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Movie Meltdown - Episode 277

This week we sit down with one of the most interesting guests we\u2019ve ever had\u2026 Joe Alves. He\u2019s an artist, production designer, art director, second unit director, sculptor, director\u2026 you name it, if it\u2019s related to bringing a movie to life \u2013 Joe\u2019s probably done it. He\u2019s best know for his work on the \u201cJaws\u201d series of films, but over the years he\u2019s worked on some of the biggest movies in Hollywood, including Forbidden Planet, Torn Curtain, Mutiny on the Bounty, Sleeping Beauty, My Fair Lady, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Starman, The Sugarland Express, Escape from New York and so many others! Joe is a fascinating man with a phenomenal work history\u2026 and work ethic.

And as we discuss shooting scenes of the shark in Joe\u2019s pool, we also mention\u2026 working at Disney, Josh Meador, working with Hitchcock, An American in Paris, rotoscoping, John Cassavetes, sculpting the shark, I got nominated for the NAACP Image Award, I\u2019ve got these young people that I want you to meet, John Carpenter, Portugal, the Id, junior set designer, the left to right shark, Harry Dean Stanton, Hayward California, Mad Men, Moby Dick, Lea Thompson\u2026 so cute\u2026 so charming, Ken Russell, French impressionist paintings, rendering each frame, Mr. Newman has to eat his asparagus with gloves, 300 storyboards, stealing Antonio Gatti\u2019s architecture, you\u2019re late for the training program, I say\u2026 the shark worked or you wouldn\u2019t have been scared, Korean veterans, more shark\u2026 more shark\u2026 more shark, what wasn\u2019t easy was dealing with the producer, the gas station was supposed to collapse, \xa0Louis Gossett Jr., we were at the top of the Twin Towers, edgier Alice in Wonderland,\xa0\xa0the shark made all these funny noises,\xa0Debra Hill, production design, Steven Spielberg, racing formula one cars, Fire Down Below, that guy got nominated for an Academy Award\u2026 and he\u2019s putting posters up, drafting, two thousand pounds of weight to pull the barrel down, shooting in 3D, Steven Seagal showed up late\u2026 didn\u2019t have his lines and Eisenhower invading Normandy.\xa0

\u201cThe idea that the shark never worked\u2026 it was all nonsense!\u201d