The Shark that Didn't Work

[BrokenBeats94]

That is what made the movie really was to not show a lot of the shark as it built up to a awesome ending

[mariusel666]

1:57 age of empires music fuck yea

[TheBrradsullivan]

a shark named bruce...finding nemo...facepalm lol

[hofsteveO]

The pics at 1:31 are the Jaws 2 shark...

[SwarmingHalo]

@flamingcartman312 ROFLMAO!

[killer3000ad]

I see back then Lucas was breaking other people's work, well before he started breaking his own work.

[xWeBecameTheSunx]

deep blue > jaws.

[manMAFBoo]

@xWeBecameTheSunx my cock > yours

[RhythmBulzara]

@xWeBecameTheSunx Deep Blue use animation for their damn shiity sharks, Jaws was a challenge and only masters could have done it.

[uome20bukz]

@xWeBecameTheSunx Not sure if trolling...

[MrMoorkey]

George Lucas broke the shark? NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­!!!

[TheForceFollower94]

3:07 Oh George, where would we be without you?

[unclebobpart2]

@TheForceFollower94 : LLLAAAAAAaaahhh. We would be in the garbage. The soup is ok there and foul beaners won't bother us.

[IndianaJonesfans09]

The shark's name is Bruce? *insert Finding Nemo joke here*

[Taipan278]

@IndianaJonesfans09 Bruce is a reference to this film.

[IndianaJonesfans09]

@Taipan278 Yeah, got that, I just wanted to do that. ^^

[DeaglePwnagez]

Watch Deep Blue Sea, evolution of jaws . best shark is deep blue sea for me :D

[msfabulous411]

@DeaglePwnagez

omg i love that movie c:

[Floptheclown]

i think its funny that Universal thought of Jaws as a b-movie, and it turned out to be a movie icon! theres a Jaws ride at Universal Studios for Christ's sake!!!

[the3ninjakidsrevenge]

@Floptheclown annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd Now it's Closed

[Professicchio]

Unfortunately creativity-ehnanching problems like this do no longer happen because of the CGI effect.

[h31212]

they should have asked Adam and Jamie to make the shark robot

[flamingcartman312]

1:01 That ship in the background is called the Warlock. Its was normal boat. But then something magical happened. Oh yes. Once Hollywood got a hold of the Warlock, it changed for the better. In a boat house in Martha's Vineyard, it was transformed into the magesty of...

The Orca.

[TheEliteTherapist]

What about special effects?

[MongooseFreeRider]

First time i saw this in 82 at 7 yrs old i thought it was a real shark then every time i went to the beach i would automaticly think JAWS and got to scared to go in the water and this got worse after i seen JAWS 2 where i was more scared to even go to the beach So yeah they made it scare the wits outta me for many years and all i can say is WELL DONE SPIELBERG

[RainxDog]

@MongooseFreeRider lmao I saw Jaws for the first time at about that age also, and I thought jaws was somehow going to swim through the drain in my aunt's pool and hide in the deep end because the water was always so damn murky. So before I'd ever jump in I'd take the leaf net and poke around the deep end XD

[MsMady1121]

this is a tiny bit boring

[Mjackson42]

haha the sharks called bruce ..... finding nemo stole it!!! XD

[Kamehameha941]

5:39 should have been a scene in the movie!

[idealmethod]

I still have dreams where no matter how fast I try to run I look behind me and theres that bloody shark! He comes on to land I tell you! Hes like my little freddy krugger chasing me in my dreams! - still the best film ever!

[rminister1971]

yep only see the shark 2/3 into the movie.

[rminister1971]

Universal got that wrong with Jaws, 9 million dollars budget compared to the 470 million dollar box office. not a bad ratio.

[genericgeorge]

I dont care what anybody says that shark was still real scary and it was great for the day. Very well made

[GUMMRUCHK]

fake or not the guy at 0:22 is crazy that's JAWS and he is in it's mouth

[IsSaidLikeThis]

This was back when Hollywood would actually work to make a Movie look good

[DetroitSquirreL]

BRUCE!!!!!

