The Shark Is Still Working JAWS Documentary

something and he was probably right if I had been on his crew he would have done it but it has become a tradition that Stephen never films his last take and a The day I will use this information with the film production finished and Benchley's book already was a huge success, the creators of Jaws prepared themselves in the hope that the fruit of their labor would live up to the reputation of the novel that inspired it. Little did they realize. that his fish story was about to change the face of Hollywood, I couldn't really see past all the mistakes that were obvious to me and that were more obvious than anything else, so in my ignorance, which is pure ignorance , I was saying oh this is going to be a disaster and then we made this movie that crashed into people like a speeding truck, the book had become a bestseller while we were filming the movie, but

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no one had any idea or knew I didn't even dare to think that it would become what it became part of this is that it was too ambitious for the budget that the technology wasn't there that they had to use parts of their brain that they normally don't have to use unless you're in mode desperate and when an artist is pushed like that incredible and unique things happen that's what happened in

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it was just an extraordinary, a perfect creative storm, who knew, who knew, but you know it's like all these phenomena just happen if you plan it, It would never be a phenomenon.

Roy Scheider Robert. The film's innovative advertising campaign was very instrumental in its initial box office success, I believe. Jaws affected cinema in many ways. I think that was when they started using television to promote movies, so there was a big premiere and everyone came out to see it and the anticipation was incredible. Incredible, no one had ever anticipated a movie like that. I remember that, I mean, it really created this sensation across the planet of everything, here it comes, there's a creature alive today that has survived millions of years of evolution, which underlines the

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era TV ads and theatrical trailers. the well-known but sinister announcer. from character actor and voiceover artist percy rodriguez, they had the idea of ​​doing a very horrible delivery that i didn't agree with and we discussed it and they finally came up with the idea that i had in mind that we would do it at a higher level. devastating presentation instead of trying to get over this scary image they had, I felt like I should go under it and let the images sell it, it's like God created the devil and gave him jaws.

The level of publicity was very acute and then people were afraid to get in the water for years, you know, and I like to think that I contributed to that fear. Watch it before you go swimming. Everyone who grew up in that era knows the voice. He was the gateway for many people. in the jaws universe he was like the weed of what would become jaws crack, you know, it's like you have to get through percy and the dulcet tones of percy that drew you to that movie and then hooked you in a way very bad once Its release demonstrated how hooked moviegoers were and marked a decisive turning point at the box office.

The buzz generated by advanced screenings required it to become the first film to be released in over 400 theaters and it may have been even bigger when it was screened. in long beach california it took place lou wasserman the president of the board of directors of universe asked ty martin, who was the head of distribution, to reduce the number of theaters he said we had set a record, we have 600 theaters since the preview of dallas I can't stop the phone from ringing and Lou said Cut it in half and everyone was a little stunned. Cut it in half.

Why did you say I want people from Palm Springs, California to have to come to Los Angeles to see the movie? I don't think so. We thought we were launching a listing event movie We thought we had a very successful movie We thought you should be waiting to see it. My colleague Lou Wasserman always thought the best advertising was people lining up. Lou said he wanted this to be something. what you couldn't get into he wasn't interested in just taking the weekend he wanted to take the summer and we took the summer when you released in 400 theaters it was different you could play all summer and if you looked at the grosses the grosses were constant lows, you sold out the bottom seats in the first seven rows only when the movie was in theaters for weeks and months, I would

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go to the theater not to see a new movie, but to see Jaw again and, you know, a. by jaws and they would look at you again, you know, it's like dude, just give me the ticket, you know, they started to see that the movie could become an event and a marketing phenomenon, of course, nowadays, the marketing of a movie it's more important. than the movie itself and I think we can attribute a lot of that to the success of Jaws.

It turned out that it worked on a very widespread level on a mass audience level, but the movie itself was incredibly solid and more than solid, it's exceptional from the end. In closing, when people lump together their summer movies and eye candy, they tend to forget that that movie was much more than just eye candy, although it is credited with starting summer blockbuster syndrome and nonsense movies and all that. The fact is that Jaws, and I think many critics will agree, was an excellent film in that genre, which was very rare. Jaws, only the exorcist could compare to Jaws, an incredibly effective thriller that sends shivers of terror down your spine, the most perfectly constructed horror story. of our times, the most terrifying adventure ever presented on the screen.

A wonderful film from start to finish destined to become a classic given its monstrous success and critical acclaim. Jaws was roundly expected to receive the lion's share of that year's Oscar nominations, best director for Steven Spielberg, but unfortunately those high expectations fell short oh, I didn't get it, I didn't get it, I didn't get nominated, I got beat up by Fellini Jaws got the best picture nomination, well, it's about time, but it was in light of this that some in the industry thought it was scandalous that Stephen was overlooked for best director. Who made the movie?

