50 Reasons Why Jaws Might Just Be The Greatest Film of All Time

By Oliver Pfeiffer / December 9, 2012

41. Gave Us The Most Unintentionally Camp Delivery of a Line

"A What???" - From butch looking fisherman

42. Best Line Before Putting An End To Your Foe

"Smile you son-of-a bitch!" - Chief Brody

43. Put the 'Fear' Into Sharks

Before Jaws sharks were just a minor menace to Flipper and featured as the choice pet for Bond villains.

44. Classic Quote

"Cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark's in the water. Our shark." - Quint

45. Bruce

Steven Spielberg named the shark after his lawyer Bruce!

Authored by Oliver Pfeiffer

Contributor

Oliver Pfeiffer is a freelance writer who trained at the British Film Institute. He joined OWF in 2007 and now contributes as a Features Writer. Since becoming Obsessed with Film he has interviewed such diverse talents as actors Keanu Reeves, Tobin Bell, Dave Prowse and Naomie Harris, new Hammer Studios Head Simon Oakes and Hollywood filmmakers James Mangold, Scott Derrickson and Uk director Justin Chadwick. Previously he contributed to dimsum.co.uk and has had other articles published in Empire, Hecklerspray, Se7en Magazine, Pop Matters, The Fulham & Hammersmith Chronicle and more recently SciFiNow Magazine and The Guardian. He loves anything directed by Cronenberg, Lynch, Weir, Haneke, Herzog, Kubrick and Hitchcock and always has time for Hammer horror films, Ealing comedies and those twisted Giallo movies. His blog is: http://sites.google.com/site/oliverpfeiffer102/

Posted On: 30th Jan 2011

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