Jaws [DVD] [1975]

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Spielberg later calculated that during the 12-hour daily work schedule, on average only four hours were actually spent filming. the sheer verve it conveys; comedic (Hooper and Quint’s interactions), heart-breaking (Mrs Kinter’s breakdown at Brody), horrific (Quint’s death) and the edge of your seat thrill (underwater filming of unaware bathers). The sharks were designed by art director and production designer Joe Alves during the third quarter of 1973.

Spielberg described Kingsbury as "the purest version of who, in my mind, Quint was" and some of his offscreen utterances were incorporated into the script as lines of Gardner and Quint. Brown heard about it in the fiction department of Cosmopolitan, a lifestyle magazine then edited by his wife, Helen Gurley Brown. Peter Benchley: He was fascinated by the sea, but his bestselling novel tapped into a primeval fear of the deep". The former was epitomized by his insistence on shooting at sea with a life-sized shark; "I could have shot the movie in the tank or even in a protected lake somewhere, but it would not have looked the same," he said. As production executive Bill Gilmore put it, "The shark down in Australia rewrote the script and saved Dreyfuss's character.In the New England beach town of Amity Island, a young woman goes for a late-night ocean swim during a beach party. Indeed, the whole film is masterful, from the over talking of the characters, the clichés it lays down (the Mayor thinking only of the town, the grizzled loner that everyone turns too etc. Jaws also played a major part in establishing summer as the prime season for the release of studios' biggest box-office contenders, their intended blockbusters; [127] [211] winter had long been the time when most hoped-for hits were distributed, while summer was largely reserved for dumping films thought likely to be poor performers.

Gottlieb was nearly decapitated by the boat's propellers, and Dreyfuss was almost imprisoned in the steel cage.The line is tied to the stern cleats, but the shark drags the boat backward, swamping the deck and flooding the engine compartment.