Jaws indianapolis story true. This is the true story behind it. It was a tremendous explosion. He tells the story of being on the uss indianapolis in 1945 returning from a trip to tinian delivering the little boy atomic bomb that would be dropped on hiroshima.
Then about the time i got to my knees another one hit. The actual history of the uss indianapolis is so harrowing that its surprising it took a movie like jaws to make it a household name. On its way back it was struck by japanese torpedoes.
In jaws quint tells the story of the uss indianapolis and his fight for survival in shark infested waters. It was just after midnight on 30 july 1945 when the first torpedo hit the indianapolis. Shaw steals the scene effortlessly aided by a few whiskeys of course but here in 2013 most films have ten minutes without any dialogue at all so the famous indianapolis scene of rich dialogue without a cut is quite special and yet tragic to think that robert shaw died of a heart attack only 3 years after this magnificent performance as quint.
The jaws author had a lifelong fascination with sharks and said that he came up with the concept for the novel after reading about a great white shark that had been caught by fisherman frank mundus in 1964 pictured below. It is based on peter benchleys novel of the same name. The highlight of the film is shaws monologue about why his character wont wear a life jacket.
Launched in 1931 the indianapolis was once the pride of the. The real life jaws that terrorized the jersey shore it wasnt safe to go back in the water of the jersey shore in 1916 as a series of deadly shark attacks forever changed americans.