How could I forget the dismembered head floating out of the boat in Jaws!
Often seen this referred to as a decapitated head but it isn't-the head is still on the body-it just falls forward into the hole in the boat-from what I can see the guy drowned and the eye has been eaten by fish that came in through the shark-bitten hole in the boat-I mean, if you think about it, how would the shark manage to decapitate someone? Eat the body and leave the head? Don't think so.
William Petersen getting his face blown off in To Live And Die In LA. Talk about not seeing it coming. I jumped several feet out of my chair on that one. Never forgot that scene.
I love your revised title for this discussion! I went directly to page 2 and at first thought I was in a different discussion, until I went back to page 1. Thanks for changing it, and it looks like it has drawn a lot of new (and very appropriate) postings. Great!
How could I forget the dismembered head floating out of the boat in Jaws!
Often seen this referred to as a decapitated head but it isn't-the head is still on the body-it just falls forward into the hole in the boat-from what I can see the guy drowned and the eye has been eaten by fish that came in through the shark-bitten hole in the boat-I mean, if you think about it, how would the shark manage to decapitate someone? Eat the body and leave the head? Don't think so.
Ah, I didn't know that. My memory was a severed head. Haven't seen the film since the VHS days. ( I did see it in the theater on first release.) But what you say makes sense.
How could I forget the dismembered head floating out of the boat in Jaws!
Often seen this referred to as a decapitated head but it isn't-the head is still on the body-it just falls forward into the hole in the boat-from what I can see the guy drowned and the eye has been eaten by fish that came in through the shark-bitten hole in the boat-I mean, if you think about it, how would the shark manage to decapitate someone? Eat the body and leave the head? Don't think so.
I agree, Clark. I've seen the film many times and I've always thought the body is still there even though we don't see it. I could be wrong, though. Maybe only Mr. Spielberg knows since I read he filmed this add-on scene in a pool at the last minute to squeeze one more scare into the film.
William Petersen getting his face blown off in To Live And Die In LA. Talk about not seeing it coming. I jumped several feet out of my chair on that one. Never forgot that scene.
Reminds me of Pitt's unexpected wardrobe end in Burn After Reading.
The cavalry cook getting a tomahawk full in the face at the start of the 1966 STAGECOACH. Like him, I didn't see that coming. Actually the film started with several graphically violent scenes not generally seen in mainstream westerns at that time.
Two scenes from Spartacus(1960). When Kirk Douglas burns a guard to death in a vat of boiling stew. And when he chopped off an arm on camera in a battle scene. Way more graphic than I was expecting for a film of that age.
Reminds me of Pitt's unexpected wardrobe end in Burn After Reading.
A scene that someone SPOILED for me on a message board right before I saw it back in 2008. Still pissed about that.
How about the ending of John Frankenheimer's Seconds? I saw that towards the end of a 24-hour film festival, and despite the fact that I was going on fumes by that point, that ending literally shocked me completely awake.
The Japanese freighter captain's, uh, telephonic death in John Frankenheimer's Black Sunday. I saw the film for the first time maybe five or so years ago and went, "Whoa!"
How could I forget the dismembered head floating out of the boat in Jaws!
Often seen this referred to as a decapitated head but it isn't-the head is still on the body-it just falls forward into the hole in the boat-from what I can see the guy drowned and the eye has been eaten by fish that came in through the shark-bitten hole in the boat-I mean, if you think about it, how would the shark manage to decapitate someone? Eat the body and leave the head? Don't think so.
I agree, Clark. I've seen the film many times and I've always thought the body is still there even though we don't see it. I could be wrong, though. Maybe only Mr. Spielberg knows since I read he filmed this add-on scene in a pool at the last minute to squeeze one more scare into the film.
The music buildup in that scene practically spelled it out for me that something was about to happen. But the payoff was delicious nonetheless...
to "Bandolero"!!!
Still pissed about that.
