Jaws

Jaws (1975)

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Quint: Y'all know me, know how I earn a living. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't going to be easy. Bad fish! Not like gong down to the pond and chasing bluegills or tommy-cods. This shark swallow you whole! Little shaking, little tenderizing, down you go. Now we've got to do it quick. That'll bring back the tourists and will put all your businesses on a paying basis. But it's not going to be pleasant! I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, Chief. I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him and kill him for ten. Now you've got to make up your minds. Want to stay alive, then ante up! You want to play it cheap? Be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's too many captains on this island. Ten thousand dollars for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.

Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. Was coming back from the island of Tinian Del Lady, just delivered the bomb, the Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about half an hour. Tiger, thirteen-footer. You know how you know that when you're in the water, Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. But we didn't know. Our bomb mission had been so secret. No distress signal had been sent. They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light Chief, sharks come cruising. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, kind of like old squares in a battle, like you see on a calendar, like the Battle of Waterloo, and the idea was shark come to the nearest man and he starts pounding, hollering and screaming, sometimes the shark would go away, sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you, right into your eyes.

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Continuity mistake: Hooper wears rimless eyeglasses, with the arms either attached at the upper corners of the lenses or at the sides of the lenses. If this didn't happen between shots within the same scenes, it could be presumed that Hooper has two different pairs of glasses and switches between the two, but they do indeed change between shots, such as when Mrs. Kintner slaps Brody, or even later, on the Orca. (00:36:05)

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Trivia: The reporter on the beach is Peter Benchley, who wrote the novel "Jaws," and also co-wrote the film's screenplay.

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Question: Instead of going under water and trying to poison Jaws in the shark cage, couldn't he have been harpooned with the poison from the boat just as easy?

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Chosen answer: As mentioned in the movie, the posion was in the needle and the shark's hide was too tough for the needle to penetrate. Hooper had to go in the water so that he could get the needle into the shark's mouth, where the flesh was less tough.

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