This event is the inspiration for author Peter Benchley, over half a century later, to write Jaws.

This is emphasized by the music theme ( based on the musical theme from Jaws ) which stops and resumes again several times, each time growing louder and louder

Some mention of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is made in the 1975 blockbuster film Jaws as having been the center of research for the fictional character Matt Hooper.

Osvaldo Ocasio, ( born August 12, 1955 ), better known as Ossie Ocasio and nicknamed Jaws, is a Puerto Rican who was a boxer and world Cruiserweight champion.

Manfredini borrows from the 1975 film Jaws, where the shark is likewise not seen for the majority of the film but the motif created by John Williams cued the audience to the shark's invisible menace.

* Nick Nack ( voiced by Jeff Bennett )-A particularly small henchman with a huge chin, Nick Nack is often the butt of " short jokes " from both James Bond Jr. and his villainous " other half ", Jaws, with whom he is almost always coupled ( not only in crimes but also in terms of their relatively low intellects ) in S. C. U. M.

* Oddjob ( voiced by Jan Rabson )-Much like Jaws and Nick Nack, this guy is mostly seen working for the other villains, especially Goldfinger.

* Terri Firma-The daughter of a leading seismologist who is forced to work for Walker D. Plank and Jaws when her father is kidnapped.

Jaws of Life is a now trademarked line of tools originally developed by Hurst Performance, located on Jackson Road in Warminster, Pennsylvania.

* The dinosaur roar sound effect that is heard as the truck goes over the cliff is also heard in Jaws, also directed by Spielberg, as the shark's carcass sinks into the ocean.

Spielberg has said that this is because he feels there is a " kinship " between Duel and Jaws, as they are both " about these leviathans targeting everyman.

* In the movie Inspector Gadget, Oddjob is seen in the Minions Anonymous meeting, along with Jaws.

His name is a parody of the metal-toothed villain " Jaws " who appears in two James Bond films.

Jaws 2 is a 1978 horror / thriller film and the first sequel to Steven Spielberg's Jaws ( 1975 ), which was based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name.

It is widely regarded as being the best Jaws sequel.

In October 1975, Steven Spielberg told the San Francisco Film Festival that " making a sequel to anything is just a cheap carny trick " and that he did not even respond to the producers when they asked him to direct Jaws 2.

The film has met with mixed reviews, though it is generally regarded as the best of the Jaws sequels.

John Kenneth Muir comments that opinions towards Jaws 2 depend upon which side of the franchise it is being compared.

Against Spielberg's original, " it is an inferior sequel to a classic ", but the reviewing the subsequent films Jaws 3-D and Jaws the Revenge shows the Szwarc's film to be " a decent sequel, and one produced before the franchise hit troubled waters.

Jaws often works for him.

Andrew J. Kuehn, who developed the trailer for the original Jaws, is credited with coining the phrase.

Carl Gottlieb, who had also revised the screenplays for the first two Jaws films, was credited for the script alongside Richard Matheson.

The film was extremely successful in terms of both box-office and critical reception, being called " Jaws in space ", and a landmark film for the science fiction genre.

A decision to make the film in 3-D led to the remake being canceled by producers at Universal, both for budgetary concerns and to avoid a clash with Jaws 3-D.

Much like his two-note Jaws theme, the " five-tone " motif for Close Encounters has since become ingrained in popular culture ( the five tones are used by scientists to communicate with the visiting spaceship as a mathematical language as well as being incorporated into the film's signature theme ).

Almost all shark experts feel that the danger presented by sharks has been exaggerated, and even the creator of the Jaws phenomenon, the late Peter Benchley, attempted to dispel the myth of sharks being man-eating monsters in the years before his death.

Bond destroys the laboratory being used to make the nanobots, but finds out that a truck full of nanobots is being driven to the New Orleans levees by Jaws ( Richard Kiel ), so they can destroy them and flood New Orleans.

The band started touring in support of the album, with Steve Douglas leaving that same year, later to form the alternative band Log, and being replaced by current rhythm guitarist, Michael Derks, who took over Douglas ' alias as Balsac the Jaws of Death.

