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After having Hooper drive the boat twelve minutes south-southeast, Quint had Brody start to lay the chum line again, before sitting down in the boat's cabin to fix up another fishing line.

After Brody walked in and told Quint he would need a bigger boat, Quint 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, had Hooper attach its line to the rope on one of the flotation barrels, and shot the shark in the fin. However, the shark drug the barrel under the surface, and the men retired to the boat's cabin for the night when they didn't find it again. Quint recounted his story as a survivor of the U. Indianapolis to the men after supper, and they began to sing the classic song "Show Me the Way to Go Home", but the shark reappeared and began to ram the boat.

Quint ordered everybody on deck when the light went out and tried crazingly to shoot the shark, but it escaped again. The next morning, while Quint and Hooper tried to repair the boat's damaged engine, the barrel resurfaced behind the boat, and Quint and Hooper tried to retrieve it after Quint stated the shark may have broken free from it.

The shark then raised it's head up and severed the rope, and Quint smashed the radio to prevent Brody from calling the Coast Guard.

After having Hooper attach another barrel to his harpoon rifle, Quint shot the shark again, before having Hooper run it down with the boat, allowing him to harpoon a third time. Though shocked when the shark drug both the barrels under, Quint drove the Orca to them again when they reappeared, and had Brody and Hooper attach their ropes to the stern cleats, before starting back to Amity Island.

Quint stopped when Hooper alerted him that the cleats were pulling loose, and harpooned the shark a fourth time below the jaw. When the shark started to pull the boat backwards, Quint got his machete, but the cleats broke off before he could cut the ropes. Stating that the shark couldn't stay down with three barrels on it, Quint told Brody to start pumping the water out of the boat, and was shocked when the shark drug the barrels under.

The shark then slammed the Orca from beneath, angering Quint and prompting him to drive the boat back towards Amity port. The success of the movie inspired three movie sequels— Jaws 2 , Jaws 3-D and Jaws: The Revenge Not directly, but it was inspired by events from in which a Great White Shark killed four people in a series of attacks along the East Coast of America.

It would later be caught and killed by a pair of amateur fishermen. In the book "In the Slick of the Cricket" by Russell Drumm, the author makes a strong case that the character of Quint, in Peter Benchley's novel "Jaws," was based on Frank Mundus, a Point Montauk charter fisherman who was the first to systematically fish for great whites, and who began the shark-hunting craze.

Mundus himself who died in was furious with Benchley for never acknowledging his influence. In addition, some of Mundus's recollections concern incidents in his career that closely resemble the Amity Island panic in "Jaws. The only given clue to the location of Amity Island is that it is located in New England. The movie itself was filmed in Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts and the boats used in the film contain the state registration abbreviation of "MS" which also indicates Massachusetts.

State abbreviations for watercraft are not necessarily the same as the ones used by the US Postal Service. During the scene on the beach when Alex Kintner is attacked, a radio report giving the times of ferry runs is heard. It is somewhat difficult to hear and it helps to have captioning turned on, but the announcer mentions Martha's Vineyard along with Amity and Nantucket Island.

Therefore, Amity is apparently located off the coast of Massachusetts somewhere in the vicinity of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. The film gives no reason other than that his greed outweighs his judgment. He tries to justify it by saying the town couldn't possibly survive financially if the summer tourist season were disrupted.

As a beach community, the small businesses of Amity restaurants, stores, boat chartering, etc. If the beaches were closed until the shark was killed, none of the usual vacationers and their families would come to Amity. In the novel, the mayor owed money to some dangerous people and had to keep the beach open in order to stay alive.

One could use this plot as his reasoning in the film, though it is never said. Yes and no. The line "We're gonna need a bigger boat" is usually attributed to the moment after Chief Brody first see's the shark but in reality he says "You're gonna need a bigger boat. Yes it is, though the screenwriters have dramatized some of the details. Navy heavy cruiser that was torpedoed and sunk in the Pacific Ocean by a Japanese submarine just after midnight on July 30, Quint incorrectly states the date as June 29th rather than July 30th.

The loss of over men made it the second worst single ship-loss disaster for the U. The story of the ship's crew struggling for five days in the waters of the Pacific Ocean before being rescued is all true.

Also, the Indianapolis didn't deliver the entire atomic bomb to Tinian which was dropped on Hiroshima but rather the critical components for it, namely the uranium used. Quint's telling of the story makes it seem as though most of the sailors were eaten by sharks. In actuality, it is believed a few hundred men died in the initial attack.

After the ship sank, most of the other deaths were caused by dehydration from spending five days floating in salt-water and in many instances, from sailors being poisoned by drinking salt-water out of thirst and desperation. There were indeed numerous instances of sailors being killed by sharks, but it was nowhere near the number that Quint indicates in his story specifically, when he says that over 1, men went into the water, came out, and the sharks took the rest.

However, a very large number of corpses were eventually eaten by sharks, and the Indianapolis incident, while often misleadingly dubbed as "the biggest shark attack in history" based on the number of living sailors actually being killed by sharks is still widely regarded as the biggest and most significant case of sharks eating human flesh.

It seems that it should be easy to find such a large predatory animal, but remember that the ocean is a very huge body of water and that the shark would have the entirety of it in which to hide. Quint knows that such a shark would be very difficult to hunt and find in the ocean.

But I'll catch him and kill him for ten. It's more or less a negotiating tactic that worked out well for Quint because they eventually hire him. In the novel, when Benchley describes Alex Kintner being attacked, he goes into some pretty sharp detail about the shark's territory beyond the beach.

There's a several hundred foot drop-off about 50 yards from the edge of the beach. This seems to be the main area where the shark lives until it attacks. That's a huge area where a shark, even as large as this one, can hide.

Wake up at 2 in the morning with that song playing over and over Stupid fucking brain. Quint dies in the book. One of the his harpoon cables still attached to the shark wraps around him and the shark pulls him under and he drowns. When they return to sea the following day, the shark starts ramming the boat. Quint is able to harpoon it several times.

The shark leaps out of the water and onto the stern of the Orca , ripping a huge hole in the aft section and causing the boat to start sinking.

Quint plunges another harpoon into the shark's belly, but as it falls back into the water, his foot gets entangled in the rope, and he is dragged underwater to his death. Brody, now floating on a seat cushion, spots the shark swimming towards him and prepares for his death.

Asked 7 years, 10 months ago. Active 5 years, 2 months ago. Viewed 9k times. Improve this question. I feel it was personal and he wanted vengeance based on his experience on the Indianapolis. There have been analysis that his character is based on Ahab in Moby Dickinson. Here is another's analysis. Quint has no first name. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. I suspect that it is due to one of the following: He wants to focus those on board to the task at hand.



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