Jaws (film) whale. Quint's monologue reveals a similar obsession with sharks; even his boat, the "Orca", is named after the only natural enemy of the white shark. In the novel and original screenplay, Quint dies after being dragged under the ocean by a harpoon tied to his leg, similar to the death of Ahab in Melville's novel. A direct reference to these similarities may be found in Spielberg's draft of the screenplay, which introduces Quint watching the film version of "Moby-Dick"; his continuous laughter prompts other audience members to get up and leave the theater. However, the scene from "Moby-Dick" could not
Jaws (franchise) Brody's environmentalist concerns are effectively ridiculed as his colleague is eaten by the enraged fish; he joins the hunt for it and the shark in turn hunts him down." Many films based on man-eating animals (usually aquatic) were released throughout the 1970s and the 1980s such as: "Grizzly", "", "Day of the Animals", "Orca" (also known as "Orca: The Killer Whale"), "Eaten Alive", "The Pack", "", "Baracuda", "Nightwing", "Up from the Depths", "Humanoids from the Deep" (also known as "Monster"), "Alligator", "Blood Beach", "Creature", the Italian-American "Tentacles", the Mexican "Tintorera" (also known as "Tintorera: Killer Shark"), the Italian "Island of