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This Shark Week, some Ideas on ‘Jaws’ at 50
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This Shark Week, some ideas on ‘Jaws’ at 50
I first saw “Jaws” during its theatrical debut in 1975 when I was 15. The previous year, family friends had loaned me Peter Benchley’s novel. The book and film terrified me. But I had been a shark-obsessed kid for years, so fascination outweighed fear. Fifty years later, as a shark biologist, and with the summer’s annual Shark Week starting tomorrow, I think about how our views on sharks have changed over the last five decades. And how they have…
ANSA - by Massimo Sebastiani and Mario Sesti. It's not only the film that screened Steven Spielberg in the Hollywood Empire, it's not only the film that made Americans discover that the summer season could be a great time to make gold collections, it's not just the first film product that introduced the idea and practice of the franchise (which would be refined until extenuation and that Spielberg himself would have in a certain sense suffered),…
In the beginning it was a bestseller of the writer Peter Benchley who, having his share of denunciation, came to fanatize Fidel Castro. Then, the film at first was not taken very seriously by criticism, but it turned out to be an overwhelming success of the public and ended up recovered by the cinéfilos. Shark, Steven Spielberg’s big suspense film, recently turned 50 and the documentary Shark: The story of a classic by Laurent Bouzereau celebrat…
Jaws Turns 50: Steven Spielberg Reflects on a Career-Defining Gamble
As Jaws celebrates its 50th anniversary, a new National Geographic documentary, Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story, takes audiences behind the scenes of the film that changed cinema—and nearly ended Steven Spielberg’s directing career before it began. The documentary reveals just how turbulent the process was. Spielberg, only in his mid-20s at the time, faced a string of setbacks—constant mechanical failures with the now-infamous shark model…
Veloces, stealthy and instinctful to kill people who enjoy the sea. Books and films have installed sharks in the collective imagination as killer and fearsome beings; one of the titles that has fed this image the most is Shark, cult tape along with its soundtrack that premiered in 1975 under the direction of Steven Spielberg and inspired by the novel of the same name. So thinking about them tends to be scary, to the point of causing phobia. Bad …
Jaws at 50: how a single movie changed our perception of white sharks forever
Jaws at 50: how a single movie changed our perception of white sharks foreverJaws impacted perceptions of white sharks, leading to declines in their populations and concerns about survival. The post Jaws at 50: how a single movie changed our perception of white sharks forever first appeared on The Dispatch.
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