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anxiously waiting for my dvd copy of jaws to arrive in the mail rn

#!!! quint !!!! he looks SO good aughfh #hooper #quint

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A tour of Quint's shack

I've seen Jaws a lot of times. Like, a lot of times. And every time, I've been real curious about the layout of Quint's house. So finally, I've taken the liberty of gathering screenshots for us all to explore!

We'll start here, with the exterior.

Well... this isn't very helpful! Brody is blocking a solid 3rd of the building. Thankfully, there's a production photo available of the entire shack.

Looking towards the building from the port, the entrance is situated on the side of a small foyer coming off the main building. To the right of the doorway, there's a second story above a portion of the main room. This is the only portion of the building with multiple floors, don't let the ridiculously high ceilings fool you!

In another shot from the movie, we get a good view of the building's pillars, and I think we'll all be happy to know that Quint's macabre shark decor continues even beyond the interior, with about a half dozen of what I can only assume to be shark fins strung up on the posts behind Hooper.

Finally, we enter! Let's all say hello to Quint's horrifying little buddy real quick. If you scroll back up to the photo's of the exterior, we are now in the shorter section of the building with the nice big windows.

After Brody turns to the left, he is now facing the second story tower, and we can see that the "foyer" in the front is cordoned off from the main room with a pony wall (which is apparently what half walls are called! The more you know).

Here we get a better view as to what Quint stores on said pony wall, alcohol, a shark jaw... all very standard Quint stuff. I like the little ship model! As we'll soon come to see, Quint loves some fun nautical decor (truly a man after my own heart...). It also looks like the inner-side of the wall sports a countertop, which I imagine is helpful for food preparation.

Turning back around towards the tower, we can see the ladder up to the second story, a little bookshelf (very personally vindicating, as I've always pictured Quint to be rather well-read), as well as Quint's bathroom! He's got one of those fun freestanding tubs, but it stresses me out a bit that he doesn't have any tiling and that it's straight up just on the wood of his floors. Though, I suppose, with him living right on the ocean and all, a little extra moisture probably won't hurt anything that badly. And hey uh... computer? Enhance...

Yeah... Quint has porn hung up in his bathroom... Sorry to those of you who remained blissfully unaware. MOVING ON!

Right up that ladder we can see Quint's bed tucked away to the right. I imagine it'd be quite the nightmare to get up those steps drunk, though. Quint seems well aware of this fact however, which is likely why he has a hammock on the main floor!

Alongside the hammock, we can see Quint’s selection of canned goods (as well as an old-timey diving helmet... where did he get that?? Asking for a friend), even MORE porn behind Brody, as well as the fighting chair from the ORCA. Doesn't sound particularly fun to have to lug it back down all those stairs every time he goes fishing, but he does seem to completely lack seating in his home, so maybe it's not too strange. Just get a folding chair, king!

Maybe the lack of furniture can be explained by the amount of strange nautical decor he has... because yes, that is a SECOND old-timey diving helmet there at Hooper's feet! Can someone who's good at the economy please help him budget this? His family is dying...

Now, this leaves two walls of the house completely unexplored, and unfortunately, for the most part it must remain that way. They're just never really shown!

However, we do get to see that Quint has a ship wheel on, I’m assuming, the wall next to the ladder.

That's the only time the wheel is shown, but I'm relatively sure that it's just off-screen, to the left of Mr. Hooper here.

And here we have the only view of the back wall in the entire scene! This was a blink-and-you'll-miss-it frame that was only on screen for around a half of a second. I'm not entirely confident in my assessment here, but Quint has a display of what I'm guessing are maybe harpoon guns? In the back window.

I'm not going to claim that it's to scale or anything, but here's a rough estimate of the layout that I threw together!

While we're all still here, I had intended to use this screenshot as well, but it never ended up being needed. So, another exterior shot! This time, Quint's entire neighborhood.

As you can see, Quint's house absolutely towers over all of the other buildings here. I’d assume this is because Quint's shack was a set that was built for the movie (and, unfortunately, demolished after filming), while the rest are real, residential buildings! I bet Quint's neighbors hated him lmao

I have a few more miscellaneous screenshots that don't fit here but that I want to share regardless, so I'll likely reblog some of them on this post later! I'd love to do one of these for the ORCA as well, but it would be a much more intensive post to make since I'd be pulling from an hour of footage rather than 3 minutes. And the lower cabin is basically never shown, which I know would frustrate me, lmao. But it depends, I suppose, on how y'all feel about this one to begin with!! Peace & love, Jaws fans.

#quint

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Scars on your body show that you have lived; scars on your heart show that you have loved.

