Jaws

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Before Vaughn leaves, he tells Ellen that he always thought he and Ellen would have made a great couple. The actor initially passed but changed his decision after he attended a pre-release screening of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, which he had just completed.

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Brown helped convince Spielberg to stick with the project, saying that "after [ Jaws], you can make all the films you want". One night, a massive great white shark kills a young tourist named Christine Watkins while she skinny dips in the open waters after she and a man make love on the beach. Shaw was reluctant to take the role since he did not like the book but decided to accept at the urging of both his wife, actress Mary Ure and his secretary—"The last time they were that enthusiastic was From Russia with Love. The novel grew out of Benchley's interest in shark attacks after he learned about the exploits of Montauk, New York shark fisherman Frank Mundus in 1964. A small card written by the magazine's book editor gave a detailed description of the plot, concluding with the comment "might make a good movie".Fredric Jameson's analysis highlights the polysemy of the shark and the multiple ways in which it can be and has been read—from representing alien menaces such as communism or the Third World to more intimate dreads concerning the unreality of contemporary American life and the vain efforts to sanitize and suppress the knowledge of death. Sharks were occasional bycatch, then a speciality; he once claimed to have found a ‘bunny rabbit’ in the belly of one. Later that day, after several unsuccessful attempts by Quint to harpoon the shark, Hooper goes underwater in the shark cage. Footage of real sharks was shot by Ron and Valerie Taylor in the waters off Dangerous Reef in South Australia, with a short actor in a miniature shark cage to create the illusion that the sharks were enormous. 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.

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Brody reluctantly accepts their conclusion until a young boy, Alex Kintner, is killed at a crowded beach. Seiniger ultimately decided that "you had to actually go underneath the shark so you could see his teeth. The role of Brody was offered to Robert Duvall, but the actor was interested only in portraying Quint. Yet he observes that, far from the narrative formulas so often employed by New Hollywood filmmakers of the era—involving Us vs.Similar incidents would lead to the now discredited ‘rogue shark’ theory, name-checked in the film of Jaws, which was proposed by Australian doctor Victor Coppleson in 1958. Ben Gardner, a local fisherman is hired by Amity's authorities to kill the shark, but he disappears. His hastily written first-draft partial manuscr All suggest the shark’s euphemistic nature – but also that before Jaws, people didn’t really know all that much about sharks.

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Shaw's son, Ian Shaw, co-wrote and starred as his father in the play The Shark Is Broken about the making of Jaws, which premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2019 and transferred to the West End in October 2021. While both were products of a markedly different conservation landscape, they had natural history at their core. Zanuck and David Brown, producers at Universal Pictures, independently heard about Peter Benchley's novel Jaws. A third and final preview screening, of a cut incorporating changes inspired by the previous presentations, was held in Hollywood on April 24.To simulate the murky waters of Martha's Vineyard, powdered milk was poured into the pool, which was then covered with a tarpaulin. Spielberg was initially apprehensive about hiring Scheider, fearing he would portray a "tough guy", similar to his role in The French Connection. Hooper, meanwhile, is "associated with technology rather than experience, inherited wealth rather than self-made sufficiency"; he is marginalized from the conclusive action, if less terminally than Quint.

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Consulting oceanographer Matt Hooper examines the girl's remains, confirming that an abnormally large shark killed her. Jaws was first released on DVD in 2000 for the film's 25th anniversary, accompanied by a massive publicity campaign. On March 24, 2020, it was announced that Donna Feore will direct and choreograph Bruce, the musical retelling of the behind-the-scenes story of Jaws, with Richard Oberacker writing the musical book and lyrics and Robert Taylor working on the music. Similar to the way the pivotal scene in 1960's Psycho made showers a new source of anxiety, Jaws led many viewers to fear going into the ocean. When Williams first demonstrated his idea to Spielberg, playing just the two notes on a piano, Spielberg was said to have laughed, thinking that it was a joke.The boat used for the Orca was brought to Los Angeles so the sound effects team could record sounds for both the ship and the underwater scenes. The principal character interest in Jaws arose from a trio with discordant interests united by the presence of the great white: ‘sharker’ Quint, played by Robert Shaw (top) who want to kill the shark; marine biologist Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss, below left) who wants to study it; and small-town police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider, below right) who wants to protect his citizens and deliver a profitable summer for the community. Spielberg later calculated that during the 12-hour daily work schedule, on average only four hours were actually spent filming. Spielberg's friend George Lucas suggested Richard Dreyfuss, whom he had directed in American Graffiti.