No, YOU'RE going to need a bigger boat
July 5, 2014 12:35 AM Subscribe
"Jaws" ridiculous, say kids who owe everything to "Jaws." Richard Dreyfuss's kids re-visit film history. [alt url]
"Huh, I could have sworn he killed Jaws. I've been telling people that my ex-husband killed Jaws." "Well, I guess people think you were married to Roy Scheider." "I guess so."
Roy Scheider Richard Dreyfuss's kids are very funny.
posted by louche mustachio at 12:59 AM on July 5, 2014 [8 favorites]
posted by louche mustachio at 12:59 AM on July 5, 2014 [8 favorites]
Now I want Roy Scheider's kids to watch Jaws 3D with the Dreyfuss spawn and comment for my amusement.
posted by gingerest at 2:17 AM on July 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by gingerest at 2:17 AM on July 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
Could someone interview the shark's kids, to get a different angle? That would be an interesting interview!
posted by greenhornet at 2:41 AM on July 5, 2014 [5 favorites]
posted by greenhornet at 2:41 AM on July 5, 2014 [5 favorites]
What do Henry Winkler's kids have to say?
posted by Kirth Gerson at 2:58 AM on July 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
posted by Kirth Gerson at 2:58 AM on July 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
Does "This chat has been edited for clarity." = "we didn't really say this, but thought it would be funny if we did".... ?
At first I was ... Wow, whoever wrote this wanted the whole family to come across as not very smart and a little annoying....! Then I realized that it was, evidently, written by his kids... then it didn't make any sense at all....
posted by HuronBob at 3:37 AM on July 5, 2014
At first I was ... Wow, whoever wrote this wanted the whole family to come across as not very smart and a little annoying....! Then I realized that it was, evidently, written by his kids... then it didn't make any sense at all....
posted by HuronBob at 3:37 AM on July 5, 2014
People really think it was Dreyfuss who said the line about a bigger boat?
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 3:42 AM on July 5, 2014 [5 favorites]
posted by potsmokinghippieoverlord at 3:42 AM on July 5, 2014 [5 favorites]
"I've officially taken the Husky off the "predator/carnivore" list. "
Keep in mind, a lot of us that originally saw this in the theater are entering into the golden age of significant memory problems....
posted by HuronBob at 4:29 AM on July 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
Keep in mind, a lot of us that originally saw this in the theater are entering into the golden age of significant memory problems....
posted by HuronBob at 4:29 AM on July 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
"Jaws" Is Ridiculous, Say Kids Who Are Now Out Of The Will --Richard Dreyfuss
posted by Pater Aletheias at 4:45 AM on July 5, 2014 [17 favorites]
posted by Pater Aletheias at 4:45 AM on July 5, 2014 [17 favorites]
Yeah but what do they think about Mr. Holland's Opus?
posted by shakespeherian at 5:05 AM on July 5, 2014
posted by shakespeherian at 5:05 AM on July 5, 2014
Nope, I've not gone nuts (any more so than usual). That copy/paste thing about the husky was from another world and accidently got shoved into Metafilter.. I would be glad to explain it, but it's not really THAT interesting...
Obviously I meant to paste in the "People really think it was Dreyfuss who said the line about a bigger boat", comment..
Carry on...
posted by HuronBob at 5:06 AM on July 5, 2014 [3 favorites]
Obviously I meant to paste in the "People really think it was Dreyfuss who said the line about a bigger boat", comment..
Carry on...
posted by HuronBob at 5:06 AM on July 5, 2014 [3 favorites]
I spent the whole article wondering why it was in Mother Jones, and I still can't explain it.
posted by lownote at 5:11 AM on July 5, 2014
posted by lownote at 5:11 AM on July 5, 2014
Of course Dreyfuss didn't say the bigger boat line. Everyone knows he made the haunting speech about the Indianapolis.
posted by localroger at 5:18 AM on July 5, 2014 [3 favorites]
posted by localroger at 5:18 AM on July 5, 2014 [3 favorites]
Everyone knows he made the haunting speech about the Indianapolis.
