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that diverges heavily from Peter Benchley’s namesake novel, and it ended up being the right call. Set on the summertime seaside tourist town of Amity Island,sees the town’s upcoming Fourth of July holiday turn into a local panic when a great white shark arrives in the town’s waters and begins devouring local swimmers.
Roy Scheider’s police chief Martin Brody joins forces with marine biologist Matt Hooper and fisherman Quint to stop the shark’s rampage, with the trio finding themselves in a harrowing high-seas battle against the aquatic predator.), and one tool that helped make that possible was the movie’s ending and, specifically, Brody’s method of defeating the shark. Compared to the shark’s death in Benchley’s novel, the ending is far more cinematic and quite literally explosive in the movie. It should come as no surprise that Steven Spielberg, well-known as one of the first filmmakers associated with summer blockbusters throughWhen Brody, Hooper, and Quint embark on their sea-faring hunt for Amity Island’s shark menace, it plays out much darker in the novel. To begin with, Hooper himself meets a terrible end in his efforts to hit the shark with a bang stick from an underwater cage, with the shark devouring Hooper whole. Quint then becomes even more obsessed with defeating the shark, to the point of not even caring about being paid for his services anymore, and this ultimately costs him his life when he becomes entangled in a rope attached to a harpoon, pulled into the depths with the shark like Captain Ahab. Shortly thereafter, Brody is just inches away from being devoured by the shark when the greatly fatigued fish stops literally dead in its tracks, mortally wounded from the barrels harpooned into it and other injuries from the long battle at sea, and sinking to the ocean floor.alters these events significantly, beginning with Hooper surviving his underwater battle with the shark and hiding behind a coral reef. After the shark leaps aboard theand devours the screaming Quint, Brody tosses an oxygen tank into the shark’s mouth. As the fish makes its final charge towards the sinking, Brody shoots at the shark with a rifle and manages to hit the tank, causing the tank to burst and the shark to explode from the suddenly released compressed air. Hooper then returns to the surface, with him and Brody swimming back to Amity Island together on some of the remaining barrels. The night and day difference between these two endings ended up being a matter of debate between Steven Spielberg and Peter Benchley.the movie in the cinematic way possible, Steven Spielberg laid out his proposed ending to Benchley involving Brody tossing an oxygen tank into the shark’s mouth and shooting it. While Benchley initially found Spielberg’s proposed ending to be absurd and over-the-top, Spielberg argued that believability was far more important than realism in a cinematic context. Ultimately, Benchley would have a change of heart and came to see Spielberg’s ending as the ideal way to go for, Peter Benchley’s widow Wendy shared how her late husband came to be in favor of Spielberg’s ending for, stating, “That was absolutely fine with him because he realized, in a novel, you need to have more complexity as people read, but when you have a movie, you need a straight A-B-C-D plotline.” Benchley also stated that her husband didn’t quite see eye-to-eye with Spielberg on the size of the great white shark, with such sharks being about 15 feet long in nature as opposed to the 25-foot length of the shark in. Nonetheless, Benchley stated her feelings, “Steven is so talented and brilliant and he knew he needed to have a bigger shark to make that movie grab you and really make you afraid.”While Benchley’s spine-tingling novel portrays the shark as a terrifying, man-eating beast from the deep, books also inherently leave far more to the reader’s imagination than any movie can afford to do. Such is the case with the shark itself being so much more of a beefed-up, high-seas predator in. Even with Spielberg keeping the shark off-screen for much of the movie , the shark still had to appear on-screen sooner or later. By making the great white shark ofvery abnormally large, Spielberg really sold the fish as a terrifying threat to all of Amity Island’s residents and tourists. Additionally, while the demise of the shark in Benchley’s novel works well as the finale to the dark, suspenseful tale Benchley relates, the shark simply passing out and drowning right before devouring Brody would have been highly anti-climactic in Jaws the movie after the bloody carnage the shark unleashes throughout the film. With Spielberg’s ending, Jaws ends on a note of not just survival but victory over the shark after it has taken so many lives. Moreover, Jaws’ literally explosive ending was also instrumental in the movie’s role in establishing the modern summer movie season, Spielberg’s ending giving Jaws a real climactic impact that it would not have had with the ending of Benchley’s novel.serve their purpose for their respective mediums well, Benchley’s ending of Brody escaping a near-brush with death and Spielberg’s of Brody triumphing over the seemingly insurmountable shark, with the added bonus of Hooper also surviving. 50 years later, the decision to go with Spielberg’s ending was one that helped shape the identity and enduring legacy ofFantastic Four: First Steps Director Reveals Who Filmed the Post Credits Scene Get access to exclusive stories on new releases, movies, shows, comics, anime, games and more!
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