"Bad weather, fickle tides and malfunctioning mechanical sharks plagued Spielberg and his crew and sent the film spiraling over budget and months over schedule. Now you can experience just how hard it was to bring Jaws to the big screen with a new exhibit at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, full of iconic props (the shattered shark cage!), script pages with Spielberg's handwritten notes and even a scale replica of the mechanical shark that visitors can operate themselves."
"At the center of the exhibit sits a recreation of the film's doomed fishing boat, the Orca, and the red leather booth where, after dinner, stars Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw hiked their legs onto the table to compare scars. Imagine my surprise when Spielberg himself sits down in the booth beside me and playfully hikes his leg onto the table."
"Who could forget? Fifty years after Jaws, Spielberg is arguably the country's most important living filmmaker a national treasure but the exhibit makes clear: Jaws nearly devoured his young career much as the shark eats a swimmer in the film's famous opening. I ask Spielberg how it feels to walk through the exhibit and see so many reminders of the shoot that he has previously likened to "living out my worst nightmare.""
Fifty years after Jaws, a major exhibit at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures highlights the film's legacy with iconic props, script pages containing Spielberg's handwritten notes, and an operable scale replica of the mechanical shark. The exhibit includes a recreation of the Orca and the red leather booth where cast members compared scars. Production suffered from bad weather, fickle tides and malfunctioning mechanical sharks, driving the shoot far over budget and schedule; planned 55 days of filming stretched into 159. Spielberg calls the experience "living out my worst nightmare" and describes the exhibit as "total therapy."
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