no; can't be that. GWTW took in almost 400 million (adjusted it's 3.44 billion.)
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Okay, so the term is because jaws is thought of as the first film of the “blockbuster era”. Huge, multi market films that inspire “buzz” and repeat viewings.
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Well I mean look Old Hollywood had big blockbuster movies all the damn time, like if Gone with the Wind and The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur aren't "blockbusters" the term is meaningless
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The real sort of mixed legacy of Jaws and Star Wasr in the 70s was this specific model of being able to crank out a blockbuster (or a "tentpole feature" or whatever you wanna call it, a "big movie") on demand with a specific playbook
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Like the real notable thing about Jaws and Star Wars is they *weren't* based on extremely popular existing properties
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Ben Hur, probably the first "blockbuster franchise", worked its way from being a hit novel in fucking 1880 to a hit Broadway play to a hit silent film to the hit talkie we remember with Charlton Heston from 1959 Spielberg is remembered for making Jaws a hit "out of nowhere"
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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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Hence the -- perhaps unfortunate and unfair -- focus on the FX spectacle leading up to those movies that leads to them being remembered as pure spectacle "You've GOTTA SEE what they did with the shark" "You've GOTTA SEE how he did the spaceship battles and the laser swords"
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Like that was the hype for Superman in 1978, "You will believe a man can fly"
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James Cameron is kind of seen as the modern master of this whole business model -- Titanic bragging about how many gallons of water they used to simulate the ship sinking, the gushing over the T-1000 and the Alien Queen and whatnot -- and there was a huge backlash after Avatar
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