It was the picture that made him famous, but Spielberg is dissatisfied with how certain individuals used it as an excuse to hunt sharks.
Steven Spielberg has stated that he “deeply regrets” Jaws’ impact on the extinction of sharks.
The film is a classic, but it wrongly demonized sharks in the eyes of many people, leading to an increase in sport fishing in the United States.
He stated, “This is one of the things I still worry about.”
Not to be devoured by a shark, but that sharks are upset at me because of the feeding frenzy of crazed sports fishermen that occurred after 1975.
He continued, “I regret to this day that the book and film led to the extinction of the shark population. I sincerely regret that.”
Peter Benchley, the author of the novel Jaws, once expressed his regrets.
“There is no such thing as a rogue shark that develops a desire for human flesh,” he stated in a 2000 interview.
Jaws is among Spielberg’s most successful movies, with Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, and E.T.
The Fabelmans, his most recent semi-autobiographical film, is about a child who desires to become a filmmaker in post-war America.
He quipped on Desert Island Discs that it was “$40 million of therapy,” adding, “I didn’t know what I was doing, except that I was satisfying a desire.
“Being an orphan, or newly orphaned due to the loss of both parents, I wanted to reproduce some of those memories in a manner that wouldn’t appear too indulgent to performers I admired. So for a time, it was a tightrope walk.”
“The most difficult aspect of making the picture was restraining my emotions,” he stated.
But there were instances when I had no control over the situation.
Casting Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, and Gabriel LaBelle, the film is set for release at the end of January.
Spielberg stated that it was “totally accurate” to characterize him as “sentimental and nostalgic.”
He continued, “I value nostalgia more than sentimentality, but I never bristle when I hear that until someone claims it destroyed the film for them…
I don’t like that.”
