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Jaws: Great White Shark and Steven Spielberg
How effective are the techniques in the film “Jaws”
The film ‘Jaws’ is about a shark that goes about eating some people on the beach. The director of the movie is Steven Spielberg. The film is about a great white shark that goes about terrorising the town Amity Islands. A lot of people go out to kill the shark but the only people who succeed are Quint, Brody, and Hooper. In the movie Steven Spielberg uses different techniques in his direction of the movie camera angles, lighting, sound effects and music.
The characterisation in this movie is very effective for Quint and Hooper. Quint is a drunken fisherman and is a bit of a show off. We first see this when we see him in the hall scraping the chalk board to get the people to listen to him about the shark. In the scene he complains about the pay of the killing of the shark and says he will only do it for $10,000. Hooper is a marine biologist who has been studying sharks since he was attacked on his boat. Brody and Hooper go out on hoppers boat and look for the shark but instead they find a little boat drifting in the water Hooper goes out into to the sea in a scuba diving suit and goes under the little boat and finds a tooth of a great White shark Hooper grabs the tooth but he gets a scare when he sees a body pop out of a hole of the boat Hooper screams and drops the tooth of the shark he swims back to his boat to broody. He comes to help chief Brody and Quint catch and kill the shark. The chief and Hooper go on to Quint’s boat and go out to sea to kill the shark. Hooper goes into a metal cage and gets lowered in to the water but to his surprise he gets attacked by the shark. Close up shot was used on the shark luckily he escapes unharmed as he hides behind some rocks. The ship (the Orca) gets destroyed and the chief is still on the boat, he grabs a rifle to blow up the tank in its mouth. At this moment Hooper comes out of the sea and Brody was surprised to see him as he was expecting him to die.
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