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"Jaws" Child Extra is Now Police Chief on the Island the Movie was FilmedLife imitates art as this man who had a brief role in the movie “Jaws” has been appointed police chief at the Massachusetts town where the film was filmed. Jaws was a 1975 movie about a police chief trying to protect a popular resort town from shark attacks. Some scenes were filmed at Martha’s Vineyard, where Jonathan Searle will begin his term as police chief next week.As a kid, Searle played one of the two children who sent beachgoers in the Steven Spielberg movie in a frenzy when they were playing with fake shark fins at sea. The scene was brief, but it was one of the more memorable ones in the classic summer blockbuster. Last week, Searle was offered the job of police chief in Martha’s Vineyard’s Oak Bluffs. He followed the path of his father, who also served as police chief in Edgartown.Image: Jeremy Driesen/Martha's Vineyard Gazette via AP#Jaws #MarthasVineyard #police #PoliceChief #StevenSpielberg #OakBluffs

Steven Spielberg's Movies Ranked From Worst to BestYou know you are a force to be reckoned with when your filmography has a staggering thirty two movies to rank. Not many directors have that distinction, and among them Steven Spielberg probably still holds the crown for the most accolades. From Jaws to West Side Story, his storied oeuvre needs little introduction.Dan Jackson and Matt Patches of Thrillist has ranked Spielberg’s 32 films from worst to best:32. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) 31. Hook (1991) 30. 1941 (1979) 29. The Terminal (2004) 28. Always (1989) 27. Ready Player One (2018) 26. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) 25. Empire of the Sun (1987) 24. Amistad (1997) 23. The BFG (2016) 22. The Post (2017) 21. War Horse (2011) 20. The Adventures of Tintin (2011) 19. The Sugarland Express (1974) 18. Bridge of Spies (2015) 17. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) 16. The Color Purple (1985) 15. War of the Worlds (2005) 14. West Side Story (2021) 13. A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) 12. Munich (2005) 11. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 10. Saving Private Ryan (1998) 9. Minority Report (2002) 8. Schindler's List (1993) 7. Lincoln (2012) 6. Catch Me If You Can (2002) 5. Jurassic Park (1993) 4. Jaws (1975) 3. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) 2. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)Image: Raiders of the Lost Art/Paramount Pictures#StevenSpielberg #movies #IndianaJones

West Side Story 1961 and 2021: What's the Difference?Steven Spielberg always wanted to make a musical, and his colleagues in the business laughed. He finally did it with his remake of West Side Story. Even thought original film is 60 years old now, it stills stands head and shoulders above other musical films in our collective memories. What could Spielberg do to possibly improve upon the film we know and love?Den of Geek takes a long, hard look at the two West Side Story films to see how Spielberg faced the challenges of bringing the story into the 21st century. For one thing, the Upper West Side of New York is nothing like it was when the original West Side Story was filmed. No longer a slum, it is home to some of the world's most expensive real estate. What happened? Gentrification. So Spielberg harnessed gentrification as one of the themes contributing to the social ills fueling the story of rival gangs and star-crossed lovers. Another theme that Spielberg updated is the racism. While racism was the basic theme of the 1961 movie, that film was a product of its time. The 2021 movie delves deeper into the motivations behind the white characters and the Puerto Rican characters and avoids painting the Puerto Rican Sharks as malicious and threatening compared to the almost wholesome Jets (and avoids painting their faces, too). Spielberg kept the classic songs intact, but moved them in time to allow the story to work better. He updated the dancing to make it less like a Broadway stage production. And there's more. It's as if Spielberg spent 60 years figuring out what worked and didn't work with the original movie. Read about all the differences in the 1961 and the 2021 versions of West Side Story at Den of Geek. #WestSideStory #StevenSpielberg