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The level of terror in the tourist-economy town of Amity (and in the audience) gradually grows to a fever-pitch throughout the film as the attacks persist, eventually forcing Brody, Hooper and Quint to spend the last part of the film completely isolated at sea, hunting the monstrous shark.
This film had such a negative impact on the public that beach attendance dropped sharply the summer it was released and marine biologists cite it as a reason that people actually hunt great white sharks. [[Peter Benchley]], the author of the original novel, even said he regretted choosing the great white as the creature due to people needlessly killing them. He said that if he'd known ''anything'' about sharks when he wrote it that he wouldn't have written it in the first place; one of his later books features a character [[Author Filibuster|going on at length]] about how most people are quite close to sharks when they're in the ocean and yet pretty much entirely safe at the same time.
The film was adapted from the book, ''Jaws'', which was inspired partly by real shark attacks, partly by ''[[Moby Dick]]''. Quint's dogged pursuit of the shark has many similarities with Captain Ahab's hunt of the great white whale.
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