In recent days, Queen S's "Shark Beach" is in the hot screening, take this opportunity to revisit some films about sharks, the so-called "solo music, not as good as the crowd music", here to select a few distinctive works to share with you.
1, Jaws (1975) Jaws
Shark type: Great white shark. At present, the largest carnivorous fish, the adult great white shark has an average body length of between 4 and 6 meters, an average weight of 2000 kilograms, teeth up to 10 centimeters, and a sensitive sense of smell, it can smell the blood odor diluted into 1/500 of the original concentration 1 km away, and is a predator at the top of the food chain in the ocean.
Synopsis: In the lively bathing area, a great white shark suddenly appears, resulting in frequent accidents, so the sheriff, together with a marine biologist and a veteran fisherman, goes to hunt and kill this vicious creature...
Comments: One of the masterpieces of the great director Spielberg, and the originator of the shark thriller. Clever storytelling and excellent sound effects create a great tension that keeps the audience from relaxing for a moment, when there aren't many shots of sharks actually appearing.
2, Prehistoric Wild Shark (2004) Megalodon
Shark type: Megalodon. Prehistoric creature, now extinct, the great white shark is a close relative of it. Its body length is about 16 to 25.8 meters, the weight is about 60 to 80 tons, the longest teeth can exceed half a meter, is the ultimate predator at that time, the maximum bite force of up to 36 tons, is known to have the strongest bite force of the organism. Megalodons and early humans had a brief intersection (500,000 years), but humans were not yet able to fish in the oceans, so there was no real contact.
Synopsis: Greedy merchants who attempt to exploit deep-sea oil fields have unexpectedly dug up a large number of marine organisms that have long been considered extinct, including the discolored megalodon shark, and a disaster has come.
Comments: The film is of average standard, but the element of the megalodon shark, friends who are interested in prehistoric marine life, must not miss. Before the megalodon appeared on camera, there was another extinct prehistoric creature in the film, the Dunn's fish, which was very interesting. In addition to the thriller, the film explores the issue of marine environmental protection, which is very meaningful.
3，虎鲨行动（1991年）Mission ofthe Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
Shark type: Tiger shark. Also known as the Jushi mustela shark, second only to the great white shark, is a ferocious and cruel carnivore, up to 7 meters long, hunting all kinds of marine life, even people, it will continue to attack the prey repeatedly, until the prey dies, so it is called "tiger in the sea".
Synopsis: This is a real event that took place during World War II. The American warship Indianapolis sent a secret cargo to a small island in the Pacific Ocean, and was sunk by a Japanese submarine on the way back, and the crew jumped ship to avoid disaster, but they did not expect that there were flocks of tiger sharks in this sea...
Comments: This is a World War II movie, not a shark thriller, the thrilling scene of the human shark war is not, so friends who want to seek sensory stimulation please take a detour, but friends who like history must not miss it, to know that the mysterious cargo on this ship is the atomic bomb that was later dropped into Japan! In addition, there are many historical details around the wreck before and after. In the classic "Jaws" film, this real tragedy is also recounted in more detail through the mouth of the character.
4, ShudderIng Ocean (2003) Open Water
Shark type: Blue shark. The blue shark, also known as the great blue shark, can be more than 3.8 meters long, is famous for long-distance migration, generally moves on the surface of the water, and is recognized as a shark that will attack humans.
Synopsis: The film is based on true events. Two divers are on a holiday dive, forgotten by the yacht they pick up and dropped off, left alone, surrounded by hungry sharks...
Comments: This work has no flower work, it is expensive in the truth. Not only is the real thing, the shooting method is also quite realistic, close to the lens of the sea, so that the audience seems to be soaking in the sea like the protagonist, very immersive, the violent floating sea surface, people are deeply disturbed, and the vista given from time to time, but also let people appreciate the vastness of the sea, and fall into helpless emotions, in order to constantly approach the truth, the actors in the film are all in the sea, with the living blue shark instead of the prop shark, close shooting, only this point, but also enough to show the sincerity of the film.
