The fact that your videos are a conversation with an idea and not just pushing a point is what makes you better than all other UA-cam essayists. Rip The Idea Channel but long live Whats So Great About That is all I’m saying. Anyway great video have a good spooky day okay bye.
fascinated by creators who scour the fearfullest depths of their own psyches, touching the rawest nerve of a movie-watching culture for generations to come, then go like 'nope, just a shark'.
I love these videos so much, they're some of the most cross referenced and backed up I've seen so on youtube. The stating of all these different sources really helps to give us the evidence to not only understand the videos conclusion, but to make our own.
Every time you upload a video, my brain gets a little bit happier and the world chills out for half an hour. Your voice is so soothing, the content is deep and innovative pulling academia and videssay styles. Seriously ❤️
1:00-1:06. I really empathized with this part. I know I'm almost a week late, but he finally did! And it's great. :D Good luck with editing, can't wait for the time you're back with more thought-provoking videos. :)
Quite the intriguing analysis, I've certainly never thought of Jaws anything beyond "the Shark" gotta say, you've expanded my viewpoint of this film. Also, some really fantastic editing here.
One thing that really scares me when it come to horror around water is the silence. The idea of a child just out of reach of his parents who can't call for help because his head is underwater or a sinking boat in a storm with one last crewman clinging to the slowly disappearing mast and calling for help with no one to hear him. I feel that more marine monster movies (Universals Gillman in particular) could really up the tension by muting the monster and making them feel more alien or detached, like something we can't understand because it's so inhuman that it doesn't even make sound.
I found your channel yesterday and bingewatched all of it. Jeeez, this is some top notch-S-tier-quality content right there. Your technical editing alone is so good - and I often have to pause and replay to get everything contentwise, I love it. This kind of deep analytical/interpretative content is so insightful and fun. I added some of the books/essays you cited to my wishlist, really cool stuff. Thanks!
Honestly thank you for helping me understand more about this movie. I was kind of stuck in the mindset that it's a bad portrayal of a real animal and I didn't like it. But there's a lot to appreciate and I love when a movie can have so many interpretations that aren't obvious.
Well it wasn't a bad portrayal at the time as next to nothing was known about great whites and even science still postulated the rogue shark theory. We've since found out much more about them due precisely because of Jaws. There was not even one scientific field research expedition carried out on great white sharks prior to 1975 and that is a fact that will surprise many folks used to Shark Week in this day and age.
I have now finished the video and have concluded that not only is your editing stellar, but also the writing. There's some very profound lines, (the delivery's also great!) and it still keeps being entertaining, funny. I thoroughly enjoyed this video thanks again
Roger Corman, the B-movie king, said Jaws used the formula he and others in low budget movies makers had been using for years but with a big budget. He said that was when Hollywood drastically changed.
I think OP is talking about the great movie The Edge, where a bear stalks sir anthony hopkins and alec baldwin and alec baldwin says "charles" like 5000 times.
Whoah... there’s a film version of Stand By For Tape Back-Up? I saw the live version in maybe 2013 and adored it. Gonna have to watch that! And, of course, a fantastic video as ever!
God I love your work: structure, style, pacing, choice of subject and treatment thereof. All top notch. Plus this video features ‘Jaws’ and ‘Radiohead’, two of my favourite things. Happy Halloween indeed!
Thanks for giving me new ways to look at a movie I've seen countless times. It's really interesting how some of the most resonant films aren't intentionally trying to make a statement, but are just an endlessly relatable, subconscious expression of the human experience. It's like by not intentionally saying anything, it's way better at saying anything.
your ending lines are always great but this one has to be my favorite just because it’s so blatantly true it makes you laugh at yourself for not noticing before
not sure why i, as someone with a paralytic fear of sharks , decided to watch this. but my sheer blind terror aside, this is really well made and engaging. kudos !
Jaws will always be a timeless iconic masterpiece.. everything about Jaws is true perfection.. I have actually done research reasons to why Jaws is so good... I am convinced it's the best movie ever made enough said..
Watching your video I was reminded of a line in Constantine (2005), that knowing isn't believing: Constantine: Why, haven't I served Him enough? What does He want from me? Gabriel: Only the usual. Self-sacrifice, belief. Constantine: Oh, I believe, for chrissake. Gabriel: No, no, you know, and there's a difference. You've seen.
