The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of 'Jaws' (2007) on Netflix
NR20071h 40mDocumentary
Fans of Jaws spend seven years assembling a documentary about the film's impact and legacy. Its cast and crew recall how it was made.
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Three decades after Jaws reached theaters, a documentary looks at the mark it left on popular culture. Fans of the film produced it over a seven-year period, building on an earlier making-of documentary. It gathers rare footage and interviews with much of the cast and crew of Jaws, along with celebrities whose careers were influenced by the film. Those accounts describe the troubled production and the shark that kept malfunctioning on set.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of 'Jaws' (2007)
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- On the set of Jaws, actor Richard Dreyfuss constantly heard crew members say "The shark is NOT working," a line that became "The shark is working" once the malfunctioning sea monster was finally fixed.
- The documentary was made by Jaws fans over a seven-year period, building on Laurent Bouzereau's 1995 documentary The Making of Jaws.
- Two interviewees appear on camera for the last time: Peter Benchley in his final on-camera interview, and Percy Rodriguez in his final public appearance.
