I found her death very disturbing and unsettling to watch, but obviously amazing and really great that it evoked such a response.
I saw an article saying it's a really terrible decision by a film maker to have such a horrific death shot so close up to a character that didn't deserve to die in such a horrendous way.
Anyone agree / disagree with me or the article?
EDIT: article is here http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/06/15/the-strangely-cruel-and-unusual-death-in-jurassic-world
I agree. It’s the most horrible death in the movie (or in the entire franchise). I feel really sorry for her character who was just before her wedding. Then she swallowed down into some monster stomach in whole to be digested in acid while she alive (or for a short time until she drown or die in pain). She didn't even get a proper funeral, her remains just popped out somewhere in the water, maybe never found.
Ugh...
The most horrible would be getting wounded then intentionally left as bait (as in JP 3).
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The implication of course being that the others somehow at least partially "deserved" to be eaten by dinosaurs, and that having your body being chomped on by an oversized reptile is somehow not gruesome if done the "right way"...
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The other characters who died either put themselves in danger or were bad people who deserved to die. Zara's death didn't have to be as drawn out and detailed as it was.
shareThe other characters who died either put themselves in danger or were bad people who deserved to die.
Zara's death didn't have to be as drawn out and detailed as it was.
Other innocent people were killed in the mayhem too.
Why not?
I heard a lot about this death before seeing it. Just got back from a showing tonight. I feel the death was a tad drawn out and I guess I can see people are disliking it. She was generally an innocent character and didn't really deserve to die because she wasn't a villain or bitchy character in anyway. Maybe not the brightest character but still innocentish. However, while I didn't really like her dying, I didn't really find the scene overall too disturbing unlike say Eddie Carr.
Eddie Carr's death in the lost world to this day is the main reason why that movie is my least favorite in the series. Yup, I like JP3 more because of one scene in the lost world. I hated how generally, the really only decent guy in the movie gets killed in the very horrific way that too seemed like a drawn out sequence. He risk his life trying to save people who put themselves in danger, and he pays for their mistake. Even as a kid seeing the movie, I wished Nick and Sarah would have died in the movie because they caused Eddie's death.
See, this is what I don't get. Yes, his character's death really sucked, but it makes the film more powerful. You see get the grittiness of what the original books were about (and I haven't even read them, just heard what they are like). Not every good character needs to live or die "nicely". It's a bolder move than to make everything safe and hunky-dory. People want these movies to be fun and entertaining, and they are, but (well besides this one) they're going to have some gruesome and more serious elements to them.
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It mostly stems from the fact that the Jurassic Park series has a habit of always killing my favorite characters, so that's why it upset me the most. If it were Nick, Sarah, or even Ian, it wouldn't have bothered me as much.
shareWTF did Zara do to become a favorite character? she literally does nothing the whole film.
shareI think mostly because it was a female character and it was a drawn out death. Other than that I really don't know why. But part of me thinks it's because since she's an assistant to the a protagonist, they are usually the plucky lovable characters so people are liking her more than they should. I think her death scene was probably the longest screen time she had in the film lol.
shareI think cause you didn't see it coming that's kind of why it worked. We all knew she was going to die and I knew it was going to be terrible, but I kept waiting for her to deserve the faith and they never showed her doing much, so you second guess her death and think they might go soft on her. Heck they might let her live. Then sudden reality kicks in, no one is safe, cute or not.
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I think these days Hollywood tries to cater to the conservatives/right wingers in small ways, like in this film where a liberated girl like Zara got killed off in such a horrible death
share1. I don't get everyone's obsession with Zara. It's not like she was a lead character.
2. I don't get why people are so horrified with Zara's death. People who don't deserve to die in a horrific way, die in a horrific way IN REAL LIFE ALL THE TIME. Why shouldn't a movie depict such an occurrence, then?
3. This raises another point: Does anyone deserve to die in a horrific way in the first place?
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What I don't understand is everyone who raises this point overlooks a key detail: Jurassic World is not an accurate representation of what would happen if this event took place in real life. Nor was it trying to. This is a summer, crowd-pleasing blockbuster, not a horror film. People watch it to escape from reality. That's why the kids miraculously survived. In real life, they probably would have been eaten. So when a character dies in a brutal and undeserved fashion, it clashes with the rest of the movie. Hoskins was a bad guy who deserved what was coming to him, yet not even he died as horrifically as Zara did. Zara only died because she was a side character the writers could kill off while ensuring the two leads and the children were unharmed.
shareI don't agree. JP did in many ways try to demonstrate what could happen if we tried to build a park with dinosaurs and if man tried to play God. Controlling nature has always proved impossible for man in real life, and the JP franchise capitalises on that fact, movie after movie. I don't think JW is necessarily different in that respect. A select group of people meddle with things they shouldn't be meddling with, things go wrong, innocents suffer and bad guy gets away with more than he deserves. That's a pretty accurate representation of what goes on in everyday life, if you ask me. Also, the unpleasant and untimely death of one character does not lodge an entire film into the horror genre, which is what you're implying with your post.
