Particularly fascinating, in my opinion, was that with the exception of one notable scene, Jaws was shot on the ocean. And the rest, they say, is cinematic history.Carl Gottlieb, one of the screenwriters on Jaws, recounts the several years long battle not only to get this iconic movie made but also the bumps and problems encountered along the way. Before the age of CGI and various special effects, then novice director Steven Spielberg had to depend on an often irritable and uncooperative mechanical shark, underwater film footage, phenomenally well cast actors and a superb script. DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH DUH! Don't go in the water! If you're like me, you consider the 1975 film Jaws to be one of the best motion pictures of all time. The scene? Hooper in the water looking into Ben Gardner's boat - and that head popping in the scene. My favorite 'memory' revealed in the book - that Steven Spielberg and Carl Gottlieb went to theaters after the movie started, right near their favorite scene, to watch the audience jump. It made me a huge fan of Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Schieder and Steven Spielberg! I had read the book before seeing the movie but other than a change in who died (and I liked the changes) I didn't feel that there where that many differences. Jaws was one of those 'seminal' movies for me - it was very scary without being very graphic, the suspense was heightened as the story went along and the ending was great. There are lots of insider tidbits about the making of the movie, the struggles the cast and crew had with a long location shoot at Martha's Vinyard, and just the behind the scenes stuff that goes into making a movie. Yes, I know we just had the 35th anniversary but it was while they were talking about the 35th that I heard about this book, so I requested it through ILL.

The jaws log by carl gottlieb