JAWS

Pure. Raw. Ability. Some things you cannot teach, others can only be enhanced. Steven Spielberg captivated us and our imaginations from the very moment he exploded on to the big scene.

We all know the story, in his major directorial debut, JAWS went into production hell with a young inexperience 24 year old new director at the wheel. The studio almost took the film away from Spielberg. That's right, Spielberg the man and career almost got derailed before it could've even begin. Fortunately for the world of cinema did this not happen which ultimately led to Spielberg going on and revolutionizing the idea of the hollywood director, something that could have been derailed before it even began.

Considered almost universally as a director's director, Spielberg pieced together one of cinema's greatest achievements in JAWS. The absolute direction and mixing of all the components and variables that make a film, from the the direction of the score,camera angles and overall scene presentation, Spielberg pulled it all. Your pulse intensifies with every single carefully calculated and constructed shot.

Nearly 40 years later, (wow!) new audiences still fall in love with the great white who terrorize a beautiful beach town on  the fourth of july. JAWS stands the biggest test of them all: The test of time passed, and Spielberg achieved this with honors and pure raw ability.