Analysis Of The Movie Jaws

Another way suspense was created was both the character's choices. In Jaws, Hooper waited for "one more pass for pictures." Hooper could have left earlier, but waited longer increases the chances

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Steven Spielberg, the creator of Jaws, uses many different techniques to draw in the suspense of viewers and to capture their imagination. These techniques include special effects – to create tension, different camera angles – to show facial expressions and group shots. The classic Jaws music, known by millions of people, also helps build up tension, to let us know when the shark is approaching. He uses colours, so that we can associate signs and symbols to forthcoming events, e.g. the colour red is associated with danger. We will be using all of the above devices to help analyse different parts of the film.

The first way the author creates suspense in the story is by foreshadowing. When Captain Torres walked into the barber’s shop, the barber, “Started to shake,” (Tellez 1) indicating that the barber felt instant fear, when his enemy approached. This foreshadows that the barber knows the man and that he will be deciding to kill him or not. Foreshadowing creates suspense because it is a clue given to the reader. It is the reader’s job to guess what is going to happen in the story and that is what makes it interesting. Without foreshadowing the reader won’t be able to prepare what is going to happen next. Another scene where the foreshadowing technique is used was when the barber came up with his reasons to not kill Captain Torres. The barber contemplated in his mind, “Don’t want to stain myself with blood. Just lather, and nothing else,” (Tellez 2) which foreshadows that the barber is not going to commit murder.

The music represents the shark, especially its movements and its presence. In the title sequence the camera is moving along the seabed like a shark. Spielberg makes the audience believe that the camera is viewing things through the shark’s eyes, he uses a camera shot called point of view shot. The music makes the shark seem a mystery because you haven’t yet seen the shark but you can feel its presence. The music clouds your vision and makes you imagine and believe something that actually isn’t even there. It builds tension

Jaws was a movie that was made which clearly represents itself as a movie that follows a Hero 's Journey Narrative. The Journey begins with The Call, as part of the Departure. The Call begins once Sheriff Brody is first made aware of the shark attack that happens, before several more break out. He essentially accepts The Call by looking further into the attack, in case more come to his attention. The Initiation begins with the Apotheosis, after Brody discovers more shark attacks because he then possesses more knowledge on how to approach the problem. Finally, the Return begins and ends with the freedom To Live, where the town and all its citizens can swim in

The director builds an atmosphere of suspense using various techniques. He uses darker lightning during the action scenes were the horseman appears to convey the urgency and horror of the situation. This is suspenseful

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

The second attack is on a small boy in the sea at a crowded beach on

The film, Jaws, uses a variety of different photographic techniques. Panning was used quite often in this movie to remind the viewer that they were a long distance from the shoreline. Additionally, plenty of filming was done underwater. This allowed the audience to get a realistic feel for the surrounding environment. The brilliant underwater imagery resulted with help from the naturally dark and chilling emptiness of the foreign ocean world. A notable climatic shot is

In Jaws the first factor is most important for this film excerpt. Jaws is an older film, as it came out in the 70's. With that being said, this film may seem kind of cheesy to viewers now days. However, the performance of the actor in the film is what makes it so scary

“Duh dun…Duh dun…Duh dun, duh dun, duh dun.” When you hear the famous two-note theme from the classic summer blockbuster Jaws, your heart immediately picks up and instantly visions of a massive, man eating shark pop into your head. In 1975, Jaws terrified beachgoers everywhere with the bone chilling thought of a vicious great white shark lurking just below their feet, threatening to attack every person it came in contact with. Swimmers were haunted by the image of the film’s poster, which displayed a swimmer just within reach of the colossal beast’s jaws. The poster did its job in conveying the terror it wanted to instill in its viewers for the sake of the film, but was it an accurate depiction of reality? In this 2015 ad, WildAid parodies the poster from the classic film Jaws to paint humans as the real monster when it comes to human-shark interactions. With the inclusion of a striking statistic and by creating a parallel between the vicious shark from the film and those of the shark finning industry, WildAid shifts the blame in order to raise awareness for their cause and focus on the real victim.

Steven Spielberg's’ 1975 blockbuster(1) still remains popular today, but it also still inspires a feeling of fear in the newest generation. Anyone can remember the dead man coming out of the boat, but really, He should have been eaten. Jaws is a great movie, but that's just what it is: a movie-not real. Although who would think about how unrealistic that dead man is, or how blowing up a shark is NOT the way to kill it while they watch the beast on the rampage. This movie may have started the shark paranoia, but what keeps it floating is the media.

see the shark at any point so we don’t know how big it is making fear

The reason I think suspense is important because it keeps the audience watching. Suspense makes us get butterflies in our stomach wondering what is gonna happen. This is what hooks us into the movie because, we wanna know what’s gonna happen. The suspense leads us to the best action or plot in the movie. In Inception, they used a bunch of suspense they even ended the movie in suspense.