Quint's USS Indianapolis Speech VISUALIZED (Jaws, 1975)

Here are the visuals to Quint's USS Indianapolis speech as told to Chief Brody and Mr. Hooper while they are hunting the shark in JAWS (1975). The footage is mostly from USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016), starring Nicolas Cage. It's based on a real event that happened on June 29, 1945. John Milius was brought in to write this monologue (he would later go on to write APOCALYPSE NOW and direct RED DAWN among other works).
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[@Nocturne368]

“So, 1,100 men went in the water, 316 men came out - sharks took the rest. June 29th 1945.” That line is fucking terrifying.

[@jordanhicks5131]

He got the date wrong by nearly a month. Ship went down in late July. 29th or 30th I believe.

[@thecowboy9698]

Imagine living through such an experience.

[@daniellewillis2767]

The Japanese lost about the same number of men to salt water crocodiles retreating from British forces through a mangrove swamp in Burma. Google Ramree Island crocodie attack.

[@r.cjones1515]

"I'll never put on a life jacket again" 😨

[@teeboz6237]

@@daniellewillis2767yeah that is more terrifying to me.

[@MoDeegroes]

"I'll never put on a lifejacket again" Chilling line.

[@alanstevens1296]

Means that if the boat goes down at sea that he would rather die quickly than die slowly.

[@irishcurse4129]

Definitely the scariest scene in the movie and all he did was talk

[@angelajackson2284]

And the music that accompanied it...

[@ryanhampson673]

My grandpa was in the Navy.He got pneumonia really bad and was hospitalized so he missed his ship departing....He was assigned to the Indianapolis...If he didn’t get sick my mom might have never been born.

[@murderc27]

@@ryanhampson673 that's crazy. Life's crazy.

[@danny08390]

Absolutely. If they ever do make another jaws film they'd have to do based on this

[@davidf2023]

And that scene was completely improvised and they were really drunk ^^

[@freeanimals594]

Even though this movie is about killing a shark, I had to read the book in high school before the movie came out. Peter Benchley the author of the book was devastated because after the movie, people were killing sharks left and right. He became an advocate for them because he had no intention of this happening. I love sharks and I love Shark Week!!! 🦈🦈🦈💙💙💙

[@deathstar628]

i dont really think it's his fault. it was just a horror movie. yes it made people act irrationally but that usually happens when people are confronted with the unknown. to blame him and the rest of the people involved with the movie jaws would be comparable to arresting every guy that wears a hockey mask because they think the person is a killer. i know there's a difference between the fear of a supernatural killer and a real life animal but the reason why the movie was so amazing was because it felt real. i love sharks. the movie was actually what got me into them in the first place; from burrowing every library book about sharks or watching every documentary about them. sadly some people's fears usually creates dramatic problems. like the cold war scare. only with a shark instead of russian nukes.

[@freeanimals594]

@@deathstar628 If you mean the author, Peter Benchley, then yes, he didn't expect the reaction. I love all sharks myself. Especially Great Whites, Tigers, Bulls, and Hammerheads. However, I prefer to watch the professionals. You should check out a YT channel called Sharks Happen. It's hosted by Hal and mostly covers Large Shark Attacks from I believe the last 200 years. His 2 part vid series on the USS Indianapolis is so detailed. He also speaks from memory.

[@_R-R]

The author also had a part in the movie.

[@asphalt-cowboy9479]

I agree sharks are one of the most terrifyingly beautiful creatures on the planet I'd love to get out on a boat and see one of the huge ones in person but anytime we get it in our head that something could be a threat we go above and beyond to destroy it rather than just leaving it be. It's quite possibly our biggest flaw but at the same time also one of our biggest strengths.

