Jaws, a Monstrous Success
Jaws, a Monstrous Success

Jaws, a Monstrous Success

6.3

0 hr 53 min

2024-12-16

10

In the summer of 1975, the young director Steven Spielberg set new standards for cinema worldwide with an oversized shark bite, a plastic shark fin and an unmistakable two-note main theme composed by John Williams. With the horror from the deep, a man-eating, gigantic great white shark, the film of the same name became a similarly traumatic reference as Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho": it triggered lasting primal fears across generations. On the beaches of the world, there was clearly a "before" and an "after". Steven Spielberg, who was only 28 at the time, not only set new standards for the thriller genre, but also hid his biting criticism of US capitalism in the 1970s behind it.

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Characters

Nathalie Labarthe

Nathalie Labarthe

Narrator (voice over)

Lorraine Gary

Lorraine Gary

Self

Joe Alves

Joe Alves

Self - set designer

Carl Gottlieb

Carl Gottlieb

Self - screenwriter

Alexandre Aja

Alexandre Aja

Self - director

Wendy Benchley

Wendy Benchley

Self

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