5. Deep Sea Shark (1999) Deep BlueSea
Shark Type: Variant Grey Mackerel Shark. The grey mackerel shark is the fastest of all sharks, reaching up to 56 km/h, jumping up to 6 meters above the water, and has a fierce temperament, making it one of the most aggressive sharks in the world. The gray mackerel shark in the film is mutated because it is injected with an experimental drug.
Synopsis: In order to develop a drug to treat Alzheimer's disease, a group of scientists began to conduct drug experiments on sharks, and over time, sharks became faster, stronger, and smarter because of the drugs, and finally one day, they became hunters who hunted scientists from the objects of experimentation by scientists.
Comments: This is the first shark thriller I have watched in my life, and I am still impressed! Although there is no "Jaws" classic, but in all fairness, its ornamentality is no less than "Jaws", the scientists in the film are in an isolated huge marine laboratory, they have to encounter more difficulties and more thrills when they escape, so the scene is bigger and more exciting. Personally, I think that even if I have seen "Jaws", this work is still worth appreciating, and after appreciation, as human beings, we have to think: Where is the bottom line of scientific experiments? Should we actively overcome nature, or should we obediently follow nature?
6, Shark Tornado (2013) Sharknado
Shark type: Great white shark.
Synopsis: The tornado swept through the shark-active sea, rolling the shark and the sea over the city, so the shark storm began to rain...
Comments: The whole work is thunderous, especially the protagonist flies into the shark's belly, and then uses the saw to see the shark to escape, it is really the top opening and hanging, the most amazing thing is that there is another person in the shark's belly! She also took the opportunity to escape!! However, as an entertainment film in my spare time, it is still quite good.
7. Shark Tale (2004) Shark Tale
Shark type: various. It is worth mentioning that the shark with a flat head and long eyes on both sides is called the bun fish, although it looks cute in the film, it is also a shark that is dangerous to humans.
Synopsis: The film tells the story of a small fish named Oscar and a vegetarian shark that returns to their true selves.
Comments: Even if the shark in the film is fierce, it looks very cute, not scary at all, the whole story is witty, humorous, and full of positive energy, but due to low juvenileization, it is more suitable for children to watch.
8. Shark Island Escape (1936) The Presoner of Shark Island
Shark Type: Unknown.
Synopsis: Based on true historical events. U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, the assassin broke his leg, and was treated by a doctor named Mudd, who did not know it, but was subsequently mistakenly convicted of being an accomplice and locked up in an isolated island prison surrounded by sharks... There is a phrase in English called "Your name is Mudd" to describe a person's bad luck, which comes from this event. At the time of the release of this work, Dr. Mudd had not yet been officially rehabilitated, so the film had the intention of taking justice for him.
Review: All right! This film is a coincidence, because the shark is only a symbol of the siege of the protagonist in the film, and it only appears for a few seconds. The whole story is bright-paced, not cramped, concise and clear, and rich in connotation, we see patriotism, professional ethics, family philosophy, the brilliance of human nature and other mainstream values of American society, and the escape from prison in the film makes people feel nervous and very ornamental. Many people think that this film will be reminiscent of the "Shawshank Redemption" that was later regarded as a classic.
Conclusion: Although sharks mostly exist as human threats in the film, in real life, on the contrary, humans with modern fishing techniques seriously threaten the survival of sharks. Fishermen scramble to kill sharks for shark fins, and it's estimated that 1 million sharks are killed each year, causing the total number of sharks to drop by 80 percent in 50 years, while the fierce great white sharks on screen are on the verge of extinction. Not only that, but the fishermen are very cruel in their hunting methods, they only cut off the shark's fins, and then throw the shark back into the sea, these sharks do not die immediately, but will gradually suffocate due to the loss of the ability to swim.
If you want to completely eradicate the shark fin industry, you must start from the source, the so-called "no trade, no harm", in order to maintain the balance of the marine environment, in order to prevent the extinction of sharks, let us start from this moment, refuse to eat shark fin soup! (Well, I can't afford it either.) ）
PS: Many shark movies are not uniformly translated, or even duplicate names, so when looking for resources, please be sure to pay attention to the English title of the film.