Why is the shark in Jaws 2 burned?

A portion of this shark's face and jaws were severely burnt in a boating attack and the boat's subsequent explosion. Later, the shark is electrocuted by Brody after being lured into biting an electrical cable, then set on fire near a small power station known as Cable Junction.
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Is the shark in Jaws 2 supposed to be the same shark?

It's left ambiguous if this shark is simply a coincidence or if it has ties with Bruce from the original. In the novelization of the film, it is suggested that the shark in Jaws 2 is the mate of Bruce. While sharks do not have mates in the real world, they are not ruthless killing machines either.
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What did they use for the shark in Jaws 2?

5 Real Footage Of Sharks Was Used For The Film

As with the original film, mechanical sharks were used for many of the movie's nail-biting scenes. However, some movement shots could not be convincingly achieved using the makeshift models, so real-footage had to be used.
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Was the shark in Jaws 2 a female?

Jaws does not label its finned foe as either gender. However, the 1974 Peter Benchley source novel presents the shark as male.
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Why do they shoot barrels at the shark in Jaws?

Since the shark didn't work most of the time, Steven Spielberg had the idea to take five barrels from the stock, paint them yellow and then stress them to look used. These would then be used to show the presence of the shark when the actual shark wasn't available.
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Why does Quint destroy the engine?

Despite the fact Quint needed a bigger boat, he continued following the shark out to sea. Quint continued to hunt the shark after the night attack on the vessel, which broke multiple planks below the waterline, causing flooding in the engine compartment.
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What was the purpose of the yellow barrels in Jaws?

Read below for some wild facts about the movie. It was a repeatedly malfunctioning shark that gave those yellow barrels seen throughout the movie their emblematic status. Every time the shark wouldn't work, they would use the barrels to symbolize its arrival or presence.
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Was Jaws a Megalodon?

A new study from the University of Bristol and Swansea University has calculated the total body size of the Otodus megalodon - the distant ancestor of the great white shark depicted in hit blockbuster, Jaws, in 1975.
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Is the shark in Jaws mutated?

Brucetta is the only mother shark in the Jaws movie series (while in the series of novels it is Brucette who is the only female shark to become a mother). Although it is not confirmed by either the book nor the movies, it is thought that the sharks are no ordinary great white sharks but rather mutated white sharks.
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Is the shark in Jaws 2 bigger?

Jaws The Revenge: 'Vengeance' shark length 28 ft / 8.5 m

For the first time in the Jaws franchise, the shark in a sequel is smaller than its predecessor. Coming in at 28ft (8.5m), 'Vengeance' is 7ft shorter than 'Brucetta', star of Jaws 3-D making her the third largest 'Jaws' shark.
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Is Jaws 3 Based on a true story?

No. Jaws is not a true story. It is based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name.
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Did they use the same mechanical shark in Jaws 2?

The real shark footage used in the film is actually just left over footage that was filmed for and used in the first movie. The rest of it was, as we all know, a mechanical shark, a new one created for the sequel; (not Bruce like in the first movie).
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Can a shark be electrocuted?

An underwater electrocution device may be used by a diver as a weapon to electrocute sharks or other underwater predators. It has a frame in the form of a hand-held weapon, such as a pistol or a knife.
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What happened to the shark from Jaws: The Revenge?

Jaws: The Revenge has two filmed endings. The one everyone is familiar with is the ending where the shark explodes after getting impaled. The second ending was only used in the theatrical release in which the shark gets impaled, blood shoots out of the shark's mouth and it sinks to the bottom of the ocean.
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Why is it called Jaws 3-D?

The gimmick was also advertised in the tagline "the third dimension is terror." As it was Joe Alves' first film as director, he thought that 3D would "give him an edge".
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Why is Jaws called Bruce?

ABC News reported that the final shark that was used for Jaws shark was named after Bruce Ramer, Steven Spielberg's lawyer. The crew started to call the massive shark after the attorney while working on the classic thriller.
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Who killed Jaws?

The shark breaks free and leaps onto the boat, devouring Quint in the process. Trapped on the sinking vessel, Brody shoves a pressurized scuba tank into the shark's mouth and climbs onto the crow's nest. He shoots the tank with Quint's rifle, killing the shark with the resulting explosion.
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What shark was in Jaws 3?

Brucetta (a.k.a Jaws the Third / Jaws 3 / Jaws III / or the big sister or the 2nd mother shark) is the nickname for the female Great White Shark depicted in the film Jaws 3-D and serves as the main antagonist.
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Is the dead tiger shark in Jaws real?

The first shark killed on the docks, which is supposed to be the "man-eater" in the movie, was actually a real shark killed in Florida since there was not a big enough one in Martha's Vineyard.
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Is megalodon still alive?

Extinction of a mega shark

We know that megalodon had become extinct by the end of the Pliocene (2.6 million years ago), when the planet entered a phase of global cooling. Precisely when the last megalodon died is not known, but new evidence suggests that it was at least 3.6 million years ago.
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What does the shark symbolize for Quint?

The shark's death signifies a symbolic completion of Brody and Quint's debts, but it also emphasizes, briefly, hopefully, that a single individual has the power to repay the accumulated damage of many who came before.
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What did they use for blood in Jaws?

According to Spielberg, red was only supposed to be used for blood and nothing else in the film. “We did have red wine, but there's a symbolism to that,” he said.
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What was Quint eating in Jaws?

... And indeed, Sam Quint is eating crackers on his boat in a later scene... ... Which explains where he got it - it was probably in his pocket (alternatively, a town hall meeting might provide this sort of snack).
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