10 More Inventors Who Hated Their Own Creations

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While not as foreboding in text form, odds are you have heard the Jaws theme and may even have given it some thought the last time you swam in the ocean. The movie Jaws (and the novel it was based on) was an amazing hit when it arrived in theaters in 1975. It was the first true summer blockbuster and it made a lot of money. It also had a negative series of consequences for sharks, which is why Peter Benchley came to despise it.

Benchley wrote the book the year prior due to his lifelong fascination with sharks. You might not realize it from reading the book or watching the movie, but Benchley loves sharks, which is why Jaws became such a problem.

The villain was the great white shark, but viewers and readers all over the world saw all sharks as vicious killing machines because of the fear induced in Benchley's work. As a result, people began villifying, poaching, and killing sharks whenever they could.

This left a man who loved sharks and wanted to push conservation efforts for them to create a work, which led to their deaths all over the world. It's no wonder he doesn't look back fondly on his work.