How did the Ben Gardner guy die??
Brody and Hooper fund his boat at night which was attacked by the shark. They show his corpse which was missing an eye. Did he just drown??
shareI don’t know but they pulled a tooth the size of a shot glass out of the hull. 😀
shareHis corpse was intact. Later Brody says two people were killed by the shark but there were three incidents. It is never mentioned now Gardner died.
shareThis is because the 'popped-out' head was filmed afterwards (for Pacing reasons) Which is why they only mention the tooth to Mayor Vaughan (and not Gardener's corpse)
It's mentioned in various 'making-of' articles (and as such, can be considered a 'goof')
The head scene was filmed earlier, but in the early version it didn’t pop out. When Hooper approached the hole in the hull, the head was already there. Spielberg mentions in the making of documentary that he thought there was one more scream he could get, and that’s when they filmed the second version, done in Verna Field’s pool. Somewhere I saw Spielberg talking about how they filmed that several different ways, trying to get the timing of the shock right.
shareIt was not intact. He was at least missing an eye.
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