For the Love of Jaws

So I’ve been doing research on the making of the movie Jaws for a school project and I am in heaven. It’s supposed to be a 7 minute speech, and my first go about was almost 15 minutes long. Whoops. It’s not my fault that the movie is so damn fascinating. The movie is so amazing for it’s visual effects and use of use of “negative space”, if there is such a thing in story telling. It’s how the shark wasn’t seen sometimes that made it so scary. The shark was such an awesome, albeit problematic, animatronic. “Bruce” was it’s name, and this hunk of plastic stole my heart as a child and never gave it back. I think, though, that I can add Steven Spielberg to my strange crush list along-side Steve Martin. I love a creative mind.