[@freeanimals594]

@@_R-R Yes! I learned that recently! 😊

[@BathSaltShaman]

I love this scene so much as not only is it brilliantly chilling, it also opens a window into Quint's character. What adds weight to his retelling of surviving the Indianapolis is how throughout the film we see Quint as a smiling strong jovial character, but when he tells this story he is sullen, subdued and his smile is forced. He is like this one other time in the film and that's when he takes the bounty at the town meeting. He hunts sharks for a living in a boat named "The Orca" not out of trade but out of vengeance stemming from his trauma. He's not just helping avenge the kid, he's avenging his navy shipmates and friends.

[@capncake8837]

Which makes his death all the more tragic.

[@lauriwearley4630]

These are scenes from the movie USS Indianapolis.......starring Nicholas Cage! Great movie! And Robert Shaw delivered such an outstanding performance. Chills and so scary!!

[@mikevandemark1993]

Those cgi sharks tho 😭

[@klipsfilmsmelbourne]

Go watch mission of the sharks it’s better than Nic cage crap

[@dustymoosevintage4764]

No movie has ever really shown the hell these men went through. My stepfather was an Indy survivor and it haunted him his whole life.

[@williamyemm7241]

That was very well put together, when quint said delivered the bomb I was expecting a flash and mushroom cloud sequence. That speech was written and ad libed by Robert Shaw, which gave the movie a more surreal horrorifing tilt to let your own imagination run riot.

[@ManubibiWalsh]

Actually the monologue was a group effort by multiple writers including Shaw. Amazing monologue regardless.

[@jamescurran6277]

Wrong. Written by John Milius and edited by Shaw.

[@jennifermelton9598]

I wonder how many people had never heard of the Indianapolis until this monologue?

[@jordanhicks5131]

Most people. When this came out it was the first major mentioning of the Indianapolis and what happened.

[@DaimonAnimations]

This is probably the most amazing and terrifying way to tell that story. RIP all those poor souls...

[@raymondyee2008]

That's not too bad for a mixup which tells the story quite well. There's also "Mission of the Shark" which tells the same story.

[@klipsfilmsmelbourne]

mission of the sharks was better than nic cage crap

[@62202ify]

Yes, that movie was very accurate to the real story.

[@rickwatkins6449]

My favorite part of the movie hooper goes from giggling like a school girl to dead serious in a split second when Quint begins to tell his story of the USS Indianapolis

[@JJ-wq9og]

He's silent and staring at quint as the story is told.

[@DixieAlleyEAS]

The reason for Hooper's change was that he wasn't acting while Quint was telling the story. That was Hooper's genuine reaction during the scene and he admitted that in an interview.

[@_R-R]

Movie came out in 1975, still as legendary now as it was then. And will remain so for a very long time.

[@Lunarian3575]

This makes it even more terrifying

[@carrschronicles2258]

I watched an interview and they said that a woman who worked on the film was devastated after hearing this. Come to find out, her son (I believe) was on the USS Indianapolis, and she never knew what happened to him until then.

[@nwseaman6945]

My late cousin recalled this so well. He was in the service and stationed where the uss Indianapolis was to arrive.

[@cardinal8964]

This is by far one of the most terrifying moments in cinematic history. Timeless acting.

[@MrChristian331]

Nahh! It's good visualization. But seeing it doesn't replace your imagination when you hear Quint talking and see his face as he tells the story and your imagination fills the images in your head. It makes it seem much more scary and ominous. It's the not knowing or being able to quite see totally that scares me the most.

[@jergran69]

I don't think a good movie could be made about that incident because the story is TOO horrifying.

[@jergran69]

I was 6 years old when I saw it in theatres. Very few monologues have stuck with me like that one has. You're right. Imagining it and knowing that the story is true is chilling

[@476429]

@@jergran69 I was four when the movie was released so I didn't see it until I was about ten. It still terrified me. I had no desire to go in the water after that, and I lived on the beach!

[@jumbo785]

Well that’s true but I was really dumb when I first saw this movie and I though when he said Indianapolis, I thought if the Indianapolis race in the movie turbo but I was young so know one get mad at me because now I know what it is now

[@dylanherne6093]

Quints story was like when you were a kid and your grandad or uncle would tell you a spooky story.

