{"id":1780369,"date":"2022-12-19T13:33:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T18:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1780369"},"modified":"2022-12-19T13:33:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T18:33:29","slug":"steven-spielberg-said-he-has-regret-over-impact-of-jaws-on-sharks-afraid-they-are-mad-at-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/steven-spielberg-said-he-has-regret-over-impact-of-jaws-on-sharks-afraid-they-are-mad-at-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Spielberg Said He Has \u2018Regret\u2019 Over Impact Of \u2018Jaws\u2019 On Sharks, Afraid They Are \u2018Mad\u2019 At Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsteven-spielberg-said-he-has-regret-over-impact-of-jaws-on-sharks-afraid-they-are-mad-at-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1780369&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/steven-spielberg\">Steven Spielberg<\/a> said he regrets the impact his iconic movie \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/movies\">Jaws<\/a>\u201d had on the shark population.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 76-year-old Hollywood veteran made his feelings known during a recent interview with the BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m001g8m4\">podcast<\/a> Desert Island Discs. Spielberg was 27 when he made \u201cJaws\u201d in 1975 and said he looks back with mixed emotions on how popular the movie became.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI truly and to this day regret the decimation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/sharks\">shark population<\/a> because of the book and the film. I really, truly regret that,\u201d the filmmaker said. \u201cThat\u2019s one of the things I still fear. Not to get eaten by a shark, but that sharks are somehow mad at me for the feeding frenzy of crazy sport fishermen that happened after 1975.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Author Peter Benchley, who wrote the book \u201cJaws,\u201d previously expressed similar sentiments and has spent time advocating for the protection of sharks, BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-33049099\">reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKnowing what I know now, I could never write that book today,\u201d Benchley said of creating a revenge-seeking shark. \u201cSharks don\u2019t target human beings, and they certainly don\u2019t hold grudges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJaws\u201d is a cult classic thriller that follows a team of individuals hunting a man-eating great white shark terrorizing a summer resort town. It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, Richard Dreyfuss as a marine biologist, and Robert Shaw as a professional shark hunter. The film was mostly shot in Martha\u2019s Vineyard, Massachusetts. It won three Academy Awards and numerous other accolades.<\/p>\n<p>Spielberg blames himself and the popularity of \u201cJaws\u201d for the decline in shark populations, but Paul Cox, chief executive of the Shark Trust in the United Kingdom, said that this explanation is \u201cgiving the film far too much credit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cases of shark population decline are very clearly fisheries overfishing,\u201d Cox said, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/steven-spielberg-regrets-jaws-influence-shark-population-200258278.html\">The Guardian<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cox did say he\u2019s happy Spielberg is discussing the issue and bringing attention to it, however. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor someone with his celebrity to be addressing the challenge of communicating about sharks in a more positive way is very welcome,\u201d he continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Shark Trust executive said \u201cJaws\u201d resonates with fans because of the mystery surrounding sharks. \u201cIt\u2019s a natural fear we have of the unknown. The sea, the marine environment, still has a lot of unknowns,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Steven Spielberg said he regrets the impact his iconic movie \u201cJaws\u201d had on the shark population.\u00a0 The 76-year-old Hollywood veteran made his feelings known during a recent interview with the BBC podcast Desert Island Discs. Spielberg was 27 when he made \u201cJaws\u201d in 1975 and said he looks back with mixed emotions on how &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1780372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[10341,10265,10342,6202,5663,5415,10343,10268,4579,6195],"class_list":["post-1780369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-mad","tag-jaws","tag-afraid","tag-daily","tag-impact","tag-regret","tag-sharks","tag-spielberg","tag-steven","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1780369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1780372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}