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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gam Nation. So hees fifty years since

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Speaker 1: this iconic film hit our screens?

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Speaker 2: Is that all this would have been you in the movie?

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Speaker 1: Is that all you got? That's all you got? John Williams?

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Speaker 2: That shark?

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Speaker 1: So John Williams wrote that film. Yes, he also did

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Speaker 1: Star Wars between him and hanns Zimmer, they've done all

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Speaker 1: the news you can ever imagine.

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Speaker 2: Bilberg originally laughed at that. He went, is he dumb? Did? Okay? Ryan?

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Speaker 2: That's enough for that?

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Speaker 1: So I was reading an article recently where they're talking about,

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Speaker 1: just in terms of how Hollywood works now, why that

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Speaker 1: film could not have been made. Now. Spielberg was twenty

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Speaker 1: six when he was hired to direct the movie. He'd

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Speaker 1: had three films previously, but the most recent one, which

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Speaker 1: was Sugarland Express, had been a box office bomb. So

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Speaker 1: he's not the kind of person that anyone would pick

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Speaker 1: today to direct this kind of project. More likely, he

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Speaker 1: would have made a low bud independent film, took it

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Speaker 1: to sun Dance, would have been brought by a bigger company,

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Speaker 1: and then the follow up films would have got bigger

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Speaker 1: and bigger. But they really took such a chance on

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Speaker 1: him in a way they wouldn't now. The main cast

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Speaker 1: of Jaws consists of three guys, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfus,

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Speaker 1: Roy Scheider, great actors, but they weren't the kind of

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Speaker 1: stars that could open a movie. Spielberg said, the star

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Speaker 1: of the movie would always be the shark. But for example,

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Speaker 1: you look at Dune, the June movies. Recently, they've got Zendaya,

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Speaker 1: Timothy Charlemagne, Florence Pugh, Javier Javier Bardem, Christopher Walken major

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Speaker 1: stars in all the roles.

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Speaker 2: And are still a dreadfully boring movie.

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Speaker 1: It's my son's favorite.

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Speaker 2: I know what's with the kids.

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Speaker 1: I tried to watch it.

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Speaker 2: I just I watched it the first time round and

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Speaker 2: went OK. And it was boring then.

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Speaker 1: In the eighties, in the eighties, and.

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Speaker 2: Then I watched it. You just don't get it. You

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Speaker 2: gotta watch it. And I watched it. I feel like

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Speaker 2: I'm in the prison.

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Speaker 1: Class tears watching it, and I couldn't stay. But also

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Speaker 1: Jaws another reason why things have done differently now, as

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Speaker 1: we know, because you and I read the book Jonesy Jawns.

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Speaker 1: Jawn's Jaws is based on a book by Peter Benchley

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Speaker 1: that it only came out one year before the movie,

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Speaker 1: so it didn't have a huge fan base. For example,

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Speaker 1: today a movie has to be that's based on a book.

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Speaker 1: The book has to be established as a best seller.

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Speaker 1: For example, it ends with us, this is the book

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Speaker 1: that's been so controversial with Black Lively the movie. I

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Speaker 1: mean that novel was published many years before the movie

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Speaker 1: came up and became a best seller, so the novel

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Speaker 1: is a best seller before it. These days it's made

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Speaker 1: into a movie, and the producers have said that if

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Speaker 1: they'd read the novel Jaws more closely, they probably wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have made it. One of the reasons is because it's

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Speaker 1: effects heavy, but old school effects. Jaws is the first

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Speaker 1: movie to be shot on the open seas incredibly difficult

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Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy five, and they say that that's probably

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Speaker 1: roughly the equivalent to Tom Cruiser's current during project, which

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Speaker 1: is to shoot a movie in outer space. That's how

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Speaker 1: hard it would have been. So lots of summer blockbusters

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Speaker 1: today rely on special effects, but they're digital effects. They're

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Speaker 1: not the hard yards shoot it out.

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Speaker 2: In space, so they can fake it like the moon landing.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's what he doesn't want to do. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: want to fake, he wants to make it real. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And the thing though that worked in Jaws favor was marketing.

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Speaker 1: They got that iconic image that had been on the

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Speaker 1: front of the book with the sharks jaws heading up

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Speaker 1: towards the swimmer on the top, and they marketed the

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Speaker 1: hell out of it. And they decided to market to

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Speaker 1: release the movie nationwide and then worldwide in one giant hit,

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Speaker 1: which set the template for the future blockbusters. So Jaws

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Speaker 1: was the very first blockbuster and gave.

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Speaker 2: The franchise as well. I guess so was one Jaws.

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Speaker 1: Two Jaws. Remember Jaws one hundred and fifty eight with

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Speaker 1: Michael Caine in it, where the shark follows him down to.

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Speaker 2: Bermuda, Fellow's chief, Brodie's wife who in the book, in

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Speaker 2: Peter Benchley's book is having illicit thoughts about Matt who

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Speaker 2: the Yeah, Richard Dreyfer's character. But in the in the movie,

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Speaker 2: she's always up for it. If you noticed that she

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Speaker 2: drinks heeps and is always up for it.

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Speaker 1: That's your dream. You're the only one that remembers there

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Speaker 1: Amy years ago, I got a munch going. Okay, Brendan,

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Speaker 1: you have different memories to the film than most of us.

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Speaker 2: I remember reading it as a nine year old