Call me Beef :3 | British | 24 | they/them, it/its | nonbinary | biromantic | asexual | Used to be natstheminion | horror-themed sideblog: moonpie-wolf | aesthetic sideblog: aesthetic-beef | Memento Mori | I post just a load of random stuff on here along with stuff to do with fandom bullshit | Current Obsession: is it the famous shark movie from nearly 50 years ago? It seems like it
well today I learned that there actually is a Jaws fandom, even if it is very small
jaws will always be good because at the heart of it? it's a story about what if three guys who are all autistic but in different ways were on a boat. and there was a shark that fucking hated them.
that scene in jaws where they’re showing off their scars but the only thing different is it’s them showing off their top surgery scars
endless list of my favourite male horror characters:
Richard Dreyfuss as Matt Hooper
JAWS
1975 | dir. Steven Spielberg
entranced by the video of this enormous beautiful lady again and it reminded me
rewatching Jaws in the theater made it click for me why, despite being very clearly a seventies animatronic, the shark in this movie has always felt more real and more intimidating than the majority of CGI sharks in modern movies, which move realistically faster and more fluidly
it’s the fact that it is an animatronic, and a fucking big one, that makes it so even if its stiff movements might come off as goofy it still evokes better than anything else the fear that there is something HUGE, RIGHT THERE, and it WANTS TO EAT YOU.
even if the CGI sharks look and move more like real sharks, there’s still an intangibility to them that takes you out of the movie and fails to scare
like here, one of my favorite scares in the whole movie:
a CG shark’s colors are not going to blend in with the water the way the animatronic shark’s do. you’re going to register exactly what you’re looking at there right away, while here it’s only there for a couple seconds and then sinks away before you’ve gotten a proper look: all you register are the primal fears of BIG and MOUTH and RIGHT THERE. I feel like that’s a lot closer to what spotting a real shark in the water would feel like.
and sure, you might be able to see all of its inner workings once it’s out of the water, but still! you can look it in the fucking eyes! water is sloughing off of it! there’s blood on its teeth!
BIG. HUNGRY. RIGHT THERE. That shit from Shark Night could NEVER.
