Comparison Of Jaws And The Birds

There have been many films in the horror genre that have inspired fear nature for example Jaws and The Birds. The film Jaw directed Steven Spielberg inspected people to fear sharks as written by Tim Donnelly published in New York Post, ¨The taut tension of the film, aided by Spielberg’s economical use of the actual shark on screen combined with John Williams’ iconic, haunting score, plucks fear strings so effectively, it even transfers completely off-screen”. (Why ‘Jaws’ terrifies even phobia experts). This is the truth since many people were scared of going into the water after the film came out. Furthermore, the film was saw by many people since it made $ 260,000,000 on it opening weekend. This film song is still used to this

day in other films and medium. This film has another layer of fear, since the films is based on real life events as written in Twelve Days of Terror by Richard Fernicola, “ The media response to the Bruder attack was one of absolute shock and amazement. The Vansant of July 1... but when the unthinkable attack on Bruder occurred in front of hundreds of tourists, including the upper crust of society.. The Spring Lake shark attack was suddenly stealing headlines from the war. The Boston Herald, the Chicago Sun Times, The Washington Post, and the San Francisco Chronicle all ran the front-page stories. Despite the clear but question position of these scientists on the probability of unprovoked shark attacks, the U.S and New Jersey governments, as well as the general media, still looked to these men as the experts on the topic” (pages 21-22) . During this time in New Jersey, many people were scared of sharks because of the many attacks on humans. Furthermore, the film took inspiration from real life, all the people looking towers the sciences for answer on the shark attack in the small island town of Amity . Also, the shark attacks were happening so frequently that government was almost brought in to stop shark with deadly force.