Jaws 3-D - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[discussimdb]

Fan of Jaws 3-D or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Jaws 3-D

[terry]

The only "Jaws" movie not to be directly made by Universal Pictures. It was made by Alan Landsburg Productions.

[gerald]

All the appliances in the interior shots were Kenmore. It was not intentional.

[eli]

Featured on episode 217 of the podcast "How Did This Get Made?".

[sandra]

The film is also shown in a standard 2D widescreen theatrical, with the name revised to just Jaws 3 (no D). With the processes to remove the stereoscopic imaging, there is some strange (analogue) optical quirks, such as the edges of the frame having a strange blurring, and an odd colour palette, not unlike the early Technicolor process. Additionally, in 2D its sometimes blatantly clear which shots are meant to be the "popcorn dropping" 3D money shots, with the exagerated depth of field with forward, mid and distance perspectives.

[ella]

In later interviews, screenwriter Richard Matheson claimed that the film was bedeviled by script doctors who ruined the central premise of a Great White shark swimming upstream and becoming trapped in a lake.

[fred]

Veteran Editor Verna Fields, who won an Oscar for editing the first film, recommended Joe Alves as director.

[leo]

Similar plot wise to "Revenge of the Creature". Film critic Leonard Maltin even asked if this is "an un-official remake of Revenge of the Creature in 3-D?" Also similar to Jurassic World story wise; with it's monster run amuk in an amusement park plot.

[wallace]

During filming, Dennis Quaid nearly got into trouble over threatening to assault a film extra.

[sylvia]

When the theme park tech is killed by the shark, his mask gets wrapped around coral, and stays there, very much like the beginning of Lawrence of Arabia when the title character's goggles wrap around a bush. In both cases, it happens right after they're killed, and the shot ends with the goggles/mask.

[frances]

The film made $13,422,500 in its first weekend. It held the record for highest-grossing opening for a 3-D film until Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) made $33,417,739.

[javier]

The movie was part of an early 1980s cycle of 3-D movies that also included Starchaser: The Legend of Orin (1985), Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983), Jaws 3-D (1983), Parasite (1982), Amityville 3-D (1983), Comin' at Ya! (1981), Friday the 13th Part III (1982), Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983), and Treasure of the Four Crowns (1983) (Treasure of the Four Crowns).

[carla]

When Mike is walking with Kay along the beach and he refers to "the shark attack in Amity" that she was told about, this is a direct reference to the sailboat attack in Jaws 2 (1978).

[ken]

The film presents a few examples of how much the budget had been reduced since the making of the 1975 original. This becomes all too clear in the few shots that feature a shark model.

[sandra]

This movie and Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) have several things in common. Both are the third films in a popular series that began with very successful films released in the 1970s (Jaws (1975) and Halloween (1978)), both of which launched the careers of their respective directors (Steven Spielberg and John Carpenter). Both were set in new locales not seen in the first two films (the Jaws movies took place on Amity Island, and the Halloween movies in Haddonfield, Illinois), and were unsuccessful attempts to deviate from previous sequels, which had been highly derivative of the originals (Jaws 2 (1978) and Halloween II (1981)). Both were made by first-time directors who had been the production designers of the previous films (Joe Alves for Jaws (1975) and Tommy Lee Wallace for Halloween (1978)).

[elmer]

The female dolphin called Sandy in the movie is really a male dolphin named Capricorn. He currently lives in Discovery Cove, which is owned by SeaWorld Orlando, and has interactions with guests like giving them rides and doing tricks for them. Capricorn is fifty years old.