13 Supporting Movie Characters You Loved More Than The Hero

4. Quint - Jaws

Jaws is essentially a story about obsession. It's Moby Dick, only with the infamous white whale redesigned as a slasher movie monster with a taste for human blood and Captain Ahab reimagined as a group of characters intent on killing him right back.

Obviously, Chief Brody is the one who ends up getting the kill, but he's just the quarterback and he's way less interesting than the rag-tag pair he hires to help him hunt the beast. Even Richard Dreyfuss' Hooper is a mostly more intriguing figure, because of his compulsive academia (it's only when Brody gets into Ripley mode at the end that he really blossoms).

The real stand out is Robert Shaw's Quint, a character built out of on-set animosity in real life and shaped by trauma and obsession within the film. He's a guy who has stories - as the drunken story-telling scene proves - and his complexity and his enigmatic personality make him an even bigger, more lovable character than Bruce the Shark himself.