Someone's mother. Director. This man made yours. Are you kidding? Who is kidding? I, uh, thought Steven did a brilliant job directing Jaws and I have no idea what happened. The only thing I still can't understand in my head is how a best movie can be nominated and yet the director who is basically responsible for it doesn't get it. the nomination but for the 27-year-old prodigy director there was no choice but to accept his lumps I'm already suffering enough okay I'm suffering we're suffering cancel although Jaws did not receive the Oscar for best picture it did bring home awards for its three remaining nominations, best Sound, Best Editing, and Best Score Throughout the rest of the year, Jaws went on to win numerous other industry awards, even as the record books were being rewritten.

In hindsight, one wonders if the Academy would reconsider overlooking the masterful work of spielberg in jaws if they knew then what they certainly know now, of course, Stephen still had a very decorated career ahead of him. A now legendary career spanning perhaps the most popular and diverse body of work ever created by an individual director, making Steven Spielberg one of the most influential. figures throughout the film industry and it was all fueled by Jaws. The audience's fascination with Jaws was by no means limited to the US. Shortly after its domestic release, Jaws made its way into cinemas around the world and moviegoers couldn't get enough.

I remember that Jaws is traveling around the world promoting it and whether it's South Africa, Australia or Latin America, every culture in the world adopted the Jaws book Peter Benchley, which was with the beginning of everything a sensation, in some way the idea of this creature. attacking humanity became popular everywhere. I've been to a lot of places around the world and Jaws has reached almost every place I've been. At first I thought that maybe we would do well in cities near large bodies of water, but it turned out that some of our best businesses were in extremely desert countries, I think the reason they went around the world so quickly was that they didn't even you need dialogue, that is, you simply see the situation there and your own primary fear about something you cannot see. it's also enough to keep your interest in that movie it's a universal movie and not just from universal studios but it really has a global impact I really think it works like a silent movie you're responding to the images instinctively in a visceral way the coincidence of that, more Stephen's innate talent as a filmmaker, he made a movie that will live, it has to live, it's not going to disappear, there is no culture on earth that doesn't have that movie and show it, it was shown in 40 countries in 17 different ones. languages, if you forgot what horror is like, the original jaws came back and then came the marketing blitz, almost overnight jaws became a cottage industry and suddenly

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s were big business when we realized that what we had was licking her lips and it was just an Easy to market.

It obviously started with what everyone does with t-shirts, but from there everything multiplied with the release of the image. It even had a toilet seat that when you opened it there was a big

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in front of you. so I mean everything from lunch boxes to barbecue sets was amazing and one of the first big merchandising events to take place in connection with the film, although it's been three decades since the jaw-dropping merchandising frenzy for some voracious collectors , the summer of the shark ever. Ends In recent years the enduring popularity of the image has seen a resurgence of jaw-related paraphernalia, from children's toys to high-end collectibles and video games.

Another milestone in the evolution of entertainment was the commercialization of jaw-making, although commonplace today, capitalizing on the rear end of an image. Accounts of the scenes were rarely seen in the mid-1970s. I had always been interested in movies, more than just sitting there and passively watching them. Cole Gottlieb's Jaw Log and Edith Blake's book on the making of the film. jaws were both inspirations to get me interested in movies. jaws as a movie for me is first and foremost my favorite movie, i watch it once a year and when you examine the movie in its final state and watch the making process or read carl gottlieb's jaws record or just read the other ones stories or, as I remember reading about it even as a kid, it's almost like film school in a movie.

I remember in film school reading an interview with stephen soderbergh who said that he was obsessed with jaws and that his favorite book was the jaws log and that he carried it with him everywhere and I thought "okay, I'm on my way right", that book became my bible and I read it over and over again at first. When the book was first conceived, it was a rushed afterthought for the marketing plan, the original intention was for there to be three parts, the book would be written from Steven Spielberg's point of view, he would contribute a third part , from Peter Benchley's point of view.

He would contribute a third and Zanec and Brown would contribute a third as producers and as we got closer and closer to the release date, it became clear that no one was going to be able to write the third. I had already agreed with Stephen to do some sort of ghostwriting or The Author is One Third of Him, as far as I knew, because we had shared a house and I knew what Stephen's perspective on the film was, so no one was available. Steven was immersed in post-production. Zanik and Brown were on something else, so they said.

Me, at the end of March, can you do a book at the end of May? You know, the madness of youth. I said yes, I can write a book that fast, so I wrote the book in a very short time, probably. less than a month and the original paperback got rave reviews and the word of mouth was excellent and the book went through 17 printings and sold a couple million copies and then of course many years later Laurent Buzzero made his

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behind the scenes on Same topic, you know, Universal came out with what they called the exclusive series back in the LaserDisc days and the Jaws box set that included the Laurent Bouzero

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was something every Jaws fan had to have.

They went out and bought laserdisc players. they could have that documentary when i got to the jaws documentary for laserdisc i felt like i was going to try to make a bible or some kind of reference to that particular movie because how many times can we sit in front of steven spielberg? or peter benchleyand the cast members, but you want to get all their different perspectives and I think for true fans, you just look at those people like they're talking to you, you know, I'd seen all those pictures of Brody's son. in the stuntman's arms and I always wondered if that wasn't in the movie and yet that image was used to promote the picture, you know, and I always wondered what that sequence is, what that scene is, you know, and find the footage of that.

