The heroes of Jaws perform their share of brave actions, but the biggest moment of bravery goes to a character who didn't ...

How a B-movie-style creature-feature became a genre-defining blockbuster that changed the face of modern ... seems to apply to Jaws. Key to this reading is the character of Hooper, who [plot ...

You yell, 'Shark,' we've got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July." That got me to thinking about "Jaws": On one hand ... Brody and Hooper identify a rogue shark as a shark "that swims ...

And to prove it some of Jaws ... before Hooper pulls them away, rejecting “this working class hero crap”. Brody comes between them. The tension simmers until the shark shows his face.

The book version of Jaws was very different from the movie. Early drafts of the screenplay featured a subplot where Hooper has an affair with Chief Brody’s wife, which was carted over from the book.

Dr. Donald “Reef” Nelson was part of the inspiration for Matt Hooper, Richard Dreyfuss’s character in the iconic 1975 summer blockbuster. Someone less than thrilled with how Jaws led people ...