The film was based on the Suspense novel from 1974 by journalist Peter Benchley, who made a short cameo in the film as a news reporter.
Despite the success of the book and the film, Benchley said he was regretted by writing such a sensational story about sharks. He thought his words encouraged excessive fear of the animals, and before his death in 2006 he became a vocal advocate for marine conservation.
Filmed on location on the island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, Jaw Was the first major function that scenes had taken in the ocean – which cost more than $ 3.5 million budget to cost the studio a stunning $ 8 million.
But all those extra mussels were not in the end not such a bad deal-the total cash register of the film was more than $ 470 million!
Director Steven Spielberg had the nickname of the three mechanical sharks of the film Bruce – after his lawyer, Bruce Ramer – but when they stayed broken, some dissatisfied crew members started calling the film Defects.
As an addition to the money misery of production, the broken animals each cost $ 250,000.
Because of the repeated failure of the robothaves, Spielberg cut off the time of the shark screen and instead used the ominous music of John Williams to follow the approaching arrival of the fierce man-eater.
In fact, the shark is not fully seen for an hour and 21 minutes in the two -hour film.