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The best-selling novel Jaws, publied in 1974, primarily focused on a
man-eating ark that terrorized a small island town. There was a subplot
involving a love affair beeen o of the main charters, the young scientist and
the police chief’s wife. There was also a ist involving the Mafia using threats
to keep the behes open, which helped turn more charters into fi food. Critics
saw all sorts of hidden anings and symbolism in the story. Fidel Castro said it
was about the corruption of Arican Capitalism. Others suggested that it was
about President Nixon and Watergate. When author Peter Benchley sold the movie
rights to Universal Studios, he wanted the very expensive Paul Newman, Robert
Redford and Steve McQueen in the lead roles. But then Universal took a chance by
hiring enty-nine year old Steven Spielberg to direct the film.
Jaws (1975)
was only the young director’s second feature in the USA. His previous film
Sugarland Express (1974) starring Goldie Hawn had been a disappointnt at the box
office. Despite his lk of
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screenplay that was not crucial to the man versus ark the. He also rejected the
idea of hiring movie stars, or as he put it,” I didn’t want to work with anybody
who been on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine”. Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss
and Robert Shaw made less money bined than any of the nas on Benchley’s wi list
would have charged.
Earlier movies that took ple at sea were usually made in
a studio tank such as Alfred’s Hitchcock’s Lifeboat (1944) or Walt Disney’s
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954). But Spielberg wanted realism and insisted
that Jaws be fild out in the middle of the ocean with the Masusetts island of
Martha’s Vineyard serving as the main location. Since great white arks were
impossible to train, a chanical monster would have to be built. The movie began
with a ten-week ooting schedule with no one involved in the production quite
realizing what he or e was in for.
Almost imdiately, the film crew was locked
in a logistical nightmare. For several
days
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to oot anything on the water. Then when it lifted, local fiing boats ca out
ruining Spielberg’s ots. He told his assistants to instruct the fiern to leave
and received angry retorts that they did not own the ocean. The filmmakers were
forced to relocate to isolated locations leading to inconsistencies in the film
where the sea would look choppy one mont, and flat the next. More damaging was
the chanical ark nicknad Bruce, after Spielberg’s lawyer, who worked fine in fre
water tests but in salt water sunk like a stone. When the ark did work, it often
produced chaotic results. Once it sunk Quint’s (Robert Shaw) movie vessel, The
Orca. When Spielberg viewed early
footage
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turning into six months and mbers of the crew renad the film “Flaws”.
The
pressure of the longer oot began to get to the three lead tors. Roy Scheider,
Gene Hkman’s second banana in The French Connection (1971), was angry that his
police chief charter was taking a bk seat to his more colorful co-stars; he felt
like a straight man. He also resented having Spielberg’s phobia of water
transferred to him on screen. To relieve tension he started a food fight with so
mbers of the crew. Robert Shaw who was once quoted as saying, “Can you tell one
great tor who doesn’t drink?” lanted to Richard Dreyfuss, that he would like to
give up alcohol; then he was furious when the younger tor threw Shaw’s booze
over the side of the boat. Shaw was bored out of his mind on the island despite
so local gang mbers ooting out the windows of his rented house. He beca a nasty
drunk aiming his venom at the ort, sensitive Dreyfuss, who Robert felt would not
have a great future in Hollywood. For his part
Dreyfuss
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ruined his career by hiring him for a turkey. He said he had an unhappy ti
making Jaws, and denied Spielberg’s claims that he hooked up with many of the
young won who lived on Martha’s Vineyard.
As the film’s budget ballooned to
ten million, Spielberg was miserable. One reason he had avoided hiring movie
stars was his desire to be the ultimate authority on the Jaws set. He was still
mired in conflicts. Every visit to the island by a Universal executive made him
fear he would get fired. And so of the older mbers of the crew seed to resent
being ordered around by the forr Long Beh State film student. At one point, he
told Dreyfuss that they planned to toss him over the side, leave him to drown
and claim it was an aident. The young director toyed with having the film end
with a school of arks attking the o survivors swimming bk to ore; however, the
producers talked him out of it. There were constant battles with Peter
Benchley
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author questioned Spielberg’s directing ability. The chosen ending of the ark
exploding after biting an oxygen tank caused Benchley to object that it was
preposterous. Spielberg ordered him removed from the set. In later years,
Benchley said while he never regretted writing the book, he ca to believe that
arks were victims unlikely to attk people unless provoked.
The ow’s slow
progress led to creative opportunities. The three tors, given more ti to
rehearse, developed chemistry with eh other on screen.