But with this beast, seems to me when you hear stories about him, the smart thing to do is not cut anything off. My rule is, when someone tells me about a critter as big as a tractor-trailer, I right away cut a third or a half off what he says. People forget Jaws was fiction, which is another word for., well, you know, B.S. There is even a delicate little self-referential episode in Beast, where Darling says, "Whenever I hear talk about monsters, I think about Jaws. The similarities between the shark thriller and the squid thriller might lead one to suspect a certain dependence on formula: Big monster begins eating people in beach town, panic ensues, hero (often marine biologist accompanied by valiant fisherman) offers to subdue monster town leaders do not want to close beaches, more people get eaten, intrepid hero triumphs and dispatches monster in a burst of pyrotechnics. And again, as in Jaws, the first thing the monster does is gobble up some unsuspecting humans.
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