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'Jaws' changed movies forever, but Hollywood could still learn from it
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This image released by Peacock shows Roy Scheider in a scene from "Jaws." - photo by Peacock/Universal Pictures via AP
NEW YORK (AP) — Fifty years after “Jaws” sunk its teeth into us, we’re still admiring the bite mark. Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film, his second feature, left such a imprint on culture and Hollywood that barely any trip to the movies, let alone to the beach, has been the same since. Few films have been more perfectly suited to their time and place than “Jaws,” which half a century ago unspooled across the country in a then-novel wide release accompanied by Universal Pictures' opening-weekend publicity blitz.