June 22, 2025 • 4 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda gam Nation. So hees fifty years since
this iconic film hit our screens?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Is that all this would have been you in the movie?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Is that all you got? That's all you got? John Williams?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
That shark?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
So John Williams wrote that film. Yes, he also did
Star Wars between him and hanns Zimmer, they've done all
the news you can ever imagine.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Bilberg originally laughed at that. He went, is he dumb? Did? Okay? Ryan?
That's enough for that?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
So I was reading an article recently where they're talking about,
just in terms of how Hollywood works now, why that
film could not have been made. Now. Spielberg was twenty
six when he was hired to direct the movie. He'd
had three films previously, but the most recent one, which
was Sugarland Express, had been a box office bomb. So
he's not the kind of person that anyone would pick
(00:55):
today to direct this kind of project. More likely, he
would have made a low bud independent film, took it
to sun Dance, would have been brought by a bigger company,
and then the follow up films would have got bigger
and bigger. But they really took such a chance on
him in a way they wouldn't now. The main cast
of Jaws consists of three guys, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfus,
Roy Scheider, great actors, but they weren't the kind of
(01:18):
stars that could open a movie. Spielberg said, the star
of the movie would always be the shark. But for example,
you look at Dune, the June movies. Recently, they've got Zendaya,
Timothy Charlemagne, Florence Pugh, Javier Javier Bardem, Christopher Walken major
stars in all the roles.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
And are still a dreadfully boring movie.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
It's my son's favorite.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I know what's with the kids.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I tried to watch it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I just I watched it the first time round and
went OK. And it was boring then.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
In the eighties, in the eighties, and.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Then I watched it. You just don't get it. You
gotta watch it. And I watched it. I feel like
I'm in the prison.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Class tears watching it, and I couldn't stay. But also
Jaws another reason why things have done differently now, as
we know, because you and I read the book Jonesy Jawns.
Jawn's Jaws is based on a book by Peter Benchley
that it only came out one year before the movie,
so it didn't have a huge fan base. For example,
today a movie has to be that's based on a book.
(02:18):
The book has to be established as a best seller.
For example, it ends with us, this is the book
that's been so controversial with Black Lively the movie. I
mean that novel was published many years before the movie
came up and became a best seller, so the novel
is a best seller before it. These days it's made
into a movie, and the producers have said that if
they'd read the novel Jaws more closely, they probably wouldn't
(02:41):
have made it. One of the reasons is because it's
effects heavy, but old school effects. Jaws is the first
movie to be shot on the open seas incredibly difficult
in nineteen seventy five, and they say that that's probably
roughly the equivalent to Tom Cruiser's current during project, which
is to shoot a movie in outer space. That's how
hard it would have been. So lots of summer blockbusters
(03:02):
today rely on special effects, but they're digital effects. They're
not the hard yards shoot it out.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
In space, so they can fake it like the moon landing.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Well, that's what he doesn't want to do. He doesn't
want to fake, he wants to make it real. Yeah.
And the thing though that worked in Jaws favor was marketing.
They got that iconic image that had been on the
front of the book with the sharks jaws heading up
towards the swimmer on the top, and they marketed the
hell out of it. And they decided to market to
release the movie nationwide and then worldwide in one giant hit,
(03:33):
which set the template for the future blockbusters. So Jaws
was the very first blockbuster and gave.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
The franchise as well. I guess so was one Jaws.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Two Jaws. Remember Jaws one hundred and fifty eight with
Michael Caine in it, where the shark follows him down to.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Bermuda, Fellow's chief, Brodie's wife who in the book, in
Peter Benchley's book is having illicit thoughts about Matt who
the Yeah, Richard Dreyfer's character. But in the in the movie,
she's always up for it. If you noticed that she
drinks heeps and is always up for it.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
That's your dream. You're the only one that remembers there
Amy years ago, I got a munch going. Okay, Brendan,
you have different memories to the film than most of us.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I remember reading it as a nine year old
Jersey and Amanda gam Nation. So hees fifty years since
this iconic film hit our screens?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Is that all this would have been you in the movie?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Is that all you got? That's all you got? John Williams?
