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Jaws, a Monstrous Success

Jaws, a Monstrous Success

63
Balasaur Score
Mixed

2024 · Movie · 53m

The read

A Balasaur Score of 63 out of 100, drawn from TMDB 6.3/10. It runs a compact 53m.

Synopsis

In the summer of 1975, the young director Steven Spielberg set new standards for cinema worldwide with an oversized shark bite, a plastic shark fin and an unmistakable two-note main theme composed by John Williams. With the horror from the deep, a man-eating, gigantic great white shark, the film of the same name became a similarly traumatic reference as Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho": it triggered lasting primal fears across generations. On the beaches of the world, there was clearly a "before" and an "after". Steven Spielberg, who was only 28 at the time, not only set new standards for the thriller genre, but also hid his biting criticism of US capitalism in the 1970s behind it.

Ratings

TMDB6.3/10

12 audience votes

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cinema on cinemamovie businesssocial documentarydocumentary filmmakingjawscinema historyfilm directorsocial & cultural documentarymovie producerhistoryunited states of america (usa)cinema