The initial script of The Spy Who Loved Me concluded with Jaws being killed by the shark, but after a rough test screening ( where Lewis Gilbert's grandson was present ), Jaws was so well liked that the scene was changed to have him survive.

In The Spy Who Loved Me, Jaws survives an Egyptian structure's collapse on top of him, being hit by a van, being thrown from a rapidly-moving train, sitting in the passenger seat of a car which veers off a cliff in Sardinia and explodes ( landing in a hut below, to the owner's dismay ), a battle underwater with a shark, and the destruction of Stromberg's lair.

The only noticeable differences between the novelization and the screenplay for Moonraker is that there is no mention of Dolly, Jaws ' girlfriend, and his characterization stays true to Wood's description as being a mute.

She is also seen saying " There goes the last lingering thread of my heterosexuality ", when Homer runs past her, naked and screaming, in " Treehouse of Horror III ", and hiding in a closet with Smithers on a parade float during a gay pride parade in " Jaws Wired Shut " ( Albeit as part of a float on being in the closet where only their arms were visible and voices heard ).

Some of the changes which resulted in the re-design of the ride include the replacement of two major ride scenes ; the first one being in which JAWS bit onto the tour boat and turned it by 180-degrees ( which was replaced with the Gas dock explosion scenes ) and the second being the finale, which was loosely based on the first Jaws in which the skipper shot a grenade into the shark's mouth, causing him to explode underwater, resulting in gushing blood ( which was replaced by the finale in which JAWS was electrocuted after biting onto a high-voltage barge which was loosely based on the ending for Jaws 2 ).

It is notable for being the location of a wooden cottage in the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, into which a Ford Taunus containing Jaws ( played by Richard Kiel ) and three other men landed after ploughing off a road at the top of a cliff while in pursuit of Bond ( Roger Moore ).

Although Caine also took better roles, including a BAFTA-winning turn in Educating Rita ( 1983 ), and an Oscar-winning one in Hannah and Her Sisters ( 1986 ) and a Golden Globe-nominated one in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ( 1988 ), he continued to appear in notorious duds like the thinly veiled skin flick Blame It on Rio, the Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais comedy Water and the critical-commercial flop Jaws: The Revenge ( 1987 ) ( in which he had mixed feelings about the production and the final cut ) and Bullseye!

The department has three engines, one ladder truck, a rescue truck with the Jaws of Life, an air truck, and several support vehicles.

The Omen was released following a successful $ 2. 8 million marketing campaign inspired by the one from Jaws one year prior, with two weeks of sneak previews, a novelization by screenwriter David Seltzer, and the logo with " 666 " inside the film's title as the centerpiece of the advertisement.

Instead of a flamethrower, this version of Pyro keeps a Zippo lighter on him at all times to provide him his fire, and habitually flicks it open and shut ( the Zippo sports a cartoon shark on it as a reference to one of Singer's favorite films, Jaws ).

DVD Authority says " After this one, the other Jaws movies seemed to just not be as good.

Jaws: The Revenge earned the lowest amount of money in the series, and due to its many plot holes and inconsistencies, is considered one of the worst films ever made, with a rare 0 % rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes ( in contrast to the original Jaws film, which maintains a rare 100 % rating 37 years after its release ).

Jaws is one of the most popular James Bond henchmen and a recurring character in the James Bond video games.

Jaws appears briefly in the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis game James Bond 007: The Duel, where he wanders briefly around a section toward the end of the first stage and defeats the player with one hit.

Speaking with the Los Angeles Times, Screenwriter Kennedy noted that in " Jaws ," the shark was 25 feet long, so Harlin had to do Spielberg one better.

The one of the tunes was a homage to John Williams ' main theme from the 1975 film Jaws ; the theme plays when a snake lands in the water and gets chased back to land by a shark.

In the scene where the protagonists return to the looted trailer, a poster of the 1975 movie Jaws ripped in half is visible on one wall.

Directed by Peter Yates and starring Robert Shaw, Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset, The Deep was a moderate success, and one of the Top 10 highest grossing films in the US in 1977, though its box office tally fell well short of Jaws.

No one will ever make me watch Jaws 3D again.

Instead it featured an original storyline, albeit one featuring familiar villains including Jaws and Oddjob.