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Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley.It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, who, with the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw), hunts a man-eating great white shark that attacks beachgoers at a summer resort town.
Inkoo Kang criticized the Inside series in Slate Magazine for bolstering the "great (white) man theory" and ignoring the harmful repercussions of popular media's influence on the public. [10] The podcast was nominated in the 2019 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards for best entertainment TV podcast.
[62] [67] Jaws eventually grossed more than $470 million worldwide ($1.9 billion in 2010 dollars [68]) and was the highest grossing box office film until Star Wars debuted two years later. [69] [70] Jaws 2 was the most expensive film that Universal had produced up until that point, costing the studio almost $30 million. [43]
The shark from "Jaws" is the stuff of legends.Fifty years after the movie was filmed off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, the shark from the movie is still a part of the talk of summer.
How Susan Backlinie, a Forest Hill High grad, talked Steven Spielberg into making her the shark's first victim in 'Jaws.' The stuntwoman has died at age 77.
The process of researching ‘Jaws’ and the aftermath of the novel's success and film adaptation left both Peter and Wendy Benchley with a profound interest in sharks and ocean conservation. The couple subsequently became involved in conservation efforts and traveled internationally to meet with researchers and go cage diving with sharks. [ 3 ]
Prior to the wide release of Jaws on June 20, 1975, the film's producers were busily readying the global rollout of what would be a defining summer blockbuster. Meanwhile, Universal launched "the ...
Jaws is set in the fictional town of Amity, a small, seaside resort located on the south shore of Long Island, halfway between Bridgehampton and East Hampton.One night, after making love with a man on the beach, a young woman named Christine Watkins skinny dips alone in the ocean where she is attacked and killed by a massive great white shark.