 Gotta open up the Blu-ray of Jaws cuz I ain't open it up yet. I watched it on Netflix But I had to own it Yeah, hello everybody here welcome back to book versus movie finally with episode 2 We're finally talking about Jaws word of warning before you continue on with this video If you have not seen the movie and you have not read the book there's gonna be spoilers for both So if you care about spoilers and haven't read the book haven't seen the movie I suggest UGTFO what I hope to accomplish with this series is the age-old question is the book Always better than the movie before we jump into Which is better? I want to tell you a short story About me and my grandmother my grandmother used to take all of us grandkids She has something like 20 25 grandkids, but she would always make time for each and every one of us And one of my most prized memories from when I was a child is that's going to Universal Studios every every now and again It was once a year We would go to a theme park sometimes it was not very far if you don't know I grew up in Southern, California either it was not very farm Magic Mountain Disneyland or Universal Studios and one of the things that I remember the most about the Universal Studios trips is of course a section where you go over The rickety dock and Jaws comes out of the water. I loved that section of it I loved everything about it and it just watching this movie reading this book brought back so many pleasant memories of my Grandmother and I couldn't have asked for a better experience right off the bat If we are going along the timeline of the movie right off the bat You hear more from the kids then you in the movie version then you ever do in the book The one of the things one of the problems that I had with the book was There wasn't enough of the family and I didn't really see the purpose of the kids now I'm an author myself and one of the big pet peeves. I've had is repetition and fluff I in fact, I can't even call this fluff or superfluous information because I mean the kids are used throughout But it is very very small roles that they are mentioned in fact I don't think you ever hear one of the kids talking the book whatsoever I could be wrong, but if they do talk in the book It wasn't memorable in the movie the town looks about how I imagined it in the book It's a very quaint little New England town. I think it's in what New York is an Amity New York I think that's it. It looked about how I suspected but one thing I did notice right off the bat Is there were far more people when the visitors came in there were far more people in this town Than there ever was in the book Boy Scouts are new at some bad hat Harry a huge difference between the Book and the movie is quaint comes in super early into the story in the movie in the book He doesn't come in I think until about halfway through and he gets a real quick chapter You hear from him something about you know, there's big shark out there or I can't remember exactly what he's thinking I know that he's introduced with his own chapter and then it goes Directly back to Brody or I might even go back to Ellen who's we're gonna talk about a lot in this video Brody's wife Ellen is in the is has a major role in the book whereas she doesn't in the movie now as far as quaint is concerned I was actually really shocked that he came in so early at first and then I realized hey No wonder this guy's there more because I like this version of the character I love the actor that played the guy so that's big point for the movie another person who has a bigger role in the Movie that has a relatively smaller role in the book is mrs. Kintner the mother of the boy who's eaten by the shark after Brody wanted to shut down The beach public in the movie and it wasn't public right off the bat in the book Which is another thing that I actually liked more right up front We get that out of the way that Brody wanted to close the beach But nobody would let him as I'm watching the movie It is very obvious to me that the movie has a much lighter tone than the book This is almost almost a family movie now it's rated PG-13 But back then it took a lot to get an R rating for whatever reason I think you had to have like gratuitous sex and you know a hundred F words if you got a If you got an R rating back then but a lot of movies were PG-13 In today's market with as much blood as in this movie I'm sure that if Jaws came out today It would be a rated R movie and they probably would have cut back a lot Especially with the murder of the kitten or the the killing I wouldn't say the murder The killing of the kitten or boy that was bloody as hell I was shocked that they went that far people were shocked in at the beginning of it That they actually went for the full on Georgie scene exactly what happens to him in the book I'm not gonna spoil anything for that movie But or the book but a lot of people were shocked that that happened that they showed as much as they did Whereas in the old 19 was it 95 or I can't remember exactly the old Tim Curry version They just cut away with the kids screaming now we get into one of the biggest differences in The book and I'm gonna be here for a while the movie Version of Hooper doesn't know Ellen Brody There is no awkward Very awkward, you know a restaurant scene where there's where she's talking about just tells dude right off the bat That she has a rape