What's the Difference between Jaws the Book and Jaws the Movie?
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Chief Brody's wife has an affair with Hooper. |
This doesn't happen. |
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Hooper goes into the shark cage to attempt to kill the shark with a boom stick. |
He wants to use a hypodermic needle to inject the fish with strychnine.
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Jaws crushes Hooper's cage and kills him. |
Jaws attempts to crush the cage and gets stuck in it's remains allowing Hooper to escape and live. |
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Quint harpoons the shark and then gets his foot tangled in some lines and is pulled under the water to his death. |
Jaws attacks the boat and Quint falls down into his mouth and is eaten.
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Each day Body, Quint and Hooper return to shore to try again the next day to kill the shark. |
They stay out on the water without returning. |
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After being harpooned three times by Quint, Jaws is bearing down on Brody. He waits for certain death, but before the shark can get to him it dies from it's wound.s |
Brody shoves a scuba tank into Jaws' mouth as it is attempting to kill him. He takes Quint's rifle and shoots the scuba tank causing an explosion that obliterates the shark.
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Mayor Vaughn owes money to the Mafia, who pressure him to keep the beaches open to keep real estate prices high. |
This isn't mentioned. |
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Deputy Hendricks finds the shark's tooth in Ben Gardner's boat and presents it to the mayor. |
Matt Hooper finds the tooth while scuba diving in Ben Gardner's boat, but he looses it when he finds Gardner's corpse and becomes frightened.
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The shark kills an old man shortly after it kills Alex Kintner |
This doesn't happen. |
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Quint uses other sharks and a dolphin and it's fetus as bait for the shark. |
This doesn't happen instead he used fish guts.
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Martin and Ellen have three sons Billy, Martin Jr. And Shawn. |
Martin and Ellen have two sons Michael and Shawn. |