Most Jaws aficionados might already know that the three different versions of the 1.2-ton, mechanically powered predator created for the film (this was long before computer-generated imagery, or CGI, remember) were all nicknamed “Bruce” by Spielberg after his lawyer, Bruce Ramer.
The story's nemesis - a great white shark that attacks and terrorizes the fictional community of Amity Island - doesn't appear on screen until one hour and 21 minutes into the two-hour movie.Ĭourtesy Everett Collection 6. For Jaws, though, the normally flat edges were replaced with a sharp set of teeth - uppers and lowers. The slate - also known as “sticks,” “clapperboard” or “clapboard” - is the well-known tablet with a hinged top that gets clapped down to mark the beginning of a film scene (markings on the tablet help editors synch the film and sound). The story goes that he asked her to perch on a stool and pretend to swim to get the pose just right.) 4. (Kastel based the big fish on a great white diorama at the American Museum of Natural History, and the swimmer was modeled after a woman whom Kastel had sketched for an ad in Good Housekeeping. The image of a girl swimming naively across the top of the water while a massive great white surges toward her from below was actually purloined from an illustration by artist Roger Kastel for the novel's paperback edition. The iconic poster wasn't created for the film What they might not know is that the location scout planned to check out nearby Nantucket Island instead, but stormy weather forced his ferry to Martha's Vineyard, where he discovered the many natural features that lured the production there.ģ. Most fans know that the famed New England island, with its deep offshore waters and sandy beaches, was the real-life version of novelist Peter Benchley's fictional Amity Island from the book.
Martha's Vineyard played the role of Amity Island. Lengthy shooting delays (you try getting mechanical sharks to work and the weather to cooperate at the same time) made that goal impossible. While the film hit theaters on June 20, 1975, starring Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, Robert Shaw as shark fisherman Quint, and Richard Dreyfuss as oceanographer Matt Hooper, it was originally planned for a Christmas 1974 release. It's hard to separate Steven Spielberg's brilliant adaptation of Peter Benchley's novel without thinking of it as a summer movie.
Jaws wasn't even supposed to come out in the summer
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