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This is the first of several instances where Chief Brody turns and looks warily out to the ocean. #RoyScheider #JAWS
JAWS (1975), directed by Steven Spielberg, shot by Bill Butler, & edited by Verna Fields, who coined the term 'wipe by cut' for this technique: a series of tension-building cuts leading to a false alarm for Chief Brody. #RoyScheider #JAWS
Chief Brody begins to move faster as it dawns on him that his oldest son Michael is in danger. #RoyScheider #JAWS
I love when Chief Brody's son, after a close call with the shark, is rescued from the water and the camera lingers on his legs, as if to reassure us that both legs are still there! Nice touch. #RoyScheider #JAWS
This leads to a second instance of Brody looking warily out to the ocean, as the shark has now made it personal for the Chief. #RoyScheider #JAWS
'You knew there was a shark out there. You knew it was dangerous. But you let people go swimming anyway!... You knew all those things. But still my boy is dead now... And there's nothing you can do about it.' ~Mrs. Kintner, after slapping Chief Brody. #RoyScheider #JAWS
It took dozens of viewings of JAWS for me to finally make the connection between what Chief Brody sees in a book on sharks, at about the 26-minute mark of the film....
#RoyScheider #JAWS
#RoyScheider #JAWS
...to what happens at the film's climax 90 minutes later. The same elements are there: an air tank clenched in a shark's jaws facing a man perched in a tower. Brody had filed away this information & now puts it all together as he takes aim on the shark. #RoyScheider #JAWS
