It’s also one of the most iconic, and oft-imitated, poster images ever. The noise, the screams and the music all blend to still create a sense of dread in the pit of your stomach.
It effectively sets the shark up as a Jack the Ripper like monster, with a thousand knives for teeth.
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It’s the perfect opener for a movie (indeed Spielberg even copied it himself of sorts in 1993 in the opening of Jurassic Park). What certainly wasn’t unseen by most boys growing up was that Chrissie starkers! For many it must have been the first time they’d ever seen a naked woman in a film, not that you see much and I can’t imagine many jumping for the pause button during that scene.įrom the start of the attack to when Chrissie is pulled under only takes less than 45 seconds, even after all this time packs a punch like a train.
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Some 40 plus years later and Catalina Island is currently home to the Jaws: The Art of Fear in Filmmaking exhibition, small world.ĭespite ‘Bruce’ not taking to saltwater as he should there were never any plans for the shark to ‘appear’ in this opening scene, it was all designed as scene on screen by Spielberg, once again highlighting how the power of the unseen can be more frightening than what is seen. The one shot that wasn’t was the shark’s point of view from under Chrissie, that was filmed in the clearer sea off Catalina, Southern California. The iconic attack scene was shot at two locations, the prelude – the beach party and the wonderful tracking shot as Chrissie runs across the dunes flanked by the teeth-like fences – and everything above the water was shot at Martha’s Vineyard.
If anyone remembers the old VHS version of the film it was incredibly dark and you could hardly see a think but since the advancement of formats and the cleaning up of the film we can all experience the sheer terror. All of the beach scenes were of course shot at night but the actual attack was shot day-for-night, which means it was made to look like night in the processing.
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