Which I believe was written by David Mamet.
posted by valkane at 5:20 AM on July 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
Which I believe was written by David Mamet.
posted by valkane at 5:20 AM on July 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I wanna go to bed...
posted by valkane at 5:24 AM on July 5, 2014 [3 favorites]
posted by valkane at 5:24 AM on July 5, 2014 [3 favorites]
Oh man I must be getting old, because it's pretty clear that it's not that these kids don't understand the movie, it's that they apparently can't understand it. Which is confusing because Emily is 31 and Ben is 28! College kids can be forgiven for being idiots. I used to think of thirty-ish as grown-up, but apparently I need to recalibrate. It makes me want to go shout at a cloud or something.
posted by ob1quixote at 5:28 AM on July 5, 2014
posted by ob1quixote at 5:28 AM on July 5, 2014
I really liked this. I hope my kids don't take me too seriously in 10 years (when they are the Dreyfus' kids age). I hope they don't take me too seriously now. I also hope that RD doesn't take himself too seriously either.
As for Jaws itself, very entertaining movie. Saw it during its original theatrical release then again just a few weeks ago. Logical? No, except the part about the cynical government not wanting to scare away the tourists since they need the revenue.
Of course, we can all agree that Hooper had the better scars than Quint.
posted by 724A at 5:44 AM on July 5, 2014
As for Jaws itself, very entertaining movie. Saw it during its original theatrical release then again just a few weeks ago. Logical? No, except the part about the cynical government not wanting to scare away the tourists since they need the revenue.
Of course, we can all agree that Hooper had the better scars than Quint.
posted by 724A at 5:44 AM on July 5, 2014
Everyone knows he made the haunting speech about the Indianapolis.
Which I believe was written by David Mamet.
No, it was written by John Milius.
Edit: Oops, I see what you did there! Well played.
posted by VikingSword at 5:45 AM on July 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
Which I believe was written by David Mamet.
No, it was written by John Milius.
Edit: Oops, I see what you did there! Well played.
posted by VikingSword at 5:45 AM on July 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
The funniest/weirdest thing is the way that they keep conflating things their dad's character did with things their dad did. I'm pretty sure Richard Dreyfuss didn't buy that dress with his own money.
posted by 256 at 5:45 AM on July 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by 256 at 5:45 AM on July 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
Oh man I must be getting old, because it's pretty clear that it's not that these kids don't understand the movie, it's that they apparently can't understand it.
I mean, they're not wrong.
posted by shakespeherian at 5:46 AM on July 5, 2014
I mean, they're not wrong.
posted by shakespeherian at 5:46 AM on July 5, 2014
I just want to know what's so special about the Husky.
posted by fullerine at 5:48 AM on July 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by fullerine at 5:48 AM on July 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
I'd like to laugh but after I saw Jaws I was afraid to dangle my feet...
Over the edge of the back seat and into the footwell of my parents Chevy Impala while driving to Florida for march break. That car was as big as the ocean but still...
posted by srboisvert at 5:48 AM on July 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
Over the edge of the back seat and into the footwell of my parents Chevy Impala while driving to Florida for march break. That car was as big as the ocean but still...
posted by srboisvert at 5:48 AM on July 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
I'm waiting for next year, because I'm hoping there's some kind of 40th anniversary theatrical re-release with a 3D conversion because the tech is so much better than it was when the third installment of the series had come out.
And just before the credits roll, Spielburg splices in the scene from BttF:2 where Michael J. Fox gets scared out of his wits by the holographic shark, but then comments that it "still looks fake."
posted by radwolf76 at 5:51 AM on July 5, 2014
And just before the credits roll, Spielburg splices in the scene from BttF:2 where Michael J. Fox gets scared out of his wits by the holographic shark, but then comments that it "still looks fake."
posted by radwolf76 at 5:51 AM on July 5, 2014
This is interesting to me because it is related to a burning question I've always had: how are actors' kids introduced to their work? I mean, if you're Picasso's daughter I imagine that you grew up surrounded by his stuff, around in the house, in the studio. But films are something that you have to deliberately sit down and watch.
Emily says that they saw it as a family, twenty years ago. Like, did they sit down and watch all his movies together because it was A Thing that Dad Did? Or was Jaws just on TV one Sunday afternoon and they didn't have anything else to do?
Anyway, I've got an idea for my next Askme.
posted by lollymccatburglar at 5:56 AM on July 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
Emily says that they saw it as a family, twenty years ago. Like, did they sit down and watch all his movies together because it was A Thing that Dad Did? Or was Jaws just on TV one Sunday afternoon and they didn't have anything else to do?
