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Link Posted: 1/22/2016 11:12:30 PM EST
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awesome movie and it scared the crap out of me as a kid,I have it on DVD/Bluray and my wife and I still watch it every time I see it on tv.



a true classic
Link Posted: 1/23/2016 1:44:44 PM EST
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SS stumbled on a novel by Peter Benchley that inspired the film. Then he stumbled on Rolly Harper's Motion Picture & Equipment Rental which built the mechanical sharks that mostly didn't work and forced the crew to rework the story away from the shark attack blood fest and turn it into a story with memorable characters.
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I've heard a story about SS stumbling on a photo in National Geographic which partly inspired the film



I think it was this photo.

http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/cms/binary/5590089.jpg?size=620x400





SS stumbled on a novel by Peter Benchley that inspired the film. Then he stumbled on Rolly Harper's Motion Picture & Equipment Rental which built the mechanical sharks that mostly didn't work and forced the crew to rework the story away from the shark attack blood fest and turn it into a story with memorable characters.
The story of Jaws was inspired in whole from the Matawan creek attack 15 miles from where I grew up.

 
We have caught 8 foot makos off my Dads boat, I have seen large sharks dorsal fin sticking out of the water well over 2 feet, I have almost be biten by sharks twice,once while swimming in Belmar NJ shark river LOL

And once on my dads boat when they landed a large mako and I thought it was dead, it snapped at my leg when I walked past it.

Read about Matawan creek below  












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