It was amazing, you know, to see that when the shark comes into the estuary, you know, it's just a fin, you know, I thought it's pretty amazing to find those pictures of the shark being built doing all the dry testing, you know? and then receive the big surprise that no. It didn't work in the water, I mean, it was just amazing. You know, I felt like I was doing what I was sent to do on Earth. You know, discovering all those things that you know and making sure that they were preserved because a lot of them.

I think if DVDs hadn't existed today, I think a lot of that stuff would have been completely lost today. Always an important step in promoting public awareness of a film, both during and after its theatrical release, is the design of the film's poster and case. of jaws few images have become more iconic in pop culture than this one that image is iconic and was responsible for attracting a lot of people to the theaters to see jaws, you know what kid wouldn't want to go see that movie, it's almost like a bullet before it hits someone and the fact that it leaves it all to your imagination is what you know the jaws poster did so well that it conveyed all the emotion that sparked fear and you get it the moment you look at that. image you have it the jaws poster is the how to bible you know that's all you need to know you know you don't need to know about the main characters and their arcs or anything like that big shark pretty girl bad situation one One of the things that What happens when you make an iconic film is that it becomes a touchstone for other artists and other comments.

The Jaws artwork became a staple of the political cartoons you've known for years. In fact, the shark and the swimmer were used to represent virtually every theme in the story. political spectrum and it wasn't just politics coming into action over the years, even to this day, the jaws motif has served as material for a variety of less conventional applications, but what today has become iconic of pop culture actually had very humble beginnings: the art of the swimmer swimming over the great white shark originated on the cover of the paperback edition of Peter Benchley's novel Jaws published by Bannon Books and Oscar Distal was the president of the company and always regretted not putting it on, he didn't sell it to us, he could have sold it.

We got the artwork, but he gave it to us as a promotional item, so I report it to him to this day. One name that isn't as well known in the annals of Jaws history is Roger Castell, the artist who created the legendary image. Castell was an experienced. Magazine and paperback illustrator

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in New York whose skills were increasingly in demand at the time and the assignment was simply one of many Oscar Diesel He said: Do I have a great book for you? you'll love it you can read it over the weekend they felt the hardcover version wouldn't work in paperback.

I did a very rough sketch and they said it was great. Just make the shark realistic and bigger. Make it much bigger. She had gone to the natural history museum and I had my camera with me and I said, "You have a shark exhibit in the building" and she said yes, but everything was down and they were renovating it. They were cleaning them. All the sharks were lying on trestles. I cast her, so I had my camera with me. I knew what. Position I wanted the shark in and this is the big light they had on the easel, I guess they were dusting it off and that's what I worked with.

The girl was photographed in the New York studio. She was a great model. I used it. for a good cleaning chart and I asked her if she would stay another half hour and just swim for this paperback, you know, totally jaws. I don't think anyone knew what jaws was back then, but she was swimming on a stool last summer. I was painting in the Studio and my grandson Luke came in and said Grandpa, have you ever made a Mona Lisa? And he's seven years old and that really threw me off and I thought and I saw I don't think I did the Mona Lisa Luke and he said, well.

The shark will have to be your Mona Lisa, it just stands there. I think Jaws was the first movie I did and I was really crazy about the movie. I thought it was a wonderful movie, as I remember the first day I played it. Stephen said what we do for the shark and I just played an octave on the piano and then e and then f and repeated them and sped them up and so on and he said something that I think will work, it's got to be a joke, it's so simple. all he did was me and steven says that's it and john said yeah that's it, well i think john, who is prescient about all the films he scores, sees deeper than we do about our own work and i think that he saw something deeply primal about jaws and him.

He decided that he needed a primal response, he needed a primal sound, something that was atavistic, something that was extremely basic and something that was unforgettable and that was almost a kind of siren to warn you that something was coming to get you when you associated. the image of that shark coming in for the kill and you hear John Williams score you, it's just that perfect storm again, it's the right image for the right music, it doesn't happen all the time, but boy, when it does, you never forget it. Obviously, for generations, the jaws theme was so provocative and symbolic of the shark that it really saved us because the many times we didn't have the shark, all we had to do was point the camera towards the sea and play its core and all . he screamed and half the movie you don't see the shark, you don't have to listen to that theme and he says oh my god, he's out there somewhere and he's going to catch someone.

I just think they were the brightest couple of notes. that he once wrote because he lived it beyond the movie and it became what kids do with each other when they play in the pool, you can always sneak up on someone and say da da da da and in the post jaws world it means something in Australia uses the shark theme uh as a warning sound on the beaches. I love that on the speakers no one would stand in the water listening to that music in every movie after that, every time you saw some kind of monstrous beast, especially from the sea.

