Jaws (1975) - 6 questions

Directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Carl Gottlieb, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider (add more)

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Entry In the scene where the shark enters the pond, Brody's son and some friends are trying to tie a knot in a rope, a man in a small boat paddles up to them and says something right before he asks if they are ok. It sounds like he is saying "fellas make it thin, fold it in sheets". I've watched Jaws a 100 times and I still can't quite make out what he says. Any idea? [He says, "Hey fellas! Fellas! The sheet! Make it fast! 'Sheet' is the nautical term for the ropes used to control a sail. Each sheet has its own name as well, for instance the halyard is the sheet that raises the sail. Basically, he was telling them to hurry up with their knot.]
Answered by Phixius Time
Entry In the scene where Quint is sitting with the fishing pole, Brody is trying to learn a knot. What kind of knot? [It's a sheepshank, the same knot Richard Dreyfuss had to tie earlier in the movie to prove he knew what he was doing.]
Answered by Mobrien316 Time
Entry I have been wondering this for ages. In the scene where everyone is on the beach, Ellen Brody sees her husband Chief Brody and waves at him. He waves back. Then she mouths something completely incomprehensible and the chief nods and walks away. What did she say? [She says, "I've got Sean." Sean is their youngest son and she's telling him that so he won't wonder where he's gotten off to.]
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Entry What exactly was the logic behind Hooper's (incorrect) assumption that Quint had snagged something other than the shark with his fishing line? [Because Hooper has a good idea of how big Bruce is and the pull on the line simply doesn't look strong enough.]
Answered by Grumpy Scot Time
Entry In one of the Orca scenes, when Quint shot a line and barrel into Jaws from the rear of the boat, the barrel then had to travel over the boat and almost hit Brody in the head. If you look closely, you can see his glasses getting ripped off by the barrel. Was this staged or an actual near-miss, just inches from his head? [I've just studied this at uni, and the section you're talking about was indeed an accident.]
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Entry When Bruce is killing Quint (and in every shot of Bruce thereafter) there's a whole lot of white stuff around the shark's teeth that doesn't seem to be just his gums. What is that white stuff? It looks like he's chewed on lots of paper or something... [It's supposed to be flesh from whatever he ate before. Like when you eat chicken and a piece gets stuck in your teeth.]
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