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-THE ISLAND LIFE-
Robert Shaw and one of the greatest monologues ever in the history of cinematography...
"Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into her side, Chief. We was cominâ back from the island of Tinian to Leyte. Weâd just delivered the bomb. The Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in 12 minutes.
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Didnât see the first shark for about a half-hour. Tiger. 13-footer. You know how you know that in the water, Chief? You can tell by lookinâ from the dorsal to the tail. What we didnât know, was that our bomb mission was so secret, no distress signal had been sent. They didnât even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, Chief, sharks come cruisinâ by, so we formed ourselves into tight groups. It was sorta like you see in the calendars, you know the infantry squares in the old calendars like the Battle of Waterloo and the idea was the shark come to the nearest man, that man he starts poundinâ and hollerinâ and sometimes that shark he go away⌠but sometimes he wouldnât go away.
Sometimes that shark looks right at ya. Right into your eyes. And the thing about a shark is heâs got lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a dollâs eyes. When he comes at ya, he doesnât even seem to be livinâ⌠âtil he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then⌠ah then you hear that terrible high-pitched screaminâ. The ocean turns red, and despite all your poundinâ and your hollerinâ those sharks come in and⌠they rip you to pieces.
You know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred men. I donât know how many sharks there were, maybe a thousand. I do know how many men, they averaged six an hour. Thursday morninâ, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Bosonâs mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water, he was like a kinda top. Upended. Well, heâd been bitten in half below the waist.
At noon on the fifth day, a Lockheed Ventura swung in low and he spotted us, a young pilot, lot younger than Mr. Hooper here, anyway he spotted us and a few hours later a big olâ fat PBY come down and started to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most frightened. Waitinâ for my turn. Iâll never put on a lifejacket again. So, eleven hundred men went into the water. 316 men come out, the sharks took the rest, June the 29th, 1945.
Anyway, we delivered the bomb."
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