Jackson Jambalaya

Drove by the Malco Sunday afternoon. May have been a half a dozen cars parked in front.

How sad.

I wish someone would bring back a drive-in movie theater. I'd pack up the grandkids in their pajamas, snacks and drinks, pillows and blankets, and mosquito spray. Kids these days have never had that experience - or probably even heard of drive-in movies.

Sorry...Jaws left an impression on me

Chief Brody is Chumming the water when JAWS 1st appears...
When the stunned Brody backs into the cabin and tells Shaw’s Quint, "You’re gonna need a Bigger Boat," shocked expression on his face, cigarette clamped between his lips, it’s such a droll, human, perfect reaction that it had to be that shot...

      One of the most quotable lines in movie history, it happened by accident. Writer Carl Gottlieb revealed how the line came to be. Filmed largely on the water, the equipment for JAWS was all housed on a small rented barge (nicknamed the USS Garage Sale) which, thanks to stingy producers, only had a SINGLE support boat to help keep it steady, a task the small craft was not up to. The fact that they needed a bigger boat became an "IN - JOKE" on the set.
      Gottlieb said David Zanik & Richard Brown were very stingy producers, so everyone kept telling them... 'You're gonna need a Bigger Boat.'  It became a catchphrase for anytime anything went wrong—if lunch was late, or the swells were rocking the camera, someone would say...."You're gonna need a Bigger Boat."

"You’re gonna need a Bigger Boat"
Roy Scheider, who played Brody in the movie, "ad-libbed" the line at different points in his performance throughout filming. But the ONE reading that made it in to the final cut of the movie, was after the suspenseful first look at the Great White Shark. Says Writer Carl Gottlieb, "It was so appropriate and so real and it came at the right moment, thanks to Verna Field's editing." 

"You’re gonna need a Bigger Boat"...ad-libbed by accident...
Writer Carl Gottlieb has heard the line pop up in a lot of strange places, but he says the most memorable time it was "quoted back" to him was in a casino: "I was playing poker & thought I had a winning hand, 'Cause I had a Full House, which is referred to as a 'Full Boat,' & the guy across the table from me said, "You're gonna need a Bigger Boat," & he put down a larger full house."

Gottlieb also played the small onscreen role of Ben Meadows, the town's newspaper editor, in the film.

You know if you watch JAWs backwards, it's about a Shark that throws up so many people, they have to open a beach.

In Sept 1974, Spielberg finished JAWS principal photography. Joe Alves & others stayed behind for pick-up shots, including one last sinking of the Orca II (Prop Boat). Once the film was finally done, the crew hurried off. Virtually no thought was given to the movie even being any good, let alone concern for the props or production elements involved. “The studio didn’t give a dam,” Alves says. The ORCA was shipped to Hollywood, where it was sold to a Special Effects Tech who wanted to use it for sword fishing. He paid $13,000 (After Movie hit, Studio bought it back for $130k).

The Orca II was left behind.   Lynn Murphy, who had worked extensively on the film, saw a purpose for the Orca II, but not as memorabilia. As the owner of a salvage operation, his property on the shoreline of Menemsha Creek across from the small fishing village of Menemsha had several scrap boats & vehicles, including the SS Garage Sale & 3 barges used for the film. He paid Universal $1.00 to buy the Orca II, intending to use the fiberglass to build a shed on his property. It really had no other purpose because it was not actually a boat. “It was simply a prop,” Lynn’s wife, Susan said. “It had no bottom. There was nothing that could make it float. It was not seaworthy. The only thing that made it seaworthy were the Air tanks filled to keep it floating. That’s how it could sink on cue. The only reason he got it is because they practically gave it to him.”