Orca (boat) | Jaws Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia [ show ] ORCA: The Amity incident Captained by the misanthropic, eccentric war veteran known simply among island locals as Quint , Orca was sunk off the coast of Martha's Vineyard following an extended fishing excursion in the summer of 1973. On its final voyage, Orca was crewed by Martha's Vineyard chief of police, Martin Brody, and a schooled oceanographer from Woods Hole, Matt Hooper . A game fisherman in every sense, Quint was steadfast as the boats' beleaguered captain to the very end, with machete and blood flying in dramatic recoil. The demise of the Orca was due in part to structural damage resulting from relentless attacks by a now infamous maniacal rogue shark. Although the boat had been designed to seek out and catch sharks, it was ultimately no match for the overtly cunning, pursuing predator Quint was hired to catch. Attempting to draw the monster in to the shallows, the Orca was eventually over revved and inadvertently scuttled.

After listing to port, Brody was able to fire one final explosive shot from the sinking mast at a compressed air tank in the jaws of the attacking shark. Conspiracy theory It was well known by most Islanders that Chief Brody had been at odds with the mayor which thereby cast doubt as to the validity of the subsequent police report filed upon his return. The town council also steadfastly refused to pay the agreed bounty ($10,000) as promised, claiming there was still no verifiable proof the shark had either been caught or killed per the terms of the contract. Members of the council claimed the mayor had reluctantly been coerced into signing, citing fraud on the part of the chief. The town council believed that ORCA was purposely sabotaged, rather than having been sunk by the shark which had been terrorizing the island. Their official claim on record stated the ORCA had merely been scuttled as part of an insurance scheme, cooked up by Brody in order to appropriate the bounty. In addition, it was claimed that Quint had gone into hiding in collusion with Chief Brody to avoid tax revenue and fines due in part to civic ordinance violations, and zoning laws.

As a result, an investigation was launched and Brody was removed from his post as chief of police rather than being lauded as the islands savior. Brody subsequently fled his place of residence, and while evading local authorities was entangled in an altercation with a pair of amateur nature photographers who encountered Brody on a trail. One of the pair were able to take a photo of Brody at gun point before fleeing down the mountainside. History During the war in the pacific (WW2), while on a return trip to home port after having delivered the atomic bomb, Quint's ship, (the USS Indianapolis) was hit by torpedos fired from a Japanese submarine. With only a life jacket for floatation, he survived an ordeal at sea for five days surrounded by swarms of killer sharks. Quint's mission during the war had been so secret, no distress call was sent, and a crew of nearly 1100 were lost. Taking his new found passion and disdain for sharks to the extreme, Quint used what little funds he had and purchased a modified wooden lobster boat off Nova Scotia.

As a working boat, 'Novi's' were dependable, highly buoyant, tough, and easy to repair; and were the mainstay for most lobster fisherman in the region. Aptly named 'Warlock', when Quint purchased it, the boat had been named by its first owner in an ode to warding off evil spirits. For Quint, this name seemed apropos as he had been plagued emotionally following his harrowing wartime ordeal at sea, and the last thing he wanted was to be in a ship that would ever sink again. Components With the purchase of his vessel complete, Quint set about transforming 'Warlock' into the formidable 'shark seeker' known as ORCA. To improve its hunting capabilities, Quint added an expanded fly bridge, surplus search light, and a reinforced crow's nest to aid in measuring dorsal fins from extended distances. While Quint was steadfastly against using fancy or advanced hardware, or portable cages to capture or kill sharks, he did use a limited amount of rudimentary tools. Many of which were homemade or jerry-rigged, like painted yellow rain barrels modified for use as ballast kegs.

The kegs were set in a track system which could then be tied to harpoon wire fired from a makeshift Greener rifle Quint had acquired at an auction in Boston. Quint utilized his innovative 'sharking system' to great effect while stationed at the end of a pulpit extending out past the bow. In this way, Quint could readily oversee sharks moving past in close proximity thereby allowing for more precision correlated aims. Raising the ORCA. Scientists inspect the purported remains of the ORCA in a top secret area at the Woods Hole institute - [CLASSIFIED IMAGE] Legacy After sinking, Orca's wreck was a popular destination for casual divers, but was thought to be cursed by the superstitious following the mysterious disappearance of a diver taking photographs in the summer of 1978. The wreck was subsequently raised and purportedly utilized for further study by Dr. Matthew Hooper at the Woods Hole Institute . Remnants were also meticulously researched by visiting occultists and archeologists who firmly believed there was some paranormal connection with the boat and the shark. Scientists at the institute discounted any superstitions in their quarterly report, however Dr.

