{"id":36015,"date":"2022-12-18T17:59:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T17:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/18\/steven-spielberg-says-he-truly-regrets-making-sharks-look-bad-in-jaws\/"},"modified":"2022-12-18T17:59:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T17:59:17","slug":"steven-spielberg-says-he-truly-regrets-making-sharks-look-unhealthy-in-jaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/18\/steven-spielberg-says-he-truly-regrets-making-sharks-look-unhealthy-in-jaws\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Spielberg says he \u201ctruly regrets\u201d making sharks look unhealthy in \u2018Jaws\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/steven-spielberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steven Spielberg<\/a> has mentioned he \u201ctruly regrets\u201d portray sharks in a nasty gentle in his iconic movie <em>Jaws<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Released in 1975, <em>Jaws<\/em> noticed a man-eating nice white shark assault the coast of Amity Island. It was promoted with the tagline \u201cyou\u2019ll never go in the water again\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>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<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-33049099\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em> BBC<\/em><\/a> that \u201cthousands of fishers set out to catch trophy sharks after seeing <em>Jaws<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was no remorse, since there was this mindset that they were man-killers,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"4pxkU9GVAoA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jaws - Theatrical Trailer (HD) (1975)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4pxkU9GVAoA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Now, talking on <em>Radio 4<\/em>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m001g8m4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Desert Island Discs<\/em><\/a>, <em>Jaws<\/em> 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 \u201cthat\u2019s one of the things I still fear\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot 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,\u201d added Spielberg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo this day, I truly regret the decimation of the shark population because of the book and film. I really, truly regret that,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thrilled to get the prospect to speak work, life and music with Steven Spielberg <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amblin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@amblin<\/a> for this morning\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DesertIslandDiscs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#DesertIslandDiscs<\/a>! \u201cEverybody who says I can have a tendency in direction of the sentimental is completely proper!\u2019\u2026 Join us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCRadio4?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BBCRadio4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSounds?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BBCSounds<\/a> at this time! \ud83c\udfdd\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/heOMYVreMx\">https:\/\/t.co\/heOMYVreMx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lauren Laverne (@laurenlaverne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laurenlaverne\/status\/1604385981578166272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Peter Benchley, the creator of <em>Jaws<\/em>, had beforehand mentioned:\u00a0 \u201cKnowing what I know now, I could never write that book today. Sharks don\u2019t target human beings, and they certainly don\u2019t hold grudges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last yr, it was reported that Spielberg\u00a0<a style=\"font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, &#039;Segoe UI&#039;, Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, &#039;Open Sans&#039;, &#039;Helvetica Neue&#039;, sans-serif;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/film\/steven-spielberg-turned-down-jaws-reboot-offer-2976431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">turned down a reboot of\u00a0<em>Jaws<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Spielberg is at the moment selling his newest movie <em>The Fabelman<\/em>. The movie is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/film\/steven-spielberg-is-making-a-film-about-his-own-life-2897751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">loosely based mostly on the director\u2019s adolescence and first years of his profession<\/a>, informed by means of the story of a fictional younger aspiring filmmaker referred to as Sammy Fabelman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '2300206660218433');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Steven Spielberg has mentioned he \u201ctruly regrets\u201d 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 \u201cyou\u2019ll never go in the water again\u201d. However the movie and the guide it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}