Rear Window

Cartoon series The Simpsons, Tiny Toons and Home Movies have paid homages to "Rear Window.". In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. Rear Window was re-made as a TV movie in 1998, starring Christopher Reeve. The shark was also anointed #18 on AFI's 100 Years, 100 Heroes and Villains, opposite Robin Hood. This movie has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. The film is consistently on the Internet Movie Database's list of top 250 films and was #48 on American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Movies and #2 on its 100 Years, 100 Thrills. Brian De Palma paid homage to Rear Window with his movie Body Double (which also added touches of Hitchcock's Vertigo). It was also nominated for Best Picture.

Alfred Hitchcock makes his cameo in the composer's apartment. It won Academy Awards for Best Film Editing, Best Music (Original Score) and Best Sound. The composer is played by Ross Bagdasarian, a nephew of William Saroyan, now better known as David Seville, creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks. A one hour version of this documentary had been included on an earlier DVD release. The movie invites speculation as to which of these paths Jeffries and Lisa will follow. The film will also be released on DVD, featuring the full two hour documentary originally featured on the LaserDisc release. There are:. In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the film's release, JawsFest, a festival held in Martha's Vineyard, took place in June 2005.

There has been avid discussion among scholars of film about Rear Window and the way it examines the relationship between the characters played by Stewart and Kelly: most notably, how their relationship can be compared to the lives of the neighbors they are spying upon. Jaws was followed by three sequels, generally regarded as increasingly poor in quality as compared to the original: Jaws 2 (1978), Jaws 3-D (1983) and Jaws: The Revenge (1987). The character of Lars Thorwald (Raymond Burr) isn't seen in close-up, and he doesn't speak, until the climax of the movie when he appears in Jeffries' room. Benchley is quoted as saying that he never would have written the original novel had he known what sharks are really like in the wild. The entire movie is filmed from the point of view of Jeffries' bedroom, and for most of the film the viewing audience can only see what he sees, from his point of view. Though a horror classic (voted to have the scariest scenes ever by a Bravo Halloween TV special), the film is widely recognized to be responsible for many fearsome and inaccurate stereotypes about sharks and their behavior. Over time, he comes to believe that a murder has taken place, though his friends and his girlfriend (Kelly) find it hard to believe that he can uncover a murder plot when he is sitting in his own bedroom. The runaway success of these films led to an increased shift in production towards such genres by studios in the following decades.

Suffering from boredom, he takes to looking out the window and spying on his neighbors. Along with The Exorcist and Star Wars, it is an example of a high-budget movie in what had previously been considered a disreputable or low-budget genre (in this case, suspense / horror). Jeffries, a professional photographer who has been confined to his bedroom after an accident left him with his leg in a cast. Jaws is also often cited as indicating a shift in the type of movies made by Hollywood studios. Stewart plays the part of L.B. The wide national release pattern would become standard practice for high profile movies in the late 1970s and after. It is considered by critics, scholars, and film historians to be one of Hitchcock's best and most thrilling pictures. Upon its release, the film was the first to reach more than $100 million in box-office receipts, a feat not matched until Star Wars, two years later in 1977. It was a key film in establishing the benefits of a wide national release backed by heavy media advertising, rather than a progressive release that let a film slowly enter new markets and build support over a period of time.

Rear Window (1954) is a motion picture directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on Cornell Woolrich's short story "It Had to Be Murder" (1942). The main theme became a classic piece of suspense music, synonymous with approaching danger. Finally, the salesman with the nagging wife, who has apparently lost all of his love for her...Lars Thorwald. John Williams' contributed the acclaimed film score. The piece the composer creates is called "Lisa's Theme". Footage of real sharks was shot by Ron and Valerie Taylor in waters off South Australia, although only a handful of these shots were used in the finished film. are meant for each other, despite his stubbornness). This enforced restraint is widely thought to have increased the suspense of many scenes, giving it a Hitchcockian tone.