Hooper was still firmly convinced that the shark which had attacked swimmers near the Island was likely possessed, or a genetic mutation of a more common great white shark. The boat is believed to still be in a classified area housed in an off limits area of the institute to this day. Oddly, Woods Hole institute does not acknowledge the existence of a Dr. Matthew Hooper as ever having been on their staff or whether the ORCA is anywhere on the premises. Film Production: JAWS A boat was built to resemble the actual ORCA for the film adaption of The Amity Incident (JAWS) in 1974. It was later sold to a crew person who worked on the film, then sold back again to Universal Studios after the crew person complained the boat was possibly haunted, or cursed by flying luminescent ghost sharks. In addition, there were reports of repeated hull breaches taking on water even when it was in dry dock or land. Moreso, the crew person had recurring daydreams whereby he would be pursued by a great white shark when near any body of water, and simply wanted the boat gone.

After years serving as a tram attraction center piece of the 'JAWS' attraction at USH, the boat simply disappeared, and to this day its current whereabouts are unknown. Quint | Jaws Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia [Source] Bartholomew Marion Quint was a grizzled, seasoned shark hunter, who once resided on the Island of Amity, MA in the shanty seaside port of Menemsha. Running a bootleg distillery, and a whale oil business, as well as a weekend charter service, Quint captained the " Orca " and became part of local lore after his last trip out to sea in a bid to capture a giant rogue killer shark. Hired to catch the shark, Quint was joined by APD chief of police, Brody , and visiting ichthyologist, Dr. Hooper serving as crew. Contents [ show ] The Amity Incident While the factual Quint was a local shark fisherman / charter boat captain on the Island of Amity during the summer of 1973, there occurred an incident that to this day resonates in popular culture as the defining true 'summer of the shark'.

Many believe Quint to have been crucial in preventing further escalation of what is commonly known as the worst incident of shark attacks on record anywhere in the world. The JAWS log Culled from Chief Martin Brody's personal police report, a dramatic and telling account of Amity's struggle with the shark known simply as "The JAWS log", was subsequently written by Amity Gazette reporter Harry Meadows in the fall of 1973. The log describes Quint's involvement in the ordeal and sheds light on how the drama unfolded. This JAWS log was then used as the core structure for the screenplay written by Carl Gottlieb. Gottlieb also portrayed Harry meadows in the film adaptation. ----- Amity PD Police log -- Chief Martin Brody (filed May/1974 0300 hours) "On June 29th 1973 at approximately 3;00pm the local fisherman known simply as 'Quint' interrupts a frenzied town meeting. While everyone is bickering, he scrapes his nails against a chalkboard to get our attention.

After a moment of bewildered silence Quint relates in no uncertain terms that he can in fact catch and kill the shark for $10,000 rather than the meager $3000 offered by the town. After the shark attacks again, I finally get the Mayor to hire Quint. After brief introductions and a minor squabble between Quint and Matt (Hooper), we leave Menemsha on what I want to state for the record was a boat that I now realize was too small for the task. Never the less, we had no time to deal with the red tape to get coast guard support. After days of waiting and chumming we spot the damn thing, and its far larger than we're prepared for. Quint at first tries to catch the shark using mini harpoons attached to some kind of air barrels or kegs to keep the shark from diving too deep. It comes to the point where we attach the harpoon ropes to cleats on the back of the Orca - and the shark drags the boat backwards as the Orca's engine is the only thing resisting it's pull. At first we begin to previal but the sharlk wins the tug of war and its clear we aren't gaining ground.

What's more, we're taking on water and it looks like we're going to be sinking. We then attempt cutting the ropes loose, but Quint cuts the ropes with a large machete first. In what I consider a suicidal move, 'Quint' then decides to put the boat at full-throttle to attract the shark to the shallow shoreline and drown it there - but in the process, the boat's engine is fried. Now stranded, we decide to have Hooper enter a shark cage and go into the water, where he tries to inject the shark with a special toxin. Hooper attempts doing so - but according to Matt's account, he drops the stick that had the toxins on it, and it sinks to the ocean bottom. Hooper is then attacked by the shark, and escapes. Quint pulls the cage back up, revealing it to have been shredded apart by the shark. Just then - the shark breaches the stern of the Orca, and Quint stumbles then retreats into the boat's cabin.

With the door open, and the shark's jaws opening and closing, Quint's tries holding onto the table - and in the process, a pressurized scuba tank rolls over his hand causing him to slip, and I clutch his hand - but he continues slipping, and goes out the door closer and closer towards the shark, thrashing around in a desperate attempt to grab something, before the shark clamps his jaws down on his torso. Quint is violently thrashed from side to side, screaming while try to fight off the shark with his machete. The shark clamps down again causing Quint gush up a mouthful of blood you could splattered before he is dragged underwater. After the shark's demise, Hooper appears, and we share a brief moment of respect for Quint, before we swim to shore using a makeshift raft rigged from two of the remaining yellow kegs." History Following Quint's return from the war in the Pacific, Quint decided to make shark fishing his sole purpose and opened a charter fishing business on the summer resort Island of Amity.