Things like a shark, octopus, whatever it was, the loud boom, boom, that song gives me chills. What do you mean it's our theme song? It's very flattering. You know, I think you think. Oh, great, that's whatever I wrote. I reached that level. That's a reaction that I think is natural and I'm always happy that it goes from paper to the hands of the orchestra, through the microphone, around the world and back to my own living room. my own studio or have been

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on sometimes years later, it's a pretty miraculous electronic journey that composers of previous centuries would never have had the pleasure of experiencing, so we're lucky that cinema and the court of music, etc., While the digital effects revolution that took hold in the early '90s promised to offer filmmakers tremendous creative freedom, Jaws' legacy reminds us that not being able to show everything you want can really be a challenge. blessing in disguise, we complain about the shark, not being able to act because he couldn't was never ready that's what saved us that was the art of the movie if jaws never existed except in the year 2005 it would have had the digital tools to have much more shark in Therefore, it would have ruined a lot more of the movie if we could have computerized a shark.

Many of the wonderful elements of the film, such as the barrels, would never have been thought of. That was an idea that came up during production and out of frustration. If we didn't have the shark, we had nothing else to film in the first scene with the girl being dragged back and forth, this shark was supposed to be there in the picture at the time, we only showed it later because we didn't know . I've had it before, they started with Jaws in the opening scene by not seeing the shark and I think it was scarier not seeing something that I actually think is scarier because visually you're fine with it, but if your imagination runs wild then it can be whatever I did because the shark kept decomposing and today a digital shark wouldn't decompose, there would be some nice interactive water explosions to match the digital shark with the real water, that's all there would be there, it wouldn't have been a full-on shark the size of a shark or probably even any segment of the shark in the jaws of 2005 today and therefore the film would have been only half as effective so I was saved by the failure of technology 30 years ago I think Yes, I'm right.

It was 55 minutes into the movie before you actually saw the shark. One of the things that makes the image more believable is that you can only do so much with that graph. You know, you have one track that goes to the right and one that goes to the left. one that goes straight almost makes it more believable, but you can't do sophisticated things and I can't help but think that today's filmmakers would want to do a lot more with that shark in today's movies that everyone is trying to outdo. and they're trying to outdo each other and they're just trying to make it bigger and better and sometimes bigger isn't necessarily better sometimes bigger is too much it's hard to create something new that will surprise people who have seen it today.

There are so many movies now, what's so good about it? I think the expectations of what a movie could be weren't what they are today, so when a big movie like that came out back then, it blew people away, I can't say how. Many people have come to me and told me that because of jaws I will not go in the water until today. It's amazing, let's get in the water, take it easy, take it easy, I mean jaws essentially did for swimming what the psycho movie did for showering. motel rooms the shower scene in Psycho where women especially didn't shower.

I didn't go to the ocean after Jaws. I was at the beach one day and a woman came up to me and she had her little boy in her hand. She was about five and he was crying and she said are you steven spielberg? and I said yes, I am and she and she started yelling at me in a very thick New York accent, tell them, tell them it's safe to go out. tell him it's safe to go out look at him look what you've done to him and this child was crying his eyes out you know and I said what happened she said my husband showed her his jaws and now look he won't get the water in you tell him it's okay you tell him that everything is fiction and she gave me so much peace of mind that I sat the child down, looked him in the eyes and couldn't lie to him, it's dangerous out there.

I couldn't just say yes, go, get out, go beyond the waves. You know it's all psychological. You scream barracuda. ​​Everyone says: huh? You scream shark. We have panic on our hands on the 4th of July. You already know the structure. of jaws is so perfect that it just breaks down into these beautiful acts and it's like you know the problem, you know how to find the answer and then the third act of let's go find the shark, it's such a beautiful mythological structure, it's this monster about the things. In them, like any great narrative, you know that the characters learn something about themselves, you know their phobias, the things they lack, why are they pursuing this?

You know, the white whale, it's Melville, it's Hemingway, it's the ancient prophet Jonah, these are. the mythological parallels that bubble up from beneath the surface and the jaws that make it a timeless classic that makes it last long after the technological aspects of the film are obsolete, it's a classic, you know, the heroes' journey It's kind of a story if you subscribe. the mythological nature of screenwriting has all the ingredients that are not culturally specific to the opinions of one generation it's not depression america it's not vietnam america is a small timeless island with only the human values ​​of fear or jealousy or heroism or the obsession with sharks as part of What's successful with Jaws is the simplicity of the way the story was told and the fact that it's three men in a boat.

When you break it down, you meet three survivors who have issues with each other. You have city hands, sir. Hooper, I've been counting money your whole life, okay, okay, hey, I don't need this, I don't need this working class hero shit, they have big personal problems with each other, but they all leave each other aside because they have to. they become partners in helping each other live through and get through the experience and the shark becomes less important than those three characters and I have to give Peter Benchley full credit for what he was in the book.

