Jaws (1975), directed by Steven Spielberg, is considered to be the first “blockbuster” film ever created. A blockbuster in film is defined as a motion picture or novel, especially one lavishly produced that has or is expected to have wide popular appeal or financial success. Jaws came out on June 20, 1975. Bill Higgins states in his article, “Jaws ' place in Hollywood blockbuster history was cemented in the summer of 1975 when it was No. 1 at the box office for 14 consecutive weeks en route to making history as the first film to gross more than $100 million” (Higgins). Based on the definition of a blockbuster, Jaws truly meets every criterion to be called a blockbuster and was the first blockbuster film ever created because of its widespread …show more content…
The mystery of the shark was the focal point of the marketing. Movies at this time did not have plots as simple to comprehend, yet intricate with entertaining details which made them harder to advertise and create the anticipation similar to that of Jaws. “The studios didn 't quite understand the appeal of pictures like ' 'The Graduate, ' ' ' 'Bonnie and Clyde, ' ' ' 'Easy Rider ' ' and ' 'M*A*S*H ' ' and certainly couldn 't replicate it. (For that matter, they couldn 't even figure out how to clone ' 'Love Story. ' ') But ' 'Jaws ' ' was, on the face of it, entertainment of a type the studios knew how to produce” (Rafferty). The plot was for both adults and children. The terrifying plot leaves all viewers on the edge of their seats waiting to see what happens next. The happy ending in which Hooper and Brody defeat the shark, is something that everyone can enjoy and they are able to end the film with a sense of relief. “What makes a horror movie more disturbing than other kinds of suspense thrillers and action movies -- police dramas, say, or the international intrigue Tom Clancy serves up -- is that the anxiety it generates is magnified by a sense of helplessness: you 're up against a force that can 't be mastered by reason”
Jaws is a 1975 thriller that was directed by Steven Spielberg and is also based on a 1974 nook with the same name. The film is about a great white shark attacking Amity Island which is obviously not real but a fictional resort.
Analysis of the Ways the Director Builds Suspense in the Opening to the Film Jaws
‘Jaws’ a thriller based on the novel by Peter Benchley, the film was directed by Steven Spielberg. In a beach resort of Amity Island, a young girl named Chrissie is the first victim of the shark’s vicious attack, when it strikes for the second time, the police refuse to put out warning about the shark. It then returns and kills again, the mayor orders the local fishermen to catch the great white shark before it kills even more victims. The fishermen are satisfied when they catch a Tiger shark the mayor reopens the beaches despite the warning from the ichthyologist when he suspects it was from a formidable great white shark. Brody and Hooper and the only fisherman willing to join them to catch the great white set out in the fisherman’s boat only coming face to teeth with the enemy. This film is rated as a 15, and has a running-time of 124 minutes. It was made in the USA, the soundtrack to ‘Jaws’ was a famous two-note piece composed by Czech composer Antonín Dvořák.
Throughout the film there are many experts about the ocean and the animals that live in it. Researcher Ritter the misconception of the shark’s species is blown out of proportion by the media, which is why sharks have such an awful reputation. Experts touch up on this subject adding how even one of the biggest movies Jaws is a very large portion from where people get their fears from or it could be from all of the “shark attacks” on the news. Rob discusses how at the rate we are going we can destroy all of the food chains in the marine ecosystem, and this is where most of our oxygen comes from. Throughout the film experts Rob Stewart and Paul Watson are trying to get long lining banned in Costa Rica. Paul makes a really interesting point saying how the biggest problem is that we do not understand what we are and we are just a bunch of “conceited naked apes” that are out of
...k cant nearly provide the same fear as actually seeing the water and waiting for the shark to jump out and decapitate someone. Steven Spielberg also left us guessing because as the movie went on we got to see more and more of what the shark looked like until WHAM! The shark jumps out of the water and leaves at our seats to enjoy a blood-splattering finale. While reading the book I kept going and going waiting to get to a spin tingling conclusion and then all I read was how the shark suddenly floated away. I felt teased as if a girlfriend kissed you all over and left you there to stay with no action for the night! Part of it was the fact that I saw the movie before I read the book so my expectations were very high for the book seeing that Jaws is a classic. Overall I think Jaws is one of the few times that the movie actually beat the book by a very long shot.
The classic 1975 film, Jaws, takes place in a coastal New England tourist town. After a young woman is killed by a shark the police chief and the mayor have differing opinion on what to do about the shark. The police chief, Martin Brody, wants to close the beaches while the mayor, Larry Vaughn, does not want to lose any tourist revenue and overrules him. After another shark attack a bounty is put out for the shark. While a shark is caught it is not the one who has been terrorizing the community. However, the beaches open once again and there is another attack. Brody, along with oceanographer Matt Hooper and local fisherman Quint set out to find the shark.