I love this. I think it's something that is ignored way to often when speaking about horror: the unseen, the unknown, is scary, cause it could be anything, once you see, now you know what it is and it becomes way less scary. I think one other movie that started good and failed at the end was "Signs", they made a really good job at making the Alien invasion scary, we knew aliens were there, but we didnt know what they looked like, what they wanted etc. That scene when they are on the other end of the door and we just have hints of them, it's a really good scene. Then in the end you see them and they are just a disappointment (for the viewer I mean) with a stupid plot twist at the end. I feel it's a movie that got it right: fear of the unknown, and just spoiled it by switching the unknown to full blown known. The unseen, that could be anything we can imagine, as been ruined by narrowing it to what they decided the aliens looked like, which cant be the same thing than everybody had in their head, you cant compete with thousands of people's imagination.
Such food for thought. For me, Jaws has always been a horror movie; one of the really really well made horror movies that come along once every few years or even less frequently. It's been studied so much, and understandably-- this is one piece of engrossing cinema where every single element is working on all cylinders. There's a YT video essay which examines one scene in particular and discusses the use of the color yellow because psychologically we associate that with danger. There's so much in Jaws that's interesting, from music to pacing. That funny song in the end of this video begs the question: Do some people actually call this fictional great white shark "Jaws"? That's hilarious. Spielberg has said that the animatronic beast was nicknamed Bruce during filming. Calling it "Jaws" tickles me and reminds me of people who (for some looney reason) refer to the 1980s TV sleuth Jessica Fletcher by the name "Murder She Wrote" instead of her proper name; as in "I watched that episode from season three where Murder She Wrote was laid up at home with a broken leg, and there's a bit of _Sorry Wrong Number_ suspense in it". I'm sorry, but that sounds moronic. :D For me there is actually a little too much of the shark in this 1975 blockbuster. I know, I know ... the entire movie is an example of the Less is More school of thought-- so how could there be even less of the monster? But frankly the less I see of "Bruce" during the story the more intrigued I become about him, and that adds fuel to my mental fear fire. Plus, Bruce the faux shark just doesn't look good in some of his appearances (although the fin moving above the waves is definitely scary at times). This movie works as horror in more than one way. People who are easily upset at the idea of finger nails digging across a chalk board become traumatized when the character of Quint comes into the picture at that town meeting. I don't care for that sound but it doesn't make me tense up like the shower temperature just hit 40 degrees Fahrenheit while I was mid-shampoo. Oh, and who has not jumped up nine inches off their chair or sofa when Richard Dreyfus is underwater and discovers Ben Gardner's head. Super moment there. Yes, this is a horror vehicle without question. Thank you for a cogent and thought provoking video essay. PS: wanted to ask, have you considered discussing the television show Twin Peaks in a video on your channel? Just curious.
Thank you! I have a video on David Lynch and language which talks a little bit about Twin Peaks but it's more about Lynch's paintings/printmaking. I probably won't make a video just on Twin Peaks, though I do love the show
It's mostly Sony Vegas :D The handwriting stuff was drawn in Photoshop and imported in. I used After Effects for the 'metonymy' text and to animate the 'whoah that's amazing' text when talking about Jurassic Park, but everything else is Vegas :)
Well I certainly wasn't expecting to see a video about the proper genre categorization of Jaws to draw parallels between movie monsters and COVID-19, but here we are. 🤔
I too miss Idea Channel all the time. It's honestly maybe my biggest entry point into philosophy and critical theory as a student and just as a person.
I only just found out you released a new video!! I really look forward to them!! I think what makes Jaws seem like a horror film in people’s eyes isn’t so much due to its themes and specific genre classification but the aesthetics of the film, particularly in the way the Shark is presented (which you touched on brilliantly). The Shark seems to be like a supernatural being here, it is not only unseen for the most part but drifts inexplicably like a ghostly spectre. You don’t know where it lives or where it goes; it comes and then vanishes without a trace. One last question; Is your point regarding Jurassic Park that because the monsters and their manifestation were revealed to the audience earl on in the film this categorizes it as not a horror movie, unlike Jaws.
Thank you! :D I think the algorithm has not looked kindly upon me this time. I wasn't really making any point about Jurassic Park re:horror, just thought it was an interesting comparison to Jaws in terms of beasts and special effects. I don't think Jurassic Park is horror, but for unrelated reasons, haha.
