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A man on a smaller boat mere feet away from Michael is attacked by Bruce from behind until a geyser of gore colors the sea blood red. Spielberg tricks and terrifies the audience by showing an isolated shot of a human leg being bitten off , making them wonder if it was Michael or the boater. Saving the best for last, the final human victim in Jaws is none other than intrepid shark hunter extraordinaire, Quint Robert Shaw.

A man resigned to living and dying by way of the terrifying sea beast, Quint fought to the bitter end when his ship The Orca began to drown far off the coast of Amity Island.

When Bruce lunges its body out of the water and slams down onto the Orca, the vessel springs an even bigger leak and begins to sink in a hurry. Left with nowhere to go but slide down into the giant sharp-fanged maw of the Great White, Quint puts up an admirable fight before being chewed in half and swallowed underwater. Although Bruce the Shark succumbs to harpoon wounds in the novel, Spielberg gave the villainous character a far more exciting and incendiary death in the film version.

After the shark devours Quint on the deck of The Orca, Brody tosses a pressurized air tank into the beast's mouth as the ship begins to sink. Climbing into the crow's nest lookout tower, Brody first stabs the shark several times in the snout with a spear.

The shark swims away and prepares for another attack. As the beast charges toward the sinking ship, Brody fires multiple rounds at the air tank in the shark's mouth and makes contact on the sixth shot. On explosive impact, the shark is annihilated in a gory and glorious fashion. Most of the third act of the film was shot handheld, prompting Steven Spielberg to quip that Jaws was the most expensive hand-held movie ever made.

This was Jonathan Filley 's only appearance on film. He was discovered through local auditions. Although never appearing after that, he became a successful production assistant and would eventually reunite with Steven Spielberg 30 years later on War of the Worlds as the head production assistant.

Because the film the director envisioned was so dissimilar to Peter Benchley 's novel, Steven Spielberg asked Richard Dreyfuss not to read it.

The limerick that Quint tells as they are preparing to cast off is the same as one that Robert Shaw uses during a limerick contest with James Earl Jones in the film Swashbuckler As production dragged on, the people of Martha's Vineyard, at first curious and welcoming, were fed up with having the production on their island.

According to "The Jaws Log", Carl Gottlieb was originally hired to play the supporting part of Meadows, the town publisher, and then asked to re-write the script as it was being shot. While doing so, he found himself forced to cut his own part down to a bare minimum. The scene in which Brody and Hooper find Ben Gardner's abandoned boat originally took place during daytime and featured Gottlieb's character accompanying the two leads.

While pretending to tie a rope between his own boat and that of Gardner, Gottlieb accidentally fell overboard and could have been decapitated by the boat's propellers had Fred Zendar not cut the engines.

It was later decided to re-shoot the entire sequence at night, without the character of Meadows. Three full-size pneumatically powered prop sharks were made for the production: a "sea-sled shark", a full-body prop with its belly missing that was towed with a foot roughly m line, and two "platform sharks", one that moved from camera-left to -right with its hidden left side exposing an array of pneumatic hoses , and an opposite model with its right flank uncovered.

Lee Marvin was director Steven Spielberg's first choice for the role of Quint, despite his reservations about using big-name actors. Marvin thanked him but replied that he would rather go fishing.

Spielberg then wanted Sterling Hayden for the role of Quint. Hayden, however, was in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service for unpaid tax.

All of Hayden's income from acting was subject to a levy by the IRS, so there was an attempt to circumvent that; Hayden was also a writer, so one idea was to pay him union scale for his acting and buy a story from him his literary income was not subject to levy for a large sum.

It was concluded that the IRS would see through this scheme, so Robert Shaw was cast by Spielberg instead on the recommendation of the film's producers, Zanuck and Brown. Most were killed by sharks while others died: from drinking sea water; swimming away; drowning; and murder. Some Sailors due to madness caused from drinking sea water or other reasons would attack or attempt to kill other.

In self-defense the attacking Sailors were fought off or killed. Pre-production had been cut short in the hopes of taking advantage of the unseasonably good weather in Martha's Vineyard. However, when the production landed at the Vineyard, the weather took a turn for the worse. Consequently, shooting had to begin without a finalized script, meaning Steven Spielberg and Carl Gottlieb had to work on the screenplay after they'd finished filming for the day. After the surprise success of the film, Hollywood insiders ascribed the film's effectiveness mostly to veteran editor Verna Fields rather than the little-known, year-old Steven Spielberg.

Although he undoubtedly learned much from Fields, Spielberg wished to prove his worth in following films and never worked with Fields again.