[gustcba]

amo esta pelicula, forma parte de la historia grande del cine, lo que no se logró con tecnología se hizo con el talento de S. SPIELBERG, creando mas suspenso (ya que el tiburon mecanico fallaba a veces) ERAN OTROS Y MEJORES TIEMPOS EN EL CINE. (cuatro años despues el ingenio de GEORGE LUCAS y mas avanzada tecnologia logró otro icono del cine STAR WAR, no fueron superadas por la saga....

[CmaRiaBieBer101]

A lot of Work, paid off!(: Amazing movie! I never think for a second watching this movie That it's Mechanical shark.

[RepaleoN]

watch megalodon and laugh your ass off

[ikosabre]

Interesting how the technological and resource limitations of the production lead to a more artistic, suspenseful and overall, better movie. Modern producers and directors have all the technology they need, but they couldn't make an artistic, involving, legendary movie if there lives depended on it.

[KingKaiju54]

@ikosabre Well said.

[roquefortfiles]

@ikosabre Well said. Nobody knows how to make films these days. Its all junk. Its all studio bean counter run crap. They had to work hard back in those days. Today its too easy for film makers to rely on CGI to solve all their problems. I doubt very much we will be looking back on ANY films made today in the same manner we look back on Jaws and say... "What a classic".

Ain't happening.

[slash1956]

@roquefortfiles

No question you are correct about the CGI today. No reall great filmmakers today...just computer and 3D programers.

[aquaMangoLMAO]

@ikosabre Thats very true. High-tech films today also lack the story and characters. Take away the FX, and there's nothing there.

[ito2789]

fucken genius!

[DeCoste08]

good movie, but gives bad reputation to sharks :(



[kadehatten]

horror film? its not that bad wait wait WAHHHHHHHHHHHH

[TakeMeBackTo1986]

Long live "Bruce" the shark! ;)

[Mclovens99]

steven spielberg should remake the first jaws movie (the original one) with todays technology.

[EquinoxIV]

@Mclovens99 What would be the point? More shark scenes? Did you watch this video at all?

[ikosabre]

@Mclovens99 no,no, nooohno, no, no

[ttv0]

@Mclovens99 it would have to be a robot shark again

[jxaero55]

poor shark didnt work :(

[jxaero55]

3:03 creepy sharks eye

[AlexSDU]

0:41 "Universal's big films were Airport 75 and Hindenburg."

How come I never heard of them before? I knew Jaws, though.

[TheLegendOfRandy]

I would love to go to Earth B, a parallel universe in which the shark never broke and worked magically. I would love to see what that movie would have been and what Spielberg initially had in his head.

[myers82]

Jaws: ONE OF THE BEST MOVIE EVER MADE ;-)

[screamfan1234]

A mechanical shark would be so much better then a cgi shark

[ArmorKingTV21]

It's official speilberg.....MAKE....A...REMA­KE!

[TheScorpionMK37]

This proves george lucas is a horrible director.

[0532MOET]

The fact that the shark was sorta fake looking made it seem scarier, more lifeless

[switchbuckle5th]

This is great stuff. Can anybody tell me what documentary this is from? It's obvious that this is just a small portion of a larger whole.

[MicrowaveJellyfish]

@switchbuckle5th It's called 'JAWS: The Inside Story'

[DetroitSquirreL]

@switchbuckle5th I believe its from the 25th Anniversary DVD

[Muscle4LifeX]

It feels like people these days are getting very lazy. Now people don´t wanna do things like this because it takes too much work and it´s easier to sit behind a computer. The truth is, special effects in horror movies isn´t scary because it just doesn´t look real. So why not get your hands dirty and make a good movie?

[edward18517]

what the hell makes you think making good CGI is easy to do at all?

[Muscle4LifeX]

@edward18517 Never said it was easy, i said it is easier.

[edward18517]

have you done CGI?

[Muscle4LifeX]

@edward18517 Not personally, no.

