Jaws Ost -1975- John Williams - Steven Spielberg File

Jaws the film gives you the fear of what you can’t see. Jaws the score gives you the sound of inevitability.

When Williams first played the two-note motif for Spielberg on a piano, the director laughed. "That’s a joke, right?" Spielberg asked. Williams explained: "The motif represents the shark—primitive, instinctual, unstoppable. It starts slow, like a distant threat, and speeds up as the shark attacks." Jaws OST -1975- John Williams - Steven Spielberg

Williams supported this by . During the famous "Chrissie’s death" scene, we hear the bass playing the motif as she is dragged underwater—but once she’s gone? Silence. During the pier scene with little Alex Kintner, the motif plays aggressively... then cuts to dead air. Jaws the film gives you the fear of what you can’t see