Kyle Washington jaws

Prior to Introduction to Film I never watched the original Jaws; however, I had seen Jaws 2. Cant front Jaws is dope. It's a old film; it was made in 1975. The director is Steven Spielberg; it was his second feature film. The movie is about a shark name jaws that lives in Amity Beach. It was two sharks living in the ocean and the first shark killed and injured citizens so they killed hi, not knowing it was actually two sharks. After they killed the first shark they hung him and put him on the news stating its safe to swim in amity beach. One day jaws came around swimming and everyone dipped out the beach scared. They made it a mission to kill jaws three gentlemen on a boat to find him and kill him witch leads to my favorite part of the movie. My favorite part of jaws is when they have to kill jaws and hooper getting in the cage to go into the water to stab jaws with poison. The scene was to real hooper drops the syringe to the bottom of the ocean and jaws starts spiting the cage bars open but smashing into it 6 times straight.

AJ Goes Deep with Hooper et al SPOILER ALERT!!!

Jaws
Aj Consiglio
5-6-15

Director Steven Spielberg's sophomore feature film Jaws from 1975 is a movie based on the novel of the same name by author Peter Benchley. The plot revolves a super-sized great white shark that establishes the tourist destination of Amity Beach as its new feeding ground. But Chief Brodie, as portrayed by veteran character actor Roy Schieder, doesn't want that to happen anymore.

After Brody butts heads with the obstinate mayor (Murray Hamilton), he calls this smart guy that knows everything about sharks and who comes from a wealthy family and tries to get him to help convince local power-brokers that the threat is real.

Four individuals must lose their lives, a college co-ed, a young boy, and a man in the prime of his life, before the mayor to finally agrees to sign the contract and get Quint, a local WWII Veteran and shark hunter, to go after the titular creature.

And so this motley crew consisting of Chief Brody, Hooper, and the sea captain Quint go into the ocean aboard Quint's fishing vessel the Orca to kill the shark. Brody who has no sea-legs is relegated to "chumming," dumping guts and entrails into the sea to attract the killer, finally gets his first glimpse of the 25 foot three ton shark, and he appears to be in shock before delivering the memorable line [possibly the tag-line], "We are going to need a bigger boat."

This shark is taking three barrels at a time underwater [explain]. He's taking bullet shots. When the battered boat is halfway in the water their options are running out. So rich boy oceanographer, Hooper, goes in the "shark proof" cage, turns out it is more like "shark resistant."  In the water with the shark and tries to sabe it with his hi-tech medicine. That doesnt work so the shark destroys the cage but hooper swims away and hides. Quint gets eaten by the shark and brody has a gun and has to try to shot the preturised oxygen tank. He shoots it and the shark explodes. The end. I would definitly recomend this movie because its just a great steven spiellberg movie.!!

Winter's Bone-Julianna Migliaro

I would like to begin this post by pointing out a recurring theme in this movie and Crooklyn. That theme being that the main character is a younger girl, in the case of Winter's Bone, the main character Ree is far older than Tony in Crooklyn. But what difference does that make when both characters are fighting to help protect their families as much as they can?

In both movies, it is noted that both families are in very strenuous financial situations, homes compromised. The only real difference is the absence of Ree's father in her storyline.

In this movie, the main plot focuses around the fact that the main character's father put a bond on the house, forcing the family in danger of losing their home once the father goes missing. It is then up to Ree to find him, and once she does find him she has to prove that he is no longer alive in order to save the household.

One moment that really stuck out to me in the movie in regards to the theme of the young girl fighting to help their families is when Ree went to try to join the army. She would've done anything to have gotten that $40,000 instant cash in order to save her family, but she wasn't old enough. However, she went into that recruitment station and even asked to bring along her younger siblings just to take care of them and get them in a better environment.

While this wasn't my favorite movie to watch, I would happily recommend it's viewing. It is a well-paced movie, with almost never a dull moment.

The Boy Who Cried Shark

An American classic, Steven Spielberg's Jaws definitely left a good first impression on me. For so many years I have been reluctant to watch this film, thinking, "oh it's just some movie about a shark, what's the big deal? People get eaten by some sharks, and they die. Ok." I've always known it for its signature soundtrack, the rapidly increasing "dun dun," almost to the point of annoyance. This all changed once I viewed it for the first time yesterday. Almost immediately after it began, I could feel a bit of tension in the air since I knew that someone was going to be devoured. However, I did not know when, or who.

After some establishing shots of the teenagers' summertime party, two of them broke off from the rest of the group to go for a sensual swim. Having drank too much booze, the boy (Tom) passed out on the beach while the girl (Chrissie) was in the water. Right when everything was eerily quiet, a shark latched onto her body and pulled her down into the dark, cold ocean. Spielberg did a great job setting up this scene: the dark atmosphere coupled with just two out of the numerous teens, who were alone, conveyed an uneasy feeling to the viewer. You could just tell something wasn't right.