Again, not saying it´s easy at all. But it´s easier to sit behind a computer than screwing around with animatronics in salt water. CGI isn´t bad, but it just doesn´t fit in every movie. Horror movie monsters in CGI just doesn´t do it, it doesn´t look real, and that´s the truth.

[edward18517]

the truth is that if done correctly CGI is UNABLE to be differentiated from real things by the human eye. Anything you see onscreen can be done with computers and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference if it was done well enough.

[0532MOET]

@edward18517 Well why does every movie with cgi in it suck

[edward18517]

They don't.

[windowsVD]

@edward18517

That's impossible for now, no matter HOW GOOD the CGI is. Maybe sometime in the future with advanced computers, that can be acheived, but as of now no matter how good it looks, it will never look totally realistic.

[edward18517]

...do you see live action things on a tv screen?

If you do that same image can be made piece by piece in 3D. If the 3D's done well enough your eye physically can not tell the difference between what is real and what is not.

[windowsVD]

@edward18517

Yes but my point is, the current technology is NOT good enough...at least not yet. So far not once have 3D and combined with CGI made me feel like I could reach out to the screen and touch it. And of course if the point is to recreate an image in CG, than it would be much easier to make more realistic.

[edward18517]

unless of course you have seen CGI that looks like real life and haven't noticed that it is in fact CGI...

[windowsVD]

@edward18517

Well, in the new planet of the apes movie, all the apes were CGI/motion captured, and there was this one orangutan who interacted with the main ape, I spend the entire movie thinking that the orangutan was a real trained ape actor while all the other apes were CGI, until I found out that the organgutan had also been played by an stunt actor. So I guess CGI when used well can actually look like real life, props to WETA digital!

[kazzieloo]

To this day, I never see this movie and think, "Fake shark." Yes, the special effects then were cumbersome and time-consuming, but what art! The element of the "unseen" is what makes JAWS so powerful! Still a fav after all these years.

[mrlego611]

@kazzieloo You know movies nowadays, don't follow what I call the "Hitchcock Method" They just go ahead and show the killer. No FPS (First Person Shots), no suspense. They just show the killer and add tons of blood and gore and make the movie predictable and horrible.

[henninggirl]

@kazzieloo I think they realized it was more important for the shark to be terrifying than realistic.

[Jakescam]

I finally realize why the shark in Finding Nemo's name is Bruce.

[MrsWLeach]

Thanks for posting this!

[generalBlasto]

I saw this when I was 12. Then went on to see it more than a dozen times. I even brought a cassette tape recorder in to tape it. I just couldnt get enough. To me the shark looked real and still holds up today. Jaws was on cable recently and I asked my gf if the shark looked fake and she said yes... Sigh

[MrJazzHOP]

I hate the CGI creature features the most. The computer touch-ups always looks fake and reworked! That's why Jaws and Carpenter's The Thing still stands up today, as does Evil Dead 1 and 2. There's a reason why Tarantino hates CGI. Look at Sam Raimi's Drag me To Hell, the last scene where the head morphs into a burning skull looks fake.Raimi conceded that it looked fake, and has vowed never to use CGI like that again! Long live hand-made special effects! Jaws still packs a bite!

[SeaFox10]

Years ago, (1976-ish) I went on the Universal Studios tram tour! While the guide was doing her little speach, I was looking elsewhere, and in an ally, I saw three of the sharks used in the movie laying on sawhorses with their sides open, and all kinds of hoses hanging out!

[spiffcorgi]

George Lucas! Can you leave nothing alone!?

[bradyfitzy]

they were showing it in toronto a few months back i went to go see it and I got Steven`s autograph

[skrilldawg]

SO uh. I guess the Shark is still Working isn't working?..

Why not just leak the thing. It's been like 5 years and every year they shelf the thing.

[EricFaith1]

2:07 that is the coolest shark i have ever seen. what would you do if you saw that on a fishing trip???

