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Jaws (film)
Title: Jaws (film)
Subject: Steven Spielberg, 48th Academy Awards, Star Wars (film), Verna Fields, Richard Dreyfuss
Collection: 1970S Adventure Films, 1970S Drama Films, 1970S Thriller Films, 1975 Films, 1975 Horror Films, American Adventure Drama Films, American Films, American Thriller Films, English-Language Films, Film Scores by John Williams, Films About Sharks, Films Based on American Novels, Films Based on Novels, Films Based on Thriller Novels, Films Directed by Steven Spielberg, Films Produced by David Brown, Films Produced by Richard D. Zanuck, Films Set in Massachusetts, Films Set on Beaches, Films Set on Islands, Films Shot in Australia, Films Shot in Massachusetts, Films That Won the Best Original Score Academy Award, Films That Won the Best Sound Mixing Academy Award, Films Whose Editor Won the Best Film Editing Academy Award, Giant Monster Films, Jaws (Franchise), Killer Shark Films, Martha's Vineyard, Natural Horror Films, Screenplays by Carl Gottlieb, Seafaring Films, United States National Film Registry Films, Universal Pictures Films
Richard D. Zanuck
Peter Benchley
Carl Gottlieb
by Peter Benchley
Lorraine Gary
Murray Hamilton
Verna Fields
June 20, 1975 (1975-06-20)
124 minutes[1]
$470.7 million
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller-horror film film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's 1974 novel Jaws. The prototypical summer blockbuster, its release is regarded as a watershed moment in motion picture history. In the story, a giant man-eating great white shark attacks beachgoers on Amity Island, a fictional New England summer resort town, prompting the local police chief to hunt it with the help of a marine biologist and a professional shark hunter. The film stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, Richard Dreyfuss as oceanographer Matt Hooper, Robert Shaw as shark hunter Quint, Murray Hamilton as Larry Vaughn, the mayor of Amity Island, and Lorraine Gary as Brody's wife, Ellen. The screenplay is credited to both Benchley, who wrote the first drafts, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who rewrote the script during principal photography.
Shot mostly on location on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, the film had a troubled production, going over budget and past schedule. As the art department's mechanical sharks suffered many malfunctions, Spielberg decided to mostly suggest the animal's presence, employing an ominous, minimalistic theme created by composer John Williams to indicate the shark's impending appearances. Spielberg and others have compared this suggestive approach to that of classic thriller director Alfred Hitchcock. Universal Pictures gave the film what was then an exceptionally wide release for a major studio picture, over 450 screens, accompanied by an extensive marketing campaign with a heavy emphasis on television spots and tie-in merchandise.
Generally well received by critics, Jaws became the highest-grossing film of all time until Star Wars. It won several awards for its soundtrack and editing. Along with Star Wars, Jaws was pivotal in establishing the modern Hollywood business model, which revolves around high box-office returns from action and adventure pictures with simple "high-concept" premises that are released during the summer in thousands of theaters and supported by heavy advertising. It was followed by three sequels, none with the participation of Spielberg or Benchley, and many imitative thrillers. In 2001, Jaws was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Development 2.1
Writing 2.2
Casting 2.3
Filming 2.4
Music 2.5
Inspirations and themes 3
Scholarly criticism 3.1
Promotion 4.1
Theatrical run 4.2
Reception 5
Box office performance 5.1
Critical response 5.2
Accolades 5.3
Home video releases 6.1
Sequels 6.2
Adaptations and merchandise 6.3
While a group of teenagers are having an evening beach party on Amity Island, Chrissie Watkins (Susan Backlinie) goes skinny dipping in the ocean. Something violently grabs and pulls her underwater. In the morning, Deputy Hendricks (Jeffrey Kramer) finds her remains on the beach. Upon hearing from the medical examiner that the cause of death was a possible shark attack, Police Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) proceeds to close the beaches, but Mayor Larry Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) overrules him, fearing news of a shark attack will ruin the summer tourist season, the town's primary revenue source. He rationalizes that there have been no prior shark problems in the area, and theorizes the girl was killed in a boating accident. The coroner concurs and Brody reluctantly accepts their conclusion.
When another fatal shark attack occurs shortly afterwards, several actions are taken to handle the situation. Amid an amateur shark-hunting frenzy, local professional shark hunter Quint (Robert Shaw) offers his services for $10,000. Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss), a consulting oceanographer, arrives and examines Chrissie's remains. He concludes the cause of death was definitely a shark attack.
The local fishermen catch a large tiger shark, but Hooper isn't so sure it is the same predator, confirming this after finding no human remains inside its stomach. While Hooper and Brody search the local waters at night, they discover local fisherman Ben Gardner's half-sunken boat. Hooper examines the vessel underwater and retrieves a sizable great white shark's tooth embedded in the hull. Startled by finding Gardner's partial remains, Hooper drops the tooth. Brody and Hooper tell Vaughn that a humongous great white shark is responsible, but he discounts their warnings and refuses to close the beaches, allowing only added safety precautions. On the Fourth of July weekend, the beaches are packed with tourists. Following a practical joke, the shark enters a nearby estuary, hitting Brody's kids and killing a boater. Brody pushes a devastated Vaughn, whose kids were also there, to hire Quint.
Quint, Brody, and Hooper set out on Quint's boat, the Orca, to hunt the shark. While Brody lays down a chum line, Quint waits for an opportunity to hook the shark. Without warning, it appears behind the boat. Quint, estimating its length at 25', harpoons it with a line attached to a flotation barrel, but the shark pulls the barrel underwater and disappears.
By nightfall, the men retire to the boat's cabin where Quint and Hooper compare scars and share how they received them. Quint recounts how he survived the shark attacks that followed the sinking of the warship USS Indianapolis during the War in the Pacific in 1945. The great white returns, ramming the boat's hull and killing the power. The men work through the night repairing the engine. In the morning, Brody attempts to call the Coast Guard, but Quint smashes the radio, enraging Brody. After a long chase, Quint harpoons another barrel into the shark. The men tie the line to the stern, but the shark drags the boat backwards, swamping the deck and flooding the engine compartment with seawater and forcing Quint to cut the line to prevent the transom from being pulled out. He then heads toward shore to draw his quarry into shallow waters and suffocate it, but overtaxes and stalls the damaged engine.
With the boat immobilized, the trio attempt a riskier approach: Hooper dons scuba gear and enters the water in a shark-proof cage, intending to lethally inject the shark with strychnine using a hypodermic spear. The shark demolishes the cage, causing Hooper to drop the spear before escaping to the seabed. Seconds later, the shark attacks the boat directly, killing Quint. Brody, trapped on the sinking vessel, shoves a pressurized scuba tank into the shark's mouth, and, climbing the mast, shoots the tank with a rifle. The resulting explosion obliterates the shark. Hooper surfaces, and he and Brody paddle to Amity Island on boat wreckage.
