How old is quint in jaws

Quint recounted his past as a survivor of the U. Indianapolis to the men after supper and they began to sing, however, the shark appeared and attacked the boat.

Quint ordered everybody ondeck when the light went out and tried crazingly to shoot the shark, but it escaped. The next morning, while Quint and Hooper tried to repair the boat's damaged engine, the keg resurfaced and Quint and Hooper tried to retrieve it, believing the shark had broken free from it. However, the shark then raised its head up out of the water and severed the rope on the barrell. Brody tried to call the Coast Guard, but Quint smashed the radio and ordered Hooper to hook another keg to his harpoon gun when the shark resurfaced.

Quint harpooned the shark again and had Hooper run the shark down with the boat, allowing him to harpoon it a second time. He is then shocked when the shark dragged both the kegs below the surface.

When they reappeared again, Quint drove the boat to them and had Brody and Hooper tie their ropes to the Orca's stern cleats, before starting back to Amity Island.

He stopped when Hooper alerted him that the cleats were pulling loose and harpooned the shark a third 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. The three kegs on the shark resurfaced quickly and Quint stated that the shark couldn't stay down then.

He was angered and shocked when the shark drug itself under the water and slammed the Orca from beneath, so he began to drive the boat back towards Amity port. Obsessed to kill the shark, Quint accelerated the boat to full speed, looking to draw the shark, which was chasing them, into shallow water and drown it, ignoring Hooper's urges that doing so would blow out the boats engine with it damaged like it was. Inevitably, the engine exploded, immobilizing the boat.

With the Orca now taking on heavy water from the damage dealt by the shark's previous attacks, the men decided to try a desperate approach to kill the shark; they fixed up Hooper's anti-shark cage and set it in the water so he could get in it and stab the shark with a hypodermic needle spear filled with stricnyne nitrate.

However, the shark caused Hooper to drop the spear and smashed into the cage. Hooper escaped, but the shark became entangled in the metal of the cage, which caused the Orca's crane to give way to its massive weight when Quint tried to crank the cage up. The shark then threw itself onto the Orca's stern, prompting Quint and Brody to retreat into the boat's cabin, but Quint fell.

And I hated him. Still, that behavior came to something of a head during the actual shooting of the Indianapolis speech. His director granted permission, but the actual first night of shooting the scene turned out to be a disaster. The result, like much else of the suffering on Jaws , proved worth it.

As a film today, the scene speaks to the artistic achievement of Jaws , which is sometimes unjustly dismissed by critics as the paterfamilias of numbing blockbuster spectacle. It disheveled me just a bit. Here was a man telling my story to the world… We owe a great deal to Robert Shaw. I never met him, but as a member of the crew of the Indianapolis, I can honestly say we owe a great indebtedness to him. Forty-five years later Shaw and Spielberg keep that memory alive, as well as their own, one drink at a time.

David Crow DCrowsNest. David Crow is the movies editor at Den of Geek. He has long been proud of his geek credentials. Raised on cinema classics that ranged from…. Skip to main content area. Photo: Universal Pictures. Join our mailing list Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!

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Even though the mayor was relentless about disallowing zoning approval, and the local fisherman were constantly filing complaints that Quint was disrupting their trade, Quint managed to stay in business and earned a reputation as an excellent charterman and shark hunter.

However, it wasn't until the shark's third fatal attack that Quint was finally hired to hunt down the creature. In the events that followed, Quint tried many tricks to catch the shark over the course of two days, first by recalling it in on rod and reel, then by harpooning it with his Greener Light Harpoon Rifle to attach barrels to the shark, in the hopes it force the shark to the surface. Though both attempts failed, Quint was incredibly stubborn and resilient. Quint ultimately tries to kill the shark in a last ditch effort as the shark attacks the Orca.

One of Hooper's scuba tanks rolls over his fingers, causing him to lose grip and slide toward the waiting shark. He tries kicking at the Shark but to no avail. Gaining the advantage, the shark bit down on one of Quint's legs, moving quickly up to his waist. Screaming in pain, Quint grabs a machete and stabs the fish with it but to no avail.