Monday, April 22, 2013

Review for "Jaws"

"Jaws" ("Jaws") is  directed by  Hollywood famous director Steven Spielberg. The film was shot in 1975, adapted from the free reporter Peter Benchley's best-selling novel "Jaws" . At that time, the movie was the highest grossing film before the "Star Wars" came out in Hollywood. This is a classic movie, and it was  incredible  from start to the end.  It also used  memorable impressive lens. 
Like many of the greatest films of the 70s, "Jaws" was an accidental masterpiece. The excellent modeling and effects processing also make this movie a great movie.  Spielberg's use of the Vertigo dolly zoom shot to focus in on Brody, above the glorious shock of the head underwater,  showed the unfolded controlling abilities and skills , especially his boldly used  the Kuleshov Effect in the film. At all time, Spielberg did not show the whole body of shark, and that is a clever way to build the intense mode for audience. he basically did not arrange the panoramic shark  to exposure in front of  camera, but partial coming out of sea many times. It  created  more directly, more compelling atmosphere of terror. The close- up show of the evil shark with sharp teeth also exposed the malicious nature. Spielberg also used lighting as the most effectively technique in the first scene of Jaws. At the start of the film we see a group of teenagers around a campfire in the night. This tells us that they only light there is the fire and the moon. Most people said the background music of the film also helped building the horrified intension.   But I do not agree. I found the montage music and the repeating sound that made by John Williams is a little wired. It did not add the intense mode to the movie but a little humor. 

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