On June 20, 1975, Jaws, a film directed by Steven Spielberg that made countless viewers afraid to go into the water, opens in theaters. The story of a great white shark that terrorizes a New England resort town became an instant blockbuster and the highest-grossing film in movie history until it was bested by 1977’s Star Wars. Jaws was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Picture category and took home three Oscars, for Best Film Editing, Best Original Score and Best Sound. The film, a breakthrough for director Spielberg, then 27 years old, spawned several sequels.
The film starred Roy Scheider as principled police chief Martin Brody, Richard Dreyfuss as a marine biologist named Matt Hooper and Robert Shaw as a grizzled fisherman called Quint. It was set in the fictional beach town of Amity, and based on a best-selling novel, released in 1973, by Peter Benchley. Subsequent water-themed Benchley bestsellers also made it to the big screen, including The Deep (1977).
With a budget of $12 million, Jaws was produced by the team of Richard Zanuck and David Brown, whose later credits include The Verdict (1982), Cocoon (1985) and Driving Miss Daisy (1989). Filming, which took place on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, was plagued by delays and technical difficulties, including malfunctioning mechanical sharks.
Jaws put now-famed director Steven Spielberg on the Hollywood map. Spielberg, largely self-taught in filmmaking, made his major feature-length directorial debut with The Sugarland Express in 1974. The film was critically well-received but a box-office flop. Following the success of Jaws, Spielberg went on to become one of the most influential, iconic directors in the film world, with such epics as Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), ET: the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Jurassic Park (1993), Schindler’s List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). E.T., Jaws and Jurassic Park rank among the highest-grossing movies of all time.
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On my first night dive, we were getting ready to hit the water when someone put the Jaws theme on the sound system. Two ladies immediately backed out of the dive.
It turned out to be a great dive as we saw loggerhead turtles (the size of a small VW Beetle) bedding for the night.
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The scene where Hooper goes into the water at night
to investigate the derelict boat was genuinely scary.
Once they showed the ludicrous rubber shark out of the water,
it became a comedy. Spielberg should have looked at the dailies
and filmed it differently. It ruined an otherwise outstanding film
for me.
Another historical mile marker … First, mostly peaceful ebonics holiday celebrated in DC. #AFRICA-R-US
It wouldn’t be a celebration without some niggers shot dead.
His grandma said he wuz a nice boy, but hang out wid da wrong crowd. He wuz only 26,left 9 chillen from 6 different women. He wuz smart, got a diploma for 6 years in the 3rd grade. He wuz plan’in to turn his life around, an support all his 9 kids. He wuz thinkin ’bout gettin’ a job at da car wash. It’s a shame his life was cut short.
He never got to hold up a bank like he intended nor did he git to pull an insider job on an armored truck.
Fake news.
All the nogs are “aspiring rappers”
Every last one who gets greased.
Fuck ’em.
I was 12 when my parent’s took me to the theater to watch Jaws.
It scared the crap out of me.
“We’re gonna need a bigger boat”
Classic!
How long did it take you to fill back up with crap?
I’ve been full of it my whole life
ha ha ha…
My parents would not let me watch movies like that when I was 12, let alone take me. Not that I would have been interested. It wasn’t until I started dating at 16 that I made it through a movie without effort.
Mine took us to see “Race with the Devil” at 4 years old at the drive-in.
Great movie. However, as one critic said, the only likeable character was the shark.