10. The Book Sucks
Ok, that's just an opinion, but I have some evidence to back it up. My wife is a
Jaws fanatic and a shark freak. She knows everything there is to know about sharks. She can name every species of shark off the top of her head and knows all of the man eaters. She watches every show during
Shark Week. Her goal in life is to be eaten by a great white when she's 100 years old. And this woman couldn't even finish the book. The movie was MUCH better - a rarity in the film industry. As I remember it (and don't yell at me in the comments if I get some detail wrong) the book ends with the shark dying from its wounds as it steamed toward Brody to finish off the last surviving member of the crew (Hooper died in the novel). The shark slowly sinks out of sight as Brody watches it trail Quint's body to the bottom of the ocean. Spielberg changed this ending to the now familiar shark-being-blown-up scene, which incensed author Peter Benchley. In fact, Benchley was so mad that he was reportedly thrown off the set after objecting too vehemently. And there you have it - 10 fun facts about
Jaws. I hope I came up with at least a few facts you'd never run across before.