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Steven Spielberg Feels Bad About How Jaws Impacted Sharks Now Jaws-tice Has Been Served

Steven Spielberg said he “regrets” the bad press his iconic film Jaws
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Desert Island DiscsJawsJaws a story for The GuardianAustralia has had a run of extremely bad luck recently: three human beings have been killed by great white sharks,” he said. “But it is important for us to realise that these are freak occurrences that by no means signal a sudden onslaught by sharks on swimmers and surfers.”

“Such creatures do not exist, despite what you might have derived from Jaws,” he said.

“When I wrote the book and film a quarter of a century ago, knowledge of sharks was in its infancy. We believed that sharks actually attacked boats; we believed that they actively sought out human prey. We believed that their numbers were infinite and the threat they posed incalculable.

“Over the years, we have come to know otherwise.” 

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