American Economist and professor at Harvard University, Theodore Levitt once stated “Creativity is thinking up new things, innovation is doing new things”. Steven Spielberg was born on December 18, 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He went to California State University. Throughout his childhood, he made several “mini movies”, he started very young. His first official movie was a 140 minute science fiction called “Firelight”. He made this movie when he was only 16. Later in life, Steven Spielberg made a creative, new, base in the movie industry made of Innovation, Illumination, and creativity that many directors have followed up, and will follow up on for years to come.
Create Steven Spielberg and his hit movie “Jaws” created what is now the summer blockbuster. Before this movie Hollywood had yet to crystallize the idea of a summer blockbuster. The idea of a summer blockbuster is: a movie that is released in the summer and it makes a lot of money. Jaws was a clear example of that because it made $7,000,000 the WEEKEND it was released. Worldwide it made $740,000,000. The revenue far exceeded the cost of making the film,
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There were several Jaws “rip-offs”. Such as the movie “Grizzly”; One day William Girdler and David Sheldon were sitting around thinking. “What if we remade Jaws, but with a bear?” This was quite the failure. Consequently, Rotten Tomatoes gave it a “60%” whereas Jaws had a “97%”. This was not the only movie inspired by Jaws. There was also a film called “Tentacles”. It was self proclaimed a “Gripping thriller” was a coalescence of Orca, Jaws, Colossal Squid, and Cthulhu. Nevertheless, all of these movies were inspired by the first summer blockbuster, Jaws. Another thing that was revolutionized by the Jaws movie was the music, several other movies to this day use that intense set of low notes. These are the ways I thought that Jaws influenced and innovated the movie