The throat is celebrating fifty years

Fifty years ago is a movie Throat came to cinemas and became the biggest movie hit of all time. He brought as much as $ 470 million to the cash registers.

But at the beginning of the filming, it didn’t show that way, as everything went wrong. Barely 28-year-old director Steven Spielberg was desperate as the shooting was tiring, and the shark model continued to spoil. The director thought what he would do in his case Alfred Hitchcock, who is considered to be the greatest master of suspension, and he recalled his thought: « The bomb that explodes, surprises, does not explode, creates a suspension. » Therefore, he only indicated the presence of a male monsters with famous sea fin and tense music. We only see sharks in the thirty -five minutes.

The film was made after the literary hit of the same name Petra Benchley. This is the story of a small resort, where a white shark appears on the peak of the summer season. The local mayor refuses to close the beach, as the city lives from tourists. But soon a huge sea beast attacks and the first victims are here, as well as universal panic. Finally the main character, Sheriff Martin Brody (Roy Scheider), along with marine biologist Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) and overdue old sailors Quinto (Robert Shaw) heads to the sea, where he was supposed to challenge the clash with the beast and kill it.

The film brought wealth to the creators, but it greatly threatened the sharks, which have since been cruelly persecuted and killed, despite the statistics that testify that there is little attack on humans. But hysteria and hatred against these special animals made this film.

Research shows that the number of different types of sharks decreased by about 80 percent between 1986 and 2000 in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean. Which means they are on the verge of extinction. They are mostly victims of fishing. But this is by no means monsters, as marital biologists testify, are complex and communicative creatures. As a result, Spielberg has repeatedly expressed his regret.

And yet he had a movie Throat Also positive effects. Benchley became an activist for the preservation of the oceans, as did the underwater photographer who participated in the film. One of them, Rodney fox, Since a half -century high anniversary, he said: “It’s no longer about fearing sharks. We have to fear the world without them. «