As humans, we love to categorise things to understand them. But if we transcend the idea of genre and allow the boundaries of every movie to take us where they want, blurring into each other, we end up developing a deeper comprehension of the movies. Best examples would be a lot of David Lynch's work. There is a deep bass note of horror running through Mulholland Drive, but there's also a tragic drama at its heart and moments of crazy comedy. But these are just labels to understand the emotions of moments. Taken as a whole, we need to ask ourselves how we feel having watched Mulholland Drive and just run with that.
@@WhatsSoGreatAboutThat what I want is a feature length film about a man sized shark with big muscular man legs and a suit and tie. Going from door to door eating people after selling them MLM's. Also it will be a metaphor for Capitalism or something.
Jaws is not about the shark it’s about us and how we react to the shark. it’s our reaction to the unknown and what we think we know, and what you want to believe
The film might not be very nihilistic, but the book is another story. It isn't so much bleak as its just kind of mean spirited and filled with characters that you hope will die violently.
Ok but what if shark shark was a fution of all sharks,. Like the bioluminescence of a dwarf Lantern shark, the head of a hammerhead shark, and the size of a megalodon
As is says in the book, guessing shark sizes is pointless. Right now we've seen a 21ft shark, so we'll say they grow to 21ft. If we saw a 30ft shark tomorrow, we'll say they grow to 30ft.
I always have this strong no compromise belief that if you’re gonna call “ Jaws” horror than so is “Jurassic Park”, whatever genre you put “Jaws” in, “Jurassic Park” is too, Spielberg would tell you himself, in fact while he was making JP he said quote “Jurassic Park is Jaws on land”… Personally i think “Jaws” and JP are thrillers not horror.
@@RaverHates I know! It was released as a PG which is wild. If it was released today it would be PG-13. But imagine taking like a 7 year old to see Jaws!
PG-13 didn't exist back then, so it was either R or PG :) though I personally would rather put Jaws as R than the other :D Spielberg was one of the people that pushed for the creation of the PG-13 rating after Indiana Jones 2 :)
To the person who said "something that has been bugging me" and goes on to try and explain why JAWS isn't horror, is a person who is obviously too young to have experienced this movie in a theatre back in 1975. To sit in a DARK place, and watch this movie for the very first time not knowing anything about it, (except you stood in a line for 2 hours waiting to get in) then are thrown into a movie that makes you laugh then makes you scream and become very afraid to go swimming for 2-3 years .... Nope, not horror at all. today's CGI garbage has nothing on this movie when it was released to the unsuspecting public. Cheers to Spielberg, Scheider Dreyfuss and Shaw.
i stand corrected!!! cheers and I thought the opposite. and to those of us who sat in that dark theatre .... We remember well ..... @@WhatsSoGreatAboutThat
A couple of directions I'm surprised didn't get covered a) What really is a genre? If you're going to ask questions about whether movie x is genre y, you have to dive into philosophically what a genre even is. Is Mulholland Drive a horror? Is 2001 a horror? Both certainly invite feelings of dread or terror (and personally I find parts of 2001 scarier than the vast majority of movies, like the bit with the monolith on the moon, Jesus Christ alive). That said, horror is a very "genre" genre that comes with its own tropes and subculture, and anything that is broader than the narrow spectrum that is "horror" tends to get categorised as something else. One of the reasons I don't actually like horror that much: it's very self referential and meta and I just don't find that personally very interesting. b) I'm surprised you focused on the substance of the plot so much when categorising it ("does it have a monster"), as much as the intended reaction/emotion of the audience. I would have thought a major way of classifying genre is to represent it as an intended mood. I would call something a comedy because it made me laugh, not because it contains certain plot elements. The intention of a horror, it seems to me, is to invoke fear. To reference 2001 again, I don't think the primary intention of 2001 is to invoke fear, but fascination and wonder - it contains horror elements, but its primary genre is, well, science fiction? (I actually dislike "science fiction" or "fantasy" to describe movies because they rely so much on plot elements to define what they are). Also, genres: a issue in all media. Are the smiths rock? Indie? Pop? Are these labels even useful? Why do we use them?
