Spielberg is credited with inventing the blockbuster...but Gone With the Wind is still the best selling film of all time, right?
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Like, the Peter Benchley novel was a bestseller but kind of a trashy one, and more importantly it had *just* been a bestseller, it wasn't a "classic" from years ago
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The thing that made Spielberg and Lucas seem like miracle workers was making a movie that became a "must-see" property that everyone had to flood the theaters for on opening weekend within a relatively short time with little foundation
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Yeah the mean joke about Jaws for years was that it was a "shark movie" and people were just impatiently waiting for the shark Which is pretty unfair, like the thing is Jaws is honestly a great deal more artistic and complex than most "blockbusters"
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