First saw this movie with a group of my buddies in the military. As soon as Quint mentioned the ship's name I knew where this was going. The guys I was with looked at me and asked if this was true. I told them yes it was and could see them shutter with the thought.

Young people don’t know their history, so ignorant!

@@jimmyzee7040 It's not all their fault. No one teaches it to them either.

@@88wildcat Plenty of it is taught, not enough of it is retained.

That's what amazes me. You'd think these events would be imprinted on the American psyche. But then again, there are events I'd say the same about UK history, yet most Brits have never heard of it

It was scandelous he didn't.

Not even nominated. 🤨

Part of the problem is he did such a great job, some people thought Shaw was the character. He wasn't "acting".

Unfortunately it’s one of few times in the film where Robert Shaw is totally sober

It's because he was so good no one even realized he was acting. He was Quint.@@PaulHanney

Be honest i rather dealt with the bomb 💣 then that

Not really a side note . . . it is like saying that in spite of what we went through we got the Hiroshima bomb to the air field first. The bomb the ended the war.

What other Jaws movies?

Deepest gratitude to your grandfather and his shipmates!

My uncle was a survivor also. I live in Indianapolis. The memorial along the river walk is beautiful, but should have been placed somewhere with more prestige

No winners in that situation. They dropped off the bomb. Japanese got payback on the ship. I can't imagine which one is more horrible.

@@LastStance-hd7no All war becomes horrible, often so horrific that the things that happen during them are unspeakable. Makes you wonder why so many people are so eager to keep starting them and getting involved in them? Of course, these days, the ones starting them make sure they and their families are never directly involved, and the ones cheering them on do so from the safety of their couches thousands of miles away, and the ones who make sure they are profiting from them, well, they're in a sub species category that resides under the proverbial barrel.

@@LastStance-hd7no its all horrible,,as a species its what we do best,, enter any year A.D, B.C. in Wiki,, find a year with no war..

Hooper knew immediately. Every shark expert knows about the USS Indianapolis.

I love that, he knows about the events that took place (generally)

Yup. He shut up real quick.

The thing I love the most about that is that Hooper knew about it. So many people don't know details of history from 30 years ago or 40 years ago but even though this was 1975 and Hooper wasn't even born when it happened he still knew. It also shows the growing respect between Hooper and Quint.

Crazy thing about the scene is everyone who heard it for the 1st time. Attention is at 100% and u can just picture it. In your mind. I don't imagine how horrible it was. And can't imagine the PTSD survivors had quint has balls of steel for doing the jaws eating him scene

He acted it so well you would’ve thought he was actually there

agreed. sharks are scary but nothing is scarier than human imagination, esp knowing that this actually happened. the captain who refused to send sos signals survived the sinking and the attack. he was receiving deat threats from families of the dead marines and a little later he killed himself.

@@knuckle-sandwichmma681 Dan Carlin did an excellent episode on the Indianapolis “Hardcore history USS Indianapolis” It’s just over an hour or so KZfaq and Spotify

In War, the mission is all... we are expendable.@@knuckle-sandwichmma681

The music in this is amazing. It is like distant screams. Like a nightmare.

A true story

@@bobespirit2112 A little hyperbolic here though. Yes, the story is true except the sharks didn't kill the bulk of the living men. They mostly died from exposure and the sharks scavenged the corpses. Most of the attacks on living people were on those that had snapped (often after drinking sea water out of desperation from thirst) that had swam away from the groups they were with exposing themselves as "easy single prey". However, the men that did that were dead regardless due to saltwater ingestion and eventual exhaustion, sharks or not.

How can 1 forget

It was not this trip that was the top secret part , they had already deliver the bomb , during war you dont use communication that can reveal you position to enemy and they did not wait USS Indianapolis to even come back for few day , it was traveling from Guam to Philippines , so they should have had been worried , that the ship was over a day late . It was routine flights that spotted survivors in the sea . Nasties part was that US Navy , to cover up their incompetence , court-martialed Captain McVay , for not zigzagging , In July 2001 his name was cleared thank to Hunter Scott , who as a 6th grader in 1996 started investigate USS Indianapolis , that lead to official hearings in congress . Just as Japanese Sub commander said , who sink that ship , zigzagging wont help against sub , big ships turn slowly . One these blunders Pentagon had to admit it messed up , just like the medals for Asian and African American soldiers , that President Clinton gave to WW 2 veterans .