Richard D. Zanuck and David Brown, producers at Universal Pictures, independently heard about Peter Benchley's novel Jaws. Brown came across it in the literature section of lifestyle magazine Cosmopolitan, then edited by his wife, Helen Gurley Brown. A small card written by the magazine's book editor gave a detailed description of the plot, concluding with the comment "might make a good movie".[2][3] The producers each read the book over the course of a single night and agreed the next morning that it was "the most exciting thing that they had ever read" and that they wanted to produce a film version, although they were unsure how it would be accomplished.[4] They purchased the movie rights in 1973, before the book's publication, for approximately $175,000.[5] Brown claimed that had they read the book twice, they would never have made the film because they would have realized how difficult it would be to execute certain sequences.[6]
To direct, Zanuck and Brown first considered veteran filmmaker John Sturges—whose résumé included another maritime adventure, The Old Man and the Sea—before offering the job to Dick Richards, whose directorial debut, The Culpepper Cattle Co. had come out the previous year.[7] However, they grew irritated by Richards's habit of describing the shark as a whale and soon dropped him from the project.[7] Meanwhile, Steven Spielberg very much wanted the job. The 26-year-old had just directed his first theatrical film, The Sugarland Express, for Zanuck and Brown. At the end of a meeting in their office, Spielberg noticed their copy of the still-unpublished Benchley novel, and after reading it was immediately captivated.[5] He later observed that it was similar to his 1971 television film Duel in that both deal with "these leviathans targeting everymen."[4] After Richards's departure, the producers signed Spielberg to direct in June 1973, before the release of The Sugarland Express.[7]
Before production began, however, Spielberg grew reluctant to continue with Jaws, in fear of becoming typecast as the "truck and shark director".[8] He wanted to move over to 20th Century Fox's Lucky Lady instead, but Universal exercised its right under its contract with the director to veto his departure.[9] Brown helped convince Spielberg to stick with the project, saying that "after [Jaws], you can make all the films you want".[8] The film was given an estimated budget of $3.5 million and a shooting schedule of 55 days. Principal photography was set to begin in May 1974. Universal wanted the shoot to finish by the end of June, when the major studios' contract with the Screen Actors Guild was due to expire, to avoid any disruptions due to a potential strike.[10]
For the screen adaptation, Spielberg wanted to stay with the novel's basic plot, while omitting Benchley's many subplots.[5] He declared that his favorite part of the book was the shark hunt on the last 120 pages, and told Zanuck when he accepted the job, "I'd like to do the picture if I could change the first two acts and base the first two acts on original screenplay material, and then be very true to the book for the last third."[11] When the producers purchased the rights to his novel, they promised Benchley that he could write the first draft of the screenplay.[5] The intent was to make sure a script could be done despite an impending threat of a Writer's Guild strike, given Benchley was not unionized.[12] Overall, he wrote three drafts before the script was turned over to other writers;[5] delivering his final version to Spielberg, he declared, "I'm written out on this, and that's the best I can do."[13] Benchley would later describe his contribution to the finished film as "the storyline and the ocean stuff – basically, the mechanics", given he "didn't know how to put the character texture into a screenplay."[12] One of his changes was to remove the novel's adulterous affair between Ellen Brody and Matt Hooper, at the suggestion of Spielberg, who feared it would compromise the camaraderie between the men on the Orca.[14] During the film's production, Benchley agreed to return and play a small onscreen role as a reporter.[15]
Spielberg, who felt that the characters in Benchley's script were still unlikable, invited the young screenwriter John Byrum to do a rewrite, but he declined the offer.[8] Columbo creators William Link and Richard Levinson also declined Spielberg's invitation.[16] Tony and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Howard Sackler was in Los Angeles when the filmmakers began looking for another writer and offered to do an uncredited rewrite; since the producers and Spielberg were unhappy with Benchley's drafts, they quickly agreed.[4] At the suggestion of Spielberg, Brody's characterization made him afraid of water, "coming from an urban jungle to find something more terrifying off this placid island near Massachusetts."[12]
Spielberg wanted "some levity" in Jaws, humor that would avoid making it "a dark sea hunt," so he turned to his friend Carl Gottlieb, a comedy writer-actor then working on the sitcom The Odd Couple.[13] Spielberg sent Gottlieb a script, asking what the writer would change and if there was a role he would be interested in performing.[17] Gottlieb sent Spielberg three pages of notes, and picked the part of Meadows, the politically connected editor of the local paper. He passed the audition one week before Spielberg took him to meet the producers regarding a writing job.[18]
While the deal was initially for a "one-week dialogue polish", Gottlieb eventually became the primary screenwriter, rewriting the entire script during a nine-week period of principal photography.[18] The script for each scene was typically finished the night before it was shot, after Gottlieb had dinner with Spielberg and members of the cast and crew to decide what would go into the film. Many pieces of dialogue originated from the actors' improvisations during these meals; a few were created on set, most notably Roy Scheider's ad-lib of the line "You're gonna need a bigger boat."[19] John Milius contributed dialogue polishes,[20] and Sugarland Express writers Matthew Robbins and Hal Barwood also made uncredited contributions.[21] Spielberg has claimed that he prepared his own draft, although it is unclear to what degree the other screenwriters drew on his material.[20] One specific alteration he called for in the story was to change the cause of the shark's death from extensive wounds to a scuba tank explosion, as he felt audiences would respond better to a "big rousing ending."[22] The director estimated the final script had a total of 27 scenes that were not in the book.[14]
Benchley had written Jaws after reading about sport fisherman Frank Mundus's capture of an enormous shark in 1964. According to Gottlieb, Quint was loosely based on Mundus, whose book Sportfishing for Sharks he read for research.[23] Sackler came up with the backstory of Quint as a survivor of the World War II USS Indianapolis disaster.[24] The question of who deserves the most credit for writing Quint's monologue about the Indianapolis has caused substantial controversy. Spielberg described it as a collaboration between Sackler, Milius, and actor Robert Shaw, who was also a playwright.[20] According to the director, Milius turned Sackler's "three-quarters of a page" speech into a monologue, and that was then rewritten by Shaw.[24] Gottlieb gives primary credit to Shaw, downplaying Milius's contribution.[25]
Scheider, RoyRoy Scheider ... Chief Martin Brody
Shaw, RobertRobert Shaw ... Quint
Dreyfuss, RichardRichard Dreyfuss ... Matt Hooper
Gary, LorraineLorraine Gary ... Ellen Brody
Hamilton, MurrayMurray Hamilton ... Mayor Larry Vaughn
Gottlieb, CarlCarl Gottlieb ... Meadows
Kramer, JeffreyJeffrey Kramer ... Deputy Lenny Hendricks
Backlinie, SusanSusan Backlinie ... Chrissie Watkins
Benchley, PeterPeter Benchley ... Reporter
Though Spielberg complied with a request from Zanuck and Brown to cast known actors,[15] he wanted to avoid hiring any big stars. He felt that "somewhat anonymous" performers would help the audience "believe this was happening to people like you and me", whereas "stars bring a lot of memories along with them, and those memories can sometimes ... corrupt the story."[21] The director added that in his plans "the superstar was gonna be the shark".[13] The first actors cast were Lorraine Gary, the wife of then-president of Universal Sid Sheinberg, as Ellen Brody,[15] and Murray Hamilton as the mayor of Amity Island.[26] Stuntwoman-turned-actress Susan Backlinie was cast as Chrissie as she knew how to swim and was willing to perform nude.[13] Most minor roles were played by residents of Martha's Vineyard, where the film was shot. One example was Deputy Hendricks, played by future television producer Jeffrey Kramer.[27]
