What was it like working with Lorraine Gary?
She was lovely. I really only worked with her for a couple of weeks. Much of my time on the movie was spent alone in a big tank on the Universal lot. The exteriors were shot on location in Martha’s Vineyard for two weeks. So Lorraine and I spent quite a bit of time together, which helped with our short, but important on screen relationship.
Read MoreLet’s get one thing straight; JAWS is not simply a shark movie. It is THE shark movie. It is the shark movie that all other shark movies get instantly compared to. But why is that? Why is it that whenever Hollywood announce a new man-eating shark film is to be released, the cinematic audiences automatically state “I bet JAWS is still going to be better?”
Read MoreAs a huge fan of Jaws that sadly is too young to have seen it on the big screen when it was released back in 1975, I will of course jump at the opportunity to see my favourite film given the full cinematic treatment. In August 2016, I finally got the chance to do just that, as the Prince Charles Cinema in London was showing it as part of a double-bill with Spielberg’s 1993 classic, Jurassic Park (another film I was too young to see on the big screen - sorry I’m just rubbing it in now, I know!). Now I am a fan of Jurassic Park, don’t get me wrong, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say the main reason I was attending was to see Jaws, and really seeing Jurassic Park as well was just an added bonus.
Read MoreIt turns out that Matt Hooper wasn’t the only taking one photographs on Jaws, so was actor Alfred Wilde, behind the scenes on the film that is just as famous for its making of as it is for being one of the greatest films of all time.
Read MoreJAWS, 25 feet and all three tonnes of him, will be making his first UK appearance with a live orchestra this October. The film, first released in 1975, is being screened at the Royal Albert Hall with the BBC Concert Orchestra – surely that should be Orca-chestra - filling us equally with the thrills and foreboding of the classic John Williams score.
Read MoreFirst of all, psychologically, we are built to fear the unknown and we all carry the memories of our ancestors’ survival experiences on an unconscious level.
So, naturally, our instinct to survive raises our anxiety over any danger especially when it comes to the unknown just like the black depths of the water without knowing what lurks below. As you can imagine our ancestors didn’t have much cool memories with beautiful beachgoers but instead so many lethal experiences when it comes to the memories of the sea. So, the movie “Jaws” directly stimulates our deepest fears.
Read MoreRead MoreA Great White Shark attacks and kills several people across the Cornish coast, such was the cut and thrust of my 1987 mini-epic, Jaws V, written in my English lessons at school.
IN A RECENT poll on my Twitter, I posed the question “Who is your favourite character in Jaws?”, including of course the three main characters, and then a rather tongue in cheek fourth option of Bruce the Shark. I wasn’t too surprised tofind Quint come out on top with 41% of the vote, but I was incredibly surprised to find Hooper placing in third position with just 19%, just one place ahead of the ever reliable Bruce!
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