Some scenes that have been declared "missing" from the video were not in the original theatrical release. When the movie was first televised, the network needed fillers after editing it for TV, so they used extra footage from the film's production. Tommy Johnson was the tuba player whose ominous sounds announced the shark's arrival.

Robert Shaw sang the song "Spanish Ladies" while at the dock with Hooper and Brody, loading the boat to catch the shark. The song is a traditional British chantey, not a New England one.

However, Shaw changed the lyrics from: "for we have received orders, for to sail to old England Steven Spielberg was initially apprehensive about hiring Roy Scheider , fearing he would portray a "tough guy", similar to his role in The French Connection The film was simultaneously shown in theaters on its opening weekend, the first time for Hollywood, setting the standard for subsequent films. The film was originally booked in about theaters, but MCA executive Lew Wasserman wanted that cut back, saying he wanted lines at the box office.

This film was ranked the second greatest thriller on the AFI's list of Thrills. The gray and cloudy sky in water scenes is artificial. It is an image on a giant wall placed in the Universal studios. In front of the wall is a huge artificial lake, the "Falls Lake," which, together with the wall, was a backdrop for more than twenty movies already, including Jaws To get the crabs to move in the scene with the arm part on beach, the property master poured some hot coffee on them.

When it was first shown on British television on October 8, , the film became the second most watched film to be broadcast on British television, a record it still holds to this day.

It attracted This was the first time that Martha's Vineyard was used as a location for a feature film. A real white pointer was cut up and "extended" for the close-up shots. Robert Shaw was reluctant to take the role of Quint since he did not like the book, but decided to accept at the urging of both his wife, actress Mary Ure and his secretary. And they were right. Kevin Kline was offered the role of Matt Hooper. He told Steven Spielberg that he knew someone who was an oceanographer and thought he could play one.

Spielberg then told him "I don't want someone who knows someone who is an oceanographer, I want someone who is an oceanographer". The process of looping background crowd dialogue was, up until this point, done by taking library crowd sounds. The movie via Quint's story greatly distorts the true story of shark attacks on the the men of the USS Indianapolis.

Haynes recalled, "Honestly, in the entire hours I was in the water, I did not see a man attacked by a shark Another survivor was quoted as saying, "The sharks were going after dead men. In many shark reports from World War II, a floating sailor could scare off a curious shark by hitting it or churning the water with his legs. The modern US Navy has no formal shark-attack curriculum. This film was the first of three that Steven Spielberg made that each would for a time become the highest grossing film of all time worldwide.

Each film was made for Universal Studios. A decade later, "E. The first actress to be signed on was Lorraine Gary as Ellen Brody.

Steven Spielberg hired her after seeing her in The Marcus-Nelson Murders , because he thought she was so naturalistic. After shooting was complete, Steven Spielberg spent a night at a Boston hotel before flying back to Los Angeles, where he experienced a full panic attack due to the stress he'd been under for months. He also suffered nightmares for the next several weeks in which he was still on the ocean and filming the movie, due not only to the stress of the shoot but also because he slept on a waterbed, the motion of which subconsciously reminded him of being on a boat at sea.

As of , Richard Dreyfuss is the only living member of the hunter trio. Dustin Hoffman stated in an interview that Steven Spielberg offered him a part in the film, presumably Matt Hooper.

Sixteen years later, Hoffman and Spielberg made Hook together. Zanuck and David Brown avoided casting big-name stars because they thought they might distract audiences from the story's tension.

Some of the incidents that befell the troubled production included writer Carl Gottlieb and Steven Spielberg nearly getting killed in seafaring accidents and Richard Dreyfuss was almost imprisoned in the steel cage. As Hooper examines the remains of Chrissie Watkins, he says that the tissue damage "indicates the non-frenzied feeding of a large squalus. Hooper uses the Latin for the oceanic whitetip shark "Longimanus" and what's probably supposed to be the longfin mako shark "Isurus glaucus".

The Orca was originally called The Warlock. June Foray did some uncredited voice work for Michael and Sean during some of the out door scenes. Despite the overwhelming production difficulties, the company enjoyed the time on Martha's Vineyard, especially the actors, except Richard Dreyfuss who was an up-and-coming young actor ready to get on with more projects. Steven Spielberg said that Dreyfuss used to half joke: "What am I doing here? I should be walking into Sardi's to applause and acclaim.

In the socialist Hungary, the movie was only released in It became the second biggest grossing film that year. There were 1. The biggest hit that year was Bomber starring Bud Spencer. Spielberg has lamented not taking control of this franchise the way he did with the Jurassic Park and Indiana Jones franchises. He has said in interviews that he wishes he had engaged in some quality control with the sequels as he has done with his other franchises.

