On today's podcast adventure, Adolfo and Mark are going to need a bigger boat as they go back into the water for Steven Spielberg's classic blockbuster JAWS. On today's show they discuss:
• How did they first experience Jaws
• The perfect blockbuster film
• The Universal Studios Jaws Ride
• Richard D. Zanuck’s sweet mustache
• Steven Spielberg getting shut out for Best Director
• The iconic John Williams score and how it trained the audience to expect the shark
• The perfect use of jump scares
• The difference between PG in 1975 and PG in 2016
• How an unseen monster is more terrifying
• The greatest movie poster ever created
• How Peter Benchley didn’t think anyone could make the film
• The magic of movies in the 70s and 80s
• The film’s major production problems and why they were serendipitous
• Why Spielberg always skips the last day of shooting on every movie he does
• What parts were Lee Marvin, Robert Duvall and Sterling Hayden considered for?
• The Jaws tourism industry
• Bryan Singer’s connection to Jaws
• Perfect foreshadowing in the script
• A discussion on Mondo Posters
• Quint’s iconic entrance into the film
• “A Whaaaaat?”
• The real life fisherman Quint was based on
• Two different genre mash-ups: Horror and Adventure
• Why did Mark watch BASIC INSTINCT 2?
• How the most famous line in the film was improved
• How a little person helped film the real shark footage
• The story behind the Indianapolis speech
Quint’s manly death
• Spielberg’s brashness in thinking he could take this on as such an inexperienced director
• The unprecedented marketing campaign
• How Jaws started the summer blockbuster tradition
• The difference between “So Bad it’s Good” and just plain bad movies
• JAWS: The Video Game!
As always, we go off on tangents on:
•
VERTIGO (1958)
• DUEL (1971)
• THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS (1974)
• STAR WARS (1977)
• JAWS 2 (1978)
• PIRANHA (1978)
• 1941 (1979)
• CADDYSHACK (1980)
• JAWS 3D (1983)
• A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984)
• JAWS THE REVENGE (1987)
• LETHAL WEAPON (1987)
• BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II (1989)
• TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991)
• BRAVEHEART (1995)
• THE MAKING OF ‘JAWS’ (1995)
• INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996)
• CHASING AMY (1997)
• THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK (1997)
• STAR WARS: EPISODE I - THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999)
• THE FAST AND FURIOUS Franchise (2001-Present)
• JOYRIDE (2001)
• THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001)
• SHARKNADO (2013)
• MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015)
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http://www.slashfilm.com/ape-meets-girl-jaws-posters/
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