New Hollywood Lesson 11 New Hollywood and the

New Hollywood Lesson 11: New Hollywood and the rise of the blockbuster

Blockbusters!

A film with an extremely high production and marketing budget that attains considerable commercial success.

Changes in Distribution

Changes in Exhibition

• Opened in hundreds of cinemas simultaneously • Summer release Exhibition

After Jaws, more emphasis on TV advertising

1. Began experimenting with film in early teens making movies he would show at his family house. 6. His enthusiasm made such an impression on one of the workers, they gave him a pass to come back and watch directors at work. Spielberg made a point of being friendly with the security guards on the lot and on the fourth day he just waved rather than displaying his pass. 5. Every day for a summer, he returned to the set, found himself an office and just moved in. 2. Repeatedly applied to the UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television and the University of Southern California's School of Cinema and Television but failed to gain entry. 4. Job at Universal came almost by accident as he jumped from a tour bus and ventured inside one of the buildings on the studio grounds. 3. Attended California State University, Long Beach -first job in the film industry as unpaid intern in editing department of Universal Studios.

It is perhaps the signature of Spielberg’s visual style. Images flooded with what he calls “God light”, shafts coming out of the sky (or usually bubbling clouds) or from a spaceship or through a window or doorframe. Yet Jaws isn’t really interested in the powerful possibilities of light, most scenes going for a naturalistic, never calling attention to itself realism. Except one.

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“I could have shot the movie in the tank or even in a protected lake somewhere, but it would not have looked the same, ” “I was naive about the ocean, basically. I was pretty naive about mother nature…but I was too young to know I was being foolhardy when I demanded that we shoot the film in the Atlantic Ocean and not in a North Hollywood tank. ”

Two different sharks were constructed for left-to-right and right-to-left movements – the other side has no skin. Here right-to-lefty is hoisted out of the water for a break

3 full sized sharks made called ‘Bruce’ ‘flaws’ 14 operators to work the moving parts

Another 'platform shark' was built for the underwater cage sequences. Here it is readied in MGM’s studio tank. The tank would additionally be used for the underwater point-of-view shots of bathers’ dangling limbs

• unwanted sailboats drifted into frame, cameras got soaked, and the Orca once began to sink with the actors on board. The prop sharks frequently • unwanted sailboats drifted into frame, cameras got soaked, and the Orca once began to sink with the actors on board. The prop sharks frequent • unwanted sailboats drifted into frame, cameras got soaked, and the Orca once began to sink with the actors on board. The prop sharks freque • • • Unwanted sailboats drifted into frame cameras got soaked the Orca once began to sink with the actors on board The prop sharks frequently malfunctioned owing to a series of issues including bad weather From the first water test onward, the “non-absorbent” neoprene foam that made up the sharks’ skin soaked up liquid, causing the sharks to balloon Shark model frequently got entangled among forests of seaweed. Spielberg later calculated that during the 12 -hour daily work schedule, on average only four hours were actually spent filming. Gottlieb was nearly decapitated by the boat’s propellers Dreyfuss was almost imprisoned in the steel cage The actors were frequently seasick Shaw also fled to Canada whenever he could due to tax problems, engaged in binge drinking… According to Spielberg “we would shoot five scenes in a good day, three in an average day, and none in a bad day. ”

‘Jaws in space’

Legacy of Jaws Wide national release backed by heavy television advertising Jaws and Star Wars are regarded as marking the beginning of the new U. S. film industry business model dominated by “high-concept” pictures—with premises that can be easily described and marketed Marked beginning of the end of the New Hollywood period, which saw auteur films increasingly disregarded in favour of profitable big-budget pictures. Saturation booking: film opens simultaneously at thousands of cinemas, Established summer as the prime season for the release of studios’ biggest box-office contender

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