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"Another year, another movie with a shark in the leading role.
The new French thriller film
Under Paris is currently ranked second in
Australia’s Top 10 list and has broken records as one of Netflix’s most watched
non-English films. It follows a giant shark that appears in Paris’s Seine
river, seemingly out for blood.
For decades, filmmakers have placed sharks alongside some of the biggest names
in Hollywood, including Blake Lively, Jason Statham and Roy Schneider. Shark
movies can make hefty profits, too.
The Meg (2018) made more than US$157
million globally (about A$235 million).
But the shark “characters” in these films are far from something to be admired
or appreciated. Indeed, the film industry has helped galvanise a kind of
collective villainisation of these creatures.
As was neatly summarised in a paper published in the journal
Marine Policy:
contemporary narratives widely presented in popular mainstream media have
attached an utterly negative connotation to sharks, propagating an
unsubstantiated and fabricated image of them as voracious predators.
The effects of these narratives can linger long after viewers have left the
cinema."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
