Post by obliv326 on Jul 6, 2006 3:07:54 GMT -5
www.sharkisstillworking.com/
so you don't have to look it up completely in the dark, it is a doc about the making of jaws. from the website:
This feature length documentary will spotlight Jaws fans (or “finatics” as we like to call them), and explore their passion for the film. It will travel back to Martha’s Vineyard, where it all started, to celebrate the film’s thirtieth anniversary at Jawsfest, showcasing the first official gathering of Jaws fans from around the globe. The documentary will highlight numerous Jaws-related spoofs and homages seen in subsequent movies and television programs. Interviews with many of the cast and crew of Jaws, as well as celebrities whose careers have been influenced by the film, will give the viewer some insight as to why this groundbreaking monster movie has earned a well-deserved place among the greatest classics Hollywood has ever produced.
now, unless youre one of the couple people on this site who know me personally, i love JAWS. i have seen it well over 200 times...there are people who can confirm this. timid wily lava child, in fact, is sigificantly to blame...he bought me my first copy...a used beta copy (my parents were taken in by a salesman trying to unload a beta...they also bought a car with a diesel engine and a texas instruments computer. please dont take stock tips from my parents, whatever you do). that cold Indiana winter, I would often stay up late, ostensibly studying (i was a college freshman at the time. 2nd semester), and i would pop in my copy of JAWS and watch it, often becoming distracted from what i was supposed to be doing, and watch it. it could be that i am simply easily distracted and possess a fishlike short term memory, but i tend to pin some of the blame on the film's genius. as a budding filmmaker,k i was able to watc h it as a technical achievement. as a writer, i was able to respect its simple but effective c haracter development and template perfect 3 act structure...and as a dorky teen, i just likedf watching a shark eat stuff. cool. often, once i watched it at night, i would rewind it and watch iit again. it was an indulgence i had not been allowed...my parents had some silly rule where you werent allowed to watch something youd seen for a month...defeating a lot of the ideas of critical viewing, but thats the kind of pointless, facsistic rule parents had back then...
anyway, i say 200, but that was back when i regularly watched it, and had some idea that statements like watching a movie 200 times might impress someone, instead of making you look like a loser w/no life. fact is, i passed 200 over a decade ago. i still watch it a few times a year, but with my movie colecction sognificantly larger now (back then, i owned 2 movies...JAWS and dawn of the dead. if i watched one movie oover and over to the exclusion of the rest, my wife would most likely make me sell off everything...so i dont...BUT i CAN still recite the movie fro the beginning (another talent that probably does not have the impressive quality i thought it would...)
anyway, if you havent seen any of the supplemental material on the JAWS dvds, the making of the film is one of the great hollywood stories...fighting elements, stiduos, and a notably difficult mechanical shark, a youthful Spielberg went over time, budget, and damn near lost his sanity, not to mention his budding career, in the water off martha's vineyard. its a great story, and the "making of..." dedicated to the film is riveting.
apparently, this film is a fan's attempt to get a new perspective on the story, and, given the story involved, i cant see how it wont be at least fun. granted, there is already a great, feature length documentary about jaws, but the makes are quite aware, and i hope they get to some further depth (no pun intended) on this story. there is probably some fertile ground here, and im looking fwd to it.
anyone who loves JAWS that much at least has some taste!
anyway, has anyone else heard much about this film? i dont remember how i found it (i was tangent surfing a few hours ago, and some link dropped me off there) but to be honest, i think a narrative, non-documentary film to be made about it...
opinions?
so you don't have to look it up completely in the dark, it is a doc about the making of jaws. from the website:
This feature length documentary will spotlight Jaws fans (or “finatics” as we like to call them), and explore their passion for the film. It will travel back to Martha’s Vineyard, where it all started, to celebrate the film’s thirtieth anniversary at Jawsfest, showcasing the first official gathering of Jaws fans from around the globe. The documentary will highlight numerous Jaws-related spoofs and homages seen in subsequent movies and television programs. Interviews with many of the cast and crew of Jaws, as well as celebrities whose careers have been influenced by the film, will give the viewer some insight as to why this groundbreaking monster movie has earned a well-deserved place among the greatest classics Hollywood has ever produced.
now, unless youre one of the couple people on this site who know me personally, i love JAWS. i have seen it well over 200 times...there are people who can confirm this. timid wily lava child, in fact, is sigificantly to blame...he bought me my first copy...a used beta copy (my parents were taken in by a salesman trying to unload a beta...they also bought a car with a diesel engine and a texas instruments computer. please dont take stock tips from my parents, whatever you do). that cold Indiana winter, I would often stay up late, ostensibly studying (i was a college freshman at the time. 2nd semester), and i would pop in my copy of JAWS and watch it, often becoming distracted from what i was supposed to be doing, and watch it. it could be that i am simply easily distracted and possess a fishlike short term memory, but i tend to pin some of the blame on the film's genius. as a budding filmmaker,k i was able to watc h it as a technical achievement. as a writer, i was able to respect its simple but effective c haracter development and template perfect 3 act structure...and as a dorky teen, i just likedf watching a shark eat stuff. cool. often, once i watched it at night, i would rewind it and watch iit again. it was an indulgence i had not been allowed...my parents had some silly rule where you werent allowed to watch something youd seen for a month...defeating a lot of the ideas of critical viewing, but thats the kind of pointless, facsistic rule parents had back then...
anyway, i say 200, but that was back when i regularly watched it, and had some idea that statements like watching a movie 200 times might impress someone, instead of making you look like a loser w/no life. fact is, i passed 200 over a decade ago. i still watch it a few times a year, but with my movie colecction sognificantly larger now (back then, i owned 2 movies...JAWS and dawn of the dead. if i watched one movie oover and over to the exclusion of the rest, my wife would most likely make me sell off everything...so i dont...BUT i CAN still recite the movie fro the beginning (another talent that probably does not have the impressive quality i thought it would...)
anyway, if you havent seen any of the supplemental material on the JAWS dvds, the making of the film is one of the great hollywood stories...fighting elements, stiduos, and a notably difficult mechanical shark, a youthful Spielberg went over time, budget, and damn near lost his sanity, not to mention his budding career, in the water off martha's vineyard. its a great story, and the "making of..." dedicated to the film is riveting.
apparently, this film is a fan's attempt to get a new perspective on the story, and, given the story involved, i cant see how it wont be at least fun. granted, there is already a great, feature length documentary about jaws, but the makes are quite aware, and i hope they get to some further depth (no pun intended) on this story. there is probably some fertile ground here, and im looking fwd to it.
anyone who loves JAWS that much at least has some taste!
anyway, has anyone else heard much about this film? i dont remember how i found it (i was tangent surfing a few hours ago, and some link dropped me off there) but to be honest, i think a narrative, non-documentary film to be made about it...
opinions?
