Jaws is not Spielberg's fault. Nor is Star Wars and Lucas. On paper, both should have failed miserably because of the corny story lines and ridiculous low budget SFX.
No-one involved in those movie could have forseen what was going to happen. They blew up beyond belief because they filled a void.
Accept it or not, there's millions of people who go to the movies for a cheap popcorn escape from their daily 24/7 grind.
The fact that they were released in the heat of the summer was not planned either. Just a happy coincedence.
The massive success of the super hyped "Summer Blockbusters" since, has not impeded amazing higher brow cinema in the least. We talk about those types of movies all the time here.
1975
Jaws: One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Dog Day Afternoon.
1976
Rocky: Taxi Driver, The Man who Fell to Earth
1977
Star Wars: Eraserhead, The Kentucky Fried Movie
And on and on and on.......
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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