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Jaws (movie)

The 1974 novel, Jaws, was written by Peter Benchley. In 1975, Steven Spielberg turned it into the theater blockbuster.

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What are the sharks in jaws called?

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The mechanical shark was nicknamed "Bruce" by Steven Spielberg. Bruce was his attorney at the time. He also referred to the shark as "The Great White Turd" because of it's many malfunctions!

Can you determine the length of a shark from the size of its jaws?

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No. Jaws isn't true. phewf!!!!

AnswerYes. The largest Great White shark caught and killed was 27-foot from nose to tail, a little bit bigger than Jaws. The Basking Shark and Whale Shark are larger but they feed only on plankton and are generally not a threat to humans. The prehistoric Megaladon Shark was about 50-foot, approximately the same size as a Whale Shark, and it was predatory. They are believed to be extinct.....but who knows?

What was the nickname given to the mechanical shark in jaws?

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They used three different mechanical sharks, and they were all nicknamed Bruce, after Steven Spielberg's lawyer.

What beach did they film 1975 movie Jaws beach scenes?

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J. Silvia State Beach on Seaview Ave.

What difficulties were encountered during the filming of jaws?

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There were a LOT of technical problems in the making of Jaws (1975). So many that the crew nicknamed the movie Flaws. The biggest problem was that the mechanical sharks kept breaking. Saltwater kept getting into the mechanisms.

Filming a movie at sea also posed many problems. Cameras were damaged by the water, other boats would zoom by during takes, and the set -- the boat called the Orca -- actually started sinking once, with all the actors on it!

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Is Jaws a really strong great white shark?

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The Real Answer To Your Question Is No. Jaws the shark off of the movie was a machine but it wasn't a great white the true thing it was is a bull shark. I know this cause when i was watching tv about sharks a Shark Study er Told me that

"The Shark off of the movie Jaws is not the Shark you think it is its actually a bull shark"

Did there become more killing of sharks after the movie jaws?

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The original Jaws used three mechanical sharks, which were all nicknamed Bruce (after Steven Spielberg's lawyer).

The only real shark footage in the original film is the scene where Matt Hooper is attacked in the underwater shark cage. That was filmed with a real shark, off the coast of Australia. They used a miniature cage with a dwarf ("little person") actor, to make the shark look gigantic.

I'm not sure how much, if any, real footage was used in the Jaws sequels. Although it is safe to say that the sequels mostly employed mechanical sharks, just like the original film did.

How do they kill the shark in all of the jaws movies?

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Jaws 2 was electrocuted at sea by Cheif Brody by fedding it the under water power line

Jaws three was blown up by a grenade lodged in its mouth

Jaws the revenge;

after embedding a device in the sharks skin it was blown up with electromagnet pulse

but I think the generator in the sharks mouth was stabbed, causing it to explode

jaws 1 chief brody put a air tang in the shark mouth then shot it and the shark blew up

Where can you get a license plate like the one in the movie jaws?

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Louisiana, the license plate number was "007-981."

Movie jaws based on a real story?

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In part, the Peter Benchley Novel was (based) on a historical White Shark attack in Matawan, New Jersey in 1916. That summer was unusually warm and drew more people into the water. There were several attacks in Matawan creek. The question is, was it a White shark or a bull shark? Matawan creek is fresh water. The bull shark is the only shark that can survive in fresh water. The term "rogue" was used in Jaws. Which means a lone shark feeding in a particular place until the food supply is gone. That was the case in Matawan. There haven't been any attacks since then. A shark was caught at the entrance to Matawan from the Atlantic with human remains inside, and it was a great white. Which to the scientific world doesn't make sence assuming it was the shark that swam up a freshwater creek. Until recently white sharks were rare in the new England area. There have been at least four that I know of tagged in the same area(Martha's Vineyard) that Jaws was filmed. The story of Jaws is not quite as far fetched as you would think. One of the thing's that is impossible is for a shark to explode by shooting a scuba tank in it's mouth. That I do know is impossible. White sharks ARE known to attack boats, cages, and people. They are dangerous! White shark attacks are way more in number on the coast of California vs. New England. I hope this answer helps.

What is the difference between the Jaws shark and real sharks?

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No, they used mechanical sharks. The only real shark footage is in the scene where Matt Hooper is in the underwater shark cage. That was filmed with a real great white shark, and a midget or dwarf stunt actor in a miniature cage, to make the shark look bigger.

Who are the dolphins in jaws 3?

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No. They are real. I train one of the dolphins that was used in it. His name is Capricorn an he resides at Discovery Cove in Orlando

How did the people look eaten in the movie Jaws?

