Steven Spielberg regrets his ‘Jaws’ fuelling a frenzy of shark killings
2 min readBy Express News Service
Award-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg regrets making Jaws as he believes it drove a frenzy of shark killings. The director, who rose to fame with this 1975 fish horror movie, revealed that he hates the thought it painted sharks as man-eaters, reviews aceshowbiz.com.
He instructed Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs he fears “sharks are somehow mad at me,” and mentioned “I really truly regret that” in regards to the spate of shark killings by fish hunters in aftermath of Jaws’ launch.
He added the movie was partly accountable for a “feeding frenzy” of “crazy fishermen which happened after 1975,” saying, “I truly, and to this day, regret the decimation of the shark population because of the book and the film.”
The movie follows police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) who seeks assist from a marine biologist and an expert shark hunter, to seek out a man-eating nice white shark that has been inflicting hassle to the beachgoers on the summer time resort city. Jaws is predicated on the 1974 guide of the identical identify written by Peter Benchley, who went on to grow to be a shark conservationist.
Award-winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg regrets making Jaws as he believes it drove a frenzy of shark killings. The director, who rose to fame with this 1975 fish horror movie, revealed that he hates the thought it painted sharks as man-eaters, reviews aceshowbiz.com.
He instructed Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs he fears “sharks are somehow mad at me,” and mentioned “I really truly regret that” in regards to the spate of shark killings by fish hunters in aftermath of Jaws’ launch.
He added the movie was partly accountable for a “feeding frenzy” of “crazy fishermen which happened after 1975,” saying, “I truly, and to this day, regret the decimation of the shark population because of the book and the film.”
The movie follows police chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) who seeks assist from a marine biologist and an expert shark hunter, to seek out a man-eating nice white shark that has been inflicting hassle to the beachgoers on the summer time resort city. Jaws is predicated on the 1974 guide of the identical identify written by Peter Benchley, who went on to grow to be a shark conservationist.