The characters andsay that way, but yes, I am. I love sharks, yes I love them. I love them. I think the fascination with sharks comes from many things. one of them is the last surviving predator that poses a genuine threat to man in an environment where he chooses to go. E.o wilson said that we not only fear our predators, but are paralyzed by them, we tend to weave stories and fables because fascination generates preparation and preparedness survival in a deeply tribal sense he said that we love our monsters. I think all over the world little children, all boys, at least have a fascination with other sharks or dinosaurs and in my case I was able to grow up here in Nantucket, where the sharks were. proliferation, so I was able to fix my fascination with sharks.

One couple whose fixed fascination led to their preeminence in the field of great white shark research was husband and wife team Ron and Valerie Taylor of Australia, their combined experience throughout the 1960s and 1970s documenting these elusive Los animals made them the perfect choice for the Jaws creative team. They were tasked with filming live shark footage for the film's climactic cage sequence. The task would prove to be almost as harrowing as anything else in the film. I told them there is a problem because our sharks. on average they're only about 13 feet long, and yet their mechanical shark is 26 feet long and they said, well, no problem, we'll send you a little man and little cages, and we build a scaled-down cage, and we try a dummy that doesn't.

It didn't work, so we found a little person who said he could dive. Carl was not an experienced diver so we gave him an introduction to diving right on the boardwalk and we took him to a dangerous reef and when he saw his first great white shark he was terrified but to give him credit Carl actually went into the cage with these dangerous looking great white sharks swimming around dangerous looking because we had put a lot of bait in the water to attract them to our cages joe alex One day he came into my office with his hand behind his back and said Bill, we screwed up and lifted the tanks that had been miniaturized.

He said the little one only has eight minutes of air. What we weren't thinking about is that a small person still sucks in as much air as a big person and the tanks were very small, so immediately when he panicked he sucked in all the air from the tank car, he was very reluctant, he was very afraid. , very scared, the production manager was screaming. I asked him to get into the cage and he was very slow and just as he was about to get in a big shark tried to swim over him and got his head stuck in the bridle and of course he got trapped and went crazy and the tail went into the back of the little boat and ripped out all the hydraulic cables that were bringing fuel and fluid to the engines and started running across the deck and as he did that tail turned Carl's face away and Carl just stood there and then He looked up and said it was my blood and it was actually the hydraulic fluid and we never put it in the water again if Carl had been in that cage he would have lost his life there wasn't much he could have done to get there the shark still He was tangled and writhing and tangled in the cage at the bottom.

Carl would have been there and drowned, so his reluctance saved his life. 700 men went into the water. The ship sank within 12 minutes. He didn't see the first shark for about half an hour Tiger, a very uncredited writer who made the biggest breakthrough in Jaws, who was a writer named Howard Sacker whose idea was to give Quint the Indianapolis speech even though it was John Millius who wrote the speech, i mean, howard sackler wrote like two paragraphs, this great john millius wrote a nine-page monologue for um quintesse and then when robert shaw, who was the writer of the man in the glass cabin, read millions of 10 pages and He said I can't go on for 10 or 15 minutes just talking, let me try, Shaw took the speech and brother and edited it himself into five pages and that was the whole evolution of how that speech was told, but it came from Howard's mind.

Sackler, who recalled the real Indianapolis incident and suggested that Quint became a rosette stone for Quince's entire character. steven saw, oh my god, that's all the momentum, that's the backbone of uh fifth, actually not only is he crazy, but he has a case for these sharks, you know, at the end of that first dawn I lost a hundred men. I don't know how many sharks maybe a thousand, I don't know how many men they only average six an hour. The SS Indianapolis was top secret when Peter wrote the book so it wasn't in it, I think he would have used it and then before the making of the movie it was unclassified and Steven used it.

The world found out about the United States of Indianapolis through Jaws and it was a perfectly accurate description, as far as I know, Peter's housekeeper called him the day after the movie premiered and told him he wasn't coming to work the next day and when he said why she said my son was on the SS Indianapolis and I never found out how he died until now, well he had been bitten in half below the waist by the American naval cruiser that delivered the bomb atomic bomb used in Hiroshima and completed its mission, but was later sunk by a Japanese submarine.

However, a group of 1,196 sailors and marines, an estimated 300 died on impact and the rest spent five days in shark-infested waters before only 317 were eventually rescued. However, Robert was quite a Promethean character. really larger than life a man who intimidated me who scared me who exhilarated me and I liked him and I hated him and um he had my number you know he could get me and he always did I really thought this needed a young inexperienced slapping punk on the stage. It made me doubt that I could do things that I knew I could do like one day he said, "You couldn't, you couldn't, um, you couldn't jump off the top of the orca yes I can no, you couldn't do it and I couldn't, so I would say look at you dreyfus you relax and drink and you are fat and sloppy your age is criminal why couldn't you even do 10 good push ups he would say I can do 20 and he would say you can do 20 good push ups for sure. push-ups, you say, okay, roy, you're the referee tomorrow morning, we'll see if the drivers can do 20 like As soon as Shaw left, I said drivers, you know how many people can do 20 good push-ups, you're not one of them, I couldn't do it, he moved me and, because he moved me, I was always on guard, but I also adored him very much, as Robert Shaw was a great artist, as an actor, he was a wonderful writer, I think in those years I appreciated those things a lot and.