The role of Brody was offered to Robert Duvall, but the actor was interested only in portraying Quint.[28] Charlton Heston expressed a desire for the role, but Spielberg felt that Heston would bring a screen persona too grand for the part of a police chief of a modest community.[29] Roy Scheider became interested in the project after overhearing Spielberg at a party talk with a screenwriter about having the shark jump up onto a boat.[15] Spielberg was initially apprehensive about hiring Scheider, fearing he would portray a "tough guy", similar to his role in The French Connection.[28]
Nine days before the start of production, neither Quint nor Hooper had been cast.[30] The role of Quint was originally offered to actors Lee Marvin and Sterling Hayden, both of whom passed.[15][28] Zanuck and Brown had just finished working with Robert Shaw on The Sting, and suggested him to Spielberg.[31] Shaw was reluctant to take the role since he did not like the book, but decided to accept at the urging of both his wife, actress Mary Ure, and his secretary—"The last time they were that enthusiastic was From Russia with Love. And they were right."[32] Shaw based his performance on fellow cast member Craig Kingsbury, a local fisherman, farmer, and legendary eccentric, who was playing fisherman Ben Gardner.[33] Spielberg described Kingsbury as "the purest version of who, in my mind, Quint was", and some of his offscreen utterances were incorporated into the script as lines of Gardner and Quint.[34] Another source for some of Quint's dialogue and mannerisms, especially in the third act at sea, was Vineyard mechanic and boat-owner Lynn Murphy.[35][36]
For the role of Hooper, Spielberg initially wanted Richard Dreyfuss, whom he had directed in American Graffiti.[15] The actor initially passed, but changed his decision after he attended a pre-release screening of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, which he had just completed. Disappointed in his performance and fearing that no one would want to hire him once Kravitz was released, he immediately called Spielberg and accepted the role in Jaws. Because the film the director envisioned was so dissimilar to Benchley's novel, Spielberg asked Dreyfuss not to read it.[38] As a result of the casting, Hooper was rewritten to better suit the actor,[30] as well as to be more representative of Spielberg, who came to view Dreyfuss as "my alter ego".[37]
"We started the film without a script, without a cast and without a shark."
—actor Richard Dreyfuss on the film's troubled production[39]
Principal photography began May 2, 1974,[40] on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, selected after consideration was given to eastern Long Island. Brown explained later that the production "needed a vacation area that was lower middle class enough so that an appearance of a shark would destroy the tourist business."[41] Martha's Vineyard was also chosen because the surrounding ocean had a sandy bottom that never dropped below 35 feet (11 m) for 12 miles (19 km) out from shore, which allowed the mechanical sharks to operate while also beyond sight of land.[42] As Spielberg wanted to film the aquatic sequences relatively close-up to resemble what people see while swimming, cinematographer Bill Butler devised new equipment to facilitate marine and underwater shooting, including a rig to keep the camera stable regardless of tide and a sealed submersible camera box.[43] Spielberg asked the art department to avoid red in both scenery and wardrobe, so that the blood from the attacks would be the only red element and cause a bigger shock.[34]
The fishing village of Menemsha, Martha's Vineyard, was the primary location.[44]
Three full-size pneumatically powered prop sharks—which the film crew nicknamed "Bruce" after Spielberg's lawyer, Bruce Ramer—were made for the production:[45] a "sea-sled shark", a full-body prop with its belly missing that was towed with a 300-foot (roughly 100-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.[5] The sharks were designed by art director Joe Alves during the third quarter of 1973. Between November 1973 and April 1974, the sharks were fabricated at Rolly Harper's Motion Picture & Equipment Rental in Sun Valley, California. Their construction involved a team of as many as 40 effects technicians, supervised by mechanical effects supervisor Bob Mattey, best known for creating the giant squid in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. After the sharks were completed, they were trucked to the shooting location.[46] In early July, the platform used to tow the two side-view sharks capsized as it was being lowered to the ocean floor, forcing a team of divers to retrieve it.[47] The model required 14 operators to control all of the moving parts.[38]
The film had a troubled shoot and went far over budget. David Brown said that the budget "was $4 million and the picture wound up costing $9 million";[48] the effects outlays alone grew to $3 million due to the problems with the mechanical sharks.[49] Disgruntled crew members gave the film the nickname "Flaws".[38][45] Spielberg attributed many problems to his perfectionism and his inexperience. The former was epitomized by his insistence on shooting at sea with a life-sized shark; "I could have shot the movie in the tank or even in a protected lake somewhere, but it would not have looked the same," he said.[32] As for his lack of experience: "I was naive about the ocean, basically. I was pretty naive about mother nature and the hubris of a filmmaker who thinks he can conquer the elements was foolhardy, but I was too young to know I was being foolhardy when I demanded that we shoot the film in the Atlantic Ocean and not in a North Hollywood tank."[24] 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".[12]
Shooting at sea led to many delays: unwanted sailboats drifted into frame, cameras got soaked,[34] and the Orca once began to sink with the actors on board.[50] The prop sharks frequently malfunctioned owing to a series of problems including bad weather, pneumatic hoses taking on salt water, frames fracturing due to water resistance, corroding skin, and electrolysis. From the first water test onward, the "non-absorbent" neoprene foam that made up the sharks' skin soaked up liquid, causing the sharks to balloon, and the sea-sled model frequently got entangled among forests of seaweed.[32][47] Spielberg later calculated that during the 12-hour daily work schedule, on average only four hours were actually spent filming.[51] Gottlieb was nearly decapitated by the boat's propellers, and Dreyfuss was almost imprisoned in the steel cage.[32] The actors were frequently seasick. Shaw also fled to Canada whenever he could due to tax problems,[52] engaged in binge drinking, and developed a grudge against Dreyfuss, who was getting rave reviews for his performance in Duddy Kravitz.[13][53] Editor Verna Fields rarely had material to work with during principal photography, as according to Spielberg "we would shoot five scenes in a good day, three in an average day, and none in a bad day."[54]
The mechanical shark, attached to the tower
The delays proved serendipitous in some regards. The script was refined during production, and the unreliable mechanical sharks forced Spielberg to shoot many scenes so that the shark was only hinted at. For example, for much of the shark hunt, its location is indicated by the floating yellow barrels.[55] The opening had the shark devouring Chrissie,[13] but it was rewritten so that it would be shot with Backlinie being dragged and yanked by cables to simulate an attack.[34] Spielberg also included multiple shots of just the dorsal fin. This forced restraint is widely thought to have added to the film's suspense.[55] As Spielberg put it years later, "The film went from a Japanese Saturday matinee horror flick to more of a Hitchcock, the less-you-see-the-more-you-get thriller."[38] In another interview, he similarly declared, "The shark not working was a godsend. It made me become more like Alfred Hitchcock than like Ray Harryhausen." The acting became crucial for making audiences believe in such a big shark: "The more fake the shark looked in the water, the more my anxiety told me to heighten the naturalism of the performances."[24]
Footage of real sharks was shot by Ron and Valerie Taylor in the waters off Australia, with a smaller-framed actor in a miniature shark cage to create the illusion that the sharks were enormous. During the Taylors' shoot, a great white attacked the boat and cage. The footage of the cage attack was so stunning that Spielberg was eager to incorporate it in the film. No one had been in the cage at the time, however, and the script, following the novel, originally had the shark killing Hooper in it. The storyline was consequently altered to have Hooper escape from the cage, which allowed the footage to be used.[56][57] As production executive Bill Gilmore put it, "The shark down in Australia rewrote the script and saved Dreyfuss's character."[58]