Using what little savings he had for construction supplies, Quint was able to build a two level shack and fishery with his bare hands on the property of an old friend by the name of Chuck Gramling who had promised it to him during the war. On Amity, Quint would scrounge for local pilot whales, and other fish commodities including blue gills, and Tommy cod. Between fishing seasons Quint sold moonshine from a bootleg distillery making his own apricot brandy which was a favorite among the likes of fishing locals including Ben Gardner. Although there were many police raids done in search of the moonshine Quint was able to avoid legal scrutiny by hiding his stashes of alcohol in kegs stowed on board his boat, ORCA. Even though the mayor was relentless about disallowing zoning approval, and the local fisherman were constantly filing complaints that Quint was disrupting their trade, he fought each and every complaint using layman's legal knowledge gained from spending months in the local Amity library. Much the the chagrin of librarians unhappy with the constant reek of beer, and the sound of foul language, Quint would sift through legal volumes until he knew he had a good case. Besides legal books, Quint was also fond of pagan mythology.

Many believed that it was Quint's maniacal study of sharks and the paranormal that led the shark to choose Amity as its killing ground. Farewell and Adieu in Menemsha Whatever happened to Orca from Jaws? By Christopher Balogh posted May 20th, 2015 at 12:55pm Courtesy of Jim Beller Robert Shaw takes a break with "Bruce," the mechanical shark. The Orca might be the most famous fishing boat in cinema. It relentlessly pursued a 25-foot porker, set the scene for scar stories and was owned by the saltiest captain on Amity Island. It also became one of the symbols of a new era in cinema — the summer blockbuster. It’s gone forever. We will never see Orca on the hunt again. And not due to the appetite of a 3-ton fish; looters and a lack of oversight doomed this film icon. The film Jaws made many boys into fishermen, but it also kept kids away from the beach for a while. This movie, which introduced a completely new level of terror to children even taking a bath, also evolved into a never-give-up story of filmmaking.

The film’s 27-year-old director, Steven Spielberg, was learning how to make a big movie on the fly and having to deal with an enormous amount of production problems due to the film’s nautical nature. Filmmaking around the ocean is not easy. As a result, Spielberg needed the help from the locals of Martha’s Vineyard, specifically those folks in and around the fishing village of Menemsha. Spielberg hired locals as extras and some even got speaking parts or worked as part of the crew. One townie, in particular, can be considered the backbone of that local support. Photo by Lynn and Susan Murphy Orca 2 prepares for its scene. “Lynne Murphy arguably saved parts of the film production, more than any other local,” says Matt Taylor, author of Jaws: Memories from Martha’s Vineyard . The 292-page book that he and Jim Beller, a Jaws historian and collector, comprised is full of photographs and memories of the islanders during the shooting of the film. Lynne Murphy was a local marine mechanic when Hollywood came to town. He was hired to assist with anything from towing the robotic shark to fixing the electronics on the underwater platforms for action scenes.

According to Taylor, during the rehearsals for towing the shark close to the Orca, Murphy would use a buoy in place of the Orca — to get the shark as close as possible without dinging the real boat until “action” was called. In watching the scene where Chief Brody is about to blow the hell out of the shark, there is an unintentional wake, which is actually caused by Murphy’s boat. That’s how close Murphy had to get to the Orca to make the shark look like it was actually coming at the boat. Photo by Lynn and Susan Murphy Lynn Murphy towing the Orca. In 1974, production ended. As in some cases when a film wraps, props and equipment are sold on the spot. Murphy bought the fiberglass Orca replica for a dollar. However, there were two Orcas used in the production of the film. The first was the operational Orca, which was purchased nearby in Marblehead, Massachusetts. It originally was used as a lobster boat under the name of Warlock. The production team revamped it with some paint and added a mast pulpit. It became known on set as Orca 1. This is the boat used in most of the regular fishing scenes.

But when you see a boat that’s sinking or being destroyed, that’s Orca 2. Orca 2 was created out of fiberglass that came from the mold made from the original boat. There was no motor attached and several breakaway sterns were built into the replica. In the infamous scene where the shark chomps on Quint as Chief Brody throws a scuba tank into the shark’s mouth — that’s Orca 2. Photo by Cal Acord Filming on the Orca with Robert Shaw on the pulpit. The production team shipped the Orca 1 back to Universal Studios in Hollywood, California. Taylor says that within a brief time, it was sold to a fisherman in Los Angeles. A year later, after the movie became a hit and was the first film to top $100 million, Universal Studios bought Orca 1 back from him — paying 10 times what they originally sold it for. It was then placed on the backlot studio tour near the Amity Island section of the ride. Taylor and a bit of Hollywood lore says that Spielberg would sneak onto the Orca during the night to think about the days of the Jaws shoot as well as mull over future ideas for his upcoming films.

“Apparently, Spielberg came one night to sit on Orca and it was gone,” says Taylor. “Some studio execs thought to get rid of it and chopped it up with chainsaws.” Another legend, which Taylor heard as well, was that Orca was in such disrepair that Universal Studios planned to repair it, and while picking it up with a crane, the boat cracked in half. Orca deserves a bit of mystery. Forever the idea that it may be out there somewhere, whether in some secret marina or in a someone’s garage — which is exactly where Murphy’s Orca 2 still sits in pieces. Photo by Joseph C. Hazen Jr. The Orca runs out to sea. After first purchasing Orca 2, Murphy placed it on his privately-owned beach in Menemsha. It sat on the bank over 30 years, but withered down to sections because of rabid fans that wanted a piece of film history. “The Murphys started to notice that pieces were disappearing,” says Taylor.

