(One of the photos shows a shark with a diver's air tank in its mouth, possibly suggesting where Brody gets his bright idea for killing the creature.) Know how I make a living." Soon after, Brody sits at home paging through books on sharks, a device that allows Spielberg to establish the killer in our minds as we look at page after page of fearsome teeth, cold little eyes and victims with chunks taken out of their bodies. He gets attention by scraping his fingernails down a blackboard that displays a drawing of a shark and offers his services as a bounty hunter: "You all know me. They do, with predictable results.Ī town meeting is interrupted by the second of the film's central characters, the rough-edged, narrow-eyed Quint ( Robert Shaw). "If people can't swim here, they'll be glad to swim in the beaches of Cape Cod, the Hamptons, Long Island," the mayor tells Brody, who spits back: "That doesn't mean we have to serve them up a smorgasbord." But the mayor strides on the beach wearing a sport coat and tie, encouraging people to go into the water. All evidence points to a shark, but Mayor Vaughn ( Murray Hamilton) doesn't want to scare away tourists, and orders Brody ( Roy Scheider), the police chief, to keep the beaches open. A famous opening sequence establishes the presence of a man-eating shark in the coastal waters a girl goes swimming by moonlight and is dragged under, screaming. The movie takes place over the Fourth of July weekend on Amity Island, a tourist resort that feeds off the dollars of its visitors. The payoff is one of the most effective thrillers ever made. And many of its manifestations in the later part of the film are at second hand: We don't see the shark but the results of his actions. "The bomb is under the table but it does not explode: That is suspense." Spielberg leaves the shark under the table for most of the movie. "A bomb is under the table, and it explodes: That is surprise," said Hitchcock. In keeping the Great White offscreen, Spielberg was employing a strategy used by Alfred Hitchcock throughout his career.
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