"Steven Spielberg was musing about what it felt like while making his 1975 oceanic classic, and how little he thought any of it would matter when shooting the now-legendary opening scene of a woman night-swimming past an ocean buoy. His primary concern was keeping his job as a 26-year-old director amid unfolding disasters. "How did anybody know to take the buoy and take it home and sit on it for 50 years?" he said."
"That prop is among the first things visitors will see as they enter a 50th anniversary "Jaws" exhibit opening Sunday and running through July at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. The exhibition featuring more than 200 pieces from the culture-changing blockbuster is the first full show in the four-year history of the museum that is dedicated to a single film. It comes amid a bevy of celebrations of the film's five-decade life, including a theatrical re-release last week."
A 50th-anniversary Jaws exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures runs through July and presents more than 200 artifacts from the 1975 film. The exhibit guides visitors chronologically through the movie’s three acts with relics or recreations from nearly every scene. The only surviving full-scale mechanical shark, 25 feet long and nicknamed "Bruce," has hung over the museum escalators since the museum opened in 2021. The show is the museum’s first full exhibition devoted to a single film, coincides with a theatrical re-release, and the museum plans a full Spielberg retrospective in 2028. Spielberg expressed pride in the assembled minutiae.
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