HCF CLASSIC MOMENT NO. 5: The U.S.S Indianapolis speech…….in JAWS!





Jaws

In a brand new feature on HorrorCultFilms, we look at the scenes that blow us away, moments that will live forever in our minds  and in yours.  Number 5 comes in the shape of the much loved and brilliant masterpiece JAWS!… Hughesy explains:

 

There are so many moments in Jaws that will live forever in your minds.  From the opening attack on poor Chrissie Watkins, to that head popping scene that frightened a generation and how could anyone forget that music theme.

But the one scene that stands out does not involve a rubber shark at all, but of a simple piece of dialogue by the wonderful and much missed Robert Shaw, whose Quint, delivers a true story that leaves Broody and Hooper speechless and in awe….

Simply brilliant………….

 

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“Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief… just delivered the Bomb, the Hiroshima Bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. The vessel went down in 12 minutes. Didn’t see the first shark for about half an hour. Tiger. Thirteen footer. You know how you know that when you’re in the water, chief? You can tell by looking from the dorsal to the tail. What we didn’t know was our bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didn’t list us overdue for a week. Very first light, chief, sharks come cruisin’. So we formed ourselves into tight groups, you know kinda like old squares in a battle like you see in a calendar, like the Battle Of Waterloo, and the idea was the shark comes to the nearest man and you pound and holler and scream and sometimes the shark’d go away. Sometimes he wouldn’t go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you…right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When he comes at you he doesn’t seem to be living…until he bites you…and those black eyes roll over white and then…aw, then you hear that terrible high pitched screamin’, the ocean turns red, and in spite of all the poundin’ and hollerin’ they all come in and they…rip you to pieces…”

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Since my mother sat me down at the age of five years of age and watched a little called Halloween, I have been hooked on horror. There is no other genre that gets me excited and takes me to the edge of entertainment. I watch everything from old, new, to cheap and blockbusters, but I promise all my readers that I will always give an honest opinion, and I hope whoever reads this review section, will find a film that they too can love as much as I do! Have fun reading, and please DO HAVE NIGHTMARES!!!!!!

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