It swayed its huge body and swam from the deep sea.
It swam over the obstructive seabed plants, and vaguely saw a densely packed piece of delicious fresh food floating in the water in front of it.
It was very worried that the food in front of it would be disturbed, and approached cautiously, slowly opening its blood basin.
The sea full of tourists reverberated with heart-piercing screams, your scalp numb, looking at this behemoth in [Megatooth] , you dare not take a bath in the sea for half a year.
At this time, Hollywood tough guy Jason Statham and your goddess Joke , with small partners sparkling debut, while saying today is a good day for fishing, while painstakingly get this head Megalodon.
It's really hard to tell, this is how many big screen sharks we have seen in the summer vacation!
There are 210,000 species of marine life known. We are only talking about sharks. In movies, they always act as evil killers.
In our inner drama, why do sharks always want to bite people?
01 Media
Concrete fear
In 1778, a painting titled "Watson and the Shark" was exhibited at the Royal College of Art in London , which was frightening.
In the picture, the boy fell into the sea, and a shark was swimming towards him with a big mouth open.
It was 1749. Watson, a friend of the painter John Singleton Copley , was bitten by a tiger shark on his foot in the port of Havana, Cuba.
This is not the first time a shark has attacked a person. As early as 1580, a seaman was killed by a shark on a ship sailing from Portugal to India.
But at the time it was only recorded as a paragraph:
Suddenly, a monster jumped under the water, it was a shark! It pounced on the seaman, tearing him to pieces alive under our noses. He must die in pain.
At this time, the era of mass communication has not yet come, and apart from the frightened people who witnessed it on board, this passage did not cause more panic.
However, Copley's paintings, with the emotional language of artistic creation, arouse people's timidity towards the unknown deep sea.
Probably from the beginning of this painting, sharks planted the seeds of fear in human hearts.
In 1916, there were five shark attacks on the coast of New Jersey, the United States.
First, on July 1st, 23-year-old Vincent was bitten in his leg by a shark. The lifeguard pulled him out. The sharks went ashore along with him. After Vincent was taken out of the water, he lost too much blood and died.
After the first incident, government officials neglected to report the situation. In order not to lose a large number of tourists who came to vacation, the beaches along the coast of New Jersey remained open.
Under the sea, the ferocious shark is waiting for its food to be embraced, and four assaults are slowly brewing.
On July 6, the foreman of a hotel in a small town on the coast of New Jersey was swimming in the sea. A shark suddenly bit his abdomen, broke his legs, and was killed on the spot.
This time the attack received extreme attention from the American media, and the shark attack on the coast of New Jersey made the front pages of major newspapers .
As sensational reports spread overwhelmingly, resorts along the coast of New Jersey began to close. They eventually lost a large number of tourists and the industry lost $25,000.
However, it did not end there. On July 12, only 30 minutes after the two boys were killed, a man was bitten by a shark on his left leg. Fortunately, his companion pulled him back and was treated in time and saved. life.
For a while, the whole world heard the news that sharks frequently killed people. People no longer unscrupulously took off their clothes and took baths in the sea, but began to worry about whether they would be bitten by sharks on their first foot into the sea.
The media portrays the shark as a murderous ocean killer. You may not meet it until you die, but you will be afraid of it for a lifetime.
Their reports are like Copley’s paintings, like a ghost story. After layers of rendering, they visualize people’s fear of the unknown.
So this year, humans suffered from primary shark fear.
02 movies
Demonized crocodile
After the shark attack on the coast of New Jersey, novels and movies related to it came out one after another.
In 1971, American writer Peter Benchley used it as a background to complete the best-selling novel "Jaws".
Four years later, director Steven Spielberg made it into a movie [Jaws] .
Before the film was shown, he assured the audience that he hadn't given a full shot of the great white shark for nearly 90 minutes , but in fact he really frightened the audience.
Compared with the current level of special effects, the great white shark in the film is very fake. If you look closely, you will find that its eyes are like buttons, dull and sluggish.
But the more invisible, unknowable, and creepy, the audience can't be sure when the marine creature that frequently kills people will arrive, and whether the next person who will die in the shark's mouth will be themselves.
