Jaws (1975)

Universal/Everett

If you think that shooting a film at sea sounds like a disaster waiting to happen, then you would be correct. However, it wasn't just the sea that plagued’s Jaws . The film which was eventually nicknamed "Flaws", had a ton of woes which were pretty much all Bruce's fault. Bruce was the name given to the three mechanical sharks used on set. They were heinously difficult to work with, and ended up causing the production a ridiculous amount of extra money and time. However, Bruce was only the beginning of all the things that went wrong. Richard Dreyfuss later spoke out saying, "We started the film without a script, without a cast, and without a shark." Jaws was Spielberg's first major film, and the cast and crew had little confidence in him. It didn't help that the shooting days spiraled from a manageable 55 to 159. Meanwhile Dreyfuss and his co-starwere embattled in a heinous feud during the production. Perhaps the worst of it came when shooting the final scene of the film. The boat began to sink and in a panic, Spielberg told the crew to get the actors off the boat, to which the sound engineer replied, "F*ck the actors. Save the sound department!" Somehow all of this worked in Spielberg's favor, the tension and the fact that the film was shot on location in Martha's Vineyard made it look way more authentic. Though Spielberg initially thought his days as a filmmaker were over,quickly forgave him when the $9 million dollars he'd spent was made back during the film's opening weekend. Jaws also helped define the summer blockbuster.