Oh, the whole 'is this horror?' thing was just a bit to get to the stuff I was interested in. I've confused people by doing this before, though I said in the intro I wasn't actually going to be forensically interrogating genre. My next video is going to be all about categorisation! :D This was just going through my own personal thought process that led me to making the video. Hence the whole story with the Idea Channel comment haha
I'm confused. Is this a Hallowe'en special? If you want to talk about horror movies this week, it has to be a Hallowe'en special. It's a shame that you made this interesting video, because really, if it's going to make it out this week, it has to be a Hallowe'en special. I look forward to your Hallowe'en special, and hope it will reach the same standards as other Hallowe'en specials. Perhaps you could make a video about Michale Myers. That's what UA-cam really wants from its Hallowe'en specials.
Haha, it IS a halloween special. I decided to choose the least halloweeny horror film. The algorithm doesn't own me!!! (but you're right the video isn't performing very well haha)
To be frank, "thriller" as a genre is a construct pushed by the academy as a result of their aversion to "horror". A "thriller" is nothing more than "horror" with a monocle and false moustache.
I don't experience it like that. To me, thriller are less often about shock and gore and things that are out to get you and unnatural stuff than horror movies. The suspense and anxiety feel different to me, less gruesome, more chilling.
No, thriller is a suspense movie and includes most Hitchcock movies and also includes stuff like Marathon Man or The Fugitive. Also all genres are constructs, Star Wars doesn’t fit in any genre convention. The difference between horror and thrillers is the pace for the most part.
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The fact that your videos are a conversation with an idea and not just pushing a point is what makes you better than all other UA-cam essayists. Rip The Idea Channel but long live Whats So Great About That is all I’m saying. Anyway great video have a good spooky day okay bye.
Thank you so much!
Jesus Christ loves you and all 😊😊😊
Jaws isn’t a movie about a shark and this isn’t a UA-cam video about Jaws. They’re both masterpieces.
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Hear hear
Jesus Christ loves you and all 😊😊😊😊😊
"Uah! women!" I almost died.
fascinated by creators who scour the fearfullest depths of their own psyches, touching the rawest nerve of a movie-watching culture for generations to come, then go like 'nope, just a shark'.
Hahaha!
I love these videos so much, they're some of the most cross referenced and backed up I've seen so on youtube. The stating of all these different sources really helps to give us the evidence to not only understand the videos conclusion, but to make our own.
Thank you so much! That's exactly how I hope they come across :D
"The phrase 'avoid it like the plague' - we may have to retire that one." LMAOOOO perfect
I am in love with the amounts of personality in the editing. Thank you for the video!
Thank you!
Every time you upload a video, my brain gets a little bit happier and the world chills out for half an hour. Your voice is so soothing, the content is deep and innovative pulling academia and videssay styles. Seriously ❤️
Thank you!
Absolutely fantastic
Also, that recreation of the Idea Channel's intro was on point! Must have taken a while to get it just right
Thank you! Yes, I did it frame by frame :O
1:00-1:06. I really empathized with this part. I know I'm almost a week late, but he finally did! And it's great. :D
Good luck with editing, can't wait for the time you're back with more thought-provoking videos. :)
Thank you! Should have a new video in a few weeks :D
Quite the intriguing analysis, I've certainly never thought of Jaws anything beyond "the Shark" gotta say, you've expanded my viewpoint of this film. Also, some really fantastic editing here.
Thank you! :D
One thing that really scares me when it come to horror around water is the silence. The idea of a child just out of reach of his parents who can't call for help because his head is underwater or a sinking boat in a storm with one last crewman clinging to the slowly disappearing mast and calling for help with no one to hear him. I feel that more marine monster movies (Universals Gillman in particular) could really up the tension by muting the monster and making them feel more alien or detached, like something we can't understand because it's so inhuman that it doesn't even make sound.
I found your channel yesterday and bingewatched all of it. Jeeez, this is some top notch-S-tier-quality content right there. Your technical editing alone is so good - and I often have to pause and replay to get everything contentwise, I love it.
This kind of deep analytical/interpretative content is so insightful and fun. I added some of the books/essays you cited to my wishlist, really cool stuff. Thanks!
Thank you so much! :D
Honestly thank you for helping me understand more about this movie. I was kind of stuck in the mindset that it's a bad portrayal of a real animal and I didn't like it. But there's a lot to appreciate and I love when a movie can have so many interpretations that aren't obvious.
