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18 May 2008
Jaws (1975)
You know what?
If you are at home on the weekend, and chance to flip around the channels on your super-duper cable system, you may notice something: Jaws is always on.
If you are at home on the weekend, and chance to flip around the channels on your super-duper cable system, you may notice something: Jaws is always on.
It is true. Over here ay any rate. It might be on WTBS or WGN or some godforsaken little regional TV outpost. But one thing is 100% pure-as-the-driven-snow true: It is always on.
Another interesting property of the Jaws broadcast is that I always seem to happen upon Jaws at one of two points:
1. When Quint, Brodie and Hooper are just leaving on the boat. I am always happy to join in at this precise moment because I know I am mere moments from Quint's rendition of "Lady of Spain". As far as I am concerned the rest of the movie is just an excuse to get Quint into position to sing "Lady of Spain", and say "Lifeless eyes...Like a doll's eyes..."
or
2. When Brodie's kid is in the lagoon.
This ever-present Jaws theory has led leading Shark-Movie Philosophers to posit that the world is empty and meaningless, especially when you are in serious danger of being eaten by a giant angry shark. Other theories favored by Shark-Movie Philosophers include the Persistent Jaws Theory which states that there exists a parallel universe in which you could continuously flip through all basic cable channels on a Sunday afternoon and watch Jaws totally sequentially and uninterrupted by commercials.
The somewhat less popular Non-Random Jaws Theory holds that if you watched Jaws enough times, the shark will eventually win.
Another interesting property of the Jaws broadcast is that I always seem to happen upon Jaws at one of two points:
1. When Quint, Brodie and Hooper are just leaving on the boat. I am always happy to join in at this precise moment because I know I am mere moments from Quint's rendition of "Lady of Spain". As far as I am concerned the rest of the movie is just an excuse to get Quint into position to sing "Lady of Spain", and say "Lifeless eyes...Like a doll's eyes..."
or
2. When Brodie's kid is in the lagoon.
This ever-present Jaws theory has led leading Shark-Movie Philosophers to posit that the world is empty and meaningless, especially when you are in serious danger of being eaten by a giant angry shark. Other theories favored by Shark-Movie Philosophers include the Persistent Jaws Theory which states that there exists a parallel universe in which you could continuously flip through all basic cable channels on a Sunday afternoon and watch Jaws totally sequentially and uninterrupted by commercials.
The somewhat less popular Non-Random Jaws Theory holds that if you watched Jaws enough times, the shark will eventually win.
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