“First, it was the pulpit, then the mast and then the fly bridge.” In 2005, after several security issues, the Murphys decided to cut up the remains of the boat into a thousand 1-foot by 1-foot squares. These pieces were then included within the original limited edition of Jaws: Memories from Martha’s Vineyard. Photo by Cal Acord Orca 2 waits on the sideline, while the crew films on Orca. They are all sold out. Recently, one of these 1-inch squares sold on eBay for $1,850. It’s a shame — both of these boats belonged in a museum. They became a piece of film history and deserved much better fates. Orca is right up there with film’s other iconic symbols; Citizen Kane’s Rosebud or The Wizard of Oz’s__ ruby red slippers. The boat became lore on its way out. Photo by Cal Acord Orca_runs out to sea (background) as _Orca 2 (foreground) waits to be called upon.

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Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Audio/visual unsynchronised When Chrissie is attacked by the shark, her mouth doesn't match her screams in many shots of her. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Boom mic visible After the boat's engine has died and Hooper tells Brody and Quint that he will go into the shark cage, you can see a reflection of the boom mic in the window behind him, moving from left-to-right. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Sheriff Brody learns from his deputy that the boy scouts are doing their "Mile Swim" in the bay for their merit badge. While the Boy Scouts of America do offer a "Mile Swim" patch for those scouts able to swim, non-stop for that distance, there is no merit badge that requires swimming a mile. (An Eagle Scout like Steven Spielberg should have known that.) Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Hooper is examining Chrissie Watkin's corpse, he attributes the attacking squalus (shark) as Longimanus or Isurus Glaucus.

Carcharhinis Longimanus is the pelagic White Tip Shark, and wouldn't come close to shore. Its bite would never be mistaken for a great white's. Isurus Glaucus is a Short Fin Mako, and is only found in the Pacific Ocean, not the Atlantic, as the Isurus Oxyrinchus would be. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options As Brody argues with Mayor Vaughan about keeping the beaches closed over the Fourth of July, he states that five people were chewed up in the surf (in New Jersey) in five days, in 1916. In fact, it took place over a twelve-day period, and three of the victims were attacked in a tidal creek. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Hooper first meets Quint, Quint asks him to tie a sheep shank. Hooper ties a knot and tosses it to him. However, the knot Hooper ties is actually a trumpet knot, not a sheep shank. They both serve the same purpose (shortening a length or rope) but they are tied differently and have a slight difference in appearance.

Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The two sharks mentioned by Hooper during Chrissy Watkins's post-mortem are Carcharhinus longimanus, the Oceanic whitetip shark, which is a pelagic shark and doesn't enter the surf zone where the Watkins character was killed, and Isurus paucus (not "glaucus"), the Longfin mako, and is also not known for coming as close to shore as depicted in the movie. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The police report that Brody is typing for the first victim states that her death occurred at 11:50PM, but the sun was obviously shining when she entered the water. Also, the time of discovery of the body is stated as 10:20PM, but it is obviously the next morning when her body is discovered (Brody had just gotten out of bed when he received the phone call at home).

Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options After Hooper and Brody necropsy the Tiger Shark, Hooper wants to go out and search for the rogue shark, stating "It's a night feeder." All of the attacks happen either early morning, in the daytime, or at dusk. He almost never attacks at night. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The sign for Alex Kitner's reward says he was killed on June 29 but when chief Brody is typing his medical report of the death of the girl, which occurred BEFORE the death of the Kitner boy, he types July 1 as the date of the incident. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Continuity The word ORCA on the back of the boat continually changes from shot to shot varying from very rusty letters to shiny letters. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options During the town meeting, the shot before Quint scrapes his fingers over a chalk drawing of a man-eating shark on the blackboard shows the back of the meeting room, including the blackboard. There is no drawing, and Quint is not in the shot, even though both are there a split second later.

Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When the Shark first approaches Hooper in the cage, the above water shot shows the barrels being towed through the water at great speed. However, underwater the shark passes Hooper at less than half the speed of the barrels, and the shark has no (barrel) lines attached. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When the two little kids who pull the fake shark fin around, finally surface, they find themselves surrounded by the Coast Guard's boats and rifles: the kid on the left then takes his mask off and removes his headgear (a diver's cap). But, just a second or two later, when he's being hoisted into one of the surrounding boats, the cap is back on his head, in its original position. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options As the camera is zooming in on Quint as he gives his speech at the town meeting, there are two women, one wearing blue and the other black, seated next to each other. When it cuts to the shot of people in the room listening to Quint, the woman in blue is still there, but the one in black has disappeared.

Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Hooper wears glasses (old fashioned rimless) throughout the film, but the temples (the part that goes from the glasses themselves to the ears) change from time to time, even within the same scene. Sometimes they are connected to the glass part of the frame at the top, and sometimes in the middle. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Hooper and Quint are comparing their scars, Hooper shows him a large scar on his left forearm. Later on (climbing down a ladder), when the boat engine has died and Hooper has his sleeves pulled up, the scar is gone. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Brody boards the ferry and tells them to take him out to the Boy Scouts in the water, Larry Vaughn also boards the ferry. Although the ferry driver has not been given new instructions, he takes them all over to the other side to the ferry terminal, ignoring Brody's initial request. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Quint is hauling in the rope from the first barrel and the shark appears suddenly, he jerks back in surprise and still has the rope in one hand only.

The next shot shows the rope flying out of both hands, which are cut by the force. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Hooper visits Brody's home, he brings two bottles of wine. Brody pours himself a large measure, and then gives his wife and Hooper some. If you look at the bottle, firstly it seems rather full for the amount he's just poured, and secondly the level changes from shot to shot. Sometimes it's above the label, sometimes below. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Chief Brody and Hooper tie the ropes to the stern cleats, Quint shoots a harpoon under the shark's mouth. When Hooper is in the shark cage, look at the shark's mouth when it passes by. There is no harpoon there. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When the two old fishermen are fishing for the shark from the pier, the shark takes the bait and you can see the chain getting pulled into the sea.

In the next shot you can still hear the chain being pulled into the sea but if you look on the pier, you can't see any chain being dragged in and the wooden post that the chain is secured to changes into a different position. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options During Quint's speech at the town meeting during which he offers to kill the shark, there is an obvious shift after he warns them they could be on Wellfare. When the camera cuts back to him as he begins, "I don't want no volunteers," his hair and sideburns are longer, his shirt collar is disheveled, the audio has a slight echo, the chalkboard has moved about a foot to the right and its drawing has slightly changed, the room behind him is completely different; the furniture and papers posted on the wall are different, and Quint's own shadow and the shadow of a citizen on the left wall are different, indicating that the lighting has shifted. This last line was clearly shot at a different time and edited back in. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Before Alex Kintner is attacked, Sean Brody is shown sitting on the beach singing.

After Alex is attacked and people are running out of the water, Sean can be seen standing on the beach, and in one shot, Chief Brody can be seen grabbing him. But a couple of seconds later, Sean is shown sitting on the beach in the same spot he was before, as if he had not moved. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options On the Fourth of July, Sean (the youngest Brody kid) is wearing a white t-shirt with orange around the collar, and green shorts. But after Michael goes into shock and Sean is seen crying, he's suddenly wearing darker shorts and a plain white shirt with no orange. Later at the hospital, he has his orange and white shirt and green shorts on again. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options In the scene where the two fisherman are trying to catch the shark with the holiday roast on the pier, it is very dark outside yet when it cuts to Brody (the scenes go back and forth proving that it takes place in the same evening), it is still very light outside.

Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Chief Brody throws the air tank into the sharks mouth, he throws it in bottom first meaning the valve part is sticking out of the sharks mouth. Later, when the shark is charging him and Chief Brody is shooting at the tank, it's reversed and now the bottom of the tank is sticking out of the sharks mouth. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Brody, Hooper, and Quint get soaked when the shark is pulling the boat backwards, but in the next shot, with Quint still wielding the machete above his head (after having cut the ropes), they appear dry. When the shot returns to a close-up of the three men, they're wet again. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When the three men are in the cabin of the Orca at night, Quint is leaning forward against the table and is drinking something. In the next shot, as Chief Brody feels the cut on his forehead, Quint is turned towards the side leaning on the back of his seat, but in the next shot of Quint, he is leaning forward again in the same position as the first shot.

Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Just before the Kintner boy is attacked, when Chief Brody is sitting on the beach watching the water, he speaks with the old man called Harry. In the close-up shot of Harry the chin strap of his rubber cap hangs down loose at his chest, but in the side shots the chin strap is tucked up at his ear. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Brody is doing the chum line for the second time you see that his cigarette has been lit for some time, yet when he has just seen Jaws for the first time and tells Quint, "... you're gonna need a bigger boat..." he is clearly smoking a freshly lit, full length cigarette. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Quint yells "untie this, he'll pull out the transom" a shot from inside the boat shows the next barrel (which has been shot onto the shark) move from the front of the boat and smash a cabin window, and there is just one barrel remaining aboard. When the shark is pulling the boat backwards there are now two barrels aboard.

Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Chief Brody is typing up his report of Chrissie's attack, he lists the date of the incident/her date of death as 7/1/74. Mrs. Kintner's bounty sign says she'll pay the men who kill the shark that killed her son June 29th at the town beach. Alex was killed after Chrissie so these date don't align. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When there is a false alarm in the water, a lady screams when she sees the fin. Behind her there are a girl and a boy on a blow-up raft. In the next shot a man is seen in a similar position, and behind him, there is now an extra girl on the raft. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Hooper is in the shark cage he removes the cork from his spear that holds poison, then when the shark hits the cage he loses his spear and as it floats through the water the cork reappears, then the next time you see the spear hit the ocean floor the cork is gone again.

Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The action in "Jaws" is supposed to take place during Fourth of July Weekend in New England. At that time of year the temperature in New England, during the day, usually ranges from the mid-70s to the mid-90s (Fahrenheit)...yet, with very few exceptions, the cast -including the extras-are wearing long pants, long-sleeved shirts, heavy jackets, wool hats, etc. They appear to be dressed for autumn weather, not summer weather. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Michael and his two friends are sitting in their boat, in the pond, in the first close-up they sit on the white wrinkled up sail, but in the next wide-shot two of them sit on the spread out blue tarp. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When the pump is given to Brody, Quint says, "Pump it out, Chief," and then Quint, with his long blue sleeves, thrusts his machete into the side of the boat. However, in the close-up Quint's arm has no sleeve whatsoever, as the machete meets the wood.

Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Chief Brody pulls his son out of the water, who is in shock after a close encounter with the shark. His pants get very wet as he splashes through the shallow water and we see a bunch of wet spots. Cut to Brody laying the boy onto the sand, and the wet spots are in a completely different arrangement. Areas that were wet a second before are now dry and vice versa. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Chief Brody is in the hardware store getting supplies to make "Beach Closed" signs, there are two buildings across the street (visible through the shop window), painted dark gray/blue, with large windows trimmed in white. When the chief exits the building and stands on the curb right out front loading the supplies into the deputy's car, the building across the street is a large brick building with small windows. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Hooper, Brody and Quint are preparing the cage for Hooper's confrontation with the shark, overhead shots show that the deck of the boat is dry.

But scenes before and after show a few inches of water in the boat, a result of the shark battering in the Orca's side. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Hooper and Brody are tying off the ropes on the back of the boat and Brody traps Hooper and pulls him free, the rope breaks when it snaps back. Yet in the next shot it's still tied around the boat. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When the mouth of the tiger shark is first opened on the dock there is blood on the mouth and in the back of its throat. After it has been hung up and when one of the boaters puts his head in its mouth, there is no blood. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options In one of the first scenes scene when Quint stands at the bow of the boat to shoot the shark with a harpoon, he takes aim at eye level with the camera behind him. But when the camera cuts in front of him he is shooting from hip level Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When the engine of the Orca is blown, you see Hooper jumping into over a foot of water, and the entire engine compartment is flooded.

In the next shot, you see Quint reaching for, and using a fire extinguisher to put out the fire in a dry engine compartment. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Quint notices his rod starting to click, the rim of the reel has a shiny metallic coloration that reflects the sky, but when he is hooking it up to his vest a few seconds later, the reel has a dull gray metallic coloration which doesn't reflect a thing. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Quint shoots the second barrel onto the shark there are three barrels remaining on deck. Just over a minute later when they are chasing the shark and Quint yells "run him down Hooper" there are now four barrels remaining on deck. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options While Brody is sitting on the beach watching the lady in the water, several items next to him on the left of screen, and the bottom of a blowup raft which can be seen under the door of the changeroom behind him, disappear between shots, while a blue esky suddenly appears next to Brody.

Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options At the Hospital, when Ellen leaves with Sean, Brody looks over and sees Larry standing at the reception. In the next shot when Brody approaches Larry, a black ashtray, which was not there in the previous shot, has appeared on the counter. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options During the town hall scene, Mr. Polk (next to Larry) is leaning forward against the bench, as are most of the other selectmen. However in one shot from behind the selectmen, he is leaning so far back that he cannot even be seen, but in the next shot, still on the men, he is back leaning forward. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Brody, Hooper and Quint encounter the shark for the first time, the direction which the shark approaches from is inaccurate. When Brody and Quint walk out on deck, they along with Hooper look towards the port side, like the shark is approaching from that direction.

In the next shot from behind Brody and Quint, the shark is approaching from the starboard side, then the three men are all looking towards port side again, before the shark swims past the stern coming from starboard side again. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Brody asks the ferry driver to take him over to the kids out swimming, there is a sign -"Amity" on the front of the ferry above the water. When it gets to the other side, the ferry is facing the same way, but the sign no longer appears at the front. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When the shark first shows up on the boat we see Hooper and Brody go to the front of the boat and they are both wearing sneakers. But when we see Brody going out to the edge of the barrels he's wearing boots. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options During the first chum-line scene, Quint's fishing rod starts out in the fighting-chair's left rod-holder. It then suddenly switches to the right holder during the incident with Brody and the SCUBA-tanks.

