Jaws’ Scariest Scene Was Literally Filmed In A Swimming Pool

Each fan of the movie has nuclear memories of the moments they really scared as the films grew. For me looking at classic horror movie flop “Nightbreed” at the age of 10 was probably not the best idea. A miserable witness of Hellspawn killed the whole family before seeing a man cutting his own face and his own flesh grabs into pieces, as the hospital staff is now forever etched into my brain cortex. But before I drawn my young mind with Clive Barker’s nasty little horror fantasy – and before I even knew the horror movie – Steven Spielberg offered me and the first big movie for the whole generation.

In fact, he managed to provide an entire lever of the 1975 “jaws”. So effective in the shock of the audience was this opening base that “Jaws” in the early show had one member of the audience vomiting. By the time I was a child in the early 90s, there was still a fears of “jaws” among adults, which I quickly learned when I was able to watch the movie for myself.

In addition to the level of fear that I remember from the first viewing, the viscerally shocking moment – which formed a nuclear memory – was when that damn head floated from the embedded boat. It may not be one “Jaws” biggest moments But the scene where Richard Dreyfuss’ Matt Hooper dives to explore the halfway of the fishermen’s Ben Gardner (played by the real fisherman Craig Kingsbury), only the long -time Gardner head of the deceased is certainly the first experience of many people in jumping. It was a moment when the “jaws” turned into a full horror area, and I think it is fair to say that this scene is still a significant moment in horror history, even though watching it as an adult is not quite the same-you know that the key moment was shot in the pool.

Knowing how and when the scene was shot can sometimes be an exhaustive experience. Now that I know that the whole “home alone” house was a school built in the school gym, for example a little magic has disappeared every time I look at it again. Similarly, knowing the head of the “jaws” image was described in a swimming pool, which, as a kind of, rob the horror. On the back, however, it makes the whole thing more impressive when you know how Steven Spielberg and the company really pulled it out.

In the film, finding the body of Ben Gardner may be the biggest fear of the whole movie. As it turns out, this bit was only added after the first test screening left Spielberg eagerly to get another auction from the audience. It was not enough for one guy to watch the death of the poor young young Alex Kintner (Jeffrey Voorhees), the director wanted a new great fear, and now the famous famous head of the shot was added. But Spielberg is not going to put together the whole “jaws” group in the Martha’s vineyard, where the film was filmed. Instead, he remained locally and used the journalist’s swimming pool in the neighborhood of Van Nuys Los Angeles.

As with featureUniversal Pictures had already signed the final surgery when Spielberg recruited VFX expert Kevin Piken, Stuntman Frank Sparks and journalist Verna fields, which help to create the inserts they need. As the director reminded:

“That scene had already been shot, but it was not made to shock the audience, so I went to Verna Fields” […] And borrowed his swimming pool because I didn’t have one. I didn’t have enough money to get the swimming pool on those days because the ‘jaws’ had not yet come out and I was a bad instructor. “

Internal- KingdomCarl Gottlieb’s oral history of “Jaws” and meadows was reminiscent of how Spielberg decided to increase the “shooting” event, and Spielberg decided to add an extra Gardner scene. According to Gottlieb, the director said he was paying for the shooting and the production team’s “skeletal crew”, which headed to Fields’ house, where they threw “half the gallon into the” swimming pool to make it “more photogenous”. In the production of the feature, Pike tells how he used a small copy of the boat’s body he had built on a driveway they were embedded in the pool with Ben Gardner actor Craig Kingsbury’s foam life. While throwing the tarpaulin on the swimming pool itself, Sparks stood in the Dreyfuss, holding a flashlight on the body as Pike pushed Gardner, cast through the hole of the hull. The result was one of the most frightening moments of movie theater history. As Spielberg reminded, “I remember, I timed it to get it to achieve the maximum impact effect.”

Steven Spielberg certainly managed to have his desired shock effect. If the first test shows already had traumatic audiences, the preview of the Ben Gardner Head was something else. Verna Fields said he reminded of the most satisfying edits he made after the “JAWS” winning win, Verna Fields said:

“I have to say that the most satisfying editing was the face from the boat, because when I went to that preview and that the audience only went six feet from their seats and let this incredible cry. It was really satisfactory.”

As shocking as the fake Gardner head, the fields really deserve a lot of recognition that this urgently shot one of the most memorable moments in the “Jaws” movie. In fact, he was an essential part of the movie so effectively everywhere. As Spielberg put it in doing it, “Verna did a great job with his bio -rhythm by creating a bio -jaws for the” jaws “. It was just the right type of tension, such as a violin queue that played a very high, very high note.”

Spielberg decided to replace the extra scene for shooting. Carl Gottlieb claimed that when the Universal leaders saw it, “They asked how much it paid and the studio said,” Good “and paid for what turns out to be an important point in the movie.” The author also remembered how he and Spielberg visited the theater at the Hollywood Boulevard and stand behind the “Jaws” performance as soon as the Gardner head played. “We would stand behind and watch 1000 head jumps at the same time,” he said. “Then we would laugh and laugh at each other and go into the evening.” Although Description of the “jaws” was famously torture to Spielberg, at least he and his writer had the time of their life when they had created one of the most Savage Animal Attack Horror Films Never and by traumatizing several generations.