Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss Jaws. A hungry shark gets fed by swimmers in the beach.

Based on the hit novel by Peter Benchley, Jaws was Steven Spielberg's breakout hit as a film director. Working off a screenplay by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb, Jaws is crafted more as a straight thriller than the somewhat lurid soap opera mechanics of the original novel. A dodgy mechanical shark resulted in not as much shark footage being shown in the film as was originally planned. This turned out to be a "happy accident" because it heightens the intensity in the mind of the viewer imagining what's happening instead of seeing the shark munch on every little thing it sees. Robert Shaw is especially good as the bitter World War II veteran Quint. Jaws is a cinema classic that still holds up, the very definition of a "must see" film.  

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