My grandfather was stationed on her. He caught pneumonia and had to be hospitalized and missed her shipping out on that mission.

Yup! Crazy that it was a true story even if Quint is a fictional character.

​@@LastStance-hd7noprobably not taught in school. I didn't find out until I see this movie which prompted me to go to the library to look up the Indianapolis tragedy.

Because it creates a vivid image of what the sailors went through for a week before finally being rescued. The acting really drives it home talking the sharks eyes, the sea turning red, the screams of their friends, even finding those taken silently. Then the fear remaining as they are being taken out of the water.

This monologue is so epic I chose to memorize it as a child and I still know it to this day.. THIS, Dr. Loomis from Halloween, and Julies from Pulp Fiction I know and can quote by heart.

Can you imagine the terror of those men. In the water with sharks swimming around you. Knowing, someone, maybe even you could be next.

He was pretty much bitten in half just like his buddy from Cleveland...

@@billyboblillybob344 this movie knows how to foreshadow.

Fact's

Wasn't in the original script Shaw wrote it and put it in to give Quint's character background and verisimilitude.

@@virginiascurti5036 According to Steven Spielberg, the original conception of the idea to have Quint be part of the Indianapolis crew came from playwright Howard Sackler. He allegedly wrote about a paragraph or two. That paragraph was lengthened out by John Millius, but that was deemed too long to be useful for shooting. Robert Shaw wrote the "final" version of the monologue that appears in the picture. As per screenwriter Carl Gottlieb (one of the screenwriters for 'Jaws'), he gives full credit to Robert Shaw for the speech, not so much John Millius.

I think this was the first time most people heard about it. I believe it remained classified for years.

@@garybradford8332 Respectfully, after this movie came out, I went to the middle school library and got out the book "Abandon Ship" which is about the U.S.S. Indianapolis.

@@amusedmarine7402 It's a good movie that makes you want to research the story afterwards.

The public didn't even know about the incident until 1972. It was kept classified by the government. But this scene lends incredible weight to the film's overall narrative because it gives contrast to the 3 shark attacks it shows on screen. Imagine hundreds. Half a dozen or so happening every hour. The brilliance of this film is its Hitchcockian tone... it's what you don't see, but have to imagine, that is the scariest.

@@Finn_MacCool It was a brilliant choice to not show the shark right away after the mechanical shark kept breaking down.

That music is also some of WIlliams' best ninja work. Not the subtlest of composers but this is probably the closest he got to a straight-up horror film score.

I too was a kid when I saw this and little did I know at that time it was a true story and I got terrified of it imagining those men going through what they did 100 men maybe 1000 sharks whoa how deep that was

I saw the movie last night at a revival showing, and the audience reaction was the same.

I remember. The audience was so quiet the whole time it was like the theater was empty. Hypnotic.

Yes I saw this as a kid when it first came out and scared the living shit out of me!!! lol buts it’s still to this day my favourite movies of all time.

The worst thing about the uss indianapolis was they blamed the captain of the ship. Captain McVay. The only ship that was court martialed during WW2. The captain committed suicide with nonstop phone calls complaining and endless painful letters. They also made a movie recently about the history of the uss indianapolis. Its so heartbreaking to watch. It has Nicholas Cage in it.

Truth, always stranger than fiction.

@@nathaniellampman2052and the captain who sunk the ship literally testified that there was nothing mcvay could’ve done to avoid the torpedos

@@Nick_T_90 Anyone has a target in their sight rarely doesn't shoot. The best thing about the Japanese captain of the submarine for his redemption after captain McVay took his life. He tried with the crew to get Captain McVay freed of the charges. It wasn't until Bill Clinton exonerated Captain McVay which I read somewhere.

Can you imagine being in that situation? That is a living nightmare.

