Entry 8

Jaws - Millennium Stage Film (July 7, 2023)

Jaws is the first big block buster the world has ever seen, a blockbuster is a film that grosses massive amounts of money and is extremely popular with audiences in all markets In this case, Jaws grossed nearly 500,000,000 world wide, 265,000,000 domestically, and 210,000,000 internationally The budget for the movie was 7,000,000 which was already made back after opening weekend.  Spielberg used the idea of the shark to amplify the film, before the Jaws films shark attacks were hardly feared, obviously they still happened but the film made them extremely feared.  His idea took an animal most people knew about and turned it into some people’s greatest fears. The shark brings together 3 unlikely characters in the film that wouldn’t be together unless the situation calls for. Brody is the town sheriff who is terrified of the water, he overcomes this fear to protect the city and his family from the monster that the shark is.  Hooper is an almost fearless shark expert that is brought in by the city to help with identifying and capturing the shark.  Quint is an old fisherman who has hunted and killed multiple sharks, he has a vendetta against sharks after a horrific incident on the USS Indianapolis that sunk during a secret mission where the ship sunk and he heard his friends and fellow servicemen being attacked by shark. Brody transforms into a man feared by water to be the one who finally kills the shark to protect his family and the town.  Hooper moves from being fascinated and obsessed with the shark to being scared of it, hiding once the cage breaks.  And Quint moves from getting revenge to be the only one of the group to of the hunters to die at the hand of the shark.  

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