And am I misremembering, but in the book, doesn’t him not having on a life jacket lead to his death? Maybe im misrembering…
But to the original question, is he basically saying, “Fuck waiting around a week to die…if its my time, then its my time.”?
He doesn’t want to be hanging there, his legs dangling down, waiting to be eaten.
I think Quint meant he’d rather drown before the sharks tore him to pieces.
IIRC, in the book, Quint is pulled down into the depths when the shark gives up the ghost — his foot gets caught in one of the barrel ropes.
I took it to mean that the whole process of waiting in the water, constantly terrified, watching friends being torn to pieces, was so traumatic that he’d rather drown quickly than prolong the torment.
I think it means he’s bad at statistics.
Old salts are always grasping at ridiculous excuses for not wearing a life vest without just coming out and saying they’re just uncomfortable. It’s like that guy who won’t wear a seatbelt because he’d be unable to escape a sinking car.
I can’t remember if this was from the famous scene at the boat table, or from a WWII memoir or such, but IIRC he swam over to a seemingly shell-shocked buddy after the Indy went down, shook him to get him out of his shock, only to see the poor sot flip over, revealing nothing left from the ribs down.
And another question about Quint (apologies if I’m misremembering - haven’t seen the whole movie in years):
Why does he destroy the radio?
From the boat table speech,
Thursday mornin’, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boson’s mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he’d been bitten in half below the waist.
He wanted the shark for himself. Not just the reward money, but for personal revenge.
Also making it clear that ‘you bought your ticket and you’re on this ride til it’s over’. No ‘maydays’ for a rescue.
Either the shark dies or I, and by extension we, die trying to kill it, there are no alternative outcomes.
It would’ve been too embarrassing to admit that the shark got the best of him.
And where did he go swimmin’ with bow-legged women?
I believe these ladies were from Spain.
Doesn’t matter where, just see ya’ got ya’ rubbers.
Because he’s certifiable, you know that! He’s certifiable!
I don’t know if that was a autocorrect error, but I believe you meant “bosun’s mate”. Presumably a boson’s mate would be a fermion?
C&P from the first link that had the text.
So Quint sabotages the radio for sure, and he probably deliberately burned out the boats motor by overheating it when they were trying to lure the shark back to land.
But did be also sabotage the engines by leaving their maintenance doors open so the salt water could pour in, or was that just an oversight on his part?
Well, one of them was named Mary Lee
I believe she died at the age of 103
They say for 15 years she kept her virginity
Was that some kind of record for that vicinity?
He didn’t sabotage the motors; he burned them out in a desperate attempt to drag the shark into shallow waters.