Ecclesiastes 12:10

  Steven Spielberg's big break as a director almost didn’t happen because the star of the film was a flop.  At the time, Spielberg had only directed one major movie and it wasn’t a commercial success. Yet his talent convinced producers to give him a chance at a big film based on a popular novel.  Yet the star Bruce wasn’t making it easy for him. He didn’t make shoots and he wasn’t up to snuff when he did. His skin was bloated. He didn’t handle the ocean shoot very well. He didn’t seem ‘real’ in his scenes.  Spielberg couldn’t however fire the actor. Because he wasn’t an actor or even real. Bruce was the prop shark built to represent the man-eating shark in the film Jaws.  Yet it never worked. Spielberg later calculated that during the 12-hour daily work schedule, on average only four hours were actually spent filming.   How can you make a film about a shark with no shots of a shark?   It turns out very well. The mechanical problems with Bruc...