fantasy And they end up sleeping together, you know very very very quickly It she knows that she wants to do she's gonna go after the dude but what what struck me very odd is when I watched the movie and There was no no no mention that they didn't even know each other There was no infidelity subplot and that's what made the movie. I think that much better There's one other point that I'm going to get to that. I think makes the movie win this But it seemed watching the movie version It seemed like that that that whole infidelity subplot just it didn't make any sense whatsoever It seemed tacked on to make the book longer than it was with the movie version You didn't have they didn't have to go into that you saw it Big runtime for the movie. It's two hours long. You don't fit. You don't miss it I mean and when when I watch movie adaptations, I always say okay, well, I miss that part of the of the book I missed this I missed that and that's one of the main reasons people say they like the books better, but here I Actually enjoyed the fact that they cut that and I had no problem with them cutting it leaving it It might have made it a a darker film a darker experience, but there was no purpose for it no purpose whatsoever But that does completely nerf the Ellen character the Ellen character in the movie is just a Support character just someone off on the side whereas in the book She's more of a main character because all that content there in the middle is her you know hooking up with Hooper and Causing the backstory with the drama between Brody and Hooper But in the movie They don't mind each other. In fact, they're pretty buddy with each other They have lined together they well I guess Brody does know Ellen because they had dinner together, but they don't hook up And I liked the back-and-forth between Richard Dreyfus and what's his name Roy Schneider? I like the back-and-forth between those guys their versions of Brody and Hooper I like that much more than any of the interactions in the book where they were arguing This is one of the only times where I was happy with the fact that they got rid of drama It made the movie more fun It made the movie more entertaining to watch these especially on the boat when they're there with Quinn Gave you a bit of comfort before the final fight at the end and I thought that was really really cool once again I'm gonna be talking about something that won the movie version over for me probably my favorite part of the movie period Quint's World War two story the the story that he taught that he tells a Brody and Hooper About the sinking of his ship and the survival and the sharks and all that that section is Amazing it is probably in my top ten of all-time of cinematic like monologues I remember I was sitting there listening to this guy and the movie kind of went away I don't know if that's a positive or negative for some people But for me it was really cool because it was like I was in an audio book I was just listening to this guy and I was picturing in my mind what he must have gone through Whoever wrote that scene brilliant. I don't know if there was ad-lib going on I don't know if he stuck directly to the script But the actor did a terrific job bringing that history and bringing that character development Without a load of exposition and there is a little bit of exposition with the telling instead of showing But here it works. It feels like an old boat captain telling a story and that's exactly what it is It's the most realistic section of the the movie is him sitting down and talking about this Terrible tragedy that happened while he was out at sea in world war two one thing I will say about quint though is him running his motor to the breaking point and It completely crapping out. It just seemed against character for that character Quint seemed like a rational individual Even though he's a little off his rocker as far as the whole fishermen thing is concerned You know being alone too much whatever you want to say but There was an aspect of that that didn't feel right about quint's character Whether it be the book especially the book version of quint wouldn't have done that and this version of quint I don't see him Especially after what happened in the world war two that story that he told I don't believe that he would have ran his engine to the breaking point Maybe he would have pushed it a little too hard and then backed off But for the most part I think that was really out of character and i'm going to give the quint version The the book version of quint i'm going to give him the point here And of course we come to the point where I know everybody will probably talk about it The only problem that people have with this movie is that the shark is dated The special effects are antiquated You have a mechanical shark. They didn't have to think actually think Whoever that they didn't have CGI back then because Of the because I don't think it would have worked very well Especially I'm I'm thinking of movies like deep blue sea and whatnot or maybe ghost shark Sorry, I just I mean if you've seen the movie the ghost coming the ghost shark coming out of the pool is amazing Anywho back to the Back to the differences. So um with the shark I I imagine the shark much bigger than it was Of course they had limitations with the animatronics and all that in the movie But I imagined it much bigger not