Jaw attacked 50 years ago, changing how we watch films – and sharks

Since June 20, 1975, summer has never been the same, and all of this is thanks to a “mindless eating machine” that terrorizes filmmakers and beaches evenly. It was the day Jaw Hit theaters, enter the summer blockbuster era and became a pop culture event that is still resonant 50 years later.

The classic story of a great white shark in Steven Spielberg, which chases water from an island beach city in the state of New York and ate without thinking, broke the record and became the first film to cross the $ 100 million US mark at the box office.

The film was credited with helping to “revive” the landscape of the film, which was a slumping year, the new York Times Reported that time, as people got in line outside theaters for hours.

Since its release, we expect a summer choke with action -filled films that seem thrill and cold. What sets Jaw Furthermore, even today, how it affects not only the film industry, but also the real world.

One reason we are still talking JawProfessor Charles Ekland, a communication study at the University of Concorda, Montreal, says the author of the book. American Blockbuster: Films, Technology and Surprise,

“This is an expert manufactured motion picture,” he said, but it also came into our head and “it is not difficult to think about sharks for a few years and perhaps even then.”

Look Official trailer for jaw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1fu_sa7xhe

Jaw We imagined our deep fear

Chris Love was about 11 years old when the film came out. He grew on Martha’s vine turn from the coast of Massachusetts, where he was shot, the same for the Atlantic water to swim and fish catching that became the most hunting ground for the ocean’s most notorious top hunter.

Jaw He did not scare him because he saw that it was being built, and a lot of familiar faces of his city made it in different scenes. But he certainly came out of a kick as to how others got scared.

Lowe also knows one or two things about shark: he is the director of the California State University Long Beach in the shark lab, and has been researching the shark for 30 years. He says that the film actually impressed him and other shark biologists.

According to Lov, at that time the great white was understood to be very little – Spielberg played something in the film.

Lov said, “What is the work of that film, whether it is believed or not, the fact was that you rarely saw shark and allowed the story to be allowed to run the fantasies of the people wild.”

You do not really look at sharks, the name of a 7.6-meter anmetronic animal is Bruce, during 81 minutes-During that unforgettable, “you need a big boat” scene (don’t worry, it is embedded below). Overall, it is on the screen for only about four minutes.

But Lowe says, and still, people are enough to think twice about going into water. He says that people who have seen Jaw John can almost hear the “Dun Dun” of the iconic score by Williams. When they go to swim, they wonder what is lean below the surface.

For Lowe and his friends, terror Jaw The inspiration was not the worst in the world in the summer of 1975.

“No one else will go into the water in that summer,” he said. “So, we had a lot of beaches.”

Look The main broadiers meet the jaw:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i91djzkrxs

We need a large blockbuster

JawPeter benchley’s Bestsailing 1974, based on the 1974 novel, came to define what we now think as a blockbuster.

It raked over $ 260 million in US During its initial release around the world – a large amount for that time, and still much. Adjusted to inflation, which works more than more than $ 1.5 billion US.

It was nominated for four Academy Awards, including the Best Picture (it lost) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), Best Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Original Score (all of which won).

For better or worse, it gave birth to a series of sequel and inspired a full style of shark attack films – from suspense open waterBut impossible for gore deep Blue SeaLowly absurd Sharknado Franchise (Lowe is a big fan).

However, Ekland says that it is a misconception that the film was the first Hollywood blockbuster.

First JawHe says, the word blockbuster was a preacher word used to describe like epic films. Lawrence of Arabia And Ben Hur.

Again, with it Omnipotent marketing campaign And a notable 14-week run on top of the box office, Jaw Became a program for young and old filmmakers. ACland says that the film is “colonized summer”, which suddenly became a time for “Entertainment Heavy Film”. In view of this, Horror, Science-Fi and action flies dominated the season.

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Like blockbuster release, sharks have become thanks to summer culture JawLowe says.

the film The shark has often been blamed for removing the apprehensions and blowing the risk of attack out of proportion.

“I think both Peter Benchley and Steven Spielberg really felt bad how it impressed people’s vision towards sharks,” Lowe said.

Malignant shark attacks are rare. The Florida Museum of Natural History International shark attack file Last year, 47 unprotected shark cutting on humans worldwide was confirmed – only four deadly. This is less than the number of people killed Jaw,

By the time the film came out, Lov says, the population of great white shark was already reduced due to fishing. He actually credits the film with more attention to the species, eventually leading to conservation and conservation efforts, which have seen the population growing since the 1990s.

Vision Atlantic CanadaThis has also increased, which Lowe says that people are helping to understand that sharks are “not as dangerous as they are out.”

Because of that, he says Jaw Was done 50 years ago.

“I think science, the data that we really have flip Jaw Show it on its head and show that the whole ‘they are out to get you’ is wrong. ,