Richard Dreyfuss JAWS #3 (that's Ben Gardners boat!)

[godzilla964]

Two words to discribe "JAWS". KICK ASS!!

[StickItLikeGlue]

I loved Rich in this movie :L especially (not this scene) but he's like "haha you're all gonna die" and "I can't take this abuse much longer!" :P

[jameswanantony]

when i was little i could watch predator, Freddy, Jason, the thing and numerous horror icons but this scene always got me!!! the music, the err'y setting, and the scream the head makes!! it got so bad that i had to cover my ears and close my eyes as soon as hooper's fish finder started making its noises. then i could not open my eyes until they were on the beach talking to Vaughan. now 16years later i watch this scene and love it!!!

[FunnyLittleChap]

This scene was a conflation of two different events in the original novel, the head was found on the beach at the beginning, a part of that girl, whereas they found Gardner's boat, during the day, empty with just the tooth so they had to conclude he'd been taken. But this is a real improvement on the novel (which rocks by the way) and is the money shot for the whole movie, unfortunately everything was more or less downhill from hereon in.

[cochranexyz]

The Mayor is perfect as the single minded bureaucrat.

[johnnyrockerfella]

how good are these actors.. they all deserve the academy award

[jksonny]

It's a great moment in the film but I originally didn't know the head in the boat was supposed to be the same guy you had been seeing throught the movie. For one thing, the glimpse of the head is so fast and the water is so dark that you can't really see it that well. Secondly, the Ben Gardner character isn't really clearly introduced. It wasn't until after I saw the movie a couple of times that I figured out who Ben Gardner was. It would have helped if Ben had introduced himself to Hooper.

[KingCharlieKitten]

4:35 for head.

[Kreloar]

Goddamn it, I knew there was going to be a corpse, but I didn't know when this was going to happen. Still it scared the shit out of me.

[SamuelH105]

One of the scariest scenes in movie history!

[Kingdom007Hearts]

one of richard dreyfuss' best films.

5:38 = i love the shot glass line.

[TheTwilightSagaSucks]

where can i find the scene when hooper gets off the boat and meets alot of people

[mercedesman93]

4:42 - probably the best underwater scream ever.

[MultiNiki96]

@mercedesman93 I hear ya! :P

[stitches611]

This is Jaws # 1

[kkarls1]

I love it when Hooper rips into Mayor Vaughn here...he doesn't have to deal with any of the political crap that Brody does, he just calls it like he sees it when he sees it, and he totally calls the Mayor on all of his bullshit. The best part is when Vaughn storms off in a huff and Hooper just busts out laughing.

[gogomymagicpup]

Love to prove that wouldn't you...get your name in the national geographic.

[Nigelxman1]

I'll never get tired of this movie. I have to watch it at least once a year. :-)

[NemeanLion]

When we get them silly bastards down in that rock pile, it'll be some fun, they'll wish their fathers had never met their mothers. When they start takin' their bottoms out and slamming into them rocks, boy

[uptighthippie]

its the 1st jaws

[027220]

6:28 - :36 & 6:56 - 7:02 'Great' lines.

[027220]

The 1916 story is similer to this one: swimmer in surf, dog, boy & man in tidal slough.

[presto1202]

I always wondered what kind of boat that was that Hooper had in this scene.

[BarryPuppetSoetoro61]

if Richy Was in the 2nd Movie They Would Have Done Alot Better..But, Jaws2 filmed in Fl did ok.. At Least They Ask Where he is in the Movie.. Matt Hooper was a young scientist fascinated by sharks and was a friend of Martin Brody in Jaws. He initially didn't like Quint.

Age 36 In Jaws 1..(Fiction) They Knew If he Came Back in 1978 to do Part 2 Which Was Shot in Mid Late 77...The Shark Would Have Bitten Matt in Two..I wish they where Teamed up That's All..

