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...cast is fine. David Spielberg as Actor Parks poignantly tries to cling to a shard of dignity, and Allan Miller as Abe Burrows pulls more legs than the committee has. The real inquisitor is Bentley, who deals out a blame game that is dramatically deficient and devoid of charity...
...tell that Dreyfuss and Spielberg were right in synch because the balance between tension and release--a crucial asset to horror movies--is what the director does really well. Unlike The Exorcist, which constantly kept your stomach gnarled waiting for what atrocity you would be subjected to next, shark attacks in Jaws are well spaced until the end when Spielberg turns it on full force, Swooping you up and whooshing you down, it's the fun of a fishy roller coaster ride. Spielberg is better at the slow thrills--that sort of slither up on you and let you fall...
While producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown were counting on the audience identifying with the victims (and so delayed release of the film until the start of beach season), director Steven Spielberg seemed to be going for the pure fun of it. He knocks out the extramarital affair that pads out the best-seller as well as most of the character conflicts and shoots for the thrills. The only problem is that character development in the novel not only served to relieve tension, it also offered several different, presumably philosophical perspectives on the beast. Matt Hooper, the icthyologist, sees...
...clearly Spielberg meant the film to be good clean fun, and apparently that's how a lot of people are taking it. WRKO radio is advertising a name-that-song contest which offers the grand prize of a shark hunt; a trip to Martha's Vineyard where the movie was filmed, two tickets to Jaws and a "shark repellent kit"--a baseball bat. Some...
...stand-up comedian will tailor a monologue to suit an individual audience. Making a guest appearance on a TV variety show, Brooks will contrive a bit like Dave the ventriloquist that will capitalize on the occasion and parody it at the same time. Says his friend Director Steven Spielberg (Jaws): "Albert is not only the funniest but the most visual humorist working today...