Jaws & Lies

MASTERFULLY-TOLD LIES

• “The shark looks phony.” –from a bizarre list of so-called “100 Must-See Movies”.  (Since that’s a subjective statement, this lie is a masterful one.   And calling that list of movies “must-see” is a definite lie in itself.)
• The lie that Jaws put Spielberg on top of Hollywood as its most successful director.  Simply not true, according to at least three different sources.  At least.  This includes Variety July 1977, Wikipedia’s biography of Robert Stevenson and the list of his many movies from 1957 thru 1974… along with The Hollywood Reporter Book Of Box-Office Hits, 1996 by Susan Sackett.  Feel free to do the homework.  
• Excluding Raiders Of The Lost Ark from a list of “The 50 Biggest Summer Blockbusters”.  (Although this isn’t really a masterfully-told lie.   It’s just a flat-out lie.  Likely one of many told in that day’s edition pushing at least one social contagion.  Well, maybe it was a masterfully-told lie, the way the list was rearranged by the editor’s subjective opinion, clouding the lie.)
• Replacing the original sound effects from the theatrical version with laughable sound effects and a diminished score for the 2000 DVD release…and not announcing it.  And presenting it to an entire generation for 25 years as the actual Jaws experience.
• Inserting laughable musical cues never used in the movie on the Jaws OST at YouTube.  (Additionally, leaving off actually used musical cues.)