If the shooting script were closer to Hank Searls novel adaptation...
...this would have been much more epic.
What you guys think about that idea?
I didn't read the novelization. Apart from the voodoo plot point, what is so different about the novel versus the movie?
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There are additional shark Attacks
Discovery of Sean's body is extended.
Mrs. Brody becoems friends with a charming gangster (who hoagie is investigating)
there is a humorous scene involving a newscaster and the shark.
1. The shark takes weeks to swim to Nassau. It attacks and feeds on a wounded whale near Florida.
2. Ellen goes to the beach after Sean's funeral with his gun. She goes in the water a bit and wants to shoot at nothing. She throws it the water and while walking off the shark's fin rises.
3. Apparently the shark from Jaws 2 (Searls version) was the shark who killed Martin. He was never the same after the events and his health worsened.
4. Louisa (Jake's girlfriend) has much more of a role. She is a Priestess who suspects the Brody trouble which leads too...
....Papa Legba. A voodoo priest who uses dark magic. Mike angers him when calling him a phony which leads to Legba calling a Loa in the guise of a shark to destroy the family. He was aware of their past with sharks. So the shark is just an instrument here, not a revenge seeking fish. We even read through its thoughts where it thinks "why am i doing this?"
5. The sunken boat chase is much more epic and long.
6. Legba steals Thea's sand bucket and uses it to put her in a trance where she walks into the water at night while the shark waits. Carla and Ellen chase after her in the water, Ellen feels something is near and rushes them out.
7. The shark attacks a windsurfer who's on way to the beach event.
Michael Keeps the heart monitor at home which Carla shuts off at one point causing mike to realize that their daughter is in danger.
The casino that they visit in the movie is a casino owned by the gangster.
The discovery of Sean's body is extended and Sean is actually dipping his hands in the water when he is pulled overboard. We also meet a few other police officers of amity. When Sean doesn;t come back. the current OIC in his Joseph robes from the pageant, throws on an AMITY PD Jacket and jumps in a boat to go find Sean.
As per Searls' novel, this shark is also the sole-surviving offspring of the shark in Jaws 2.
Man wouldn't do that.
This isn't a man.
Ellen nearly gets shot in a drive by or street gun attack.
shareGeez! I'd completely forgotten about all that! Despite my best efforts, I guess I have managed to retain some memories from my childhood. Strange that it'd be plot elements from Hank Searles' Jaws the Revenge novel.
Man, did I ever love reading movie tie-in adaptation novels. They tended to cut to the chase, and were often horribly written, but I delighted over discovering differences large and small. I don't think I ever fully recovered from reading the Nightmare on Elm Street 3 adaptation, which is based on a completely different (and much darker) version of the screenplay.
The original draft for Dream Warriors was MUCH MUCH DARKER!
It was Craven's initial draft which is online. Freddy was mucho pissed off and angry.
I will never forget his line to Nancy as she ran for her life-
"You run bitch! I'll kill you whether you are awake or asleep!! Then I'll *beep* on your corpse!"
"something far for savage even than nature. Oliver Thredson was, to all appearances a kindly figure"
So the shark is just an instrument here, not a revenge seeking fish. We even read through its thoughts where it thinks "why am i doing this?"
This made me laugh, but also pity the shark who was used as a man-eating voodoo doll. That would have been very interesting to see play out on screen.
I think we've got another shark problem. share