False memory or real?

[Corgigal]

Did anyone go see the original Jaws back at the movies in 1976? I remember from the first scene, christy last swim ( I think that's her name), that when she got to the buoy that I saw a underwater shot and she was missing her legs. Then of course Jaws grabs her. I'm also aware big screens can freak out brains, which is why we still go to the movies.

My daughter and I had the movie on yesterday and she said she has never seen that ever, DVD or tv version. So does anyone remember this, or did my brain jumble a few imagines together? I tried to research this but found nothing, so maybe it wasn't there.

I'm not saying it was in the movie, and I do believe our memory is faulty a lot. It's just that it always stuck with me, something I was for sure I saw in the movies when I was a teenager.

[cyclonefence]

1. I had my eyes shut during most of that movie so I can't help you nt

[Siwsan]

2. The leg scene wasn't in the opening

It was when the shark was approaching the chief's son, who was ordered to move his boat to supposedly safer water. The shark attacked a man and there was a shot of his severed leg floating to the sea bed.

[Corgigal]

3. Actually saw that

Daughter said, yep your brain put it together but it doesn't remember that way. It's a underwater shot straight up to the women victim but her body isn't the right size and then the shock, she's doomed because he took some of her body already. It makes sense with how she's bitten in the opening shots.

Oh well, thanks maybe I did. Maybe Spielberg should have filmed it my way. Ha, but he seems to have been doing OK.

[Siwsan]

4. That opening was so brilliant because you didn't see the predator

The first film remains the most frightening, IMHO, because of the way they kept the shark either unseen or just gave you a glimpse, like when it grabbed the little boy on the air mattress.

Had their mechanical shark NOT malfunctioned, so much, it wouldn't have been such a brilliant film.