Jackson stars in Deep Blue Sea alongside Michael Rapaport and LL Cool J. Some of the women die, some return home unscathed, and only one of the two men will survive, albeit with one arm missing. Together they chase-and share-tourist women as they also hunt for a tiger shark, a breed which is smaller but much more persistent than the great white, that is savaging swimmers and destroying the local economy. Miguel (Andres Garcia) is a handsome lifeguard who lives at the village. Steven (Hugo Stiglitz) is an American-born businessman who visits a small Mexican fishing resort. Tintorera: Killer Shark (1977) A Mexican lifeguard (left) and an American businessman (right) chase women and hunt sharks in a tiny Mexican resort village. It grossed nearly $500 million on a budget of $9 million. Jaws, a cautionary tale of the clash between civilization and the untamed wild, had a tremendous impact on the culture and made people afraid to go near the water for decades after its release. As the shark begins picking off swimmers and growing more emboldened, Brody teams with a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a crusty-but-tough fisherman (Robert Shaw) in a quest to slay the massive beast.
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Best Shark Movies Jaws (1975) The animatronic shark used during the making of Jaws was notoriously difficult (and at times dangerous) to use.īased on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley-which was inspired by a series of real-life shark attacks in New Jersey in 1916- Jaws follows small-town Sheriff Martin Brody (Roy Scheider), who already fears the water, as he tries to protect his town against a killer great white and a mayor who cares more about tourism dollars than he does about safety. Here is a list of Jaws and several other shark movies that manage to turn living terror into cinematic horror. Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film Jaws set the bar for shark attack movies and inaugurated the era of the “summer blockbuster.” It has never been matched for its cultural impact and ability to induce terror in moviegoers. The shark from Tintorera: Killer Shark, an animal horror film from the 1970s.Īlthough industrialized fishing means that humans kill far more sharks than the inverse every year, whenever a shark attacks a human, it becomes a huge news story that conjures that ancient fear of an underwater conflict where we are at the mercy of killing machines, a bloody battle that we are not equipped to win. If one believes that memories can be transmitted genetically, we also carry within us a distant dread of the morbid memories of those giant sharp-toothed predators that stalked and killed us in the dark, murky, salty water. If one ascribes to the theory of evolution, we all came from the water eons ago. It gave us an idea of the awesome power of these creatures and how careful we had to be in terms of the cast and crew being close to them, and how the computer program had to have failsafe procedures so nobody got hurt.Although three-quarters of the planet’s surface is covered by water, the ocean might as well be another planet for all that we’re equipped to survive down there. All these 2x4s flying away like matchsticks.
The gills moved and it had a mind of its own sometimes." Renny Harlin recounted "one shark was sitting in McAlester's room, and just as we were getting the computer programming finished, all of a sudden it leapt up and went through the ceiling. I would walk up to it slowly and touch it, and they said it felt like a real shark.
Jackson recalled "when they first brought the animatronic shark into the lab we were all in awe of the size of this machine. They built four and a half sharks: three fifteen-foot Makos, which played the first gen sharks and one and a half generation-two sharks, which represented that first generations twenty-six-foot-long progeny, the effect was quite realistic: Stellan Skarsgård remarked "The first time I saw one of those animatronic sharks I thought it was a real one." Samuel L.
The remote controlled machines had one thousand horsepower engines, weighed eight thousand pounds, and swam on their own without the use of external wires or apparatus, up to thirty miles per hour. The filmmakers watched videos of real Makos swimming frame by frame then borrowed equipment and technology that's typically used in Boeing 747s and built the sharks as self-contained units.
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