We’ve all seen it, and if we haven’t seen it, we’re aware of it. That’s the power of influential movies. We all remember Spielberg’s use of the dolly zoom, Roy Scheider’s look of terror and dread, and the sound of people screaming…and little Alex being pulled from his yellow lilo in a great splash of water and a cloud of red blood. And of someone shouting “shark!”
“Jaws” (1975) changed our view of cinema, of movies, of storytelling.
Seemingly, it didn’t influence us enough, I realised in 2020.
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