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

11. Indianapolis Monologue

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12. Quote

€œHere€™s to swimming with bow-legged women€ - Quint
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13. "That's some bad hat Harry!"

It's one of those sequences that seem to get you every time. Brody is curiously surveying the surf for signs of shark; people pass by wiping the shot to focus in on Brody - drawing our attention to his gaze. He focuses in on something, the shot turns to a gargantuan women floating on the surface, then more people walk past wiping the shot for closer inspection. A black leathery object is seen approaching her. The shot flips back to a concerned Brody. Then back to reveal...that the black object is only a harmless swimming cap worn by a dithery old man. Cut to a shot of a deflated Brody looking foolish. But more fool us for being caught out for the hundredth time! Which leads to this; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSo5fNkNKlw €”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€“

14. Killing of Kintner Kid

It's brisk, bloody and almost beautiful in a morbid and grisly sort of way. An underwater shot defines the first shark point-of-view. Then Williams' theme comes into play...we know someone's in trouble, the pov homes in closer and closer to the lilo, the music pounding furiously now. Then the shark takes its prey...within a quick gurgle of his own blood and guts Alex Kintner is plunged to his watery grave. Jaws Shot By Shot - Part 2 - the Kintner boy

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15. The Severed Head Moment

The head that pops out of the hull of the boat during the exploration of Ben Gardner's boat is problem the single most unexpected jolt in cinema's history. It even makes seasoned Jaws viewers jump EVERY time. And to think it was a scene filmed at the last minute in editor Verna Fields' pool with milk used to make the water turn murky.
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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/