Re: Official Trek XI Website Has Teaser Trailer

GeneK wrote:
> 
> <rikp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote...
>> Well, technically, "Jaws" came out in 1975 way before Discovery
>> Channel's Shark Week so the great white shark was still a fairly
>> mysterious creature.  And one of the biggest shocks in "Jaws" is the
>> size of those jaws, which they *do* keep from you for well over an
>> hour, famously revealing it when "Bruce" pops his head out of the
>> water behind Roy Scheider's back.
> 
> The pre-release publicity for "Jaws" prominently featured
> a swimmer with a really big shark pointing up at her from
> below with its maw open and teeth exposed.  There were
> also clips shown on TV (I know this because I never saw
> "Jaws" in the theater but saw the scene you describe
> long before the movie hit TV). The film may have built up suspense by 
> delaying your first close view of "Bruce," but there was never any 
> mystery about what he was going to be.

Also, the Peter Benchley novel had already been a best seller (10 months 
on the best seller list) before the movie.  So anyone who knew of the 
novel knew what the "monster" was going to be.

I had read the novel long before I saw the movie.


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