Essays on Jaws

From his impressive beginnings, we reach 1975. The release of Jaws. Spielberg directed this film and it demonstrated a vast amount of creativity through his chosen methods. Considered one of the greatest films ever made, Jaws was the quintessential summer blockbuster, regarded as a milestone in motion picture history, and it won several awards for...

Steven Spielberg is a famous director who once said: “You shouldn’t dream your film, you should make it!” Some of Spielberg’s notable movies are Jaws, Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park, E.T. – The Extra Terrestrial, and a more recent film was Ready Player One. Many different directors have a style of...

The horror – adventure film Jaws directed by Steven Spielberg in 1975 is widely known as one of the most iconic cinematic film in pop culture, having a massive culture and academic impact over four generations. Characterised by the dynamic film storyline concept, multitude of metaphor symbolism, the irony clichés lines and the motifs of...

Realism, the Key to film’s success Q- Choose at least two decades of filmmaking from the 1950s onwards relevant to this course (eg. 1970s and 1950s, 1970s and 2000s) and with reference to the relevant readings, consider how innovations in technologies of cinematography (eg. cameras, film stock, lighting techniques) of that era serve an idea...

Jaws, released in the summer of 1975, redefined what it meant to be a Hollywood movie. It became the highest-grossing film of all time until two years later in 1977 when Star Wars became the model for Hollywood films. Jaws has been interpreted in every imaginable way; from being about the infamous early 1970’s Watergate...

There is an unspoken rule for almost every epic story that if there is a hero, there must be either a monster or a villain. Nonetheless, there is also an unspoken line that exists in the literary world between monsters and villains. Over time, the line seemed to fade or get thicker in different periods....

The Blockbuster Due to the film’s paramount success, it was crowned the title ‘Blockbuster’ and it was considered one of the first films from the ‘blockbuster era’. People were literally lined up around blocks to get their tickets. The undebatable impact it had on audiences allowed it to become a cultural phenomenon. What if Jaws...

“The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail.” These are the opening lines of a book unimaginably iconic, it prompted the making of 4 movies, Jaws written by Peter Benchley. This book is one of Benchley’s many books about the deep blue and what lies there...