[adamdicy]

@BarryPuppetSoetoro61 Richard Dreyfuss's character was mentioned in Jaws 2, but not seen, I wonder what would've happened if he appeared in Jaws: The Revenge and had been Lorraine Gary's love interest and not Michael Caine....Hmmmmm.

[BarryPuppetSoetoro61]

@adamdicy Yeah, i said he was menitoned..I seen the movie more than you have...Read Carefully.

[Tommygun1135]

I love Dreyfuss as Hooper. He's so funny.

[adamdicy]

@Tommygun1135 Especially when he says to Mayor Vaughan "I think that I'm familiar with the fact that your're going to ignore this particular problem, until it swims up and bites you in the ass"

[Piriathy]

Wait, if they're in salt water, wouldn't the body be shriveled, and not bloated like that?

[Piriathy]

oh my god, scariest "good character finds a dead body" sequence EVER

[Juicefani11]

I remember years ago when i was five years old this was on TV, and my mum told me that she had seen this exact scene of this movie when she was working at a retirement home on a night shift... She jumped two meters up when the head appeared.. Then i watched this movie (under a table) from near the TV, and when this scene came, i had nightmares for 5 years... Nice, isn't it.

[TheReturnedLizard]

They should used that boat to hunt the shark. Look at the cameras!

[jessxgraciex]

haaa, me and my mum watched this and she threw red wine all over me.

[elizabethnaruto]

when i first saw this with my family my dad jumped and let this little girl scream out LOL

[rockinstuff]

One thing I always noticed in watching Jaws, it was never explained by Hooper to Mayor Vaughan that the head came out of the boat was Ben Gardner, instead he wanted to see the tooth? Wouldn't he been better to say Bens head scared the shit out of me and I dropped the tooth! Can anybody else explain that lol

[Avzzor]

@rockinstuff because either Hooper is ashamed of it ('cause it made him rop the tooth) or Vaughn aleready knows about it (you can hear Brody saying "it was Ben Gardners boat you should have seen him!") if I recall right, in the book it's not night, it's day and Vaughn is with them when they find it or something like that

[Juicefani11]

@Avzzor He didn't mention the head, because the head was added after the movie was made. At least i think i remember it so...

[bacardy330]

@rockinstuff

I have an answer for this, I just saw a making of Jaws on tv. The head scene wasnt supposed to be in the movie. After finishing shooting the movie, Spielberg, while he was finalizing the film, decided to add an extra scary moment in the movie. So he builded a cockpit under water in a home swimming pool and he even put milk in the water to make it more realistic. Thats why Hooper didnt metion he saw Ben Gardner's head.

[toydog16r]

is ben gardner the man we see speaking to Brody on the beach with the hat on?

[Juicefani11]

@toydog16r He spoke to Brody on a pier somewhere.

[Juicefani11]

@dstoreuk A small object in a nice package and Hooper and Brody sayin' happy birthday... Mayor opens the package..... BEN GARDNER'S HEAD...Mayor asks Hooper and Brody: "Did you cut the head off...." They answer: "No..." Mayor says: "What a nice head made of styrofoam..." XD

[elpresidio]

In my opinion, the scariest most suspense scene ever building up to finding Ben Gardner.

[whyteay]

Hooper had this shit hot boat with all the gear and it only got used for this rather ill fated little voyage - then when they went to hunt for the shark they went in that heap of shit fishing boat instead...

[whyteay]

@dstoreuk the mayor would have shat himself!!

[Waqorat]

"Uh, I think that I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and bites you in the ass."

Greatest quote in movie history...!

[Lemonhead86]

We're gonna need another bottle of alcohol

[nicedog1]

I used to think about this when I was a kid and I could never understand why Hooper carelessly goes into the water when there is a killer shark about. Also what is Ben Gardner doing lying dead in the bottom of the boat and why hasnt the boat sunk when there is a big hole in the bottom. Also why cant we see Ben Gardner when we get the arial view at 3.40 ????

