“We were young and poorly prepared”: 50 years ago, Steven Spielberg believed that his career would end after this movie that became a cult

In 1975 Steven Spielberg revolutionized the film industry with sea teeth! The film, with a modest budget, was an absolutely significant success, disrupting all forecasts. However, making a feature film was not easy for the director who thought his career was going to stop here in the cinema.

Spielberg, then 27-year-old- Director of Prodigy, chose Martha vineyard as a location of sea teeth; The filmmaker wanted to shoot on this island of Massachusetts because he wanted his mechanical shark to go to real waters of terribly sharp teeth.

“In most cases, summer spent on Martha’s vineyard is a dream. But when you overcome the budget and planning, and that I am fully overwhelmed, this summer it has become a nightmare in 1974 until it has become a dream of life.”Said Steven Spielberg Video Message Applied to Martha Vineyard Society, Documentary Movie Jaws 50: The Definitive Inside Story (“Sea teeth: cult movie secrets” VF).

A colossal challenge

“The film shows how young and poorly prepared we were because of the challenges of filming in the Atlantic Ocean, with a more capricious mechanical shark than any movie star I have been working with since.”Says the 78 -year -old director.

After going out of the graph and the budget, I really thought the sea teeth would be the last movie I would make.

“It also shows how, after planning and going beyond the budget, I really thought the sea teeth would be the last movie I would make.”Spielberg revealed. Note that the documentary mentioned by the film director, “Sea Teeth: The Secrets of the Cult Movie”, will be available on July 11 Disney+. It is also transmitted to the National Geographic channel on July 13 at 6:20 pm.

“We’ll need a bigger budget”

Steven Spielberg had a cause of panic, as the film’s budget increased three times during the shooting, climbing to $ 9 million. The schedule was also reviewed above, from 55 to 159 days of filming!

Then Spielberg emphasizes that receiving the public in theaters saved his life and gave Hollywood a chance. “It also helped with an unforgettable musical motif that is drawn John Williams For the soundtrack that caused the invisible, the first fear of the wound and predators’Analysis Hollywood reporter.

An unexpected triumph

Indeed, the teeth of the sea were a real phenomenon that informs $ 477 million in the world for $ 9 million.

“50 years after its start, shooting sea teeth remains a founding experience for each of us, and for 5 decades it will not stop memories about what remains one of the most reassuring, exciting, terrifying and satisfying experience of all my careers.”Concluded Steven Spielberg.