Jaws

Steven Spielberg’s legendary film Jaws was released in 1975.

The movie follows the story of a great white shark that terrorises the citizens and tourists off the coast of Amity Island.

In an interview with Forbes, the film’s production designer, Joe Alves, explained how it was possible to create this scary sea creature. He said: “It’s a whole combination. First, I started with concept sketches based on the book, before we even had a movie, and that gave me an idea — and then, talking to Steven [Spielberg], the fact that we wanted to do it in the real ocean with a 25-foot shark. Then I worked with an ichthyologist, did a four-foot clay model to get it absolutely right on how a shark should move, and I talked to Ron Taylor [shark expert and underwater cinematographer who filmed the underwater sequences in Jaws] from Australia — who did Blue Water, White Death — on the movement of it.”