Horror Movie Case Study – Jaws
The film Jaws is a drama/thriller genre but it does have bits of horror
that goes alongside the main genre’s as well, like the strong language
and the gory. The film was written by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottieb
but it was directed by Steven Spielberg who is known for Saving Private
Ryan and Catch me if you can. The shooting of Jaws was mainly shot in
USA, Massechetts but is a UK movie. Jaws had two main distributors
which was Universal Pictures and Cinema International Corporation
with one a US company and the other a UK company. When it was first
released, it was released slowly in few theatres in major cities, but as
word started to spread distributors expanded and released it in more
states/cities around the world. Jaws the film was released in June 20st
1975 and was released in the UK in December 25th 1975.
The rating for Jaws has always been a PG which shocked the viewer’s
because of its gory shark attacks, but because films are becoming more
advanced not only with technology but with speech and ratings, 37years later Jaws got its ratings
changed to a 12A. This is because back in 1975 (when released) there was no rating between a PG
and a 15. http://www.imdb.com/media/rm813291008/tt0073195?ref_=tt_ov_i
There were three main stars in the movie; I know this because on the movie poster/ cover of the film
there are three names of actors which are Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Richard Dreyfuss.
Roy Scheider was born in 1932 and was
mostly in TV series like N.Y.P.D (1968), the
edge of night (1962), up until 1975 when he
starred in the massive film Jaws. This was
one of his first major films with the
Production budget of $7million.
Throughout Roy Scheider’s life he filmed 92
movies/TV series altogether.
Domestic: $260,000,000
Foreign: $210,653,000
=Worldwide: $470,653,000
This actor was born in November 10th 1932 in
Orange, New Jersey USA, and Died in February 10th
2008 in Little Rocks, Arkansas at the age of 75.
Throughout the 60’s and 70’s Roy had filmed a lot of
movies/TV series which I feel like is what made his
career jump up to new levels when filming Jaws.
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Horror Movie Case Study – Jaws
Robert Shaw was born in 1927 and like Roy Scheider mainly starred in TV series
in his career. Jaws wasn’t one of his first major movies like Roy, his first movie
was Battle of the Bulge
which was a War/Action
movie which was when he
started to star in more than
just TV series. Throughout the
time between Battle of the
Bulge and Jaws he starred in
only movies. But throughout
his whole life he only starred
in 52 movies and TV series.
After Robert starred in Jaws
he went onto starring in other
movies like Diamonds and the
avalanche express.
Robert Shaw was born on August 9th 1927 in West
Houghton, Lancashire in England/UK and died on
August 28th 1978 in Tourmakeady, County Mayo in
Ireland from a heart attack at the age of 51.
Robert has been an alcoholic for most of this life
but when filming the Avalanche Express the alcohol
it put some serious damage to his health. But
Robert died before the film was completely
finished. But he did complete over 90% of his
scenes before the director Mark Robson died two months before which put filming to a complete
stop and then two months later Robert died of a heart attack.
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Horror Movie Case Study – Jaws
Richard Dreyfuss was born in 1947 and is the youngest among the three.
Dreyfuss has starred in a lot more than Robert and Roy with 109 films or TV
series he’s been in, with Roy at 92 and Robert at 52. Like Roy and Robert,
Richard only starred in TV series and then started to perform in films. Richard
hadn’t been in films for that long when he starred in Jaws so I feel like Jaws was
his movie that made his career bounce.
Throughout the 90’s Richard only starred in movies, but I feel like by the 2000’s
Richard’s career started to go back to TV series, I feel like this has happen
because of his age and how good his acting is I.e. acting back in Jaws isn’t as
developed as it is now and also his age, In 2001 he would be in his early 50’s
which might not of been the right age for certain role’s.
But by 2010 he starred in the hit series Family Guy and in the movie Red.
In the 1978’s BAFTA awards he got nominated for Best Actor in the film Jaws.
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Reviews: Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is a “the most trusted measurement of quality for filmed entertainment. As the
web's leading aggregator of movie and TV reviews from professional critics, Rotten Tomatoes offers
the most comprehensive guide to what's fresh”. They invented the famous Tomatometer which is
how they rate there movies.
But they also give the audience some say of there opinion of the movie they are rating.
Horror Movie Case Study – Jaws
With the movie Jaws Rotten tomatoes gave them this:
This gives the audience that haven’t seen the movie an idea of what it’s going to be like and whether
it’s a good or a bad movie. But as you can see they have given Jaws a very good rating which will up
their popularity because if a professional person that is supposed to rate movies says it’s good that is
going to make people go see that movie because someone higher than them and with a professional
outlook has said it’s good that means it’s going to be good.
Sequels:
There are three sequels too Jaws the first is Jaws 2 and the second is Jaws 3 and the third is Jaws:
The revenge. Jaw 2 the movie was made 3years after the first movie, Jaws 3 was made 8years after
and then Jaws: The revenge was made 12years after Jaws was made. Jaws’ sequel movies didn’t get
as good as a rating from Rotten Tomatoes. Jaws 2, Jaws 3 and Jaws: the revenge got:
Horror Movie Case Study – Jaws
This shows me that because each movie was directed by a different person each time it could of
effected the way in which the film turned out because all directors have a different opinion of what
a movie should look like.