Comparing Jumanji, The Birds And M. Night Shyamalan
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Jumanji is an American Family Fantasy-Adventure film that debuted in 1995 and was directed by Joe Johnston. The film’s MPAA rating of PG is often questionable when viewing the movie. Although the film does focus around gaining vital and positive characteristics throughout the different stages of adolescent such as; courage, individuality and bravery which becomes extremely important and useful, the film also introduces frightening moments that could actually terrify a kid from ever taking a visit to the local zoo again. The creepiness added with the variety of popular jungle animals and complex scenarios that someone may find on a safari, intensity is comparable to prevalent films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” and M. Night Shyamalan…show more content… When Peter and Judy roll double they find out in a murky old basement that they have unleashed a ferocious beast that could possibly rip them to shreds. The scene does a quick elliptical edit to a piano where viewers see the animal’s tail in the shadowy corner trail the piano keys. The sound bridge from the animal’s tail playing the piano keys introduces an even more creepier tone to the scene that kept me intrigued into finding out who or what rested in the shadows. The lighting is used to obviously conceal the animal but metaphorical let viewers know the difference between adolescent and adulthood being this would not be an easy task for the children to escape such as their previous challenges. The single source of light that is provided for the lion to sneak his head into, is shown to exaggerate and show exactly what the children would be facing, the king of the jungle. When viewing this as a child the C.G.I. effect of the lion is believable and can be pretty frightening especially with the ability to create sound effects that match perfectly to the animals presented on the screen such as the lion’s authentic growl and