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the first victim (chrissy) is briefly seen on screen after the attack. You can only make out her hand and some hair (no blood is shown). You can briefly see alex kintner being eaten but mostly you just see a fountain of blood in the distance. The movie shows the head of Ben Gardner, wich is missing an eye (no blood is shown). You can see the shark swimming up on the fisherman in the pond, and after that you see a severed leg under water. At the end you can see quint being eaten and this is rather graphic, a lot of blood coming from quints mouth.

Is there going to be another jaws movie?

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Nope, but there is a kind of new movie called The Shark Is Not Working- you can see it on wikipedia.

Why did jaws kill people?

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Here is how the shark eats its victims in the movie "Jaws":

Victim: Chrissie. The shark in "Jaws" first eats Chrissie by attacking her from below as she goes out for a night swim. It drags her around in the water for a while as she screams before pulling her below the surface to finish her off.

Victim: Alex Kintner. The shark swims up from below and bites into the boy while he's floating on a raft. Alex struggles in the water as he's getting eaten, with lots of blood bubbling up around him. Screaming, he is pulled below the surface and evidently devoured off-camera. According to the book, he was crushed and bitten in half, with his legs falling away and spinning toward the sea floor.

Victim: Guy in rowboat in estuary. The shark bumps the boat the man is sitting in, capsizing the boat and knocking him into the water. The shark swims up from below and drags him underwater. He is then shown from a distance struggling and screaming on the surface before we see the shark partially out of the water with its jaws open, about to eat the guy. It bites down and clamps its jaws on his torso and pulls him down. Blood bubbles up to the surface, and his severed leg is shown drifting to the bottom of the estuary as he evidently gets eaten below the surface out of view of the camera.

Victim: Ben Gardner. His attack is not shown. Underwater, his head pops out of a hole in his boat (with an eye missing) when Hooper explores the seemingly abandoned boat.

Victim: Quint. At the end of the movie, the shark launches out of the water and crashes down onto the back of the boat occupied by Quint and Brody. The back end sinks, increasing the angle, and Quint slides down toward the shark. He kicks frantically at the shark, which is gnashing its jaws, trying to get him in its mouth. It finally succeeds and bites down on his legs initially with a gnarly crunch. Its teeth are then shown stabbed into his stomach. With Quint's lower body inside the shark's mouth, the shark thrashes the screaming, struggling Quint from side to side and bites down on him a couple more times, with loud crunches, crushing bones and flesh as it's eating him. The last bite is hard enough that it causes Quint to spit up blood. With Quint's now-lifeless body almost bitten in half, the shark drags him below the surface to presumably devour him. Ragged bits of his clothing, flesh, and sinew are visible in the shark's teeth as the beast menaces Brody for the remainder of the movie.

What is the external conflicts in the jaws movie?

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the conflit that a big shark is eating people...

What is the name of the actress who gets killed in the beginning of the movie Jaws?

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Susan Backlinie plays the role of Christine "Chrissie" Watkins in the original 1975 Jaws film (Chrissie Watkins is the girl who gets killed at the beginning of the film).

What inspired Jaws to become a movie?

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The book came from... Peter Benchley (author of Jaws) saw a clipping form the New York Daily News Paper that reported a capture of a 4,550 pound great white and then said that in a lifetime almost everyone liked sharks or dinos and then the idea just started. To read more about that get the book Shark Life by Peter Benchley.

How big is the megalodon shark jaw?

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It was about 2.5 meters and 8 feet wide. Teeth were 15inches tall or bigger

What beach in Florida was jaws 3 filmed on?

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It was filmed at sea world Orlando

How tall is Jaws from the James Bond movie?

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Richard Kiel is 7 feet 1.5 inches (2.18 m) tall.

What type of shark was jaws?

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Jaws is A Really Big Megalodon In Jaws 1 Jaws 2 Jaws 3 Jaws:the Revenge And JAws 5 But That's Just a Movie. Megalodons were Extinct 1,0000 Years Ago So If That Were Real That Would Sink Becuause He Has Flippers Bigger Than Sharks.

Did Peter Benchley have a part in the movie Jaws?

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Peter Benchley wrote the #1 Best-Seller Jaws, which was a novel released in 1974. Spielberg wrote a script when Peter Benchley's screenplay didn't fit what he imagined the film version to be. Carl Gottlieb (the guy who plays Meadows) wrote the screenplay, with additional help from Howard Sackler.

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Peter Benchley wrote a book, Jaws, in 1973, and was commissioned to craft the screenplay for the movie in 1975, which Steven Spielberg directed, according to IMDb.

George Lucas was not involved with Jaws.