Although all four films have been very successful at the box office, there was a huge dip in quality after part 1. The Jaws franchise was similar in quality to the Poltergeist franchise; both had originals overseen by Spielberg that were lauded by the critics, and both had sequels that were called some of the worst movies ever made!

Howard Sackler was asked to contribute to the screenplay because of his experience as a scuba diver. Sackler's only proviso was that he not receive screen credit as he felt that he didn't work long enough on the film. Oliver Reed turned down the role of Quint.

Richard D. The actors were frequently seasick. Jaws single-handedly caused a downturn in the package holiday trade. Filmed under the threat of an impending actors' strike. Editor Verna Fields rarely had material to work with during principal photography, as according to Steven Spielberg "we would shoot five scenes in a good day, three in an average day, and none in a bad day. In a interview with Yahoo Entertainment, Richard Dreyfuss admitted he thought the film would be a failure "Everyone had thought they had struck gold, and I said, 'What are you talking about?

It's just a little movie,' So when the film was released, I found myself going back to the talk shows and saying, 'I'm the guy who didn't believe in it. Hooper can be seen hyperventilating before he goes in to look at Ben Gardners damaged vessel. Hyperventilating lowers your CO2 level and numerous rapid deep breaths before a dive can extend the time before you feel the urge to breathe. Producer Richard D. Zanuck wanted his then wife Linda Harrison for the role of Ellen Brody but was unaware then Universal head Sid Sheinberg had his wife Lorraine Gary booked ahead for the role.

To placate the situation, Sheinberg contacted Airport producer William Frye and told him to have Harrison penciled for a role in that film. Peter Benchley liked how cutting the subplots from the novel allowed for the characters to be fleshed out properly. Carl Gottlieb said that "there was nothing to do except make the movie," so everyone kept overworking, and while as a writer, he did not have to attend the ocean set every day, once the crewmen returned, they arrived "ravaged and sunburnt, windblown and covered with salt water.

Lee Fierro , a local non-professional who played the role of Mrs. Kintner, the mother of Alex Kintner, the young boy who was the second victim of the shark, who later confronts and slaps Chief Brody, has stated in a recent documentary on the film that she was often asked by fans of the movie, particularly young men, to slap them to recreate the moment.

Fierro said she obliged them for some time, but eventually decided to stop doing it. It is known as the " Esther Williams Tank" for all of the underwater ballet she was involved in during her career. Dick Warlock was the stuntman used as Hooper in the shooting of this sequence. It took about five days to shoot the scenes that were used.

Warlock had to have his hair permed because his hair is straight and the first time in the water after they had just curled it, it straightened right out. Richard Dreyfuss has curly hair. Charlton Heston was considered for the role of Chief Brody. In the opening credits, Spielberg uses a distorted audio-pickup of squawking birds over the Universal logo of the 's.

This is a direct homage to Alfred Hitchcock's opening for "The Birds", which uses the same sounds over the Universal logo from that era. As Brody and Hooper are on the boat during a night scene a meteor appears clearly behind them.

Peter Benchley 's novel was first discovered in galley form in early by then Cosmopolitan Magazine editor and producer David Brown's wife Helen Gurley Brown who was to be excerpting part of the novel to be published in an upcoming issue.

Brown saw it by accident, having read it then a few days brought it to the attention of his partner Richard D. Zanuck , subsequently obtaining the rights to the book at the end of the year. After finishing the film, George Lucas came and visited Steven Spielberg while Bruce the mechanical shark was still in the water. George Lucas wanted to get a picture with his head inside of Bruce's mouth. Lucas put his head inside Bruce's mouth, and Spielberg played a prank on Lucas by closing Bruce's mouth.

The prank backfired and Lucas ended up getting his head stuck inside Bruce's mouth and it took nearly three hours to set Lucas free. Early on, before development of Jaws as a feature film, it started to be developed as a television series. At least one press release appeared in trade magazines attesting to this.

The format of episodic television with new celebrity guest stars being eaten each week was thankfully abandoned in favor of developing the property as a feature film. Craig Kingsbury, the Martha's Vineyard local who plays Ben Gardner, was an actual "old salt" sailor who had spent decades at sea and was, in the words of screenwriter Carl Gottlieb, "a gentleman who qualifies for the 'Most Unforgettable Character I've Ever Met' scrapbook.

Following the release of the film, interest in shark fishing soared. The mechanical shark used in the film was nicknamed "Bruce" by its handlers, and the "full body" version tours around museums, while "Bruce II" resides at the Universal Theme Parks and "bites at" tourists on the tour ride. Very similar to their characters, 'Robert Shaw' taunted 'Richard Dreyfuss' for being out of shape as a young man, and bet he couldn't do ten full pushups.