Although principal photography was scheduled to take 55 days, it did not wrap until October 6, 1974, after 159 days.[38][40] Spielberg, reflecting on the protracted shoot, stated, "I thought my career as a filmmaker was over. I heard rumors ... that I would never work again because no one had ever taken a film 100 days over schedule."[38] Spielberg himself was not present for the shooting of the final scene in which the shark explodes, as he believed that the crew were planning to throw him in the water when the scene was done.[22] It has since become a tradition for Spielberg to be absent when the final scene of one of his films is being shot.[59] Afterward, underwater scenes were shot at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer water tank in Culver City, with stuntmen Dick Warlock and Frank James Sparks as stand-ins for Dreyfuss in the scene where the shark attacks the cage,[60] as well as near Santa Catalina Island, California. Fields, who had completed a rough cut of the first two-thirds of the film, up until the shark hunt, finished the editing and reworked some of the material. According to Zanuck, "She actually came in and reconstructed some scenes that Steven had constructed for comedy and made them terrifying, and some scenes he shot to be terrifying and made them comedy scenes."[61] 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.[62]
Two scenes were altered following test screenings. As the audience's screams had covered up Scheider's "bigger boat" one-liner, Brody's reaction after the shark jumps behind him was extended, and the volume of the line was raised.[63][64] Spielberg also decided that he was greedy for "one more scream", and reshot the scene in which Hooper discovers Ben Gardner's body, using $3,000 of his own money after Universal refused to pay for the reshoot. The underwater scene was shot in Fields's swimming pool in Encino, California,[65] using a lifecast latex model of Craig Kingsbury's head attached to a fake body, which was placed in the wrecked boat's hull.[34] To simulate the murky waters of Martha's Vineyard, powdered milk was poured into the pool, which was then covered with tarpaulin.[12]
The main theme for Jaws, revolving around an ostinato of bass notes, which composer John Williams said were meant to represent the shark as an "unstoppable force" of "mindless and instinctive attacks"[66]
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John Williams composed the film's score, which earned him an Academy Award and was later ranked the sixth-greatest score by the American Film Institute.[67][68] The main "shark" theme, a simple alternating pattern of two notes—variously identified as "E and F"[69] or "F and F sharp"[70]—became a classic piece of suspense music, synonymous with approaching danger (see leading-tone). Williams described the theme as "grinding away at you, just as a shark would do, instinctual, relentless, unstoppable."[71] The piece was performed by tuba player Tommy Johnson. When asked by Johnson why the melody was written in such a high register and not played by the more appropriate French horn, Williams responded that he wanted it to sound "a little more threatening".[72] When Williams first demonstrated his idea to Spielberg, playing just the two notes on a piano, Spielberg was said to have laughed, thinking that it was a joke. As Williams saw similarities between Jaws and pirate movies, at other points in the score he evoked "pirate music", which he called "primal, but fun and entertaining".[66] Calling for rapid, percussive string playing, the score contains echoes of La mer by Claude Debussy as well of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.[70][73]
There are various interpretations of the meaning and effectiveness of the primary music theme, which is widely described as one of the most recognizable cinematic themes of all time.[74] Music scholar Joseph Cancellaro proposes that the two-note expression mimics the shark's heartbeat.[75] According to Alexandre Tylski, like themes Bernard Herrmann wrote for Taxi Driver, North by Northwest, and particularly Mysterious Island, it suggests human respiration. He further argues that the score's strongest motif is actually "the split, the rupture"—when it dramatically cuts off, as after Chrissie's death.[70] The relationship between sound and silence is also taken advantage of in the way the audience is conditioned to associate the shark with its theme,[71] which is exploited toward the film's climax when the shark suddenly appears with no musical introduction.[74]
Spielberg later said that without Williams's score the film would have been only half as successful, and according to Williams it jumpstarted his career.[66] He had previously scored Spielberg's debut feature, The Sugarland Express, and went on to collaborate with the director on almost all of his films.[71] The original soundtrack for Jaws was released by MCA Records on LP in 1975, and as a CD in 1992, including roughly a half hour of music that Williams redid for the album.[76][77] In 2000, two versions of the score were released: Decca/Universal reissued the soundtrack album to coincide with the release of the 25th-anniversary DVD, featuring the entire 51 minutes of the original score,[76][77] and Varèse Sarabande put out a rerecording of the score performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Joel McNeely.[78]
Inspirations and themes
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is the most notable artistic antecedent to Jaws. The character of Quint strongly resembles Captain Ahab, the obsessed captain of the Pequod who devotes his life to hunting a sperm whale. Quint's monologue reveals a similar obsession with sharks; even his boat, the Orca, is named after the only natural enemy of the white shark. In the novel and original screenplay, Quint dies after being dragged under the ocean by a harpoon tied to his leg, similar to the death of Ahab in Melville's novel.[79] A direct reference to these similarities may be found in Spielberg's draft of the screenplay, which introduces Quint watching the film version of Moby-Dick; his continuous laughter prompts other audience members to get up and leave the theater (Wesley Strick's screenplay for the 1991 remake of Cape Fear features a similar scene). However, the scene from Moby-Dick could not be licensed from the film's star, Gregory Peck, its copyright holder.[4] Screenwriter Carl Gottlieb also drew comparisons to Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea: "Jaws is ... a titanic struggle, like Melville or Hemingway."[23]
The underwater scenes shot from the shark's point of view have been compared with passages in two 1950s horror films, The Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Monster That Challenged the World.[80][81] Gottlieb named two science fiction productions from the same era as influences on how the shark was depicted, or not: The Thing from Another World, which Gottlieb described as "a great horror film where you only see the monster in the last reel";[82] and It Came From Outer Space, where "the suspense was built up because the creature was always off-camera". Those precedents helped Spielberg and Gottlieb to "concentrate on showing the 'effects' of the shark rather than the shark itself".[19] Scholars such as Thomas Schatz noted how Jaws melds various genres while being basically a thriller film. Most is taken from horror, with the core of a nature-based monster movie while adding elements of a slasher film. The second half of the movie provides a buddy film in the interaction between the crew of the Orca, and a supernatural horror based on the shark's depiction of a nearly Satanic menace.[83]
Critics such as Neil Sinyard have noticed similarities to Henrik Ibsen's play An Enemy of the People.[84] Gottlieb himself said he and Spielberg referred to Jaws as "Moby-Dick meets Enemy of the People."[85] The Ibsen work features a doctor who discovers that a seaside town's medicinal hot springs, a major tourist attraction and revenue source, are contaminated. When the doctor attempts to convince the townspeople of the danger, he loses his job and is shunned. This plotline is paralleled in Jaws by Brody's conflict with Mayor Vaughn, who refuses to acknowledge the presence of a shark that may dissuade summer beachgoers from coming to Amity. Brody is vindicated when more shark attacks occur at the crowded beach in broad daylight. Sinyard calls the film a "deft combination of Watergate and Ibsen's play".[84]
Scholarly criticism
Jaws has received attention from academic critics. Stephen Heath relates the film's ideological meanings to the then-recent Watergate scandal. He argues that Brody represents the "white male middle class—[there is] not a single black and, very quickly, not a single woman in the film", who restores public order "with an ordinary-guy kind of heroism born of fear-and-decency".[86] Yet Heath moves beyond ideological content analysis to examine Jaws as a signal example of the film as "industrial product" that sells on the basis of "the pleasure of cinema, thus yielding the perpetuation of the industry (which is why part of the meaning of Jaws is to be the most profitable movie)".[87]