:D
Well it wasn't a bad portrayal at the time as next to nothing was known about great whites and even science still postulated the rogue shark theory.
We've since found out much more about them due precisely because of Jaws. There was not even one scientific field research expedition carried out on great white sharks prior to 1975 and that is a fact that will surprise many folks used to Shark Week in this day and age.
I have now finished the video and have concluded that not only is your editing stellar, but also the writing. There's some very profound lines, (the delivery's also great!) and it still keeps being entertaining, funny. I thoroughly enjoyed this video thanks again
Thank you so much!
Roger Corman, the B-movie king, said Jaws used the formula he and others in low budget movies makers had been using for years but with a big budget. He said that was when Hollywood drastically changed.
I think OP is talking about the great movie The Edge, where a bear stalks sir anthony hopkins and alec baldwin and alec baldwin says "charles" like 5000 times.
Ooo, I might watch that
Very good film that, although the bear aspect is only part of the film, unlike Jaws where it is the main aspect.
Whoah... there’s a film version of Stand By For Tape Back-Up? I saw the live version in maybe 2013 and adored it. Gonna have to watch that!
And, of course, a fantastic video as ever!
Yes there is! It's on Ross Sutherland's vimeo: vimeo.com/167634375
Thank you! :D
Another excellent, thoughtful, and humorous essay. Your channel and perspective are amazing. Thank you!
Thank you!
God I love your work: structure, style, pacing, choice of subject and treatment thereof. All top notch. Plus this video features ‘Jaws’ and ‘Radiohead’, two of my favourite things.
Happy Halloween indeed!
Thank you! :D
I, too, love Radiohead but did not knowingly feature it in this video? 😅
@@WhatsSoGreatAboutThat Oh really? Haha. It's 'Daily Mail' at 9:03 - 9:30.
@@Soin3000 Oh shit so it is! haha!
It was the soundtrack used in the film.
I miss idea channel too :( but your work is still great!
Thank you! :D
The level of inception in this video is wonderful, deep dive of a comment on a video about facets of a genre from a book, ultimately about jaws
Hehe, thank you!
Thanks for giving me new ways to look at a movie I've seen countless times.
It's really interesting how some of the most resonant films aren't intentionally trying to make a statement, but are just an endlessly relatable, subconscious expression of the human experience. It's like by not intentionally saying anything, it's way better at saying anything.
Yes! Such a difficult thing to pull off
your ending lines are always great but this one has to be my favorite just because it’s so blatantly true it makes you laugh at yourself for not noticing before
Hehe, thank you!
I really love the increasing humor in your videos!
Thank you! I'm really trying haha
not sure why i, as someone with a paralytic fear of sharks , decided to watch this. but my sheer blind terror aside, this is really well made and engaging. kudos !
Thank you! :D
Jaws will always be a timeless iconic masterpiece.. everything about Jaws is true perfection.. I have actually done research reasons to why Jaws is so good... I am convinced it's the best movie ever made enough said..
If your scared.it's a horror movie.if there's sharks in tornados now that's a...um...I.. uh...?
Thank you for another thoughtful and entertaining video! You've also given me an excuse to rewatch Jaws (for intellectual reasons of course).
Hehe, thank you!
Watching your video I was reminded of a line in Constantine (2005), that knowing isn't believing:
Constantine: Why, haven't I served Him enough? What does He want from me?
Gabriel: Only the usual. Self-sacrifice, belief.
Constantine: Oh, I believe, for chrissake.
Gabriel: No, no, you know, and there's a difference. You've seen.
I love this. I think it's something that is ignored way to often when speaking about horror: the unseen, the unknown, is scary, cause it could be anything, once you see, now you know what it is and it becomes way less scary. I think one other movie that started good and failed at the end was "Signs", they made a really good job at making the Alien invasion scary, we knew aliens were there, but we didnt know what they looked like, what they wanted etc. That scene when they are on the other end of the door and we just have hints of them, it's a really good scene. Then in the end you see them and they are just a disappointment (for the viewer I mean) with a stupid plot twist at the end. I feel it's a movie that got it right: fear of the unknown, and just spoiled it by switching the unknown to full blown known. The unseen, that could be anything we can imagine, as been ruined by narrowing it to what they decided the aliens looked like, which cant be the same thing than everybody had in their head, you cant compete with thousands of people's imagination.
