Jaws - can you name two things that happened in the book but not in the film?!


Question: Ok get your thinking caps on film fans.


Answers: Ok get your thinking caps on film fans.

In the movie, Brody and Hooper become friends and work together side-by-side. In the novel, Hooper is a young, obnoxious man who has an affair with Ellen, Brody's wife. The two become enemies and Brody's battle with growing old and envious of Hooper is a major sub-plot

In the novel, Hooper is killed by the shark when he goes underneath the water in the cage. In the film, he survives.

There's lots more

Sure. The affair, and the marital discord. How the family was strapped for money. How they ate whatever local fish was on sale at the local grocery store, which bought off the boats. How the wife primped when she anticipated a sexual encounter.

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the shark ate someone and the lifeguard got hooked up

There are several other differences:

Brody and his wife have three sons: Billy, Martin Jr. and Sean. In the movie, there are only two Brody children, Mike and Sean.

Hooper tries to kill the shark with a bangstick, but during the dive he is eaten. He survives in the film. In the original script Hooper would have also died in the film, but this was changed during production.

The mayor keeps the beaches open partly because of his Mafia ties.

The shark kills a boy and a senior citizen in one afternoon, but in the movie only the boy, Alex Kintner, is killed.

All events in the final reel of the film aboard the boat occur in one unbroken trip at sea, while in the novel the men safely return to Amity's harbor several times.

Quint's monologue about the USS Indianapolis is absent from the novel and the original screenplay.

The shark dies from being stabbed with a harpoon by Quint, and the novel ends with the shark approaching Brody as the boat sinks, but Brody has no weapon and the shark dies from the stab wounds.For the film, something with more visual impact was deemed necessary. Benchley disliked the change and claimed that the airtank explosion was unbelievable.

In the Mythbusters' JAWS Special, which aired during Discovery Channel's Shark Week, the Mythbusters confirmed Benchley's theory as the scene was deemed "busted," due to the fact that in reality, the airtank would just fly around like a rocket after being punctured, thought they failed to mention that this would still kill the shark as the tank would have flown back and punctured its gills, stomach, and heart.

Quint's foot becomes tangled in the barrel ropes and he is pulled underwater by the shark, drowning. In the film, he is eaten by the shark.

And unrelated to the BOOK, but interesting:
Steven Spielberg, who really wanted to meet Alfred Hitchcock was refused, why? Hitchcock believed the movie was so supierior to his own films, he felt intimidated.

The first swimmer reached down and felt the nub of her leg after it got bit off and before being finished off.

The shark's point of view and its passage through the ocean "off camera" was marked.



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