Posted on 07/26/2014 1:06:43 AM PDT by Rabin
And how to crush a beer can?
Naa. John Belushi taught me that.
Phew! What a monologue! And I can hear every inflection in Shaw’s voice as I read through the words. No other actor could have done it better. I still think it’s Spielberg’s best movie.
Richad Dreyfuss taught me how to crush a paper cup.
His monologue educated thousands of baby boomers on the Indianapolis story. RIP the great Robert Shaw and Quint.
Shaw was also a writer, and I read that he came up with that monologue himself.
The reason why the Navy went after McVay and convicted him even after the Japanese sub commander testified that McVay had in fact zig zagged as regulations called for, was the Admiral Earnest King a piece of crap if there ever was one pushed the issue.
Why would he do such a low and underhanded thing? Because in 1905 in China he and another young Naval Officer got in trouble and got chewed out by their C.O. who was McVay’s father.
King being the scumbag he was carried that grudge for 40 years and wouldn’t let a chance to get even go by. Look up some quotes about King and you’ll see
http://navycaptain-therealnavy.blogspot.com/2010/11/renaissance-naval-officer.html
Captain McVay had two grown sons (Charles IV and Kimo) who recall their grandfather, Admiral McVay (Captain McVay’s father) say that Admiral King, the person who had ordered their father’s court-martial, “never forgot a grudge.” King had been a junior officer under Admiral McVay’s command when he and other officers sneaked some women aboard a ship.
Admiral McVay had a letter of reprimand placed in King’s record. King used the court-martialing of Captain McVay to get back at Admiral McVay, or so the story goes
November 24, 2010 at 2:08 PM
I tend to doubt those kind of stories - usually producers, director & scriptwriters are pretty good in Hollywood and this is a classic movie. I doubt know if the mono is in the original novel.
Shaw, was indeed, a good writer. I have one of his plays on my shelf “Cato Street” about an English rebellion.
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