Fact's

If you listen closely, you can hear Shaw rapping his knuckles against the table when he gets to the hardest parts. My father, rest in peace, never spoke about WWII or Korea until a couple of weeks before he passed. He did the same thing.

Why he's the Best

J is the best out there

The great while shark was Quint's great white whale, his Moby Dick. That kind of revenge seems to never go well.

And then when he tosses the chief a life jacket, you see him look at another one, but he doesn't put it on, and we all know why.

The worst thing about the uss indianapolis was they blamed the captain of the ship. Captain McVay. The only ship that was court martialed during WW2. The captain committed suicide with nonstop phone calls complaining and endless painful letters. They also made a movie recently about the history of the uss indianapolis. Its so heartbreaking to watch. It has Nicholas Cage in it.

And he is focused on the one guy who hates the water...

Except for the date. It happened on July 29th, not June 29th.

And also the sharks didn't as many sailors as he said, i know it was meant for dramatic purposes. In reality many of the men died from exposure, dehydration, wounds, and madness etc. But sharks did kill hundreds of them.

@@Blueshirts07 but of the ones that died of dehydration etc, the sharks likely ate the bodies.

Except for the part about no distress call being sent. A distress call was sent it just wasn't acted upon.

"Jaws" should have won Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Shaw). Spielberg was deeply offended that he wasn't even nominated for Best Director. The Academy simply never liked monster movies, of which "Jaws" was the best.

The worst thing about the uss indianapolis was they blamed the captain of the ship. Captain McVay. The only ship that was court martialed during WW2. The captain committed suicide with nonstop phone calls complaining and endless painful letters. They also made a movie recently about the history of the uss indianapolis. Its so heartbreaking to watch. It has Nicholas Cage in it.

@@nathaniellampman2052 The sad part was that their mission was so secret, there was no way of the U.S. Navy to know of their predicament. When getting these pre-mission briefs over the years, you start to realize how relevant the word 'expendable' truly is. Through the years, so many military personnel have laid down their lives for their respective nations...it's both heroic and tragic.

The worst thing about the uss indianapolis was they blamed the captain of the ship. Captain McVay. The only ship that was court martialed during WW2. The captain committed suicide with nonstop phone calls complaining and endless painful letters. They also made a movie recently about the history of the uss indianapolis. Its so heartbreaking to watch. It has Nicholas Cage in it.

You’re right Robert Shaw did write this part but I’m sure he did research on the subject about the USS Indianapolis and may of found out that the story was true

@@tomfoley6718 John Milius (director of Conan and HBO's Rome) wrote the monologue.

@@SuperCootey No, he's right Robert Shaw wrote the version that you see in the movie. John Milius wrote the version before this but it was too long and wordy. Watch the two hour Making of Jaws and you'll find this out.

The worst thing about the uss indianapolis was they blamed the captain of the ship. Captain McVay. The only ship that was court martialed during WW2. The captain committed suicide with nonstop phone calls complaining and endless painful letters. They also made a movie recently about the history of the uss indianapolis. Its so heartbreaking to watch. It has Nicholas Cage in it.

Robert Shaw was always drunk.

Actually it was both takes spliced together. You can tell the difference by how disheveled he is when it cuts back and forth.

@@johnjr757 The drunk part is probably the one where his voice is louder.

@@johnjr757 I think so. I think it switches to the 'drunk take' when Quint's voice trembles and he gets emotional ('by the end of the first day, we lost 100 men...'). Easier to show emotion when you're drunk, especially for a notorious 'hard man' like Robert Shaw. Also, the sober take was shot in one take, apparently, but look closely and you can see the final cut is more than one take (Hooper's position on the bench shifts, then shifts back, for example)

This is not one of the greatest monologues - it is the greatest! Three others monologues that are among the greatest are: Boris Karloff in "Targets" telling the story "Appointment in Samrra". When he finished, Peter Bogdanavich, cast and film crew gave Boris an ovation. Humphrey Bogart's courtroom testimony in "The Cain Mutiny" Michael Cain's monologue to Rudyard Kipling in "The Man Who Would Be King"

