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Christmas.

Better with Pepsi Max. Back in 1975, in 1975, Director Steven Spielberg made people afraid to go into the water. This wasn't just some marketing

statement either. After the movie Jaws was released there were reports from

all across the country a people who claimed to be afraid to go swimming, even in public pools, lakes, and streams.

Not to mention the people who shied away from the coastal beaches where people at a reel, albeit tiny chance of encountering a shark.

Back in 1971, writer Peter Benchley was a struggling freelance journalist.

When he began writing a novel about a seaside community terrorized by a killer shark.

In 1964, eventually read about the exploits of a shark fisherman named Frank Mundus.

After shopping around some non-fiction pieces,

Double Day Publishing hired him to write a fictional work about a great white shark.

Benchley and the publisher originally at a difficult time choosing a title.

Many of Benchley's working titles which he himself calls pretentious

were things like the stillness of the water and Leviathan Rising. Other ideas were presented to

him that the book be titled The Jaws of Death and The Jaws of the Leviathan.

Both of which Benchley thought were too over melodramatic.

The book didn't actually get an official title until about 20 minutes before it was supposed to go into production.

When everyone more or less threw up their hands and said, okay, let's just call us something short that fits on the dust jacket,

and that's how it came to be called Jaws.

The novel became a big bestseller,

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