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    in the audience. Steven Spielberg is well known for his cinematographic style. One of the movies he is best known for is Jaws. Three of the many interesting shots were the shark’s point of view‚ the zolly‚ and the shots of Captain Quint preparing for the shark. All three instigate suspense and keep the audience on the edge of their seats. An interesting group of shots in Jaws are the shark’s point of view shots. These occur throughout the entire movie‚ however they are primarily used in the beginning

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    Answer the following questions in proper english grammer and format. (Which means don’t write like you talk or blog but as if you were answering test questions) 1. What was your favorite part of the movie jaws and Why? My favorite part of jaws was when Roy Scheider a.k.a Chief Martin Brody was talking to his wife Ellen Brody outside and was yelling to his son to get out of the boat that was docked. Ellen thought that Martin was over reacting and just stressed after the recent shark attack. She

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    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

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    Jaws Film Review

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    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

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    September 2014 Gothic Elements in Jaws In June of 1995‚ Director Steven Spielberg released a terrifying thriller called Jaws. In this film a gigantic great white shark terrorizes a small island‚ which is solely dependent on its beach for revenue. This movie was so scary because it is much more likely happen‚ unlike a zombie apocalypse or alien attack. People were so afraid of shark attacks they stayed far away from the beaches. Spielberg used gothic elements in his movie Jaws. The way he used them scared

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    Analyse the ways that the director builds suspense and scares the audience in the film ‘Jaws’ The film Jaws was directed by Steven Spielberg in 1975. It was a good film at the time‚ and still is because Steven Spielberg is known for creating films that build suspense and scare people. Jaws is about a shark that attacks people on the beach at a fictional holiday resort‚ called Amity island. Jaws was set on the 4th of July‚ because it was Independence Day and that is a holiday in America when

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    How does the director build tension and suspense to scare the audience in the film ‘Jaws’? Jaws Essay The film ‘Jaws’‚ was made in 1975 and is a thriller set on a small American town called Amityville. The film is about a man-eating great white shark that terrorises the seas of Amityville and it’s public who swim in it. Steven Spielberg directs this nail-biting thriller. ‘Jaws’ is set on the 4th of July‚ which is an American Independence day. This film will keep you on the edge of your seats

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    For the first movie‚ I chose to watch Jaws. In the movie‚ I could see multiple societal issues coming to play at Amity Island. First off‚ there was the issue of class difference between the mayor and the residents of the town. He cared more about making money during the height of tourist season (around the fourth of July) than the safety of said tourists. He would rather let a man-eating shark roam the waters and make money instead of closing the beach for public safety. He put the citizen’s lives

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    peoples’ actual feelings. It corrupts people‚ making them irrational and unpredictable in their behavior. Truth of a great white roaming the waters in Jaws is hard for authority figures‚ like the mayor‚ to grasp. Instead of polluting the water with a toxic agent‚ Spielberg polluted it with a gigantic shark. Similar to An Enemy of the People‚ in Jaws‚ the residents of Amity Island on the Atlantic coast‚ who are dependent on the tourist trade for their livelihood‚ keep their beaches open in spite of

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