[Juicefani11]

@nicedog1 The head was in the hull of the ship. If anyone here wants to see a video of the original head on dry land, PM.

[nicedog1]

@Juicefani11 How can I see the video of the original head?

[101LyricMaster]

i love this scene it scared the crap out of me! they did really good on this movie and the props were made amazingly

[emoviebuff87]

is the mayor a relative of the bush family? or of the VPs of the oil spill?

[Dac719]

Okay, I have another question about this part. If the shark bit his head off, HOW did it manage to poke one of his eyes out while leaving the rest of his face untouched? And, only his left eye. The rest of his face and head are untouched as though nothing happened. I would think his whole face would have been crushed by the shark's jaws if it managed to get his eye. Otherwise, both of his eyes should be there, not just one of them. Anyone have an answer for that?

[jmie5]

@Dac719 Who says the shark bit his head off? All I really see is evidence that the shark made the massive hole in his boat. Gardner could have drowned from defencing it or maybe the shark chomped him elsewhere. My best guess is that the old man had a heart attack or something and a small scavenger fish nibbled at his eye. If the shark had "bit[ten] his head off," then there wouldn't be much left! :)

[Juicefani11]

@jmie5 Hey, my theory is that The Shark hit Ben's boat, and Ben fell over, and hit something sharp, like a harpoon, and then he crushed his neck, and fell to the hull.

[jmie5]

@Juicefani11 Hey, that's a decent theory. Thanks for the input!

[CassDaMan1138]

@Juicefani11 My Theory is is some what similar. The Shark Bites Ben Gardner's Boat Making that hole. Gardner falls down head first onto something sharp like the harpoon. The Boat tilts and Ben falls through the hole into the shark's mouth similar to quint which either bisects him or decapitates him leaving his head behind. This is a reply to an explanation you posted over a year ago if your confused.

[Juicefani11]

@CassDaMan1138 His head was still attached to the body. If it wasn't, the head would have hit Hooper in the face while floating out of the boat. But hey, if you want to discuss about theories, please, write to my other channel, Ismofani11. This YouTube channel is dead.

[Dac719]

I love it when Hooper laughs at the end of this clip! LOL!

[GamefreakTP]

awesome moment, but horrendously scary. the bit where hes shining the light at the corpse, i had that image imprinted in my mind in the pitch black of my dark room at night while i was in bed!

[Gencturk92]

What were these two doing here anyway ?

[ThatsMrMoronToYou]

A good way to view this without being so scared is to turn off the sound and instead play Yakity Sax(the Benny Hill theme song).

[reformedfruit]

John Williams at his finest in this clip. Just listen to those eerie strings come creeping in around 2 min in.... Fantastic stuff...

Of course, around 4 min in, listen for that tell-tale theme...

[1980Invasiontour]

I hate when people On this SITE cut this movie into small useless wasted clips. And try to make it funny by Edit for there on HUMOR.Great scean.

[Juicefani11]

I've got some rare pictures of the filming featuring this boat on my computer. The boat's green there, and blue here, but they were filmed on the same day. Weird...

[mercmarc]

jaws quint dolphin

[ThatsMrMoronToYou]

The scene of Ben Gardner's boat being attacked was filmed(I have seen the stills), but Spielborg, in his genius, cut it because he wanted to hold off on letting the audience see how freakin' big the shark was.

[Juicefani11]

@ThatsMrMoronToYou WAS FILMED?!?!?! Oh, how much i wish i was there. :(

[ThatsMrMoronToYou]

For those of you who saw this in the theatre in 1975, do you remember the scene that was cut out of subsequent showings: Quint baiting the hook of his fishing rod with a dolphin? I understand why it was pulled, but the movie lost a good five minutes of dialogue between a furious Hooper and a smirking Quint. I wonder if there are copies of this movie out there with that scene intact.

