Daily Dialogue — August 23, 2019

Boy: What’s your name again?
Chrissie: Chrissie.
Boy: Where are we going?
Chrissie: Swimming.

— Jaws (1975), screenplay by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb, novel by Benchley

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Swimming. Today’s suggestion by @psybrspcsuprstr.

Trivia: The entire second half of the movie takes place on the ocean, with just Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss carrying it between the three of them. No other characters appear (bar the shark) and dry land is glimpsed near the end of the move. The reason was Spielberg didn’t want land to be seen because he thought the audience would think that the characters could just run back to shore. He wanted to isolate the audience as much as the characters.

Dialogue On Dialogue: We had to include this swimming scene, one of the most famous scenes of its type in movie history.