The Comparison of JAWS and Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

The Comparison of JAWS and Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

Introduction

Few films covers messages and themes, which are relevant to the time film was developed, this kind of example was found in Jaws movie, which depicts a shark as the main antagonist. For its time the movie was incredibly successful playing upon the fears people had of sharks while swimming. However with awareness of the planet increasing and people understanding that sharks are endangered species which humans are invading their habitat in the first place, movies like Jaws are less acceptable. This is the reason why most rip off movies of Jaws are these terrible B grade movies. The only way a movie like this could exist in this current time is by having a really far out plot like a mutated or genetically modified shark terrorizing everyone.

The focus of this essay will compare Jaws (1975) to Free Willy 2 (1995). The focus is on the treatment of animals and how they are represented in these two films. As well as this other events such as what happened between these two periods will be looked at to understand not only how both films are different but why they are different.

Discussion

Initially jaws was originally filmed in 1975 by director named steven spielberg, this director is identified as one of the good example, this movie was released on prefect timing, at this time public was looking for this kind of movie. Due to the phenomenal success of film and Spielberg nature Jaws was considered as one of the effective expression of society's articulates and conscious, in this trends and fears having time upon its release (Rubey 2004).

Jaws

Director of movie Jaws was disregarded from the well being of shark, in this movie shark victims were attack, it was addressed to audience to sympathize the appearance of shark, in this movie problem was identified in a way humans only appears on screen it was considered as threat for humans. Major flaw was identified during the shark act, in reality shark attacks random events were shown with the strict hunger, shark was readily available to eat, it has been considered as a mean of survival and mistakenly identified case. In movie shark has been presented as a character who use to take revenge from humans, therefore shark was not acting as a real shark whose attack depends on normal events, director have potrayed shark attack with a motivation of personal detail as a victim (Rubey 2004).

While swimming in the beach resort of Amity, a young girl was attacked and pulled under the water by the invisible to the audience a powerful force. Amity Police Chief Martin Brody (NB terribly afraid of water) on the beach finds her mutilated remains. Brody learned from a doctor that the death was a result of tourism shark attack, wants to close the beach at Amity, but the town mayor, Larry Vaughn, fearing the loss of profits from tourism, does not ...