Resurrecting this great thread in view of the morality and cultural comments recently.
This isn't a morality comment, but more of a cultural one. I mentioned this in the episode thread, but am also bringing it up here. There is a scene in the last episode where the kids are swimming at night. The girl makes it to the dock, but the young man doesn't. The scene pans to the monster underneath, watching him swimming at night. It was a nod to Jaws and actually wasn't the only scene. There was a scene in Jaws where the shark bumps into a man in his boat and knocks the man out of the boat. Pandemonium ensues along with much blood, just like the Grimm episode. I also thought someone in the episode wondered if there was a freshwater shark in the lake.
I saw Jaws when it opened back in 1975. It was an instant mega blockbuster hit. But that aside, it was also a cultural phenomenon. No one looked at going in the ocean the same again. Sadly, it also spurred an unnecessary bounty on sharks. My family took a trip down to Brownsville Texas a couple of years after Jaws came out. I did not go, as I was already married at the time, but they told me about the mutilated sharks that were left alive after their teeth had been cut out. (Shudders)
Movies and television shows are primarily of an entertainment value. But they also impact our culture and our way of looking at characters. Even some of the actors themselves took their characters seriously. I recall reading about Clayton Moore, the man who played the Lone Ranger in the old television series. He believed so strongly in the integrity of his character that he molded his life after the character.
This isn't a morality comment, but more of a cultural one. I mentioned this in the episode thread, but am also bringing it up here. There is a scene in the last episode where the kids are swimming at night. The girl makes it to the dock, but the young man doesn't. The scene pans to the monster underneath, watching him swimming at night. It was a nod to Jaws and actually wasn't the only scene. There was a scene in Jaws where the shark bumps into a man in his boat and knocks the man out of the boat. Pandemonium ensues along with much blood, just like the Grimm episode. I also thought someone in the episode wondered if there was a freshwater shark in the lake.
I saw Jaws when it opened back in 1975. It was an instant mega blockbuster hit. But that aside, it was also a cultural phenomenon. No one looked at going in the ocean the same again. Sadly, it also spurred an unnecessary bounty on sharks. My family took a trip down to Brownsville Texas a couple of years after Jaws came out. I did not go, as I was already married at the time, but they told me about the mutilated sharks that were left alive after their teeth had been cut out. (Shudders)
Movies and television shows are primarily of an entertainment value. But they also impact our culture and our way of looking at characters. Even some of the actors themselves took their characters seriously. I recall reading about Clayton Moore, the man who played the Lone Ranger in the old television series. He believed so strongly in the integrity of his character that he molded his life after the character.
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