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. In a crucial scene in Jaws, chief Martin Brody must use his mistake as guide for to him complete his goal of saving the town from the antagonistic shark. After catching a tiger shark, the local town fishermen all celebrate their victory together with Brody and the mayor believing they have solved Amity Island’s problem. Soon the mother of the deceased child who was killed by the great shark appears on the boardwalk. Her costume, a solid black dress appropriate for a funeral, contrasts with the bright sunny day on the beach that is represented with high-key lighting. The dress also symbolizes the mother’s multiple feelings of mourning for her child and her anger towards Brody, which again juxtaposes the feelings of success among Brody and the fishermen. Her conversation with the police chief is executed through a shot-reverse shot sequence but she catches Brody’s attention with a smack to his face. She goes on how Brod... ... middle of paper ... ..., is able to become a strong leader by the end of the film while Jurassic Park’s John Hammond is a failure of a hero who only believes that he is a hero when in fact his attempt to use nature for entertainment causes his demise. Sequences in both films, such as the meeting between the grief-stricken mother and Brody and Hammond sitting down with Ellie Sattler, use elements of film-style such as shot-reverse shot editing to signify the apparent mistakes both characters have made. What made Brody into a successful heroic character and Hammond into a character who failed to be a hero was Brody’s ability to understand what he had done wrong and to learn from those mistakes to develop into a champion against the shark whereas Hammond did not even question what he had created and finally realized his mistake only when his control over the cloned dinosaurs had failed him.
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tension, but, then there is a jump shot to a party on the beach where
Steven Spielberg’s Jaws was a branch off the novel Jaws written by Peter Benchley . The Novel was written in 1974 receiving a best sellers award and therefore setting up for a movie just one year later in 1975, which soon invented the phrase “blockbuster”which simply is to gross over 100 million dollars. Since this was a highly publicized and successful novel Steven Spielberg was held to a high expectation for this movie to be an ultimate hit. The book and the movie have a lot of differences. The book gives you an all around synopsis on every character while the Movie gives you a breath description on what the character was about and more emphasis on the shark.
Based on Peter Benchley's bestselling novel, 'Jaws' centers around the fictional North Atlantic resort island of Amity, which finds itself terrorized by an enormous great white shark. Our hero is Martin Brody, a New York cop who took the job as Chief of the Amity PD to get his family out of the city and then finds himself in the midst of an unprecedented crisis none of his prior experience has prepared him for. The remains of young Christine Watkins are found on the beach, the apparent victim of a shark attack(Chrissie Watkins' death scene at the opening of the movie is one of the most legendary in the history of film). Chief Brody wants to close the beaches, but is refused permission
shark is near by and is going to attack. When the music is really loud
Assignment details: Analyze the components of the hero’s journey. Basically, support the argument that Jaws follows the epic hero cycle. Name specific examples from the movie and connect them to the hero’s journey. However, this is not a plot summary. You are not retelling the story, but selecting examples to support the analysis.
set on the fourth of July because that is the date of the main holiday
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.
When it was first discovered that a ferocious shark was going around biting of limbs the police chief (Martin Brody) suggested that the tourists be warned and the beaches shut down. However, the town’s mayor (Larry Voughn) had another plans. Due to the beach being the small towns only sources of income the mayor stated, “I’m only trying to say that Amity is a summer town. We need summer dollars. Now, if the people can’t swim here, they’ll be glad to swim at the beaches of Cape Cod, because of this he decised it would be better if the beaches remain open while the police chief, a professional shark hunter, and a marine biologist hunt down the great white. Although this situation sparked a lot of unwanted drama it was untimely the decision that progressed the story forward and one that sparked a lot of controversy by its
A key moment of fear between characters is when Brody suspects that his wife has cheated on him. Brody, Hooper, and Quint are out at sea looking for the shark. “Brody was on his feet moving at Hooper before he consciously knew he had left his chair. ‘You shut your mouth!’ he said. Reflexively, he dropped his right hand to his hip. He stopped short when he felt no holster at his side, scared by the sudden realization that if he had a pistol he might
Jaws focuses a lot of attention on youth and children; the main character has two young sons to look after, and the film’s beach scenes focus considerably on swarms of young kids and teenagers as they rush into the water, to the great dismay of viewers who are aware of the shark’s presence there. The fears of viewers are made valid when Alex Kintner, a young boy, is killed and eaten by the shark during a swim in the ocean (0:16:51). Suddenly, after having grown accustomed to the joyfulness and composure of other families enjoying themselves on the beach and in the town of Amity thus far, audiences are subject to a horrific change in pace; Alex’s death is gruesome and somewhat graphic, and the on-screen murder of a child comes as a shock to viewers. The scene is heartbreaking and distressing to watch, especially as Alex’s mother searches hopelessly for her son amidst a stampede of other terrified families. The Kintner family is dismantled in a matter of seconds, a terrifying yet realistic concept that viewers are made to witness on
‘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.
A new danger threatens the peace of a community. One brave hero takes it upon themselves to eliminate the threat and restore happiness among their people and become the master of themselves. Is this Jaws, Jurassic park, Godzilla, The Lion King, Spiderman, Harry Potter, or Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon poem published in the eighth and 11th century? The truth is it is all of them. The heroes journey is the common template used by a broad category of tales that involve a protagonist hero who goes on an adventure, overcomes an ordeal, and comes back home rewarded and changed. Coraline, a 2009 American 3D stop motion dark fantasy horror film produced by Laika, follows much of the same template created almost 11 centuries ago.
I totally agree with this reviewer about this film. exspecially with his words about the audience, " Jurassic World is a suprisingly thrilling blockbuster experience that should leave fans roaring with approval". In reading this review, I still feel as though he didnt express enough. In all reality going back to the first film and explained the main characters enough to where readers who didnt see the movie will want to and look go back to the beginning of the franchise and fall in love with it as I have. As I have below;
And the genre of the film is horror or thriller and it is about a great white shark that hunts in the seas of Amity Island. The film is set around the 4th of July in New Jersey. It may be set 4th of July because is their independence day or their freedom from Great Britain. It may be set on the 4th of July because this day is very important or significant for the whole of America. It is celebrated around the whole of America in various ways to celebrate the American tradition. This also creates tension because if people get killed on this day or maybe Christmas it has a greater effect because often people are unaware or not expecting something like this to happen on a day like that.