[bramps]

things turned awry when an eight-foot-long tiger shark caught by a professional fisherman lunged at Harrington after he jumped into the ocean off with only the bird cage for protection.
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so a shark that was already caught got pissed at a guy jumping into the ocean with a birdcage on his head and lunged back into the ocean after the guy? Where's a cellphone camera when you need one?

...btw, Captain Quint is my all time favorite movie character. Robert Shaw could flat out act. Where did he come up that character?

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“...btw, Captain Quint is my all time favorite movie character. Robert Shaw could flat out act. Where did he come up that character?”

Paraphrasing a borrowed Quint line.. “Obama goes to the White House? Valerie Jarrett goes to the White House with him? Farewell and adieu....”

[Moonman62]

...btw, Captain Quint is my all time favorite movie character. Robert Shaw could flat out act. Where did he come up that character?

IIRC, Shaw was also a writer, and wrote many of the lines himself.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

...btw, Captain Quint is my all time favorite movie character. Robert Shaw could flat out act. Where did he come up that character?

Found this on Wikipedia: "Benchley had written Jaws after reading about sport fisherman Frank Mundus's capture of an enormous shark in 1964. According to Gottlieb, Quint was loosely based on Mundus, whose book Sportfishing for Sharks he read for research."