(A subtle hint that Lisa and L.B. For example, for much of the shark hunt its location is represented by floating yellow barrels that have been tied to it during the hunt. Miss Lonelyhearts and the music composer, two people leading empty lives who want to find that special someone...and by the end of the movie, they finally do. The script was refined during production, and the unreliable mechanical sharks forced Spielberg to shoot many of the scenes with the shark only hinted at. is appalled by) and sleep on the fire escape to beat the summer heat. They're the couple with the nosy little dog. To some degree, the delays in the production proved serendipitous. They're happy living at home, doing nothing exciting (a lifestyle that L.B. Spielberg referred to the mechanical shark as "the turd" on a British programme about famous horror scenes and confessed that they had even less flattering names for it throughout filming.

The content middle-aged couple...too content, in fact. The three mechanical sharks were collectively nicknamed "Bruce" by the production team after Spielberg's lawyer, a piece of trivia that has been cited in a number of shark-related stories (such as the appearance of the shark in 2003's Finding Nemo). (Is Lisa that faithful to L.B.?). The film had a troubled shoot and went considerably over budget. The logistical problems of shooting at sea led to many delays, and the mechanical shark frequently malfunctioned. The beautiful blond dancer "Miss Torso" who entertains a lot of men, but at the end she remains faithful to her boyfriend who returns from the army. Location shooting occurred at Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. Jeffries [Stewart] is afraid that he and Lisa [Grace Kelly] will have that kind of relationship, and he doesn't want to be tied down by it...at first.). Gottlieb gives primary credit to Shaw, downplaying Milius' contribution.

The newlywed couple who think they are perfect for each other (they spend the almost entire movie in their apartment, in the bedroom with the blinds drawn), but eventually their sexual appetites begin to wane and we see that their marriage will not last. (L.B. Spielberg tactfully describes it as a collaboration between John Milius, Howard Sackler and Robert Shaw. The authorship of Quint's monologue about the fate of the cruiser USS Indianapolis has caused substantial controversy, with dispute as to who deserves the most credit for the speech. Spielberg has claimed that he prepared his own draft, although it is unclear if any of the other screenwriters drew on his material. Gottlieb rewrote many scenes during principal photography, and John Milius contributed some dialogue polishes.

Carl Gottlieb (who also appears in a supporting acting role in the film) was brought in to add humour and more depth to the characters. Peter Benchley wrote the first draft of the screenplay, with a subsequent draft prepared by Howard Sackler. Despite his lack of feature film experience, Spielberg had proved adept at suspense material with the 1971 telemovie Duel. They signed Spielberg to direct in the same year, prior to release of his first theatrical film, The Sugarland Express (also a Zanuck / Brown production).

His novel was loosely based on a real-life event in the summer of 1916 when a series of shark attacks killed four people along the New Jersey coast and triggered a media frenzy. The film was produced by Richard Zanuck and David Brown, who had purchased the film rights to Peter Benchley's novel in 1973. After another victim is devoured and Brody's son is nearly killed on the Fourth of July, Brody, Hooper, and shark hunter Quint (Shaw) set out in Quint's boat, the Orca, to face and hopefully destroy the man-eater. A large tiger shark is caught, but upon examining it, Hooper declares that the attacks were the work of a much larger fish. Brody wants the beaches closed, but Mayor Vaughn, again refusing to accept the possibility of danger, refuses.

When marine biologist Matt Hooper examines the remains of the first victim, he becomes convinced that a very large and dangerous shark was responsible, more specifically, a Great White Shark which is a large and extremely voracious predator, known to be dangerous to humans. A few days later, a boy is killed by the shark while swimming on a crowded beach and his mother places a substantial bounty on the animal. However, the town mayor ignores the protests about the danger of more shark attacks and orders the beaches kept opened, as Amity is dependent on the money it makes from its summertime and, especially, Fourth of July business, and tells Brody to say the girl was killed by a boat propeller. He then orders the beaches to be closed.

The next morning, Martin Brody (Scheider), the sheriff of Amity Island, finds some of her remains and concludes that she was killed in a shark attack. Suddenly, she begins to get jerked around and is pulled under. The film opens with a young girl swimming a little far from Amity Island, a New England island that is a summer resort. It was directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss and Lorraine Gary.

Jaws (1975) is an American film, based upon a bestselling novel by Peter Benchley, which tells the story of a resort town's sheriff who tries to protect beachgoers from the predations of a huge great white shark by closing the beach, only to be overruled by the town council.