It's always nice to have a surprise at the movies. We all think we can predict how something is going to go, and nine times out of ten we're right, so whenever something unexpected happens --- be it good or bad --- we usually end up remembering that movie based on the unpredictability of the event that occurred.
Here I'll be running examples of the occasions when this happens. The first one I want to look at is from this movie
Samuel L. Jackson is a corporate exec brought in by the financial backers of the facility where the "super sharks" are being kept and experimented on. During a dramatic speech about keeping together and facing the odds, Jackson's character is suddenly and unexpectedly eaten by one of the sharks and dragged away. It happens here:
What I particularly love about this moment is that a) you never expect a star of Jackson's calibre and movie net worth to meet such a bloody end, b) there is no, repeat no signposting of the event --- you don't see the shark slowly circle around him or anyone gazing fearfully to his side; it just happens in a flash, literally in midsentence and is over as quickly and c) the scene continues, to show another shark rip him in half, in case anyone had the idea he might somehow survive and make a reappearance.
When
this character died, he was
not coming back!
One of the many things that allows this movie to stand out from the plethora of shark movies that have proliferated ever since "Jaws" brought our attention to these hunters of the oceans.