Jaws Officially, 50 years last week, and it is easy to imagine that the Steven Spielberg shark thriller – Hollywood’s first summer blockbuster – will be considered a classic in 50 more years. National Geographic’s annual “Sharkfest” “Sharkfest” brand with the milestone with Jaws @ 50: final inner historyA new documentary by the frequent employee of Spielberg Laurent Bouzereau (Music by John Williams).
As fans of the history of cinema know it well, however, Jaws is already a well documented film. In addition to the range of previous movies behind the scenes, if you have not read The jaw journalby Jaws The actor and co -screen Carl Gottlieb – with an introduction by Jaws The author of the novel Peter Benchley – It is a must to learn all the bloody details on the notoriously troubled production of the film.
And Spielberg is aware that the production of his 1975 film has become the fabric of the legend; at the start of Jaws @ 50Bouzereau asks him if there is something he has already said Jaws Before, and the Oscars winner answers “Discover”. As part of a recent press day before Jaws @ 50 By hitting National Geographic, Hulu and Disney +, we asked Bouzereau what distinguishes this new documentary from all the material that preceded.
“I think that so far, the story of Jaws was told through very mechanical things, the mechanical shark mainly and technical things, “he said.” It is really the heart and soul of a creator at Steven Spielberg, telling the stories of what it really meant for him as an artist. And I think that this emotional drama – it is a viable story, something that was taken for granted and which was mentioned but has never discussed. In my opinion, [that] was the heart to tell the story.
In addition, he said: “Jaws is a generational experience. I really wanted to include new filmmakers [as well as] New voices from the ocean world and the conservation of sharks to really discuss the impact that the narration can have on the world … I think these things, once again, have been mentioned but have never discussed in a dramatic and suspense way. We think it’s a new new way of talking about the impact of Jaws. “”
Bouzereau actually made a doc manufacturing on the occasion of Jaws“30th anniversary, included in the release of the film’s laserdisc at the time. He is happy to have succeeded, in part because “a lot of people in the film were still there [at the time but are no longer with us now]. I was therefore in a privileged position to speak to these people for the first time in depth since they had made the film. It is a very different type – more like a [eyewitness]type of historical approach. So it’s another story. This is a prospect at 50. »»
Thanks to his previous work around the film, he was able to withdraw previous interviews with which he had done Jaws Star Richard Dreyfuss, who is notably absent from the list of new interviews.
“He’s in [Jaws @ 50] Through these archive interviews that I made with him. And unfortunately, I was on a very tight and tight schedule, “explained Bouzerau.” I was reassured by the fact that I had this incredible interview [with him] It had not really been seen or used at length. So I think there is a very strong voice, and I was very happy to be able to at least recognize his incredible heritage with Jaws. But yes, [the reason there’s not a new interview with him] was a matter of timing. »»
The speaking heads of the new film include Spielberg, of course, as well as some celebrity superfuns, including deep water junkie, James Cameron, as well as Jordan Peele, who led a memorable way Jaws T-shirt in his film We.
“I threw it very carefully because each of them had a kind of different recovery from Jaws Experience and watch it. But I can give you the example of [how] Steven Soderbergh has entered, “said Bouzereau, concerning an anecdote. During the shooting of the documentary, Soderbergh sent a text to Spielberg wishes him a happy birthday – because it was the 50th anniversary of the very first day of filming on Jaws.
“Man studied call sheets, the calendar of Jaws Because he is a director who makes films very quickly and on the budget, “said Bouzereau about Soderbergh.” And this is the opposite of what happened Jaws. He is therefore obsessed with this angle.
As for Guillermo del Toro, “[He’s] Someone who has had a career to talk about monsters: monsters inside, monsters outside. And so I was curious to know his relationship with the Jaws Monster because Jaws is a metaphor. It is a metaphor for its fears. I was therefore curious about this. Thus, all of this nourished my narration and was very carefully orchestrated. »»
Another speaking key head? Wendy Benchley, the wife of the end Jaws Author Peter Benchley. After the book has become a worldwide film and phenomenon, the couple became defenders of ocean conservation and a better understanding of sharks. In Jaws @ 50Wendy tells the first time she saw the film, and Io9 asked her more about what it was.
She watched the film with Peter and “shark experts and people who were filmmakers who had in fact been in the water with sharks,” she recalls, notably Ron and Valerie Taylor, Stan Waterman and Peter Gimble, on whom all worked on Blue water, white dead—The Documentary of 1969 which helped plant narrative seeds for Jaws.
“We were very nervous because we wanted them to be satisfied with the film,” she recalls. “And they were, I mean, they thought that the film was really superb. You know, they understood that it was a film that created a 25 -foot shark that really did not exist … But it was a great relief to Peter and I, who are our shark friends and our people which we really depend was excellent.”
After that, she and Peter attended a public projection with Dreyfuss. “We couldn’t believe it because the public was standing and applauded. And we knew it was really an exciting film. And Richard, of course, who had crossed four or five months with everyone from Agony trying to make this film, was so delighted,” she recalls. “He jumped from top to bottom on the sidewalk and shouted just at the top of his lungs.” We did it! ” We did it! So it was exciting.
Benchley is happy that Jaws @ 50 is broadcast as part of Sharkfest, and that its objective includes shark experts as well as Hollywood types.
“For me, this is why this documentary is so wonderful, because it tells the complete story of Jawsof the book and the film, and the fact that Jaws had a positive effect, “she said.” It really jumped science and interest in sharks. And that continued during the 50th anniversary. I always mention this statistic because I think it is important for people to realize that it happened immediately after Jaws. At Rosenstiel School [of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science at the University of Miami],, the increase [in applications] was 30% in marine science just after Jaws. So it didn’t take 20 years. It happened right away.
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Jaws @ 50: final inner history First on July 10 at National Geographic and Streams the next day on Disney + and Hulu. It is also included on the Jaws 50th anniversary edition available now on 4K, Blu-ray and digital from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
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