Steven Spielberg promised cinema goers they might ‘by no means go within the water once more’ after seeing his 1975 thriller Jaws.
However the director has now revealed that he’s additionally afraid to take a dip – as a result of he believes sharks are ‘mad at him’ for the looking frenzy that broke out within the wake of the movie.
The triple-Oscar winner, interviewed for immediately’s BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs, mentioned: ‘That’s one of many issues I nonetheless worry. To not get eaten by a shark however that sharks are in some way mad at me for the feeding frenzy of loopy sports activities fishermen that occurred after 1975.
‘I actually and to this present day remorse the decimation of the shark inhabitants due to the e-book and the movie. I actually, really remorse that.’
Triple-Oscar winner Steven Spielberg reveals he fears sharks may be ‘mad at him’ for the craze of sports activities fishermen that occurred after his 1975 movie Jaws
Jaws, primarily based on a 1974 novel by Peter Benchley, was billed as ‘essentially the most terrifying movie ever made’. After its success, attempting to find sharks grew to become a well-liked sport, with competitions to catch the largest or heaviest creature changing into common occasions alongside the Atlantic coast of America.
The movie was hailed by critics who famous that among the scariest moments have been when the shark didn’t seem.
The director mentioned: ‘I actually and to this present day remorse the decimation of the shark inhabitants due to the e-book and the movie. I actually, really remorse that’
Spielberg informed Desert Island Discs host Lauren Laverne that many of those scenes have been born out of necessity as a result of the movie’s mechanical shark saved breaking. He mentioned: ‘It’s a a lot better film that the shark saved breaking down as a result of I needed to be resourceful in determining how you can create suspense and terror with out seeing the shark itself.
‘It was simply success that the shark saved breaking. It was my good luck and I believe it’s the viewers’s good luck too as a result of I believe it’s a scarier film with out seeing a lot of the shark.’
Desert Island Discs is on BBC Radio 4 immediately at 11.15am.
