Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
After two hours of dread, this is the release: the quiet, doomed police chief who is afraid of water finally gets to be the hero, and he does it with a snarl. The line is pure cathartic payoff, and it is quoted whenever someone finally gets the better of a long-running nuisance, often shouted at a camera, a printer or a boss.
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In context
Spoilers for JawsShow the scene
In the finale of Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975), the great white has wrecked the Orca and eaten Quint, and Chief Martin Brody is stranded on the sinking stern. He jams a scuba tank into the shark's mouth, climbs the crow's nest and takes aim at the tank with a rifle as the shark closes in. Brody fires and shouts the line as the shark comes at him; the tank explodes and kills it. Brody and Hooper, who had escaped the wrecked cage, then paddle back toward Amity Island on the floating barrels.
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- Wikipedia: Jaws (film)Plot, final act; Production, DevelopmentReference checked
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