{"id":7905,"date":"2023-05-06T22:05:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T10:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=7905"},"modified":"2023-05-06T22:05:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T10:05:58","slug":"jurassic-park-usa-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=7905","title":{"rendered":"Jurassic Park (USA, 1993)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Introduced the School Beastie to Jurassic Park. (Long overdue because she loves the Dinosaur Island board game which is exactly the same idea. Yes she still mostly beats me when we play.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I watched JP on its opening weekend in \u201893 I walked out thinking that it felt like it was a fantastic movie that was missing its final reel. Watching it again for the first time in decades, I still feel the same. The T-Rex taking out the velociraptors is a great resolution to that threat <\/a>but it\u2019s not a great ending for the movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want some final beat that\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026turns the T-Rex back towards the main characters as a final challenge (the first half of the movie sets it up as the main monster, and you get two great confrontations, but that\u2019s it! The two further appearances where it wanders onscreen and eats another dinosaur don\u2019t satisfy the rule of three!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026gives Ellie a final hero moment – after being an absolute badass the whole film, she becomes kind of invisible once she and Alan are reunited. She\u2019s got nothing more to prove of course, but letting her sit in the background is a bit disrespectful to everything the film\u2019s done with her so far. This could also rhyme with the earlier bit where Ellie and Hammond argue over who should go fix the power, which sets up Hammond –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026sees Hammond taking responsibility in a serious way – i.e. by moving to sacrifice his own life to save the others, showing the effect Ellie\u2019s call-out had on him. His lines of dialogue in the current film just don\u2019t carry much weight and underline the theme which is all about the arrogance of humanity (i.e. specifically his).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026has Malcolm somehow saving Hammond\u2019s life. Malcolm is ridiculously brave in the first T-Rex attack and then does nothing apart from look sexy. What he does can\u2019t be a physical action – he has to save the day through the application of chaos. He takes a big chance, and it works out, the audience will forgive the contrivance – in fact they\u2019ll embrace it because he talked about the butterfly effect at the start of the film. (And he\u2019s gotta save Hammond, can\u2019t traumatise his grandkids any further by letting him actually die!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026and Grant doesn\u2019t need to do anything, nor do the kids, they\u2019ve finished their arcs. Grant just comes face to face with the final threat, and instinctively reaches out and takes Lex\u2019s hand to reassure her, rhyming with the bit early on where Lex takes his hand and he is uncomfortable about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(My own contribution to the theme of the arrogance of humanity is that I think I can give notes to a beloved Steven Spielberg film. \"😝\")<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Great fun nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Introduced the School Beastie to Jurassic Park. (Long overdue because she loves the Dinosaur Island board game which is exactly the same idea. Yes she still mostly beats me when we play.) When I watched JP on its opening weekend in \u201893 I walked out thinking that it felt like it was a fantastic movie … Continue reading Jurassic Park (USA, 1993)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,23],"class_list":["post-7905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things-ive-seen","tag-film","tag-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-23v","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7907,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7905\/revisions\/7907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}