When Brody admires his super-mega-poerrful shark-hunting science boat, Hooper is embarrassed to admit that it isn't a university boat, it was paid for with family funds.
Now that's a true scientist! He's not arrogant because he's rich, he's embarrassed he couldn't get a grant!
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shareI admire him for being humble and for pursuing a low-paying, brainy career when he could have just been a lazy trust fund siphon.
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Now that's a true scientist! He's not arrogant because he's rich, he's embarrassed he couldn't get a grant!
I like Hooper because...he stuck with Quint and Brody and even though he made a lot of mistakes he was brave enough to go into the ocean in that cage in a vain attempt to save the crew.
shareAnd he did it even though he was scared shitless.
Er, spitless.
He ain’t got no spit
shareIn the book, Hooper was more of a gorgeous young hunk...and he had sex with Chief Brody's WIFE...leading to fist fights on the Orca between Hooper and Brody...broken up by Quint!
Hooper's a bad punk in the book...and he gets eaten in that shark cage.
Spielberg and company made two key changes to Hooper:
ONE: Drop the affair with the wife. No personal conflict with Brody, just "professional" at worst. More like friends.
TWO: Don't cast a "hunk." Prospects like Jan-Michael Vincent and Jeff Bridges didn't make the cut. The brainy and shy Timothy Bottoms(The Last Picture Show; The Paper Chase) was considered. But ultimately Richard Dreyfuss got the role.
I think Dreyfuss was a stroke of great casting because he stood in for all the "nerdly" and bookish young guys in the audience. He stood in, I think, for Steven Spielberg too. Hooper could get a little annoying, but he was smart and brave and funny, too.
And that's another reason why we liked Hooper.
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..Hooper drives the boat.
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