Bestest picture thread evaar! (The trilogy)

[Dr.3D]

Imagine what would have happened if she had smoked a regular cigarette.

 

[tod evans]

Before 'one marijuana'

After 'one marijuana'

Look out Doritos....

 

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[AuH20]

Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We was comin' back from the island of Tinian to Leyte, just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn't know... was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent.

They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. Y'know, it's... kinda like ol' squares in a battle like, uh, you see in a calendar, like the Battle of Waterloo, and the idea was, shark comes to the nearest man and that man, he'd start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin', and sometimes the shark'd go away... sometimes he wouldn't go away.

Sometimes that shark, he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. Y'know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites ya. And those black eyes roll over white, and then... oh, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin', the ocean turns red, and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin', they all come in and they... rip you to pieces.

Y'know, by the end of that first dawn... lost a hundred men. I dunno how many sharks. Maybe a thousand. I dunno how many men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin', Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Bosun's mate. I thought he was asleep. Reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well... he'd been bitten in half below the waist.

Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. Young pilot, a lot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and come in low and three hours later, a big fat PBY comes down and start to pick us up. Y'know, that was the time I was most frightened, waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a life jacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water, three hundred sixteen men come out, and the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.

Anyway... we delivered the bomb.

written by John Milius I believe (I was partially correct).

Howard Sackler (uncredited, by choice) wrote the original script in Los Angeles before filming started, and inserted the USS Indianapolis speech (which then ran 3/4 of a page) to establish Quint's obsessive hatred of sharks. Carl Gottlieb was brought to Martha's Vineyard during shooting to "punch up" the script, and received screen credit for it along with Peter Benchley (the author of the original novel), but -- apparently -- didn't change the Indianapolis speech.

Writer-director John Milius (Apocalypse Now, Red Dawn) did an uncredited rewrite of the speech that turned it into a 10-page monologue, which Robert Shaw, an accomplished writer in his own right (The Man in the Glass Booth) edited down to the 5-page monologue he delivers in the film.

Steven Spielberg: I owe three people a lot for this speech. You’ve heard all this, but you’ve probably never heard it from me. There’s a lot of apocryphal reporting about who did what on Jaws and I’ve heard it for the last three decades, but the fact is the speech was conceived by Howard Sackler, who was an uncredited writer, didn’t want a credit and didn’t arbitrate for one, but he’s the guy that broke the back of the script before we ever got to Martha’s Vineyard to shoot the movie.

I hired later Carl Gottlieb to come onto the island, who was a friend of mine, to punch up the script, but Howard conceived of the Indianapolis speech. I had never heard of the Indianapolis before Howard, who wrote the script at the Bel Air Hotel and I was with him a couple times a week reading pages and discussing them.

Howard one day said, “Quint needs some motivation to show all of us what made him the way he is and I think it’s this Indianapolis incident.” I said, “Howard, what’s that?” And he explained the whole incident of the Indianapolis and the Atomic Bomb being delivered and on its way back it was sunk by a submarine and sharks surrounded the helpless sailors who had been cast adrift and it was just a horrendous piece of World War II history. Howard didn’t write a long speech, he probably wrote about three-quarters of a page.

But then, when I showed the script to my friend John Milius, John said “Can I take a crack at this speech?” and John wrote a 10 page monologue, that was absolutely brilliant, but out-sized for the Jaws I was making! (laughs) But it was brilliant and then Robert Shaw took the speech and Robert did the cut down. Robert himself was a fine writer, who had written the play The Man in the Glass Booth. Robert took a crack at the speech and he brought it down to five pages. So, that was sort of the evolution just of that speech.

Quint: I’d love to read the 10 page Milius version.
Steven Spielberg: I don’t think it exists. I know I don’t have it. I’ve been asked for it, everybody has been wanting to see it and John doesn’t have it because in those days we didn’t have computers, we didn’t have hard drives, it was just on pieces of paper!

I remember just saying, “Hey, this is a movie! Somebody someday should do a movie just about the Indianapolis.”

But the other lucky thing about the shark not working was that we all did have a chance to hone the script and do improvisations and then Carl Gottlieb took the improvisations that I tape recorded and transcribed them, then he structured scenes and then we’d all collaborate with Carl on cutting the scenes down, making them short enough to still put into the movie and let the movie have its own narrative pace.

But Carl made great contributions to the movie. I brought him to Martha’s Vineyard to do comedy punch-up work because he’s a very funny guy, a very funny writer, and he wound up really staying there a long, long time helping all of us with all of the scenes, so Carl did deserve his credit and did great work on Jaws. I’m very beholden to Carl for sticking it out as long as he did with us because that was a lonely island for everybody making that movie over many months.

 

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[phill4paul]

written by John Milius I believe (I was partially correct).

I remember just saying, “Hey, this is a movie! Somebody someday should do a movie just about the Indianapolis.”

Well, since Nicholas Cage seems to be a thing this Fool's Day....

If I can find a free download I'll probably give it a watch, though I doubt it is very good. I'll be watching for "Jaws" Easter eggs though, I bet there are many.

 

[fedupinmo]

I guess I am still the only one that was rooting for the shark
Scheider bugs me

He goes underwater in 15 years... and never bones Stephanie Beacham or Rosalind Allen.

I know that's not on the level of eaten by a shark, but it will have to do...

 

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[Anti Federalist]

Don't care for the EVO engine on that (real bobbers are kick started) but that is a sweet ride.

 

[Anti Federalist]

That's one of my favorite all time movie scenes.

Epic scene from an epic movie, one of my favorites, seen it a thousand times if once.

 

[ChristianAnarchist]