Expanded Edition (Shooting Script)
by Carl Gottlieb
Recommended by 3 notable people, including Ben Stiller and Gene Kim
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See customer reviews on Amazon →A first-person, day-by-day style memoir from someone who worked on the Jaws shoot, heavy on practical problem-solving, crew conversations, and moment-by-moment set detail. Its strength is the granular reporting: which scenes changed, how teams improvised, and how small breakdowns shaped creative choices. Limits appear as repetition and a light touch on structured analysis—events are shown more than they are argued about. Best read as process-focused storytelling rather than a theoretical or critical handbook.
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Winner of three Oscars and the highestgrossing film of its time, Jaws was a phenomenon, and this is the only book on how twentysixyearold Steven Spielberg transformed Peter Benchley's numberone bestselling novel into the classic film it became.Hired by Spielberg as a screenwriter to work with him on the set while the movie was being made, Carl...
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Nonfiction.
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