The morning after, two police officers named Martin Brody and Jeffrey Hendricks went searching for Chrissie, who was reported missing. Hendricks had stumbled upon the young teen's corpse lying on the beach. That's definitely not something you they see everyday. And with that being said, Brody became deeply concerned at this horrible sight. Just think, a shark attack in New England? When does that ever happen? Realizing the severe threat that this situation posed to the residents of this beach community, Brody wasted no time in shutting the beach down. At this point Brody was met with a colossal amount of opposition from the town's mayor. His main concern was the most evil force in the world: money. Amity was a beach town, and it would absolutely kill their tourism business if word about a shark attack got around. He seemed to think that Brody was crazy for even considering that a tragic event like this happened. "She was probably just hit by a boat," he said. Yeah right.

A few days afterwards, Brody visited the beach and sat in a chair on the sand. As a swimmer teased him about being afraid of the water, he nervously stared at the ocean, worried that there would be another shark attack. Once again, Spielberg did a great job when he added two teasers: an elderly swimmer with a cap that resembled a shark's fin, and a few people playing below the water's surface, screaming. Since both Brody and I were on edge, we mistook these teasers for shark attacks. But this all changed shortly after a group of kids went into the water. The oceanic beast tried to attack them, but luckily they were able to get out, except for one little boy named Alex. Nice job, Mayor. Way to keep your people safe.

During a meeting with the townspeople and the mayor, the decision was made to close the beach for 24 hours. A fisherman offered to capture the shark for $10,000, but no one was willing to spend that much money. That night, some local fisherman tried to take on this task, but they almost ended up killing themselves. The next day, a scientist from the Oceanographic Institute came in, and proved Brody's theory to be correct. It was a shark attack, not some boating accident. When a shark was captured a few days after, the scientist identified it as a tiger shark, saying that its bite radius did not match that of Alex's laceration. In other words, they didn't catch the shark that bit him, or Chrissie. It was still out there, waiting to take its next victim.

The Breakfast Club by Walatsebi Lomotey

Huh... I really did not like this movie. I felt like it didn't have any meaning at all. I would never voluntarily watch this movie again... it would be a waste of my time. I don't even get why they call it the Breakfast Club. The movie had nothing to do about breakfast and it was barely a club. Even though I hate this movie there are a few things that I found interesting. One thing that was interesting was Brian. From the beginning, I wondered why he was in detention. He didn't seem like a bad kid and he was an A student so I was curious of what he did. When he said he brought a gun to school because he got a bad grade on a project, I was dumbfounded. Then when he said it was a flare gun I started laughing like the rest of the "Breakfast Club." Another thing I found interesting was the last scene. When Bender is walking through the football field at the end of the movie and throws up a fist pump. I didn't know that that same fist pump is the notorious fist pump that I have seen in various places on the web and heard about many times.

Keala - Beasts of the Southern Wild Blog

In this movie Beasts of the Southern Wild, Quvenzhane Wallis plays as Hushpuppy. A girl who is taught survival and how to live off of her surroundings. She was taught to be strong and never cry. Hushpuppy is a girl who is taught how to live by her single father and the people around her. The community nurtures Hushpuppy with tough love and survival skills. Some of these skills include eating seafood, learning how to make medicine from the earth (kind of like home remedies), etc. Hushpuppy’s father Wink, played by Dwight Henry, was very stern in the way that he raised his daughter. She had her own place for living where she talked to her makeshift mother. She was told that her mother swam away and never came back but throughout the movie you can infer that  He didn’t show physical love, but he showed it emotionally, especially when Hushpuppy was in danger. In one part of the film, Hushpuppy tested her dad by not escaping her house when it caught on fire while she was cooking. You can tell how much he loved and cared for her by the way he reacted by putting himself in danger just to get her out safe and alive. Hushpuppy is different from 6 year olds I know because all of the ones I‘ve encountered are in school and still learning their rights from wrongs. Hush puppy is able to live and survive on her own after her father dies. In the movie Hushpuppy has always been told “no crying” but before he passes away they have a touching moment where they hug and cry together. The movie ends when she sets her dad’s body on fire because that was his wish.

Keala - Crooklyn Blog

In this movie so far we viewed how life was for this black family of seven living in Brooklyn. We witnessed how this family lives day to day through their issues and social surrounding. This movie by Spike Lee shows a family who fights hard but also loves hard. The movie goes in depth of the marriage of a working school teacher and a struggling jazz musician trying to provide for their five kids while owning a house but also living off of food stamps trying make ends meet. This couple, played by actors Alfre Woodard and Delroy Lindo, has complications in their marriage when it comes to the fathers job and his take on raising the kids.They are separated for a while then get back together. At the end of the movie, the main character Troy (played by Zelda Harris) has to take over the role of her mother because her mother passes away of cancer. I feel like this is a movie that a lot of young people with families can relate too. I myself have a big family of seven and I know how crazy things can get in a big family. This movie is touching and so is the music that plays. I liked this movie and it made me emotional when the mom died. This movie demonstrates a true act of  responsibility, family, and love.