This is one of my alltime favourites!
I don’t know exactly what it is, but this is close to a perfect film. The casting is good, the music fits, that 70’s vibe, the sounds..
Everybody (red. a lot of filminterested people) knows where that dadadada sounds comes from. You just know the shark is somewhere near. And the bell ringing on the buoy as the only sound with the waves silently lapping against the buoy.
The scene where they sit at the table after dinner and Quint start singing “Spanish ladies” and Quint and Hooper tell stories about the war and broken hearts. Each one having scars to tell their story.
Roy Schneider may just have been one of my first film actor crushes. He played in Cheif Martin Brody this strong and silent type. If he said it, it was done, he showed the loving father side and he faced his fears and went on a ship eventhough he was terrifed of water. And he managed to pull off these large 70s glasses, you gotta love that.
Yes, I know the shark wasn’t super fantastic made, I think they did a mighty fine job thinking of that the film was made in the 1975. But the film generate a feeling as if you standing right on the beach of Amity Island. You feel the anxiety of the people, you can feel the panic and sudden relief when you believe the shark has been caught in the beginning of the film. You feel for the shark or at least I did.
It’s just one of those films I can watch again and again.