Steven Spielberg’s Jaws took some of the most interesting aspects of the aquatic creature feature subgenre and redefined it with simplistic methods. With a shark that rarely worked, POV shots took the already realistic concept of shark attacks and made them scarier as the audience knew the shark was there but not how big it was. This slow burn technique also paid off in the third act when viewers got a full look at how large the fish beast was. But the end of the movie also brought out the best and worst of its three protagonists, Martin Brody, Matt Hooper and Quint.Based on the novel by Peter Benchley, Jaws explored a what-if scenario of what could happen to a beach community dependent on tourism when a rogue shark invades in the summer, eating beachgoers. This led to a political back and forth that led to Amity Island’s mayor allowing Brody and Hooper to take a ship out with Quint to kill the shark. However, there were many differences between the novel and the movie that enhanced the latter, like letting Matt Hooper live. Sadly, while Quint’s death happened in both iterations, his movie death was far more exciting and fitting for the narrative’s impact. Quint was similar to his movie counterpart in the Jaws novel in that he was devoted to slaying the massive shark he was tasked to hunt and kill. But like the shark, who died through exhaustion and injuries, Quint had an equally anti-climactic death. Using typical fishing tactics, Quint had ropes and harpoons around him, and after he fired one, the rope attached to it wrapped around his foot and pulled him to the depths. While drowning worked well for the novel, as the author could pull the reader in more easily, the movie had Quint be the example of how violent the shark was when it took a life.RELATED: Will Smith Recalls Steven Spielberg Convincing Him to Accept Men in Black Role
Steven Spielberg’s Jaws took some of the most interesting aspects of the aquatic creature feature subgenre and redefined it with simplistic methods. With a shark that rarely worked, POV shots took the already realistic concept of shark attacks and made them scarier as the audience knew the shark was there but not how big it was. This slow burn technique also paid off in the third act when viewers got a full look at how large the fish beast was. But the end of the movie also brought out the best and worst of its three protagonists, Martin Brody, Matt Hooper and Quint.
Based on the novel by Peter Benchley, Jaws explored a what-if scenario of what could happen to a beach community dependent on tourism when a rogue shark invades in the summer, eating beachgoers. This led to a political back and forth that led to Amity Island’s mayor allowing Brody and Hooper to take a ship out with Quint to kill the shark. However, there were many differences between the novel and the movie that enhanced the latter, like letting Matt Hooper live. Sadly, while Quint’s death happened in both iterations, his movie death was far more exciting and fitting for the narrative’s impact.
Quint was similar to his movie counterpart in the Jaws novel in that he was devoted to slaying the massive shark he was tasked to hunt and kill. But like the shark, who died through exhaustion and injuries, Quint had an equally anti-climactic death. Using typical fishing tactics, Quint had ropes and harpoons around him, and after he fired one, the rope attached to it wrapped around his foot and pulled him to the depths. While drowning worked well for the novel, as the author could pull the reader in more easily, the movie had Quint be the example of how violent the shark was when it took a life.
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