[ThatsMrMoronToYou]

@ThatsMrMoronToYou Adding more to this(I know.  I should think out my posts before committing them to the ether), there is another amusing chumming scene that was cut because it showed Quint(in the background)readying the bait before Hooper notices what it is.

[reformedfruit]

@ThatsMrMoronToYou - did that deleted scene ever make it to dvd?

[ThatsMrMoronToYou]

@reformedfruit I bought the 25 year anniversary DVD with deleted scenes, but it wasn't on it. I doubt it was on the VHS either.  It was cut while it was still being shown in the theatres. I saw it on week one of its showing, and again just before theatres stopped showing it, and it was already off. Too bad. In the subsequent scenes, Hooper and Quint hate each other, and the audience is left to believe it's merely a class difference: Rich man vs honest working man.

[ThatsMrMoronToYou]

@ThatsMrMoronToYou I worded that last sentence wrong.  Rich man vs working man is what was meant.

[jodlermann1234]

great movie..

[Juicefani11]

I wrote something like that to wikipedia ages ago, but i'm not sure, if it all is true. All i needed was a bit of research.

[adamdicy]

my favorite Matt Hooper line to Mayor Larry Vaughn

"Um, I think that I'm familiar with the fact, that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and bites you in the ass" this line and him laughing at Mayor Vaughns "Love to prove that wouldn't you, got your name into the National Geographic" gets me every time.

[roxyloveswhose]

@adamdicy LOOL

[Swampdog36]

Yeh my older cousins made me watch this when i was seven... love sharks but wont go swimming in small groups

[hbolle00]

lol, i saw it first time when i where 5 years old ;(

ive been affraid since then xD..

[Dacadvid]

Here I was thinking it was the shark when the body first appeared, even though only a little shark would be able to fit in that space. In a horror movie about sharks, that guy went into the water, without even a protective cage. Not smart. Not smart.

[ThatsMrMoronToYou]

It was this scene that convinced us little shark nerds that this wasn't your typical shark movie, like Shark's Treasure. I was 12 and an accomplished skin diver(in lakes and rivers). After seeing the movie in its entirity, I lost all comfort in the water. Gone was my ability to hold my breath for two and a half minutes. The heart beats a lot when one is fretting about what is behind them or beneath them. I don't even swim in dark swimming pools. Some maniac could have put a shark into one.

[ThatsMrMoronToYou]

@ThatsMrMoronToYou To add to this, I won't swim in the Mississippi, even as far north as Minneapolis, because Bull Sharks have been known to swim hundreds of miles in fresh water.

[FlamingFoxes1]

lol i remeber when everyoen said this scene would scare me for life but i just twitched a little llol

[secretbint]

Why is Dreyfuss panicking at 4:36 ?

Where is his stamina? A little jitter is all he should have felt.

[OHBOYKID316]

he's deffinatly not panicking because he found a mutalted corpse in the ocean...

he's panicking bc he found a mankin inside the boat

jk jk lol

[jeffhardyrox883]

this is my favorite movie of all time but this scene used to scare the living crap out of me. it still gives me chills everytime i see it.

[leedogg6T9]

Just imagine being in the ocean at night, and a dead body pops out of a boat while you're UNDERWATER! I would NEVER go underwater at night

[disasterzone1974]

I saw JAWS 6 times when I was a kid.I`ve never seen an audience react in the same way since.Everyone screamed and jumped out of their seats,including me!It was amazing!It took a couple of minutes for the audience to recover.Everyone was laughing and going crazy.You couldn`t hear the dialogue.Such a classic moment in cinema!

[Sceptile409]

I officially rate this as on of the top most scariest moments in the JAWS movie along with the death of Chrissie and the death of Alex Kintner

[UberKrispy]

Shit man this is the scariest moment in the history of the world

[mopbrothers]

this scene is so scary i refused to watch it as a kid. I always knew the scary part was over when the head popped out. There is not a soul that wouldn;t get scared.

[djallen16]

might be the best scene in the whole movie.

