![]() ![]() Ruben Fleischer’s 2013 shoot-em-up Gangster Squad is a good example of that. ![]() The genre – if you see it as such – relies on well-trodden conventions and tropes, and the directors who abide by them can too often veer into pastiche. There are many pitfalls that come with shooting a mid-century film noir in the here and now. In the first 38 days of release, Jaws sold 25 million tickets, and changed everything. "The film went from a Japanese Saturday matinee horror flick to more of a Hitchcock," he reflected later. The mechanical shark Steven Spielberg was hoping to shoot eating those people kept conking out, so by necessity he had to start shooting from the shark's point of view. Or it might be a film about a shark that keeps eating people. Depending on who you listen to, the shark that terrorises the beaches of Amity Island stands for communism, or Watergate, or sexual liberation, or American disillusionment, or the knowledge of death itself, or terrorism, or a hundred other things. After Jaws – and ever since – big movies opened in the summer, as wide as possible, and could make it bigger than anyone thought possible. Before Jaws, a hit movie came out around Christmas and opened in a few cinemas before going bigger. The original blockbuster, and a turning point in cinema history. ![]()
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