Jaws

Jaws

When an insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, the police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the blood-thirsty beast.

  • Released: 1975-06-18
  • Runtime: 124 minutes
  • Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thrillers
  • Stars: Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Murray Hamilton, Lorraine Gary, Chris Rebello, Jay Mello, Jeffrey Kramer, Carl Gottlieb, Susan Backlinie, Jonathan Filley, Lee Fierro, Jeffrey Voorhees, Craig Kingsbury, Phil Murray, Fritzi Jane Courtney, Belle McDonald, Ted Grossman, Robert Nevin, Peter Benchley, Dorothy Fielding, David Engelbach, Joseph Oliveira, Beverly Powers, Ayn Ruymen, Christopher Sands, Rex Trailer, Joe La Creta, Denise Cheshire, Steven Spielberg
  • Director: Steven Spielberg
 Comments
  • venicerules-44915 - 30 June 2024
    Perfect film
    I saw Jaws in 1975 when it first came out. I was 8. I saw it a total of 4 times that summer and was literally afraid to use the sink and toilet for weeks.

    Since then, I have watched it over 50 times and never get tired of it. It is a movie I waatch at least once a year, usually in the summer. The only downside is I refuse to go into any natural body of water ever.

    John Williams score is as strong as a character.

    The 3 lead human characters are flawless. Everything about this movie is sheer perfection. It keeps you on the edge if you seat from start to finish.

    I cannot recommend this movie enough. To quote Nigel Tufnel (Spinal Tap), "This one goes to 11."
  • stazz-91659 - 3 May 2024
    Jaws Review
    Jaws, is a thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat released in 1975. On the coast of city named, Amity Island, the story is centered around four main characters. Roy Scheider casting as the Police Chief Martin Brody, Richard Dreyfuss casting as the Marine Biologist Matt Hooper, Robert Shaw casting as Quint the Fisherman, and the iconic Great White Shark. Within the seaside of Amity Island, this Great White shark causes havoc to the shorelines of Amity Island. Martin Brody, Matt Hooper, and Quint team up to catch this shark in which they go out to capture this shark to relieve the seaside shores of Amity Island from these horrifying shark attacks in hopes to bring back a welcoming tourist getaway for those who go to the beach.

    The central theme in this film is a man's selfishness and eagerness for the almighty dollar. Actor Murray Hamilton, casting as the Mayor of Amity Island, Larry Vaughn, was more concerned about nothing but revenue that tourist season would bring in for their city instead of the lives of human beings. This caused major tension and difficulties with the priorities of human lives over money. The ongoing suspenseful musical motif associated with the Great White Shark added a layer of suspense to additional lives being at stake along with the cross-cutting film editing techniques showing the life from the shark's perspective and lives from above the water. This musical motif shows a correlation to the central theme making you question the mayor's desires to continuously keep these beaches open.

    Here, we have the hand of man entering the shark's habitat to eliminate, and the difficulties of the mayor simply seeking the almighty dollar. You see this after Police Chief, Martin Brody, and Marine Biologist, Matt Hooper, go out to sea to confirm that there is a Great White Shark in the waters of Amity Island, in hopes to close down the beaches before the 50th annual 4th of July event. When they confront the mayor explaining their findings, the mayor justifies his decision around how the livelihood of these tourist events being depended on for their city.

    You see a similar theme in the film, Citizen Kane centered around how wealth, fame, and power can lead to one's downfall, unfulfillment, and selfishness with how power hungry the main character, Charles Foster Kane was. Charles Foster Kane went from a man who ran a successful newspaper company with great ambitions to a man who lost it all including his supporters. The focus that Mayor Larry Vaughn had solely about the revenue coming into Amity Island, showed the cost that came out of his motives with the loss of innocent lives that eventually came to an end with the help from Martin Brody, Matt Hooper, and Quint's fearless efforts to taking down the Great White Shark.