Scheider got the part of Chief Martin Brody after overhearing Spielberg talking to a friend at a Hollywood party about the scene where the shark leaps out of the water and onto Quint’s boat. The shark in Jaws weighed more than a ton. Strict land ordinances kept the production from building anywhere-Quint’s shack was the one and only set built for the movie, while the defaced Amity Island billboard had to be constructed and taken down all in one day. To create the fictional town of Amity, the production shot on location in Edgartown and Menemsha on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. Jaws's Amity Island was actually Martha's Vineyard.
Jaws was marred with so many technical problems (including the shark not working and shooting in the Atlantic Ocean) that the originally scheduled 65-day shoot ballooned into 159 days, not counting post-production. The reason it isn’t shown is because the mechanical shark that was built rarely worked during filming, so Spielberg had to create inventive ways (like Quint’s yellow barrels) to shoot around the non-functional shark. The shark doesn’t fully appear in a shot until 1 hour and 21 minutes into the two-hour film.
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The producers thought the movie was thematically similar to the story for Jaws, making Spielberg a great fit. Spielberg was chosen to direct Jaws by producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown (who had also worked with the then-28-year-old director on his 1974 film The Sugarland Express) because of his film Duel, which featured a maniacal trucker terrorizing a mild-mannered driver. Steven Spielberg got the directing job on Jaws because of Duel. Steven Spielberg also makes a cameo in the movie: His voice is the Amity Island dispatcher who calls Quint’s boat, the Orca, with Sheriff Brody’s wife on the line. Benchley had previously worked as a news reporter for The Washington Post before penning Jaws. MCA/Universal Home Videoīenchley himself can be seen in a cameo in the film as the news reporter who addresses the camera on the beach. Peter Benchley makes a cameo in Jaws (1975).
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