Da Dump, Da Dump...JAWS

… Da Dump, Da Dump! I love to chase my little boy around the swimming pool singing that song. (I am a sweet mama, aren’t I?) Directed by Steven Spielberg, JAWS is one of the greatest horror films of all time.

Imagine it, Amity Island, a small community whose main business comes from the tourist that visit its lovely beaches. People come from all over to soak up the sun and eat up the small island Atmosphere, ufortunately there is something waiting to eat them up. Literally!

When new Sheriff Martin Brody (Roy Scheider), discovers the remains of a shark attack victim, his first inclination is to close the beaches to swimmers. However, Mayor Larry Vaughn has other plans. The Amity Island Mayor refuses to close the beaches, on the grounds the Island will suffer financially.

Brody reluctantly listens to Mayor Larry Vaughn and ends up regretting it, when a young boy is killed by the vicious predator. The dead boy's mother puts out a bounty on the shark and Amateur hunters and fisherman swarm the Island to earn the bounty and they start pulling up dead sharks. Non however is our favorite finned friend.

 A local fisherman with much experience hunting sharks, Quint, (His character just made this move greatness as for as I am concerned) offers to hunt down the creature for a hefty fee.

Matt Hopper from the Oceanographic Institute enters the picture and we have the ever famous shark hunting trio.

Brody, Matt and Quint set out on a little fishing trip, aboard Quint's boat, the Orca.

To attract the shark, they throw bloody fish remains into the water. As he scoops the fish remains, the shark suddenly appears. My favorite Line from Brody, “You’re going to need a bigger boat!”

After a long fight between man, boat and fish, the shark leaps out of the water and onto the Orca's, breaking the back of the boat, which begins to sink. Quint slides down the deck and into the waiting shark's mouth and dies a gruesome death. Brody is able to throw one of Hooper's scuba tanks into the shark's mouth. He climbs onto the boat's mast and waits with Quint's rifle. As the shark swims toward him, Brody fires several shots and detonates it, blowing the shark to bits. Awesome Movie!