GENIUS CHARACTER REVEALS: Martin Brody (JAWS)

In our Genius Character Reveals series we examine scenes and moments where a film or TV show reveals a tremendous amount of character information in a compressed amount of screen time. This instalment focuses on Martin Brody (Roy Scheider), the police chief of Amity island in Steven Spielberg‘s JAWS. Martin Brody and JAWS After the success of Peter Benchley‘s 1974 novel Jaws, the screen version went through several phases of development. Based on the strength of his television film DUEL, Steven

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