Anyway, I've got an idea for my next Askme.
posted by lollymccatburglar at 5:56 AM on July 5, 2014 [2 favorites]
I spent the whole article wondering why it was in Mother Jones, and I still can't explain it.
Ben Dreyfuss is an editor for MJ.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 6:00 AM on July 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
Ben Dreyfuss is an editor for MJ.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 6:00 AM on July 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
Just a guess, but I suspect the "saw it as a family 20 years ago" might have something to do with it having been the 20th anniversary. There was a big special edition home release.
posted by GhostintheMachine at 6:49 AM on July 5, 2014
posted by GhostintheMachine at 6:49 AM on July 5, 2014
Come on, the theory that the shark actually wanted to kill Ben Gardner and is committing all the other killings to cover up is pretty genius.
posted by maxsparber at 7:04 AM on July 5, 2014 [7 favorites]
posted by maxsparber at 7:04 AM on July 5, 2014 [7 favorites]
This is interesting to me because it is related to a burning question I've always had: how are actors' kids introduced to their work?
Keifer Sutherland apparently had no idea his father was an actor ( or indeed, what he even did for a living) until he was well into young adulthood.
posted by The Whelk at 7:07 AM on July 5, 2014 [3 favorites]
Keifer Sutherland apparently had no idea his father was an actor ( or indeed, what he even did for a living) until he was well into young adulthood.
posted by The Whelk at 7:07 AM on July 5, 2014 [3 favorites]
Dear Emily and Ben Dreyfuss: I will give you both gift accounts if you promise to comment in every thread.
posted by Room 641-A at 7:48 AM on July 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Room 641-A at 7:48 AM on July 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
how are actors' kids introduced to their work?
A recent This American Life had a rather sweet segment in which Molly Ringwald watches The Breakfast Club with her 10-year-old daughter: Is That What I Look Like?. (Transcript.)
A recent This American Life had a rather sweet segment in which Molly Ringwald watches The Breakfast Club with her 10-year-old daughter: Is That What I Look Like?. (Transcript.)
So it was kind of weird that she was the only one that hadn't seen this movie. And she said that it was a conversation at slumber parties where that's a movie that some kids want to watch and that she had always said, please, I don't want to watch it. Can we watch something else? Because she wanted to watch it with me-- which I thought was really nice.posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 8:15 AM on July 5, 2014 [5 favorites]
I remember some interview with Mark Hamill and he was walking through the den one day and his kids were watching Star Wars on TV. So I guess, some of them just change the channel and there is Mom.
posted by double bubble at 8:18 AM on July 5, 2014
posted by double bubble at 8:18 AM on July 5, 2014
My dad's not an actor but for the handful of feature films he did audio mixing for I got to go to the premier.
posted by shakespeherian at 8:58 AM on July 5, 2014
posted by shakespeherian at 8:58 AM on July 5, 2014
I have a friend who has a film degree, is totally the right age to have seen Jaws in the theatre as a young teen and is a huge fan of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and Rock 'N Roll Generation Saved Hollywood, but had made it to her 40s without ever seeing it, even on late night TV. So, her also-film-degree-having husband decided they needed to fix that and rented it one night about ten years ago. Only she fell asleep before the end! So rather than rewatch it, he just told her how it ended. She spent a good long time talking about how brilliant Spielberg was to break convention so thoroughly by having the shark kill all the main players.
posted by looli at 11:17 AM on July 5, 2014 [7 favorites]
posted by looli at 11:17 AM on July 5, 2014 [7 favorites]
This is what happens.
posted by wabbittwax at 12:13 PM on July 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by wabbittwax at 12:13 PM on July 5, 2014 [1 favorite]
Can we do a sequel to What About Bob? where Bob is replaced by the shark?
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 6:28 PM on July 5, 2014
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 6:28 PM on July 5, 2014
Yeah but what do they think about Mr. Holland's Opus?
The only question worth asking is what they think about Krippendorf's Tribe.
posted by dhartung at 1:10 AM on July 6, 2014 [2 favorites]
The only question worth asking is what they think about Krippendorf's Tribe.
posted by dhartung at 1:10 AM on July 6, 2014 [2 favorites]
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Besides, I prefer to think of Richard Dreyfuss as I remember him best, in "American Graffiti".
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:59 AM on July 5, 2014 [2 favorites]