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Jaws (1975) by Steven Spielberg

Introduction

Sometimes it takes very little to make a legendary film that transcends in time as well as if it had found the Holy Grail. From a semblance of the simplest scenario, a director would become a giant Hollywood sign and movie, one of the greatest suspense films.

Widely acknowledged as a seminal watershed movie, Jaws has created a name for its self in the history, marked its entry by breaking all of the box office records of the summer of 1975, and marked the start of summer blockbusters, soon it became the top grossing movie of all time. (Hoberman 1994), and earned and concreted its place in the history of cinema. The film was a well structured and an expensive venture for its producers but it well paid them off later as well. It was an adaptation of a best selling Peter Benchley's novel, by the same name. Jaws, skillfully and successfully triggers the audience's sense of fear and imagination of the unknown and unseen, a successful formula which continues to attract audiences in contemporary cinema. The other main factor due to which the movie achieved such heights was its original marketing campaign and promotions along with its different release pattern apart from its content, style and plot which successfully glued the audiences throughout the movie. (Wyatt, 1994)

In this paper I am going to discuss and review the movie Jaws by director Steven Spielberg.

Discussion

During a summer night, young people get drunk wisely before a wood fire. One young male decides to go to the little midnight swim with one of the ladies. While the guy cannot even drop his pants to swim, the young woman, meanwhile, is already doing sweeps. That's when the latter is sucked into the bottom, then pulled in all directions until it disappears. The next day there remains, only a few remnants that drifted on the beach. It was just the beginning of the misfortunes that were to hit the resort town of Amity.

Steven Spielberg himself did not believe it. Turning a chaotic explosion of the budget, strike threats. All those who participated in this adventure firmly believed to work for a huge turnip. Yet it is a huge tidal wave tide of spectators who will make Jaws at its output, in 1975, one of the biggest hits in the history of the Seventh Art. It was a second feature film from Spielberg, I want to say that this presto filmmaker - who was not even yet thirty - no longer had anything to prove; in his first TV movie, Duel (1971), Golden boy was already an author. Movie matrix and pure cinema film, Duel demonstrates the undeniable expertise of Spielberg and, especially, holds that "something" of the underlying present in practically all his films and that affects the viewer's unconscious. (Wyatt, 1994)

At the time of Jaws, Spielberg was seen by Hollywood as one of the young directors in the future potential, but to prove himself. He had signed ...