Jaws is the ultimate film of as book: a lot better!!!!
I read an interesting interview with Sydney Pollack a a while back. He said he preferred to buy the rights to bad books with great ideas. Thus he could use the great idea and turn it into a film. The rights are cheap and the author's no bother since his book was lousy anyway. He said that a good book is difficult to make into a movie, since it is so good AS a book. Umberto Eco also said something about that when Jean-Jacques Annaud made Name of the Rose, he said that he didn't want to butt in in the moviemaking because "a film is a film and a book is a book".
I don't think planet of the apes is gonna be another series of movies, finti, just one. Or at least that's what I heard. The Patriot was excellent...it you really gave you a clear impression of what they were fighting for over here and what they sacrificed in their personal lives. We rented that the weekend we rented The Green Mile. That was also very good.
I read Jaws after I saw the movie, queeq...I agree the movie was MUCH better.
Did you know....(Gundy's bit o'trivia here) that the last day of filming on the Jaws set, the crew was gonna toss Spielberg into the water ? He got wind of it and dressed in all leather and suede clothes that day and the crew decided they couldn't do it, being as the salt water would have destroyed everything he was wearing ! 😂
Didn't know that. 😂
I loved Dreyfuss talking about the problems with the shark. He said in a doc on the Jaws-DVD that for months they heard the walkie-talkies going like this: "The shark's not working, the shark's not working." And then near the end of the production they finally heard something else: "The shark is working, the shark is working." 😂
Anyway, Spielberg said Jaws was a fun movie to watch but not a fun movie to make.
I don't want to sound all Briitsh and pompous here, but the Patriot was APPALLING from a historical perspective. And I just don't mean that form a scholarly point of view... what is it with Mel Gibson and British oppression, anyway? Won't ever catch him doing an aboriginal rights movie, will you?
Not as annoying as U-571, though.
I understand what you're saying, Ush...I guess he figures thats a good subject for big money-makers.
I think one of the best parts of Jaws was when Quint was telling the story of the USS Indianapolis. IMHO.
Ya know, queeq, RC is gonna be really mad when he comes back and sees how we've twisted his Apes topic into a Jaws thread. I guess that'll mean we've done well. 😂 😂