“What inspired you to make this movie?”
It’s not a what, it’s a who. That who is my niece Autumn, that little bugger is obsessed with those massive monsters. Always reading about them, learning more and more. So, she’s really the one who brought it up to me, the book, the thought of it being real.
“Now tell us, how exactly did she bring this up to you?”
Her father, my brother Adam, was always on tour and she would always stay with me during her school years (if it were the summer, she would be her father’s original groupie with her mother, Anne) otherwise, with me. This particular time, she was reading the book Jaws by Peter Benchley, she is a little mature for her age and you would realize that, talking to her. I made the best mistake of
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I mean, it wasn’t that...yeah, it was difficult. The first shark test went well, Autumn, Dick and i were in a small support boat, the shark came out of the water beautifully, then it went back down like a submarine. The tail came up and then fell down. Then there was nothing but utter silence. We were witnessing the shark sinking to the bottom of the ocean. The next morning we were told it would take three to four weeks to fix it. None of us prepared for that, and i had no other plan B, Autumn suggested why not film the movie without showing the shark, and add more suspense for when we do show Bruce. I thought that was such a great idea, so we did just that. And the movie was not as scary as the behind the scenes.
“Why’s that?”
Autumn took it upon herself to help fix the shark, (without anyone to supervise, might i add). It is electric and in water, that is extremely dangerous, but she ended up messing with it and fixed it, and unfortunately she was electrocuted.
“Oh my, is she alright?”
No, she died. I’m kidding, yes she was okay, she was not released from the hospital until the movie was finished. June 20th, 1975, the release date and Autumn’s birthday, she was excited and in crutches but it all ended up working out and luckily she was okay and this movie was not a box office flop.
“Thankfully, it was and will always be a great movie, but that is all the time we have. Once again thank you Mr. Spielberg.”
Oh, Mr. Spielberg is my father, but thank you so much for having