Jaws : Great Flicks series # 5 Traditional Cache
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Jaws : Great Flicks series # 5
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Container with themed container inside. This cache is located up a short but VERY steep slope BUT there is a much simpler ' scenic route ' beginning a few meters down the road. Watch for barbed wire though.
I 've always been a movie buff and we all know everyone has a list of greatest movies. In this series I honour a half dozen of MY favorite all time films. The one thing that sets these movies apart for me is that I can watch them over and over and still love em.
Jaws (1975) is a masterful, visceral and realistic science-fiction suspense/horror-disaster film that taps into the most primal of human fears - what unseen creature lurks below the dark surface of the water beyond the beach? The tagline for the tensely-paced film, "Don't go in the water," kept a lot of shark-hysterical ocean-swimmers and 1975 summer beachgoers wary (similar to the effect that Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) had on shower-taking).
The screenplay, mostly written by young, 27 year-old director Spielberg himself and Carl Gottlieb, was provided in part by Peter Benchley who wrote a trashy action novel by the same name (but originally titled A Stillness in the Water) about the fictional New England coastal town of Amity, Long Island - a summer resort that is terrorized by a menacing Great White Shark (known as the genus/species Carcharodon carcharias). Both Benchley's best-selling book (released in the winter of 1973-74) and Spielberg's film borrowed from various sources:
* Herman Melville's 1851 Moby Dick, about a search for a monstrous sea creature (a great white whale) by a determined Captain Ahab
* Ibsen's 1882 classic play An Enemy of the People
* the exploits of diver Peter Gimbel's shark expedition recounted in the documentary film Blue Water, White Death (1971)
* Peter Matthiessen's 1971 non-fiction book Blue Meridian: The Search for the Great White Shark
* two great 50s horror films: The Creature From the Black Lagoon (1954) and The Monster That Challenged the World (1957)
* a real-life incident on the New Jersey shore in the summer of 1916 that claimed five lives over the course of two weeks
With a modest film budget of about $12 million, Jaws was the highest grossing film up to that time (unbroken until the release of George Lucas' Star Wars (1977)), and earned its 27 year-old director a place in Hollywood. It grossed $438 million in eleven weeks, and was also the first film to top the $100 million record in box-office rentals (cruising past previous pace-setters Gone With the Wind (1939) and The Sound of Music (1965)). From four Academy Award nominations, it won three Oscars: Best Sound, Best Original Score (composer John Williams, his first Oscar of many awards in the category), and Best Film Editing (Verna Fields, her final editing assignment before her death in 1982). Its Best Picture nomination went unrewarded. [That year, freshman director Spielberg was the only director of a Best Picture nominee that didn't receive a Best Director nomination.]
Fun film that scared me to death on first viewing.
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