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and attracted 57 percent of the total audience, the second-highest televised movie audience at the time behind Gone with the Wind and the fourth-highest rated. As Spielberg put it years later, "The film went from a Japanese Saturday matinee horror flick to more of a Hitchcock, the less-you-see-the-more-you-get thriller. Peter Benchley pictured in 2000 outside the shark tank at the London Aquarium during the launch of a WildAid campaign to protect the world's sharks. The former was epitomized by his insistence on shooting at sea with a life-sized shark; "I could have shot the movie in the tank or even in a protected lake somewhere, but it would not have looked the same," he said.

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The Blu-ray release was part of the celebrations of Universal's 100th anniversary, and debuted at fourth place in the charts, with over 362,000 units sold. Halliwell's Film Guide stated that "despite genuinely suspenseful and frightening sequences, it is a slackly narrated and sometimes flatly handled thriller with an over-abundance of dialogue and, when it finally appears, a pretty unconvincing monster. The book, free from such restrictive props, sketched out its antagonist rather quicker – but it’s still often referred to simply as ‘the fish. Jaws 3-D (1983) does not feature any of the original actors, although it was directed by Joe Alves, who had served as art director and production designer, respectively, on the two preceding films. He suggests that the experience of the film is "inconceivable" without the mass audience's jubilation when the shark is annihilated, signifying the obliteration of evil itself.

It was also nominated for Best Film, Director, Actor (Richard Dreyfuss), Screenplay, Editing and Sound at the 29th British Academy Film Awards, [181] and Best Motion Picture–Drama, Director and Screenplay at the 33rd Golden Globe Awards. There is also an animatronic version of a scene from the film on the Studio Tour at Universal Studios Hollywood. The Ibsen work features a doctor who discovers that a seaside town's medicinal hot springs, a major tourist attraction and revenue source, are contaminated. The film has inspired two theme park rides: one at Universal Studios Florida, [255] which closed in January 2012, [256] and one at Universal Studios Japan. Through a marketing campaign orchestrated by Doubleday and paperback publisher Bantam, Jaws was incorporated into many book sales clubs catalogues and attracted media interest.

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After the medical examiner concludes it was a shark attack, newly hired police chief Martin Brody closes the beaches; Mayor Larry Vaughn persuades him to reconsider, fearing the town's summer economy will suffer.The film brought an emphatic end to Hollywood's five-year recession, while ushering in an era of high-cost, high-tech, high-speed thrillers. The main "shark" theme, a simple alternating pattern of two notes—variously identified as "E and F" [77] or "F and F sharp" [78]—became a classic piece of suspense music, synonymous with approaching danger [79] (see leading-tone). In 2017, video game developer Zen Studios developed and released a virtual pinball adaptation of the film as part of the Universal Classics add-on pack for the virtual pinball game Pinball FX 3. Jaws was key in establishing the benefits of a wide national release backed by heavy television advertising, rather than the traditional progressive release in which a film slowly entered new markets and built support over time. Among the various foreign mockbusters based on Jaws, three came from Italy: Great White, [224] which inspired a plagiarism lawsuit by Universal and was even marketed in some countries as a part of the Jaws franchise; [225] Monster Shark, [224] featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000 under the title Devil Fish; [226] and Deep Blood, which blends in a supernatural element.

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Seiniger ultimately decided that "you had to actually go underneath the shark so you could see his teeth.Many films based on man-eating animals, usually aquatic, were released through the 1970s and 1980s, such as Orca, Grizzly, Mako: The Jaws of Death, Barracuda, Alligator, Day of the Animals, Tintorera, and Eaten Alive. The seas off our shores are aprowl with many killers,’ it read, before adding assurance that you weren't even safe from sharks in fresh water, that even brushing up against a shark is likely to wound you and that a shark is quite capable of sinking a boat.