
Episode 1388 - James Gray
WTF with Marc Maron Podcast
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Jaws Was a Big Thing for You
Jaws was a big thing for you because it was so effective and so terrifying. I still love Jaws, but that was a big one for me. It's based on a sort of a real series of events in New Jersey,. There was a prowling shark that kept eating people. And eventually had come across that story and put it into what he saw as a sort of poor man's Moby Dick. But it's all Spielberg. He basically channeled it into something ferocious and it still incredibly effective movie. You read the cultural criticism of Fidel Castro's film work. He did that. No, I'm trying to remember how I knew this about Fidel Castro and Jaws.
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