On today's podcast adventure, Adolfo and Mark are going to need a bigger boat as they go back into the water for Steven Spielberg's classic blockbuster JAWS. On today's show they discuss:
• How did they first experience Jaws

• The perfect blockbuster film

• The Universal Studios Jaws Ride

• Richard D. Zanuck’s sweet mustache

• Steven Spielberg getting shut out for Best Director

• The iconic John Williams score and how it trained the audience to expect the shark

• The perfect use of jump scares

• The difference between PG in 1975 and PG in 2016

• How an unseen monster is more terrifying

• The greatest movie poster ever created

• How Peter Benchley didn’t think anyone could make the film

• The magic of movies in the 70s and 80s

• The film’s major production problems and why they were serendipitous
• Why Spielberg always skips the last day of shooting on every movie he does

• What parts were Lee Marvin, Robert Duvall and Sterling Hayden considered for?

• The Jaws tourism industry

• Bryan Singer’s connection to Jaws

• Perfect foreshadowing in the script

• A discussion on Mondo Posters

• Quint’s iconic entrance into the film

• “A Whaaaaat?”

• The real life fisherman Quint was based on

• Two different genre mash-ups: Horror and Adventure

• Why did Mark watch BASIC INSTINCT 2?

• How the most famous line in the film was improved

• How a little person helped film the real shark footage

• The story behind the Indianapolis speech
Quint’s manly death

• Spielberg’s brashness in thinking he could take this on as such an inexperienced director

• The unprecedented marketing campaign

• How Jaws started the summer blockbuster tradition

• The difference between “So Bad it’s Good” and just plain bad movies

• JAWS: The Video Game!

As always, we go off on tangents on:
•
VERTIGO (1958)

• DUEL (1971)

• THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS (1974)

• STAR WARS (1977)

• JAWS 2 (1978)

• PIRANHA (1978)

• 1941 (1979)

• CADDYSHACK (1980)

• JAWS 3D (1983)

• A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984)

• JAWS THE REVENGE (1987)

• LETHAL WEAPON (1987)

• BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II (1989)

• TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (1991)

• BRAVEHEART (1995)

• THE MAKING OF ‘JAWS’ (1995)

• INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996)

• CHASING AMY (1997)

• THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK (1997)

• STAR WARS: EPISODE I - THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999)

• THE FAST AND FURIOUS Franchise (2001-Present)

• JOYRIDE (2001)

• THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001)

• SHARKNADO (2013)

• MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015)

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https://mondotees.com/collections/archive/products/jaws-var-poster
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http://www.slashfilm.com/ape-meets-girl-jaws-posters/

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