[@jonathansmith8672]

Actually, it happened on July 30, 1945. Today is 75 years since that incident! :(

[@jonathansmith8672]

@Pete Jones First of all, it only carried components for the bomb, not the whole bomb. Second of all, those components were already delivered to an American base on Tianan Island BEFORE the Indianapolis sank. So, the bomb was NOT on the Indianapolis when it sank.

[@jonathansmith8672]

@Pete Jones It was also heading towards Leyte Gulf to meet with the battleship USS Idaho to prepare a full-on invasion on the Japanese mainland. So that's what's really going on. I hope you enjoyed these facts. :)👍❤

[@knuckle-sandwichmma681]

@Pete Jones as the Jonathan fella said not entirely true but close to it. unfortunately the worst parts about the incidents were true. those men were living in a nightmare. sharks was only one of the nightamares they went through. some men went insane from dehydration, some died from drinking salt water (yep thats how thirsty they were), some got blinded by the hot oil of the ship, some would swim away hallucinating to never be found

[@Robert_Douglass]

@@jonathansmith8672 of course it wouldn't have been on the Indianapolis. If it had detonated over Hiroshima, then how would it have gone down with the ship?

[@gertrudemilhouse5626]

76 years, now!

[@andrewrobertson3894]

You did a good job. I think while Quint may have seen a Tiger initially, the majority of the men would have been killed by Oceanic White Tips.

[@ProfessorTime]

Yeah. This is how ignorant directors today would shoot it today. Cut out most, if not all, of Shaw's brilliant monologue and replace it with footage that isn't nearly as good. This is exactly why CINEMA has gone BACKWARDS in the last 40 years.

[@sensei48]

And the director of course was Steven Spielberg in his second major theatrical film. A great director trusts the actors, and this video’s interpolation of other scenes destroys the effect of Quint/Shaw’s brilliant performance. The scene is carried by Shaw’s brilliance and Speilberg’s cuts to the faces of characters Brody and Hooper as they register the horror of what they are hearing. That’s why Spielberg has made a passel of great films and not clueless and tone deaf KZbin videos like this.

[@sensei48]

Kudos to ProfessorTime for pointing this out.

[@TheMichaelBeck]

I watched "Jaws" when it came out. I was 9 years old. That movie, that scene in particular, nothing but dialogue, was the number one reason why I joined the Army and never even talked to the Navy. You men and women who have served or serve in the Navy and Coast Guard have my utmost respect. If my tank had been hit and disabled I could jump out and run without worrying about drowning, hypothermia, exposure, thirst, or last but surly not least, eaten by a shark.

[@E1N9A8N0DA]

You could end up stranded in the Sahara desert, where you can either die of exposure, hypotermia, thirst, and last but surely not least, slowly poisoned to death by a scorpion or a viper, or get mauled and eaten by a cheetah. Or, crash land in the Amazon jungle and fall in the river, where lots of animals would be happy to come and say hello, like black caimans, jaguars, green anacondas, wandering spiders, electric eels etc. If you don't die of an unbearable fever due to the various bacteria, and extreme humidity. So my friend, joining the army to avoid sharks, well...

[@praetorxian]

You must run at parties…@@E1N9A8N0DA

[@TheMidwesternViking]

Listing to quint tell the events of the USS Indianapolis the very first time I was like damn. Now years later and Having an actual grasp of the event and the way he tells it....fuck man...just holy fuck man

[@jordanhicks5131]

The way he tells it is real. Like he was there. He does a great job of portraying PTSD

[@darthrevan-]

Its crazy that this actually happened and only 316 men survived pretty sur e the captain shot himself in '68 just imagine the blood the screaming bodies

[@TheAmateurEditor]

