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This is not really a spoiler, but more of an irrelevant aside: The hardest thing about reconciling book with film is the fact that Richard Dreyfuss played Hooper in the movie. Book Hooper and Movie Hooper are light years apart. Yet I couldn’t create a Book Hooper in my mind, so I just used Dreyfuss. The results are – and I’m not exaggerating – quite horrifying. If you’ve read the book, you know what I’m talking about. If you haven’t read the book, I dare you to – while imagining Richard Dreyfuss) First of all Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel Jaws is darker and more complicated than Spielberg’s film. And it was a magnificent motion picture, a work of art with few peers and a production that garnered Spielberg his first high accolades. Benchley’s novel, as are most books, almost by artistic default, is more complex, with characterizations that are developed and interconnected, with a group dynamic that is as interesting as the surface story about a man-eating shark that eats a town. Kidd, James (September 4, 2014). "Jaws at 40 – is Peter Benchley's book a forgotten masterpiece?". The Independent . Retrieved January 28, 2015. As it turns out, I am what I am. And what I am is a reader who can read about animals killing people but not people killing animals.

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Ahí me recuerda la frase "Grita Barracuda y la gente dirá ¿Qué, qué es eso? Y ojito con las Barracudas.. Grita Tiburón y cundirá el pánico absoluto" The first volume of the bewitching ‘Chrestomanci’ series by Diana Wynne Jones. Charmed Life arrives in an explosion of magic in this edition illustrated by Alison Bryant and introduced by Katherine Rundell. i am just here to declare that this is a pretty fun book. i read it in a single day, during all of the previous year's shark week reruns counting down to SHARK WEEK 2018, and my very low expectations of entertainment were met and SURPASSED. Priggé, Steven (2004). Movie Moguls Speak: Interviews with Top Film Producers. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. p.7. ISBN 0-7864-1929-6. Bouzereau, Laurent (1995). "A Look Inside Jaws: Casting". Jaws: 30th Anniversary Edition DVD (2005) . Universal Home Video.

and HOW is there not more attention called to the best line in any book, anywhere, as quint yells at the great white himself: Bien, como el libro me fue maravilloso y podría estar en un listado de mis favoritos, veré la película para saber por qué todo el mundo dice que es mucho mejor que el libro. Mi espectativa hacia la película es bastante alta y espero la supere o iguale. Jaws was a 2 Star read, but it's getting a ½ Star bump for the ending (which is probably the one thing most other people didn’t like). Wendy Benchley agrees. “I have seen tremendous changes in attitudes over the past 50 years. Peter received thousands of letters over the years from people around the world telling him that Jaws had inspired them to learn more about sharks and the ocean. To become a marine biologist, or to photograph and video sharks in ways never seen before.” Did you know that the title Jaws nearly never existed? Among the many titles brainstormed, “Great White” topped the list, along others like “Shimmo”, “White Death”, and even “The Fish”. In the last seconds before the printing deadline, Peter Benchley crossed out the original title and penned in the single word, JAWS. “Don't know what it means”, he said, “but at least it's short.” The name is ubiquitous to nearly only one thing now, and then certainly after the summer of 1975 when the movie premiered, but nobody knew what it meant after it had been decided upon. Besides, they thought, what we have here is a first novel about a fish, and nobody reads first novels. “Furthermore, and as a does of reality, we all loudly agreed that there wasn't a chance that anybody would ever make a movie out of the book.”

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a b Curtis, Bryan (February 16, 2006). "Peter Benchley – The man who loved sharks". Slate . Retrieved March 18, 2015. Outside of real events, Jaws wasn’t the first time a great white shark had taken the stage as a subject. The 1971 documentary Blue Water, White Death by Peter Gimbal and James Lipscomb featured audacious footage of the predator, which had been first filmed underwater only five years before. Peter Matthiessen’s 1972 book Blue Meridianwas a slow-burn stalk of the shark across the world chronicling that film’s making. how are there no t-shirts made of this? how did this not make it into the film? how can a book containing that line receive fewer than five stars from any reviewer, anywhere?? In later interviews, the author of the book that started it all was clear he would have done things differently had the knowledge of sharks been available at the time. “Environmental sense didn’t really exist [when I wrote the book] Benchley told Greater Boston News in 2004, “and we didn’t know anything about sharks. We still don’t know a great deal, but what we do know… I certainly couldn’t demonise the animal.”All good fun in the context of science fiction. But as Pepin-Neff argues, when a film is your first exposure to a creature with an authentic counterpart, the prejudice can transfer to reality. “There is no way to look at the data on public fear of sharksand not feel like Jaws is a primary factor,” says Pepin-Neff. “Even if someone has never seen Jaws, filmmakers copy the music, story, and cinematography to capture and repeat the essence of a ‘shark movie monster’ story. This is bad for sharks because most people's only experience of [them] is what they see on the screen.” Pepin-Neff adds that “Jaws' legacy is one of tragedy for sharks—and treasure for shark research.” Ferguson, Christopher J. (May 18, 2020). "Examining Media Myths". Psychology Today . Retrieved October 31, 2021. A lo que voy es que, consciente o inconscientemente, siempre hablamos de qué tanto afecta su adaptación cinematográfica en nuestros previos o posts pensamientos del libro (algo así como lo que estoy haciendo justo ahora, je je).

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And despite Peter Benchley saying that Jaws helped create the shark as monster and give the species - specifically the great white - a bad name, for many it has helped spur a passion for these magnificent fish. A passion that allows them to enjoy the film and book as a work of fiction, but used it as a springboard into discovering more about sharks, conservation and even setting them on the road to become real life Matt Hoopers. Sharks have been hunted and killed in the name of Jaws, but nothing like the estimated 100 million that are killed each and every year. That is the true and lasting legacy of Jaws. It's also one that Peter Benchley would have been proud of. Perhaps Jaws has helped play its part in helping to save sharks and our oceans after all. Peter Benchley was an American author of mystery and thriller novels best known as the author of Jaws and co-wrote the novel subsequent film adaptation alongside Carl Gottlieb. Several of the author’s novels were adapted into movies include, The Island, The Deep, White Shark, and Beast. Later in life, the author came to regret writing such thriller which he felt increased fear and caused unnecessary culls of sharks as predators in the ocean ecosystem. This led him to become an active advocate for marine conservation. While both were products of a markedly different conservation landscape, they had natural history at their core. Marketing, however, keenly traded on the shark’s fearsome countenance as a ludicrously colossal, human-devouring monster—‘7,000 pounds of sheer terror with jaws like a steel trap!’—to pique public interest.The first adventure in the Folio Society editions of ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ series, Enid Blyton’s The Enchanted Wood features Jonathan Burton’s enchanting illustrations and a new introduction by Michael Morpurgo. Second, with that said, I will still probably refer to Spielberg’s all-time classic more than a couple times. I enjoyed the book it was good. Well, most of it. I came to enjoy the mafia angle that the movie didn't have and it was interesting to get a deeper understanding of the economic consequences of closing the beaches. What I didn't like was the Ellen Brody drama. She has a great marriage, a loving husband, and three great sons, but she is still unhappy. And, then Matt Hopper arrives at the island. Not to spoil the book. But God dammit. That part of the book made me angry. So angry that I wished she had been on the damn boat at the end with Brody, Quint, and Hopper. Wendy is globally recognised as a leader in ocean and shark conservation, and her experience will be massively valuable to our growth plans,” Dr. Austin Gallagher, CEO and Chief Scientist, writes. “The word ‘shark’ is synonymous with the name ‘Benchley’.”