Andrew Britton contrasts the film to the novel's post-Watergate cynicism, suggesting that its narrative alterations from the book (Hooper's survival, the shark's explosive death) help make it "a communal exorcism, a ceremony for the restoration of ideological confidence." He suggests that the experience of the film is "inconceivable" without the mass audience's jubilation when the shark is annihilated, signifying the obliteration of evil itself.[88] In his view, Brody serves to demonstrate that "individual action by the one just man is still a viable source for social change".[89] Peter Biskind argues that the film does maintain post-Watergate cynicism concerning politics and politicians insofar as the sole villain beside the shark is the town's venal mayor. Yet he observes that, far from the narrative formulas so often employed by New Hollywood filmmakers of the era—involving Us vs. Them, hip counterculture figures vs. "The Man"—the overarching conflict in Jaws does not pit the heroes against authority figures, but against a menace that targets everyone regardless of socioeconomic position.[90]
Whereas Britton states that the film avoids the novel's theme of social class conflicts on Amity Island,[89] Biskind detects class divisions in the screen version and argues for their significance. "Authority must be restored," he writes, "but not by Quint". The seaman's "working class toughness and bourgeois independence is alien and frightening ... irrational and out of control". Hooper, meanwhile, is "associated with technology rather than experience, inherited wealth rather than self-made sufficiency"; he is marginalized from the conclusive action, if less terminally than Quint.[91] Britton sees the film more as concerned with the "vulnerability of children and the need to protect and guard them", which in turn helps generate a "pervasive sense of the supreme value of family life: a value clearly related to [ideological] stability and cultural continuity".[92]
Fredric Jameson's Marxist analysis highlights the polysemy of the shark and the multiple ways in which it can be and has been read—from representing alien menaces such as communism or the Third World to more intimate dreads concerning the unreality of contemporary American life and the vain efforts to sanitize and suppress the knowledge of death. He asserts that its symbolic function is to be found in this very "polysemousness which is profoundly ideological, insofar as it allows essentially social and historical anxieties to be folded back into apparently 'natural' ones ... to be recontained in what looks like a conflict with other forms of biological existence."[93] He views Quint's demise as the symbolic overthrow of an old, populist, New Deal America and Brody and Hooper's partnership as an "allegory of an alliance between the forces of law-and-order and the new technocracy of the multinational corporations ... in which the viewer rejoices without understanding that he or she is excluded from it."[94]
Neal Gabler analyzed the film as showing three different approaches to solving an obstacle: science (represented by Hooper), spiritualism (represented by Quint), and the common man (represented by Brody). The last of the three is the one which succeeds and is in that way endorsed by the film.[95]
Universal spent $1.8 million promoting Jaws, including an unprecedented $700,000 on national television spot advertising.[39][96] The media blitz included about two dozen 30-second advertisements airing each night on prime-time network TV between June 18, 1975, and the film's opening two days later.[97] Beyond that, in the description of film industry scholar Searle Kochberg, Universal "devised and co-ordinated a highly innovative plan" for the picture's marketing.[97] As early as October 1974, Zanuck, Brown, and Benchley hit the television and radio talk show circuit to promote the paperback edition of the novel and the forthcoming film.[98] The studio and publisher Bantam agreed on a title logo that would appear on both the paperback and in all of the advertising for the film.[97] The centerpieces of the joint promotion strategy were John Williams' theme and the poster image featuring the shark approaching a lone female swimmer.[49] The poster was based on the paperback's cover, and had the same artist, Bantam employee Roger Kastel.[99] The Seiniger Advertising agency spent six months designing the poster; principal Tony Seiniger explained that "no matter what we did, it didn't look scary enough". Seiniger ultimately decided that "you had to actually go underneath the shark so you could see his teeth."[100]
More merchandise was created to take advantage of the film's release. In 1999, Graeme Turner wrote that Jaws was accompanied by what was still "probably the most elaborate array of tie-ins" of any film to date: "This included a sound-track album, T-shirts, plastic tumblers, a book about the making of the movie, the book the movie was based on, beach towels, blankets, shark costumes, toy sharks, hobby kits, iron-transfers, games, posters, shark's tooth necklaces, sleepwear, water pistols, and more."[101] The Ideal Toy Company, for instance, produced a game in which the player had to use a hook to fish out items from the shark's mouth before the jaws closed.[102]
Theatrical run
The glowing audience response to a rough cut of the film at two test screenings in Dallas on March 26, 1975, and one in Long Beach, on March 28, along with the success of Benchley's novel and the early stages of Universal's marketing campaign, generated great interest among theater owners, facilitating the studio's plan to debut Jaws at hundreds of cinemas simultaneously.[103][104] A third and final preview screening, of a cut incorporating changes inspired by the previous presentations, was held in Hollywood on April 24.[105] After Universal chairman Lew Wasserman attended one of the screenings, he ordered the film's initial release—planned for a massive total of as many as 900 theaters—to be cut down, declaring, "I want this picture to run all summer long. I don't want people in Palm Springs to see the picture in Palm Springs. I want them to have to get in their cars and drive to see it in Hollywood."[106] Nonetheless, the several hundred theaters that were still booked for the opening represented what was then an unusually wide release. At the time, wide openings were associated with movies of doubtful quality; not uncommon on the exploitation side of the industry, they were customarily employed to diminish the effect of negative reviews and word of mouth. There had been some recent exceptions, precedents that included the rerelease of Billy Jack and the original release of its sequel The Trial of Billy Jack, the Dirty Harry sequel Magnum Force, and the latest installments in the James Bond series.[107][108] Still, the typical major studio film release at the time involved opening at a few big-city theaters, which allowed for a series of premieres. Distributors would then slowly forward prints to additional locales across the country, capitalizing on any positive critical or audience response. The outsized success of The Godfather in 1972 had sparked a trend toward wider releases, but even that film had debuted in just five theaters, before going wide in its second weekend.[109]
On June 20, Jaws opened across North America on 464 screens—409 in the United States, the remainder in Canada.[110] The coupling of this broad distribution pattern with the movie's then even rarer national television marketing campaign yielded a release method virtually unheard-of at the time.[111] (A month earlier, Columbia Pictures had done something similar with a Charles Bronson thriller, Breakout, though that film's prospects for an extended run were much slimmer.)[112][113] Universal president Sid Sheinberg reasoned that nationwide marketing costs would be amortized at a more favorable rate per print relative to a slow, scaled release.[111][114][115] Building on the film's success, the release was subsequently expanded on July 25 to nearly 700 theaters, and on August 15 to more than 950.[116] Overseas distribution followed the same pattern, with intensive television campaigns and wide releases—in Great Britain, for instance, Jaws opened in December at more than 100 theaters.[117]
For its fortieth anniversary, the film was released in selected theaters (across approximately 500 theaters) in the United States on Sunday, June 21 and Wednesday, June 24, 2015.[118][119]
Box office performance
Jaws opened with a $7 million weekend[120] and recouped its production costs in two weeks.[121] In just 78 days, it overtook The Godfather as the highest-grossing film at the North American box office,[109] sailing past that picture's earnings of $86 million[122] to become the first film to reach $100 million in rentals.[123] Its initial release ultimately brought in $123.1 million in rentals.[121] Theatrical re-releases in 1976 and 1979 brought its total rentals to $133.4 million.[122]
