A closer look
Steven Spielberg only invented the modern blockbuster suspense thriller because the mechanical shark he built for Jaws kept sinking to the bottom of the ocean; the prop, affectionately named Bruce, was an absolute technical disaster that refused to work in saltwater, forcing the frantic director to hide the monster and rely on John Williams' ominous tuba music instead, which led audiences to praise the brilliant psychological terror of not seeing the beast, blissfully unaware that the artistic choice was actually just a desperate cover-up for a multimillion-dollar robotic fish that possessed all the buoyancy of a cinderblock, proving that necessity is just the mother of sheer cinematic panic