[ritaruin]

nothing beats Jaws . i let my kid see shark nite 2 d and some other newer chessey shark movies but i havent let her watch the great JAWS because it still looks great and i remember as a child i thought Jaws was real. people were afraid to go in the water and they killed sharks because of this movie .now thats art

[BlaineBingham]

Jaws has been my number one movie of all time since 1984 and it always will be no matter what movie comes out next. I only heard about Jaws since 1983. I wonder who the person is that dislikes this video here at You Tube. Shame on him/her.

[TURBODORK2]

george lucas not only ruined star wars but ruined the fake shark

[Br1unFROMva]

@TURBODORK2 he created star wars so how could he hve ruined it?

[SixTheSuperSaiyan]

@TURBODORK2 What do you mean "ruined star wars" he was the one who made it.

[morrie2382]

'Gdayyyyyy My names Bruce'

[jksonny]

AFI should do one of those lists of the top non-human movie characters. IMO, Bruce the Shark would be the clear #1.

Also on the list: King Kong, Godzilla, HAL, Old Yeller, Bambi, Dumbo, the Thing, the Terminator, the Birds in 'The Birds.'.

[gconyers]

It's funny when you know that Dreyfuss and Shaw don't get along for real...Shaw couldn't stand him.

[Gassebol]

Great actors in this movie Scheider Shaw and Dreyfuss. Fantastic chemistry between them.

[nightcrow90]

This movie was awesome for its time.

They never shoot movies at sea at the time :)

[LloydChristmas777]

Very interesting. I never knew about all of this. The technical issues forced Spielberg to become a better director.

[2007frodo]

bruce lee of the sea :)

[kingcrematorium]

This "behind the scenes" information is very intriguing and I now have a little more respect for the film, but that shark is still really shoddy.

[rareu4532]

When they make this move, took half year just make the jaws, "Now take one month and you have more releastic jaws ever seen on cinemaic =).. The computer generations is fast

[MicrowaveJellyfish]

@rareu4532 CGI is still never realistic enough nor anatomically correct. Even in Shark Night, the most recent one they look like cartoon characters, especially @ the attack scenes. The movement is all wrong, top side of the sharks' head bends in as the nose goes up and the mouth opens, the upper jaw stays at the same place etc. It's not convincing. The only time they got it right was in some scenes of Deep Blue Sea and those featured animatronics.

[shadymages]

@MicrowaveJellyfish

You hit the nail on the head. I am discouraged by the evolution of CGI in monster movies. Never has it been good enough to compensate for a lack of a physical presence an animatronic creature brings. Animatronic monsters are creepy even if they look fake. I also agree with your point about DBS - excellent animatronics and not an overuse of CGI. I wish someone would try and make an old school shark film with barely any CGI, but prob. not gna happen.

[drchen054]

@MicrowaveJellyfish cool are you in sfx?

[15willywonka1]

@MicrowaveJellyfish Sometimes animatronics and salt water don't mix. I think to me that CGI is way cooler.

[VarunMehtasWorld]

@MicrowaveJellyfish i agree although they can place better CG but that can't surpass this one...speilberg knew what he was doing nd succeedded in it

[edward18517]

if 3D's done right it looks like real life. You can't tell it apart from a real thing if it's done correctly.

[gustcba]

@MicrowaveJellyfish es evidente que aquel tiburon mecanico de JAWS tal vez no se veia muy real, si tiene defectos en su movimiento, y los actuales hechos por computadora tampoco se ven muy reales, en Deep Blue Sea se notaba mucho la diferencia en velocidad de movimiento entre los animatronics y los hechos por computadora (que eran demasiado rápidos), hay que estar en 1974 y sin tecnologia, era puro ingenio y eran otros tiempos...

[VarunMehtasWorld]

@rareu4532 nopes any CG can't bring out the effect like this one......most of the people who saw the first time never really thought it looked mechanical...and that was the effect...

