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Jaws turned 50 in 2025, and is just as good as when he first swam in cinemas. Now, the film is not a great vacation advertisement. Anecdotes for The "jaws" that made people be afraid of sharks Or even swimming in the ocean is endless. But it is also an undeniable beautiful movie; When there is no shark attack, it can make you long for summer and beaches.

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"Jaws" was not Steven Spielberg's first film, but that was the widest phase he had performed to that point. Neither 30-year-old and still Sui Generis, Spielberg delivered a masterpiece from shooting, inspired him so violently Game of Broadway (aka "shark is broken")! Much of the difficulties of producing the "jaws" (which spent 100+ days during the schedule) was mechanical problems with shark anicrast. Does the choice of recording location have to do with problems?

If you are just as brave as Captain Quint (Robert Show) when it comes to sharks, then can you really visit Amit Island if you want?

Now, the island of Amit is not a real island ... Or, at least, the island is not really called.

Jaws was primarily shot on the island of Martha's vineyard, Massachusetts. Inhabited by Europeans in the 1600s, The vineyard was once a poor fishing village. However, nowadays, it is a rich enclave and a place that happens (with a permanent population of about 20,530), similar to other islands in Massachusetts like Cape Code and Nantuquet. The vineyard is also advertised His relationship with the "jaws" to attract film fans as visitors.

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However, in the 1970s, the vineyard corresponds to the account of a small island city like Amit. Jaws says Amit is the United States on the east coast (Brodis moved there from Newouge), so the shooting of Martha's vineyard added even greater version. There was a small town (houses and traffic), beaches, harbor and ports that Amit will need. The production "Jaws" even recruited some local MV actors, such as Lee Fiero, who played the mother of the unfortunate Alex Kintner (Effeefrey Worhes).

Spielberg gloriously chose to shoot "jaws" on the real ocean than the studio water tank. He said the Atlantic Ocean around the vineyard is just as important for its choice of location as the island of the island. Interviewed by author Laurent Buzero for the book "Spielberg: The first ten years", Spielberg explained:

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"(Martha's vineyard) was the only place on the east coast where I could go 12 miles to the sea and avoid any viewing on the land, but we still have a sandy ocean only thirty meters below the surface, where we could install our shark sled.

In the "jaws", Amit Island seems to be the name of the physical island and the city sitting on it (as in citysingular). There is only one mayor, Larry Vaughan (Murray Hamilton), and Martin Brody (Roy Shader) is the only police chief. Makes sense; The story, which is for a deadly force that enters a small town, is much simpler if it is just one city.

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But Martha's vineyard is home to several different communities. One of them is Edgartown, founded in 1642 and historically served as a whale port. Much of the city of Amit in Jaws is really Edgartown. For example, Brody's city square is really in the city center Edgartown; That walk concludes with a mini ferry driving, which is still Edgartown's operation Chappy Ferry.

Amity Town Hall, where Quint first presented his nails on the chalk board, is also Edgartown's city hall. Meanwhile, the port where we first meet Huper (Richard Drayfus) is really the port of Edgartown.

The shooting "jaws" was not just in Edgartown. Brodis' house is recorded on the still permanent address of 265 East chop disc In the city of Lozje Cheven, Massachusetts. Similarly, the scene where Brody and Houper are trying to persuade Mayor Vaughan to close the beaches, walking and talking and circles, was shot in the rocks of gay heads. These are a landmark in the small town of Aquina of Martha's vineyard. The lighthouse of the gay head can also be seen in the film during this scene.

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The home of Quint, a small fishermen store (seen in the last part of the "jaws" mounted on land) was built for the film, but it was built in the fishing village of Martha of Vineyema. Because the store was supposedly Too tall under the local zoning requirements (that is Two multi -storey building as shown in the film), it was demolished immediately after filming.

The "jaws" begins in the water from the POV on the shark itself. But after that, she cuts to the beach, where Chris Watkins (Susan Bucklini) enjoys her last moments alive at the beach party late at night. This was filmed on two beaches: the scenes of the land were filmed by Edgartown South Beach. However, the frightening swimming scene, where Chris is dragged under the shark, was filmed on the beach "Kur".

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The first time we actually see the shark in the "jaws" is when he claims his fourth victim, an unnamed man (Ted Grossman) who sailed a red boat in the pond from the main beach.

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Brody's son, Michael (Chris Rebello), also swims in the pond, but fortunately the shark swims beside him. The "pond" on the island of Amit is actually part of the Sengekontacket pond, which covers 700+ hectares. If you visit Martha's vineyard, you can lower the location of the film to American Legion's Memorial Bridgewhich connects Edgartown to Oks Bluff and is visible in the background of the said scene. Don't be so fast to jump out of the bridgeHowever, not only because there may be a shark waiting below.

During the culmination of the jaws, when the orca is stuck and sinks, and the hawker has passed in a shark cage, you may notice something shift. Shark is no longer Just Detailed puppet, there also shots of a real big white shark mixed in.

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This footage was filmed by a second unit team worldwide by Martha's vineyard - in Australia, specifically. Australia (surrounded by the Pacific, Antarctica and the Indian Ocean) has sharks in its waters, but that was not the only reason why the team went there. Ron and Valerie Taylor made divers who had previously taken shots of sharks, lived in Australia and worked on the second unit team.

Shark footage shakes around the cage, destroying it? They were captured by the second unit team; The shark is much more agile and flexible in those shots than the animaton can be. Filming the cage scene in this way has affected major consequences for the story of the "jaws". When the second unit team finally prompted the shark to destroy the cage, it was empty. Hence, the script was prescribed, so Houper swims out of the cage and survives, rather than dying as in the original novel "Jaws" by Peter Bankley.

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Jaws has two of the best scares to jump in the movies. One is the shark unexpectedly comes out of the water. (A sign The icon "jaws": "Have you need a larger boat.") The other comes earlier in the film when Brody and Houper go out on the ship of the second night. They encountered an abandoned fishing boat by Ben Gardner (Craig Kingsbury), one of the fishermen after the shark's sale. Hawper dives and reveals a hole in the side of the ship, from which Gardner's bitten head hoveres.

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This footage was actually recorded After The main photo of the "jaws" was wrapped. But walking all the way to the ocean for one remaining was simply not practical. Instead, the shot was captured in the Azino pool, California owned by Jaws editor Verna Shields. The Shields held a landscaping room at her pool house, where she and Spielberg worked together with the arrangement of the "jaws", so the pool was available to them.

In "Spielberg: The first 10 years", the director recounted how, during test projections, head shot did not scare the audience as he wanted. Gaining "greedy", he decided to expose it:

"I Went and Spent Three Thousand Bucks of My Owny to Have the Art Department Build The Side of Ben Gardner's Boat Out of Balsa Wood, To Match The One We Had Shot Before. Using a double for richard dreyfuss, in the swimming pool of my editor verna fields ... Originally, the head was just there, so I shot it coming through the hole About Nine Different Ways. "

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Shields was an absolutely important part of the "jaws" movie we know - take, for example, how she sewed the best takeover of Robert Shaw, performing the USS Indianapolis monologue of Quint. Without her pool and that exalted jump jump, the "jaws" would be less perfect than it is.