Right. The shark is just a shark doing what they believed sharks did in those days (Peter Benchley himself later became an advocate for shark preservation and once said that if he’d known at the time what we know now, he’d never have written Jaws). The mayor is the one who sees truth as an inconvenience in the way of profit and so creates the situation. Even the shark is a victim, being killed because it stands in the way of capitalism.
The novel iirc goes further in revealing that the mayor is in debt to the mob and needs the money from July 4 to pay them off. So there’s two kinds of “sharks” swirling about…
Not mine, sadly. Although one of my proudest moments is when I got a group of friends to watch the first three movies (hey, they were into it, so I let it keep going after the first one–don’t judge me) and they actually enjoyed it and discussed it. Best drunken hotel night I’ve had yet.
No one believes me when I say that the mayor is the bad guy in Jaws. It’s not the shark.
Right. The shark is just a shark doing what they believed sharks did in those days (Peter Benchley himself later became an advocate for shark preservation and once said that if he’d known at the time what we know now, he’d never have written Jaws). The mayor is the one who sees truth as an inconvenience in the way of profit and so creates the situation. Even the shark is a victim, being killed because it stands in the way of capitalism.
The novel iirc goes further in revealing that the mayor is in debt to the mob and needs the money from July 4 to pay them off. So there’s two kinds of “sharks” swirling about…
I think we would be friends.
No one? It seems to be a popular opinion in my media diet…
Not mine, sadly. Although one of my proudest moments is when I got a group of friends to watch the first three movies (hey, they were into it, so I let it keep going after the first one–don’t judge me) and they actually enjoyed it and discussed it. Best drunken hotel night I’ve had yet.