We all know what became of Jaws: box office champ of all time (for two years), instant suspense classic, its power and magic undimmed by the passage of decades.
He made the most of it as Annacotty crossed the line in the Paddy Power Gold Cup, at the end of a year which opened with Popham on a liquid diet after breaking his jaw on Boxing Day.
Three months later, "Jaws" set box-office records with its projected images of blood and torn-apart bodies.
But unless they're in the wrong business entirely, we might hazard that they care much, much more about chasing after the jaw-dropping box-office feats of American Sniper, and its continued hold on the public discourse.
Since 1975, the year in which "Jaws" ate the box office, the number of summer releases has grown enormously, and the studios have had to become more savvy about luring moviegoers into the theaters.
It is interesting to know that the Beatles were turned away from the restaurant of Manchester's Midland hotel for being inappropriately dressed, and that Les Dawson was able to pull such grotesque faces because he broke his jaw in a boxing match, but not that Morley used to catch the bus at five past eight so as to be at school by a quarter to nine.
While all three sequels made a profit at the box office (Jaws 2 and Jaws 3-D were among the top 20 highest-grossing films of their respective years), critics and audiences alike were generally dissatisfied with the films.
Maybe that's because there's much better material here: the lazy roots-reggae toast "Weedy," the bawdy come-on "Back It Up," the bruising "Nuh Box Pon Jaw," and remixes of older hits like "Ravin," delivered here over the guttural beat from Tyga's "Rack City".
First, the assumption that it is a minority who would have been shocked by lyrics such as, "You are only a sow who deserves her place at the slaughterhouse", "We'll see how you suck [cock] after I box your jaw", and "I want you to get pregnant and lose the baby".
When Sean tags him with a right to the jaw, Patterson rubs what boxing writers derided as his china chin and laughs.