Great analysis! Deserves many more views.
:D
Such food for thought. For me, Jaws has always been a horror movie; one of the really really well made horror movies that come along once every few years or even less frequently. It's been studied so much, and understandably-- this is one piece of engrossing cinema where every single element is working on all cylinders. There's a YT video essay which examines one scene in particular and discusses the use of the color yellow because psychologically we associate that with danger. There's so much in Jaws that's interesting, from music to pacing.
That funny song in the end of this video begs the question: Do some people actually call this fictional great white shark "Jaws"? That's hilarious. Spielberg has said that the animatronic beast was nicknamed Bruce during filming. Calling it "Jaws" tickles me and reminds me of people who (for some looney reason) refer to the 1980s TV sleuth Jessica Fletcher by the name "Murder She Wrote" instead of her proper name; as in "I watched that episode from season three where Murder She Wrote was laid up at home with a broken leg, and there's a bit of _Sorry Wrong Number_ suspense in it". I'm sorry, but that sounds moronic. :D
For me there is actually a little too much of the shark in this 1975 blockbuster. I know, I know ... the entire movie is an example of the Less is More school of thought-- so how could there be even less of the monster? But frankly the less I see of "Bruce" during the story the more intrigued I become about him, and that adds fuel to my mental fear fire. Plus, Bruce the faux shark just doesn't look good in some of his appearances (although the fin moving above the waves is definitely scary at times).
This movie works as horror in more than one way. People who are easily upset at the idea of finger nails digging across a chalk board become traumatized when the character of Quint comes into the picture at that town meeting. I don't care for that sound but it doesn't make me tense up like the shower temperature just hit 40 degrees Fahrenheit while I was mid-shampoo. Oh, and who has not jumped up nine inches off their chair or sofa when Richard Dreyfus is underwater and discovers Ben Gardner's head. Super moment there. Yes, this is a horror vehicle without question.
Thank you for a cogent and thought provoking video essay.
PS: wanted to ask, have you considered discussing the television show Twin Peaks in a video on your channel? Just curious.
Thank you! I have a video on David Lynch and language which talks a little bit about Twin Peaks but it's more about Lynch's paintings/printmaking. I probably won't make a video just on Twin Peaks, though I do love the show
@@WhatsSoGreatAboutThat Thanks! :)
Why does this channel still only have 64k subs?
Aww, at least we're all part of a more elite club hehe
Great essay, keep it up!
Thank you!
A very well considered evaluation and very enjoyable to watch, thank you
Fitting for this time of year.
Watched Jaws at the cinema on first release in 1975 with my whole family. How a ten year old got to see a horror movie beats me.
This film is simply a perfect movie irrespective of genre
dude you deserve WAAAY more views/subscribers
Thank you, hehe
i miss idea channel too
rip the absolute legend
Great video as always!
Thank you!
What editing program is this? I especially love the little handwriting textures used to point things out!
It's mostly Sony Vegas :D The handwriting stuff was drawn in Photoshop and imported in. I used After Effects for the 'metonymy' text and to animate the 'whoah that's amazing' text when talking about Jurassic Park, but everything else is Vegas :)
Your videos are keeping me awake. I am blaming u for my lack of sleep. 😴😪🤤
hehe :D
Well I certainly wasn't expecting to see a video about the proper genre categorization of Jaws to draw parallels between movie monsters and COVID-19, but here we are. 🤔
Cool video! Great work!
The only correct way to read Jaws is as is as a parable to teach baby sharks to not be too greedy
I too miss Idea Channel all the time. It's honestly maybe my biggest entry point into philosophy and critical theory as a student and just as a person.
holy shit. I love this.
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Wonderful as always ^^ would love to see you do a video on The Company of Wolves (1984) :)
I love The Company of Wolves! Definitely want to do something on werewolves at some point so maybe one day!
What defines a horror movie ?
To scare People ?
To terrify ?
JAWS SCARED THE PLANET !!!
JAWS IS A HORROR MOVIE THE GREATEST HORROR MOVIE OF EM ALL !!!
YAY NEW VIDEO
Great video!
Thank you! :)
I only just found out you released a new video!! I really look forward to them!!
I think what makes Jaws seem like a horror film in people’s eyes isn’t so much due to its themes and specific genre classification but the aesthetics of the film, particularly in the way the Shark is presented (which you touched on brilliantly).
