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Google Won't Save You # 100 -- Susan Backlinie


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Susan Backlinie?
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Taken from the interwebs --

 

During the early 1980s, a number of PG-rated movies containing surprisingly violent content sparked off an overview of the ratings system. Two violent PG-rated movies affiliated with Steven Spielberg-Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Gremlins-were the catalyst for the MPAA to modify the ratings system and introduce the PG-13 rating in 1984 (July 1). This rating still allows children under 17 to be admitted without a parent or guardian, but the rating does note that parents are "strongly cautioned" to be aware of potentially shocking violence or sexual content.

 

The first movie to officially be released with a PG-13 rating was 1984's Red Dawn. The new rating also sparked a wave of generally mediocre PG-13 "teen movies."

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I believe Red Dawn was the first PG-13 movie followed shortly thereafter by Dreamscape (starring an affable Eddie Albert and a young Dennis Quaid).
"Dustin Pedroia doesn't have the strength or bat speed to hit major-league pitching consistently, and he has no power......He probably has a future as a backup infielder if he can stop rolling over to third base and shortstop." Keith Law, 2006
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If only there was some way to look that up...

 

Right. However, I guess I was looking more for an opinion as if she had any "roles of note" things she would have been remembered for by our resident movie experts.

 

I mean her character according to IMDB in Jaws was "Christine 'Chrissie' Watkins", but she will for ever be known as "Girl who gets yanked up and down like a human bobber, then gets found in the crab nets".

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Since this film was years before the advent of computer graphics every shot had to be a practice, actual props and actors. Some real shots of great white sharks where made often using little people to make the scale of the shark even larger. The famous first attack on the young blonde swimmer was done with stuntwoman Susan Backlinie. She was tethered to ropes that pulled her back and forth as she screamed at the top of her lungs. Backlinie was in real pain as the ropes were tugged too hard from below.

By the way, are you ever amazed by the folks who manage to find 'goofs" within a film? Who are these people?

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Technically The Flamingo Kid was the first ever PG-13 movie.

 

As for little Susan Backlinie, she is one of the first people killed in Grizzly, which is a nice little movie about a charming grizzly bear that decides to kill everyone in sight, but unlike Jaws they show the bear far too often and it kind of ruins the whole effect. On the plus side it does have a guy who dresses up as a Grizzly Bear to try and communicate with the animal. I can only imagine how much better Jaws would have been if they had a similar scene.

 

I don't remember her from Day of the Animals. I can only assume she was slaughtered in the first few frames, as is her cinematic speciality.

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" Technically The Flamingo Kid was the first ever PG-13 movie. "

 

True but it was released after Red Dawn.

"Dustin Pedroia doesn't have the strength or bat speed to hit major-league pitching consistently, and he has no power......He probably has a future as a backup infielder if he can stop rolling over to third base and shortstop." Keith Law, 2006
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Already got it filed away in the "useless knowledge that hopefully comes in handy when hitting on a chick" piece of my brain.
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