Great white shark 2

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Movie
German title Great white shark 2
Original title Jaws 2
Great White Shark 2 Logo.png
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1978
length 117 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jeannot Szwarc
script Carl Gottlieb
Howard Sackler
production David Brown
Richard D. Zanuck
music John Williams
camera Michael Butler
cut Steve Potter
Arthur Schmidt
Neil Travis
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Jaws

Successor  →
Jaws 3-D

Jaws 2 (Jaws 2) is an American horror film by Jeannot Szwarc from the year 1978th

action

Four years have passed since the giant great white shark struck Amity's waters. Two divers are attacked on the wreck of the Orca . The lost diving camera is found later in the film. As the third victim, a water skier is attacked by the shark. The boat is also attacked, but it explodes before the boat operator can be killed by the shark.

A horribly wounded orca with huge bite wounds is found on the beach by the lighthouse . Here now police chief Martin Brody finally creeps the terrible suspicion that a new great white shark is making the waters off Amity Island unsafe. He constantly watches the waters; His presence on a watchtower alone makes the mayor - who fears that tourists will be deterred - restless. After Brody hits a false positive shooting a school of blue fish , he is fired by the local council in a night session.

A group of teenagers, including Brody's two sons, Michael and Sean, take a boat trip to the lighthouse. The teenagers are attacked by the shark. Michael is almost killed in the process. The destroyed boats are drifting towards Cable Junction. There Brody finds her with the police boat. Brody takes position near a power cable running through the water. He hits the cable with an oar, provoking the shark, which bites the cable and is killed by the electric current.

Locations

Some of the filming took place on Martha's Vineyard Island . The city of Edgartown served as the backdrop for Amity . Much of the beach scenes were filmed in Navarre, Florida . The island Cable Junction does not actually exist, but was shown for the film by means of superstructures on a barge.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was "dramaturgically less sophisticated" compared to its predecessor. The horror effects are "superficial"; only the music creates tension.

background

The film is a sequel to the horror film Jaws from 1975. Jaws 3-D followed in 1983 and Jaws - The Reckoning in 1987 .

The film was shot in and around Martha's Vineyard , Massachusetts and Florida . Production costs were estimated at 20 million US dollars . The worldwide box office result was around 188 million US dollars.

Scheider was offered a role in the universal film The Through Hell Walk . However, due to artistic differences, Scheider decided against it. Since Universal had a three-film contract with him, he had to star in the film Jaws 2 for Universal .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the original version, a passer-by shouts "It's just a school of bluefish! Just bluefish!" ("It's just a shoal of blue fish! Only blue fish!"), The German version lacks the word "swarm" and the passer-by just shouts "It's a blue fish!"
  2. ↑ Tony Reeves: Jaws 2. At: movie-locations.com., Accessed on April 14, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ The great white shark 2. In: Lexicon of international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Filming locations for Jaws 2
  5. ↑ Business Data for Jaws 2
  6. ↑ Jaws 2 (1978) - Box Office Mojo. Retrieved August 2, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Kachmar, Diane C. (2002). Roy Scheider: a film biography. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-1201-1 / p. 73

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