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Loading... The Jaws Log: Expanded Edition (Shooting Script)by Carl Gottlieb
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. First published in 1975 and updated periodically, this is the "Expanded Edition" from 2012. It's a behind-the-scenes making of what would be the first ever Summer blockbuster movie. Gottlieb was one of the screenwriters of "Jaws" and he played the part of the newspaper editor, Meadows, the guy in the loud jackets who gets all the men to pose with the dead shark on the pier (he had more scenes originally but actually cut most of them himself to tighten the story). Working from his notes that he kept during pre-production and filming, he explains how the cast was found and how the location, a sleepy vacation town called Martha's Vineyard, was selected and all the problems they had with local government and sometimes, the locals. He discusses the now well-known problems with the mechanical shark and how young director Steven Spielberg had to shoot around it, and he discusses one of the most debated bits of movie dialogue ever, Quint's "Indianapolis speech", which Gottlieb credits to actor Robert Shaw, who took all the various versions by different writers and re-wrote it to be what was filmed. For a "Jaws" fan like me, there was still some new information, such as I knew the dead shark on the pier was real, but didn't know that it, and several others, were killed for the scene. The updates over the years are mostly in the Notes, with Gottlieb adding in new or contradictory information from others on the set, and "where are they now" updates on cast and crew. no reviews | add a review
Winner of three Oscars and the highest-grossing film of its time, Jaws was a phenomenon, and this is the only book on how twenty-six-year-old Steven Spielberg transformed Peter Benchley's number-one bestselling novel into the classic film it became. Hired by Spielberg as a screenwriter to work with him on the set while the movie was being made, Carl Gottlieb, an actor and writer, was there throughout the production that starred Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss. After filming was over, with Spielberg's cooperation, Gottlieb chronicled the extraordinary yearlong adventure in The Jaws Log, which was first published in 1975 and has sold more than two million copies. This expanded edition includes a photo section, an introduction by Benchley, and an afterword by Gottlieb that gives updates about the people and events involved in the film, ultimately providing a singular portrait of a famous movie and inspired moviemaking. No library descriptions found. |
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