jaws

crazygeryy

Fascinating stuff to have these turn up after all these years.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2568298/Were-gonna-need-bigger-bid-Rare-scenes-photographs-Jaws-auction-resurface-40-years.html

Ironman76

Very cool.

Must have been cool at the time to know that the shark was actually on screen and not some CGIed to death crap.

BluRay version is stunning. A must see.

pixelburp

Ironman76 wrote: »

Very cool.

Must have been cool at the time to know that the shark was actually on screen and not some CGIed to death crap.

BluRay version is stunning. A must see.

I imagine physical puppets are easier to work against than green screen, though the Jaws puppet was pretty primitive and it's always worth remembering that Jaws remained unseen because the puppet didn't work in salt-water & broke, forcing Spielberg to improvise and shoot so the shark was a rarely-seen terror. Had the puppet worked fine it likely would have been front & centre, arguably as offensively prominent as latter-day FX work.

krudler

pixelburp wrote: »

I imagine physical puppets are easier to work against than green screen, though the Jaws puppet was pretty primitive and it's always worth remembering that Jaws remained unseen because the puppet didn't work in salt-water & broke, forcing Spielberg to improvise and shoot so the shark was a rarely-seen terror. Had the puppet worked fine it likely would have been front & centre, arguably as offensively prominent as latter-day FX work.

Jaws by all accounts should have been a straight B movie monster flick with a shark seen throughout it, the shark not working is the best thing that happened the film, my favourite moment in the entire thing is when the two dopey fishermen attach the meat to the jetty and it gets dragged off by the shark. The moment where the broken piece of pier starts to slowly turn back and the theme music builds is a moment of cinema genius. And not a single effect to be seen.

crazygeryy

Ironman76 wrote: »

Very cool.

Must have been cool at the time to know that the shark was actually on screen and not some CGIed to death crap.

BluRay version is stunning. A must see.

Yes I've seen the br version. Excellent. And it was all done without cgi that's the amazing thing that jumps out from the photos. A film crew hard at work making effects literally making them instead of pushing buttons on a pc.
and krudler Is dead right. Cinema genius.

SimonTemplar

Fully agree. Didn't Ridley Scott say something similar about the xenomorph in Alien. He thought that if the audience saw too much of the alien, it would end up just looking like a man in a suit.

DazMarz

Still one of the best films ever. I love watching it. And refreshingly, the film pisses all over its source material (the novel not being as good and having a tacked on sexual tryst for no good reason other than to sex-up the story).

A classic of suspense and the fear of the unknown. The fact that we never see the shark fully until the latter stages (through accident rather than design) was a stroke of pure (inadvertent) genius.

Scared the living shíte out of me as a kid and never was fond of swimming ever since then...

krudler

Yeah the book is awful, the affair between Mrs Brody and Hooper is completely pointless

karma_

krudler wrote: »

Yeah the book is awful, the affair between Mrs Brody and Hooper is completely pointless

The only book I've ever read where the film in superior.

krudler

Speaking of shark books and movies, it's a wonder a studios hasn't greenlit MEG yet, it's been in development hell for years but done right it could be Jaws meets Jurassic Park.