20 Things You Didn’t Know About The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
6. “How Does That Grab You?”
It was originally intended that, like Oddjob (Harold Sakata) before him, Richard Kiel’s Jaws would perish in the film's finale.
When Double-0 Seven grabbed the silent, towering killer with an electromagnet onboard Atlantis, he was meant to guide Jaws into a furnace. However, Cubby Broccoli sensed that Jaws would be popular with audiences and decided to shake the Bond formula up by letting him survive.
Nevertheless, the filmmakers could not find a suitable quip for James Bond to give when he dumps the henchman into Stromberg's shark tank until Peter Lamont suggested the line: “How does that grab you?”.
When Jaws erupted from the depths of the ocean at the end of the film, audiences proved Cubby right by cheering in delight. Subsequently, the filmmakers received letters from younger fans asking them why Jaws could not be a good guy instead...