I was 13 years old when Jaws premiered and I saw it with my father in a 3-plex movie theatre in Santa Rosa CA. Scared me so much I swam in our community pool with my eyes wide open (when I even ventured into the water at all). Reminds me of my dad, trying to keep connecting with his four kids after a divorce, the scent of Hawaiian Tropics cocoa butter tanning oil, short shorts, tube socks. Childhood.
I was 13 years old when Jaws premiered and I saw it with my father in a 3-plex movie theatre in Santa Rosa CA. Scared me so much I swam in our community pool with my eyes wide open (when I even ventured into the water at all). Reminds me of my dad, trying to keep connecting with his four kids after a divorce, the scent of Hawaiian Tropics cocoa butter tanning oil, short shorts, tube socks. Childhood.
There's a lot of recent sightings of great whites off the cape. The newscasts use the Jaws theme when covering these stories.
Not knowing what to do/what comes next is anxiety, to me.
I an old enough to have been a teen encountering the filming of Jaws that summer. Cool shark was moored in the harbor each night.
Happy Birthday Laura!
Anxiety, yes, interesting. We also feel anxious when we believe we know for sure what’s coming, or what we’re about to do.
Such a great memory!
I love a good ambiguous ending. Filmmakers/showrunners/writers love to hold the audience's hand a little too tightly nowadays.
And then when we get one, like The Sopranos, everyone loses their minds!
Love you, babe!