Yes, the captain, Charles McVay committed suicide. He was court-marshalled and blamed for not preventing the sinking and hung out to dry, despite the captain of the Japanese submarine that sunk the Indianapolis, Captain Hashimoto, actually testifying at his court martial that McVey could not have evaded the torpedoes or prevent the sinking after the fact. Hashimoto became and active campaigner to overturn McVay's military conviction along with several of the surviving crew. Hashimoto actually died 13 days before the Clinton administration retroactively exonerated McVay. McVay received a lot of hate-mail after the court-martial decision from relatives of crew-men lost in the sinking. He served his country honourably and was betrayed by the government. If there is anything after this life, I hope he found peace and he can rest knowing the record has been set straight and history has finally recognised his valour and character.

[@uxbnkuribo]

Robert Shaw's entire performance as Quint is iconic, but this scene is legendary.

[@bloodsling]

Robert Shaw nailed the delivery,absolutely best scene in the movie.

[@Slim1423]

That speech was maybe the greatest speech for Robert Shaw in any movie that he made. Quint's death scene in Jaws was scary, and was the point where Quint and the Shark came face to face. I thought of Quint as kinda like Captain Ahab from the Moby Dick book, because Quint was obsessed with the shark to a point where put everyone's life in great danger on his boat. "Jaws" will always be a classic movie!

[@Archmage_74]

Love it. Love Hooper at the end that was perfect lol.

[@Vizzini_]

The Dr. Leo Marvin laugh

[@patriot4780]

I could have done without Matt Hooper's weasel laugh at the end

[@cubefarmerhkc9105]

Best monologue ever

[@colinnaylor1900]

This was BRILLIANT adaptation!!!

[@ChrisAldridge]

In reality, most of the men did not die from shark attack. Most died from dehydration and exposure. Although it was still the worst shark attack in recorded history. And the reason no distress signal was sent was because the ship went down too fast for one to be made.

[@clockworkclockwisepro4925]

I always thought that this should be a movie. Great job editing this for visuals.

[@skyrimwarrior]

Jaws disguised as a reporter: “ I say we let him go “

[@jacobbedford3077]

I always like quint's uss Indianapolis speech and love the movie please don't delete this video it's very video and love it a lot please keep the video.

[@jbolin2248]

What a spectacular movie, I'm going to dig through my old DVD's tonight and sit back and watch it.

[@mayureshrasam1708]

You have DVD player in todays date that appreciable

[@Amharra]

Thank you so much for softening it at the end.

[@dmmchugh3714]

Yes, this is an incredible scene; I hold my breath when Quint recounts the story. Read the incredible book "In Harm's Way" too for an excellent presentation of the sinking and aftermath.

[@juscogens5541]

Richard Dreyfuss said he wasn't acting during this scene. he was in genuine awe at Robert Shaws ability to do this monologue.

[@Nigelg68]

the scariest story I ever heard and so real its true thank you

[@felipeharger]

We need more content like this! Very cool!

[@robertwaid3579]

Mr Robert Shaw's performance was Epic and fantastic in that Film. For year's I never knew nor did it really matter? But over the Year's, I'm in full absolute Agreement. That Mr Shaw should've gotten an Oscar for His Outstanding Portrail of Skipper Quint in the Film 📽️🎥. As He brought the many & Entire sequences of the Hunt, too such High Levels of hype, nervous anxiety, pure Fear of the Shark approaching, too the End when they finally Kill The SOB. Definitely He Deserved Credit for Some Recognition and Notoriety. Thanks for Sharing.

[@chrisbirch4150]

Quite funny editing putting that Hooper heartbreak bit after 😂 Like he was totally unaffected by the indianappolis story and jokingly tries to one-up Quint

[@davidd7681]

Have you noticed how the music really affects the mood of the story Quint so expertly relates?

[@taylorharbin3948]

The saga of the USS Indianapolis will forever be a stain on the US Navy. To cover up for their own blunder they court martialed the captain, who later committed suicide.

