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2006-12-16 19:26:32 · 11 answers · asked by http://oporca.13.forumer.com 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Boats & Boating
Yes as noted, it was in fact based loosely on the Frank Mundus boat 'Cricket'. Especially emulating the use of an extended pulpit as a defining attribute.
'Warlock', was a Nova Scotia lobster boat purchased by Joe Alves for the production after a trip to Maine while location scouting. Later, at the request of Steven Spielberg,
'Warlock' was modified to look more weathered and crusty, which included larger windows, and subtle changes to the overall structure.
Once the production wrapped, it was sold to one of the crewmen on the film for $16,000. The crewman had it shipped back to LA, where it was used as a leisure craft and living quarters for several years in San Pedro. Some of the academy award winning sound work was done at that time aboard 'ORCA' while it was moored there.
Ironically, Universal then decided to buy back the boat for $60,000, once they realized the film would be a hit. They then constructed the 'JAWS' attraction in what was known as Singapore Lake and dropped the Orca in place. As a result, The 'ORCA' made cameo appearances in several films and televison shows over the years.
Sometime in 1996 it was removed in an attempt to renovate the boat, but after having been left to stew and become waterlogged in the lagoon for so long, it simply fell apart when lifted. So far no photographic evidence exists of this removal. Had Universal been more careful, they could have sold it once again for a windfall. Quints fighting chair in the film alone recently sold for over $20,000.
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2006-12-17 16:46:47 · answer #1 · answered by Fred 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-24 02:49:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2015-08-07 07:35:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stephen Spielberg has gone on record to say that because of the short filming time and the fact that Bruce (Bruce? yes, Bruce.) the mechanical shark never worked correctly that he didn't make the film he wanted to make - which presumably would have shown much more of the shark. Robot Chicken (animated series on Cartoon Network) did a riff on this and had the shark jump out of the water with a tommy gun and other unlikely behaviors, probably as a result of Spielberg's desire (and George Lucas as well) to revisit their earlier works and digitally alter them. E.T. the Extraterrestrial now has all the FBI guys holding walkie-talkies instead of guns, and Star Wars III: A New Hope has a new scene with Han Solo and a digital Jabba the Hut. The mechanical shark comes later. It is at its most unrealistic as it's lunching on Robert Shaw (Quint). But for the time, it was absolutely terrifying. In a sense, the malfunctioning mechanical shark was a good thing. Its absence allowed the audience to build up a much more terrifying killer in their minds, in much the same way that Alfred Hitchcock (who once said “There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it”) gives his killers very little screen time.
2016-03-19 06:08:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-08 17:44:58 · answer #5 · answered by pires 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-28 05:46:07 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, according to the JAWS - "Special Edition" DVD, the real ORCA was actually the WARLOCK when it was purchased for the movie JAWS. I think the boat was sold cheap to one of the fellow crewmen of the production.
2006-12-17 10:33:09 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-04-02 15:51:44 · answer #9 · answered by Harvey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was supposed to be a replica of the "Cricket 2", "Frank Mundus's boat" from the book "JAWS".
2006-12-16 22:47:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