JAWS (1975) - Go Team Video (EP. 45) First time seeing JAWS reissue in IMAX

Close out the summer with the AMPM VIDEO crew as they go on vacation with Jaws a 1975 American  thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley. It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody who, with the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw), hunts a man-eating great white shark that is attacking beachgoers at a summer resort town. Murray Hamilton plays the mayor, and Lorraine Gary portrays Brody's wife. The screenplay is credited to Benchley, who wrote the first drafts, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who rewrote the script during principal photography.

Shot mostly on location on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, Jaws was the first major motion picture to be shot on the ocean, and  consequently had a troubled production with issues such as going over  budget and past schedule. As the art department's mechanical sharks  often malfunctioned, Spielberg decided mostly to suggest the shark's  presence, employing an ominous and minimalist theme created by composer John Williams to indicate its impending appearances. Spielberg and others have compared this suggestive approach to that of director Alfred Hitchcock. Universal Pictures'  release of the film to over 450 screens was an exceptionally wide  release for a major studio picture at the time, and it was accompanied  by an extensive marketing campaign with a heavy emphasis on television  spots and tie-in merchandise.

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