Even though there are some cuts in the sequence, there was neither a reason nor enough time for Quint to move the rod from the left to the right holder. Incidentally, the very next scene (after the dissolve, when Quint starts noticing he may have hooked something), the rod is back to its original position in the left holder. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Towards the end of the movie, Hooper acknowledges to Quint he cannot get "this little needle" (a normal hypodermic needle) through the shark's skin, but says if he gets close enough he can "get him in the mouth." However, in the next scene, during a montage sequence for Hooper's shark cage assembly, it shows that the hypodermic is not the actual weapon. The hypodermic is only used to measure and deposit poison into a much larger steel, Farallon-brand Shark Dart Repeater, one which does penetrate shark skin. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When the shark eats the guy in the red boat in the pond, Brody grabs a red blanket and goes for a brown blanket after exclaiming, "He's in shock," in reference to his son's close encounter with the shark.

In the next shot, his wife is laying down blue and brown blankets over Michael. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Brody asks Hooper to help with the group of men crowding into a small boat. Hooper says that the officer wants him to tell them that they're overcrowding the boat. They show the men climbing in and there's a guy in a blue jacket climbing down the ladder into the boat. He waves his arm and says, "What do you care?" They then show Hooper asking if they know a good restaurant or hotel on the island. When they show the men again, uttering the line "Yeah, walk straight ahead," the man in the blue jacket is on the deck again and is again descending the ladder. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When the engine of the Orca explodes and the shark swims away, Brody is standing on the bridge, then when the camera pans down to Hooper standing below him, the iron ladder, used to climb on and off the bridge, has disappeared. When Quint comes out and hands Brody and Hooper a life jacket, the ladder has returned.

Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Crew or equipment visible In the underwater scene when the shark attacks the cage and just when Hooper escapes, we can see the rigging that maneuvers the shark. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When the two barrels pop up out of the water, there is a cut to Brody and Hooper then a cut back to the barrels with the Orca in the background. In this shot Quint is on the bridge while Brody and Hooper are at the stern, but if you look closely you can also see a crewman moving around inside the cabin. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When the shark starts to pull the Orca backwards, a towline is clearly visible running from the stern of the Orca (to the tow/camera vessel), in spite of the attempted use of the rope lines from the yellow floats to cover it. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Ben Gardner is heading out on his boat, it cuts to a shot from behind which shows his and other surrounding boats. At the front is Ben on his boat, and mounted to the bow is the camera and reflector screen, which filmed the previous shot.

Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options On the TV/video version of Chrissie's death scene, a fine wire can be seen connected to the buoy as she is being shaken about by the shark. This was probably used to stop it drifting out of shot. The wire has been removed on the DVD version. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Brody, Quint and Hooper are watching the shark coming towards them after seeing it for the first time, for a brief moment, shadows of the cameraman and crew members can be seen on the shark as it approaches the stern of the boat. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Factual errors Great White Sharks cannot move backwards once their gills are under water, as seen towards the end of the film. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Like Quint said, "Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesn't even seem to be livin'...

'til he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then..." So for all those scenes where we see Jaws attack someone, like Quint or the guy in the pond, his eyes should have rolled back as a way to protect them. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Hooper finds the shark tooth in the hull of Ben Gardner's boat, the point is sticking up, with the root end of the tooth embedded in the wood. If the shark had lost the tooth while biting into the hull, Hooper should have found the point stuck in the wood, with the root end exposed. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Brody is left on the boat by himself the 3000 psi scuba tank floats beside him. A full scuba tank would sink. Only an empty tank would float because it does not include the weight of the compressed air inside. For the tank to explode however, it would have to be full and pressurized. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Brody and Hooper are out on Hooper's "High Tech" boat, there is a radar antenna rotating on the bow of the boat.

A radar antenna should be at the highest point possible on a boat. In the position shown on Hooper's boat, there would be no radar coverage behind the boat as it would be blocked by the cabin and bridge of the boat. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options During Quint's description of the Indianapolis sinking, he says the ship was on her way from the island of Tinian to Leyte but in fact, the Indianapolis first sailed from Tinian to Guam and was sailing from Guam to Leyte when she was torpedoed and sunk. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The Farallon Shark Dart Repeater, into which Hooper pours "20cc of strychnine nitrate" before he enters the shark cage, was not designed to accept, nor be a receptacle for, poison. It was designed solely to cause massive internal damage by triggering a CO2 charge once the steel dart penetrates the shark's skin. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Incorrectly regarded as goofs When Hooper is examining Chrissie's body he attributes it to an attacking squalus. Squalus is genus of dog sharks. He should know this, being a shark expert.

However, at this point, Hooper does not know what kind of shark attacked her and so he is listing all of the species it could be. (He also indicates Longimanus and Isurus glaucus, which are whitetip and mako sharks, respectively.) More than that, though, "squalus" is the Latin word for "shark" and is often used by marine biologists as a generic name for sharks. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options During the barrel scene, the shark pulls three barrels underwater. MythBusters discovered that the shark would have had to exert 1200 pounds of pressure, which it would be incapable of doing. However, this is a thriller/horror movie, and shark's strength is intentionally exaggerated to make it appear invincible. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Some think that when Quint first encounters the shark, he incorrectly refers to the Great White shark as an orca, saying that he's "gotta get a good shot at that orca's head".

