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Creator Backlash: During interviews later in his career, Peter Benchley claimed he came to regret writing the original novel when he learned that the worldwide fear of sharks he felt his book and the film version created had led to massive shark overfishing that was driving several species close to extinction. He became a vocal ocean conservation activist to make up for it, and remained so until his death.
Creator Killer: Jaws: The Revenge for Joseph Sargent. Since then he only directed made-for-TV films until his death in 2014.
Defictionalization: In 2010 when the Egyptian resort of Sharm El Sheik experienced killer shark attacks it pretty much used the plot of Jaws as its guide, including denying the problem, resisting closing the beaches, reluctantly closing them after a near shore attack, killing the wrong shark and declaring it the right one despite clear evidence to the contrary, re-opening the beaches with a fanfare declaring them safe, then having more attacks take place. After that the shark simply left of its own accord, perhaps it was Genre Savvy enough to know what came next in film.
Hey, It's That Guy!: Dennis Quaid, Louis Gossett Jr., Lea Thompson, and Bess Armstrong in the third movie. Michael Caine and Mario Van Peebles in the fourth film. Also, in the fourth movie, Michael Brody is played by The Last Starfighter.
Money, Dear Boy: Michael Caine only appeared in the fourth film because of it. And later regretted being in the Bahamas shooting it instead of picking up his Academy Award for Hannah and Her Sisters.
Old Shame: Richard Matheson doesn't like to talk about his experience being one of the screenwriters of the third film. Likewise, Michael Caine generally prefers not to acknowledge his involvement in The Revenge, other than the fact that he was able to build himself a very nice mansion with the paycheck.
The Red Stapler: Beach attendance dropped significantly after this movie.
Also, the shooting star as Brody loads his revolver on the boat.
The footage of the Shark rolling on top of the shark cage wasn't planned, but was far too awesome not to use. And is why Hooper ended up surviving.
Troubled Production: An unusual case; it seems that the more troubled the production of each film was, the better it turned out. The original film barely even got made at all due to the numerous troubles they had with the weather and the mechanical shark, yet is easily the best of the series. The second had a massively problematic start, but things eventually smoothed out during filming, and it ended up a decent film. The third's production problems were mostly limited to the challenges of working in 3-D, and the resulting film was... pretty bad. The Revenge had the smoothest production of all the Jaws films by far — and yet it ended up the absolute worst film.
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