Alternate Ending #5: Canon Wins, the Director’s Cut, Cut (sad ending, you may need tissues)

[midorisakura]

 

Abrupt cut from the singing and dancing scene where everything fades to black, and there is dramatic music. The viewer sees the ruins of a boat, and a single man tossing something into the mouth of an angry looking shark that swims away.

Now to the part that the movie doesn’t show you (they serve the human agenda, Hollywood commercialism, making monsters out of innocent, until proven guilty, sea creatures (okay, so Jaws was guilty of mass homicide, but he did not get a fair trial, and nowhere is it mentioned in the movies that he suffered from DID (back then it was known as split personality, or MPD)), he was railroaded, and unfairly executed (granted, he was (if the footage we’ve seen is to be believed, and the narrator is not certain that it is) trying to kill the human who appeared (key word being appeared) to be acting in self-defense at the time of the killing) (though, arguably not, given that the boat was fully stocked with weapons, and there was a premeditated intent to kill on the part of the human, whereas GW had an episode of dissociation which triggered Jaws to kill, and he was not acting in his right mind because he wasn’t even in his right mind, he wasn’t himself, strictly speaking.))

Anyway, as the narrator was saying, here is the part that did not make it to the screen:

“GW!” Doc chases after the great white, knowing that he won’t make it to the other shark in time to stop the imminent killing spree. 

He’s witnessed this act of senseless killing countless times before, knows what to expect, yet it gives him pause. He knows he can’t stop Jaws (he’s tried to in the past, and has failed), and he’s more than a little afraid that he’ll get caught in the crossfire between the human hunters (the worst of their kind) and the shark he’s come to care for (strictly as a patient, though if you have slash goggles on, you may read more into that than the narrator intends (the narrator won’t judge you if you do)). 

Doc knows that right now GW isn’t in control, that it’s Jaws that he’s about to confront. Jaws, who has nothing but the thought of killing on his one track mind. Jaws, who holds the fate of GW’s life in his fins. Jaws who is acting on his misplaced feelings of rejection, betrayal and (what word is the narrator searching for? It’s something to do with childhood trauma...the narrator is sure there’s a word, but it is escaping them right now)...the need for speed (just kidding, or am I? Jaws is a fast swimmer, and goes considerably faster than his alter, GW). 

“Jaws!” Doc calls out. “Jaws, don’t do it! Jaws, come back to me!” (okay, that might read a little slashy (if you slant your head sideways and squint your eyes, and put on some special rose tinted glasses))

The camera should (but doesn’t) pan to Doc swimming as fast as he can to reach Jaws before the final scene in the last act. There is a look of desperation on Doc’s face (his smile is turned upside down (if you look at it from a different angle, which the cameras would have done had there been cameras on him to catch this titular moment, but the cameras were (as you know from having watched the blockbuster, groundbreaking (travesty) of a movie))) as he reaches a fin out to his...patient (read between the lines if you must; the narrator can’t stop you, they know this).

Jaws has already attacked the human’s boat, and greatly incapacitated it. There’s just one of the dumb creatures left (that is seen on camera), and things do not look good for our hero (were he actually on camera instead of that good for nothing human who can be seen stabbing Jaws).

There’s so much blood in the water, and Jaws’ teeth are coated in it. There’s human flesh, and clothing stuck in Jaws’ teeth, and that object the human had tossed him is in his mouth, and Doc cannot reach him (though he’s a fast swimmer, the fastest in his family (he’s won races, and has the medals to prove it)) in time.

Shots are fired, one of the bullets scratches Doc’s left fin, and it stings. This is what he’d been afraid of all along, that he would get caught in the crossfire of the war between human and shark. 

He makes one last ditch effort to call out to the shark he’s come to think of as a friend, “GW!” but his voice is drowned out (ha ha, drowned - wait, this is a dramatic moment, disregard the laughter and the not pun) by the words of the human, “Smile, you son of a bitch.”

It’s then that Doc can see the transformation occur, the moment when Jaws steps back and GW comes to the forefront of their shared consciousness. GW, unaware of what is happening, smiles, and then there’s an explosion that sends Doc careening backward into a battery of barracuda, and the human is crowing in victory.

What the cameras don’t show is that Doc, despondent over the loss of his friend, and one time lover (just tossing that in for those who have those goggles on), has once again lost another pair of glasses. (not really, but the narrator wanted to lighten the mood, because things were getting really tense and sad)

The cameras fail to capture the look of devastation on Doc’s face (because they’re focused on the humans on the surface of the ocean), and the tears that come to his eyes (sharks don’t get tears in their eyes (unless you believe this obscure writing on an obscure website that claims the writer recorded the shedding of a tear using some kind of technology that detects tears when he threatened to shoot a tiger shark that was in an acquarium), but artistic license lets the narrator get away with pretty much everything (including murder (of the non literal kind) they want to for the sake of telling an emotive story). 

They (the cameras in case you’ve forgotten) fail to show us how, after a chunk of his best friend plummets past his left eye, Doc turns tail and swims away. There’s a small part of him that wants to take revenge on the humans, but he knows that the revenge is not his to take. Vengeance will come, but not at this time. It will come. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but one day, Jaws will get his revenge. 

Cue dramatic theme music. 

“It’s the end, doo doo doo doo doo doo, it’s the end doo doo doo doo doo doo...”

(You’re welcome for that earworm. (Sorry, not sorry.))