[cons789]

even though i no it gonna happen i always get scared lol

[xcutegirlx25]

you are going to ignore this problem until it swims up and bites you in the ass! Best line ever that always cracks me up

[Norwayolainen]

That sceen scared crap out of me! again:P

[frikadellur]

i screamed when i saw that scene. and i hope that will be the first and the last time i scream when i see a movie!

[TheNewJTProductions]

4:37 almost gave me a heart attack!

[Juicefani11]

How about 4:41 ?

[TheNewJTProductions]

Scary!

[mcl0010]

I hate that scene It freaks me out

[johnsgurl41504]

this is the 1st jaws movie NOT the 3rd....

[MasterRavager]

As stupid as it may sound, this scene still scares me to this day. Especially when they introduce an underwater scream, the increase of the haunting music, and the dead guy coming out. What gets me the most is the bulging eye, the look on his (the dead guy's) face, and that spot where he is missing his other eye.

[Juicefani11]

The dead guy is Fisherman-Captain Ben Gardner.

The face scares me too, and that scream. The music is scaary!

But still i can watch this without my heart hittin right to my throat.

And think, im quite young.

[4PawzProductionz]

that head just pops out and goes "hello!" but it still scares the shit out me.

[Juicefani11]

Yes. Ben looks like he's smilin' in the first picture :) , But in the secont picture he's just :o

[Juicefani11]

Goddamn. Spielberg wanted one more scream with popcorns flyin' to the roof of the moviehouse!

It gave me five screams when i was 6 or 7.

[safetosaydontquoteme]

the sight of his head gave me nightmares for months when i was 8.

[Juicefani11]

Me for years. This year i saw this the first time in many years.

I didn't watch it well, but i saw the video of the homemade ben, and the first pictures are from the boat.

I screamed, and turned off the internet.

Then in a few weeks i just didn't fear anymore.

[safetosaydontquoteme]

yeah, well i'm, 15 now, and i've at haven't seen a movie since then that has scared me. i'm over it now.

[yodavalentine]

engine of device?

[Juicefani11]

Is the boat blue or green?

[Juicefani11]

The head in 4:40 looks some kinda different than when it first popped.

[20liamthemidget08]

thanks for puttin this vid on youtube, i need it for this essay that i gotta do on jaws, on this very scene, cheers mate

[GamefreakTP]

havent watched this movie for a few years, jesus the head popped up a little sooner than i thought it would, i was proper shocked!

[Juicefani11]

If he would not dive and see the head, the teeth would not fall down to the bottom of the ocean.

[jksonny]

I never understood why the fact that Hooper dropped the tooth supposedly prevents them from proving that a shark is on the loose. What about the destroyed boat with bite marks all over it and the chewed-up corpse???? Even if Vaughn wanted to pretend it was just another "boating accident," wouldn't there be more teeth around?

[mdmtProductions]

it wasn't exactly the face that scared me, though that was scary, but it was how it just popped out when you didn't expect it. i hate that.

[sniff001]

I actually can't watch this clip from where Hooper goes underwater to when he comes up again. It scares me to death!!

The high pitched noise as the head comes out is horrible too!!

[Juicefani11]

Yes. What is the instrument?

[rnb942]

Same here; it's a nostalgic tune for me, watched this movie a million times as a kid. If you listen closely at the quiter beginning of the the tune, do you notice a few notes from Superman and Star Wars?

[Bendzsi93]

Then why they going down in midnight? I dont get it...

[Juicefani11]

Yeah! It's Very clear they were goin' to be eaten!

[Bendzsi93]

How people can watch this? when i see thats part i crap my shit and lost my soul:S :(

[Juicefani11]

Even the name Ben Gardner makes me scared!

[Juicefani11]

4:43

I ALWAYS GET SCARED!!!!!

I HATE THAT SCENE!!!!

IT'S TOO HIDEOUS!!!!

BEN GARDNERS BOAT SCENE IS SCARY!!! You can watch it, but im too easy to be scared.

