``Jaws'' is more than just a panic horror story; it's a clever human drama *Note! Contains spoilers.

*This article touches on the ending of the story, so we recommend watching the movie before reading it.

"Jaws" synopsis

One early summer evening, a young woman disappeared from the shore. The next day, her lifeless body is washed up on the beach, and the peaceful tourist town of Amity is thrown into turmoil. Police Chief Brody determines that this incident was the work of a giant man-eating shark. He proposes closing off the coast, but is met with fierce opposition from the mayor, who fears that he will lose beachgoers, a valuable source of income. But soon, the second victim was among the people enjoying the beach. Feeling responsible, Brody boards a ship with shark hunting expert Quint and oceanographer Hoover and heads offshore, but that is the beginning of an unimaginable deadly struggle...

Index

• A monumental panic movie born on the scene of continuous trouble.
• A method that stimulates the audience's imagination and keeps the tension flowing.
• The great appeal lies in the human drama.
• What we can see by focusing on Brody
• Brody's drama ends when he touches the ocean.

A monumental panic movie born on the scene of continuous trouble.

Spielberg, 27 years old. When he made ``Jaws,'' which would determine his later film career, he was brash, confident, and fearless in a way that you wouldn't imagine from the master he is today. However, filming this film was so grueling that he couldn't help but scream, "I shall not return!" on the boat returning from the filming location.

The script was not completed, and the mechanical shark was out of control, so filming did not proceed at all. Meanwhile, the sun was beating down relentlessly, the film was becoming seasick, the budget and number of filming days were significantly exceeded, and the studio was under pressure to stop production. In the end, the actors are in a bad mood, the screenwriter almost gets killed by a ship's propeller, and at one point, everyone throws food at each other during dinner and a huge scuffle breaks out...

Everyone was going a little crazy. At a time like this, a coach with a long career under his belt would have given the team a big command and led it like a division, but he was still only 27 years old and was doing his best to survive. People around him saw him as a teenager, and he must have been struggling every day to avoid being ignored by adults.

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However, `` Jaws ,'' which was born out of these Inferno days, is a miraculously perfect movie, even today. Although it is only Spielberg's second feature film (" Clash " is not counted as it is a TV movie), it carved out a legend as a marine horror film that will go down in film history, and was a huge hit, breaking the box office record for an American film at the time. did.

A method that stimulates the audience's imagination and keeps the tension flowing.