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hi, well im called will, im really into extreme sports and love snowboarding and surfin.
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'Jaws' is set in the charming, fictional holiday resort of Amity Island, a tourist haven and local fishing hotspot. This sunny paradise is suddenly plunged into the depths of the ocean of despair with a terrifying, man-eating beast that scares us so much that our knees knock together.
Steven Spielberg's genius plot in 'Jaws' drags the audience into our most feared nightmare. It exhilarates us to the very pinnacle of our senses and makes us scream for more in a roller coaster ride of emotions; sadness, sympathy and fright.
The film begins with an attack on a drunken teenager that shocks us right from the start, However, then there is a relaxing period when there is a calm beach scene, Spielberg has carefully thought out the plot of this film to keep us right on the edge by raising and lowering the tension.
The main storyline follows the 'rogue' great white shark who is terrorising the resort in the most fragile and important season of this little town's year. Its tells us of the trials which Officer Brody endures to try and kill the shark and protect the community. We empathise with this character as he seems a likeable chap, always doing good deeds. He acquires the help of a shark expert because he believes that
this will help his efforts in returning the normally peaceful holiday resort to its more jovial state, but how wrong he was.
As always in this type of film there is a substantial reward that attracts another stereotypical character, in this case this character is the wise, old shark hunter.
This hunter who has the tools and knowledge to catch and kill a shark is a less sympathetic character. Together with the help of the shark expert and the hunter, Officer Brody may be able to catch the shark after all.
The three decide on a night and stay in a boat hoping for a visit from the shark so they can attach homing barrels to it. This particularly thrilling last scene is gripping as the audience can now tell that this could be the final bout between the shark and the hunters. We know that this will be the final push for the hunters as now the shark expert is willing to put himself on the time by entering a shark "proof" cage. There is a scene of joy as he prepares to enter the cage as there is jolly music and the characters are smiling. However, there is a sense of nervousness as the expert enters the cage. This is brought to an abrupt stop as the hunter and Officer Brody show that they are willing for the expert to go into the cage. This gives the audience an impression that there is still hope and the characters maybe could be saved.
Just after the expert has entered the cage and has not finished preparing to get his gear ready we see an under-water shot of the shark expert in the foreground looking nervous facing then camera and searching for the shark. We see the shark behind his shoulder becoming bigger and bigger, this is a vital moment in the film as it is the first time we see the shark, before we have only seen representations of the shark. This shot makes the audience want to scream, 'he's behind you' in an effort to warn the expert. This display of dramatic irony when the audience can see the shark and yet the expert cannot, is the main device used throughout the film as the victims are attacked without warning by the shark, this gives these scenes a bit of a pantomime feel.
The audience think that the end has come early when, to finish the battle the smashing a fire extinguisher around the sharks face, slightly unrealistically. However it is obviously Officer Brody who is left all alone to save the day on a sinking ship. The shark approaches and there is and increase in the tension as we realise how close the protagonist is to death. This is backend up by the visual impact of how close they are together. There is a point of view shot from the protagonists prospective as we see the final attack from the shark, the audience know that this is the final showdown between the protagonist and the shark. The tension continues to rise as the shark gets closer and closer until Brody fires his final harpoon into the jaws of the shark and it hits the fire extinguisher that the hunter had taken to the shark. The tension is on the point of exploding, but the shark has beaten them to it, with an immense climax the audience jumps off their seats. And with every shark attack there is a view of the calm sea, however, this time with the two survivors, Brody and the Expert.
But how does this capture our imaginations 30 years after the fists first release? Well it's not the just film that captures it. The tension that has built up by our mothers telling us to be careful of the water and the countless documentaries about real killer sharks, this is what really enthrals us.
It has held our imaginations though the course of 30 years not by the rubbish props and fake shark but by the suspense and fear that throughout your whole life has been built up.
Before I wrote this essay I had not seen the movie 'Jaws' and yet what came into my head when 'Jaws' was mentioned, was not the dentist and that bone at the bottom of your face, but death, sharks, the music and sea. So, how did I come to think of these even before I had seen the film? I thought of these simply because of the great reputation of this film.
Due to this immense reputation, I conclude that this is the reason in which 'Jaws' continues to inspire and frighten audiences 30 years after release.
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my mam made me watch this as a small child and now I am traumatised :( bex x
will-allen 20.02.2006 23:10
peunut123 - probably because my review was just on the film and not on the dvd?! at the bottom of writing the review it startes whether you would like the review to be about the dvd or just the film! is this any help? thanks
marvello 20.02.2006 20:41
good but not as good as mine will! lol I got an A* for mine w00t...Loui
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