I really enjoy watching the making of documentaries on DVD or Blu-ray features as I find them interesting and entertaining. Some of the stories have become legend. One young director finds himself with the opportunity to adapt a very popular novel for the screen, but the task proves extremely challenging. It seems as though every shot is a logistical nightmare. Whats worse, the movies main attraction refuses to perform as promised, stalling production on an almost daily basis. Even one of the co-stars confides that he believes the movie will go down as one of the summers biggest turkeys. Then, on an unassuming day in June, the movie premieres. It opens with a shot that features music that producers always had doubts about, but music that would eventually become so well known that anyone could hum it and people would recognize it instantly. Almost immediately the movie becomes a surprise hit, sinking its teeth into Hollywood legend and becoming the very first $100 million earner as well as the very first summer blockbuster. Obviously not all movie stories turn out this way, but for a fairly unknown Steven Spielberg at the time, it did when he made... #14: JAWS (1975). Really not much to add here. Sure, Bruce the shark may not look as great as a digital shark might today, but the effects of the almost 40 year old movie has lost none of its chill. People still rethink heading out into open water after watching this movie. Critics still like to applaud Spielbergs decision to hold back revealing the shark, a tactic used with other effects in other movies by other directors, although that decision also had to do with the fact that the mechanical shark barely worked the way it was supposed to.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 17:17:23 +0000
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