Shark Week, #2
Posted by B on July 26, 2007
There isn’t much I liked about the movie Jaws. It did, however, keep me out of the surf for a good portion of my youth. But that’s another story.
When it airs on cable now, I always surf back in for Robert Shaw’s scene stealing moment on the sinking of the USS Indianapolis prior to that silly denouement. Via youtube, we have the three shark hunters: Quint (Shaw), the Sheriff (Roy Scheider), and the young marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) talking “scars.”
Say what you will about that movie, but Shaw nails the whole “concept” of the “old man and the sea” who has, no question, seen things he’d like to forget. This scene set up the movie’s final irony, I think. Not everyone there is going to make it. Isn’t this a screen writing rule outside of the Star Wars movies? Someone is going to die, and here, it’s Quint.
Just a another post to get ready for shark week.
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