Not Jaws but Still Underwater!

 https://youtu.be/Q-BI7AecOOw?si=COJHNkatKm6aVR6b

I mean, Wow! 

Is there a better subaquatic scrap?

Favourite Jaws Movie?

 Which? 1,2,3 or 4?

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You're Going to Need a Bigger Snowclone

A snowclone is a modernish figure of speech involving a play on old and new famous phrases and slogans.

Examples include In Space no-one Can Hear You ....., whereby you replace scream with whatever you want. Burp, Yawn, Snore, eat pasta etc.

My favourite snowclone, largely because it's so darn handy, is Chief Brody's memorable (or should that be memable!) Jaw line, We're Going to Need A Bigger ..... And yes, you've got it, the word Boat can be anything to suit your current needs eg. Blog, post, moat, budget etc.

Have you a snowclone in mind?

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Stephen and Bruce, Amity Island, 1974
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The Snack that Bites Back!

 To satisfy my shark-like appetite for TV and film ephemera in the 90's I used to look for crisp packets on a small tip area under trees near our last house with our old dog Gem. 

Stuck in the ground, Gem snuffed Jaws 2, a werewolf, Space Raiders and more old crisp packets.

 Cleaned up they looked great. I still have some of them somewhere. I framed the Jaws 2 packet because I was so chuffed!

This is what a similar complete mint Jaws packet would look like [seen on an old 80's forum].

Do you like ephemera like this?

A Little Golden Book of Jaws

 

Hi Woodsy

Little Golden Books first appeared in 1942, and over the years they have included many titles based on films and television shows. But I was still surprised to see one based on the movie Jaws (1975).

A book about a man-eating Great White Shark just seems an odd choice for a book line aimed at 2 to 5 year old children. Granted, Jaws was a PG film in America, and A-Certificate in Britain, so even young children could see it.

I was recently heading through the book section of a chain store when I caught sight of Jaws – Big Shark, Little Boat. Surely they could not mean the movie Jaws ?

I pulled the book off the shelf, and read it. Oh yes, it is indeed based on the tale of a large shark terrorising the residents of Aimty Island.

The story has been toned down for its young audience, and no one actually gets eaten. In fact the shark just swims around, before heading out to sea again.

The cover of the book mentions Funko, and the artwork has the look of these strange, large-headed figures. There are 24 pages; plus heavy card covers, with the gold and black spine.

It is written by Geof Smith, and illustrated by Kaysi Smith. Text copyright 2023 Universal City Studios, illustrations copyright 2023 Funko.

Unable to resist the sheer weirdness of this book, I bought it. Another title for the Junior Horror collection.

Paul Adams from New Zealand

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Arto and Jaws! A Royal treatment for a budding movie Buff!

Finnish VHS cover for Jaws

 (courtesy of FIx Gallery)

A provincial town somewhere in Finland, late 1975. 

Three boys in their early teens admiring a towering, monstrous presence that had appeared in a display window of a local cinema. In a large poster, a tiny female swimmer was blissfully unaware of the toothed iceberg of a shark approaching from beneath. Since that jaw-dropping, awesome sight, "JAWS" became an object of feverish anticipation for the prepubescent trio that was us.

In those days you had to wait weeks after the national premiere before the film made its way into provinces, so the poster stood there for quite a while for us to admire. When the local premiere was finally announced, we decided not to take any chances with the big event.

Seasoned in childhood sleuthing, we looked up the address of the cinema owner in a telephone book and hopped on our chopper bikes. Arriving at the house, we knocked on the door and politely asked the surprised cinema owner if we could reserve three tickets for the premiere.

Visibly amused, the owner played along and asked us to meet him right away at the Kino. We hopped again on our bikes to make the short trip to the cinema where the owner was already waiting for us. Not only did the he sell us the tickets but allowed us also to enter the dormant movie theatre and pick and choose the best numbered seats in the hall.

Jaws the movie lived up to all our expectations and more, and the royal treatment we were given added an extra dimension to the experience. For me, that particular screening was the crucial moment of a lifelong love affair with movies – a love affair which later in life turned into a profession as well.

Arto

Helsinki Base