Arachnophobia (film) helped produce it. Marshall meant for the film to be like Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds", and added, "People like to be scared but laughing, like a roller coaster. No one wants to be terrified." The film also has similarities with the 1977 film "Kingdom of the Spiders". Producer Igo Kantor hinted in his "Fangoria" interview that "Arachnophobia", which Spielberg produced, bears several similarities to "Kingdom of the Spiders". "I thought it was a copy", Kantor stated, "but you don't go and sue Spielberg!" Jamie Hyneman, of "MythBusters" fame, stated in "Popular Mechanics" that "Arachnophobia" was one of the first movies
What Is a Nation? and continues to be invoked. Political historian Karl Deutsch, in a quote sometimes mistakenly attributed to Renan, said that a nation is "a group of people united by a mistaken view about the past and a hatred of their neighbours". Benedict Anderson's 1983 work Imagined Communities, which states that a nation is an "imagined political community", argues that Renan contradicts himself when he says French people must have forgotten the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, yet does not explain what it is. In other words, Renan assumes that all his readers will remember the very massacre he says they have forgotten.