FILM 1502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary
23 Oct 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Jaws (1975, directed by steven spielberg, edited by verna fields, dp was bill butler) Blends elements of action and horror films with character drama. Origin of the summer blockbuster in its marketing and promotion (in addition to the engaging style of filmmaking) Holds numerous parallels to moby dick in its narrative, structure, and theming. Less is more style of horror; teases of disturbing imagery keep the viewer invested (ie. the shark, any of the bodies) Obstruction through the cuts and zooms as bodies obscure the camera on the beach in the kintner death scene. Shakespearean-esque narrative; monologues as a means of characterization (ie. comparing stories and scars on the orca) Disruption of narrative through the division of the movie into distinct halves (the innocence of the town in the first half juxtaposed against the cruel reality of the boat/hunt for the shark in the second)
