How Deep Blue Sea’s Shark Deaths Mirrored The Jaws Franchise

How Deep Blue Sea’s Shark Deaths Mirrored The Jaws Franchise

Deep Blue Sea saw genetically engineered “smart” sharks hunt their creators, and their demises mirror that of the sharks from the Jaws franchise.

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How Deep Blue Sea’s Shark Deaths Mirrored The Jaws Franchise

The genetically modified sharks from Deep Blue Sea all meet their demises in ways that mirror those of the shark deaths from the Jaws franchise. The 1999 action/adventure Deep Blue Sea is generally considered to be one of the most enjoyable shark-centric movies of all time, second only to the original Jaws. It was a new breed of shark movie, leaning heavily into its cheesier elements and telling an exciting story while still dropping the occasional reference to the 1975 classic that inspired it.

Deep Blue Sea tells the tale of a group of characters fighting to survive the onslaught of super-intelligent sharks in a remote, underwater research facility. As the crew is picked off one by one, they struggle to reach the surface and kill the sharks that are pursuing them. By the movie’s end, only two characters have managed to survive, but they’ve succeeded in destroying the murderous, intelligent sharks before they could escape into the ocean.

While most of the casualties are humans (including Samuel L. Jackson’s infamously surprising death), Deep Blue Sea also features some memorable death scenes for the malevolent sharks. Interestingly, these demises all seem to have near-identical equivalencies in the Jaws franchise. While this could be chalked up to the limited number of ways that a shark can be climactically killed onscreen, the similarities between the deaths of the Deep Blue Sea sharks and those of the Jaws movies are similar enough to raise eyebrows.

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The first shark death in Deep Blue Sea comes when Sherman “Preacher” Dudley uses his lighter to set a shark ablaze. The resulting fireball burns and kills the shark, allowing Dudley to escape, and mirrors the shark’s demise in the original Jaws. The idea of burning a shark can also be traced back to Jaws 2 (1978) when one of the shark’s victims sets its face on fire with a flare gun near Amity Island. Of course, this doesn’t kill the shark, instead giving it a nasty burn. When the shark finally does die, it’s due to chomping down on an electrical cable and frying itself. The second shark to die in Deep Blue Sea also meets this fate; Dr. Susan McCallister is able to jam an electrical cable into the mouth of an oncoming shark, electrocuting and killing it.

Of course, the most iconic method for killing a shark in a movie is via explosion. The original Jaws ends with Chief Brody exploding the shark with a well-placed bullet shot at an air canister, and Jaws 3 (1983) ends with a grenade blowing the shark into 3D chunks. Even the alternate ending for Jaws: The Revenge (1987) featured the shark inexplicably exploding after being impaled. Deep Blue Sea ends by carrying on this tradition; after a harpoon loaded with explosives is shot into the final shark’s fin, an explosion blows it into a million pieces, saving the world and ending the film on a triumphant note.

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