Tuesday, June 23, 2015

"Jaws" Turns 40-- Part 2: No "Moby-Dick"

4.  Numerous story lines offered the movie by Peter Benchley were turned down.

5.  Steven Spielberg wrote his own draft.  He had Quint in an Amity movie theater, at the beginning of the movie,watching the 1956 movie "Moby-Dick."  He starts laughing loudly and people leave.  He is then all alone.

6.  Spielberg approached Gregory Peck, the star of "Moby-Dick" and also that movie's producer for permission to use the clip at the beginning of his movie but was turned down.  After "Jaws'" success, Peck's film was rereleased in 1975 with the tagline "Before the shark, there was the whale."

The Great White Whale.  --Cooter

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