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
White Shark (novel) White Shark (novel) White Shark is a 1994 novel by author Peter Benchley, famous for "Jaws", "The Island", "Beast" and "The Deep". It is similar to "Jaws", but it does not feature a shark, despite what the title suggests. To avoid confusion and to capitalize on the movie adaptation, the book was republished as "Creature" in 1997. At the close of World War II, Nazi scientist Ernst Kruger perfects a biological weapon he calls "Der Weiss Hai" ("the White Shark"). The weapon is packed in a casket-like box and loaded aboard a German submarine to escape the Allied capture of