CineTV Contest #55 - Favorite Movie with a Beach: Jaws.
Inevitably, when talking about a movie that has to do with the beach, the film Jaws always comes to mind. A before and after in horror movies at sea.
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The beach is a place where many people have catharsis, have fun and forget their worries.
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On the coast of a small town in the Eastern United States, a huge shark attacks several people. The police chief who wants to close the beach, but fearing the effects this could have on the tourist business, the mayor refuses to close the beaches and spread the news.
But the shark attack continues:
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Police Chief Brody (Roy Scheider,) the hardy Captain Quint (Robert Shaw) and marine zoologist Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) go out to hunt the big shark on a fishing boat.
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These three actors present a chemistry between them that works perfectly, they are very disparate characters who are pushed to their limits in a confined space.
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The film insinuates more than it shows, to the point that the shark manages to feel present from the beginning of the film but does not show itself until late in the film.
The powerful musical score by John Williams with subjective shots, and movements of surface objects indicative of what the shark is doing underwater helps to build suspense and anxiety in the viewer.
We consider vacation beaches to be our possession, a piece of the sea where we humans are safe, and can relax. But the director of Jaws, (Steven Spielberg), shows in a beach environment the fear of the strange in our familiar environment, the irrational in the calculated, the incomprehensible violence in front of human laws.
Since the film was released in 1975, the sub-genre of shark movies began, with stories much more explicit than this one, but without being able to surpass the original film. Additionally, there are movies about piranhas, anacondas and crocodiles suspiciously similar in plot to Jaws.
At no time would I want to visit that town and that beach described in the film. Such was the impact of the film that swimmers from all over the world never again went into the sea with the same tranquility as before. Even today, when I go to any beach I don't go far from the shore because I remember this movie.
This is my participation in the 55th contest of the CineTv community related to favorite movie with beach Link Here.
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