Jaws over 50: Spielberg reflects on his troubled production

Steven Spielberg Filmed about his disastrous experience jaw As The movie has changed by 50 On Friday, June 20.

“When the movie wrapped Martha’s vineyard, I suffered a full-blown panic attack,” Spielberg, 78, recalled. Chin @ 50: The Final Internal Story. “I can’t breathe, I thought I was having a heart attack. I can’t breathe enough. I kept going to the bathroom and splashing water on my face. I was shaking.”

The three-time Oscar-winning filmmaker made his own commercial breakthrough in the 1975 thriller of terrifying sharks on a human shark, the quiet beach community of Amit Island. jaw Ultimately, the box office made more than $470 million, but lagged 100 days behind given that Spielberg’s lockdown was far from being over budget. Weekly entertainment.

Spielberg recalls the “really difficult times” he went through when filming the new National Geagraphic documentary. The early obstacle is jaw“None of the three fiberglass mechanical sharks were working at the beginning of the filming, so Spielberg decided not to show the sharks on the screen until later in the film, thus buying more time.

Technical and personal issues rooted throughout the five-month filming, including actors Robert ShawDrinking heavily occasionally prevents him from shooting certain scenes as planned. Spielberg had to deal with constant technical delays because he was actually filmed in the ocean along the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, not in the Hollywood studio.

“We’re on the real ocean, we’ve been away for five months,” Spielberg recalls. Chin @ 50. “Literally, we all start to get out of the depths.”

He continued: “I was afraid I was going to be fired, but I never felt like I wanted to quit.”

Spielberg reveals Chin @ 50 He will call his mother during a very stressful moment Leah Adlerspeak over the phone. (Adler died in February 2017 at the age of 97.)

“‘Mom, it’s really impossible. Ask for help.'” he recalled, an emotional call.

When Spielberg finishes shooting jawHe said he is experiencing physical and emotional symptoms that are now associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

“[I’d wake up with] He pointed out in the documentary. “At that time we didn’t have ‘PTSD’ words, I always had the nightmare of guidance jaw Over the years. I’m still on the movie, and this movie will never end. ”

Years after production jawSpielberg will visit his ship (called orcas) from the movie in the context of Universal Studios and make sure no one is watching and he will cry uncontrollably.

“I have nothing to say,” he admitted. “This movie is a phenomenon, and I sat here and shed tears because I couldn’t strip my experience. The ship helped me start to forget. [ship] I’ve been my therapy partner after a few years jaw Come out. ”

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Spielberg is certainly still plagued by some aspects of stress jaw Shooting, although he said he is now able to enjoy the “wonderful” success of his films in his 50th anniversary.

“I think the movie that will end career is the movie that starts,” he admitted Chin @ 50.

jaw It is one of the blockbusters defined in the 1970s. It’s the highest-grossing movie ever, and then stripped of it Star Wars In 1977, except for the A-level film school in the United StatesFI’s 100 Years…100 Movies Countdown to 2007. Selected Library of Congress jaw Preserved in the National Film Registration Office in 2001 and highly acclaimed director Quentin Tarantino have Called jaw “The greatest movie ever.”

Chin @ 50: The Final Internal Story Thursday, July 10, made its debut on National Geographic at 9 p.m. ET before making its debut on Hulu and Disney+ the next day.