[Jimpsterz]

when i feel depressed i have a drink and put this film on, it works everytime, its doing it right now, cheers!!

[cosmojairzinho14]

amazing change of tone in the music at 3:10

that really install a tense atmosphere

you know that something dangerous swim out there

[sniff001]

Yeah, well spotted.

[policemanandrew]

30+ years later, I have seen this movie about 50 times and it still makes me jump!!!!

But the bit with the burnt women in the surf in Jaws 2 is worse!!!

[sniff001]

No way. This bit scares the life out of me.

[djallen16]

great movie

[dogboop]

this is the first jaws movie not the 3rd

[sinclairzoe]

I always remember this bit - I was hiding under the couch for the rest of the movie!!

[natesway1]

Jaws is just the scariest fuckin' movie ever made. Spielberg is simply one of best movie director ever, able to make movies that can highly entertain or horrify people.

[coyotefever105]

SCARY SCENE!! My mom just went ballistic when she saw the guy pop out!!

[natesway1]

First saw this when I was 6 years old, my Grandmother had to turn the TV off after this scene; too fuckin' scary!!! :O Couldn't take any more. I never seen any movie as a kid where the TV had to be switched off. Only finish watching the rest of Jaws a few years afterwards when it was on TV. The first half of Jaws is actually the scariest.

[natesway1]

The music in this scene just creeps people out; it gives the impression at 3:41 that something really horrid is going to happen to Hooper, possibly get wasted. What a shocker.

[rnb942]

I know; it is just not possible to get scarier than this, the setting of the scene just makes skin crawl; underwater in the middle of the night, knowing fine well there is a shark out there.

[Dac719]

Question...HOW does a shark cut out a man's eye without eating the rest of his head? I guess the tooth left behind poked his eye out, maybe. We'll never know because the actual attack on Ben Gardner was never filmed. The shark must have attacked from behind him and decapitated him. But, how only one of his eyes was poked out remains a mystery. I should ask Spielberg, not that he would even remember how Ben Gardner was attacked to end up as the one-eyed head.

[coyotefever105]

Maybe a scavenger fish swam by and ate one of his eyes.

[sniff001]

Or maybe it just decomposed. But then I suppose you could say why didn't the other?? Hmmmmm....

Good point :)

[ThatsMrMoronToYou]

@Dac719 I imagine it spit out the head for lack of meat. And it was filmed, but Spielborg cut the scene because he wanted to hold off on letting the audience see how big the shark was. I've seen the stills. Ben Gardner and his mate were chucking harpoons at the shark.

[Dac719]

@ThatsMrMoronToYou I didn't know that was filmed! While I agree that Spielberg cut the scene for the reason you said, I also believe he cut it out to avoid getting an R rating. This movie has more than enough blood and gore to be rated R (yet escaped with a PG rating, don't know how)...see when Quint gets eaten along with the guy in the pond and the little boy.

[simplygu]

I saw in an interview a long time ago about this part. This scene was filmed in a large swimming pool. Notice how calm the water is.

[INDIVIDUALHOUSE]

Very frightened when Hooper comes face to face with Ben Gardner's head,and amazing beautiful music score when they discover his boat.

[MrHollandsOpusMov]

This is like crazy scary!!!!! Hard core scary! Richard Dreyfuss is the best!

[crazyman1121]

u Luv it when he came AND HE SAW THE DEAD MAN AND HIS EYE SOCKET WAS CUT OPEN AND HE WUZ WHITE BUT HE DROPPED THE SHARK TOOTH DAMN!

[CaliforniaTD]

Oh God... I remember watching this scene with my mom back when I was in middle school. I've never heard her shriek so loud. I was half asleep, so I just laughed at the whole thing.

[richarddreyfussfan]

it is scary...but I look at stuff on TV and is was grosser...but nothing like being young and being scared sh*(&less...

[Avzzor]

This scene is so damn scary!!!