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It's an adventure movie full of suspense, quite different from Benchley's book, and indeed, the great producer Zanuck wanted the screenplay to eliminate the love story between the oceanographer Hooper and Brody's wife, the sheriff, as well as the mafia involvement found in the book. I remember the book was more brutal, even regarding the shark attacks, while Spielberg, as usual, turns it into a great family adventure by cleaning it up of unpleasant elements like adultery and mutilations. That said, it must be said that young Spielberg does an excellent job creating suspense with something that remains unseen for almost the entire film, signaling its presence through wooden docks collapsing, people dragged under, and yellow barrels bobbing on the water. Something mysterious, just like he did with "Duel." Great cinematography, great screenplay with the three social classes represented by the intellectual and wealthy Hooper, the middle-class Sheriff Brody, and the working-class sailor Quine, destined (because of this?) to succumb. Speaking of Quine, I would like to remember that great actor who was Robert Shaw, who in the scene of the late-night three-way conversation in the cabin of the boat actually acts completely drunk.

@donjunio funny enough do you know where I was reflecting on Arthur Lee? Regarding the album (another great one from 2008) by James Jackson Toth, in case you haven't listened to it, I highly recommend it.

well done vortex, after all one thing is to call oneself Declino e Negazione another is to call oneself Bloody Riot :)

..scAndalizzo...today freedom is driving all decked out in a luxury sports car and not that ragged chopper. Let the end of the world come in eighty days :)

Just yesterday, I was listening again to the (wonderful) bootleg of the Byrds recorded at the Piper in Rome in May 1968 during the disastrous International Pop Festival. It was the first time that Parson was on tour with the Byrds, and when McGuinn introduces him during the third song saying: "...his name is Gram Parson and he sings and plays guitar," and then Gram starts the sorrowful "You Don’t Miss Your Water," damn it, I got a lump in my throat.

no Iggy no Stooges :)

Hello everyone, in 2008 there were, as Lewis said, good records especially in this "singer-songwriter" field. For me, this one has that extra something compared to others that I would rate four, which is why I give it a five. By the way, am I hallucinating or was there a comment from alessioiride (which I no longer see) on this page talking about the Creedence-like look?

@mike 76 revolutionary, you say? I should have mentioned, let's keep in mind that the following in England of people like Boy George and Burns was primarily made up of kids aged ten to twelve. These cross-dressed characters were seen not so much as you say "faggots/dirty ones" but as asexual beings, fairy-tale figures like Peter Pan.

@nickname are you crazy? Iggy in the hands of starblazer? not even for a joke :). For him, Pink is better than Black Sabbath with Ozzy.