The making of the film JAWS 1975

Cast: Roy Scheider – Police Chief Martin Brody Robert Shaw – Quint Richard Dreyfuss – Matt Hooper Lorraine Gary – Ellen Brody Murray Hamilton – Mayor Larry Vaughn Carl Gottlieb – Ben Meadows Jeffrey Kramer – Lenny Hendricks Susan Backline – Chrissie Watkins Jonathan Filley – Tom Cassidy Ted Grossman – Estuary Victim Chris Rebello – Michael Brody Jay Mello – Sean Brody Lee Fierro – Mrs. Kintner Jeffrey Voorhees – Alex Kintner Craig Kingsbury – Ben Gardner

Directed by STEVEN SPIELBERG

Facts!

Plot

Jaws is a 1975 American horror thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel. The police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a giant great white shark by closing the beach, only to be overruled by the town council, which wants the beach to remain open to draw a profit from tourists during the summer season. After several attacks, the police chief enlists the help of a marine biologist and a professional shark hunter.

Inspirations and influences

Jaws was a key film in establishing the benefits of a wide national release backed by heavy media advertising, rather than a progressive release that let a film slowly enter new markets and build support over a period of time. Rather than let the film gain notice by word-of-mouth, Hollywood launched a successful television marketing campaign for the film, which added another $700,000 to the cost. The wide national release pattern would become standard practice for high-profile movies in the late 1970s and afterward.

Music

The main "shark" theme, a simple alternating pattern of two notes, E and F, became a classic piece of suspense music, synonymous with approaching danger. The soundtrack piece was performed by tuba player Tommy Johnson. When asked by Johnson why the melody was written in such a high register and not played by the more appropriate French horn, Williams responded that he wanted it to sound "a little more threatening". When the piece was first played for Spielberg, he was said to have laughed at Williams, thinking that it was a joke. Spielberg later said that without Williams' score the film would have been only half as successful, and Williams acknowledges that the score jumpstarted his career. He had previously scored Spielberg's feature film debut The Sugarland Express and went on to collaborate with him on almost all of his films.

Soundtrack

The original soundtrack for Jaws was released by MCA in 1975, and as a CD in 1992, including roughly a half hour of music that John Williams redid for the album. In 2000, the score underwent two rushed soundtrack releases: one in a re-recording of the entire Jaws score performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and conducted by Joel McNeely; and another to coincide with the release of the 25th anniversary DVD by Decca/Universal, featuring the entire 51 minutes of the original score. Fans prefer the Decca release over the Varèse Sarabande re-recording. The latter version has been criticized for changing the original tempo and instrumentation, although it is complimented for its improved sound quality.

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My opinion, feelings about the film

I do not like such films but I think this film is rely good made because the sound, the music exalt the horror. Sometimes the music suitable on the appointed scene, e.g. when the shark is near to the Chrissie then you thinking what happen? And this make for will be more terribly. The music make a tension increases.

The light made more a tension increases too. Because when is dark we think what happening here? When is dark is very terrified. When is light we are still.

PresentationBy Maria-Desislava

Ivanova 9 DRO

25th March 2009Teacher Ms. Kozah