The picture entered overseas release in December 1975,[124] and its international business mirrored its domestic performance. It broke records in Singapore,[125] New Zealand, Japan,[126] Spain,[127] and Mexico.[128] By 1977, Jaws was the highest-grossing international release with worldwide rentals of $193 million, equating to about $400 million of gross revenue;[129] it supplanted The Godfather, which had earned $145 million in rentals.[130]
Jaws was the highest-grossing film of all time until Star Wars, which debuted two years later. Star Wars surpassed Jaws for the U.S. record six months after its release and set a new global record in 1978.[131][132] As of June 2013, it is the 127th-highest-grossing film of all time with $470.7 million worldwide,[133] and the 66th highest domestically with a total North American gross of $260 million.[120] Adjusted for inflation, Jaws has earned almost $2 billion worldwide at 2011 prices and is the second most successful franchise film after Star Wars.[134] In North America, it is the seventh-highest-grossing movie of all time, with a total of $1.017 billion at current prices,[135] based on an estimated 128,078,800 tickets sold.[136] In the United Kingdom, it is the seventh-highest-grossing film to be released since 1975, earning the equivalent of over £70 million in 2009/10 currency,[137] with admissions estimated at 16.2 million.[138] Jaws has also sold 13 million tickets in Brazil, the second-highest attendance ever in the country behind Titanic.[139]
On television, the American Broadcasting Company aired it for the first time right after its 1979 re-release.[140] The first U.S. broadcast attracted 57 percent of the total audience, the second highest televised movie share at the time behind Gone with the Wind.[141] In the United Kingdom, 23 million people watched its inaugural broadcast in October 1981, the second biggest TV audience ever for a feature film behind Live and Let Die.[142]
Critical response
Jaws received mostly positive reviews upon release.[143][144] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called it "a sensationally effective action picture, a scary thriller that works all the better because it's populated with characters that have been developed into human beings".[145] Variety's A.D. Murphy praised Spielberg's directorial skills, and called Robert Shaw's performance "absolutely magnificent".[146] According to The New Yorker 's Pauline Kael, it was "the most cheerfully perverse scare movie ever made ... [with] more zest than an early Woody Allen picture, a lot more electricity, [and] it's funny in a Woody Allen sort of way".[147] For New Times magazine, Frank Rich wrote, "Spielberg is blessed with a talent that is absurdly absent from most American filmmakers these days: this man actually knows how to tell a story on screen. ... It speaks well of this director's gifts that some of the most frightening sequences in Jaws are those where we don't even see the shark."[148] Writing for New York magazine, Judith Crist described the film as "an exhilarating adventure entertainment of the highest order" and complimented its acting and "extraordinary technical achievements".[149] Rex Reed praised the "nerve-frying" action scenes and concluded that "for the most part, Jaws is a gripping horror film that works beautifully in every department".[150]
The film was not without its detractors. Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote, "It's a measure of how the film operates that not once do we feel particular sympathy for any of the shark's victims. ... In the best films, characters are revealed in terms of the action. In movies like Jaws, characters are simply functions of the action ... like stage hands who move props around and deliver information when it's necessary". He did, however, describe it as "the sort of nonsense that can be a good deal of fun".[151] Los Angeles Times critic Charles Champlin disagreed with the film's PG rating, saying that "Jaws is too gruesome for children, and likely to turn the stomach of the impressionable at any age. ... It is a coarse-grained and exploitative work which depends on excess for its impact. Ashore it is a bore, awkwardly staged and lumpily written."[152] Marcia Magill of Films in Review said that while Jaws "is eminently worth seeing for its second half", she felt that before the protagonists' pursuit of the shark the film was "often flawed by its busyness".[153] William S. Pechter of Commentary described Jaws as "a mind-numbing repast for sense-sated gluttons" and "filmmaking of this essentially manipulative sort"; Molly Haskell of The Village Voice similarly characterized it as a "scare machine that works with computer-like precision. ... You feel like a rat, being given shock therapy".[148] The most frequently criticized aspect of the film has been the artificiality of its mechanical antagonist: Magill declared that "the programmed shark has one truly phony close-up",[153] and in 2002, online reviewer James Berardinelli said that if not for Spielberg's deftly suspenseful direction, "we would be doubled over with laughter at the cheesiness of the animatronic creature."[74] Halliwell's Film Guide claimed "despite genuinely suspenseful and frightening sequences, it is a slackly narrated and sometimes flatly handled thriller with an over-abundance of dialogue and, when it finally appears, a pretty unconvincing monster."[154]
Jaws won three Academy Awards for Best Film Editing, Best Original Dramatic Score, and Best Sound (Robert Hoyt, Roger Heman, Earl Madery and John Carter).[67][155] It was also nominated for Best Picture, losing to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.[156] Spielberg greatly resented the fact that he was not nominated for Best Director.[148] Along with the Oscar, John Williams's score won the Grammy Award,[157] the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music,[158] and the Golden Globe Award.[159] To her Academy Award, Verna Fields added the American Cinema Editors' Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Film.[160]
Jaws was chosen Favorite Movie at the People's Choice Awards.[161] It was also nominated for best Film, Director, Actor (Richard Dreyfuss), Editing, and Sound at the 29th British Academy Film Awards,[158] and Best Film—Drama, Director, and Screenplay at the 33rd Golden Globe Awards.[159] Spielberg was nominated by the Directors Guild of America for a DGA Award,[162] and the Writers Guild of America nominated Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb's script for Best Adapted Drama.[163]
In the years since its release, Jaws has frequently been cited by film critics and industry professionals as one of the greatest movies of all time. It was number 48 on American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Movies, a list of the greatest American films of all time compiled in 1998; it dropped to number 56 on the 10 Year Anniversary list.[164][165] AFI also ranked the shark at number 18 on its list of the 50 Best Villains,[166] Roy Scheider's line "You're gonna need a bigger boat" 35th on a list of top 100 movie quotes,[167] Williams's score at sixth on a list of 100 Years of Film Scores,[68] and the film as second on a list of 100 most thrilling films, behind only Psycho.[168] In 2003, The New York Times included the film on its list of the best 1,000 movies ever made.[169] The following year, Jaws placed at the top of the Bravo network's five-hour miniseries The 100 Scariest Movie Moments.[170] The Chicago Film Critics Association named it the sixth scariest film ever made in 2006.[171] In 2008, Jaws was ranked the fifth greatest film in history by Empire magazine,[172] which also placed Quint at number 50 on its list of the 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time.[173] The film has been cited in many other lists of 50 and 100 greatest films, including ones compiled by Leonard Maltin,[174] Entertainment Weekly,[175] Film4,[176] Rolling Stone,[177] Total Film,[178] TV Guide,[179] and Vanity Fair.[180]
In 2001, the United States Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry as a "culturally significant" motion picture.[181] In 2006, its screenplay was ranked the 63rd best of all time by the Writers Guild of America.[182]
The entrance of the now closed Jaws ride at Universal Studios Florida
