Under the Seinea nod to Steven Spielberg
The phenomenal success of the Netflix film Under the Seine retains much of the mystery. Indeed, its critical reception is cold in France, while it is well received in the world and in particular in the United States where the reference media Variety designates it as the worthy heir of the immense Jawsand one of the best shark movies ever made…
A judgment that leaves one perplexed, given that Xavier Gens’ film falls into an indefinable genre, navigating between the first and the thousandth degree to tell a story that ultimately belongs more to the register of comic science fiction than to action-realistic horror. As such, Under the Seine it actually has more similarities to a similar proposition Sharknado than with Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece, but we can still see that Xavier Gens at least is a very clear reference has Jaws.
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Yellow buoys, anything but a coincidence
In Under the Seinedifficult to find even the most distant cousin between the character of Bérénice Bejo and that of Richard Dreyfuss in Jaws, like that of Nassim Lyes’ character with that of Roy Scheider… And if the two films have in common the dramatic challenge of managing to prevent access to the waters frequented by the terrible creature, it seems that this is their only account . But Xavier Gens still wanted to pay homage to Steven Spielberg’s film, using one of his ideas.
In fact, in its final act, just at the moment in which the “alpha” shark of the film enters the stretch of the Seine where the triathletes have just dived, the shark brings with it the net buoys should protect swimmers.
A terrifying sequence of Jaws
This idea and these few shots of the buoys guided by the shark are in fact directly inspired by a sequence of Jawsamong the most terrifying that the 1976 film has. In this, while the crew composed of the police chief Brody (Roy Scheider), the scientist Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) and the shark hunter Quint (Robert Shaw), launches in pursuit of the great white shark, Quint has the idea of harpooning it with a cable to which large yellow barrels are attached.
Objective : tire the shark and prevent it from descending into the depths. But one barrel won’t be enough, nor will the other three with which the desperate crew will try the maneuver again, shortly after…
If the configuration is very different in Under the Seinethe appearance of these yellow buoys dragged by the shark and swirling in the river waters necessarily recalls this passage of Jawsanother surprising demonstration that we don’t have it is not necessary to directly show the danger to make him feel terrible.
Source: Cine Serie
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