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Re: Addendum on when the Academy Awards started to sink

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Posted by RGA on March 17, 2004 at 20:53:18

In Reply to: Re: Addendum on when the Academy Awards started to sink posted by Victor Khomenko on March 17, 2004 at 14:53:25:

Jaws doesn't shock anyone - nor was it about shock even when it was released. Of course It was hugely successful on its original release...it was after all responsible for wht the future would bring - the Hollywood Summer Blockbuster. Nothing before Jaws ever made much money in the summer. Jaws, of nothing else, was a pivotal moment in film history.

You toss the word art around like you know what it is is. Jaws is art - it may be the equivelant to you of dogs playing poker but it's still art.

Jaws and many films as entertainments are STORIES - maybe you need to look up what a story is. There is a premise, some sort of conflict(Man vs Man, Man VS Environment, Man Vs Himself and Man vs Beast). All movies fall into one of these amng others. Jaws is the latter.

Why cannot a story be told about an ex NY cop that goes to a small town where a shark resides and is eating the tourists? The Fact that the story doesn't meet with Victor's approval sure doesn't make you right. Apparently more people than not liked the story premise and moreover the handling of that story. Most critical bodies would call Jaws a masterpiece and not because it had a gory sequence or two.

There are far newer shark pictures that have totally been forgotten that have way more blood and guts and way better special effects...Deep Blue Rising or whatever it was called...hell I can't even remeber the title it was so memorable.

Jaws was far more story and character development than shark eating people - it is a highly re-watchable film as well. Thrillers and horror films are usually next to impossible to watch a second or third time...you've seen the jumps and the scares and the gore...so why would you watch it again...that's right the very good performances and story of these people is why.

If all you could see in Jaws and E.T. were the puppets I feel sorry for you.

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