[ttv0]

@rareu4532 ya and think the cgi movies suck this is a classic animation is faster so only lazy ass directors use it (exept star wars)

[gustcba]

@rareu4532 estimado amigo, lo de JAWS tiene mucho mas mérito que las peliculas actuales con algunos clics tenemos un tiburon, pero por mas defectos que haya tenido ese tiburón mecánico, me quedo con el y no con tiburones u otros animales hechos por computadora, aquel puede no haber parecido real pero los realizados por computadora son aún menos reales.... es mi opinion.

[jackball74]

Anybody know how to get a copy of Spielberg's original script?

[shadowman2192]

Farewell an adieu to you fare Spanish ladies, farewell an adieu to you ladies of Spain, for we received orders to sail back to Boston, so nevermore shall wee see you again.

[Adastra14]

hahhaa Tommy Wiseau made the vid! :D

[MicrowaveJellyfish]

@Adastra14 He did NAAAA- I mean, I'm just an avid fan :)

[alexwillieshow]

thumbs up if you thought a guy would get eaten on accident and he died and you would think this was gonna be funny

[CVKH2011]

use a anti-baseball bat to make the shark

[devilmaycry5fan1999]

Shark named bruce + walt disney = finding nemo :(

[skull2470]

can we have bruce back for are shark movies? he looks far more real than that crappy CGI or any fake shark they ever made after him

[Justinian43]

3:09 Oh george back then he was already ruining movies, maybe that was the foreshadowing for the star wars prequels...

[nastymonsters2]

They never got the mouth right

[1977wheelz]

mechanical shark or nt jaws is an awesome movie

[LoveGameSuperLover]

AAH! I'm Getting SO mad!

I can't find the movie like the Giant Squid is with!

Anybody knows what the movie calls when the Animatronic Giant Squid is into?!

[MicrowaveJellyfish]

@LoveGameSuperLover it's the Walt Disney version of "20000 Leagues Under the Sea" from 1954, I think you can find the whole movie on youtube.

There's a 1996 TV movie called "The Beast" (based on a Peter Benchley novel, just like JAWS), that one has some pretty good animatronic giant squid effects too.

[LoveGameSuperLover]

@MicrowaveJellyfish Thank you so much! :)

[1littlg8]

i had no clue that spielberg was friends with geroge lucas

[ammorreztristar]

One of the greatest film of all time. Steven Spielberg is a Genuis !!

[FCWPM]

3:01 that wrinkled bottom jaw hurts me, and I wasn't even the director.

[souljdoggy]

keep on pushing 7

[phailandaids]

@souljdoggy 9 and 1 work pretty good too

[vanhalen515084]

this movie is one of the best ever, movies made back then without todays special effects are way better, more realistic, that movie anaconda is a frickin joke, so phony, i love this movie, i think its better if they don't remake this one, thanks for the upload

[SS3JackStudios]

Does anybody know where I can find actual test footage or basic shooting with the shark from the movie?

[FestArc]

They don't make em' like this anymore.

[TheSonicWinds]

Great upload! I never get tired of watching Bruce himself or people talking about him.

[hard90]

Did you notice the photo of Spielberg+Lucas when they were young...???

Werent they handsome dudes...???

Niiiiiice !

[MicrowaveJellyfish]

@hard90 young Spielberg reminds me of John Lennon.

[KenFromBeara]

@hard90 they nearly looked alike

[KenFromBeara]

@hard90 they nearly looked alike

[GENEFGMK]

Funny how things turn out.

[donniedarkodevotte]

0:25 He looks like he's wearing a Roger Ebert mask.

[Holex5678]

They shoulda sued the Times Magazine for improper entry or so called Tresspassing.

[roquefortfiles]

Given the fact of what Joe was up against and the attitude at the time. I think he and his entire team should have won the academy award that year for special mechanical effects. On the whole Bruce was an outstandingly well done job.

[Kalebbrantleach]

@roquefortfiles i feel sorry for the divers who had to go down and get the robot when it didnt work, scary shit

[elFaustFilms]

Thanks for the upload.

It's good to see, how many problems they had with that bastard 36 years ago(!), and the movie still kicks ass.

