MCA/Common Dwelling VideoSusan Backlinie in Jaws
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American stuntwoman Susan Backlinie has died on the age of 77, half a century after her bloody demise on the silver display set the tone for the movie Jaws.
As a 27-year-old, Backlinie performed Chrissie, the primary sufferer of the film shark. Within the first minutes of the movie, she is shocked by the unseen sea monster whereas swimming bare.
Chrissie is first pulled below water after which dragged forwards and backwards:
Director Spielberg had chosen newcomer Backlinie as a result of the stuntwoman had gained a variety of swimming expertise as a mermaid in an amusement park. “I wanted somebody who might deal with no matter I had deliberate.”
Spielberg achieved the jerking actions of her demise throes by tying her to an underwater pulley system operated by a handful of males on the seashore, who unexpectedly pulled her in a single course or the opposite. Her strangled cries had been recorded the wrong way up within the dub whereas water was poured into her mouth.
The times of recording had been exhausting, however Backlinie regarded again on it proudly. “The very first thing Spielberg stated to me was, ‘When your scene is completed, I need the viewers to take a seat below the theater seats with popcorn and bubble gum.’ I believe we succeeded.”
“What I usually hear from individuals is: ‘Due to you I not dare to enter the ocean,'” she stated in an interview a number of years in the past. “Some stated they did not even dare take a shower anymore.”
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Her memorable demise didn’t translate right into a Hollywood profession. Backlinie solely appeared in a number of movie roles, through which she usually got here into contact with animals. That is how she turned horribly killed by a grizzly and he or she had to enter it Day of the Animals in opposition to a complete bunch of untamed animals.
Spielberg himself requested her again for his comedy in 1979 1941the place she her Jawsfunction parodied with a submarine’s periscope as an alternative of a shark. She additionally centered on coaching animals for movies. For instance, she owned the bear that growled for Chewbacca Star Wars delivered.
Backlinie died unexpectedly on Saturday of a coronary heart assault at dwelling in California.
Dave Allocca/Starpix/ShutterstockBacklinie in 2013