Press Release USHE Press Release: Jaws (1975) 50th Anniversary Edition (4k UHD SteelBook Combo) (4k UHD Combo) (1 Viewer)

[edelweissflower]

No it's when the police guy blows his whistle and he sees what is left of her, he is the first to discover her remains that's what I saw in 1975/6 at the cinema in Barrow-in-Furness in the United Kingdom I was with my parents and they saw the same thing, so I am sorry to all of you but that is what I saw. I admit I cant recall ever seeing it again as I've only seen it in the cinema , I have only ever seen it on TV in UK afterwards and I don't think I ever saw it on TV that scene again, that's why I presumed it would be on the 4k release.

 

[edelweissflower]

IMDB says there's an alternate scene of the discovery of Chrissy's remains. Been a long time since I've watched, so I'm not sure of the details of the alternate scene:

As I have said it was the police guy blowing his whistle to tell Brody and the girl's boyfriend that he had found something it is he who sees it first not Brody or the Boyfriend that is when you see what the policeman sees it was awful her head and her arm the same arm that you see at the post- mortem lying in the sand obviously been washed up and crabs crawling out of her mouth and crawling all over her remains it probably only lasted a few seconds on screen but it seemed longer. No it is not in the scene when Brody is with the boyfriend you only see a partial piece of it and the boyfriend doesn't want to look and you don't see anything that he sees its true..

 

[Tino]

Well obviously there is nothing we can say to you that will convince you you are mistaken and change your mind. Feel free to believe what you want of course. Cheers.

 

[edelweissflower]

That would be strange since the original UK print I saw about 10 years ago (dye-transfer Technicolor) was missing several seconds of Quint's demise due to censor cuts. So it would be surprising that an even more gruesome sequence wound up in the print you saw.

no its when the policeman blows his whistle he is the first to find her remains the camera shows you what he has found it only lasts for a few seconds but it seemed longer to me. Saw it in the cinema with my parents and they remember the scene.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Well obviously there is nothing we can say to you that will convince you you are mistaken and change your mind. Feel free to believe what you want of course. Cheers.

Yup, time to move on.

 

[TravisR]

Memories are tricky thing. They often betray us.

I remember one guy here INSISTING Star Wars was originally released in 1977 with Chapter IV in the title.

Another fairly popular Star Wars one in the 90's was that people saw a version on TV or a theater featuring the Biggs on Tatooine scene. In that case, they probably were misremembering it because the scene is in The Star Wars Storybook or the Marvel comic adaptation or even the NPR radio play but it definitely never played anywhere in the movie.

 

[Tino]

no its when the policeman blows his whistle he is the first to find her remains the camera shows you what he has found it only lasts for a few seconds but it seemed longer to me. Saw it in the cinema with my parents and they remember the scene.

Don’t you think if this scene actually existed for 50 years some documentation of it would exist? Or some record of it being filmed. Or some mention of it in the hundreds of books written about Jaws? Or the countless documentaries? Anything??

 

[edelweissflower]

Well obviously there is nothing we can say to you that will convince you you are mistaken and change your mind. Feel free to believe what you want of course. Cheers.

I accept that but it wasn't just me that saw it is all I can say. This is not the first film I have had issues with that have had several different prints/uncut etc

 

[SD_Brian]

The Mandela Effect is a phenomenon where many people think they remember an event (or, in this case, a scene from a movie) that never occurred. Other movie examples include people who swear they saw the knife making contact with the body in Psycho, or the meat hook going into the woman's back in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

 

[TravisR]

The Mandela Effect is a phenomenon where many people think they remember an event (or, in this case, a scene from a movie) that never occurred. Other movie examples include people who swear they saw the knife making contact with the body in Psycho, or the meat hook going into the woman's back in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

Again, those are testaments to the power of Jaws, Psycho and Chainsaw.

 

[SD_Brian]

Again, those are testaments to the power of Jaws, Psycho and Chainsaw.

Not to mention the power of the imagination to fill in the blanks when you cover your eyes during the icky scenes.

 

[Bryan^H]

Jaws is grisly enough to cause nightmares already. #nomoregore

 

[Robert Saccone]

Back when it was Universal's 100th anniversary and they put out the featurette on restoring Jaws on that blu-ray for the first time, it showed them pulling all the film cans out of the vault that they had for it. I couldn't help but think how much fun it would be to be able to go through all of it and see everything that still exists. I know we get some deleted scenes and bloopers on the discs but I imagine there's lots more that to see such as the first run through of the Indianapolis speech that Shaw blew. I am sure some of it is stuff that the Universal etc wouldn't want the public to see.

 

[WillG]

Back when it was Universal's 100th anniversary and they put out the featurette on restoring Jaws on that blu-ray for the first time, it showed them pulling all the film cans out of the vault that they had for it. I couldn't help but think how much fun it would be to be able to go through all of it and see everything that still exists. I know we get some deleted scenes and bloopers on the discs but I imagine there's lots more that to see such as the first run through of the Indianapolis speech that Shaw blew. I am sure some of it is stuff that the Universal etc wouldn't want the public to see.

There was an extended cut of Jaws for television…..well maybe not extended but it did contain some additional footage that I don’t think was even released on disc, for example the scene of the “bozos” all trying to catch the shark is longer. You should be able to find it on YouTube (no, the alleged shot of the crabs coming out of Chrissie’s mouth is not there)

 

[Robert Saccone]

There was an extended cut of Jaws for television…..well maybe not extended but it did contain some additional footage that I don’t think was even released on disc, for example the scene of the “bozos” all trying to catch the shark is longer. You should be able to find it on YouTube (no, the alleged shot of the crabs coming out of Chrissie’s mouth is not there)

A lot if not all of the extended tv scenes are on the discs. At least from the blu rays and on into the UHDs that have been released.

FWIW they had problems with the realism of the fake arm and the crabs. They had to use someone’s real arm after it was sitting in a bucket of ice water to get the realism and effect they wanted. Thank goodness they never went down the road of the trying to show her head. However the novel has a very graphic description of Chrissy’s head and partial sternum that I bet some folks might be thinking of.

 

[Tino]

There was an extended cut of Jaws for television…..well maybe not extended but it did contain some additional footage that I don’t think was even released on disc, for example the scene of the “bozos” all trying to catch the shark is longer. You should be able to find it on YouTube (no, the alleged shot of the crabs coming out of Chrissie’s mouth is not there)

All of that footage is included in the deleted scenes on the discs.

 

[Robert Crawford]

A lot if not all of the extended tv scenes are on the discs. At least from the blu rays and on into the UHDs that have been released.

FWIW they had problems with the realism of the fake arm and the crabs. They had to use someone’s real arm after it was sitting in a bucket of ice water to get the realism and effect they wanted. Thank goodness they never went down the road of the trying to show her head. However the novel has a very graphic description of Chrissy’s head and partial sternum that I bet some folks might be thinking of.

I have to say without hesitation that the movie is vastly superior to the novel.

 

[Bryan^H]

Buyer's remorse for this steelbook. I feel I just wasted $40.

 

[Tino]

Buyer's remorse for this steelbook. I feel I just wasted $40.

Why?

 

[Tino]

By the way, the terrific new documentary Jaws @50 The Definitive Story has been added as an extra to the digital copy.