Posted on 07/05/2015 8:32:58 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Forty years ago Saturday saw the release of Jaws, an adaptation of a beach-read made by a promising but relatively untested young director, Steven Spielberg. Forty years later, Jaws‘ impact can be felt across moviegoing. The shark tale is perhaps most notable for its box-office success; Jaws became the top-grossing film of all time after its release (and did so more quickly than had its predecessors, with a marketing plan based on blanket advertising rather than a slow rollout).
Jaws, with its technical mastery and ability to manipulate the audience into fearing something that for so much of the film’s running time they could not see, was a movie that demanded to be seen as soon as one could, just like later blockbusters including Star Wars (which, two years after Jaws, replaced it at the top of the all-time box office list).
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Though I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and the performances, having read the book, I was struck by the way they played down the affair between Hooper and Brody’s wife.
I understand why they did this since it was not essential to the story, but it did feel like a different story.
It’s a movie I still enjoy dusting off and watching from time to time.
And the M1 Garand wasn’t even empty (it didn’t go *ping*).
Classic
Ironically, Spielberg was forced to use that method largely because the angles from the more overt method didn’t come our right. Apparently, he initially intended to do the gory bloody scenes in the scenes involving the shark.
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