8. Classes in Jaws: mayor (discredited big business), Quint (small business), Hooper (technocratic capitalism), Brody (white working class)
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Replying to @HeerJeet
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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Replying to @HeerJeet
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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Replying to @HeerJeet
11. So the Mayor is political & capitalist corruption (Watergate & other scandals) while Quint is military failure (Vietnam)
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Replying to @HeerJeet
12. As against failures of mayor & Quint, new alliance of technocratic big business (Hooper as Rockefeller) & working class (Brody).
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Replying to @HeerJeet
why is hooper capitalist/business? He's Meathead to Quint's Archie Bunker. Smart,academic but maybe not tough, ultimately redeemed
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Replying to @RubenBolling
He's Rockefeller Republican: rich guy who has technocratic solutions to world's problem.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
interesting but not seeing the republican part. He's a spoiled over educated egghead with toys. New generation. Spielberg stand-in
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Replying to @RubenBolling
Rockefeller Republican = rich, technocratic & pro-science, sexually/socially liberal = Hooper
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