If circumstances had been different we could have worked together again, goodbye and I give you a good Spanish on August 28, 1978 at the age of 51 Robert Shaw died of a heart attack but his legacy lives on in his performance now mythical quint continues to be remembered by celebrities by us, Spanish ladies and gentlemen, we defame commemorations of the central characters of the film and scenes appear in the fine arts and the exquisite representations of sculptors, painters, craftsmen, all fans around the world they reflect the creative excellence of the film itself. I greatly appreciate Jaws fans who understand her even better than I do and have spent more time with her.

You already know sites like jawsmovie.com, confirm your identity to a generation that doesn't believe anything is real if it's not online. I love and appreciate the fact that fans understand it and not just understand it as a cultural thing. phenomenon, but they understand the ingredients and how they were mixed and how they combined to create this entertainment and I really love the fans for being so insightful right now. I would like to present the key to the city of friendship to Mr. Peter. Benchley was surprising for me to discover what Jaws Fest became when I first heard about it.

I thought it was going to be some trick from the Martha's Vineyard Chamber of Commerce and they did it so well that it worked well, I guess. two three thousand people from all over the world impressed me enormously this is the first time we are all together and that includes the making of the film 30 years ago there was no farewell party we were never all in the same place at the same time until now so this is a more historic moment than you can imagine and we thank you for so much interest in this movie that I had no idea it had this national and international attention and this is the Star Trek convention for people who I love the movie Jaws is that reward three thousand dollars for the shark in cash or check, you shout shark and we have panic on our hands.

She needs to find people coming from all over the world, from Dublin, Edinboro, New Zealand and Australia. and it's just awesome, I think to me it really shows that the links and the fan base of the movie going back 30 years is an achievement for all of us together, oh yeah, I have one in my party version here, I'm going to watch to the big shark. take some pictures, you can literally fit in there, he will literally swallow them up, you know the muffin man perfectly, well, say hello, I mean call them after me and they haven't called me that in years, you know, ladies and gentlemen , the cast of jaws. this is the first time i have seen jaws on wide screen in 26 years, the audience of course was very interested and what a great way to start watching the film, you have the ferry passing behind the screen, the salt air is filling your lungs to see about 3,000 people sitting there watching the giant screen.

It was Jaws' version of the horror movie Rocky. Jaws is really unique in the way it was filmed in this specific location. I mean, other movies are filmed in all kinds of dark places. Places where most people have no idea where they were filmed. Giles was here on this whole island and you can't really get away from there even if you wanted to, on the left you will see the house that was used. In the movie, if you wanted to go see a movie location, things change and the houses are painted and most of the time they are even on a sound stage.

Well, with jaws, you can take a ferry ride, you get off the ferry and we're in friendship, it hasn't really changed in 30 years, I know people come here regularly. Questions about the jaws are probably some of the main questions we get at our visitor information centres, we get asked quite frequently if you can still see some of the places where scenes from the film were filmed the answer is yes some of the Scenes include South Beach, where the opening bonfire was made, Amity City Hall, which is actually Edgartown City Hall, right on the main street of Anger Town, plus the Chop Clit Ferry is a very small ferry that takes you between Edgartown and its island, which is chappaquiddick in the grange hall in western history, the display of jaws behind the screams attracts hundreds of islanders and fans contributed by private collectors.

These jaw artifacts have returned to the island for the first time. In decades, collecting accessories has become big business in recent years thanks to the Internet. It's easy for people to find recent movie props everywhere. It is very difficult to find classic movie props, especially movies like jaws. I probably got into Jaws when I was about five years old and one of the first accessories I had was a harpoon and if you're five and you have the harpoon, of course you need the cannons and the tank, and the list goes on and on. I spent 30 years. of my life tracking this stuff down and I think I did a pretty good job considering I discovered I probably have one of the largest collections in the world and what happened to Jaws' ultimate prop, Quint's trusty fishing boat, the orca , which served as a floating set for almost four months of filming in the sea well, I had a good memory I had the orca for a while I had the orca ship back to Universal Studios we put it on the tour in the back lot and from time to time I go I get in my little electric cart and visit the orca on my own.

I look around, I make sure there are no tourists around, no one can see me and I just sit inside the cockpit or I sit in one of the cabins and then I walk down those few steps to where. all the life jackets were hanging dripping when the ship started sinking and I was just reminiscing and being thankful, so that movie launched my career, but I was going alone and spending time on it and not telling it. Someone then one day I went to get one of my but about six months later I did another time trip to the past, the boat had disappeared and I called the boss of the back lot and told him what happened to the orca, he said, well.

