#Jaws (1975)

[requinoesis]

This is a tribute to Peter Benchley, not the movie Jaws (1975)

The author of 'Jaws' dedicated the rest of his life to reversing the unexpected negative impact his book had on the image of sharks.

Not only were sharks supposedly killed to create props for the movie, but 'Jaws' ended up awakening a bloody sea of ignorance in people at the time, who, haunted by an irrational fear and lack of understanding about marine predators, felt motivated to take to their boats and kill thousands of great white sharks in the most feared ways.

Such as the promotion of great white shark hunting championships that targeted the biggest ones, which were mostly pregnant females who, after being displayed as a trophy, had their jaws ripped off and their bodies discarded in the garbage.

Fear spread widely to all shark species, creating a lack of sensitivity that made it convenient to exterminate entire shark populations around the world that for a long time remained invisible to people's perception.

And this has continued to resonate for a long time with the entertainment media perpetuating the portrayal of sharks as monsters, newspapers favoring sensationalism about shark incidents, governments promoting shark culls, the advance of the unregulated predatory fishing industry, scientists not being supported in their studies of marine predators, the destruction of their natural habitats and the pollution of the oceans.

For thousands of years, sharks have taken care of the health of our oceans, older than the dinosaurs or the first trees, they have gone through great mass extinctions, they have been worshipped and respected as gods and guardians by oceanic peoples and now we demonize them in our media and exterminate them by the millions every year, who is the real monster?

We are shark-eaters.

I hope you can also hear what Peter Benchley himself had to say about all this:

I finally finished this artwork! Hope you like it. At some point I will adapt it for my little Redbubble store.🛍️

I reduced the quality to try to prevent them from stealing. I hope it's enough! 🙁

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I posted it in my little RedBubble store for anyone who wants it! There are clothes, prints and other curious things.🛍️

⭐️Link: redbubble.com/people/Requinoesis/

I also published it on INPRINT if you want a print with quality paper, I hope you like it! 🖼️

⭐️Link: inprnt.com/gallery/requinoesis/

[amelia-mariee]

people be like “omg this is my comfort movie” and it’s a bunch of people having the worst day of their life

[swiftzeldas]

[6/50 films] Jaws (1975) dir. Steven Spielberg

Show me the way to go home. I'm tired and I want to go to bed. I had a little drink about an hour ago, and it's gone right to my head.

[apples-and-tangerines]

Waiter waiter!!!! More grizzled old men who’ve seen the horrors of the sea please!!!!

[cary-elwes]

[fangerine]

"You're gonna need a bigger boat."

JAWS (1975) dir. Steven Spielberg

[fanofspooky]

Blue - Cold, Anxiety, Night

[klearilist]

do you see what i see

[nerdside]

JAWS (1975) dir. Steven Spielberg

[requinoesis]

I was inspired to sketch this, of course my civilized sharks have done their historical atonement by stereotyping humans in their pop culture hehe💀

I will finalize this at some point. But I have doubts.🦈

⭐️Title in the center or at the top?

⭐️Strange bubbles: purple, green or without? --- Edit: I finally finished this artwork here! Hope you like it. At some point I will adapt it for my little Redbubble store.🛍️

I reduced the quality to try to prevent them from stealing. I hope it's enough! 🙁

[sakurafigures]

♡ Jaws (Jaws) - Nendoroid

[matthoopergay]

jaws

[guillotineman]

Queueing round the block to see

JAWS (1975, dir. Steven Spielberg)

[bisclavaret]

Jaws study/painting practice (2 hrs)

[ciravahermodlmao]

15,345 single crochets later and I’m FINALLY DONE

Progress pics behind the readmore!

Thank u fantasy high freshman year for accompanying me thru this entire thing. Literally finished the last episode as I was crocheting the top border

[theflirtmeister]

crying with laughter, why did they never call jaws whats that noshing on ma leg