In Jaws, the shark is doing what sharks do.
But can't you say the same about the body-snatching aliens?
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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tommyrot - Oct 28, 2009 4:58:52 pm PDT #4686 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Amy - Oct 28, 2009 5:04:21 pm PDT #4687 of 30000
Because books.
But can't you say the same about the body-snatching aliens?
Yes, but they do it with evil intent. Sharks just want lunch.
tommyrot - Oct 28, 2009 5:06:17 pm PDT #4688 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yes, but they do it with evil intent.
I would disagree in the case where the aliens are not intelligent.
Juliebird - Oct 28, 2009 5:11:20 pm PDT #4689 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Stupid is the purest form of evil.
beekaytee - Oct 28, 2009 5:11:52 pm PDT #4690 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant
I would disagree in the case where the aliens are not intelligent.
Not TV, but this put me in mind of the Horta on Star Trek.
tommyrot - Oct 28, 2009 5:14:33 pm PDT #4691 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Well, the Horta were intelligent; they were killing people for revenge or self-defense after the humans unwittingly killed Horta eggs.
DavidS - Oct 28, 2009 5:18:36 pm PDT #4692 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Jaws is a monster movie, straight up. It's an implacable killer, it strikes from the darkness, unpredictably. You have to face the monster and kill it. It's exactly calibrated the same way as Halloween. Michael Myers is equally filled with motiveless malignance. Also, Quint at least ascribes evil to the sharks with "their dead white eyes" etc.
quester - Oct 28, 2009 5:27:15 pm PDT #4693 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
The 2 scariest movies I have ever seen are Failsafe and The Accused.
I saw Failsafe back before the neo-nuclear movies like Testement and The Day After came out. Chills, I'm telling you!
The Accused was scary because at the time I was Jodie Foster's character with more education, but just as stupid. It made me seriously rethink my drinking behaviour!
§ ita § - Oct 28, 2009 5:38:08 pm PDT #4694 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Stupid is the purest form of evil.
Are sharks stupid? More stupid than the alien? What's the difference? It's all one big biological imperative.
tommyrot - Oct 28, 2009 5:38:10 pm PDT #4695 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The 2 scariest movies I have ever seen are Failsafe and The Accused.
Were you surprised at the ending to Failsafe? A friend of mine really was. I had been spoiled - even before I read the book, in fact.
How shocking was the movie when it came out? It came out well after On the Beach, right?