It was just rotting there so we just took an ax and took a couple chainsaws and cut it down to wood and shipped it and I went crazy, I went crazy, I feel really bad about all the things I said. to that poor man whotook my phone call but I was beside myself because they had destroyed this piece of wood originally called the witcher by the way it was a real ship called the witcher and we painted over it that's a weird omen and we called The Orca and the fact that the ship He didn't exist anymore, he had died, you know, and it was a very strange feeling for me, but in a way it was good for me, but because it cut the umbilical cord that tied me to something. one of my worst memories of filming that movie and in a way it freed me when they broke the ship into many pieces, but I recovered both twin screws.

I recovered the propeller blades and got the pilot wheel. The orca is a cast. member and what many people don't realize is that Joe Alves built an exact pontoon replica that was affectionately called the Orca II. The Orca II, a fiberglass doppelganger that was designed to sink and rise on command, has remained. in the vineyard, islander and jaw boat owner lynn murphy has kept her on the menemptia coast since filming was completed, when they cleaned up after a movie, they could pick up their trash and clean it up, they said, well, We have to get rid of these things.

So I bought the locker and I looked it up and there was wood and stuff on the special effects barge and I wasn't sure exactly how I was going to use it at the time, but I wasn't going to let it go to the dump. yes you could see the mechanism that was under the arker, you see all that that was never a ship, never reached the bottom, the resting place of orca 2 has served as a kind of holy grail destination for fans who have made the pilgrimage to the vineyard over the years. Unfortunately, three decades of weather tides and souvenir hunters have reduced the ship to little more than its fiberglass hull.

People started to realize what this was all about and as the years went by there would be a porthole missing and we had several balsa wood ones. sterns and they would disappear and then the flying bridge would come off and so on because if the sand wasn't bad enough, guys, I have sharp bushes, now I'm a real fan, uh, trespassing is prohibited and the swampy terrain around it. It's quite dangerous, but none of that has deterred the most tenacious and adventurous fans from seeking to see it up close. Why watch this ship sink more times than I could tell you?

It's nice to see it, but we have to get out of there. here this is private property explain what we're doing here I'm one of three complete idiots who are out here frozen in the night looking for this is, look at this thing today there's practically nothing left of the orca ii this is the end of the orca and this is the only thing we have left of it we decided to take it home before he left, they were selling it for a hundred dollars a six inch square on eBay finally, what happened to Bruce himself, all the mechanical sharks.

Those used for Jaws were returned to the back lot of Universal Studios in Hollywood, where they were stored and eventually succumbed to the elements. Throughout the Jaws franchise, there have been four different incarnations of the mechanical shark, each aimed at improving appearance and functionality. over its predecessor, but for the truest fans, it's the original with its signature double chin that remains the only true incarnation of the jaws. What's going on? We needed a hinge, so you have this kind of double chin. The kind of things that happen that I kind of hate. You know, but I guess Jaws fans love, you know, I guess the shark had a character that people became familiar with, although he's been replaced by a different shark in recent years.

Universal Studios Hollywood once showed this casting of the original Bruce mold as a photo. op for park visitors today, it remains the last copy of that mold, but has since been relegated to a scrapyard at Universal Studios San Fernando Valley with locations in Hollywood Orlando and Osaka, Japan, has kept its attractions updated over the years, but the enduring popularity of the Hollywood blockbuster model has ensured it a lasting place at all three theme parks to this day. Our shark, which has been here since the mid-70s, you know, works a lot better than the shark in the movie, but the reason.

I think it still rates so high to this day because Steven was so good at using the camera as the shark, so 40 minutes into the movie when you finally see the shark you're so terrified and I think that's still there. in people's minds. When they come here and ride this attraction, they are terrified of the shark before they even see it, so we don't have to do much to make people scream, so it's cool, the backlot shark himself has even made cameos in other universal productions along the way. Over the years, they are usually played for laughs, but whether for humor or for the screens, one thing is certain at Universal Studios, even after 30 years, the shark is definitely still working for a Brief Moment in Time life seemed like. imitate art when the waters of the marten vineyard once again hosted the presence of a great white shark only this time the shark was not built of rubber and steel September 21 I will never forget that date in 2004.

The big reason is why that shark swam not only in shallow water but also in a very narrow, shallow estuarine system, which motivated that shark to enter there. We will never know when the great white shark emerged in the jaws. Friendship Island had to call. Richard Dreyfuss as Ichthyologist Matt Hooper Matt Hooper I'm from the United States Oceanographic Institute, but the vineyard has its own resident shark expert in Greg Scomo of the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries. So many differences between 1975 and 2004 and that is the fact that, instead of all the townspeople coming out and trying to kill him with dynamite, explosives and shotguns, harpoons, whatever, the public embraced this animal and the scream that I heard it far outweighed the negative, it was positive, stop playing and save that shark we can. learn to care about this animal whose jaws taught us to fear and overcome that mythology to look behind the jaws and look at this wild animal that needs help and drew our humanity to rescue it.