Dreyfuss countered that he could do Shaw then challenged Dreyfuss to have Roy Scheider , a former boxer, make sure he did them right. Scheider then told Dreyfuss he knew how few men could do 20 full pushups, and that Dreyfuss was not one of them. Steven Spielberg estimated the final script had a total of 27 scenes that were not in the book. As part of a marketing campaign for the movie's release, various shops were selling ice cream with flavors such as "Sharklate" and "Finilla," and even a Jaws-themed discotheque in the Hamptons was operational for a time.

Quint's USS Indianapolis speech was only recorded because the crew was waiting around for "Bruce" to be repaired, so Steven Spielberg added more dialogue to keep from wasting so much shooting-time. He has paid tribute to the fact by naming one of his production companies after a famous line from the movie: Bad Hat Harry Productions. Throughout production, Steven Spielberg spent sleepless nights in his log cabin stressing about rumors that he was going to be pulled from the project and would never find work again.

He brought a pillow from home and kept a stalk of celery beneath it because the smell comforted him. The knot which Quint is trying to teach Brodie is called a bowline knot. It is a very useful boating knot. When taught to children the eel is replaced by a rabbit.

The Brody family's two cocker spaniels are both Steven Spielberg's dogs. Director John Landis showed up during the filming of the two islanders fishing for the shark and was put to work hammering the pier. In the inquest scene where Hooper confirms the shark attacks as he analyzes the remains of the first victim Chrissie Watkins, he names two likely suspects by their scientific names but never clarifies them.

Longimanus refers to the Oceanic Whitetip Shark Carcharhinus Longimanus , well-known for following ships in the expectation of a sinking. Issurus Paucus is the rare Longfin Mako. The latter is an unusual choice since there are no record of attacks of humans compared to its plentiful cousin the aggressive Shortfin Mako Issurus Oxyrhincus. Steven Spielberg always considered Jurassic Park a sequel to Jaws , but on land. People saw differences though, where the latter focused on character development as much as on its creature, while the former only used the dinosaurs to sell the film, and not the characters.

Richard Dreyfuss, remembers meeting the future film legend Steven Spielberg for the first time. And I said, 'Me too. The bite strength of a great white has been estimated at 1.

The medical examiner was played by a real doctor, Robert Nevin. Although he goes uncredited, the baseball announcer we hear over the radio during one of the beach scenes is sports announcer, Charlie Jones. He was mostly known for football. All of the players he announces here are fictional. Amity Island is actually Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Whereas Amity Island was also its own town, Martha's Vineyard has six different towns on it.

Spielberg despised how phony the shark prop looked, so he shot it from awkward angles, beneath the water, for only moments at a time; anything to keep the audience from getting a good look at it. It also kept breaking down, which resulted in lots of shots in the movie that imply the presence of the shark, without showing so much as a fin.

Spielberg later said that much of the credit for this goes to the film's editor, Verna Fields. They would fight in the editing room Fields' pool house over whether to use this trope her preference or to use a shot of the shark that Spielberg had spent a day capturing.

The producers initially wanted to train a real Great White shark for the film. They quickly realized this was impossible, so Spielberg had to create the infamously difficult mechanical version. While John Milius has long taken credit for writing the U. Indianapolis speech, Carl Gottlieb claimed he actually had little to do with it, giving Robert Shaw all the credit.

According to Gottlieb, the only line Milius came up with that remains in the movie is earlier in the film, when Quint tells the people of Amity "I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and kill him for ten.

According to production designer Joe Alves , the platform that operated the shark needed a minimal change in tidal depth, about 25 feet, and the downwind side of an island for protection. Martha's Vineyard, an island south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, proved to have all the right elements.

Gene Hackman was considered for the role of Martin Brody. When Brody is typing his initial report on Chrissie's death, the recipient is the "Corners Office" as opposed to "Coroner's. The ship 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.

On the final day of filming after going months over the original shooting schedule, the crew planned to celebrate by throwing Steven Spielberg in the ocean the final day's shoot being at sea. Spielberg got wind of this and wore his best leather and suede outfit in an attempt to convince the crew not to go through with it, as the dunking would ruin his expensive clothes.

Moreover, he also arranged for a special boat to take him out to the site of the final shot and had a car waiting on shore with his already luggage packed. He lined up the shot, made sure everything was ready, and then, leaving the actual shooting of the scene to his subordinates, jumped into the boat and, as it sped off, shouted "That's a wrap.