Worse part was the the captain, who survived, was court martialed for the loss of his ship in combat. The *ONLY* US captain in WW2 that was done to. End of the war, PR, and possibly vengeance by the commanding admiral of the USN against the son of an officer who had give him a unfit report in the admirals file when he was a young officer. People who knew the admiral said that was very much in character for the man. They even hauled the skipper of the Japanese sub to the court to testify. The skipper didn't speak English and did not know this was a court martial. He said the captain not zig-zagging made it easier to target the ship. He said later, after finding out what was going on but it was after the trial, that even if the captain had zig-zagged it wouldn't have many any difference. The captain was found guilty and the verdict set aside almost immediately. The crew of the ship never blamed their captain and also stood by him. Unfortunately the captain was haunted by all of it and eventually killed himself. By G_d's grace a campaign was started with the support of the crew and even the Japanese sub skipper to have congress exonerate the captain and wipe the stain from his record. That was done.

" A shark has lifeless eyes like a dolls eyes". That was from Roy Schneider, I saw it on a Jaws documentary. I think the head writer, Shaw, Schneider, and Spielberg all put their heads together

he, and James Earl Jones for his soliloquy at the end of ''Field of Dreams'', his ''...people will come Ray...'' speech..

@@andyfletcher3561 thanks! now i'm hearing that field of dreams speech in my head -- it was a wonderful performance by both men. "the will most definitely come" "for it's money they have and peace they seek" (or something like that)

@@normadamous "Baseball has marked the time..." For me, one of the best pieces of cinema ever created.

Man! I would have loved to have seen that back in the day. How was the crowd reaction?

Sold Out in West Los Angeles. The range of human emotion ran the gamut from, audible gasps to stunned silence. The final scene ended with cheering and a standing ovation. @@AngelAmparo2

Spielberg lucked out getting him. Shaw was the best part of The Sting. One of my favorites is A man for all seasons, where Shaw played Henry VIII.

John Milus wrote this section. His father was on the ship.

When they first shot this scene the actors drank real alcohol, and the result was unusable. Shaw was too drunk. He apologized and was allowed to rewrite the monologue to suit him for a second go at it. He did, and you saw the result. Milius did write the original scene. Shaw made changes to suit himself. I’m sure Carl Gottlieb got his hand in there somewhere too. Film is a collaborative art form.

@@jackhaskell694 I think they spliced in a bit of the 'drunk take'. I think you can spot what it might be (when Shaw's voice suddenly trembles and he gets emotional, then suddenly switches back to the calm, cool delivery, the camera angle switches with it, and even Hooper's position on the bench switches, then switches back)

@@GK-yi4xv I think the most obvious part is where he's talking about the Lockheed Ventura seeing them and swinging in low. He's clearly sauced on that take. But then again...Verna Fields was a genius, she knew what to keep and what to drop. Not single wasted frame in this film.

Yep, they all nailed it in this scene.

They were all superb for the entire movie.

Why did nobody get an Oscar nomination for this movie, all three actors were superb??

The worst thing about the uss indianapolis was they blamed the captain of the ship. Captain McVay. The only ship that was court martialed during WW2. The captain committed suicide with nonstop phone calls complaining and endless painful letters. They also made a movie recently about the history of the uss indianapolis. Its so heartbreaking to watch. It has Nicholas Cage in it.

Thought you might like this.... survivor of the USS Indianapolis tells his story kzfaq.info/get/bejne/abOZeKSc2ri6Z30.html

The worst thing about the uss indianapolis was they blamed the captain of the ship. Captain McVay. The only ship that was court martialed during WW2. The captain committed suicide with nonstop phone calls complaining and endless painful letters. They also made a movie recently about the history of the uss indianapolis. Its so heartbreaking to watch. It has Nicholas Cage in it.

The problem is I can't see anyone other than Robert Shaw playing Quint.

@@88wildcat Daniel Day-Lewis could if he came out of retirement

@@88wildcat they wanted Lee Marvin and Sterling Heyden........I would really have loved to see Heydens take on it....(played the corrupt cop in Godfather)

"it proves one thing Mr Hooper.........."

I doubt he cared about not being nominated. Writing was his real passion. He wrote most of this monologue himself.

Britannic, sister ship of Titanic, also sank a few years later!