This image is what a majority of people believe to be the shark. They believe it to be the bloodthirsty sea monster that appears in countless works of literature and films, but science says otherwise. The classic picture painted by the minds of sailors returning from years at sea come from imagination and sharks’ violent methods of hunting and mating. Sharks fear humans as much as humans fear sharks, and most sharks, particularly the “man-eating” great whites, only bite humans because they mistake surfers for seals. In earlier times, the ocean was a source of mystery and adventur...
The pristine 1933 King Kong was constructed as a movie: to convey a story to entertain an audience. Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake took the substructure for King Kong and expanded upon it in virtually every way in order to “make again” the astoundment of the original for a modern-day audience. Audiences received the first King Kong very well. The stop-motion sequences of Kong were astounding for their time and the movie grossed over $90,000 in its beginning weekend. In order to bank upon its prosperity again, sequels were made and thus in 1976 a remake was made to amend upon the original. Paramount updated the movie to color, altered the story, and cast Jeff Bridges, a widely popular actor of the time, as the lead actor. Although the movie received stirred reviews, it did exceptionally well in the box office and tripled Paramount’s initial budget for the motion picture. Even though the movie wasn’t “as good” as the original, audiences still paid money to view it because of that hope that they would feel like they once did when they visually perceived the first King Kong. The remake add...
In the movie “Jaws”, which is a 20th century film, the preying shark terrorizes the beaches of New England. After he is finally trapped, he is killed- but not in the same fashion as Grendel was. The shark was shot in the mouth and then blew up to do a CO2 tank he had swallowed. The way in which each antagonist was killed was in two very different ways: with and without weaponry, respectively.
Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) and his other film Jurassic Park (1993) both contain a major theme of what makes a successful hero in society. In Jaws, police chief Martin Brody must successfully eliminate the threat of a Great White Shark from attacking Amity Island. In Jurassic Park, billionaire John Hammond creates a theme park where cloned dinosaurs come alive, hoping that his ideal resort becomes a major success. Through the use of film style elements, such as editing and mise-en scene, Spielberg develops Brody’s character as a person who must learn from his past mistakes in order to become a successful hero while Spielberg creates Hammond’s character as a man who only sees himself as a hero of science and technology without realizing his attempted control over nature is what leads him to his ultimate failure.
Spielberg reveals the shark bit by bit making us imagine what it looks like. together like e.g. only revealing the dorsal fin and a bit of the torso in the Kinter boy attack. Brody reels in Marine Biologist Matt. Hooper (played by Dreyfuss) and the two men discover a Great. White has come to feed off their shores.
Jaws is a really movie about a lot of suspense. The reason I think that Jaws is a really good movie about building suspense is because of three main things. One of the things that has a lot of suspense is Sound. When Jaws, well the shark is under water and is about to attack something or someone the music starts getting loud. Another thing that is really good about building suspense is the Camera Angle. The reason I think the camera angle is good about building suspense is when the camera is on the boat and it's going with the waves it feels like you're really there. The last thing that really draws my attention in the movie that builds suspense is the picture. The reason that the this really draws my attention is because in the film when something bad or a big part of the movie is about to happen the lighting in the movie also makes it feel like you are really there are have a part of what's actually going on.
Once the shark is killed the film ends rather quickly. The immediate reward for Brody is that Amity will once again be safe, as well as the fact that he is no longer threatened himself. He also discovers that Hooper hasn’t been killed and that together they will be able to swim back to shore.
In the title sequence the music starts of very quiet and slow and as the music speeds up it builds anxiety within the audience because they want to know what going to happen. It also builds a horrific tension within the audience; also it shows the camera from the shark’s point of view in the sea which is an effective way to build tension because the audience...
beast conflict without abandoning character development, removing the inconsequential sub stories which ended with the massively successful theatrical spectacle that has won many accolades. Some of the most common criticism of the novel was directed to the human characters, stating that none of the humans were very likeable or even interesting. Steven Spielberg confessed the shark was his favorite character saying he the characters unsympathetic and wanted the shark to win. Jaws won three Academy Awards for Best Film Editing, Best Original Dramatic Score, and Best Sound. John Williams's score won the Grammy Award, the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music, and the Golden Globe Award. Jaws was, also, chosen Favorite Movie at the People's Choice Awards. American Film Institute ranked “Bruce” the shark at number 18 on its list of the 50 Best Villains.