“In Spielberg’s mythology, the essential close encounter is between filmmakers and their audiences, for whom the dreams and myths of imagination become concrete celebrations of sound, light, color, and space.” (Galenson) Stephen Spielberg has enlightened movie watchers for decades on his ability to get the most from every scene of his work. Jaws will do more to define his directorial approach at an early stage of his career. In contrast, Peter Benchley’s novel is engrossed with character development, and unnecessary sub-plots to entertain the theater audience. At the direction of Stephen Spielberg, the adaption of the novel will be recreated for cinematic appeal, leave the basic plot intact and the fear will come from conflicting sources.
To create fear Benchley will rely on prose to stimulate the imagination of the reader. For instance, the writer will never use the words shark, but describe the pectoral fin, and the fish’s lack of flotation bladder to stimulate the vision of shark. He will create the mood by writing of the darkness of the water to trigger the feeling of isolation. The sexual account will help the reader envision the final demise of Chrissie. Chrissie’s fear is a nagging, and growing as she swims with the great fish circling the dark water below; likewise, our participation is becoming frenzied. The sources of fear are triggered by Benchley’s ability to set our imagination aflame. In contrast the words, sex, and light is not needed to thrill the audience of a movie.
The movie genre of Jaws is action-adventure and the audience will require explosive visuals and sound to entertain them. Spielberg will not need sex, darkness, or words to initiate anxiety among the viewers. The camera, sound, actres...
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Peter Benchley and Stephen Spielberg respectively use their artistic talents to entertain the audience of their work. Peter Benchley literary talent triggers the imagination to form visuals of his characters, and horrify the reader of Jaws. While Stephen Spielberg adaption makes changes to appeal to the viewer of Jaws. The novel will receive great reviews from critics such as the New York Times, make the recommended reading of Doubleday and Company, and the movie will become the father of the summer blockbuster film. Each inspires fear of sharks, and the ocean, and Jaws will become an icon of American culture as it inspires video games, t-shirt graphics, and future sequels to entertain audiences. Each artist’s ability to stimulate its perspective audience leads to the phenomenon of movie and novel.
Fear resides within all of our souls and our minds in different forms wether it be mind, body, or spirit. Fear can be brought upon by actions, words or ever our mere imagination. Of course as one being younger your imagination can bring along fear that is non existent but, to one it may seem so vivid and tangible. In this Novel by William Golding we come to grasps with many different forms of fear being from the beast, the loss of humanity, and the fear of realization.
Analysis of the Ways the Director Builds Suspense in the Opening to the Film Jaws
fear, this fear persuades the reader of this idea by making the reader experiencing the horror of
Some would say watching horror movies and being scared out of your wits is a fun way to spend their hard earned money. They go see these movies on average once a week, each time choosing a newer version of a trilogy like “Chucky” or “The evil Dead”. Film making has come a long way over the last few decades, the graphic...
After the boys crash on the island, their immediate reaction to the island is its beauty. The weather on the island was hot and humid, without a breeze. The look of the “dazzling beach and the water” (Golding) is unlike anything they have ever seen. The island was superior in their eyes as “The boys find themselves in a tropical paradise: bananas, coconuts, and other fruits are profusely available.” (Slayton) There was no fear and an instant commodore due to the circumstance. However, after becoming comfortable, a natural fear of the unknown begins to settle “as if it wasn’t a good island” (Golding) and they find themselves faced with an entity named, The Beast. This dark fear comes back to haunt them later.
The second of two appearances from Spielberg, the original is considered one of the best films ever made, with a Hitchcock like approach to the score (to have the score tell the audience that the shark is coming). It is the film that set the standard for later summer blockbusters. "Jaws: The Revenge" is considered one of the worst films of all time and the third one is only slightly better, with nothing all that great to talk about either film.
