Steven Spielberg has mentioned he “truly regrets” portray sharks in a nasty gentle in his iconic movie Jaws.
Released in 1975, Jaws noticed a man-eating nice white shark assault the coast of Amity Island. It was promoted with the tagline “you’ll never go in the water again”.
However the movie and the guide it was based mostly on apparently led to an increase in nice white shark trophy looking with George Burgess, director of the Florida Program for Shark Research in Gainesville, telling the BBC that “thousands of fishers set out to catch trophy sharks after seeing Jaws.”
“There was no remorse, since there was this mindset that they were man-killers,” he added.
According to biologist Dr Julia Baum, that trophy looking was considered one of causes the inhabitants of nice white sharks within the Northwest Atlantic Ocean declined by 79 per cent between 1986 and 2000.
Now, talking on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, Jaws director Steven Spielberg has mentioned he regrets the affect his movie had. When requested by host Lauren Laverne about the opportunity of his desert island being surrounded by shark-infested waters, Spielberg admitted “that’s one of the things I still fear”
“Not to get eaten by a shark, but that sharks are somehow mad at me for the feeding frenzy of crazy fisherman that happened after 1975,” added Spielberg.
“To this day, I truly regret the decimation of the shark population because of the book and film. I really, truly regret that,” he continued.
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— Lauren Laverne (@laurenlaverne) December 18, 2022
Peter Benchley, the creator of Jaws, had beforehand mentioned: “Knowing what I know now, I could never write that book today. Sharks don’t target human beings, and they certainly don’t hold grudges.”
Last yr, it was reported that Spielberg turned down a reboot of Jaws.
Spielberg is at the moment selling his newest movie The Fabelman. The movie is loosely based mostly on the director’s adolescence and first years of his profession, informed by means of the story of a fictional younger aspiring filmmaker referred to as Sammy Fabelman.