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The majority of the extras were used as members of the local high school band, chorus and dramatic society that can be seen as the Brody's walk through the town, and during Sean's attack.
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A local gravestone maker produced 51 slabs for the mock graveyard used for Sean's funeral.
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The cast and crew moved to Nassau in the Bahamas on February 9, beginning principal photography there the next day.
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Like the production of the first two films, they encountered many problems with varying weather conditions.
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The location did not offer the "perfect world" that the 38-day shoot required.
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Cover shots were filmed on shore and in interior sets.
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The film was shot in the Super 35 format.
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The special effects team, headed by Henry Millar, had arrived at South Beach, Nassau on January 12, 1987, almost a month before principal photography commenced there.
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In the official press release, Millar says that when he became involved "we didn't even have a script ... but as the story developed and they started telling us all what they wanted ...
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I knew this wasn't going to be like any other shark anyone had ever seen."
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The shark was to be launched from atop an long platform, made from the trussed turret of a crane, and floated out into Clifton Bay.
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Seven sharks, or segments, were produced.
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Two models were fully articulated, two were made for jumping, one for ramming, one was a half shark (the top half) and one was just a fin.
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The two fully articulated models each had 22 sectioned ribs and movable jaws covered by a flexible water-based latex skin, measured in length and weighed 2500 pounds.
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Each tooth was half-a-foot long and as sharp as it looked.
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All models were housed under cover ... in a secret location on the island.
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The film company returned to Universal to finish shooting on April 2.
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Principal photography was completed in Los Angeles on May 26.
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Millar's special effects team, however, remained in Nassau, completing second unit photography on June 4.
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Cinematographer John McPherson also supervised the underwater unit, which was headed by Pete Romano.
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Whereas underwater photography was normally filmed with an anamorphic lens, requiring overhead lighting, Romano filmed these "sequences with Zeiss, a 35 mm super-speed lens, which allows the natural ambiance to come through on film."
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Additional underwater photography was completed in a water tank, measuring by across, and in depth, in Universal Studio's Stage 27.
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Also, a replica of Nassau's Clifton Bay and its skyline was created on the man-made Falls Lake on the studio backlot.
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A television documentary, "Behind the Scenes with "Jaws: The Revenge"", was broadcast in the U.S. on July 10, 1987.
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Twenty-two minutes in length, it was written and directed by William Rus for Zaloom Mayfield Productions.
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In the ending that was in the original theatrical version, Ellen rammed the shark with Mike's boat, mortally wounding it.
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The shark then causes the boat to break apart with its death contortions, forcing the people on the boat to jump off to avoid going down with it.
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American audiences disapproved of this ending.
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Following this, a different ending was ordered to be shot for foreign distribution in which the shark gets stabbed with the bow sprit and then explodes with Jake being found wounded but alive.
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This ending was what Universal used on home media releases.
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According to "Orange Coast", the magazine of Orange County, re-shooting the ending prevented Michael Caine from collecting his Academy Award for "Hannah and Her Sisters" in person.
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Other sources claim that the re-shot ending began filming only five days after the film was released and was intended for the version released in Europe.
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One ending can be seen on cable broadcasts, while the other ending is seen on the home media releases.
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The ending left many moviegoers confused.
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In his scathing review of the film, Roger Ebert says that he cannot believe "that the director, Joseph Sargent, would film this final climactic scene so incompetently that there is not even an establishing shot, so we have to figure out what happened on the basis of empirical evidence."
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In its predecessor, Mike is an engineer for SeaWorld, whereas in "Jaws: The Revenge" he is a marine research scientist.
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One of the Universal press releases for "Jaws: The Revenge" refers to "Jaws: The Revenge" as the "third film of the remarkable "Jaws" trilogy."
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The underwater chase scene between Mike and the shark in "Revenge" was lifted from an early screenplay draft of "Jaws 3-D".
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Lorraine Gary portrayed Ellen Brody in the first two films.
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In a press release, Gary says "Jaws: The Revenge"' is "also about relationships which ... makes it much more like the first "Jaws"."
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This was Gary's first film since appearing in Spielberg's "1941" eight years earlier, as well as her final film role.
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The press release proposes that the character "had much more depth and texture than either of the other films was able to explore.
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The promise of further developing this multi-dimensional woman under the extraordinary circumstances ... intrigued Gary enough to lure her back to the screen after a lengthy hiatus."
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Although the film was always going to be centered on Gary, Roy Scheider was offered a cameo.
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If he had accepted it, it was his Martin Brody character, rather than Sean Brody, who would have been killed by the shark at the film's beginning.
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Gary is the only principal cast member from the original film who returned, although Lee Fierro made a brief cameo as Mrs. Kintner (the mother of a boy killed in "Jaws"), as did Fritzi Jane Courtney, who played Mrs. Taft, one of the Amity town council members in both "Jaws" and "Jaws 2".