Speaker 2 (00:18):
That shark?
Speaker 1 (00:20):
So John Williams wrote that film. Yes, he also did
Star Wars between him and hanns Zimmer, they've done all
the news you can ever imagine.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Bilberg originally laughed at that. He went, is he dumb? Did? Okay? Ryan?
That's enough for that?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
So I was reading an article recently where they're talking about,
just in terms of how Hollywood works now, why that
film could not have been made. Now. Spielberg was twenty
six when he was hired to direct the movie. He'd
had three films previously, but the most recent one, which
was Sugarland Express, had been a box office bomb. So
he's not the kind of person that anyone would pick
(00:55):
today to direct this kind of project. More likely, he
would have made a low bud independent film, took it
to sun Dance, would have been brought by a bigger company,
and then the follow up films would have got bigger
and bigger. But they really took such a chance on
him in a way they wouldn't now. The main cast
of Jaws consists of three guys, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfus,
Roy Scheider, great actors, but they weren't the kind of
(01:18):
stars that could open a movie. Spielberg said, the star
of the movie would always be the shark. But for example,
you look at Dune, the June movies. Recently, they've got Zendaya,
Timothy Charlemagne, Florence Pugh, Javier Javier Bardem, Christopher Walken major
stars in all the roles.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
And are still a dreadfully boring movie.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
It's my son's favorite.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
I know what's with the kids.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I tried to watch it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I just I watched it the first time round and
went OK. And it was boring then.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
In the eighties, in the eighties, and.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Then I watched it. You just don't get it. You
gotta watch it. And I watched it. I feel like
I'm in the prison.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Class tears watching it, and I couldn't stay. But also
Jaws another reason why things have done differently now, as
we know, because you and I read the book Jonesy Jawns.
Jawn's Jaws is based on a book by Peter Benchley
that it only came out one year before the movie,
so it didn't have a huge fan base. For example,
today a movie has to be that's based on a book.
(02:18):
The book has to be established as a best seller.
For example, it ends with us, this is the book
that's been so controversial with Black Lively the movie. I
mean that novel was published many years before the movie
came up and became a best seller, so the novel
is a best seller before it. These days it's made
into a movie, and the producers have said that if
they'd read the novel Jaws more closely, they probably wouldn't
(02:41):
have made it. One of the reasons is because it's
effects heavy, but old school effects. Jaws is the first
movie to be shot on the open seas incredibly difficult
in nineteen seventy five, and they say that that's probably
roughly the equivalent to Tom Cruiser's current during project, which
is to shoot a movie in outer space. That's how
hard it would have been. So lots of summer blockbusters
(03:02):
today rely on special effects, but they're digital effects. They're
not the hard yards shoot it out.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
In space, so they can fake it like the moon landing.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Well, that's what he doesn't want to do. He doesn't
want to fake, he wants to make it real. Yeah.
And the thing though that worked in Jaws favor was marketing.
They got that iconic image that had been on the
front of the book with the sharks jaws heading up
towards the swimmer on the top, and they marketed the
hell out of it. And they decided to market to
release the movie nationwide and then worldwide in one giant hit,
(03:33):
which set the template for the future blockbusters. So Jaws
was the very first blockbuster and gave.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
The franchise as well. I guess so was one Jaws.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Two Jaws. Remember Jaws one hundred and fifty eight with
Michael Caine in it, where the shark follows him down to.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Bermuda, Fellow's chief, Brodie's wife who in the book, in
Peter Benchley's book is having illicit thoughts about Matt who
the Yeah, Richard Dreyfer's character. But in the in the movie,
she's always up for it. If you noticed that she
drinks heeps and is always up for it.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
That's your dream. You're the only one that remembers there
Amy years ago, I got a munch going. Okay, Brendan,
you have different memories to the film than most of us.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I remember reading it as a nine year old
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