Steven Spielberg is a name synonymous with excellent filmmaking talent. The storyteller has several critically acclaimed as well as commercially successful films under his credit. One of them is the 1975 thriller flick ‘Jaws‘, which scarred an entire generation of movie-goers from Sharks.
The film introduced the summer blockbuster concept and catapulted Steven’s career to new heights. However, the director regrets the film’s influence on the masses for a very particular reason. Let’s find out detail about this and what it has to do with Sharks.
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Steven Speilberg Talks About The Bad Influence Of ‘Jaws’
Speilberg changed the course of Hollywood with ‘Jaws.’ The film not only was a massive success but also introduced the world to summer blockbusters. However, it was also the cause of some damage.
In an interview with the BBC’s Desert Island Discs, the director said that the fear of sharks the film caused, and its subsequent impact is something he regrets. “That’s one of the things I still fear“, he said.
He said that the sharks are “somehow mad at me for the feeding frenzy of crazy sport fishermen that happened after 1975, which I truly, and to this day, regret the decimation of the shark population because of the book and the film”. Speilberg concluded by that he “really, truly regret that.”
Not just the director, Peter Benchley, the man who wrote the eponymous 1974 book that the film was based on, has also publicly apologized for a sudden drop in shark population after the film’s release.
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Spielberg Talked About The Malfunctioning Shark
‘Jaws‘ is remembered for its iconic score and the fact that the shark isn’t shown for a majority of the film. The director talked about the mechanical shark that wasn’t working.
“I had to be resourceful in figuring out how to create suspense and terror without seeing the shark itself“, he said. He said that Alfred Hitchcock “was a tremendous guide for me in the way he was able to scare you without really seeing anything”.
Spielberg stated that the shark not working, actually worked in the film’s favor because “it’s a scarier movie without seeing so much of the shark.”
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