Nowadays two or three 14 old geeks create 'better' sharks in CGI, with only clicks involved. How sad.

[MicrowaveJellyfish]

@elFaustFilms Luckily, shark movies nowadays really aren't that CGI-exclusive. Both the Australian "Bait" and "Shark (K)night 3D" by David Ellis (director of the m-f'ckin' snakes) will feature animatronic fishies, and for the latter one they hired Walt Conti, the guy who created the makos for Deep Blue Sea. Best and most realistic mechanical sharks ever. Both movies will get theatrical release, and the animatronic bastards are here to stay, it seems :)

[Kalebbrantleach]

@MicrowaveJellyfish could u imagine a remote controlled bruce shark from jaws! that would kick ass!

[roquefortfiles]

@Kalebbrantleach It would!!! It would be so cool to see what a Walt Conti or Stan Winston studios (Stan's gone now) could do with "Bruce" today. The mold making and sculpting aspect has not changed that much since 74. But the hydraulics and micro processors have. The level of control of the movements is incredibly refined now. All the areas that were difficult to do on Bruce (tail swish..gums, swimming motion) could be FULLY realized today. And no submerge able. It would be free swimming

[stangdude360rs]

@MicrowaveJellyfish why did they onlu keep 1 shark and hang it in a tree at a junkyard??? its movie history

[xyzvision]

That junkyard fibreglass shark is the last shark from the JAWS oriinal mould used at Universal to take photos with. Sold to U-Pick-Parts who decided to mount it at their entrrance instead of just junking it. Thank God! It should be preserved in a museum. The other original sharks just rotted away (just like the 2 Orca boats) in a back lot at Universal Studios. Grrrrr. Boo! (I once saw a picture taken back lot of Universal where the sharks were lined up peeling and rotting away in the elements.

[TheRockerchef]

@xyzvision It so stupid on the studio's part not to put these things out of the elements. Like you said museums or private collectors. Dont just let that stuff rot away.

[Heatseeker872591]

@MicrowaveJellyfish - i prefer animatronics to cgi anyay cgi has ruined everythingthese days, a decent detailed animatronic dinosaur,shark,werewolf or whatever looks alot more realistic than crap cgi

[arthuro13]

@MicrowaveJellyfish

loved those full shots of the Deep blue sea sharks.. really skilled. not much of a fan of CGI either.

nice upload.. very interresting!

[BuddhaMaster84]

@elFaustFilms yeah they can, even I can. But they will never BE REAL!

[BuddhaMaster84]

Filmmakers take note: If you wanna make a GOOD shark movie- don't show a shark!

[javierchaconm]

@elFaustFilms Why sad? It saves production time and money, looks more realistic, and creates less problems. What's wrong with you?

I'm a Jaws fan, and Steven Spielberg is my idol, but CGI is film evolution, and is getting better and better. Jurassic Park was CGI, a lot of his movies where made with this technology. I hate when people criticize this things only because they are new and have replaced the old systems. 

[willyjwonkaful]

@javierchaconm Well I could say what's wrong with you? CGI doesn't look realistic at all, it looks stupid and fake. Look at Scooby Doo, The Hulk, The Mist. All those effects looks diabolical. And Jurassic Park was not CGI actually. Small bits of it were but the majority of Jurassic Park was animatronics, just like in the 50's. Stan Winston built those dinosaus for Steven Spielberg, and they look great as a result. No one is disliking it for being new,they dislike it becuase it looks silly.

[javierchaconm]

@willyjwonkaful Oh, but you are using the worst CGI work of all time as comparison, I know , The Hulk and Scooby Dooanimations were a disaster not to mention Scorpion King and others. But how about The Lord of The Rings animation Gollum? an Academy Award wining, Yoda from the last two Star Wars episodes , Avatar's Neitiry (I know the movie was horrible) but the visual aspects were great, an even some old ones like T-1000 from Terminator 2.

[edward18517]

those aren't well done CGI creatures in those movies. And Jurassic Park had some pretty damn realistic looking things in it when it was in 3D