Jaws: The Quintessence Of Classical Hollywood Film

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Jaws Directed by Steven Spielberg USA, 1975, 124 minutes Reviewed by Kassandra Wellman Student, Wynford High School, Bucyrus, OH (USA) Jaws is based on book written by Peter Benchley which is loosely based around the shark attacks of 1916 along the US eastern coast. Peter Benchley co-wrote the screenplay with Carl Gottlieb. Jaws is tagged as an action and adventure, mystery and suspense, thriller and is intended for older audiences (PG-13). Jaws main characters are: Broody (Police Chief) played by actor Roy Scheider, Quint (Fisherman) played by actor Robert Shaw, Hooper (Scientist) played by Richard Dreyfuss. Other Jaws top billed actors/actresses are: Lorraine Gary (Ellen Brody), Murray Hamilton (Mayor Vaughn) .

How does the director try to build suspense and scare the audience in the film Jaws?

During the film Steve Spielberg uses music, a mysterious shark and camera techniques such as simultaneous track and zoom, long shot, close up shots and medium shots to build suspense, tension and scare the audience.

The movie I choose to review was Jaws, which is one of my favorites and a timeless classic. A traditional story about man against beast takes place on an island that depends on its summer tourist business. When the summer season in threatened by a series of shark attacks three men are sent out to track down a great white shark.

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1. Jaws created our concept of the Summer Blockbuster. What impact has this had on the movie-going public? Have summer blockbusters been as good, better, or worse than Jaws since? Give examples. Do you think Jaws would be a summer hit if it were released today? It's created or fear of sharks. I think worse because you can never replace the original summer blockbuster Jaws. The Way, Way Back and Moonrise Kingdom. If it

Known as one of the greatest and most famous films of all time, Jaws was recognized as a summer blockbuster after its release in June 1975. Jaws, directed by Steven Spielberg, was highly known for its outstanding cinematography, scenic music, as well as the effect it had on filmmaking history with the tremendously small budget they had of 9 million dollars. This film created a summer blockbuster by being the start of great suspense, action, and strong effects and explosions. Movies these days have extreme CGI effects where many viewers may not be amazed nor shocked about, but Jaws, being the first film with solid effects, has impacted a vast audience. Jaws and the notion of the blockbuster have a huge connection and relation due to the impact it brought to millions of viewers and greater films it has impacted and created.

Clenching teeth, defined facial bone structure and fine dentistry; the title of Steven Spielberg’s classic film Jaws paints quite a mental picture for its viewers with many possibilities. Along with the title, the original film poster used to promote Jaws was visually colorful and terrifying all at the same time. The poster indicates an oversized great white shark lurking in the dark depths of the sea, looking up towards the surface at a swimmer. Waiting and watching, the imagery of the poster gives the viewer the feeling that the shark is waiting for just the right moment to attack with its powerful bone-crushing jaws. What makes this film so interesting and captivating is that for over half of Spielberg’s film the protagonist, the shark, is nowhere to be seen. The way Steven Spielberg incorporates and mixes powerful and suspenseful music with his brilliant editing of the film, as well as the composition, allows viewers to believe there is an actual shark, even though the shark is out of sight.

In April of 1975, Saigon, the South Vietnamese capital, fell. This triggered the end of the Vietnam War, the only real defeat in American military history. Two months later, the movie Jaws was released, and it was a smash hit, the first real blockbuster in the history of American cinema. The success of the film is of course related to the fact that it was based on a popular book, built suspense like few if any previous films had done, and of course was marketed and released on an unprecedented scale that led to a new trend among films. However, there are reasons that this film was so successful in its time. In the wake of seeing the United States fail to stop the Communist beast it had been fighting for over twenty years, Americans were looking

The Ways that the Director Builds Suspense and Scares the Audience in the Film JAWS

Hollywood has become synonymous to great cinema, be it American or an international equivalent, it always comes back to a Hollywood comparison. Classical Hollywood style exhibits clarity, unity, goal-orientated characters, and closure, while most other elements are set aside to further progress the cumulative buildup of narrative. Often referred to as the “invisible style,” because it relies on this “unobtrusive craftsmanship,” classic Hollywood practices ensure viewers will be completely immersed in a film without focusing on the literal separation between the screen and the audience. However, with as much importance creativity is placed upon the film industry, profit is also a huge factor in the filmmaking practice. There are certain genres

Kelly Kaasa Theater Ms. Williams I have chosen to do my director analysis assignment on Mr. John Hughes. John Hughes was born in Lansing Michigan to John Hughes Sr., who worked in sales, and his mother who volunteered for charity. Most of his first twelve years growing up was spent in Grosse Pointe, Michigan where he felt his title was the “quiet kid”. When 1963 came around Hughes’s family moved to a suburb outside of Chicago Illinois, here was where Hughes attended Glenbrook North High School.

Steven Spielberg’s film “JAWS” (1975), (Spielberg/Universal), uses the motif of an essentially unseen shark, ominously present through unpredictable displays of terrifying violence, to sculpt a message about good, evil, power, arrogance, and vanity within the hegemony of small-town middle class America. Spielberg markets this “High Concept” (Cook 40), film and its nationalist ideals on a story that is principally based on one image, the shark, and the fallibility of the human decision making process. In a relatively short scene that lasts no longer than a minute and a half, eleven or so minutes into the film, the viewer is presented with the hierarchy of the town’s political decision making process, its hubris and the lack of concern for the physical safety of the common citizenry over which they govern. The scene takes place on a small ferry boat in the town’s harbor. The previous evening there was an unwitnessed shark attack in the harbor water which killed a young woman. The discussion on the ferry, held by the town’s mayor, selectmen, medical examiner, and police chief, is primarily between police chief Brody and Mayor Vaughn. Brody tells Vaughn that he is going to shut the beach down, no swimming will be allowed because it is unsafe. The mayor tell him that he, the police chief, does not have the authority to do so and that only he, the mayor, does and he has no intention to give him authority to do do. “Amity is a summer town and we need summer dollars. If people can’t

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