WEBVTT 1 00:00:03.882 --> 00:00:06.465 (upbeat music) 2 00:00:19.250 --> 00:00:20.083 - [GPS] Please say a command. 3 00:00:20.083 --> 00:00:20.969 - [Kyle] Destination. 4 00:00:20.969 --> 00:00:21.839 - [GPS] Destination. 5 00:00:21.839 --> 00:00:24.845 Say street address, intersection, or POI. 6 00:00:24.845 --> 00:00:25.678 - POI. 7 00:00:25.678 --> 00:00:27.929 - [GPS] Say one of these POI categories. 8 00:00:27.929 --> 00:00:28.762 - [Kyle] ATM. 9 00:00:28.762 --> 00:00:29.595 (beeping) 10 00:00:29.595 --> 00:00:30.663 - [GPS] Say a line number. 11 00:00:30.663 --> 00:00:31.749 - [Kyle] One. 12 00:00:31.749 --> 00:00:32.898 - [Man] Do you need to get money, for real? 13 00:00:32.898 --> 00:00:35.389 - [Kyle] Yes, in case we need to get a bigger boat. 14 00:00:35.389 --> 00:00:36.413 - This is a great white, Larry. 15 00:00:36.413 --> 00:00:37.260 A big one. 16 00:00:37.260 --> 00:00:38.820 And any shark expert in the world will tell you 17 00:00:38.820 --> 00:00:40.446 it's a killer, it's a man-eater. 18 00:00:40.446 --> 00:00:41.279 - [Kyle] We're with Mike Currid 19 00:00:41.279 --> 00:00:42.265 from the Edgartown Tour Company 20 00:00:42.265 --> 00:00:45.331 who does Jaws tours of Martha's Vineyard. 21 00:00:45.331 --> 00:00:47.069 Mike, where are we exactly? 22 00:00:47.069 --> 00:00:49.319 - So, we are in Aquinnah, 23 00:00:49.319 --> 00:00:50.879 the westernmost part of the island. 24 00:00:50.879 --> 00:00:53.378 This is where the billboard scene was filmed. 25 00:00:53.378 --> 00:00:54.850 I believe they chose this location 26 00:00:54.850 --> 00:00:55.825 because of the scenery, 27 00:00:55.825 --> 00:00:57.350 because of this open space 28 00:00:57.350 --> 00:01:00.107 and kind of showing the lovely New England vista. 29 00:01:00.107 --> 00:01:01.682 - [Kyle] Now, they don't actually specify 30 00:01:01.682 --> 00:01:03.478 that it's Martha's Vineyard in the film. 31 00:01:03.478 --> 00:01:04.651 Is that primarily, you think, 32 00:01:04.651 --> 00:01:07.179 because the island didn't wanna have this association 33 00:01:07.179 --> 00:01:10.343 with a movie about shark attacks? 34 00:01:10.343 --> 00:01:11.608 - [Mike] Benchley wrote about a town 35 00:01:11.608 --> 00:01:13.410 on an island called Amity. 36 00:01:13.410 --> 00:01:14.284 And without a doubt, 37 00:01:14.284 --> 00:01:16.161 they wanted to stay consistent with that. 38 00:01:16.161 --> 00:01:19.255 The stigma of being coined Shark Attack Island 39 00:01:19.255 --> 00:01:21.159 very well could've ruined business here 40 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:22.741 for years and years to come. 41 00:01:22.741 --> 00:01:23.782 I think it did the opposite. 42 00:01:23.782 --> 00:01:25.103 I think it brought people to the island 43 00:01:25.103 --> 00:01:26.787 by the masses. 44 00:01:26.787 --> 00:01:28.854 A number of things slowed down this production, 45 00:01:28.854 --> 00:01:29.953 and many thought that the project 46 00:01:29.953 --> 00:01:31.723 was never gonna get finished at all. 47 00:01:31.723 --> 00:01:33.185 The people out west in Hollywood 48 00:01:33.185 --> 00:01:35.167 didn't necessarily trust that Spielberg 49 00:01:35.167 --> 00:01:36.707 was gonna be able to produce. 50 00:01:36.707 --> 00:01:38.467 - And it's crazy too 'cause Spielberg, 51 00:01:38.467 --> 00:01:41.931 at the time, wasn't Steven Spielberg. 52 00:01:41.931 --> 00:01:44.284 - They hired a different director to start. 53 00:01:44.284 --> 00:01:46.358 And in the initial talks for the film, 54 00:01:46.358 --> 00:01:47.845 the director was getting all excited about it 55 00:01:47.845 --> 00:01:49.954 and talking with Benchley and saying, 56 00:01:49.954 --> 00:01:51.869 well, the whale terrorizes the town 57 00:01:51.869 --> 00:01:53.683 and the whale comes back and does this 58 00:01:53.683 --> 00:01:55.985 and the whale crashes into the boat. 59 00:01:55.985 --> 00:01:57.987 Benchley stood up from his seat 60 00:01:57.987 --> 00:01:59.976 and said, I didn't write Moby Dick, 61 00:01:59.976 --> 00:02:01.271 I wrote Jaws. 62 00:02:01.271 --> 00:02:02.929 So, he wasn't the first choice 63 00:02:02.929 --> 00:02:07.705 and lucky for us, I think they picked the right guy. 64 00:02:07.705 --> 00:02:09.336 - Shark! 65 00:02:09.336 --> 00:02:10.419 It's a shark! 