Film and Novel Comparison
Jaws: Film and Novel Comparison
Have you ever watched the famous classic Jaws? Well if you have I bet you haven’t read the book or even knew there was a book. I bet that you didn’t know that the character Quint was the fifth person to die, the word quint means five. Well there is a big difference between movies and their books, this essay is to inform the reader on the similarities, differences, and which one I think is better. There were similarities and differences throughout the novel and film. Some of which were quite significant to the story and plot.
There were many similarities in Jaws. The characters in the movie were portrayed as I saw them in the book. Martin Brody, the main character, is a person that doesn’t get very angry at times but, when he does he gets really mad. Roy Scheider played the part of Martin Brody very well as in getting furious when he was supposed to get angry. The plot is mainly the same, in the beginning a girl is the first to be attacked, Martin tries to close the beaches (he is the police chief) for the safety of Amity, but however the mayor of Amity insists on keeping the beaches open for tourists. This leads to two more deaths. One of the deaths is a young kid floating on the ocean. Martin, Hooper, and Quint go out on a boat in an effort to kill the shark, in the book and in the movie they succeed in killing the shark but Quint dies in the process. In the book the shark is described as a great-white that is approximately thirty feet wide, and just really big. This is also the same case with the movie. In the movie the shark is very big and very ferocious. This makes the experience with the movie greater because it followed the book for the main details.
However, with every similarity there are differences. In the movie the great white gets killed on the third day when in the book it gets killed on the fourth day of hunting. Hooper goes into a shark cage and ends up getting killed because the shark breaks the cage, however, in the movie Hooper goes into the cage and lives because he swims away when the shark broke the cage. This caught me by surprise because in the movie it looks like he gets killed; when he came to the surface I was very shocked. Another difference is that in the book Martin opens the beaches for the fourth of July and a few people come. Some of which are a group of teenagers that make a bet with another teenager that he has to swim out 100 yards. He takes the bet and barely escapes death by getting to the shore before the shark gets him. In the other case, tons of people go to the beach and all decide to swim, while a kid takes a cardboard fin and swims a little farther away, making all of the people swimming scared and call for help. The kid gets in trouble and during this time, the real shark is out a little farther away and ends up killing another person. The most significant difference is that the movie skipped all of the boring, unnecessary, plot points.
For my own preference I liked the movie over the book. The book was good but it was like a McRib. Its good on the outside, but then you bite into the rib, the middle, and it’s horrible. The first fifty pages were great, it had the first shark attacks, and the last 50 pages were amazing. The last fifty had the shark hunt, which was just so cool. However in the middle it was just boring. There was just unnecessary plot that was just dumb. It was like Peter Benchley just needed to write and extra 200 pages to call it a book so he wrote a bunch of dumb stuff. The movie just appealed to me better, it had the shark attacks, which was my favorite part. The attacks were very realistic; the characters were portrayed well by the actors. For example in the book Martin would not get angry often, he was a pretty laid-back guy, but when he does get angry he gets extremely angry. In the movie the scene starts off as Martin being very calm but as the tension rises he loses it and starts screaming at everybody. One reason I liked the movie better is that it kept things going. In the book Peter Benchley would start describing something and then get carried away and would not stop describing things irrelevant to the story. The movie allowed for the plot to keep moving and not get slowed down. Another reason I liked the movie better is that it was just more appealing to me, I captured my attention more and it was just a better experience, it was like giving a kid ice cream rather than vegetables, it’s just more appealing and appetizing to them.
There is a big difference between movies and their books, this essay was to inform the reader on the similarities, differences, and which one I think is better. I hope that this essay was of use and that it gave you a new knowledge on the book and film Jaws. Books and movies are different in many ways, the books can be seen as scary and frightful, when the movie is portrayed as happy and enjoyable. The movie captures the books perspective well but not perfectly, it allows enough of the book but too much to make it excessive.
Have you ever watched the famous classic Jaws? Well if you have I bet you haven’t read the book or even knew there was a book. I bet that you didn’t know that the character Quint was the fifth person to die, the word quint means five. Well there is a big difference between movies and their books, this essay is to inform the reader on the similarities, differences, and which one I think is better. There were similarities and differences throughout the novel and film. Some of which were quite significant to the story and plot.
There were many similarities in Jaws. The characters in the movie were portrayed as I saw them in the book. Martin Brody, the main character, is a person that doesn’t get very angry at times but, when he does he gets really mad. Roy Scheider played the part of Martin Brody very well as in getting furious when he was supposed to get angry. The plot is mainly the same, in the beginning a girl is the first to be attacked, Martin tries to close the beaches (he is the police chief) for the safety of Amity, but however the mayor of Amity insists on keeping the beaches open for tourists. This leads to two more deaths. One of the deaths is a young kid floating on the ocean. Martin, Hooper, and Quint go out on a boat in an effort to kill the shark, in the book and in the movie they succeed in killing the shark but Quint dies in the process. In the book the shark is described as a great-white that is approximately thirty feet wide, and just really big. This is also the same case with the movie. In the movie the shark is very big and very ferocious. This makes the experience with the movie greater because it followed the book for the main details.
However, with every similarity there are differences. In the movie the great white gets killed on the third day when in the book it gets killed on the fourth day of hunting. Hooper goes into a shark cage and ends up getting killed because the shark breaks the cage, however, in the movie Hooper goes into the cage and lives because he swims away when the shark broke the cage. This caught me by surprise because in the movie it looks like he gets killed; when he came to the surface I was very shocked. Another difference is that in the book Martin opens the beaches for the fourth of July and a few people come. Some of which are a group of teenagers that make a bet with another teenager that he has to swim out 100 yards. He takes the bet and barely escapes death by getting to the shore before the shark gets him. In the other case, tons of people go to the beach and all decide to swim, while a kid takes a cardboard fin and swims a little farther away, making all of the people swimming scared and call for help. The kid gets in trouble and during this time, the real shark is out a little farther away and ends up killing another person. The most significant difference is that the movie skipped all of the boring, unnecessary, plot points.
For my own preference I liked the movie over the book. The book was good but it was like a McRib. Its good on the outside, but then you bite into the rib, the middle, and it’s horrible. The first fifty pages were great, it had the first shark attacks, and the last 50 pages were amazing. The last fifty had the shark hunt, which was just so cool. However in the middle it was just boring. There was just unnecessary plot that was just dumb. It was like Peter Benchley just needed to write and extra 200 pages to call it a book so he wrote a bunch of dumb stuff. The movie just appealed to me better, it had the shark attacks, which was my favorite part. The attacks were very realistic; the characters were portrayed well by the actors. For example in the book Martin would not get angry often, he was a pretty laid-back guy, but when he does get angry he gets extremely angry. In the movie the scene starts off as Martin being very calm but as the tension rises he loses it and starts screaming at everybody. One reason I liked the movie better is that it kept things going. In the book Peter Benchley would start describing something and then get carried away and would not stop describing things irrelevant to the story. The movie allowed for the plot to keep moving and not get slowed down. Another reason I liked the movie better is that it was just more appealing to me, I captured my attention more and it was just a better experience, it was like giving a kid ice cream rather than vegetables, it’s just more appealing and appetizing to them.
There is a big difference between movies and their books, this essay was to inform the reader on the similarities, differences, and which one I think is better. I hope that this essay was of use and that it gave you a new knowledge on the book and film Jaws. Books and movies are different in many ways, the books can be seen as scary and frightful, when the movie is portrayed as happy and enjoyable. The movie captures the books perspective well but not perfectly, it allows enough of the book but too much to make it excessive.