Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

“The movie you know. The story you don’t.”

Steven Spielberg made a film about a mechanical shark that refused to work, on a beach in Martha's Vineyard, over a summer that nearly broke the production. Cameron Crowe, Jordan Peele, and Steven Soderbergh sit down to trace how that chaos became the template for modern Hollywood. Bouzereau cuts between color interviews and grainy archival footage, finishing on a shot of the mechanical shark, salt-worn and still, the thing that almost wasn't.