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Sam Emerson
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Default Movie Review: Jaws (1975)

Implicit Jewish Propaganda in Steven Spielberg's Jaws

Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. The prototypical summer blockbuster, its release is regarded as a watershed moment in motion picture history. In the story, a giant man-eating great white shark attacks beachgoers on Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, prompting the local police chief to hunt it with the help of a marine biologist and a professional shark hunter. The film stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, Richard Dreyfuss as oceanographer Matt Hooper, Robert Shaw as shark hunter Quint, Murray Hamilton as the mayor of Amity Island, and Lorraine Gary as Brody's wife, Ellen. The screenplay is credited to both Benchley, who wrote the first drafts, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who rewrote the script during principal photography.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_%28film%29

A Light Unto Amity Island

Jaws the film includes a number of subtle pro-jewish and anti-gentile tropes. Spielberg, studio head Sid Sheinberg's favorite, had considerable artistic freedom in changing the story from the novel, revising the script (with the help of his friend Carl Gottlieb, also a Jew) and casting the leads. The extent of Spielberg's special relationship with the studio is shown by their willingness to allow him to go so far over budget and schedule without replacing him (back then it wasn't unusual for films to go through a couple of directors if there were too many screw ups).

But to the propaganda.

The villagers, a dumb gentile lynch mob

An unruly gang capable only of fleeing in panic or boating into disaster, the locals are helpless against the shark and their best efforts only make things worse. Unable to be trusted with guns they almost shoot a kid playing a prank.

Corrupt gentiles

The mayor (with his ludicrous anchor sport coat) is the main human villain of the film. He is a stereotypical greedy gentile fat cat, willing to risk the lives of the swimming public to keep the tourist money coming in. His underlings are no better, all conspiring to keep the beaches open against Brody and Hooper's advice.

Noble Jews

Brody is the police chief, former New York City cop with an obvious Jewess wife (Spielberg, always a skilled Hollywood diplomat, cast Lorraine Gary, studio head Sid Sheinberg's real life wife) played by Jew Roy Scheider, tries to do the right thing and close the beaches, only to be overruled by the mayor. This leads to the death of a young boy, after which Brody pressures the mayor into hiring Quint to hunt down and kill the shark.

Hooper, a wealthy shark expert from the Oceanographic Institute, played by Jew Richard Dreyfuss, shows up and sets everyone straight with his scientific knowledge. Brody's Jewdar immediately senses a kindred spirit and they're united in their mission to overcome the foolish villagers and their corrupt leadership and defeat the shark. Spielberg was going to cast a gentile in this role, but after Dreyfuss was cast it was rewritten and Spielberg has claimed Hooper is his alter ego. But Hooper, unlike Spielberg who fled the set to escape being thrown in the water, is braver than the average Jew. In fact he willingly takes the greatest risk by climbing into the (supposedly) shark-proof cage to spear the great white with a poison harpoon. The shark, naturally, rips the cage to bits. By the end of the film Hooper, the most overtly Jewish character, is arguably the most admirable and courageous. Brody was along for the ride (until the ship starts sinking!) and Quint was doing it for money. Hooper chooses to get in the shark cage and face the dragon.

Quint is the one gentile hero, the most popular character with gentiles, and he has an important role in this passion play. Quint sacrifices his life fighting the shark. The gentile dies, the Jews live. Quint is noble because he will give up his life to save Jews. But being a foolish gentile he doesn't know how to kill the Great White. It's left to the wise Jew Brody to figure that out.

In the end Brody kills the shark with a technically impossible exploding scuba tank set off by a gunshot. The brave, wise Jew has saved the foolish goyim of Amity Island. Truly a light unto the villagers.

It should be mentioned that Dreyfuss and Scheider are never identified as Jews in the film. Gentiles were considered for both roles. Had the casting gone a different way the ending could have been adjusted. Or perhaps not. Spielberg may have been acting entirely on instinct when he just happened to end up with the gentile dead and the Jews alive. Or maybe he was grinning about what a great joke he had pulled. A joke that paid off big.

So what was the most successful movie of all time in 1975 (which was no accident, by the way, see below) conveys the following messages in a subtle and deniable way:

Jews are smart, brave, pure and honest.

Gentiles are stupid, dangerous and corrupt.

Gentiles can't be trusted with guns.

Gentiles will form a lynch mob at the first sign of trouble.

The only good gentile is one who dies saving Jews.

The Hollywood Jews really did cheat Spielberg when they didn't give him a best director Oscar that year. Maybe it went over their heads.

Promoting Jaws

Universal spent $1.8 million promoting Jaws, including an unprecedented $700,000 on national television spot advertising. The media blitz saw around twenty-five thirty-second advertisements aired per night on prime-time network TV between June 18, 1975, and the film's opening two days later. Beyond that, in the description of film industry scholar Searle Kochberg, Universal "devised and co-ordinated a highly innovative plan" for the picture's marketing. As early as October 1974, Zanuck, Brown, and Benchley hit the television and radio talk show circuit to promote the paperback edition of the novel and the forthcoming film. The studio and publisher Bantam agreed on a title logo that would appear on both the paperback and in all of the advertising for the movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_%28film%29