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* [[Adaptational Villainy]]: Inverted with Hooper, who is a [[Jerkass]] in the novel and has an affair with Brody's wife. In the movie, he is much more sympathetic and [[Spared by the Adaptation|allowed to survive in the end]].
* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: Very much so. The novel was criticized for its unsympathetic characters, while the film is known for its depth of them. It also streamlined the plot, but remained fairly faithful (for example, in the movie, the Orca goes out and stays out until the end, while in the book, they make several trips out, returning at the end of each day - each !film encounter with the shark roughly corresponds to a single !book encounter, with the Orca returning to port after losing track of the shark). Like ''[[The Godfather]]'' before it, it was a rare example of a film being superior to the book.
** Another good use of this trope is the elimination of the novel's sub-plot revolving around Brody's wife Ellen having an affair with Hooper, which really seemed to serve no purpose other than that [[Author Appeal|Peter Benchley seems to like putting a subplot like this in his books]].
* [[Admiring the Abomination]]: Matt Hooper.
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