66 00:02:11.277 --> 00:02:14.194 (children yelling) 67 00:02:15.777 --> 00:02:16.722 - [Kyle] All right, so Mike, 68 00:02:16.722 --> 00:02:18.509 we're out here on a windy day 69 00:02:18.509 --> 00:02:21.896 for one of the more iconic parts of Jaws, I think. 70 00:02:21.896 --> 00:02:22.981 Set the scene for us. 71 00:02:22.981 --> 00:02:25.927 - So we are in front of a wildlife protected area 72 00:02:25.927 --> 00:02:28.341 that was once an open beach used 73 00:02:28.341 --> 00:02:29.968 for some of the attacks 74 00:02:29.968 --> 00:02:31.989 and beach scenes in the movie Jaws 75 00:02:31.989 --> 00:02:33.739 and is the location where the shark 76 00:02:33.739 --> 00:02:35.782 actually enters the pond. 77 00:02:35.782 --> 00:02:36.756 - [Kyle] Now, it wasn't just all 78 00:02:36.756 --> 00:02:38.309 Hollywood people who were flown in. 79 00:02:38.309 --> 00:02:40.823 Spielberg actually incorporated locals. 80 00:02:40.823 --> 00:02:42.018 - The gentleman who coached Quint, 81 00:02:42.018 --> 00:02:44.890 he was hired to run his boat. 82 00:02:44.890 --> 00:02:46.442 When Spielberg first met him, 83 00:02:46.442 --> 00:02:48.784 he said, well I've pretty much got Quint. 84 00:02:48.784 --> 00:02:50.557 And when Robert Shaw finally did show up, 85 00:02:50.557 --> 00:02:51.590 he paired them together 86 00:02:51.590 --> 00:02:53.328 and said, you need to become this man. 87 00:02:53.328 --> 00:02:54.921 - Wait'll we get them silly bastards 88 00:02:54.921 --> 00:02:56.510 down in that rock pile. 89 00:02:56.510 --> 00:02:57.584 There'll be some fun. 90 00:02:57.584 --> 00:02:58.600 They'll wish their fathers 91 00:02:58.600 --> 00:03:00.326 had never met their mothers. 92 00:03:00.326 --> 00:03:02.595 - [Kyle] But he also had his head molded. 93 00:03:02.595 --> 00:03:03.788 - It's kind of that big fright moment, 94 00:03:03.788 --> 00:03:06.072 that's when no matter how many times you've seen the movie 95 00:03:06.072 --> 00:03:07.630 you're gonna jump out of your seat. 96 00:03:07.630 --> 00:03:09.332 (screaming) 97 00:03:09.332 --> 00:03:11.305 That was shot in a swimming pool 98 00:03:11.305 --> 00:03:13.649 I think out in LA in Verna Fields' swimming pool. 99 00:03:13.649 --> 00:03:14.761 - Yeah, the editor of the film, 100 00:03:14.761 --> 00:03:16.700 it was her swimming pool. 101 00:03:16.700 --> 00:03:19.046 - Here's to swimming with bowlegged women. 102 00:03:19.046 --> 00:03:20.892 - [Kyle] So Mike, where are we now? 103 00:03:20.892 --> 00:03:24.318 - We are in a small fishing town called Menemsha. 104 00:03:24.318 --> 00:03:26.093 Menemsha is where Quint lived. 105 00:03:26.093 --> 00:03:28.539 Quint's home was built right in this lot. 106 00:03:28.539 --> 00:03:30.345 It's been an empty lot, as I know it, 107 00:03:30.345 --> 00:03:31.550 since the film. 108 00:03:31.550 --> 00:03:32.929 It was a temporary structure, 109 00:03:32.929 --> 00:03:34.562 perfect place for Quint to live. 110 00:03:34.562 --> 00:03:35.660 You don't have back yards here, 111 00:03:35.660 --> 00:03:38.575 you have a dock, you have your boat right off the dock. 112 00:03:38.575 --> 00:03:41.680 - The structure was here and gone right away, right? 113 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:42.874 It didn't stick around very long. 114 00:03:42.874 --> 00:03:43.895 - A week or so. 115 00:03:43.895 --> 00:03:45.517 I'm not sure on the exact time frame, 116 00:03:45.517 --> 00:03:47.768 but they built it specifically for the movie. 117 00:03:47.768 --> 00:03:49.480 I believe they were forced to build it to code. 118 00:03:49.480 --> 00:03:50.398 They had to put plumbing in, 119 00:03:50.398 --> 00:03:52.329 they had to put electric in. 120 00:03:52.329 --> 00:03:55.079 Again, for a temporary structure. 121 00:03:56.798 --> 00:03:59.578 - [Kyle] It's been almost 40 years since the movie was shot. 122 00:03:59.578 --> 00:04:02.476 Why do you think it's still bringing people up here? 123 00:04:02.476 --> 00:04:03.778 - It's a timeless film. 124 00:04:03.778 --> 00:04:05.688 It's amazing, I've had four generations 125 00:04:05.688 --> 00:04:07.240 of people on the Jaws tour. 126 00:04:07.240 --> 00:04:08.370 Great-grandfather all the way 127 00:04:08.370 --> 00:04:10.148 through to that great-grandson, 128 00:04:10.148 --> 00:04:11.975 and people absolutely love it. 129 00:04:11.975 --> 00:04:14.014 I think a new Jaws fan will be born today, 130 00:04:14.014 --> 00:04:15.431 without a doubt.