Four spools of Number 12 piano wire, Okay? I ordered them.
Jaws (1975)
QUINT
A screenplay character in Jaws (1975).
- lines
- 181
- words
- 2,543
- scenes
- 12
- dialogue
- 27%
- avg words / line
- 14
- shortest / longest
- 1 / 277
source review flagged 4 dialogue lines
Sample dialogue
One fella cried out he saw a river, another claimed he saw a waterfall, some started to drink the ocean and choked on it, and some left our little groups -- our little squares -- and swam off alone lookin' for islands and the sharks always took them right away. It was mainly the young fellas that did that -- the older ones stayed where they was. That second day -- my life jacket rubbed me raw and that was more blood in the water. Oh my. On Thursday morning I bumped up against a friend of mine -- Herbie Robinson from Cleveland -- a bosun's mate -- it seemed he was asleep but when I reached over to waken him, he bobbed in the water and I saw his body upend because he'd been bitten in half beneath the waist. Well Chief, so it went on -- bombers high overhead but nobody noticin' us. Yes -- suicides, sharks, and all this goin' crazy and dyin' of thirst. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura swung around and came in low. Yes. He did that. Yes, that pilot saw us. And early evenin', a big fat PBY come down out of the sky and began the pickup. That was when I was most frightened of all -- while I was waitin' for my turn. Just two and a half hours short of five days and five nights when they got to me and took me up. Eleven hundred of us went into that ocean -- three hundred and sixteen got out. Yeah. Nineteen hundred and forty five. June the
scene 47 — INT. PILOT HOUSE - NIGHT...along for ballast.
scene 42 — INT. HOSPITAL - DAYNow hear this. You're aboard the fishing vessel 'Orca,' and I'm her Captain, Master, Mate, and Owner. You'll jump when I holler. We're doin' a job here, and Christ, I ain't got time to watch you birds get hooks in your ass and fall overboard. Ship with me, and you'll do all right. Cross me, and I'll slap you upside your heads. Now -- if you boys are ready -- let's go fishin'.
scene 43 — EXT. QUINT'S DOCK - MORNINGGet up there and steer her. Follow my hand, and hold 'er steady. I've got to get a clean shot at that porker's head.
scene 45 — EXT. THE OCEAN - AFTERNOONStart the engine!
scene 53 — EXT. THE ORCA - DAWN
Bookends
He's comin' up -- !