Someone had listed the Youtube vid for this, but now it does not work.
I was unable to find an accurate version of this monologue online, so I have jotted it down real quick. Includes intro dialog.
BRODY
What’s that one?
QUINT
What?
BRODY
That one there, on your arm?
QUINT
Oh, well, that’s a tatoo. I got that removed.
HOOPER
Don’t tell me ... mother.
(laughs)
Quint places a hand on Hooper’s shoulder and gives him a solemn look.
QUINT
Hooper, that’s the USS Indianapolis.
HOOPER
(stops laughing)
You were on the Indianapolis?
BRODY
What happened?
QUINT
(monologue)
Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, Chief. We were comin’ back from the Island of Tinian to Leyte, just delivered the bomb ... the Hiroshima bomb.
(BEAT)
Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in twelve minutes. Didn’t see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen footer. Ya’ kno-, ya’ know how you know that when you’re in the water Chief? You tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know is that our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent.
(smiles and laughs)
They didn’t even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, the sharks come cruisin’ - so we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know, uh, kind of like old squares in a battle, like you see in the calender of the Battle of Waterloo ... and the idea was, shark comes to the nearest man and then he starts poundin’, hollerin’, screamin’ - sometimes the shark would go away ... and sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into ya’, right into you’re eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got liveless eyes, black eyes, like a dolls eyes. When he comes at you, doesn’t seem to be livin’ ... until he bites ya’ and those black eyes roll over white and then, ah, then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin’. The ocean turns red. Despite all the poundin’ and hollerin’, they all come in and rip you to pieces. Know, by the end of that first dawn ... lost a hundred men. I don’t know how many sharks, maybe a thousand. I don’t know how many men, they averaged about six an hour. On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, bosun’s mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and down in the water just like a kinda’ top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura saw us. He swung in low and he saw us - a young pilot, alot younger than Mr. Hooper. Anyway, he saw us and he came in low and three hours later a big fat PBY comes down to start to pick us up. You know, that was the time I was the most frightened, waitin’ for my turn ... I’ll never put on a life jacket again. So, eleven hundred men went in the water ... three hundred and sixteen men come out, the sharks took the rest, June 29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
- Quint’s monologue written by Howard Sackler, John Milius, and Robert Shaw.
Performed by Robert Shaw.
Transcript by GOM (me).
From the film by Steven Spielberg, JAWS (1976)
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R.I.P.
Last edited by GodsOtherMonkey; 09-27-09 at 09:43 PM.