50 Reasons Why Jaws Might Just Be The Greatest Film of All Time

31. Classic Quote:

"We're gonna need a bigger boat" - Chief Brody
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32. Single-Handily Created The First Summer 'Event' Movie

Jaws is a landmark film in the history of film distribution as in the mid 70's it was the first movie that successfully opened nationwide on hundreds of screens simultaneously and backed by a huge marketing campaign, creating the idea of an event movie - which decades later we now know of as 'the summer blockbuster'. To the tune of $485 million worldwide (equilivant of $1.9 billion in 2010) it single-handedly created the season's cinema-going trend and was a film on the lops of everyone in the summer of 1975. €”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€“

33. Became a Cultural Phenomenon

There's practically no one on the planet who hasn't seen, heard or been influenced by Spielberg€™s fishy tale. €”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€”€“

34. Quote

"Wanna get drunk, fool around?" - Ellen Brody
One of the most inviting lines in cinema.
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35. Total Disregard for Peter Benchley's Trashy Bestseller & Screenwriting Duties

Who wants Hooper to die or an attraction to brew between him and Mrs Brody anyway? Most of his screenwriting drivel was discarded too. Still the cameo remains.
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Oliver Pfeiffer is a freelance writer who trained at the British Film Institute. He joined OWF in 2007 and now contributes as a Features Writer. Since becoming Obsessed with Film he has interviewed such diverse talents as actors Keanu Reeves, Tobin Bell, Dave Prowse and Naomie Harris, new Hammer Studios Head Simon Oakes and Hollywood filmmakers James Mangold, Scott Derrickson and Uk director Justin Chadwick. Previously he contributed to dimsum.co.uk and has had other articles published in Empire, Hecklerspray, Se7en Magazine, Pop Matters, The Fulham & Hammersmith Chronicle and more recently SciFiNow Magazine and The Guardian. He loves anything directed by Cronenberg, Lynch, Weir, Haneke, Herzog, Kubrick and Hitchcock and always has time for Hammer horror films, Ealing comedies and those twisted Giallo movies. His blog is: http://sites.google.com/site/oliverpfeiffer102/