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Thea Wood's avatar

Great scene. Although as a little girl seeing it in the theater, the opening scene of a frantic naked woman getting jerked down into the dark ocean abyss scared the bejesus out of me.

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David Perlmutter's avatar

The mechanical shark failures forced Spielberg to concentrate much more on putting human drama at the center of the film. This is what makes it different from so many other films of this kind that only use wooden characters to engage in cheap thrills.

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