I shall not return! Director Steven Spielberg originally wanted Joe Spinell and Frank Pesce to play the two guys on the dock fishing for the shark at night Pesce as the guy who falls in the water and Spinell shouting to him. Unfortunately, Pesce could not make it to Martha's Vineyard. Was voted the 48th greatest film by the American Film Institute on their list of the greatest movies in Ten years later, it dropped eight ranks to In a couple scenes when the boat crew is below deck waiting for the shark to do something at dusk, you can see in the sky as the camera is filming the boat, a couple of actual shooting stars go by.

Steven Spielberg was so sure he would win the Oscar that he had a news crew film him and his crew watching the Oscars at a special party they were throwing. Gene Siskel, the famed film critic, interviewed JAWS author, and got feedback from him about what the movie was trying to accomplish: In an April interview, Peter Benchley told me the film of his novel, "Jaws," had been made with one overriding intention: to scare the hell out of its audience the same way "The Exorcist" had done.

Benchley went on to say that portions of the book had been changed in order to accomplish that goal. For example, the romance between the police chief's wife and the ichthyologist sent to investigate the shark attacks was eliminated so the horror story could develop.

Quint's boat, named the "Orca", was also the name of a knock-off film named Orca that was released in , largely to capitalize on the "shark craze" that came after the success of Jaws in The brand of beer that Quint drinks onboard the Orca is Narragansett.

It's running line was "Hi neighbor, have a Gansett. In the fishing town of Menemsha on Martha's Vineyard, a local fast food restaurant, the Galley, now stands on the spot where the Orca was filmed setting sail. Although the town has grown slightly since , the spot where the Orca sailed is virtually unchanged, and the Galley includes a seating area in the back where customers can compare it to the actual shot in the film.

After filming, the second Orca, used for the sinking scenes, was left on on the beach along the estuary across from the town of Menemsha. The boat remained a minor attraction over the years, but without security much of it was vandalized by souvenir hunters, and storms and lack of maintenance soon destroyed most of the structure. As of , most of the boat is buried, with only the skeleton and part of the stern remaining visible.

The spot is easily accessible to boaters. The production was so troubled many of the people involved, Richard Dreyfuss included, nicknamed it "Flaws. Spielberg admits he almost had a nervous breakdown. Michael Winner , fresh from his success with Death Wish , was considered to direct. Just before Hooper goes down in the shark cage, he tries to spit on his scuba mask and says "I've got no spit.

During the night time scene aboard Quint's boat ORCA, the Quint character describes sharks have lifeless dolls eyes until it "bites ya" and then the "eyes roll over white. Richard is a distant relative of Albert.

Richard Dreyfuss is the only main cast member to work with Steven Spielberg again. However, Roy Scheider starred in the first two seasons of SeaQuest , where Spielberg served as an executive producer. Both Scheider and Spielberg departed after the second season. There was an added scene shot for the fourth victim. The shot showed the victim seemingly being pushed by the shark as he grabs Michael Brody and attempts to drag him down with him before dying and letting him go.

Steven Spielberg decided that the scene should be cut because he felt that it was too bloody and in bad taste. Victoria Principal was considered for the role of Ellen Brody.

Roy Scheider said he never called the shark by its famous nickname, "Bruce. The original U. The mislabeled videos have been withdrawn. Steven Spielberg almost accidentally came across the property when he spotted the galley proofs for Peter Benchley 's book sitting on producer David Brown 's desk. A veteran director was hired first, then fired, because during storyboarding conferences with Producer Sid Sheinberg and author Peter Benchley he kept referring to the shark as a whale.

As in the White Whale, Moby Dick. Benchley turned to Sheinberg and finally said, out loud, in front of the director, "I don't want someone who doesn't know the difference my shark and Moby Dick". And then Sid promptly fired him. This veteran director was thought to be John Sturges. Sturges is a legendary director just like Spielberg, having directed the Great Escape and the Magnificent Seven; two hugely iconic action movies from the 60s. However, the Peter Benchley source novel presents the shark as male.

Much like the characters they played, actors Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss did not get along during much of the shooting of Jaws. In fact, Shaw often taunted Dreyfuss in between takes. Eventually, their feud reached a boiling point when Dreyfuss threw a glass of bourbon that Shaw had been drinking out the window.

Taylor says that within a brief time, it was sold to a fisherman in Los Angeles. A real shark shown in the movie, caught and hung up on the dock, came all the way from Florida. While Titanic was a massive blockbuster hit, very few people remember that a large portion of the crew was poisoned during filming, and the culprit remains at large. May use two or more of these bags to get the results needed.