Sinyard calls the film a "deft combination of Watergate and Ibsen's play". [154] Jaws has also sold 13 million tickets in Brazil, the second-highest attendance ever in the country behind Titanic. [19], While the deal was initially for a "one-week dialogue polish", Gottlieb eventually became the primary screenwriter, rewriting the entire script during a nine-week period of principal photography. Jaws is the king of all shark movies, but the subgenre hasn’t lost its capacity to surprise. It is a tightly written, tautly paced study," which "forged and touched a metaphor that still makes us tingle whenever we enter the water. "[23], The underwater scenes shot from the shark's point of view have been compared with passages in two 1950s horror films, Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Monster That Challenged the World. The medical examiner's conclusion that the death was due to a shark attack leads police chief Martin Brody to close the beaches. Most is taken from horror, with the core of a nature-based monster movie while adding elements of a slasher film. [95] Yet Heath moves beyond ideological content analysis to examine Jaws as a signal example of the film as "industrial product" that sells on the basis of "the pleasure of cinema, thus yielding the perpetuation of the industry (which is why part of the meaning of Jaws is to be the most profitable movie)". While Brody lays down a chum line, Quint waits for an opportunity to hook the shark. [5] At the suggestion of Spielberg, Brody's characterization made him afraid of water, "coming from an urban jungle to find something more terrifying off this placid island near Massachusetts. [130] Overseas distribution followed the same pattern, with intensive television campaigns and wide releases — in Great Britain, for instance, Jaws opened in December at more than 100 theaters. [117][118] A third and final preview screening, of a cut incorporating changes inspired by the previous presentations, was held in Hollywood on April 24. If you’re planning a circuit with #6 AWG wire size, it can safely carry 80 amps outside the engine room, but only 46.4 amps in the hotter engine room environment. [147][148], Across all of its releases Jaws has grossed $472 million worldwide;[149] adjusted for inflation, it has earned almost $2 billion at 2011 prices and is the second-most successful franchise film after Star Wars. [215][216] 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. Benchley disliked the idea, saying, "I don't care about sequels; who'll ever want to make a sequel to a movie about a fish?" Williams described the theme as "grinding away at you, just as a shark would do, instinctual, relentless, unstoppable. With the connivance of Harry Meadows, the editor of the local newspaper, they hush up the attack. and experiencing convulsions. [6] The sharks were designed by art director Joe Alves during the third quarter of 1973. From the first water test onward, the "non-absorbent" neoprene foam that made up the sharks' skin soaked up liquid, causing the sharks to balloon, and the sea-sled model frequently got entangled among forests of seaweed. [35] Among the major changes were the removal of the adulterous affair between Ellen Brody and Matt Hooper and Mayor Larry Vaughn's connections to the mafia. [24] A 10-part abridged adaptation read by Henry Goodman was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018 as part of their Book at Bedtime program. [156] The first U.S. broadcast received a Nielsen rating of 39.1 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.