Fear In The Film Jaws

Horror films have multiple ways of invoking fear in the viewer with the different movie tactics used to present fear. In the film Jaws the way the director present fear towards the viewer is by the way the movie was filmed, having just a camera as the shark builds upon suspense of the shark looking for victims, it shows how we are more scared of the things we cannot see like the shark instead of things we can see, in the beginning of the movie we didn't see a shark but halfway through we see the shark which reaffirms the fear. The unexpected of the movie is the shark’s whereabouts and its appearances in the movies, when the the Captain Quint shot the arrows tied to a barrel to keep track of the shark and then the barrels disappeared and then …show more content…
In Jaws suspense becomes an important part to recognize the presence of the shark or an imminent shark attack, when people were on the beach and the shark was around the music went from very slowly and quiet to extremely loud and fast to show the suspense building up to a dramatic event. Foreshadowing also plays out in the movie and the short story. In the movie Jaws foreshadowing is displayed when the the men were on the boat and the canisters full of a substance was accidently knocked over a a crew member exclaimed the cans were dangerous just to find out that is what eventually killed the shark in the end, in the book foreshadowing is represented with the hammer “The radio poured out bad news that no one listened to a hammer murderer was still on the loose” and the young man who bought flowers ended up being a murderer. Irony plays an important role in the movie Jaws because there are scenes where the shark will be going towards someones but it eventually never attacks unless they move in a way to catch the attention of the shark, Chief Roy’s children were in the same pond as the shark but only one man got attack and the rest of the children were