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🗓️ 4 July 2024
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Happy 4th July! In this week's monster-sized episode, Becky Darke joins Mike to discuss one of the most beloved animal-attack movies of all time...JAWS!
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0:00.0 | The The 1975 in the New England Beach Town of Amity Island, a group of young people are drinking and |
0:37.4 | partying on the beach. A young couple sneak off together to go and have a late night ocean swim. |
0:45.6 | Where are we going? Swimming. She takes all of her clothes off and dives into the water, |
0:51.6 | unaware that something else is lurking beneath the surface. |
0:57.0 | Soon enough, she's attacked, mauled and dragged back and forth by an unknown predator. |
1:07.0 | Something big, powerful and aggressive. While the premise of this 1975 Shark Attack movie Jaws is fairly simple, A great white shark starts attacking people and must be hunted and destroyed. |
1:26.7 | The making of this movie was anything but. A young up and coming filmmaker called Stephen Spielberg was given the job by |
1:34.4 | universal pictures of adapting Peter Benchley's hit novel, but ended up running |
1:39.8 | over three times over budget and 100 days over schedule. |
1:45.1 | Plaged with technical problems, |
1:47.2 | Jaws could have been a complete failure, |
1:50.3 | and Spielberg's career could have easily ended there and then. |
1:54.4 | But the film was finished and when it was finally released |
1:57.8 | audiences couldn't get enough. |
2:01.2 | From a budget of $9 million, it went on to make over $470 million domestically, |
2:10.4 | making it one of the biggest grossing movies of all time and basically creating the summer blockbuster. |
2:16.5 | Spielberg proved himself to be one of the most talented filmmakers in the world after overcoming |
2:21.6 | so many technical hurdles and somehow still managing to create |
2:25.5 | something truly special, a movie that perfectly straddles the tropes of swashbuckling |
2:31.2 | adventure movies for all the family with monster movie horror, a movie |
2:36.0 | that worked so perfectly as a popcorn thrill ride, but one that scared audiences so much that even to this day nearly 50 years on people |
2:47.0 | around the world are scared to go into the ocean as a result of this movie. Join me as we continue |
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