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What Jurassic Park does not demonstrate is anyone can die if that situation occurred in real life. Who died in that film?
A worker with only about a minute of screentime.
The greedy lawyer who abandoned kids to save his own life. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHGvdI1jizI)
The bad guy who was responsible for the dinosaurs escaping.
The technician who mostly hung around with more important characters.
The gun-wielding warden who tried to take on the dinosaurs by himself.
Who lived?
The male lead.
The female lead.
The comic relief.
The kindly and charismatic old man with grandchildren who learned the error of his ways.
The kids.
In short, the survivors consist of characters you knew were going to live and those who you thought were going to die are the ones who died. Which is fine, this is suited to the tone of the film, but it shows Jurassic Park was not going for a realistic version of this scenario. In real life, nobody is safe.
Jurassic World is also similar in this respect. The deaths include:
A bunch of nameless and expendable personnel who work for the park.
The wealthy industrialist who had to redeem himself for his past mistakes.
The assistant who had minimal screentime.
A bunch of nameless and expendable soldiers working for the bad guy.
The bad guy.
The survivors include:
The male lead.
The female lead.
The comic relief.
The kids.
The best friend of the male lead.
Again, not an accurate representation of real life. This again would be fine if the movie maintained a fun, entertaining tone. But it doesn't. The way Zara dies is out of place with the rest of the movie. I'm not saying this one scene places all of Jurassic World in the horror genre, I'm saying the scene doesn't fit with the tone of the movie.
But Zara was expendable, just like Samuel L. Jackson's character in JP. Did either of them deserve to die? No. Yet the former got mauled by a Mosasaur and the latter got dismembered by raptors. No one mourned the death of Samuel L. Jackson's character. Why should everyone mourn Zara's?
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I'm not arguing Zara wasn't expendable. She and Arnold are no different in that respect. The difference between them is how their deaths were handled. Arnold died off-screen; we didn't see the raptors kill him. It wasn't distasteful, it wasn't gratuitous, and it wasn't horrible to watch. With Zara, the camera remains focused on her as she's killed. It's a sequence we didn't need to see and it certainly didn't have to be as long as it was.
shareThen why aren't you bitching about Masrani's death? Y'know, the character with an actual arc. The character that had an attack of conscious and tried to set things right. The character that died doing the right thing? We watched as his crew gets killed in front of him and as he fights to keep the helicopter upright before it smashed through the aviary and explodes.
Where is the outcry about this? why doesn't his death "ruin the tone of the film" as you put it? I mean it should ruin the tone of the film waaaaaay more than Zara's because he was actually a character we got to know.
Maybe that's because Masrani voluntarily put himself into a scenario he knew he might not survive, his death scene wasn't as drawn out and painful as Zara's was, and he died instantly. His demise was not gratuitous nor was it mean-spirited. This is about how characters die, not who they were before they died. Masrani went out like a champ and he didn't suffer.
shareAll the other films in this franchise have at least one (and usually more) violent/horrible deaths!
This is nothing new. Gennaro got eaten alive while sitting on a toilet in part one!
We saw a severed arm in the first film. Muldoon.
Eddie in JP2 and the guy pulled out and turned into a blood waterfall are in JP2.
There is a guy chased down and torn apart at the end of JP2.
JP3 again...badly wounded and left as bait.
Her death fits in line with all of those.
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If Zara was just Zar, or Zaro...I.E. a dude. Not one article would be written about the death. Not one.
shareAnyone who thinks Zara's death was 'very disturbing' and 'unsettling to watch' clearly don't remember how mean-spirited Eddie Carr's death was in TLW. It was wayyyyy more disturbing than this.
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He was man. No biggy.
Oh, and it's totally ok to whip a man around like a rag doll in the first film because he's kind of a buzzkill. But if you give an awesome death to a glorified extra with a VAGINA than you have one major problem on your hands. Then it's "going too far".