***During a beautiful summer evening on the beaches of the fictional town of Amity, a young woman throws off her clothing and skinny-dips in the ocean.
She swims for a moment until she feels something in the water. The poor girl is pulled under water and dragged along by an unseen entity, setting the stage for Steven Spielberg’s 1975 feature film, “Jaws.” The film didn’t just make people afraid to go into the water, it became the first blockbuster and revolutionized the way audiences see movies.
It was the first film to be marketed nationwide via television and boasted long lines at movie theaters. But audiences today often forget that the film – which was nominated for Best Picture, established the summer movie season, and spawned three sequels – was adapted from a novel that is equally deserving of attention and celebration.Author Peter Benchley based “Jaws” on what he knew, having grown up fishing with his father off Nantucket.
He wanted to write a novel about a shark that enters a resort community and not only how it was destroyed but how, in turn, it destroyed the town whose waters it inhabited.
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