The theme of my 2014 A-to-Z Blog Challenge is BLUES, PUPUS, and REVIEWS.
Tuesday & Friday - BLUES: Art, Movies, Music,
& Police
JAWS
is a 1994 novel by Peter Benchley about a great white shark that preys upon a
small resort town. Mr. Benchley’s motto was, “Save the sharks and we can save
the ocean.” Unfortunately, I’m not sure who was listening.
The
eponymous movie, starring Roy Schieder, Richard Dreyfuss, and Robert Shaw, had
a thread running through the story about facing your fears. Everyone has a
healthy fear of sharks. But the sheriff had a fear of water, one he expressed
as a ‘fear of drowning.’ When someone asked why a person who is afraid of water
would live on an island, his less than logical answer added levity to the scene.
“It’s only an island if you look at it from the water.”
In
1976, the dead body of a 14 1/2 foot shark whose species had never before been
detected was discovered in the Hawaiian Islands by an oceanographic research
vessel and was dubbed a megamouth shark.
We know so little about the
vastness of oceans that I am pleased to have also learned
these 6 things about Sharks and
People from JAWS on DVD:
1. A shark can swallow a metal
license plate whole.
2. A shark will chomp down on a
scuba tank until it explodes.
3. A reader/movie-goer is willing to ‘swallow’
anything
(suspension of
disbelief) if the story holds water.
4. Irrationality comes in all shapes
and sizes.
5. Fear isn’t a bad thing if it’s
based on logic.
6. Sometimes you’re gonna need a
bigger boat.
Do you watch the Special Features on DVDs?
