1. Jaws
(Steven Spielberg, 1975)
A seaside town is terrorised by a peckish Great White Shark.
Danger, danger! “Everybody likes to dice with death,” beamed Spielberg in 1975.
“After Jaws, a lot of people will rush into the water, not out of it.”
Which just goes to show how wrong you can be, even if you have just made the movie that will go on to reshape the film industry.
Empty resort towns along the US coast told the real story, showing how Universal's monster hit was not only scarring psyches (for life) but also crippling the tourist industry.
But, for good or bad, the big-budget Hollywood machine was created by Jaws.
The movie set box-office records – becoming the first film to break $100m – and captured the public imagination in a way that other blockbusters have been trying to emulate ever since.
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laulau1
Aug 3rd 2009, 15:55
Guys, about La Haine: Alain Juppe was never the French President but the French Prime Minister...
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somewhatfrail
Aug 7th 2009, 21:19
Fight Club also inspired some loon to bomb Starbucks recently. Source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106655163
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SCY385
Aug 20th 2009, 23:09
Films aren't dangerous, but people's reactions to them are another matter entirely. I believe film should push the limits and make people think out of the box a little. Unfortunatley, some people go waaaaay out of the box.
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Nealsreviews1
Aug 22nd 2009, 15:03
Films are not dangerous, people are. Films are there to untap imagination & induce escapism from one's life for a brief time upon watching a movie. The people who emulate the characters they see into their own lives, well there is an underlying malfunction way before viewing.
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Gorty
Oct 30th 2010, 0:26
Yeap "Jaws" is most dangerous but not because what you said but because it replaced A-movies with B-movies in mainstream cinema for which we now have to suffer tremendously with "Transformers" and all other horrible franchise.
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