Killer whales in popular culture and at the film's end, seemingly for forgiveness. In contrast, the 1974 Walt Disney produced motion picture "The Island at the Top of the World" portrayed killer whales as bloodthirsty hunters of the protagonists in one particularly brutal scene. In "Jaws" (1975), the name of the boat used to hunt the great white shark is the "Orca", given the killer whale's status as a known predator of the shark. However, in the sequel "Jaws 2", the shark's first victim is a killer whale, which was probably intended more as a Hollywood joke than an accurate portrayal of the eating habits
Motifs in the James Bond film series "What's he doing?" with "I think he's attempting re-entry, sir"; a line described by Barnes and Hearn as "sheer magnificence". The films also contain elements of visual humour: when Jaws is dropped into a shark pool in "The Spy Who Loved Me", it is Jaws who bites the shark. The following film, "Moonraker", sees Bond in a comic chase scene with a gondola that becomes a hovercraft, a continuation that Bond author Raymond Benson considered "so dumb that one wonders at what age group the film was really aimed." The music and sound effects are also used for comic effect