If you have a particular interest in locations from a specific TV show or movie, please let your tour guide know and we will do our best to accommodate your request. Explore the famous Boston Movie Mile on this fun and interactive walking tour! The waterlogged film was flown to a lab in New York, where technicians were able to save it. When composer John Williams first played his ominous two-note "shark theme" score for Spielberg on a piano, the director thought it was a joke.
Later Spielberg would say, "The score was clearly responsible for half of the success of that movie. Local fishermen were unable to catch a big enough shark to use in the scene in which town officials prematurely celebrate a large shark that's been caught and strung up on a dock. So the film's producers located a freshly caught foot tiger shark in Florida and flew it up to Massachusetts on a private plane. By the time the cameras rolled, however, the shark was decomposing and smelled awful.
Quiz: Who were you in the '70s? The movie's protracted shoot was so troubled by mishaps that some crew members privately began calling the film "Flaws. Brody's famous line upon first encountering the shark, "We're gonna need a bigger boat," was ad-libbed by Scheider.
At test screenings, the audience's screams drowned out the line, so Spielberg re-edited the scene to make it more audible. A young filmmaker named John Landis was visiting the set when he was pressed into duty to help build the rickety wooden pier used in the scene where two men try to catch the shark with a hook and chain, baited with a roast. The success of "Jaws" also led to three sequels and numerous knockoffs. For the famous scene in which Quint recounts the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, Shaw persuaded Spielberg to let him have a few drinks before the cameras started rolling.
But Shaw got so drunk, he had to be carried to the set and couldn't get through his lines. He later called Spielberg and apologized; they shot the scene again the next day, and Shaw nailed it. Play trailer Adventure Thriller. Director Steven Spielberg. Peter Benchley screenplay Carl Gottlieb screenplay. Top credits Director Steven Spielberg. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Jaws: Blu-Ray. Jaws: Universal th Anniversary: Blu-Ray. Jaws: 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition.
Clip A Guide to the Films of Steven Spielberg. Featurette Interview Video The Evolution of Steven Spielberg. You Just Watched: 'Jaws'. Photos Top cast Edit. Roy Scheider Brody as Brody.
Robert Shaw Quint as Quint. Richard Dreyfuss Hooper as Hooper. Murray Hamilton Vaughn as Vaughn. Carl Gottlieb Meadows as Meadows. Susan Backlinie Chrissie as Chrissie. Jonathan Filley Cassidy as Cassidy. Lee Fierro Mrs. Kintner as Mrs. Robert Nevin. Peter Benchley Interviewer as Interviewer. That two-note theme music? The shot of that poor girl's legs from the shark's point of view? All of the above?
Forty-five years ago this weekend, Jaws — the world's first summer blockbuster — hit America's movie screens and quickly became the highest grossing film of all time for a while.
But did you know that that famous tagline — one of the most famous, in fact, in film — is actually not from the first film, but the sequel Jaws 2 that came out three years later? Read on for 20 more fantastic trivia tidbits from one of America's most unforgettable films. It's hard to separate Steven Spielberg's brilliant adaptation of Peter Benchley's novel without thinking of it as a summer movie.
While the film hit theaters on June 20, , starring Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, Robert Shaw as shark fisherman Quint, and Richard Dreyfuss as oceanographer Matt Hooper, it was originally planned for a Christmas release. Lengthy shooting delays you try getting mechanical sharks to work and the weather to cooperate at the same time made that goal impossible. Most fans know that the famed New England island, with its deep offshore waters and sandy beaches, was the real-life version of novelist Peter Benchley's fictional Amity Island from the book.
What they might not know is that the location scout planned to check out nearby Nantucket Island instead, but stormy weather forced his ferry to Martha's Vineyard, where he discovered the many natural features that lured the production there. The image of a girl swimming naively across the top of the water while a massive great white surges toward her from below was actually purloined from an illustration by artist Roger Kastel for the novel's paperback edition.
Kastel based the big fish on a great white diorama at the American Museum of Natural History, and the swimmer was modeled after a woman whom Kastel had sketched for an ad in Good Housekeeping.
The story goes that he asked her to perch on a stool and pretend to swim to get the pose just right. For Jaws , though, the normally flat edges were replaced with a sharp set of teeth — uppers and lowers. The story's nemesis — a great white shark that attacks and terrorizes the fictional community of Amity Island — doesn't appear on screen until one hour and 21 minutes into the two-hour movie.
Most Jaws aficionados might already know that the three different versions of the 1. Before filming began on Martha's Vineyard, Spielberg invited industry friends including Martin Scorsese , George Lucas and screenwriter John Milius to check out the mechanical shark in development. When Lucas playfully stuck his head in the shark's mouth, Milius and Spielberg grabbed the controls and clamped the jaw shut.
And it stuck, trapping the rising-star director. After prying Lucas loose, the guys snuck out of the workshop, afraid they'd broken the contraption. Needing a big shark that the townspeople could believe might have been the perp behind the early attacks in the film, the crew was under pressure to catch one off the location shoot on Martha's Vineyard.
But nothing turned up that was big enough. Turns out the closest area where sharks big enough to pass might be catchable was all the way down in Florida.
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