"How does the director steven spielberg create tension in the film jaws" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 5 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Good Essays

    Jaws Film Review

    • 451 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Jaws Film Review ‘Jaws’ is one of Spielberg’s most easily recognisable movies. It is unique in a way that is rarely seen in cinema. He set a new standard for horror films. In this movie‚ the small northern town of Amity is ‘haunted’ by a great white shark which kills its first victim in the abandoned night. It is an attack which‚ when later discovered‚ causes police chief Brody‚ against his will‚ to let the beach stay open for the fourth of July due to the fact that it was the main source of

    Premium Steven Spielberg Jaws Great white shark

    • 451 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Jessica Sofia Ms. McDonough- Period 4 U.S. History II 19 February 2013 Both Spielberg and Day-Lewis report that they were intimidated by the subject of the film and by the enormity of the task. Why do you think such professionals would be afraid? The movie “Lincoln” by Steven Spielberg delivers a chance to engage into the American leader’s most terrifying and enlightening moments as he nears his final days. Revealing the last four months of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency‚ the movie

    Premium Abraham Lincoln American Civil War United States

    • 605 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Jaws’ is a 1975 American horror thriller film‚ directed by Steven Spielberg and based on a best-selling novel by Peter Benchley. ‘Jaws’ is set at Amity Island of USA. The film is about a police chief Martin Brody of Amity Island‚ a fictional summer resort town; Brody just like other police chief’s tries to protect his people and tourists from a giant white shark by closing the beach although he is overruled by the town council who want the beach to remain open‚ so that the town can make profit from

    Premium Attack Attack! Jaws

    • 985 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    HORSE: QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2. Steven Spielberg is known for telling unashamedly emotional stories. What techniques does he use in this film to engage the audience’s feelings? What helps to separate something that is ‘sentimental’ from something that is genuinely moving? Steven Spielberg uses techniques such as suspense to engage the audience’s feelings. He first shows us how love has for his horse Joey‚ then how upset he was when he had to let him go. Spielberg engaged the audience because he

    Premium Steven Spielberg Religion

    • 524 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    stands out and is an American classic. Jaws came out in 1975 and was directed by Steven Spielberg‚ after the book came out the year before. Jaws was based around three characters‚ a police chief‚ sailor‚ and a scientist seeking a great white shark. During the beginning of the movie‚ two innocent people get killed and the police chief‚ Brody‚ suspects it is a shark that has attacked them. Jaws became a major must see for years to come. Jaws uses many different film techniques to keep the audience suspenseful

    Premium Film Jaws Actor

    • 552 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    When Steven Spielberg boldly created one of cinema’s most audacious films with Jaws‚ one would contemplate how he would attempt to outdo himself in his next going. This project would become an Close Encounters of the Third Kind a film that doesn’t transports its audience into the startling terror of its characters‚ but instead it conveys the unrelentless force of dazzling awe. It’s worth repeating that Steven Spielberg is a genuinely captivating director‚ a filmmaker who manages to balance his

    Premium Frankenstein Mary Shelley Human

    • 501 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    full of tensions" Explore the ways that Golding achieves these tensions and what they bring to the novel ‘The Spire’ revolves around Jocelin and his quest to have a spire built on the cathedral. Through his blind faith‚ Jocelin accepts the cost that this building is having on the cathedral and the people that inhabit the cathedral. Tension is built throughout this novel in a number of ways‚ most notably in the impact that the building of the spire has on the people around Jocelin. Tension is achieved

    Premium William Golding Bishop Salisbury Cathedral

    • 778 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    crisis. In this analysis‚ I have analyzed several fractured narratives in the novel. Andres is the main character in the novel - and is someone that the writer wants to sympathize. Therefore‚ the writer used a fractured narrative so that he could create tension and sympathy in his novel. The writer had made a huge contrast - from a stadium of triumph and glory to people being shot. In the scene when introducing the Silver Lion‚

    Premium Fiction Narrative Literature

    • 1013 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Priestley presents tension in various ways withing in the Birling family. At the beginning of the play‚ Priestley creates his tension by changing the colour of the lighting. The start is a ’low and intimate pink’ which could suggest a hidden tension within the family home. After the inspector arrives the lighting changes to a ’bright‚ harsh white light’ which makes the family look like they are in the spotlight of a police interrogation. This shows that there is tension at the heart of the Birling

    Premium The Play English-language films Family

    • 278 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    extract‚ that Jekyll has only been experimenting with science produces dramatic tension. Throughout the extract‚ Jekyll confesses that he can only speak ’by theory alone’ regarding his attempts to create the potions to transform himself into Hyde. This represents his constant uncertainty about the results of his experiments. Therefore if even Jekyll‚ the man performing the experiments‚ is uncertain of the results‚ dramatic tension is caused for the reader to discover the results of the experiment. Jekyll

    Premium Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson Novella

    • 906 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 50