In fact, as he referred to the great white when first approached by Hooper and Brody inside his boathouse, he is calling it a "porker" - slang term for "big & white" - but with his accent it sounds similar to "orca". Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Real great white sharks do not behave in the manner depicted in this film. In fact, unprovoked shark attacks are very rare, with only a handful of them being fatal and two out of three people survive a great white shark attack. However, this is a thriller/horror movie and many things are intentionally exaggerated to fit the genre. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options MythBusters discovered that the shark was incapable of pulling the boat backwards by the cleats. To do so the shark would have had to pull twice its own body weight. However, this is a thriller/horror movie, and shark's strength is intentionally exaggerated to make it appear invincible. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When Quint stabs the machete into the Orca's gunwale, the wood has already been marked up with gashes from the machete, probably from previous takes.

However, it is conceivable that this was not the first time Quint has done this, and the marks in the wood were not a mistake. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Plot holes When Mike shows up at the beach Martin asks him to go to the pond instead with the boat and friends. Then when the kids pull the fake shark stunt and everyone is running out of the water we see Ellen calling for Mike. But when she goes up to Martin she tells him that he's in the pond. How did she know that? Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Ben Gardner, who is later found dead, is shown with his hands on his boat's window as it's going out for the shark hunt. A young crewman wearing a black jacket is seen standing right behind Gardner. A third crewman has to be driving the boat to keep it straight and avoid hitting all the other boats. Although it's presumed that the two crewmen were also killed by the shark, no one in Amity seems to notice their fates, and there is no mention of them in the film.

Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Revealing mistakes The corners of Jaws' mouth change throughout the movie, whether we are seeing a footage shark or the mechanical one. When we see a real one, the lines of its mouth are parallel. But when we see the fake one, the top corners of its jaws are overlapping the bottom ones. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options As the camera begins to zoom in on Quint after he scratches the blackboard at the town meeting, Brody can be seen kneeling down to stay out of shot on the lower right of screen. Then ten seconds later his shadow is seen on the blackboard as he stands up. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options Later in the movie the shark is chasing the fishing vessel Orca after the intrepid crew has harpooned it and put "three barrels" on him, which are clearly seen following them in the background of the shot. What is also clearly seen in this shot is the wake from the towline that attaches the barrels to the fishing vessel itself. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When the shark jumps onto the boat, you will notice daylight shining through his gills.

The sharks used for filming included a right and left design. Which meant one side had skin and the other side didn't. This design allowed the daylight to shine through to the other end and through the gills. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options After Quint chops the rope to stop the boat from being pulled by the shark, a calm moment follows during which the men are just catching their breath. After a few seconds, three barrels suddenly appear, but during that time, you can see the barrels in the foreground just under the water, waiting to be released and pop to the surface. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options The shots from under the water of Chrissie swimming show a brilliant light above her, but the sun is on the horizon and a first quarter Moon wouldn't be that bright. It can't be from a full Moon either as that would be opposite the Sun in the sky, and so it could not be overhead whilst the Sun is on the horizon.

Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options During the scene at the hospital after the shark attack in the pond, as Michael and his bed are being wheeled out of the room and down the hall by a female nurse and a male doctor the actor playing the male doctor looks directly into the camera. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When the shark swims out from under the Orca after nearly tipping it, the "sea sled" apparatus is visible under the mechanical shark, including the tow cable which is very visible pulling the shark from ahead of it and to its left. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options When the shark attacks a character, his severed leg floats to the bottom of the water. When the leg hits the bottom, it doesn't behave like a leg with a real knee joint. The knee joint doesn't bend at all on impact with the bottom, for instance. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options One of the first scenes in which the shark engages the boat- Orca , you see Brody, Quint and Hooper fall to one side as the boat tips to the side.

If you watch closely, it appears that the actors appear to fall over, prior to the boat actually tipping over ,as if they are anticipating the effect. Share this: Facebook | Twitter | Permalink Hide options During the first scene on the ferry dock on the Fourth of July, the male actor portraying a souvenir shopper wearing a white rimmed hat and a striped polo-style shirt, quickly cuts his eyes upward and to the right and looks directly into the camera. The goof items below may give away important plot points. Character error The first victim in the film is the female student named Chrissy. We see some of her remains being discovered being eaten by crabs and this occurs in daylight. According to the Police report Chief Brody prepares at the typewriter the time of her death is 7-1-74 (Monday 1 July 1974) at 11.50pm. The time the deceased was discovered is listed as the next day, 7-2-74 at 10.20pm (not am - first error). The second victim in the film is the Alex Kintner boy.

According to the reward notice posted by the boy's mother, he was killed on Sunday June 29th (no year given - but surely must be same year as the first victim). Therefore, the second victim in the film was killed before the first victim, going by the dates given (second error). Finally, when one checks the calendar 29 June 1974 was in fact a Saturday, not a Sunday (third error).

Question: In Jaws what was the name of the shark-hunting captain of the boat Orca?
Answer: Quint