He apologizes for the movie “Jaws Shark”

Nearly half a century after the release of Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster movie, “Shark jawsRegret came to meet the world famous director.

The movie that came out in 1975 and completely changed the public’s thinking about treating carnivores is back in the news with… a shark-friendly vibe.

The Steven Spielberg 47 years later, he admitted that the Oscar-winning thriller vilified marine creatures, causing or exacerbating fear of them, while fueling people’s desire for shark fin soup in the 1990s.really sorry‘, about what effect he and his film had on the rapidly shrinking shark population in the world.

«I really, to this day, regret the doom of sharks because of the book and the movie. I’m really, really sorry about that,” Spielberg, 75, said during an interview on Desert Island Discs.On BBC Radio. At another point in the radio interview, presenter Lauren Laverne asked the famous director how he would feel if he himself were surrounded by sharks, in the wonderful desert that was set up for the film’s setting: “It’s something I still dread. Not to be eaten by a shark, but because sharks are kind of angry at me for the post-1975 fishing craze.”.

Among other things, Steven Spielberg explained that the directors “They should not manipulate the audience by using their nervesEmphasizing that he feels guilty about it:I did this several times in Evil Spirit and definitely in Shark’s Jaws.».

According to a study published in Nature, the global shark population declined by more than 71% between 1970 and 2018. In fact, a 2013 study estimated that 100 million sharks are killed annually. In addition, the International Union for Conservation of Nature reported last year that 37% of sharks are threatened with extinction, and some have indicated that the above findings are the result of the movie “Shark Jaws.”

In turn, Chris Lowe, director of the Shark Laboratory at California State University, Long Beach, said the film made society see sharks as harmful to humans: “The movie was a turning point. It made people think very negatively about sharks, which made it easy to overfish them».

Another survey in 2021 found that 96% of shark films portrayed the carnivores as a threat. In response, the Florida Museum of Natural History reported that in the same year sharks killed 11 people worldwide.

According to researcher George Burgess, the fishermen targeted the sharks to show their bravery after the film was shown:When the movie was shown, the testosterone levels of fishermen on the east coast of the United States were raised. They believed that catching a shark was a way to show their bravery, and they started organizing shark hunting tournaments.».

Peter Benchley, author of the book on which the then-high-grossing film was based, regretted writing the novel, which has sold an estimated 20 million copies, according to The Independent: “What I know now, which was unknown when I wrote Jaws, is that there is nothing like a shark’s act of acquiring a human’s sense of taste. No one can estimate their vulnerability to disasterssaid the author in Animal Attack Files, set in 2000. The Oscar-winning thriller told the story of a man-eating great white shark that devoured the inhabitants of fictional New England’s Amity Island.