Why did the Mayor care of anybody swam or not?
They’d already shown up. What difference did it make.
shareI guess he thought that it looked unnatural for a beach to be filled with people and NOBODY goes into the water.
Weren't there reporters and cameras still around? They might've reported that Amity was a strange place. People are afraid to go into the water there.
No, thats not it. The mayor wanted to go into the water himself but didn't want to go in alone, so he wanted the people in the ocean
shareThen how come he didn't bring his bathing suit? LOL
shareIt was in the car. He was going to go get it
shareIn the book by Peter Benchley one of the subplots was that the Mayor was into the mob for money via a holding company (or some such thing) and he desperately needed to keep the economy of Amity viable. That subplot, along with the one about Hooper having an affair with Brody's wife, was thankfully cut from the film script.
shareWasn't aware of that because I don't read books. By the way, is this book banned in Florida?
shareLOL. If you are in Florida you had better read fast! DeSantis would likely consider the shark as a part of the woke crowd and want to ban him from Florida beaches.
The book by Benchley had some okay parts to it but the movie really was so very much better. They did well to scrap a lot of the story in the book.
my kid read it, and he wanted to transition into a shark!
shareLMAO! I guess they could do worse. Cleaner oceans in general I think, more protection for sharks, i would like to think slightly less pollution, and one would think that shark week has promoted more understanding of sharks. Plus, should be lots of food to be had, human or otherwise.
smart!
shareWhy would the book be banned in Florida when the book setting is on an island off-shore of New York and the movie was filmed in Massachusettes?
You should read books. You might find your own imagination to be far superior to anything a director is able to put on screen.
I agree with this. I can imagine future vacationers choosing a different beach to visit...remembering the shark infested waters of Amity they saw on the news.
shareHyperjet has it correct.
If news gets out that nobody is swimming, people are going to cancel their trips. The mayor wants the locals to get out there as an example. If the tourists perceive that the locals are comfortable swimming, they will follow.
So, its not business that day (though even that would be affected if people go home early because they aren't having fun), but future business that he is concerned about.
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Exactly. If people come to Amity and don't have a good time, they leave early or don't come back the next year, or go to the restaurants and complain loudly about how boring this place is and harsh everyone's buzz, and when they get home they tell everyone they know that Amity Island is boring and you can't even swim in the water. And the tourist economy takes a dip for that summer, and several years after.
New England tourist towns have a very short moneymaking season, a huge chunk of the town's population needs to make a year's worth of money in the summer and early fall, and if tourists lose interest in the town then they won't be able to heat their homes in the winter. I think the scriptwriters were right to change the mayor's motivations for denying that the shark was a threat. If a mayor leans on the chief of police to protect his own financial interests the chief of police defies the mayor, but if the mayor is worried about the economic survival of everyone in town... the chief of police can be persuaded. Bringing in the tourist-economy angle made for a better story overall.