Fear brings forth a certain atmosphere which compels us to act upon it. The era in which the book was published allows us to see how common these fears were. Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House is an excellent portrayal of how fear controls the human mind by using the characters as examples. In the book Eleanor, Theodora, Luke, and Dr. Montague have all been influenced by fear in the story, whether it be the fear of love, the unknown, family, rejection, expression, or loneliness. These different types of fear plagued their minds causing their actions to reflect upon them. Jackson explores the theme of fear in The Haunting of Hill House by creating a cast of characters that in turn are manipulated by the inner workings of their minds and the
The only real way to truly understand a story is to understand all aspects of a story and their meanings. The same goes for movies, as they are all just stories being acted out. In Thomas Foster's book, “How to Read Literature Like a Professor”, Foster explains in detail the numerous ingredients of a story. He discusses almost everything that can be found in any given piece of literature. The devices discussed in Foster's book can be found in most movies as well, including in Quentin Tarantino’s cult classic, “Pulp Fiction”. This movie is a complicated tale that follows numerous characters involved in intertwining stories. Tarantino utilizes many devices to make “Pulp Fiction” into an excellent film. In this essay, I will demonstrate how several literary devices described in Foster's book are put to use in Tarantino’s film, “Pulp Fiction”, including quests, archetypes, food, and violence.
The genre of a film is very important as it draws the viewers into worlds different from the life they experience on a daily basis. In this paper I will be discussing several scenes in a movie (World War Z) that includes both thriller and sci-fi genre, and the stylistic elements used in this film. Thriller is one of the major film genres, it includes suspense with continuous movements and physical actions such as fights and battles. While sci-fi is mostly related to the science based and relates with the imaginative aspects such as aliens, zombies, advanced technology and several things that we are not used to seeing or hearing about on a daily basis.
A distressing emotion aroused by impending evil and pain, whether the threat is real or imagined is described as fear. Fear is what William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies encompasses. By taking three major examples from the novel, fear will be considered on different levels: Simon’s having no instance of fear, Ralph’s fear of isolation on the island, and Jack’s fear of being powerless. Fear can make people behave in ways that are foreign to them, whether their fear is real or imagined. In response to fear, people may act defensively by attacking, fear can either stop one from doing something, or it can make one behave in an irrational erratic manner.
...successful collaboration of sound, colour, camera positioning and lighting are instrumental in portraying these themes. The techniques used heighten the suspense, drama and mood of each scene and enhance the film in order to convey to the spectator the intended messages.
Throughout the poem, the author uses various types of figurative language to immerse the reader in the thoughts and feeling of the speaker. The personification of fear in the form of Mr. Fear provides one such example.
A clear and important theme developed in the story by Ray Bradbury through the use of personification is fear. In the sentence, ?The fear was never gone? it lay with Mr and Mrs Bittering, a third unbidden partner at every midnight talk?. The author creates fear among the humans by using personification to show the unbidden partner as a person, but we recognise what it really is. Ray Bradbury is trying to show that the unbidden partner is fear becoming real.. There was once a time were fear was overwhelming and real to me when on the year 8 camp I participated in, we went to make rafts at the beach. When we went to test them in the water, we went out to the rocks, and then a man came to pick us up from the ocean because our rafts had fallen apart. He told us all to grab onto a piece of rope of a part of the raf...
As an audience we are manipulated from the moment a film begins. In this essay I wish to explore how The Conversation’s use of sound design has directly controlled our perceptions and emotional responses as well as how it can change the meaning of the image. I would also like to discover how the soundtrack guides the audience’s attention with the use of diegetic and nondiegetic sounds.
Sound is what brings movies to life, but, not many viewers really notice. A film can be shot with mediocre quality, but, can be intriguing if it has the most effective foley, sound effects, underscore, etc. Sound in movies band together and unfold the meaning of the scenes. When actors are speaking, the dialogue can bring emotion to the audience, or, it can be used as the ambient sound. Music is one of the main things to have when filmmaking. The use of Claudia Gorbman’s Seven Principles of Composition, Mixing and Editing in Classical Film gives audiences a perspective of sound, and, how it can have an impact on them.