When the small resort town of Amity is attacked by a dangerous great white shark, a police chief, a young marine biologist and a shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to stop the animal before it strikes again…
You must understand the synopsis of “Jaws” Released in the middle of the summer season of 1975, the film literally paralyzed more than one viewer in his seat, and caused consternation in the seaside resorts.
“You won’t go swimming this summer” Announced as one of the most egregiously effective lines of movie promotional posters…
Spielberg said that on the set he had the feeling that he could electrocute future viewers. The bet is largely met, helped by brilliant staging, but above all supported by an extraordinary soundtrack, incredibly suggestive, which effectively increases the tension of the audience.
The iconic monologue for the idea of a sequel
One of the most terrifying moments of the film, by the way, a fabulous sequence, is the monologue of Quint (Robert Shaw), who tells about the terrible sinking of the USS Indianapolis, which was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Pacific Ocean in June 1945, when the ship delivered an atomic bomb to Hiroshima. Then the survivors were slowly swallowed by the sharks…
Here is the sequence, for memory…
Quint’s speech is factually accurate except for one date, June 29, 1945. On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis capsized and sank in just 12 minutes. About 300 of the approximately 1,200 crew on board arrived with the ship.
Therefore, the survivors were swimming in the water. Some began to feel bumps under the lifeboats. Schools of sharks would come to party and eat hundreds of sailors over the course of several days. Only 316 managed to get out of this hell…
There are at least two reasons why Spielberg refused to make Jaws 2. The first was because making the film was a nightmare for the director, as he stated again in an interview. Entertainment Weekly In 2011: “I would have made a sequel if I hadn’t had such a terrible time at sea in the first film”.
Second, because his idea to start from the USS Indianapolis tragedy for a potential sequel scared Universal experts, who vetoed it. Signed by French expatriate Jeanne Schwark, Jaws 2Released in 1978, so it will remain in the small town of Amity Beach, this time a shark haunts the Brody family.
The film remains quite beautiful, but certainly does not have the power of the first part. Its worldwide box office total of $187 million will be a far cry from the original model. As for Spielberg, he preferred a Type 3 meeting that would save Columbia from bankruptcy.
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