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DilllDozerr t1_j1vdm53 wrote

This is incorrect. He apologized to sharks for jews. Or to jews for sharks... not sure which.

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Dizzyeer t1_j1vegn8 wrote

I met Spielberg on a trip in the Bahamas, him and his group of buddies would wait by the fishing charters and pay the charters big bucks for live sharks. We would sit around and drink beers and just kill the sharks with hammers. Sometimes he’d pay us to wrestle them. One time he paid me to go on a romantic date with one in a salt water pool. I actually fell in love. I miss her so much.

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SaishDawg t1_j1vf8oj wrote

One of the saddest short videos I ever saw (sorry, no link as it was a film theater) was a great white who lost its dorsal fins for soup sliding hopelessly into the dark abyss.

I personally never want to be eaten by an apex predator. Equally appreciate Spielberg’s circumspection with the legacy of Jaws. Which is still one of my favorite movies.

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AtomicHurricaneBob t1_j1vlu47 wrote

How about apologizing to everyone who refused to go swimming in any body of water.

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ChronoMonkeyX t1_j1vpt2e wrote

Pretty sure Peter Benchley did this decades ago.

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GlobalTravelR t1_j1vtbbz wrote

Jaws control the media. Look at 'Shark Week'! You don't see 'Swordfish Week', or 'Blowfish Week!'

There have been more movies about Sharks than any other sea creature. A coincidence? I think not!

/s

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Crooked_Cock t1_j1wf36k wrote

How about instead of just apologizing you donate some of your mass amounts of wealth to helping conserve and protect sharks

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WorldlyCaregiver t1_j1wimfn wrote

>Because of their reputation as a cold-blooded killer, 'no one appreciates how vulnerable they are to destruction', he added.
"It's hard to rally people behind sharks. Unlike whales or dolphins, they are hard to anthropomorphise

Everyone familiar with R34: *Looks away nervously*

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Dr-Retz t1_j1wn5zb wrote

They can’t hear,and won’t understand him,I think?

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peensteen t1_j1x3euv wrote

Replying to GDviber (#1,099,320)

Hey, hey, Jaws didn't do it, Blizzard did it! If we needed to bathe, there would be a WoW expansion that puts bathtubs in more than two or three locations. Griftah sold me some Soap on a Rope, but I'm not convinced.

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DFWPunk t1_j1x40kl wrote

I wonder how many people remember that apartments in 1975 were advertising "Shark Free Pools". I do because my mother was apartment hunting and it hadn't occurred to me to be afraid of sharks in pools before I read that.

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Ironwolf7448 t1_j1x6goy wrote

Man, even the sharks are canceling people now.

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peensteen t1_j1y2h14 wrote

Replying to GDviber (#1,109,442)

I was just shitting on MMOs. I spent about two months on EverQuest back in the day, before I realized that it's not compatible with life. Jaws literally just scratches the surface. Look up what sorts of nastiness lives in our deep seas, and THAT shit will keep you out of the water for real. I think I'd rather be honestly bitten by a white shark, than even be NEAR a goblin shark.

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Crooked_Cock t1_j1z09yk wrote

Replying to DFWPunk (#1,104,792)

This reminds me of the story my mom told me about how as a kid, one of her friends convinced her to watch Jaws and the following night she had a nightmare about, I shit you not, the shark from Jaws chasing her in a swimming pool

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alwaysZenryoku t1_j1z4998 wrote

Now apologize to the rest of us for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

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jbot747 t1_j1zmt1b wrote

I had to read that a few times.

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Effort-Firm t1_j1zy61h wrote

Looking forward to his mega yacht being built! He’s full of shit

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Cynykl t1_j22ikbp wrote

Replying to WorldlyCaregiver (#1,101,975)

Speaking of R34. In a recent NPR interview the host asked Spielberg if he was aware of the porn parody "Shaving Ryan's Privates". Struck me as an odd question coming from an NPR show.

Found it in the transcript:

GROSS: I've saved this question for the end because it's a very, very important question - very profound, if I might brag. So are you aware, and I assume you may be, that a lot of porn films satirize the titles of real films or satirize the films themselves. And when John Waters was on our show - this was an interview years ago - he said his favorite was "Shaving Ryan's Privates." And there's actually not only a porn film named that, there's a documentary about porn films that satirize real films, and that film, that documentary is titled "Shaving Ryan's Privates." Did you know about that?

SPIELBERG: No (laughter). Not until this very moment. Wow.

GROSS: I told you it was profound.

SPIELBERG: Well, you know, a lot of my films have had, you know, funny and sometimes a little bit of antisemitic uses of the title. So I just never heard that one before.

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