Just watching it now.
And I really want to punch the mayor in the face. How could anyone be so damn stupid not to listen to Brody after what happened with the first shark.
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Brody should've used Vaughan as bait then fed him to Bruce!!!
shareAgreed. The mayor character was realistic in the first film. He wanted to protect the towns summer income and thought Brody and Hooper were over exaggerating the danger, since nothing like Jaws had even been seen before in the waters of Amity it was an understandable position for a local official to take. However by the second film he should defiantly have evolved a little and listened to Brody.
shareThe mayor gets a raw deal in this movie. After the bluefish incident, he knows Martin seems like a paranoid PTSD case. But he knows the price he paid to save the town. In the deleted scenes, he alone votes to save Martin's job. That pretty profound, he knows the man is a stand up guy. But, he doesn't want to risk the town's financial future on a maybe either. The mayor has grown somewhat from the first film.
That's right! You're about to be killed by a zamboni! ⛄
Yeah, I didn't mind Vaughan this time. Couple of reasons.
For one, when the dead whale shows up, he states that he called the scientist and her bosses to find out what the deal was. In short, HE CHECKED. In the first film he wouldn't have bothered. So he at least looked into it, and - rightly so given the evidence at the time - decided it wasn't enough to act on.
Secondly, he tried to defend Martin and stood up for his job. That's in a deleted scene, but he tried it. I think he at least understood where Martin was coming from and gave him his due, but in the end couldn't override the council. And let's face it, Martin seriously screwed up. Firing a gun with poison bullets on the beach? At a shadow in the water? Yeah, that was a bit much.
Whores will have their trinkets.
To blame, as others have stated: not the Mayor, but his Editors! Whoever deleted Vaughn's sympathetic treatment of Brody, his voting support for the beleagured chief of police, should have been fired! Those scenes are pivotal for the Mayor's character, and should never have been cut for any reason.
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