
Film History
“Swim, Charlie, swim!”: A Dissection of the Dock Scene from Jaws
The famous “dock scene” in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, which arrives just before the film’s 25-minute mark, is a scene that plays out as a pivot point from the tension-building pattern established in the previous shark attack scenes in the film but also presages aspects of what’s to come in the third act of the film.
