Santiago kept falling out of the boat, and when he finally caught the marlin and wrestled it into the boat, obvious rubber sharks barely put up a fight, and then kept spitting seltzer water in his face.
Santiago, a short, tubby, comic fisherman in a skiff, comically and clumsily wrestling a giant blue marlin fish aboard his skiff in a slapstick fashion, as exaggerated and huge sharks stick their heads out of the water to watch, some trying to nip at the marlin's fins and tail, Santiago hugs the fish, ...