The Virtual Adventures of Lizzie

Its time for another Memorable Movie Lines post a la Lizzie Lexington, YAY.  Today’s post is inspired by a movie that changed American movie going like no other movie has since.  And what is the movie you ask?  Well of course its Jaws which features one most well known and often quoted movie lines of all time “You’re gonna need a bigger boat”, YAY!

Hot fun in the summer time!  LOL.  Flashback – Summer of 1975 and the world was taken by storm by a big HUGE man-eating Fish!!  Lizzie was definitely alive during the Summer of ‘75 and she has a few memories of the fear that swept the nation in response to the film’s release.  Anyone who was alive and aware of their surroundings at that time can’t help but remember the frightening opening scene of the two lone swimmers, the unforgettable soundtrack by John Williams, the numerous pop culture references it inspired and the now famous final battle between three men and a…..fish.  The film was so effective in its depiction of a town living in fear of this big ole’ shark that people in real life were too afraid to go to the beach LOL!  Interestingly enough, according to Wikipedia the movie itself had many firsts:

• It was the first film to open on simultaneous screens nationwide
• It was the beginning of a new business model in American filmmaking
• Its consider the father of the Summer Blockbuster

Besides all this, in Lizzie’s eyes its a damn good film.  Lizzie is a huge fan of Steven Spielberg’s 70s films including Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.  Besides the visual effects of the both films, Lizzie loves the way Spielberg directed and filmed the actors in such a way that makes you feel as though you are watching the interactions of the characters via a hidden camera rather than a movie sound stage.  Many of the scenes appear to be unrehearsed and unstaged particularly during the scenes of family life in.  As a matter of fact, the most famous line of the film uttered by Roy Schneider, “You’re gonna need a bigger boat” soon after he first sees the giant beast face to face, was actually ad-libbed!

In many ways, Jaws changed American cinema and paved the way for such films as Star Wars and E.T, creating a both a story and a phenom in one fell swoop (remember SNL’s “Land Shark”, LOL. If you don’t google it).  So here we go my friends, the feature for today is Lizzie and the Big Man Eating Fish!

Hooper: What we are dealing with is a perfect engine, an eating machine. It’s really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and makes little sharks, and that’s all. Now, why don’t you take a long look at this sign. Those proportions are correct.
Mayor Vaughn: Love to prove that, wouldn’t ya? Get your name into the National Geographic.

Mayor Vaughn: I don’t think either of one you are familiar with our problems.
Hooper: 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 ON THE ASS!

Hooper: I’m not going to waste my time arguing with a man who’s lining up to be a hot lunch.

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Ellen Brody: Martin hates boats. Martin hates water. Martin… Martin sits in his car when we go on the ferry to the mainland. I guess it’s a childhood thing. It’s a… there’s a clinical name for it isn’t there?
Brody: Drowning.

Brody: It doesn’t make any sense when you pay a guy like you to watch sharks.
Hooper: Well, uh, it doesn’t make much sense for a guy who hates the water to live on an island either.
Brody: It’s only an island if you look at it from the water.
Hooper: That makes a lot of sense.

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Quint: [seeing Hooper's equipment] What are you? Some kind of half-assed astronaut?
[examining the shark cage]
Quint: Jesus H Christ, when I was a boy, every little squirt wanted to be a harpooner or a sword fisherman. What d’ya have there – a portable shower or a monkey cage?
Hooper: Anti-Shark cage.
Quint: Anti-shark cage. You go inside the cage?
[Hooper nods]
Quint: Cage goes in the water, you go in the water. Shark’s in the water. Our shark.
[sings]
Quint: Farewell and adieu to you, fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu, you ladies of Spain. For we’ve received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we see you again.

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Hooper: [motioning to Brody to get closer to the barrels] Come on Martin! Move, move, move!
Brody: I’m not going out there!
Hooper: Beyond the edge of the barrels, go to the end of the barrels! Further out!
Brody: What?
Hooper: Go further out!
Brody: What for?
Hooper: Will you go to the end of the pulpit please? Please go to the end of the pulpit!
Brody: What for?
Hooper: I need something in the foreground to give it some scale
Brody: Foreground my ass!

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Hooper: [trying to get the fishing line secure] It may be a marlin or a stingray… but it’s definitely a game fish.
[Hooper pulls as the lines snaps and he crashes his head into the wall]
Quint: [picking up the line] Gamin’ fish, eh? Marlin? Stingray? Bit through this piano wire? Don’t you tell me my business again! You get back on the bridge…
Hooper: Quint, that doesn’t prove a damn thing!
Quint: Well it proves one thing, Mr. Hooper. It proves that you wealthy college boys don’t have the education enough to admit when you’re wrong.

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Brody: Smile you son of a BITCH.
[shoots at the air tank]
Brody: [Jaws blows up]
[Brody laughs manaically]

“You’re gonna need a bigger boat.”–Chief Brody (Roy Scheider, who ad-libbed the line) to Quint (Robert Shaw)

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Well that’s it for today’s episode of Lizzie’s Best Movie Lines EVAH, Yay!  Oh before she goes Lizzie wants to give a HUGE shoutout to Gyorgyna Larnia of the fabulous jewelry store LaGyo for making these fabulous Anchor earrings.  Lizzie looked high and low for anchor earrings and after sending a group IM Gyorgyna lovingly led Lizzie to her store.  Hugs to you Gyorgyna, mwahh!  And oh, if you are Jaws fan like Lizzie, be sure and check out Amity Island a sim devoted to all that is Jaws, LOL, which is also where Lizzie took her pics for this post.  Okay, Lizzie will shut up now so take care my friends and have a great second life!

• Hair:  >TRUTH< Vesper – walnut

• Skin:  D-Skin60_F0_E0_L1

• Eyes:  []::Tuli::[] quiet eyes ~ blue

• Bathing Suit: * *ICING* Anchors Aweigh

• Shoes: [SC] Surf Couture – Freedom Flops – Red

• Necklace:  *SaLsA!*  Anchor Necklace

• Earrings:  LaGyo anchor-woman earrings  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Garman/162/107/102

• Glasses:  Wigglesworth(W) Lucky Gold Glasses

• Hat:  Kurotsubaki mugiwara(apple_version)

• Chapstick:  Wigglesworth (W) Rosalind’s Chapstick