A Sociological Look at JAWS Essay

Shark attacks still happen to this day. There’s nothing more terrifying than hearing a story in the news of a mighty, great white shark killing an innocent person. He mentions the backlash of Hollywood blockbusters such as “Jaws” and “Sharknado 3” that intensifies one’s fear. Sharks have evolved in our

After a while, Chet sees his friends at the creek. He tries to warn them about the shark, but after the prank scare no one will believe him. Finally, they see the shark. All of his friends sprint out of the water besides his one friend,Sid. Sid is frozen in place. Chet’s internal reaction makes him just into the water to save his friend. As he is pulling his friend to shore, the shark gets his leg. His friends pull and pull until only part of his leg is

     The fact that we do not see the shark makes the audience feel quite uneasy, as in a way we are uncertain of what the danger is. It also builds up a lot of fear, from our point of view.

Usually, films are neither holistically unrestricted, omniscient, or restricted. If a film is completely unrestricted everything would be expected, which makes it extremely difficult for the audience to continue watching. However, if the piece is completely restricted, the plot and narration ranges can be severely limited. JAWS defeats these two flaws by containing both unrestricted and restricted narrative qualities. Although, he is not the narrator, by watching Brody’s strengths and weaknesses it’s unquestionable why any person would root for Brody. Thus, restricting the audience into following the knowledge of Brody with the exception of the musically intensified shark attacks. For example, every time the camera moves around the water and then focuses on the next victim’s vulnerable feet the audience knows an attack is waiting. The non-diegetic sounds of the iconic musical piece, Main Title, beautifully speeds up after the camera, thus indicating to the audience the shark is about to attack without the actor’s or actress’s knowledge. This is vividly shown in both the opening scene and the Alex Kintner scene as a tactic to get the audience’s heartbeat pumping and blood pressure rising. On another note, screenwriters often surround the protagonist with family members hoping this would create a sentimental relationship between the audience and the character. However, this often does not because of

Police Chief Brody jumps up from his tense sitting position and shouts for everybody to get out of the water. This was what Police Chief Brody was worried about. The boy, Alex is a lost cause can do nothing but scream, splash and attempt to believe he can escape from the sharks clutches. Alex is dragged down violently as he tries to gasp for breath; he is finally dragged and lost to the depths of the dark sea. The camera shot is really close up to the boy as he is fighting for his life; we see his pain, his struggle and his death. Everyone on the beach couldn’t miss the raft in the distance flip over and the blood

Hooper brings along a lot of his very expensive marine-biologist equipment to help them find this beast quicker. Also, they bring along some chum to attract the shark more easily. After being idle for some time, Brody and his crew finally see sign of the shark. The shark bites into the boat, and swallows up Quint in the process. At that point, Hooper is under water in the anti-shark cage attempting to stab the shark. Before the ship sinks, the Ultimate Boon occurs when Brody shoots a compressed air tank while it is in the shark 's mouth.

So Fernanda jumped and “pencil dived” to grab Roene, and it worked! But when Fernanda was grabbing Roene, she dropped the rope and hatchet. When Nathan and I were landing in the water, we had to loosen the chest strap before we landed. Once we landed we had to take it off carefully and let the parachute sink. Roene and Fernanda wanted to save the parachute, for supplies. So before they hit the water, Fernanda dropped Roene into the water, Roene swam away a little. While Fernanda was still in the air she loosened the chest strap and when she landed she took it off. Meanwhile, Roene quickly grabbed the parachute and successfully saved it. We swam towards each other while Nathan inflated the dinghy. We were about a three-minute swim away from each other, but there were some pretty big waves. When we noticed that there were sharks! While the rest of us were panicking, Fernanda discovered that they were whale sharks! She told us that whale sharks don’t eat humans! We were so relieved. While we were paddling to shore, Roene hit Nathan in the head with her oar! Nathan got a concussion, but he was okay since he just lay on the bottom of the dinghy. We were a six-hour paddle

Sharkwater (2006) is a documentary that was filmed by Robert Stewart, a man who spent his whole life in the ocean fascinated by sharks. Stewart's passion for sharks lead him to eventually become a marine biologist so he could spend his days scuba diving out in the ocean. His main goal shooting this movie is to inform viewers about how sharks are being killed so brutally and to persuade watchers to help do something to keep the shark population in tact. Stewart and his anti poaching crew try to evacuate the illegal fishermen out of the waters, help save the sharks, and raise awareness about the mass killings of the sharks and their rapid declining population. People in the countries that he traveled to then rallied together to protest, urging the government to create stricter laws. Stewarts’ message has impacted the countries he's visited; with his excellent use of logos, pathos, and mainly ethos he is able to impact even more people around the world.

“Many men who had tried to swim downed” many people say. But did those men have a boat? Frank morris was an armed bank robber and was extremely familiar on how to escape according to the scholastic scope. Many claim that the sharks ate them because their are supposedly sharks in san francisco bay. There happen to be sharks in the san francisco bay. Now those of you who live in san francisco don't jump out of your pants they're only little bottom feeder sharks they only are about as big as your fingers.

"You know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white. And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in and rip you to pieces. Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many men, they averaged six an hour."

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s article “The Brutal Business of Shark Finning” reminds us that sharks play a key role in the ocean as both predators and scavengers.

Inevitably, Fin Shepard, an international hero and the only man in the world qualified for the job, along with his intrepid bionic spouse April must track down the Sharknado that rapidly transforms into the unimaginable: a global abnormality that wreaks havoc

go back into the sea. We then see Brody sat on the beach watching out

One day a young fish crossed paths with a big shark. He had never seen one before but heard terrible stories about it. Frightened for his life he swam away. The second time he saw this shark he was still alarmed but less than the first time. Finally the third time he ran in with the shark he approached him. The young fish finally learn’t that the shark was harmless after all,

The Captain asked Philip, Mason, and Kent to get a notebook and pen. Lucky for them, the scientists had them in their bags. Captain picked three fishermen as volunteers with different body weight. He described his plan with more detail, “My idea is that those three men will pretend to be the Sharks Member.