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Old 06-14-11 | 05:53 PM
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How about an all black/urban version of Jaws? And the hook is THERE IS NO SHARK. Everytime someone goes swimming they drown. In the end the whole cast decides they'll just move away from the beach and never go back there again.
That would explain why in there are no black people anymore after the whites move in.
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Old 06-14-11 | 07:07 PM
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That would explain why in there are no black people anymore after the whites move in.
That's it! The great white is really The Great White Man! And he's gentrifying the beach so he can have it all to himself. Brilliant.
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Old 06-14-11 | 07:18 PM
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You lost me at Olyphant since I have no idea who that is even AFTER I wikipedia'd him. And Josh Brolin as Quint? C'mon. You need someone a bit more surly and ugly than John Brolin!
--How about weathered and grizzly Richard Dreyfuss as Quint?!?
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Old 06-14-11 | 07:39 PM
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A remake of Jaws? That would be a disaster! Jaws is a classic.
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Old 06-15-11 | 07:40 AM
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Re: If they remade Jaws...
Originally Posted by Mabuse
How about an all black/urban version of Jaws? And the hook is THERE IS NO SHARK. Everytime someone goes swimming they drown. In the end the whole cast decides they'll just move away from the beach and never go back there again.
Thats funny because black/urban ppl don't go to the beach
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Old 06-15-11 | 07:48 AM
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Re: If they remade Jaws...
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Thats funny because black/urban ppl don't go to the beach
it'll be an origin story
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Old 06-15-11 | 09:26 AM
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A remake of Jaws? That would be a disaster! Jaws is a classic.
If they dared do it, you can bet the remake of "The Godfather" wouldn't be too far off.
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Old 06-15-11 | 11:37 AM
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Re: If they remade Jaws...
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it'll be an origin story
Yeah exactly. It's like that sequel to Tremors that took place in 1872, It would tell the back story of why black people don't swim.

And the Godfather remake should be done entirely with the cast of the Jersey Shore. With Snookie as Connie. Someone should do this for the MTV Movie Awards or something. That would be a very funny parrody.
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Old 06-15-11 | 02:57 PM
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And Josh Brolin as Quint? C'mon. You need someone a bit more surly and ugly than John Brolin!
If only James Gammon was still alive.
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Old 06-19-11 | 01:15 AM
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I always wondered how the book went...
I'll stick some differences that I recall (I read it a long, long time ago) in a spoiler tag, just in case anyone is reading the novel...
Spoiler:

- The already mentioned Hooper/Mrs. Brody affair.

- In the final section of the story, the Orca boat returned to port every night then went out again hunting the shark the next morning.

- On one occasion, they caught a small shark and Quint, in order to show how sharks behave to Brody, cuts open the small shark's stomach and throws it back in the sea. From the boat, they then watch the dying shark swim around and eat what's coming out of the hole in its stomach, and the stuff it swallows then falls out of the hole in its stomach again and again as the shark keeps on circling and eating the same stuff repeatedly.

- The shark kills Hooper in the cage, and then surfaces with his body in its jaws as if to show it off to Chief Brody and Quint.

- Quint is not eaten but instead is killed by drowning when a barrel rope tangles around his leg and he, hanging on the rope, is dragged underwater by the shark. (A very Captain Ahab-like death.)

- The shark doesn't blow up, it instead dies from its wounds due to all the barrels attached to it, while in the process of swimming up to kill Chief Brody, who is floating helplessly in the ocean after the Orca sinks.
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Old 06-20-11 | 02:33 PM
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Re: If they remade Jaws...
If we're recasting, I'll break it down and think more of it being closer to the book. There's no reason or way to redo what Spielberg did and a shot for shot remake would be horrible. The book was more of a drama with the shark being secondary.

CharacterBig NameSmaller Name
QuintRussell CroweStephen Lang
BrodyEd HarrisViggo Mortensen
HooperMatt DamonMark Ruffalo
EllenSigourney WeaverEllen Barkin
MeadowsSteve BuscemiKevin Pollack
VaughJack NicholsonJames Cromwell
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