Jaws was key in establishing the benefits of a wide national release backed by heavy television advertising, rather than the traditional progressive release in which a film slowly entered new markets and built support over time.[97][109] Saturation booking, in which a film opens simultaneously at thousands of cinemas, and massive media buys are now commonplace for the major Hollywood studios.[183] According to Peter Biskind, Jaws "diminish[ed] the importance of print reviews, making it virtually impossible for a film to build slowly, finding its audience by dint of mere quality. ... Moreover, Jaws whet corporate appetites for big profits quickly, which is to say, studios wanted every film to be Jaws."[184] Scholar Thomas Schatz writes that it "recalibrated the profit potential of the Hollywood hit, and redefined its status as a marketable commodity and cultural phenomenon as well. The film brought an emphatic end to Hollywood's five-year recession, while ushering in an era of high-cost, high-tech, high-speed thrillers."[185]
Jaws also played a major part in establishing summer as the prime season for the release of studios' biggest box-office contenders, their intended blockbusters;[109][186] winter had long been the time when most hoped-for hits were distributed, while summer was largely reserved for dumping films thought likely to be poor performers.[185] Jaws and Star Wars are regarded as marking the beginning of the new U.S. film industry business model dominated by "high-concept" pictures—with premises that can be easily described and marketed—as well as the beginning of the end of the New Hollywood period, which saw auteur films increasingly disregarded in favor of profitable big-budget pictures.[109][187] The New Hollywood era was defined by the relative autonomy filmmakers were able to attain within the major studio system; in Biskind's description, "Spielberg was the Trojan horse through which the studios began to reassert their power."[184]
The film had broader cultural repercussions, as well. Similar to the way the pivotal scene in 1960's Psycho made showers a new source of anxiety, Jaws led many viewers to fear going into the ocean.[188][189] Reduced beach attendance in 1975 was attributed to it,[190] as well as an increased number of reported shark sightings.[191] It is still seen as responsible for perpetuating negative stereotypes about sharks and their behavior,[192] and for producing the so-called "Jaws effect", which allegedly inspired "legions of fishermen [who] piled into boats and killed thousands of the ocean predators in shark-fishing tournaments."[193] Benchley stated that he would not have written the original novel had he known what sharks are really like in the wild.[194] Conservation groups have bemoaned the fact that the film has made it considerably harder to convince the public that sharks should be protected.[195]
Jaws set the template for many subsequent horror films, to the extent that the script for Ridley Scott's 1979 science fiction film Alien was pitched to studio executives as "Jaws in space."[196][197] Many films based on man-eating animals, usually aquatic, were released through the 1970s and 1980s, such as Orca, Grizzly, Mako: The Jaws of Death, Barracuda, Alligator, Day of the Animals, Aatank, Tintorera and Eaten Alive. Spielberg declared Piranha, directed by Joe Dante and written by John Sayles, "the best of the Jaws ripoffs".[156] Among the various mockbusters based on Jaws American or foreign, three came from Italy: Great White,[198] which inspired a plagiarism lawsuit by Universal and was even marketed in some countries as a part of the Jaws franchise;[199][200] Monster Shark,[198] featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000 under the title Devil Fish;[201] and Deep Blood, that blends in a supernatural element.[202] The 1976 film Ape pitted the titular giant ape against a huge great white shark, meant to take a shot at Jaws.[203] The 1995 thriller film Cruel Jaws even has the alternate title Jaws 5: Cruel Jaws,[204] and the 2009 Japanese horror film Psycho Shark was released in the United States as Jaws in Japan.[205]
Martha's Vineyard celebrated the film's 30th anniversary in 2005 with a "JawsFest" festival,[206] which had second edition in 2012.[207] An independent group of fans produced the feature-length documentary The Shark is Still Working, featuring interviews with the film's cast and crew. Narrated by Roy Scheider and dedicated to Peter Benchley, who died in 2006, it debuted at the 2009 Los Angeles United Film Festival.[208][209]
The first ever LaserDisc title marketed in North America was the MCA DiscoVision release of Jaws in 1978.[210] A second LaserDisc was released in 1992,[211] before a third and final version came out under MCA/Universal Home Video's Signature Collection imprint in 1995. This release was an elaborate boxset that included deleted scenes and outtakes, a new two-hour documentary on the making of the film directed and produced by Laurent Bouzereau, a copy of the novel Jaws, and a CD of John Williams's soundtrack.[212]
MCA Home Video first released Jaws on VHS in 1980.[213][214] For the film's 20th anniversary in 1995, MCA Universal Home Video issued a new Collector's Edition tape featuring a making-of retrospective.[215] This release sold 800,000 units in North America.[216] Another, final VHS release, marking the film's 25th anniversary in 2000, came with a companion tape containing a documentary, deleted scenes, outtakes, and a trailer.[217]
Jaws was first released on DVD in 2000 for the film's 25th anniversary, accompanied by a massive publicity campaign.[216] It featured a 50-minute documentary on the making of the film (an edited version of the one featured on the 1995 LaserDisc release), with interviews with Spielberg, Scheider, Dreyfuss, Benchley, and other cast and crew members. Other extras included deleted scenes, outtakes, trailers, production photos, and storyboards.[218] The DVD shipped one million copies in just one month.[219] In June 2005, a 30th-anniversary edition was released at the JawsFest festival in Martha's Vineyard.[206] The new DVD had many extras seen in previous home video releases, including the full two-hour Bouzereau documentary, and a previously unavailable interview with Spielberg conducted on the set of Jaws in 1974.[220] On the second JawsFest in August 2012, the Blu-ray Disc of Jaws was released,[207] with over four hours of extras, including The Shark Is Still Working.[221] The Blu-ray release was part of the celebrations of Universal's 100th anniversary, and debuted at fourth place in the charts, with over 362,000 units sold.[222]
Jaws spawned three sequels, none of which approached the success of the original. Their combined domestic grosses amount to barely half of the first film's.[223] In October 1975, Spielberg declared to a film festival audience that "making a sequel to anything is just a cheap carny trick".[156] Nonetheless, he did consider taking on the first sequel when its original director, John D. Hancock, was fired a few days into the shoot; ultimately, his obligations to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which he was working on with Dreyfuss, made it impossible.[224] Jaws 2 (1978) was eventually directed by Jeannot Szwarc; Scheider, Gary, Hamilton, and Jeffrey Kramer (who portrayed Deputy Hendricks) reprised their roles. It is generally regarded as the best of the sequels.[225] The next film, Jaws 3-D (1983), was directed by Joe Alves, who had served as art director and production designer, respectively, on the two preceding films.[226] Starring Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett, Jr., it was released in the 3-D format, although the effect did not transfer to television or home video, where it was renamed Jaws 3.[227] Jaws: The Revenge (1987), directed by Joseph Sargent, starring Michael Caine, and featuring the return of Gary, is considered one of the worst sequels ever made.[228][229] While all three sequels made a profit at the box office (Jaws 2 and Jaws 3-D were among the top 20 highest-grossing films of their respective years), critics and audiences alike were generally dissatisfied with the films.[230]
Adaptations and merchandise
The film has inspired two theme park rides: one at Universal Studios Florida,[231] which closed in January 2012,[232] and one at Universal Studios Japan.[233] There is also an animatronic version of a scene from the film on the Studio Tour at Universal Studios Hollywood.[234] There have been at least two musical adaptations: JAWS The Musical!, which premiered in 2004 at the Minnesota Fringe Festival, and Giant Killer Shark: The Musical, which premiered in 2006 at the Toronto Fringe Festival.[235] Three video games based on the film were released: 1987's Jaws, developed by LJN for the Nintendo Entertainment System;[236] 2006's Jaws Unleashed by Majesco Entertainment for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, and PC;[237] and 2011's Jaws: Ultimate Predator, also by Majesco, for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii.[238] A mobile game was released in 2010 for the iPhone.[239] Aristocrat made an officially licensed slot machine based on the movie.[240]
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The Lions have done everything to accommodate the Bills for Monday's game vs. the Jets.
