6. Jaws is heavily influenced by Moby Dick, which (as CLR James rightly notes) shows danger of autocrat (Ahab) ruling democratic mass (crew)
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7. For James, Moby Dick contain both the promise of modernity (democratic crew) & danger (fascist leader backed by capital taking command)
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8. Classes in Jaws: mayor (discredited big business), Quint (small business), Hooper (technocratic capitalism), Brody (white working class)
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9. The mayor (big business) obvious villain but Quint is also, more complexly, rejected. He's old America, heroic but also Ahab-like mad.
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10. The older America embodied by Quint admirable in many ways but not up to challenges of defeating shark (i.e. failure in Vietnam).
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11. So the Mayor is political & capitalist corruption (Watergate & other scandals) while Quint is military failure (Vietnam)
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12. As against failures of mayor & Quint, new alliance of technocratic big business (Hooper as Rockefeller) & working class (Brody).
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13. Brody is key figure: cop who fled crime-ridden New York for supposed safety of resort (white flight) but has to re-masculinize to fight
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14. Jaws belongs to cluster of 1970s movies where vacations & male bonding go bad: Deliverance, Westworld, Deer Hunter.
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So you're saying "Jaws" is about the rise of Bill Clinton.
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There's an element of that, yes. Although also Carter.
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