So nearly 60 years after the shark attack subsided, Spielberg once again caused panic with the movie, and the tourism industry on the coast of the United States has become increasingly deserted.
Everyone who is close to the sea can't help but imagine that he is a picture of a shark's meal, and even more so that he will be able to make up for the scene of being dragged into the water by a shark on the land. It has become an omnipotent monster .
In fact, before Spielberg, there have been movies about shark attacking people, but that is, it's not that scary.
The first was [Shark Hunter] in 1956. It was about the development of anti-shark agents by US Navy scientists to protect maritime military personnel.
As the first film in the struggle between humans and sharks, it ended with the successful development of anti-shark agents. The whole film is peaceful and modest. It seems to appease people's fear of the deep sea and sharks.
On the contrary, during the filming of the film, the special effects photographer was killed by a shark , which was more scary than the film itself.
In the 1969 film [Shark] , a man named Kane was lured by a beautiful woman and suspected of doing "research" in the sea where sharks are infested.
Unfortunately, at the shooting scene, their stuntman was killed by the shark .
There were staff sacrifices in the two films of the Human Shark War, and the effects and response of the films were not good, so that no one wanted to try a shark-themed film for a long time .
It wasn't until 1975 that Spielberg took [Great White Shark] with a reluctant look. This time they did not use real sharks to trouble themselves, but made mechanical sharks and used special effects.
During the filming process, they discovered that this is nothing more than a different form of problem. Investors are not willing to spend more money on special effects. Their sharks are difficult to use and extremely fake.
No one thought that, precisely because of the inability to budget for good special effects, the first scared great white shark in movie history swam into the shallow water and came to the audience.
Spielberg incorporates Hitchcock-style horror on it , giving it a protagonist perspective . You can't see it, but it always observes in the dark and tries to kill you.
The audience is brought into deep fear, and the effect is even greater than that of Copley's paintings and the sensational reports of the media.
[Great White Shark] kicked off the real contest between humans and sharks in the movie, and the fear of sharks in human hearts broke out completely.
03 Screenwriter
Replicated Behemoth
Spielberg's great white shark brought the horror of sea water to the audience during the summer, and it also brought the box office of breaking double billions for the first time in movie history.
One after another imitation great white sharks appeared on the big screen.
[Shark Killing] in 1976, [Tintorella: Killer Shark] in 1977... to [Great White Shark 2] in 1978, they all just imitated the Great White Shark in 1975 .
When we walked into the movie theater, all the movies about sharks encountered a shark in the sea. It killed and was conquered by others.
The audience was drowsy and no longer panicked. So the screenwriters began to rack their brains to make up new tricks.
They made the sharks mutate , and there were [Deep Sea Wild Shark] in 1999 and [Deathing Two-headed Shark] in 2012. The former shark has larger brain capacity, smart and robust, and the latter mutated two shark heads, which bite left and right. Double the brutality.
They made a fuss about the number of sharks and photographed [Shark Attack] and [Raging Sea Wild Shark] where sharks came in groups.
They let the sharks leave the ocean and appear in places where they could not have appeared . So in the [Shark Wind] series that was launched in 2013, sharks fell all over the sky, and they appeared in front of you with their mouths open, it was crazy.
They also followed the idea of [Jurassic Park] and took the route of the resurrection of ancient creatures , and derived the [prehistoric wild sharks] in 2002 and [Jurassic wild sharks] in 2012. The protagonists are all prehistoric sharks-Megalodon shark.
After many years, [megalodon] once again awakened this ancient creature.
On its body, the audience can no longer see the button fish eyes of [Jaws], and it will not be scolded like [Prehistoric Giant Shark] because of the rough special effects.
There are full shots of sharks in the film, you can have as many as you want.
You will still be nervous because of the atmosphere created by the film, and frightened by the blood splattered shots.
However, when the camera is switched to the perspective of the megalodon and its dorsal fin is exposed to the sea and swims to the beach, you find that it is the same formula and the same taste.
For more than 40 years, the sharks we see in movies are still copies of Spielberg.
Change a few sharkskins, you can recognize what it looks like.
But Spielberg waved in the small boat in the ocean and shouted, "I will never come back!"
-
Author/Two years old
The article was first published on the WeChat public account "Pocier"
View more about The Meg reviews
