My "holy grail" is the stunt harness that Susan "Chrissie" Backlinie wore during the opening attack sequence. As you know a pair of blue jean shorts were altered and "brackets" were attached to each side.
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Don't worry, 'Bruce'hasn't taken over from the Easter bunny or chomped all your chocolates - he can't stay down with three Lindor bunnies in him! When we say Easter eggs we mean of the film variety, those little in jokes and references waiting to be hunted done. That's a relief as all of those yellow chicks would have been harbingers of dorsal fin-related doom.And the colour yellow is exactly where we start...
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This book changed the game. Just when you thought there was nothing more to learn, see or read about the making of Jaws, Matt Taylor (with the help of Jim Beller) complied for the first time ever the behind-the-scenes photographs and stories of the Martha's Vineyard locals who worked as labourers and/or actors into a treasure trove of Jaws rarities. An absolute must have for any Jaws fans and filmmakers alike!
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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.
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Let’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?”
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As 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.
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It 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.
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JAWS, 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.
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