In 2022, on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Desert Island Disc’ programme: Spielberg admits he still regrets killing sharks following the publication of Peter Benchley’s book and its wildly popular adaptation.the shark(which you can find Movistar Plus And Sky Showtime) “I’m really, really sorry,” he said. He also told of a strange fear: the sharks still angry at him because of sport fishing fever in 1975.
A study published in Nature in 2021 weighed heavily: the abundance of oceanic sharks and rays has declined by 71% since 1970, but the fault is not Spielberg’s, eighteen times greater fishing pressure. Shark Trust director Paul Cox added after the director’s confession that blaming ‘Joss’ for changes in the marine fauna was “giving the film too much credit”.
But there are many other qualities that we cannot take away from ‘Jose’ and they can be verified by reviewing. A film whose great invention, however, was born by accident. In the same interview, Spielberg admitted that it was luck that the mechanical shark kept breaking, because he had to suggest it without showing it. Two iconic notes in John Williams’ score were enough to indicate his ghostly invisible presence.
Spielberg was 27 years old when he made ‘Jose’. The film won three Oscars (Editing, Music and Sound) and lost Best Picture to ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’. It didn’t even get Spielberg nominated as director, though that didn’t stop him from wanting to repeat the formula: with ‘Jurassic Park’ he already admitted he wanted to make a sequel to ‘Jaws’ on dry land.
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