The location of the film was shot on Martha’s Vineyard Island in Massachusetts. The local seabed has a high sand content, which is convenient for the stable operation of mechanical sharks. Nevertheless, filming is still troublesome, leading to a serious overrun of the shooting budget. When shooting sea scenes, there are often accidents such as sailing boats breaking into the scene, the camera getting wet, and the boat sinking, so the shooting progress has been delayed repeatedly. Mechanical sharks also often fail because the seawater will corrode internal parts. However, the delay in the shooting schedule also played a positive role in the film: the long shooting cycle gave the main creators time to continuously improve the script; and the frequent failure of the mechanical shark forced Spielberg to use a lot of hints. For example, the film often uses floating yellow pontoons to represent the shark hunting scene. This passive limitation undoubtedly enhances the suspense, and the film is given a Hitchcock style.
Jaws About framing
2021-10-13 18:31
Extended Reading
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Jessika 2021-10-20 18:59:12
Movies from decades ago are not bad now...the horror atmosphere also reveals an inexplicable funny tone.
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Lucie 2022-03-24 09:01:02
Due to production disasters (frequent failures of mechanical sharks, sudden increase in production costs, and 159 days delay in working hours), forced to use hints (John Williams' music, floating buckets, etc.), becoming more like Hitchcock than Ray Harryhausen's unexpected artistic achievements . In the first half, the threat (the principle of death for prostitutes), the existence of evidence, believe it or not, mainly focus on the conflict between the sheriff (from New York) and the mayor (local), with realistic criticism (strengthening the economy to ignore the threat, fundamentally 2020 Trump), but not too mean (the mayor finally said that my child is also on the beach); the second half focuses on the conflict between the sheriff, the captain, and the scientist on the ORCA ship: family man/"The Old Man and the Sea", "Moby Dick" style Elders (but more negatives such as discriminatory language) and USS Indianapolis survivors of World War II (rather like the paranoid Vietnam war veterans of the New Hollywood style, the pig teammates broke the ship and were eaten)/the rich college student technical house (hidden on the bottom of the sea and did not die) = =). The classic editing of the split-focus period. Is the suggestiveness of music too significant? For example, there was no music in the scene where a child fitted a shark dorsal fin.
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Quint: You have city hands, Mr. Hooper. You been countin' money all your life.
Hooper: All right, all right! Hey, I don't need this... I don't need this working-class-hero crap!
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Brody: It doesn't make any sense when you pay a guy like you to watch sharks.
Hooper: Well, uh, it doesn't make much sense for a guy who hates the water to live on an island either.
Brody: It's only an island if you look at it from the water.
Hooper: That makes a lot of sense.