I think it is a step on the right path. direction and that step is no small one despite the infrequent but highly publicized shark attacks in recent years the general public's attitude towards sharks has come a long way since the 70s one of the problems of creating a perfect villain a machine that kills, eats and makes little sharks is that the public quickly subscribes to that simple view of sharks as terrible enemies; Jaws and the aftermath unfortunately made it easy to dislike them, it made people very aware of sharks and then we realized we had to correct the facts to really convince people. that sharks should be respected and we should learn to live with them in the ocean.

The great white shark, for example, has been protected for several years and numbers are slowly returning over the past 30 years. Science has evolved, so I understand that sharks have a place in the ocean and that it is an important place. Environmental groups like Environmental Defense, New England Aquarium and others I work with have found that the association with jaws attracts people to at least listen to what I have to say so it has given me the opportunity to have a third career in the sense. of being a spokesperson for the environment and the oceans, look at that animal please, it's simply magnificent.

One of the great freedoms that Jaws gave me was to learn about the ocean, which I had written about so that for the last 30 years Wendy, the children and I have been able to go around the world diving with all these animals of different types learning the problems they face and the truth about their relationship with sharks. For example, if we could harness all the interest in Jaws, from Jaws fans to enthusiasts, from Jaws to people who watch it, learn from it, and like it, into an ocean protection movement, we would have a huge The jaw-biting strength of many of today's pop culture craftsmen speaks powerfully to the resilience of this one film.

Its extraordinary lifespan has allowed it to function as a kind of creative well from which filmmakers can draw inspiration and innovate. that never seems to run out, anyone around my age, you know, who's in this movie business, always cites jaws as the first movie they remember seeing or the movie that made them want to get into movies or that started their love story with movies. I still remember the first time I saw Jaws in the theater and how it affected me. I walked away thinking I want to learn how to do that when I'm older and it absolutely changed the direction of my life in one night.

I'm always really you know, I appreciate it when someone, especially a young director, comes up to me and tells me that they were somehow strangely influenced by my jaws and I say, well, cool, you're part of our club, so you know you've got it. , aggressively. I pursued jaws as a way to learn from the master, you know, I saw the light, you know, I saw jaws and I saw that, that's the promised land up there, that's what you have to aspire to, it affected me in film, I just wanted make films. that were larger than life, I certainly think it was one of those great films in my life that inspired me to want to be a filmmaker.

I think anyone who wants to make big Hollywood movies was definitely inspired by Josh, probably Every movie I make always evokes jaws in one way or another. It's like one of the basic films that motivates me as a filmmaker. I've worked with Stephen on three projects and I'm still with him every time I watch. He goes, that's the guy that takes jobs, that's the reason I'm here. I hope the film has inspired many filmmakers. I mean, that's another added benefit to this whole miraculous event. The hardest thing in the movie business is not so much making something that usually succeeds more difficult than it is creating something that has longevity;

There have been a lot of great movies made, but one of the tests is the test of time, the fact that the movie and the music that accompanies it last in people's minds is a lot of things, I mean, it's a great compliment to me and for steven spielberg and the people who wrote it and for acne and all that, it's a pretty amazing thing for an actor who was really an insignificant actor in the scheme of things to have a lifetime. The story of a fish behind me Those first instincts David and I had when reading Peter Benchley's manuscript turned out to be correct and it feels good to know that it has lasted this long almost every week or month.

Someone who knows he was connected. with the production it will tell me where they were it's like the beginning of world war 2 the death of kennedy the emotional experience provided by jaws will go on and on and on forever i mean who doesn't like bambi? you know, bambi goes on Forever Snow White goes on forever Jaws goes on forever I certainly think we all went through a survival adventure together, the whole crew, the cast, myself and I have very, very good memories in many aspects of the making of Jaws , but I have many more. bad memories, memories that still haunt my nightmares, still wake me up sweating, but the bottom line is that I am grateful because I went through a kind of water baptism and came out of there not only alive, which was my main goal when passing through the jaws.

I was going to get out of this in one piece, but I came out of this with a career and I will always be grateful, no matter what I tell you about those nightmares, for the fact that the dream of the nightmare was that I had the opportunity to do whatever film that I would like to make and that has continued to this day will only tell you when the jaws will fade from the collective memory, but I believe that as long as there are sharks in the sea, as long as there are oceans and bodies of water, as long as there are children with imagination those who like to torture and scare each other, the jaws will probably be there for a long time, show me the way to go home, I'm tired, I want to go to bed, I had a drink. an hour ago and it's already gone, you can always hear me singing this song show me the way to go home show me the way to go home I'm tired I want to go to bed I had a drink about an hour ago look at your phone you can always hear me singing this song show me the way to go home so show me the way to go home I'm tired and I want to go to bed I had a drink about an hour ago and it's gone to my head Wherever I go, you can always hear me singing this song , show me the way I was going before we took orders with a cell phone back to Boston and then we'll never see you again and we'll never see you again. again the shark is working repeat the shark is still working repeat the shark is still working you