Jaws1975

Chief Brody:
This is a great white, Larry. A big one. Any shark expert in the world will tell you it's a killer, it's a man-eater!

Hooper:
Look, the situation is that apparently a great white shark has staked a claim in the waters off Amity island. And he is going to continue to feed here as long as there is food in the water.

Chief Brody:
And there's no limit of what he's going to do. I mean we've already had three incidents. Two people were killed in a week and it's gonna happen again. It happened before, The Jersey Beach, 1916. Five people were killed.

Hooper:
In one week.

Chief Brody:
Tell him about the swimmers!

Hooper:
A shark is attracted to the exact kind of splashing and activity that occurs whenever human beings go swimming. You cannot avoid it.

Chief Brody:
You open the beaches on the Fourth of July, it's is like ringing the dinner bell for Christ's sake!

Hooper:
Look Mr. Vaughn, I pulled a tooth the size of a shot glass out of the wrecked hull of a boat out there and it was the tooth of a great white.

Chief Brody:
It was Ben Gardner's boat, it was all chewed up. I helped tow it in, you should've seen it!

Mayor Vaughn:
Where is that tooth? Did you see it, Brody?

Chief Brody:
No, I didn't see it. He dropped it on the way in.

Hooper:
I had an accident.

Mayor Vaughn:
And what did you say the name of this shark is?

Hooper:
It's a Carcharodon carcharias. It's a great white.

Mayor Vaughn:
And you don't have the tooth? Look, we depend on the summer people here for our very lives-

Hooper:
You're not gonna have a summer unless you deal with this problem!

Chief Brody:
We're not only going to have to close the beach, we're going to have to hire somebody to kill the shark! I mean we're going to have to tell the Coast Guard!

Hooper:
Mr. Vaughn, you'll have to contact the Shark Research Panel. You'll have to ring this entire harbor!

Mayor Vaughn:
I don't think either one of you are familiar with our problems!

Hooper:
I think that I am familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and bites you IN THE ASS! Now wait a second, wait a second. There are two ways to deal with this problem: you either kill this animal, or you're gonna cut off his food supply!