[@scottavery1751]

Excellent video. Very well done.

[@michaelvaughn8864]

It was intense, saddening, and uncomfortable to simply state it😔😕 Great delivery from the late Robert Shaw. R.I.P. 😇

[@DG-EditsYT]

The ending switched around Mr Hooper laughing Lmfao

[@donzollo9432]

Nice job, like the re edit pushing Hooper’s line to the back

[@ambassador8524]

Great upload!

[@klat2baraada579]

There's another interesting aspect to this story: Up to this point in the film, THEY hunt the shark. After Quint tells this story, the SHARK hunts them.

[@hugobel100]

Today, June 29th, 2022 it's the 77 aniversary of the rescue of Quint.

[@01Mary02]

Jesus Christ that's 10 times more terrifying watching what happened along with Quint's speech.

[@donniedowner1686]

Awesome job on the edit.

[@henryfredette6735]

Nicely done!

[@sheepisfortheweak6164]

The scariest part about this scene, like in most of Jaws, is how you don't actually see everything happening. It's left completely to your imagination. Adding these visuals takes away from that

[@Lee_Enfield95]

I like how you ended on a note of levity. Noice!

[@definitelyjustcj4148]

The outro is beautiful

[@bradleypilkerton3773]

Awesome I love that speech this makes it interesting

[@xxboonisbadfortnitexx1549]

Yelp

[@xxboonisbadfortnitexx1549]

10-4 good buddy remember keep on trucking and keep the rubber side truck driver

[@d.a.t.7723]

Great job! Congrants!

[@SupermanIII99]

Quint is a great writer, and story teller

[@drippler8519]

I wish the original script for jaws 2 happened with quint and the uss Indianapolis

[@DaniloPasquariello]

" And do you know what was the worst part of it, Chief? Our captain was Nicolas Cage"

[@SerpentNight]

1:00 It seems kind of doubtful there were any Tiger Sharks there. Tigers are coastal sharks and are very seldom seen in the open ocean. Most, if not all of them were probaby Whitetip Sharks, which are known to school in large numbers far out at sea.

[@Laufield]

I always wish they make Quint’s flashback uss indianapolis like 10-15 minutes

[@timpope1745]

My favorite movie, i watch few times every year.

[@omarhaq9635]

This deserves a prequel

[@arthurvargaslujan18]

Will be awsome a serie of quint

[@FuzzyPyrate]

Intersting fact about Robert Shaw's monologue. If you watch the original footage, you will notice in some parts when the camera cuts to Brody or hooper, then back to Quint, he will sometimes look like his hair is all messy and he's a bit sweaty, and then the next time his hair is nice and neat. This is because Shaw did the monologue twice. They couldn't use the entire 1st version because he was apparently drunk when he did it, so they made him redo the scene sober the next day. The final edit spliced segments of both renditions because there were certain points where he conveyed the emotion so well in the drunk version.

[@DrasticFox2004]

0:57 Honestly, *that looks like a perfect younger Quint for this flashback*

[@Nonsensiful23]

I know! I totally wish I thought to dissolve Old Quint into that character.

[@jimmy2k4o]

Assistant director: wasn’t the date July 29th 1945, not June? Spielberg: shhhhh that was golden, we’re not doing it again.

[@jamie8032]

A jaws prequel about Quint's experience during the U.SS Indianapolis sinking would be a good idea.

[@benlikestomine8893]

Actually it was meant to be a prequel sequel to Jaws however they instead went with the current Jaws 2 we have today. So we got cheated out of a banger movie!

[@Matp345]

Im so thankful they didn't have cgi for jaws. As bad as Bruce was in the film I'd take it any day over cgi

[@N1BNfilms]

Well done !

[@briancarpenter7179]

Pretty good video.😎👍

[@KristinPenta-nv9oz]

One of the best monologues in movie history

[@shihanuke3683]

That was fun. Nice job sewing that together.

