After a killer shark in the area devoured its second victim the first was initially believed killed by a boat propeller , a young boy named Alex Kintner, the town mayor, Larry Vaughan, and the city council held a public conference with local Police Chief Martin Brody to inform the public about their plans for dealing with the shark. Quint attended the meeting, but sat in the back of the room. After the townsfolk loudly complain about the council's decision to close the beach for a day, Quint ran his fingernails down the chalkboard behind him to silence them and get their attention.
He then told the townsfolk, town council, and the police chief that he would catch the shark for them, that wouldn't be easy and that the shark was capable of swallowing a person whole. He then proceeded to tell his audience that the shark would have to be killed quickly, so as to bring summer tourism and economic success back to the island. Informing the townsfolk and town council that the decision between winter welfare or economic success was theirs, Quint bid his audience, the mayor, and Chief Brody good day as he left.
When the shark, then identified as a Great White shark, later killed a man teaching a boating class in a pond at the beach on the Fourth of July, Chief Brody and Matt Hooper , a shark expert, paid Quint a visit after getting a payment order signed by Mayor Vaughan and hired Quint to kill the shark. When they requested that Quint allow them to accompany him on the hunt, Quint told them that while they were onboard his vessel, they were his crew and he was their captain, which they agreed to.
The trio set out on Quint's sharking boat, the Orca, to hunt down the shark. Once they were far enough out, Quint had Brody lay a marked chum line while he used piano wire fishing reel to hook the shark.
He succeeded, but the shark bit through the wire and escaped. After having Hooper drive the boat twelve minutes south-southeast, Quint told Brody to start the chum line again before he sat down inside the boat's cabin and started to fix up another fishing line. After Brody walked in and prompted Quint to go outside, he told Hooper to shut the engine off as the shark swam by the boat. Estimating the shark's size as twenty five feet in length with a weight of 6, pounds, Quint told his crew it was time to get to work.
Quint assembled his harpoon rifle and had Hooper attach a line on the harpoon to the end of one of the flotation kegs, and shot the shark in fin. They gave chase, but the keg vanished under the water and the men retired the boat's cabin for the night when they didn't find it again. Quint recounted his past as a survivor of the U.
Indianapolis to the men after supper and they began to sing, however, the shark appeared and attacked the boat. Quint ordered everybody ondeck when the light went out and tried crazingly to shoot the shark, but it escaped. How Spielberg builds to the moment is a case study in restraint and complete command of framing, even at the age of The shot is only interspersed with telling reaction shots from Roy Scheider as Police Chief Brody, whose quiet emasculation before their hefty collection of sea creature scars is obvious.
The scene plays like a kind of drunken tension-breaker in a pirate adventure movie. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!
Sackler was a playwright who was working on the side in the s as a journeyman screenwriter. Despite what some folks, including Dreyfuss, have suggested, the story of the USS Indianapolis was not a hidden, classified report until the s. Indeed, it was front page news in when the Navy attempted to court-martial Capt.
Charles B. McVay III, who survived the sinking and the sharks, for what they considered negligence and a failure to evade a Japanese torpedo in a zigzag fashion. The Navy even made shocking global news when they flew the Japanese submarine commander, Mochitsura Hashimoto, to the U.
Milius returned to Spielberg with a speech that was anywhere between eight and 10 pages accounts differ written in longhand. It was beautiful—but it was also a potentially minute scene. Let me have a crack at it. It also proved to be a perfect strainer of creativity from playwright, to screenwriter, to another playwright with an outlook every bit as hardboiled as Quint. Indeed, Shaw was among a generation of English actors who drank hard, lived hard, and turned roustabout debauchery into enlightened artistic craft.
Truly bigger than life. A man who intimidated me, who scared me, who exhilarated me. With the small vessel taking on water and unable to continue the hunt, Brody attempts to use the onboard shortwave radio to send a message to the coast guard on scenic Amity Island.
However, before Brody can successfully send his message, Quint beats the radio to pieces with a baseball bat, cutting the Orca off from the mainland and isolating the crew with the killer shark.
Quint's seemingly rash decision to smash the radio has led many to speculate that the grizzled shark hunter was out of his mind or even suicidal. Given the fact that Quint did indeed perish several minutes later in the jaws of the shark, this theory has understandably gained traction over the years. However, the truth behind Quint's destruction of the radio is a bit more complicated than simply wanting to die, and that truth boils down to two key factors: money and pride.
Earlier in the film, Quint arrives at an Amity Island town hall meeting to offer his services as a shark hunter.
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