Episode 43: Jaws 🦈

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

The LFTS team discusses how Brody, Hooper, and Quint make the perfect team, Jaws's grueling production process, and why constraints and delays on a movie can sometimes be a blessing in disguise.

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LFTS video on Jaws: https://youtu.be/ZzMwYb8Z5hA

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.
0:08.7	Today we are talking about Jaws, the 1975 film screenplay by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb,
0:15.6	based on the novel, Jaws by Peter Benchley, directed of course by Steven Spielberg. I'm joined by the Lessons from the Screenplay Team, Tricia Arand.
0:24.2	Hello, everyone.
0:25.1	Brian Bittner.
0:26.0	Hello.
0:27.1	And Alex Galleros.
0:28.8	Hi.
0:29.5	So the story of doing this film and this video as a long history because, you know,
0:37.1	Jaws is one of my favorite films and I've
0:38.6	been trying to get these guys to do a video about Jaws for forever.
0:43.0	Lies.
0:45.0	But no, so in truth, people have been pushing me to do a video on Jaws, particularly Trisha has
0:50.3	been vocal about Jaws.
0:52.1	So Tricia, why did you want to talk about Jaws? Jaws is fascinating.
0:57.3	It's one of my favorite movies of all time. And it is one of those situations where, you know,
1:03.5	the production was notoriously bad. It went very badly. And yet it came together to be an incredible landmark, just awesome film
1:14.2	that really holds up on rewatch. And the script, as it turned out, I mean, they didn't have
1:20.4	a proper script or like not a good script when they started shooting. But because they went so long
1:25.2	in the schedule, they ended up coming up with like a
1:27.7	pretty great script. And I thought it was an amazing example of how a team works together or
1:34.0	doesn't work together and how that contributes to like, basically creates the twists and turns
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