| ◄ | Estuary Victim | Bartholomew Marion Quint | Bruce The Shark | ► |
Bartholomew Marion Quint is the tritagonist in Jaws.
Biography[]
Quint is a shark hunter who lives in Amity Island, Massachusetts. He is obsessed with sharks, because he survived a shark attack while shipwrecked in WWII. He was a WWII veteran. He was sent by Mayor Larry Vaughn to capture the Bruce.
Quint, Chief Martin Brody, and Matt Hooper set out on Quint's boat, the Orca, to hunt the shark. While Brody lays down a chum line, Quint waits for an opportunity to hook the shark. Without warning, it appears behind the boat. Quint, estimating its length at 25 feet (7.6 m) and weight at 3 tonnes (3.0 long tons; 3.3 short tons), harpoons it with a line attached to a flotation barrel, but the shark pulls the barrel underwater and disappears.
At nightfall, Quint and Hooper drunkenly exchange stories about their assorted scars and Quint reveals that he survived the USS Indianapolis. The shark returns unexpectedly, ramming the boat's hull, and disabling the power. The men work through the night, repairing the engine. In the morning, Brody attempts to call the Coast Guard, but Quint, who has become obsessed with killing the shark without outside assistance, smashes the radio. After a long chase, Quint harpoons another barrel into the shark. The line is tied to the stern cleats, but the shark drags the boat backward, swamping the deck and flooding the engine compartment. Quint prepares to sever the line to prevent the transom from being pulled out but the cleats break off, keeping the barrels attached to the shark. Quint heads toward shore to draw the shark into shallower waters, but he intentionally pushes the damaged engine past the safety limits and the overtaxed engine fails.
With the Orca slowly sinking, the trio attempt a riskier approach. Hooper puts on scuba gear and enters the water in a shark-proof cage, intending to lethally inject the shark with strychnine, using a hypodermic spear. The shark demolishes the cage before Hooper can inject it, but he manages to escape to the seabed.
Death[]
Quint getting eaten.
With his teammates assuming that Hooper was killed by the shark as they find his empty cage, Quint and Broody watch on as Bruce leaps on the boat and further damages the boat, causing it to slant down abaft. Quint holds onto Brody's hand but with his glove on, can't stay connected, so he slides down towards the shark's mouth. During the process of being eaten alive, Quint managed to stab Bruce a few times with a machete before finally dying.
James gave his death the Golden Chainsaw award because of all the blood helping making the scene realistic.