“Jaws” as Class Conflict

Larry Benjamin
4 min readJul 4, 2020
Great White Shark (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/12/warming-seas-10-new-shark-species-british-waters-great-white)

The problem with sharks is they’re just too sharp. If only they could be captured safely, their teeth filed down a little to blunt them, and released, they would then only gum their human victims. This strategy is left unexplored in Jaws, lauded as the first great summer blockbuster, and the highest-grossing film of all time until it was supplanted by Star Wars two years later.

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Larry Benjamin

Grew up in Los Angeles, BA in English Literature from UCLA, Peace Corps volunteer in Mali, West Africa, 30 year career in labor law enforcement