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Bianca Mastroianni
Strap in, folks. Your favourite gory-thriller Jaws is coming to Netflix Australia next month. Although I'm assuming you've all seen the horror flick, here's a brief synopsis for all you millennials out there!
"When a young woman is killed by a shark while skinny-dipping near the New England tourist town of Amity Island, police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) wants to close the beaches, but mayor Larry Vaughn (Murray Hamilton) overrules him, fearing that the loss of tourist revenue will cripple the town. Ichthyologist Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) and grizzled ship captain Quint (Robert Shaw) offer to help Brody capture the killer beast, and the trio engage in an epic battle of man vs. nature."
As we wait for Steven Spielberg's horror masterpiece to drop on the streaming service, here are a few facts about the flick you might not have known!
WATCH: The original Jaws trailer from 1975 still gives us chills...
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1. The author of the novel Jaws, Peter Benchley, makes a cameo in the movie!
Author of 'Jaws', Peter Benchley playing a reporter in the film.
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2. Actress Susan Backlinie’s terrified reaction in the opening scene was GENUINE as she had no idea it was crew members jolting her around.
This was because Spielberg instructed them not to tell her what they were doing. The end result was pretty fantastic:
Susan Backlinie was hardly acting in this scene. It was all real.
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3. Some real shark footage was used in Jaws. Producer Richard Zanuck demanded that real footage was to be used in the film. He and Spielberg hired experts Ron and Valerie Taylor to shoot underwater footage of 14-foot sharks off the coast of Australia.
4. As famous as the poster is now, it came about by chance!
Designed by artist Roger Kastel for the paperback edition of Benchley’s novel, he used a great white shark diorama at the American Museum of Natural History for the emerging beast at the bottom... but the swimming woman at the top was a sketch at his studio for an ad in Good Housekeeping.
Kastel asked the model to stay back for an extra half hour, having her pose on a stool pretending to swim for this poster.
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5. The movie cemented its place in cinematic history as it was the first movie to gross over $100 million at the box office.