The Meg - Megaladon
3.6 million years ago, we can witness in the sci-fi genre of cinema that a creature that is extinct is not actually extinct. The limits of cinema can be scaled by imagination. Many people with unlimited imagination have the resources that shape the fiction genre of cinema. There will always be production companies and directors who will use this resource because the number of people in the consumer seat of cinema is constantly increasing. Who can be indifferent to an industry with so many customers?
The Meg, a 2018 American-Chinese co-production, reintroduces the gigantic sharks called Megaladons, which have taken their place in the dusty pages of history, back into human life. I say reintroduced because there are many productions in the movie industry about the struggle between humans and sharks, and almost all of them are remarkable as American productions.
We can say that the oceans contain unknowns and are constantly open to discovery about the lives they hide. There are still new species of fish being discovered today and these discoveries will continue for decades, perhaps centuries. Although not as gigantic as the Megaladon, it may be hiding similar mysterious creatures from mankind.
As far as I remember, the enmity between humans and sharks was first brought to the big screen in 1975 with the movie Jaws. Jaws was the first movie I saw where sharks attacked humans. This story must have been a hit because the Jaws movie series came after and became quite watchable. 1978 - 1983 - 1987 and 1995 were the production years of these classic films and dozens of different stories appeared in theaters afterwards. Even though the story of each movie is different, the result is the same. First sharks attack humans, then humans take revenge.
However, if the stories were based on the human strategy of first discover and then destroy, they would reflect more of the truth. If every living creature is given the right to live in its own habitat, there would be no need for anyone to attack anyone. These are thoughts about reality, but when we look at it from a cinematic point of view, in terms of reflecting the tension, beautiful stories emerge from the conflict between sharks and humans, and these stories continue to increase in popularity.
The Meg movie has a budget of 150 million dollars in 2018. It seems to have much more success in terms of its success in the cinema and its numerical box office value. The sequel The Meg 2: The Trench is currently being shown in theaters and looks like it will achieve similar success.
I think the biggest disadvantage of the sequels is the disconnection from the story. I was wondering if this would happen in Meg 2 and I would satiate my curiosity but that will be tomorrow's topic. Make do with The Meg movie today! Shark, I recommend watching the movie to anyone who wants to experience the tension that human stories offer. For Meg 2: The Tench, you may be familiar with the story beforehand. Good luck to those who will watch.