megalodon bigger But I imagined it much bigger than it was in the movie. Maybe that was just my own brain working But I mean I'm I'm trying to remember exactly how big I think is what a 25 footer something like that in the book I'm not exactly sure, but it didn't seem to be a 25 foot shark in maybe 10 15 feet Maybe that I could be wrong and my spatial awareness is completely off But it seemed like a bigger shark in the book Of course that's explained away like I said with the limitations of the special effects But I didn't have a problem with the limitation of the special effects I watched the movie. I am super critical of books and movies and they're you know, the way things are tackled I didn't have a problem with it. Um now did the shark look real? I don't know. I haven't seen too many sharks But did the shark act realistic? I have no idea I personally did not have a problem With the movie version of the shark now you look at it here on the blu-ray Which I haven't even held up. I went and bought the blu-ray just so I could hold it up for you guys What anyways the uh the shark on here is far looks far more menacing than the book in the uh in the movie Of course, but then I realized something when it came. It's just the it's literally It's a the poster. It's the one on here is the one on here So anyways, this is the paperback. I couldn't find remember when I did my congo book versus movie I couldn't find my paperback in jaws. Well, I finally found it. It's in terrible condition, especially after me reading it Um, but I'm probably going to end up getting an updated version of it also Um, but I got the blu-ray of jaws, even though I did watch it on I think netflix or amazon prime It's one of the other Um, and I had to end up owning it But the blu-ray on amazon was actually cheaper than the dvd version Uh, and that was but that was during black friday. So it's probably not the same anymore Now the rob schneider We're gonna need a bigger boat mine is iconic if you don't know Um, I had never seen the movie up until the point when I read the book and I watched the movie This is only like five months ago y'all. I know it's been a while. Um, I've been preparing for this for for for a minute Um, but I'd never actually seen the scene. Um, I I knew it was there I but I'd never saw Roy schneider, um I've seen clips of him doing the reaction, but I've never seen the reaction and the And the uh, the actual line together in in the movie When I watched it, I think it's another one of the things that gives it to the movie version Is that it that scene is it's iconic for a reason But that scene actually made me laugh. I knew it was coming I was looking for it and it still made me laugh Roy schneider's reaction is perfect and now we get to the point the biggest Well, I don't know one of the one another another one of the big differences here Is that hooper survives? Um, I like that. Of course I can't I came to like the dude a lot more In the movie because he wasn't a douchebag You know having an affair with a married woman this character richard dryfus's hooper Was probably my second I would say it's my set. I loved quint quint was way up here brody I could I mean, I know he's the main character, but I honestly could have done Without other than the you're gonna need we're gonna need a bigger boat Um scene I probably could have done without Roy schneider. He could have been anybody But richard dryfus nailed that role and I will forever see him as hooper I actually preferred quint's death in the book over the movie It was very it was a great scene in the movie But I think that the ahab ending of the book was much better I think that was a much better ending for that character because he had lived his life out in the sea It brought things full circle for him and the sea ended up killing him not the shark I mean, I guess it could be assumed that he dragged him down then he ate him But for me, I feel like he just dragged him down drown him and just left him The the action movie one liner at the end of the movie man as a Wrong genre folks. So that's everything I found with the book and the movie. Did I miss some differences? Of course, I did. I know there's a lot of really minor stuff like there was two kids in the movie Three kids in the book, but I don't think that stuff's important or even interesting Um, so what I talked about here was just the interesting stuff If you have anything that you caught that isn't in one version or another or improvements or reasons why you like the book If it's not obvious, I like the movie more So this is one of those times where the movie I think is better again Going back to congo. I felt the same way But if you have any reasons why you like the book more maybe because it's a darker experience Maybe because you like the infidelity subplot. Let me know down there in the comments below But until next time I have been in you've been you this has been book versus movie and I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye Oh For you guys who are still here. What do you want me to do next? I have a choice To everybody clicked away already because I did my outro, but We have a choice between choke by chuck pollinik, which I would really love to reread I've never seen the movie and we have the witches of eastwick by john updyke Which one of these you guys want to see next comment down below. Let me know. Bye. Bye