[@anthonyfanchin1144]

This USS Indianapolis almost never gets talked about in this day and age, and people don't know about it. The sharks may have been the main characters next to the survivors. But, the sharks weren't the true monsters in the story.

[@diegofavaratozfilms962]

The humans were the real monsters the bad humans who put the good humans in danger

[@Levan038]

And I asked them to make a Jaws movie based on Quint's story. great

[@sebastianvillatoro]

What made this scene so terrifying is the use of our own imagination

[@alonzozovillafranco491]

Jaws would have been so much better and terrifying with flashbacks and scenes like here of Quint’s story.

[@diegofavaratozfilms962]

No I disagree I like the Indianapolis Speech just the way how it is

[@AMERICASVIDEOGAME]

Love it!

[@DjHarrington888]

Quint is a Master Story Teller!

[@Darth_Rhidian]

The tension is real within this story...

[@socketzrapz5039]

Good fkn job

[@YA-46and2]

In Jaws (1975), Richard Dreyfuss didn't even have to act as he stared in awe at Robert Shaw's delivery of the USS Indianapolis speech. Dreyfuss explains this in the bonus Blu-Ray footage. "Robert told that story, [I] couldn't keep my eyes off him".

[@Kylored01]

that scene is one the best in the film but love the way the joke was thrown in at the end completely threw me off lol

[@meganmeynier5641]

the date was July 30th 1945

[@Dave68Goliath]

Quints monologue and Anthony Hopkins Monologue in Amistad. Incredible.

[@wibble6966]

i love how this movie made sharks look like monsters so much no hate to the movie btw i love the movie but it made sharks look like monsters so much that people started killing them for no reason

[@jeffgraham436]

If you had been in the water watching and listening day and night to over 800 of your brothers being ripped apart, wondering when your turn would finally come to die I hazard to guess “monsters” would be a wholly inadequate descriptive term for them.

[@wibble6966]

@@jeffgraham436 q u i n t

[@juanjoyaborja.3054]

Really? I hated how badly they had shown the behaviour of sharks. People didn’t know properly about how they behaved, and hence this monstrosity of a film came. Great white sharks are actually pretty docile, they remain passive against humans and if they attack you it’s only out of curiosity since they can’t hold you. They also only need to eat twice a week if not even a month if they eat a nice fat whale, they aren’t anything close to “eating machines” or “bloodthirsty monsters.”

[@Ghost-n6c]

@@juanjoyaborja.3054 Try not to slip and fall from your tears, Juan.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

People were already killing sharks before Jaws. It's just that few cared and it wasn't highlighted in the media.

[@Jpew2007]

It make me a bit sad every time I see a reaction to this movie here on KZbin and the reactors question; “Was/Is that a real ship?” “Did that really happen?”. Yes it did happen folks it’s one of the biggest “learning experiences” that the US Navy uses for basic training.

[@rhondamadgirl]

Best movie monologue ever.

[@starkiller3098]

Great video,now please do a visualisation of Crocodiles attacking Japanese soldiers at Ramree island.

[@josephparga261]

Mr hoopers been that beat

[@Charlotte66666]

Iconic.

[@johndetheshape3095]

Nice

[@dumbidiot3650]

Very well done. Exactly what this scene needed

[@Antoniocardozo3763]

That crazy man

[@gabethedinosaur95]

Quints story of the sharks attacking the men from the Indianapolis is my favorite part of the movie. The men seeing the sharks were terrified and thinking sharks would leave . But they never did. Sharks have mindless eyes. When they look back at you they know prey can’t escape. Sharks have been around for millions of years since the dinosaurs and years before.

[@rhondahoward8025]

And even with how chilling the story he's telling here is, it still does not capture the full brutality and horror of that incident.

[@wmxx2000]

"Anyway... we delivered the bomb."

[@jerrysetlerr770]

Sweet!