Jaws

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  • Arthur Fonzarelli
    Arthur Fonzarelli 1 months ago

    During pre-production, director Steven Spielberg, accompanied by friends Martin Scorsese, George Lucas and John Milius, visited the effects shop where "Bruce" the shark was being constructed. Lucas stuck his head in the shark's mouth to see how it worked and, as a joke, Milius and Spielberg sneaked to the controls and made the jaw clamp shut on Lucas' head. Unfortunately, and rather prophetically, considering the later technical difficulties the production would suffer, the shark malfunctioned, and Lucas got stuck in the mouth of the shark. When Spielberg and Milius were finally able to free him, the three men ran out of the workshop, afraid they'd done major damage to the creature.

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  • Arthur Fonzarelli
    Arthur Fonzarelli 1 months ago

    Richard Dreyfuss originally turned down the role of Hooper but had worries after the initial screening of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) and asked for his part back.

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  • Arthur Fonzarelli
    Arthur Fonzarelli 1 months ago

    The live shark footage was shot at Seal Rocks (Neptune Islands), South Australia. A real white pointer was cut up and "extended" for the close-up shots.

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  • Arthur Fonzarelli
    Arthur Fonzarelli 1 months ago

    The mechanical shark spent most of the movie broken-down, and was unavailable for certain shots. This led Steven Spielberg to use the camera as the "shark", and film from the shark's point of view. Many think this added to the "chilling/haunting" quality in the final release saying that it would have made it too "cheesy" had they shown the shark as much as originally planned.

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  • Arthur Fonzarelli
    Arthur Fonzarelli 1 months ago

    Robert Shaw could not stand Richard Dreyfuss and they argued all the time, which resulted in some good tension between Hooper and Quint.

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  • Arthur Fonzarelli
    Arthur Fonzarelli 1 months ago

    When composer John Williams originally played the score for Steven Spielberg, Spielberg laughed and said, "That's funny, John, really. But what did you really have in mind for the theme of 'Jaws'?" Spielberg later stated that without Williams's score, the movie would only have been half as successful.

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