Most of these are recognition effects, for Star Wars may be the first movie to appeal to film buffs who would never dream of calling themselves that, drawing as it does on a host of popular movie types. Star Wars offers more varied pleasures of this kind than Jaws, but is less cleanly engineered and executed Jaws is based on one compelling premise – fear of the deep, the unknown – where Star Wars is monumentally empty, based on not a single idea but a wealth of conceits.
Both films are a product of new generation Hollywood: made by directors who have already been film buffs, and whose grasp of movie lore and magic is of a simpler but more overpowering kind than that of, say, Hitchcock, the past master of building audience responses into his films. Whatever its qualities as a piece of filmmaking, it becomes interesting primarily as an exercise in programming: the Pavlovian machinery which has gone into action to capture more people than the last great blockbuster of audience participation, Jaws. Original UK release date 27 December 1977ĭistributor Twentieth Century Fox (now Disney)
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