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Cyprian R. Dube, who played Amity Selectman Mr. Posner in both "Jaws" and "Jaws 2", is upgraded to mayor following the death of Murray Hamilton, who played Larry Vaughan, the mayor in the first two "Jaws" films.
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Gary states that one of the reasons she was attracted to the film was the idea of an on-screen romance with Oscar winner Michael Caine.
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Caine had previously starred in another Peter Benchley-adapted flop, "The Island".
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The first day we were to work together I was nervous as a school girl.
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We were shooting a Junkanoo Festival with noisy drums and hundreds of extras.
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But he never faltered in his concentration and he put me completely at ease.
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It was all so natural.
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He's an extraordinary actor – and just a nice human being.
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Caine had mixed feelings about both the production and the final version.
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He thinks that it was a first for him to be involved with someone his own age in a film.
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He compares the relationship between two middle-aged people to the romance between two teenagers.
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Although disappointed not to be able to collect an Academy Award because of filming in the Bahamas, he was glad to be involved in the film.
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In the press release, he explains that "it is part of movie history ... the original was one of the great all-time thrillers.
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I thought it might be nice to be mixed up with that.
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I liked the script very much."
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However, Caine later claimed: "I have never seen it [the film], but by all accounts it is terrible.
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However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific!"
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In his 1992 autobiography "What's it All About?
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", he says that the film "will go down in my memory as the time when I won an Oscar, paid for a house and had a great holiday.
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Not bad for a flop movie."
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Lance Guest played Ellen's eldest son Mike.
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Guest had dropped out of his sophomore year at UCLA (1981) to appear in another sequel to a horror classic; "Halloween II".
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Karen Young played his wife Carla.
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She commended the director's emphasis upon characterization.
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Mario Van Peebles played Jake, Michael's colleague.
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His father, Melvin Van Peebles, has a cameo in the film as Nassau's mayor.
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Mitchell Anderson appeared as Ellen's youngest son, Sean.
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Lynn Whitfield played Louisa, and stunt performer Diane Hetfield was the victim of the banana boat attack.
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The score was composed and conducted by Michael Small, who had previously provided music for "Klute", "Marathon Man" (both of which featured "Jaws" star Roy Scheider) and "The Parallax View".
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John Williams' original shark motif is integrated into the score, although Small removed the Orca theme.
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Soundtrack.net says that "Small's score is generally tense, and he comes up with a few new themes of his own."
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The film also contained the songs "Nail it to the Wall", performed by Stacy Lattisaw, and the 1986 hit "You Got It All", performed by The Jets.
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Unlike the preceding entries in the series, the soundtrack was not released at the same time as the film, although Small appears to have mixed tracks for a release.
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However, it was given a promotional release in 2000 on Audio CD and Compact Cassette.
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Reviews for the soundtrack album were more favorable than for the film.
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Indeed, writing for "Film Score Monthly", AK Benjamin says that "on a CD, Small's material fares better since it's not accompanied by the film."
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Dismissing the film as "engagingly unwatchable", he says that "Small certainly gave "Revenge" a lot more than it deserved – and this a much better score than "Deep Blue Sea" ... whatever that means."
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Benjamin portrays Small as 'knowing' and his work as being superior to the film.
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The hysterical coda tacked onto the end of "Revenge and Finale" is almost worth the price of the disc, as it no doubt sums up Small's opinion of the film.
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It's sad that the great Michael Small was delegated utter crap like "Jaws the Revenge" in the late '80s – and even worse that he never found his way back to the material that he deserves.
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Upon Small's death in 2003, "The Independent" wrote that the "composer of some distinction ... had the indignity of working on one of the worst films of all time".
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Like most reviews of the soundtrack, the article criticizes the film whilst saying "Small produced a fine score in the circumstances, as if anyone noticed."
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In 2015, Intrada Records, which previously reissued "Jaws 3-D" on compact disc, released the complete score.
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The novelization was written by Hank Searls, who also adapted "Jaws 2".
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While Searls' "Jaws 2" novelization was based on an earlier draft of that film and was significantly different from the finished film, his "Jaws: The Revenge" novelization sticks fairly close to the final film, although it does contain some extra subplots.
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The novel contains a subplot in which Hoagie is a government agent and he transports laundered money.
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The only reference to this in the film is when Michael Brody asks "What do you do when you're not flying people?"
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to which Hoagie replies, "I deliver laundry."
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In Searls' novel, the character of Jake is ultimately killed by the shark; Jake was originally supposed to die in the film, but the script was changed to allow him to survive.
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The novelization suggests that the shark may be acting under the influence of a vengeful voodoo witch doctor (who has a feud with the Brody family), and the shark's apparent revenge has magical implications.
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Therefore, the witch doctor is the 'revenge' and the shark is his tool.
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This also explains the strange psychic connection Ellen and the shark have with each other.
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The plot was deleted as it strayed too far away from the plot of the killer shark.
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However, at one point in the theatrical version, Michael Brody says, "Come on, sharks don't commit murder.