The Shark seems to be like a supernatural being here, it is not only unseen for the most part but drifts inexplicably like a ghostly spectre. You don’t know where it lives or where it goes; it comes and then vanishes without a trace.
One last question; Is your point regarding Jurassic Park that because the monsters and their manifestation were revealed to the audience earl on in the film this categorizes it as not a horror movie, unlike Jaws.
Thank you! :D
I think the algorithm has not looked kindly upon me this time.
I wasn't really making any point about Jurassic Park re:horror, just thought it was an interesting comparison to Jaws in terms of beasts and special effects. I don't think Jurassic Park is horror, but for unrelated reasons, haha.
You def earned the like with the idea channel intro sequence which let me ride a kind molecular nostalgia wave of joy for a few seconds.
Haha, thank you! :D
As humans, we love to categorise things to understand them. But if we transcend the idea of genre and allow the boundaries of every movie to take us where they want, blurring into each other, we end up developing a deeper comprehension of the movies. Best examples would be a lot of David Lynch's work. There is a deep bass note of horror running through Mulholland Drive, but there's also a tragic drama at its heart and moments of crazy comedy. But these are just labels to understand the emotions of moments. Taken as a whole, we need to ask ourselves how we feel having watched Mulholland Drive and just run with that.
Ok but what if the shark-shark was a fusion of a great white shark and a shrewd yet ruthless businessman?
Eyyyy :D
@@WhatsSoGreatAboutThat what I want is a feature length film about a man sized shark with big muscular man legs and a suit and tie. Going from door to door eating people after selling them MLM's. Also it will be a metaphor for Capitalism or something.
Jaws is not about the shark it’s about us and how we react to the shark. it’s our reaction to the unknown and what we think we know, and what you want to believe
love ur vids!! keep it up♥️
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I think everyone wants a video about machinarium
Your video style and rhythm of speaking reminds me of squidge ruby just a bit slower than squidge speaks .......very good analysis
The film might not be very nihilistic, but the book is another story. It isn't so much bleak as its just kind of mean spirited and filled with characters that you hope will die violently.
Ok but what if shark shark was a fution of all sharks,. Like the bioluminescence of a dwarf Lantern shark, the head of a hammerhead shark, and the size of a megalodon
The ultimate shark!
This is too terrifying fer me to think about!!!
Do want me to single-handedly build the SCB 100.68? Because that's how I single-handedly build SCB 100.68.
@@forcea1454 go wild!
death bed the bed that eats mention hype.
As is says in the book, guessing shark sizes is pointless. Right now we've seen a 21ft shark, so we'll say they grow to 21ft. If we saw a 30ft shark tomorrow, we'll say they grow to 30ft.
Quint says exactly that in the book. Or was it Hooper.
@@lyndoncmp5751 Quint
I was kinda hoping you'd crowbar a reference to Moonraker in there, but you didn't, and that's OK. :)
Want to know where the Jaws story comes from?
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I always have this strong no compromise belief that if you’re gonna call “ Jaws” horror than so is “Jurassic Park”, whatever genre you put “Jaws” in, “Jurassic Park” is too, Spielberg would tell you himself, in fact while he was making JP he said quote “Jurassic Park is Jaws on land”… Personally i think “Jaws” and JP are thrillers not horror.
I don’t really get how Jaws is a thriller tho. It doesn’t really focus on high tension, but on slow building suspense.
Great vid, comment comment, please the algorithm, *sacrifices goatsv (greatest of all time seasonal vegetable)*
Sharks terrify me because of this film: don't let your toddlers watch Jaws kids, it will NOT all go over their heads
I can't believe it's a PG!
@@WhatsSoGreatAboutThat Is it?!?! I always assumed it was at least 16+ !
@@RaverHates I know! It was released as a PG which is wild. If it was released today it would be PG-13. But imagine taking like a 7 year old to see Jaws!
PG-13 didn't exist back then, so it was either R or PG :) though I personally would rather put Jaws as R than the other :D
Spielberg was one of the people that pushed for the creation of the PG-13 rating after Indiana Jones 2 :)
10/10 video
Shark! Snatching things from the jaws of the almighty algorithm! ; P G'day.
