Jaws Full Movie Part 1' title='Jaws Full Movie Part 1' />Jaws Movie Review Film Summary 1. Steven Spielbergs Jaws is a sensationally effective action picture, a scary thriller that works all the better because its populated with characters that have been developed into human beings we get to know and care about. Its a film thats as frightening as The Exorcist, and yet its a nicer kind of fright, somehow more fun because were being scared by an outdoor adventure saga instead of by a brimstone and vomit devil. The story, as I guess everyone knows by now, involves a series of attacks on swimmers by a great white shark, the response of the threatened resort island to its loss of tourist business, and, finally, the epic attempt by three men to track the shark and kill it. There are no doubt supposed to be all sorts of levels of meanings in such an archetypal story, but Spielberg wisely decides not to underline any of them. This is an action film content to stay entirely within the perimeters of its story, and none of the characters has to wade through speeches expounding on the significance of it all. Spielberg is very good, though, at presenting those characters in a way that makes them individuals. Advertisement. Before the three men get on that leaky old boat and go forth to do battle with what amounts to an elemental natural force, we know them well enough to be genuinely interested in the ways theyll respond. Theres Brody Roy Scheider, the police chief, who came to the island from New York looking, so he thought, for a change from the fears of the city. Theres Quint Robert Shaw, a caricature of the crusty old seafaring salt, who has a very particular personal reason for hating sharks. And theres Hooper Richard Dreyfuss, the rich kid turned oceanographer, who knows best of all what a shark can do to a man, and yet is willing to get into the water with one. All three performances are really fine. Jaws script at the Internet Movie Script Database. Jaws is considered one of the greatest movies of all time. Number 56 on AFIs top 100, number 2 on their list of Top Thrills, and a few years ago Bravo ran a Top. Scheider is the character most of us identify with. Hes actually scared of the water, doesnt like to swim and, when he sees the giant shark swim past the boat for the first time, we believe him when he informs Quint, very sincerely, We need a bigger boat. Girl Season 6 Ep 2 here. Shaw brings a degree of cheerful exaggeration to his role as Quint, stomping around like a cross between Captain Queeg and Captain Hook, and then delivering a compelling five minute monologue about the time the Indianapolis went down and he was one of more than a thousand men in the water. By the time rescue came, two thirds of them had been killed by sharks. Probably the most inspired piece of casting in the movie is the use of Richard Dreyfuss as the oceanographer. He made this film soon after playing the driven, scheming, overwhelmingly ambitious title character in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, and the nice kid, college bound, in American Graffiti. Here he looks properly young, engaging, and scholarly, and introduces the technical material about sharks in a way that reinforces our elemental fear of them. Which brings us to the shark itself. Some of the footage in the film is of an actual great white shark. The rest uses a mechanical shark patterned on the real thing. The illusion is complete. We see the shark close up, we look in its relentless eye, and it just plain feels like a shark. Jaws is a great adventure movie of the kind we dont get very often any more. Its clean cut adventure, without the gratuitous violence of so many action pictures. It has the necessary amount of blood and guts to work but none extra. And its one hell of a good story, brilliantly told. How The Spawn Movie Reboot Compares To Jaws. The upcoming Spawn movie reboot is going to take inspiration from the character of Chief Brody from the legendary film Jaws for its portrayal of Twitch. When news broke that Todd Mc. Farlane would write and direct a new Spawn production, fans of the character were largely thrilled. After all, who better to bring the character to life on the big screen than the man who created the character in the first place As it turns out, Mc. Farlanes vision for the movie is a little different than what some fans might be expecting. One of his inspirations seems to come from a rather unexpected place, as well The classic Steven Spielberg shark movie, Jaws. Speaking with Comic Book at Comic Con, Mc. Farlane explained that even though the movie was definitely a Spawn movie, Spawn wasnt actually the biggest role in the film. Instead, the biggest role was that of a police officer, Twitch of Sam and Twitch fame. He compared this to the way that the shark wasnt actually the main character in the film Jaws Theres two big roles in the script. Theres obviously sort of Spawn himself, although in a weird way its not the biggest role, and then theres the cop. The cop is this character Twitch whos been there since issue 1. Twitch is the role in this one, and I sort of refer to him as my sheriff Brody, who is the sheriff in the Jaws movie. Although it was called Jaws, Jaws didnt really talk a lot in his movie, right He just kind of showed up at the opportune time to make the movie worthwhile. He went on to explain how that inspired the story, since the film is told at least in part from Twitchs point of view It was sheriff Brody, the humans talking, chasing the fantastical thing that sort of made the movie, and to me, theres that element. Everything else is normal in this story other than gesture the shadow moves, and at times even when it moves, the cop just sort of thinks hes losing his mind so he doesnt even trust that the shadows moving. If youre a bad guy, then this thing is going to come and its going to get you. Of course, some fans may remember that Kevin Smith was planning to do a Sam and Twitch TV series for BBC America. Its unclear how the inclusion of Twitch as a major character in Mc. Farlanes film will affect that series, if at all. While that series isnt expected to include other characters from Spawn, the cases handled by the detectives are supposed to be supernatural or occult in nature. One has to admit that the premise is an interesting one, so long as it doesnt take the Jaws comparison too far. After all, a Spawn movie where the title character is only fully revealed at the end of the film isnt likely to win over many fans. Provided that theres a good balance of Spawn action and Twitchs viewpoint, though, it could be a unique and refreshing take on the superhero genre. Screen Rant will keep you updated on the latest Spawn news. Source Comic Book. Watch Amazing Grace Online Hollywoodreporter.