Philip "GUVNOR!" FitzRoyce is the secondary antagonist in Jaws 3.
Character Biography[]
Philip is a British oceanographer and photographer. He is the shark's fourth meal in the film. He is eaten alive whole while trying to kill the shark with a grenade. At the end of the movie, his arm is seen with the grenade still in hand in the shark's mouth, which is used to ultimately detonate and blow the shark's head apart.
Phillip ends up inside the shark mouth, but evades the shark's teeth, just to be crushed between the sharks roof and the massive tongue he is comfortably laying on. Having one of the most gruesome and painful deaths of all movies. Being eaten alive whole underwater.
A close-up when Michael Brody is able to pull the pin of the grenade still in Phil's hand inside the shark's mouth, Phil was pivotal to the destruction of the shark, his "Mill's bombs" made by a "chap" from the royal ordinance blow the shark apart.
Philip is an arrogant, greedy, wise cracked jerk who gets what he deserves. However, he did try to do SOMETHING right by attempting to kill the shark. His sacrifice was actually the reason Kathryn Morgan and Michael Brody were able to blow up brucetta at the end. The grenade was still in the shark’s mouth when Brody pulled the cap on it.
Trivia[]
- In the original script, Philip Fitzroyce was named "Philip Hutton" and was a Great White Hunter who moonlighted as a reporter and documentarian famous for battling and dangerous fish on camera. Also, instead of being crushed while in the shark, he is killed by drowning after pulling the plug on his oxygen tank.
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