@@paulinegallagher7821The Britannic sunk long before the Indianapolis

@@Kazmll229 well I know that but it was a similar war accident

@@Kazmll229 or attack whatever

There really isn't any way to know if the people who died in the water died from sharks or died from some other cause and were than eaten by sharks.

@@regould221 Not entirely true. The 316 survivors were available to testify.

@@sportshistorybuff319 The 316 survivors were spread out over miles and wouldn't be able to know if the person 20 ft from them floating with a life jacket was alive or dead before a shark got them.

@@regould221 But they would have certainly heard the screams of those being torn apart by sharks and seen the flurried water with feeding frenzies.

​@@sportshistorybuff319 true, but some were too Weak, exposed, and dehydrated to scream even as they were bit.

The worst thing about the uss indianapolis was they blamed the captain of the ship. Captain McVay. The only ship that was court martialed during WW2. The captain committed suicide with nonstop phone calls complaining and endless painful letters. They also made a movie recently about the history of the uss indianapolis. Its so heartbreaking to watch. It has Nicholas Cage in it.

The eyes rolling over white....the high pitched screaming....he was talking about the past, while foreshadowing his future.

There waa a movie recently about the Indianapolis, it was a miracle that anyone survived. Damn shame how the Captain waa treated.

Supposedly a couple of families would write Captain McVey around the holidays every year and blame him for their son or husbands death. He was in a lifeboat or bigger raft when most were floating, but everyone was so spread out and the ship went down in 12 minutes that there was nothing he could do about it. Story has it that he killed himself in November because he couldn't take any more letters

He was exonerated later by Congress and President Clinton. Check the Wikipedia article.

They also made a movie recently about the history of the uss indianapolis. Its so heartbreaking to watch. It has Nicholas Cage in it.

They also made a movie recently about the history of the uss indianapolis. Its so heartbreaking to watch. It has Nicholas Cage in it.

Same! he`ll always be Quint. Such actors are very rare nowadays...

They also made a movie recently about the history of the uss indianapolis. Its so heartbreaking to watch. It has Nicholas Cage in it.

Captain mcvay was done wrong, but he got a pardon in the 90s from president Clinton I believe

The Navy decided to sacrifice the captain, to conceal their own negligence in not allowing a distress signal, then not reporting the Indianapolis missing for a week. They drove the captain to suicide.

@@LordMondegrene the way I understood it, his guilty conscience drove him to suicide, but no doubt the Navy exacerbated his psychological conflict because of their own fragile egos.

Even worse: The "Sultana" incident (1865).

@@davidlafleche1142 Interesting. Never heard about that. Just awful. Imagine all those people burning up. But I still think it's better than being torn apart by sharks.

@@zeus6793 Look what happened to the Bonus Army. They were World War I vets. In 1932, they were in the Depression: no work, no homes, no future. They went to Washington to beg for their pensions. Although President Franklin D. Roosevelt had raised the top tax bracket to a whopping 93%, he refused to help them. Instead, he sent General Douglas MacArthur there to drive them out. A guy from Florida called Roosevelt and said they were building a highway across the Florida Keys. So Roosevelt sent the Bonus Army there to work. The men were paid peanuts and housed in flimsy shacks with no utilities; but even that was more than what they had. Everything puttered along until September 2, 1935, when a monster hurricane blew through the Keys. The "Labor Day Hurricane" destroyed the work camp. The men weren't merely killed, they were mutilated. Ernest Hemingway went to see the damage. It was the most horrible thing he'd ever seen, far worse than any battlefield. Hemingway had been a news correspondent during the war (and was injured himself) and knew many of those men. He wrote an angry editorial asking, "Who killed the vets? Who sent them here to die?" Answer: Marxist President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who didn't give a damn about any of them.

@@davidlafleche1142 "Marxist" FDR? Are you mad? He is one of our greatest Presidents. He got us through the Depression and WW2 and created some of the most impactful and helpful programs ever created. Social Security, WPA, Corp of Engineers, the entire New Deal. The list goes on and on. I don't know why you have a hair across your ass regarding FDR, but I can assure you that you are in a VERY small minority.