David Koepp
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It's a really strong structural underpinning of the script because it subverted our expectations and it demanded that we question things we had just taken for granted.
But you see this kind of deep empathy is in Spielberg's work all the way through.
Just as you were talking, I was thinking about Jaws.
No one has sympathy for the Jaws.
No, but it's no sympathy for sure.
But it's presented as just doing what it does.
It's an animal.
It needs to eat.
It needs to eat, sleep, and make baby sharks.
And that's what it's doing.
You can't judge it for that.
Right, right.
I just got to deal with it.
I think so.
Yeah.
I mean, I think with some animals we kind of are kidding ourselves that they don't have an intelligence where they might understand what's happening to them.
Yeah.
My daughter, who's a vegetarian, would say we are all kidding ourselves and we're horribly cruel.
Okay.
Yeah, I think we're imputing our history onto them.