salt-water ingestion and/or self-inflicted drowning. Not to mention some just swimming to the sharks. Cocked on salt water.

Intentionally.

I can’t remember reading much nastier non-fiction stuff.

Stuff of nightmares.

I met Edgar Harrel around 2016 IIRC.
He was a Marine Guard Corporal on the Indianapolis.
Made a thread on hear about meeting him.
Went into Walmart seen a older guy wearing a USS Indianapolis hat.
I had to talk to him.
Were you on the Indianapolis sir.
Yes.
Talked back and forth with him for about 20 mins.
75 80 people in his group in the water 1st day when the ship went down.
By the time they got rescued by sea planes and some other ships their was 4 or 5 left in his group.

The old warrior gave me a Business card of the Indianapolis survivors group I can't remember what I did with it.
He also wrote a book too about it all IIRC.


He got his promotion to Sergeant honorably several years after I met him.
70 plus years later, basically a paper work foul up in ww2.
Was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal of honor also IIIRC several years after I spoke with him at walmart.
Died at the age of 96 summer of 2021 here in Clarksville at the Veterans Home.

RIP Marine.....






I'm out.....

I saw it at a drive-in the night before I went to the ocean for the first time. I think I was 10 at the time.

I was 5. What was my dad thinking bringing me to that movie? I did not go into any water until 2 years later in 1977 and then only into a pool. I will not go into cold, dark water. Period. Won't swim in the ocean. Period. Good thinking, Pops...

Several years ago I worked with a guy who fished a lot off a pier on the East Coast. He told me if you fished off a pier much, you would not swim in the Ocean.

Bob R

I watched it as a kid when our parents used to drop us off at the theatre and pick us up after. Anyway it was the regency rocking chair theater and when that head popped out of that boat my flipping chair broke! Scared the ever loving crap out of me!

I read the book after I saw the movie. Bass ackwards from usually reading the book first. With Stephen King, the book always outshines the film version, same with most of the Westerns I read in Jr High.
For Jaws though, I thought the film was better. Can’t say why, (maybe I should try reading it again) maybe it was watching Robert Shaw Act. I can’t think of anything where he wasn’t great, much like Tracy or Nicholson and a few others, these guys (and some ladies) could literally walk away with the show. They’re a pleasure to watch.
My dad younger brother Gue, and a couple of our friends went together to see it.
Someone dropped us off to pick us up afterwards.
When that head rolled out, Gue really flipped!
I think the same gang of us repeated the process for Jaws 2. We hung around together even after we all had cars. Girls and eventually marriage finally won out though.
7mm

I was 8 or 9 when the movie came out. We were on a family trip to the beach in Destin and went to see the movie.

Haven't been in the water above my ankles since...

We were swimming down the Kooyenay river once when my 10 year old daughter asked if there were sharks there; did we have to worry about Jaws? My brother told her no sharks but there were some sturgeon. We didn't have to worry about Jaws but she should be on the lookout for his cousin, Lips. GD

I read 2001 A Space Odyssey before seeing the movie in the theater. I was the only one who understood what the hell was going on during the entire end sequence. Most who hadn't read the book first were lost at that point.

Yes I’ve seen why

Robert Shaw was an alcoholic and the characters were supposed to be drunk during the USS Indianapolis speech so he decided to have a few beers. Well a few turned into a lot and it ended with him hammered and that scene taking all night.

The next day he went up to Spielberg wanting to shoot it again because he knew he could do it better

When I was stationed in Hawaii my wife and i saw it in a theater. When the shark came out of the water while the Sheriff was pouring chum over the side, a gal a couple of rows down from us tossed her drink and popcorn in the air. Fortunately she missed us.

Some time later I was snorkeling on the North Shore near the mouth of Pupukea, also known as “Shark’s Cove”.😳 The water was probably 25-30’ deep next to a big coral head. I happened to look toward deeper water just as a big grouper swam across a light, sandy spot. Through the water that fish looked like it was six feet long and made the old ticker skip a beat.

I decided I should probably be swimming in a little shallower water. 😁

I don't want any of this sh chit.

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My mother went into labor with me during that movie in the theater.

Damn that movie.

Used to go for a run on the beach, and then a swim, after sundown, when everybody was gone and it was quite and peaceful.

Now I swim with an M1 Rifle.




GR

I thought the movie was better than the book. The movie sparked a fascination with sharks that I’ve had ever since. I have traveled to places for the sole purpose of seeing sharks in the wild. After the last weeks events, the submersible ride in Barbados was probably more dangerous than the sharks!