Scars on your arm

#this does make the one scar on my arm kinda funny

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digging through the archives again & i've found another little press interview with robert shaw that i quite like. sticking it here for ease of access in the future :> from an article published in the los angeles times in february 1971, as transcribed below:

Most public people get terribly lofty about seeing their names in print (“Of course it used to matter . . .”). Robert Shaw, the English actor-author, is, bless his heart, honest enough to say it matters terribly. “My hand shakes when I pick up the Daily Express. And I will be comforted by reading someone else’s bad notices, I admit it. It gets worse all the time. Old Harold Pinter says my great vice is other people’s opinions.” Robert Shaw is subject to more reviews than most since he is both a writer (novels, plays, screenplays) and an actor English enough to play Henry VIII (in the film “A Man for All Seasons”), international enough to play Gen. Custer (in a movie) and Elmer Gantry (in a Broadway musical that lasted one night), and intelligent enough to play Pinter (“The Caretaker,” “The Birthday Party”). “I’ve been asked so often which I prefer, writing or acting, that I’ve started to answer seriously. I obviously prefer acting because the rewards are much more immediate. Writing is so lonely, such an agony. I’m an extroverted, confident person and I’m thrown into this pain . . .” Then why write? “I do wish for immortality—I don’t know why—but I do wish to be remembered.” Robert Shaw studied acting at RADA, a bleak and hateful experience, during which he was advised to give up. He spent his first eight years as a professional playing Shakespeare and had a rough time. “As a young man I had no charm, I was all agression [sic]. Richard Burton had enormous charm, he could get on with people. What an extraordinary life! When he went off to Hollywood, we all said, there goes the golden boy.” The turning point came with his first novel, “The Hiding Place” (1960). “From having been treated as a stupid actor—‘I find it hard to believe you wrote that,’ they’d say—I began to be treated as intelligent. Directors wanted me for television. And that’s where I became a working class actor. I’m not, I’m English middle class really, but I got into all these new plays. It was marvelous.” At present, Shaw has two plays coming up, neither of which will earn him a penny, he cheerfully notes: One is set in an American prison. The other, to be performed in London by the National Theater Company this spring, is called “Cato Street.” Shaw has based it on an actual attempt in the early 19th century to murder the entire British government. The plotters are betrayed and executed. “I hang them all on stage,” Shaw said with relish. “All eight or nine of them.” He hopes “Cato Street” will feature Laurence Olivier who, he feels, droops under some of his duties as head of the National Theater. “He asked me how many acts my play had. ‘Three,’ I said. “‘Couldn’t you make it two?’ he asked me. I said why? “‘Because,’ he said; ‘then I’d only have to have one drink with the governors.’”

#the gantry play was literally just called gantry - and it did only go for one night. it was a musical! charming to imagine him singing! #i wish i knew what american prison play was being referenced though :/ it's not included in his written works on wikipedia #i have the good sense that there are at least a handful of his works that have since been lost to the depths of the archives #if not vanished entirely #he wrote poetry when he was younger (as per the little author bio in my copy of the hiding place) #which i would LOVE to read. but it was published under pseudonyms #and i. don't know what those pseudonyms were. much less if any of that poetry has survived til now :// #robert shaw #long post

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JAWS (1975) dir. Steven Spielberg

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orca II my beloved

#jaws 1975

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assorted jaws doodles

#orcashipping

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Small waves. White Sun of the Desert. 1970.

Internet Archive

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Some lovely girls for @gentlesharks

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Bottleneck Gallery will release Jaws by Alistair Little and Creature from the Black Lagoon by Vance Kelly today, April 19, at 12pm EST.

Jaws is a 36x24 screen print. The standard version is limited to 175 and costs $50. The black-and-white variant is limited to 85 and costs $60.

Creature from the Black Lagoon is a 24x36 screen print. The standard version is limited to 175 and costs $50. The glow-in-the-dark variant is limited to 100 and costs $65.

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Fuck you and your saltine crackers, you stupid cunty old bitch

#god i fucjign love photos of characters made up of like 4 pixels #theyre so silly #quint

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legendary

#legendary

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Guys you won't believe who I doodled in-between projects

#quint

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necklace carpet sharks are SO silly and beautiful and it is of upmost importance that you all look at them

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Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies Farewell and adieu you ladies of Spain. For we received orders for to sail back to Boston And soon never more will we see you again.

Jaws (1975) dir. Steven Spielberg

#quint

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shoutout to that jaws au i told One friend about and then never did anything with it

#waogh zombie aus my beloved 👀👀 #i wouldn't mind hearing more about this au if you've got more to say abt it #<- curious about who in the town survives

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Bottleneck Gallery will release a Jaws 24x12 giclee print by Mark Chilcott today, August 26, as 12pm EST. The hand-numbered edition of 75 costs $45.