Does anyone know anything about this other version of Jaws: the Revenge I saw once? I did not realise there was anything unusual about this version until I saw the “real” one last year.
I will describe the differences I can recall below.
The camera does not break the surface in the opening credit sequence.
A different actress played Ellen Brody. Her appearance was similar, but somewhat younger. Her hair was a similar colour, but in a short, straight style. There was little difference in the voice. She was probably taller than the other actress.
Sean Brody was also played by a different person, though again, his appearance had a similarity to the other actor. He was also probably taller than the other guy, and he definitely had very broad shoulders. He had brown eyes and his facial features were generally softer, with thicker eyebrows. The best way I can describe his face is that it looked like a cross between the real guy’s and Jaqueline Kennedy’s. His hair was dark brown to black, slightly longer than the real guy’s, but a typical 80s short hairdo. The voice was more normal pitched than the other guy’s, but also quite similar. I believe this actor’s name was Roger Halifax.
The scenes in Ellen’s kitchen and at the police station seemed fairly similar, although I must admit I can’t really recall the exact dialouge.
There are a number of key differences in the next scene, and it is MUCH more horrific. In fact, to me the real version seemed like a cartoon in comparison.
It begins with Sean driving the boat out to the tangled bouy. He is wearing a yellow raincoat, zipped up, and yellow waterproof pants. There are people singing carols on the peir, but they are blurry and in the background, and seem to be holding lit candles. He gets to the bouy, stops the boat, and picks up two long wooden poles with metal hooks on the ends. With one in each hand, he reaches over the side of the boat and hooks the hooks around the ropes. He begins to untangle the bouy, talking to himself as he does, but I don’t remember what he was saying. In this version there is no warning of the attack. Suddenly, the shark rears out of the water, mouth wide open. There is a flash of yellow and shark’s teeth, and a sound like tape being torn off a box. Sean slams backwards into the other side of the boat, in a position similar to the guy in the real version.
His right arm has been amputated at the shoulder, side on. There is a large, hideous wound, something like a steak with a socket in the middle, which is not actually bleeding. Shreads of raincoat, smeared with blood, dangle down. At first, he is looking straight ahead with a deer-in-the-headlights look, not realising what has happened. He the reaches across with his remaining arm, but can only feel the shreads of raincoat. “AAAAAAAAAAH!” He does it again. “AAAAAAAAAAH!” He finds the hideous wound and puts his hand over it. “AAAAAAAAAAUHAAAAAAAA!” He screams for “HELP!” over his right shoulder. His screaming/yelling voice is very similar to the other guy’s. The rest of the scene is very similar to other version.
I should point out that the acting in the version decribed above was much more convincing than in the real version, a major contributor to its extra shockingness.
There were no body identification or funeral scenes in this version.
There was that Christmas Day scene where Ellen first says the shark was out to get Sean, but here it was apparently AFTER the funeral.
I’m afraid I don’t remember much about the rest of the film. I found it relatively boring, just like the original.
However, there was that scene where Ellen is in the plane and the pilot makes it dive.
There was also a recurring dream Ellen had, where she is swimming in a lagoon and the shark bites her right thigh, releasing a large cloud of blood.
I would be prepared to say it is probably better than the real version; that might not be saying much.
I’d have thought with the number of people that would have been involved in something like, and “six degrees of separation” someone here would know somthing about it, the actors mentioned above, or at least have seen it. Anyone?
I do not think I’m mistaken about this.