Bills feel at home at Ford Field The Lions have done everything to accommodate the Bills for Monday's game vs. the Jets. Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/1zPgw6G
Chris McCosky, The Detroit News Published 12:41 p.m. ET Nov. 23, 2014 | Updated 12:43 p.m. ET Nov. 23, 2014
Bills quarterback Kyle Orton talks to reporters at the Lions' practice facility in Allen Park on Saturday.(Photo: Carlos Osorio / Associated Press)
Allen Park — Of all the places the NFL could have chosen to move a home game for the snow-orphaned Buffalo Bills, none could have suited quarterback Kyle Orton any better than Ford Field.
"Yeah, I like the stadium and I like the field," Orton said. "For a quarterback, anytime you can play in a dome it's fun. But I've had some good memories here."
That's an understatement. Orton is 5-0 against the Lions in his career, throwing for more than 1,000 yards and with a quarterback rating of 97.9. He is 3-0 at Ford Field, including a 17-14 victory Oct. 5.
In those three games, two with the Bears and last month with the Bills, he completed 74 of 108 passes for 872 yards, four touchdowns and one interception.
In the win against the Lions last month, Orton went 30-for-43 for 308 yards and a touchdown.
A return trip to Ford Field — despite the horrific circumstances that necessitated it — couldn't come at a better time for Orton and the Bills offense, which hasn't scored a touchdown in the last 21 drives in losses to the Chiefs and Dolphins.
"You can't really think about that," Orton said. "Just work as hard as you can, put in all the effort you can and go out and play loose and have fun. ... Nobody's been in this situation before. I haven't been in this situation and I don't think any of the coaches have. We just need to depend on each other, rely on each other, trust each other to play hard and compete."
Having to play the 2-8 Jets might not be a bad tonic, either. Orton threw four touchdown passes in a 43-23 road win over the Jets earlier this season.
"We played well the last time we played them, but it's a new game and new matchups," Bills receiver Robert Woods said. "We've got to attack them again. We have to play our game. The defense played well last time and put the offense in good positions to score. That's what we have to do again."
The Bills, who arrived in Detroit on Friday, finished their abbreviated preparations with a walkthrough at the Lions practice facility Sunday. After not practicing for 10 days, and being snowed out of their own practice facility much of last week, doing most of the film study and game plan installations electronically through the players' iPads, the Bills feel like they are ready to go.
"Our coaches did a great job with our game plan, actually coaching us through the iPads," Woods said. "It was a lot of mental reps, but coming out here, it's kind of like we've been through it because the iPad was so detailed."
Most of the players said they feel the extra days rest will serve their bodies well in the long run.
"Yesterday after sitting around for a couple of days and not practicing, then traveling out here and then trying to come practice, guys felt a little bit sluggish (on Friday)," running back Fred Jackson said. "Coming out here (Saturday), that wasn't the case. Guy felt like they were back in the routine, getting to move around."
Coach Doug Marrone opted to use the practice facility in Allen Park for the final walkthrough instead of Ford Field.
"We got asked, 'Hey, do you want to go tomorrow to the field to see the lighting and surface?'" Marrone said. "But, we've done that so we don't have to take that trip over there. The locker room is going to change, but that's not a big issue. From that standpoint, it helps us that we've been here before.
"We've played here, we know what shoes to wear, what the surface is like, what the sidelines are like. So, that familiarity obviously helps."
According to the Lions, more than 65,000 free tickets were distributed in about 30 minutes Saturday for the game Monday night.
"It's incredible to think that many tickets have been distributed in that short period of time," Bills president Russ Brandon said. "We are looking forward to a robust house and hopefully there will be a lot of Bills fans in there as well."
Several of the players were surprised to hear tickets, even free tickets, moved that quickly.
"It's something we will just take in stride," Jackson said. "I'm sure there will be a lot of football fans there. Maybe not necessarily fans of the teams playing, but it'll be interesting to see. I'm excited to see what happens."
The Lions have done their best to make Ford Field feel like home to the Bills, even painting the Bills script in the end zones — and they'll add the Bills logo to midfield, too.
"The fact of the matter is this is somewhat unprecedented for our organization," Brandon said. "We're in a situation that we lose home-field advantage, we lose the outside elements of them coming and playing at Ralph Wilson Stadium, but it's the hand that we're dealt. We offer no excuses when we go out and play."
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Kristin Bowman graduated from the McKay School of Education with a major in special education. She taught in schools for only a brief time, but she says her positive experiences at the McKay School of Education directly affect her life, as she is constantly teaching in one setting or another.
One of the most striking examples of her out-of-school teaching involves coaching softball. When Bowman's daughter was in second grade she wanted to play softball, and since Bowman wanted to participate with her daughter, she volunteered to coach. "[My team members] were very young and had no clue about the game," recalls Bowman. "I decided right away I had to do something different to be successful."
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"I believe strongly in preserving self esteem. Being criticized in from of people causes unnecessary embarrassment. Learning shuts down when children are embarrassed."
When a player makes a mistake, Bowman would ask what the child would do differently the next time. It became a habit for the players to analyze and correct their mistakes.
The teaching tactics were successful. Four out of the five years that Bowman coached, her team won the league championship. They played in the champion- ship game all five years.
Bowman has applied her teaching skills to many areas, including Church callings and family. She concludes,
"I know that I use teaching skills every single day. It's exciting to have a favorable impact on children as they learn new things and develop a positive self- concept. I feel successful as a coach, parent, and grandparent because I was first a teacher."


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