Written November 29, 2007
A classic that will never die!
I was seven years old when "Jaws" came out. I never got back in the water again. Now, thirty-two years later, I still get the chills when I watch it. "Jaws" was the first of it's kind and since then there have been others that have tried to emmulate the it. But, as I say, "Nothing beats a classic!". Steven Spielberg who's known for a similar "somethings-after-me thriller" in "Duel" has a knack for creating character driven stories that touch the audience, as well as captivate them. Spielberg, much like close friend George Lucas, is brilliant when mixing humor in the time of chaos and is equally guilty of filiming scenes with multiple dialogues going at the same time, which keeps the audience on it's toes. The icing on the cake, aside from a phenomenal cast (Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw (in particular) is the ever haunting musical score by John Williams. Williams is always brilliant, as he is loyal to both Spielberg an
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