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There are several things that the shark from Jaws could symbolize in our culture, society, or collective human mythology other than a man-eating fish. The shark can be seen to symbolize the impotence of man. Starting with the opening scene, it appears that the teen boy is possibly going to get lucky with the teen girl after a swim, but he passes out in the sand as she is being attacked by the shark. He fails as a man in two ways, protecting the weaker sex and getting lucky with a girl. As the movie progresses, the shark continues to remove the masculinity from Chief Brody as he is failing in his job as the sheriff to protect his citizens, his job as a father to protect his family, and he fails on Quint’s boat at first because he is not the same type of manly man as Quint, such as not knowing how to tie knots. He regains his masculinity at the end of the film by being the one to finally slay the beast.
Also, it can be said that the shark symbolizes any inconvenience that society may deal with as rather than staying out of the territory of the shark which would prevent any additional deaths, the shark is hunted down and killed. Often times, when our society and culture is unable to deal with something that can be seen as an inconvenience to the way that we want to live, something is done to remove that inconvenience usually to a point where it is destroyed rather than worked into the pattern of our lives. This could symbolize the way that we treat the environment in a whole in that humankind seems to be more interested in getting cheap power, polluting our oceans, and plowing down the rainforest than finding ways to live in harmony.
The genre that might be most appropriate for bringing Jaws to Broadway would be a melodrama. The reason why is that Chief Brody, the protagonist is not at fault for what has occurred in the play. There are the external forces, mostly the Mayor and town business owners that prevent him from doing what should be done to protect the citizens and visitors of Amity Island.
This would probably be too corny to write as a musical, but music would be an important part of the play as it was essential to the movie. “Sometimes it can generalize emotional involvement, whether that is upbeat or downbeat, making it more easily shared between characters and between stage and audience; and, slowly and irresistibly, it can intensify feeling” (Brown, 1997, p. 45). The way that music is used in the film made the audience connect emotionally, pulling them to the edge of their seats, even in scenes where nothing dangerous occurs, but could have happened. The best way to approach this is to use the iconic sounds from the film. Another element of production to be used would be lighting. Lighting will help to set the mood, but will not be able to be too dark, or the audience will be unable to see what is going on. Dimming the lights on the stage while pinpointing lights on something specific will be the right way to approach these types of dramatic scenes, such as when they cut open the tiger shark to determine if it was the shark killing people. The final element of production to be used would be the scenery. There would need to be several scenes shown, and the beach scenes may be the hardest to stage as it would need to be delineated between the ocean and the sand of the beach. The best approach would be to have a thrust stage that may possibly allow for more stage depth.
References
Brown, J. R. (1997). What is theatre?: an introduction and exploration. Boston: Focal Press.
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