Blockbuster Trailers

JAWS (1975)

GODFATHER (1972)

STAR WARS (1997)

E.T. (1982)
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HOW DO THEY COMPARE AS BLOCKBUSTERS?

• At this point as Blockbusters, these films are not the same which shows that they are not formulaic.
• Star Wars is a blockbuster because there was loads of special effects in it. 
• The Godfather was a blockbuster because it was star-studded so it became an event. Whereas in Star Wars, the actors where unknown before the film. 
• Jaws was the first event movie because it was released in the summer so lots of people went to see it. Jaws is actually character led - it had a story line where you sympathised with the characters.

SYNTHESIS:

You can bring back good blockbusters like the Godfather because it didn't have special effects but it did bring in lots of money. Godfather was not shown in Multiplex's as well as Jaws because they didn't have a spectacle about them like special effects. Star Wars was the beginning of blockbusters because they had visual effects that generated the formula that blockbusters have to include special effects in order to gain a profit.