Quint has his crazy Ahab moment. The barrels go under again.


There's a great moment where Quint looks at the lifejackets and starts handing them out to the crew. He's given up.

So Quints methods have not been going well. He decides to give Hooper's plan a shot.

The shark cage is introduced.

There's a great cut where Brody is complaining about the shark cage and Hooper says, "You got any better suggestions?" The next shot of Brody helping construct the shark cage. That's great storytelling. No need to go into the fight, just to the conclusion of the fight Brody lost.

Hooper suits up to go into the cage.

Now there is more or less an even playing field. Hooper is now in the water with the shark. Shark's turf, Hooper's disadvantage. Yeah, he's got the shark cage but as we find out, it's not a lot of help.

At this point, the underwater footage includes shots of a real white shark. That's very cool. There's a terrific shot of the shark swimming away from the camera until it disappears into the grey waters. Can I just say that I saw this happen with a real shark and it's pretty terrifying. They disappear! Poof.

There's a sneak attack by the shark and Hooper loses his shark dart gun.

It's another jump scene but if ya didn't see it coming you're pretty much weren't paying attention.

We see Hooper and the cage again to see that the bars of the cage have been spread open. Enough to fit a shark through...

Bruce the fake shark makes a lot of appearances here and kind of lessens the suspense, but the quick cutting really saves the film at this point. For me, the more terrifying aspect of this scene is the screaming Dreyfuss does underwater. It's chilling.

The shark repeatedly attacks the cage. In the book, this is where Hooper bites it. But the movie shows him hiding safely behind some coral.

The next shot I believe is a real white shark and a miniature cage. It's thrashing and rolling on the cage. It looks great even now.

I've never seen it cause I'll have nightmares for a week. So your way is much better. Less graphic gore. :D

Quint and Brody try to bring up the cage a couple of times and fail. They eventually do bring it up and see it is destroyed and that there is no Hooper. Why Hooper didn't swim back to the ship is beyond me.

Now comes the cheesiest part. The shark jumps halfway onto the stern of the ship partially sinking it. I groan now, but I remember seeing it for the first time and thinking I would never get on a boat ever ever ever.

Quint falls and slides into the shark's mouth. The shark thrashes him around, blood spews everywhere and Quint is toast. One thing I didn't notice is that at one point Quint tries to grab onto a shelf to pull himself up. But the pesky scuba tank hits his fingers and causes him to let go and fall victim to the shark. That scuba tank killed more than one character in this film.

There's a great shot where Bruce takes the Quint stuntman underwater. It's a simple looking shot but it looks kinda dangerous if you think about it. It looks like he's sinking because of the fake shark's weight and he also looks like he's strapped in for the ride. Interesting.

The Orca goes sinky sinky and the shark attacks Brody inside the cabin. Brody inserts scuba tank into shark's mouth.

The nasty thing about this scene is that pieces of Quint are hanging from the shark's teeth. That's frikkin nasty.

Brody is running out of places to hide. This is an effective scene because he now is in the shark's playground with not many choices of where to go and what to do.

Cue the Jaws theme and Brody loads up his rifle and climbs to the crow's nest which is slowly descending into the ocean. He tries to fend off the attacking shark with a harpoon. But after a couple of blows, the shark takes that away from him too.

Brody takes a couple of shots at the shark as he approaches the crow's nest. There is some cool underwater shots of the bullets hitting the water. He used similar shots in Private Ryan too during the beach storming scene.

We don't need to wonder what he's shooting at because he tells us.

"Show me that tank. Show me the tank."
"Blow up."

I never noticed him saying that before.

Then of course the famous, "Smile, you son of a bitch!"

He fires and the shark blows up in a cloud of blood and squid guts (apparently). Now the explosion is beautiful and the carnage is awesomely grody. But I swear to you, there is a low growl that can be heard underwater as the shark sinks. No idea what it is. Listen for it. It's bad.