To the person who said "something that has been bugging me" and goes on to try and explain why JAWS isn't horror, is a person who is obviously too young to have experienced this movie in a theatre back in 1975. To sit in a DARK place, and watch this movie for the very first time not knowing anything about it, (except you stood in a line for 2 hours waiting to get in) then are thrown into a movie that makes you laugh then makes you scream and become very afraid to go swimming for 2-3 years ....
Nope, not horror at all. today's CGI garbage has nothing on this movie when it was released to the unsuspecting public. Cheers to Spielberg, Scheider Dreyfuss and Shaw.
This video is about why Jaws IS horror (specifically within the context of Noel Carrol's book on horror monsters), not why it isn't
i stand corrected!!! cheers and I thought the opposite. and to those of us who sat in that dark theatre .... We remember well ..... @@WhatsSoGreatAboutThat
A couple of directions I'm surprised didn't get covered
a) What really is a genre? If you're going to ask questions about whether movie x is genre y, you have to dive into philosophically what a genre even is. Is Mulholland Drive a horror? Is 2001 a horror? Both certainly invite feelings of dread or terror (and personally I find parts of 2001 scarier than the vast majority of movies, like the bit with the monolith on the moon, Jesus Christ alive). That said, horror is a very "genre" genre that comes with its own tropes and subculture, and anything that is broader than the narrow spectrum that is "horror" tends to get categorised as something else. One of the reasons I don't actually like horror that much: it's very self referential and meta and I just don't find that personally very interesting.
b) I'm surprised you focused on the substance of the plot so much when categorising it ("does it have a monster"), as much as the intended reaction/emotion of the audience. I would have thought a major way of classifying genre is to represent it as an intended mood. I would call something a comedy because it made me laugh, not because it contains certain plot elements. The intention of a horror, it seems to me, is to invoke fear. To reference 2001 again, I don't think the primary intention of 2001 is to invoke fear, but fascination and wonder - it contains horror elements, but its primary genre is, well, science fiction? (I actually dislike "science fiction" or "fantasy" to describe movies because they rely so much on plot elements to define what they are).
Also, genres: a issue in all media. Are the smiths rock? Indie? Pop? Are these labels even useful? Why do we use them?
Oh, the whole 'is this horror?' thing was just a bit to get to the stuff I was interested in. I've confused people by doing this before, though I said in the intro I wasn't actually going to be forensically interrogating genre. My next video is going to be all about categorisation! :D
This was just going through my own personal thought process that led me to making the video. Hence the whole story with the Idea Channel comment haha
its not horror, until you get in the sea.
Your voice is really nice. Are you gonna venture into making audiobooks? Especially the ones you feature in your essays?
Thank you! But no I don't think that's for me.
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I'm confused. Is this a Hallowe'en special? If you want to talk about horror movies this week, it has to be a Hallowe'en special. It's a shame that you made this interesting video, because really, if it's going to make it out this week, it has to be a Hallowe'en special.
I look forward to your Hallowe'en special, and hope it will reach the same standards as other Hallowe'en specials. Perhaps you could make a video about Michale Myers. That's what UA-cam really wants from its Hallowe'en specials.
Haha, it IS a halloween special. I decided to choose the least halloweeny horror film. The algorithm doesn't own me!!! (but you're right the video isn't performing very well haha)
To be frank, "thriller" as a genre is a construct pushed by the academy as a result of their aversion to "horror".
A "thriller" is nothing more than "horror" with a monocle and false moustache.
I don't experience it like that. To me, thriller are less often about shock and gore and things that are out to get you and unnatural stuff than horror movies. The suspense and anxiety feel different to me, less gruesome, more chilling.
No, thriller is a suspense movie and includes most Hitchcock movies and also includes stuff like Marathon Man or The Fugitive. Also all genres are constructs, Star Wars doesn’t fit in any genre convention. The difference between horror and thrillers is the pace for the most part.
No, “Thriller” is an album by Micheal Jackson released in November 1982. 🤪🤪😂😂✌🏻
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“Capitalism suck” says the woman discussing a movie that wouldn’t exist but for capitalism, on a platform that wouldn’t exist but for capitalism, that we are all watching on devises that we wouldn’t have but for capitalism, all connected to an internet that we wouldn’t have access to but for capitalism...
I don’t support monarchy because I appreciate Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel work.
Yo first :")
but capitalism is good?
Great work, as always!