‘What we are dealing with here,” the actor Richard Dreyfuss says in “Jaws,” is “a perfect engine—an eating machine.” He can be heard saying it again during the introduction to “Playing With Sharks,” the story of photographer, diver and shark conservationist Valerie Taylor. Though Mr. Dreyfuss was describing what the fictional island village of Amity was up against in 1975, it also intimates what Ms.
“I wasn’t a ‘Bond girl,’” Ms. Taylor says at the beginning of this National Geographic production, but the fact that she was blond, beautiful and swam about with man-eating predators helped bring attention to the work of her and her documentarian husband, Ron. It probably also helps account for the wealth of footage at director Sally Aitken’s disposal, of Ms. Taylor above and below the water, on talk shows and on magazine covers.
The Taylors, who pioneered the use of shark cages and advanced techniques of underwater filming, were champion spearfishers turned nature filmmakers turned shark protectors. Their underwater expertise put them in demand and gave them an almost accidental role in what Ms.
The Taylors themselves shot the underwater shark footage for director Steven Spielberg in their native Australia, and “Playing With Sharks” includes much “Jaws” arcana . It also recounts Ms. Taylor’s public-relations efforts to counter the aftereffects of “Jaws,” which demonized great whites in particular and justified shark slaughter in general. “They didn’t listen to me,” says Ms. Taylor, now 85. “Frankly, they didn’t care.
“Playing With Sharks” has its visual thrills but also tells one good story after another, not only about making movies and flirting with death but about the nature of the fish and the steely character of the movie’s human subject. She overcame polio as a young girl, walking again after no one said she would. The love story of Valerie and Ron Taylor is understated but real. There isn’t a lot about Ms. Taylor’s family, or that she first came to spearfishing as a way to help feed them.
Goodluck. Anything that can destroy a human in one bite, will always be scary
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