Matt Hooper
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Oct 5, 2026
speaker_2HOST
Oh, boy.
speaker_1HOST
In the book, Matt Hooper, the Richard Dreyfuss marine biologist character-
speaker_2HOST
Yeah
speaker_1HOST
...
speaker_1HOST
She does.
speaker_1HOST
She has this full-blown, incredibly cynical affair with the oceanographer Matt Hooper.
speaker_0HOST
Wow.
speaker_1HOST
And Hooper, on the page, is an arrogant, insufferable academic who just looks down on Brody the entire time.
GnomesHOST
um so i'm just kind of winging it a little bit here but the book is starts out pretty similar to what we think of from jaws we have um the girl goes out swimming the guy passes out drunk on the beach she gets eaten by a shark and that's what starts it and the um Sheriff, who's a local boy, is immediately wanting to shut down the beaches and he immediately gets pushback from the newspaper, from the mayor, from everybody because this is a summer town and that's where they get all of their money.
GnomesHOST
But then when another attack happens, they end up calling in a marine biologist, Hooper.
GnomesHOST
And that leads to a whole side thing that if you've only ever watched and heard of the movie, you will not know about.
GnomesHOST
That Hooper was a childhood acquaintance of Chief Brody's wife.
GnomesHOST
And she is feeling very, let's say, not confident in who she is in her life right now.
GnomesHOST
And so she just is like, oh, look, it's Hooper.
GnomesHOST
I'm going to have an affair today.
GnomesHOST
And boy, does she.
MomHOST
The plan goes awry when the dock is pulled apart by the shark, which almost takes one man to his demise.
MomHOST
Marine biologist Matt Hooper examines Chrissie's remains and determines unequivocally that she was killed by a shark, not a boat.
MomHOST
And I don't think he's a marine biologist, he's an oceanologist.
MacHOST
[laughs] That makes it seem like he's not affiliated with any university.
MacHOST
Yeah.
MomHOST
When fishermen capture a large tiger shark, the townspeople believe it to be the culprit of the earlier killings, and the case is now closed.
MomHOST
Hooper asks to examine its stomach contents, but Vaughn refuses.
MomHOST
That evening, Brody and Hooper secretly open the shark's stomach and discover that it does not contain any human remains.
speaker_3HOST
Right.
speaker_2HOST
And even worse, there's a massive subplot where Chief Brody's wife, Ellen, is bored with her life and has a literal affair with Matt Hooper, the marine biologist.
speaker_3HOST
It completely shifts the tone.
speaker_3HOST
Benchley wrote the novel in the early 1970s, heavily influenced by post-Watergate cynicism.
Dave MoorHOST
It stars Roy Scheider.
Dave MoorHOST
as police chief Martin Brodie, Richard Dreyfus, marine biologist Hooper, and Robert Shaw, a professional shark hunter, Quint.
Dave MoorHOST
Murray Hamilton is the town mayor, and Lorraine Gary is Brodie's wife.
Dave MoorHOST
The screenplay is credited to Benchley, who wrote the novel and first drafts, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who rewrote the script during principal photography.
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Lee ArnottHOST
It just made me think of things like climate change, all that kind of herd mentality, or just not acknowledging the problem and just carrying on.
Dave MoorHOST
Yeah, it's strange, isn't it? Yeah.
Dave MoorHOST
So then we meet Quint and Hooper.
Dave MoorHOST
So there's been a shark expedition, all these kind of macho sailors and stuff and fishermen going out to catch this shark.
Scott AukermanHOST
In the book,
Paul F. TompkinsHOST
the chief of police's wife, Chief Brody, and Matt Hooper, who was the Richard Dreyfuss character, they have an affair.
Lauren LapkusHOST
That's way better.
Paul F. TompkinsHOST
Also, the mayor.
William PaceGUEST
We definitely wanted to play it straight.
William PaceGUEST
Your co-host was talking about how the lead was, we made the Matt Hooper character a woman.
Thomas RondinellaGUEST
And I
William PaceGUEST
do remember riffing about that because, you know, Linda Hamilton and Terminator and Sigourney Weaver and Aliens, you know, I think those were prototypes we were thinking there.
ToddHOST
Matt is correct.
ToddHOST
Matt Hooper.
ToddHOST
Hooper drives a boat, chief.
JoeHOST
How busy was Horror Hound, Todd? Was it crazy?
MikeHOST
I mean, he's not, he's slimmed down, but like 1990s to early 2000s DDP, he was jacked.
MikeHOST
Matt Hooper from jaws is my brains and Hudson from aliens.
MikeHOST
Like Charlie is my comic relief.
MikeHOST
So I kind of like envisioned a certain type of slasher movie where like it's six dudes on a road trip through the desert in Texas or whatever.
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