Stay up to date on new reviews. Get full reviews, ratings, and advice delivered weekly to your inbox. User Reviews Parents say Kids say. Parent of a 5 and 7-year-old Written by wmoon May 31, Best Movie Ever! Report this review. Adult Written by Andrea September 6, Terrorized my 6 year old I feel like a terrible mom. I let my 6 year old watch this and he has seen Jurassic Park and other adult movies so I thought this would be ok.
I had forgotten h Continue reading. Kid, 12 years old June 8, OK for Teens Jaws is an okay movie for kids 13 and up. It has quite a bit of blood but its about the standard amount for a shark attack. There is a lot of language and drink Teen, 14 years old Written by squishymonkey October 16, Ok, I probably shouldnt have seen this movie. What's the story?
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His efforts also include writing and researching media in all its forms and observing how it effects society and culture. He and his wife Donna have four children. Watch the trailer for Jaws. As he has stated in recent interviews, he was "young and fearless - or perhaps dumb. Today, with CGI technology in an advanced state, completing Jaws would be a far less imposing endeavor. But filming took place in , when special effects meant animation, blue screen model work, and crude animatronics.
Creating a convincing foot great white shark was a behemoth task. It is said that "necessity is the mother of invention," and never was this more true than in the case of Jaws. For the first hour, the only glimpses we catch of the shark are fleeting and indistinct. Even after the beast makes its first, harrowing appearance, the camera doesn't dwell upon it. Only in the final fifteen minutes, when it crashes onto the deck of a boat and snaps at the protagonists, are we treated to a lengthy look at the shark.
From those concluding scenes, it's apparent why Jaws gets so little screen time - it looks fake. If Spielberg's film didn't have us so completely in its thrall by this point, we would be doubled over with laughter at the cheesiness of the animatronic creature. Spielberg freely admits that, had the technology been better and had the mechanical shark worked more efficiently, he would have shown it earlier and more often.
Ironically, it is this handicap that resulted in one of the film's great strengths - by keeping Jaws hidden from the audience, the movie builds suspense to a high level. Many directors after Spielberg have used this "less is more" approach to monster movies, but few have employed the technique in such a brilliantly successful manner. In a general sense, Jaws follows the novel from which it derives its title, although Spielberg chooses to downplay certain aspects of the story in favor of suspense and action.
Peter Benchley, who wrote the book, was the author of the original screenplay treatment earning him co-credit for the final script , which was subsequently re-worked and tweaked by Carl Gottlieb and several uncredited helpers including John Milius.
Benchley also has a cameo playing a TV reporter. Jaws introduces us to Martin Brody Roy Scheider , the police chief of the small island resort community of Amity. Martin has come to Amity to get away from the hassles of New York City, but is finding it difficult to adjust to a less hectic lifestyle.
That all changes about a week before July 4, when the mutilated body of a young swimmer washes up on shore. The coroner's stated cause of death is a shark attack. When the mayor Murray Hamilton and members of the town council refuse to allow Martin to close down the beaches, he puts in a call to the mainland for a shark expert.
He gets Matt Hooper Richard Dreyfuss , who seems to know just about everything there is about sharks.
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