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Jurassic World: 50% Jurassic Park, 50% Indiana Jones


That was probably the conjecture reached at the board meeting between Trevorrow and the studio heads at Universal. Because audiences these days just aren't what they used to be in the 1990s, and the internet has made everything transparent, they had to infuse the story with fast, lighthearted fun to keep people's attention, but still hold some of the spirit of the original movie.

And with Spielberg there, they decided that Indiana Jones would be a good style to blend with Jurassic Park, since a. Indiana Jones has the same fast-paced cliched fun that today's blockbusters have, and b. it's another adventure franchise owned by Spielberg, so it should blend with Jurassic Park pretty well.

I could sense that five minutes into the movie, with the way the soundtrack never took a break, the scenes kept moving from one to another, and how they arrived at the island at the five-minute mark (and I thought JPIII was too fast-paced!). But especially with the characters feeling more like adventure story caricatures rather than real-world professionals, and the whole villainous dino-weaponization scheme, which was about as silly as the Nazis trying to use the Ark of the Covenant for world domination.

But the main story was still in the spirit of Jurassic Park, with the idea of engineering a new species of dinosaur to increase profits, and having a relationship (rather than control) over the raptors. Those are very Crichton-esque themes.

So I guess they decided to make the story in the spirit of Jurassic Park, but the characters in the spirit of Indiana Jones. And I'm cool with that. I wish the film had been bolder, and gone 100% Jurassic Park, but for what it chose to be, it worked fairly well.

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And 15% as good!


He's taking the knife out of the Cheese!
Do you think he wants some cheese?


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Interesting observation, I never looked at it that way, but it does make perfect sense. Owen's character is indeed a bit like Indiana Jones, now that you've mentioned it. All that's missing are a hat and a whip!

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That is a huge thing that bugs me about this movie, a token that's always present in the other Jurassic movies but wasn't present here: nobody wore a fedora!

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That is a huge thing that bugs me about this movie, a token that's always present in the other Jurassic movies but wasn't present here: nobody wore a fedora!


One of the tourists did. None of the principals though - I guess they went out of fashion!

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And you gotta admit, the relationship between Owen and Claire was very reminiscent of Indy and Willie in Temple of Doom.

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Yes! I thought the same thing. 


"Don't get chumpatized!" - The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)

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And 100% stupid.

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