If I want to understand a movie better, I personally have a method, because I am very interested in movies, and I have also imagined what it is like to shoot myself. Generally, I will direct and act a movie in my mind for a subject of particular interest. Movies, sometimes when I think about it, I often touch myself, and I wish I could start working immediately. Then at this time, when you go to the movies of the same subject, you feel very much. You will find that the idea of the same thing between people can be so different. You will appreciate the unique perspectives of some directors, and you will also be amazed by some directors. You can make such a wonderful movie with such a plain perspective. At this time, when you watch the movie, your thoughts will change a lot if you don’t think so.
Of course, there will be disadvantages, that is, you will slowly start to understand the bad movies, and even tell others what is good about the bad movies. At this time, you have divided a complete movie, and others are just General judgment.
Generally speaking, film is an entertainment and a science. I think watching movies is for enjoyment. If it is not for interest, knowledge, research, film reviews, etc., there is no need to add too many things to it. Although you will get a lot of new experiences, you will also lose the purest visual and spiritual experience.
I usually don’t discuss movies with others, because I think my ideas are one-sided and will certainly arouse others’ opposition rather than resonance, so I don’t often communicate with others to discuss my views on movies. Of course, I am not a master, I will doubt whether my own ideas are correct, will give others trouble and doubt. But by reading my peers’ answers. I found myself wrong. As a moviegoer, what I need to do is to evaluate a movie and determine whether it is good or bad in my mind. Some peers watched the same movie with me, but our evaluation and feelings were polarized and greatly different, which is the difference between us as individuals.
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I love the movie Jaws. The story of my relationship with Jaws is legendary in my family. We went on a vacation to San Diego in 1997 when I was 9 years old and on the first night of our stay my brother rented a VHS of Jaws from Blockbuster. We watched it and it scared the living hell out of me and I had nightmares all night. The next day we went to Sea World and I had a full on panic attack in their shark grotto. I was screaming and crying that the sharks were going to eat me and my family were dying laughing at me. Traumatic and hilarious all at the same time. Since then I’ve come to love the movie and watched it probably once a year. I love to tell people that story and find out their initial reactions to the film. The movie now creates a feeling of deep nostalgia for me. My favorite part of the movie is just how lean and tight it is, there’s no fat or filler, just the good stuff. There is some good humor in it as well, I think that my favorite parts of the movie are when Quint, Brody, and Hooper go out on the Orca to kill Jaws. The dynamic of the three actors is superb and they bring a lot of brevity to a thrilling and tense situation.
The story of Jaws and how problematic it was to make warrants its own full length documentary. The film cost about 40 million dollars to make which doesn’t sound like much compared to the price tags that we see attached to movies nowadays. However back in 1974 when production started that was a serious chunk of change. Universal pictures reaped tremendous profit for its investment with Jaws making 260 million dollars domestically and 210 million abroad. The film did not have an easy production as it was famously filled with mishap after mishap. The producers Zanuck and Brown fell in love with the book and bought the rights to it in 1973. Originally they wanted Dick Richards to direct but they grew weary of him quickly and split due to creative and artistic differences. The then signed Spielberg fresh off of his directorial debut but he quickly became disillusioned with the project feeling that he would become characterized as a creature feature director and tried to leave, however Universal had written a veto clause into his contract and forced him to continue. The filming began in Marthas Vineyard where Spielberg would experience one catastrophe after the next with the animatronic shark breaking down constantly and his actors boozing on the job. To complicate things even more Jaws was the first feature length film to film its ocean scenes in the actual ocean and not in a studio tank and the maritime conditions were almost never right causing many delays during filming. The production was over budget by many millions and was more than 100 days late delivering a final product to the studio. Luckily it paid off and the film was a critical and commercial success. Roger Ebert gave it a coveted 4 stars and said that it was one of the most thrilling and effective films he had ever seen. Frank Rich of the NYT praised Spielberg as one of Americas great up and coming filmmakers. Currently Jaws has a sterling reputation with fans on Rotten Tomatoes with an almost unheard of 90% audience rating. Reading through some of the articles and audience reviews the consensus is that Jaws is not just a good bit of fun summer popcorn thriller but was so genuinely frightening to viewers that there are accounts of audience members fainting in the theaters. Beach attendance across the US was markedly down the summer Jaws came out with some viewers too frightened to brave the beach. Jaws stands the test of time as a fantastic piece of art as well as a social and cultural phenomenon the likes of which audience members have seldom seen in the theater ever since.