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Jurassic World - The wow factor
10 years ago
Sidenote : I wrote these feelings yesterday evening after having seen the movie on the morning, but I was too tired to post it... So here it is !
I really want to insist on the fact that is only my opinion ; I don't want to see me as a professional critic or anything like that. Just saying what I've thought about this movie, and I thought it can help for instance if anyone is hesitating about watching it or not ^o^
Personal note : 4,5 / 5.
*inspires*
*expires*
I watched Jurassic World.
Saying that I was eager to watch it is of course a euphemism...
I am in awe in front of dinosaurs and others extincted reptiles since I'm a kid.
Since the day I saw the Jurassic Park trilogy, I only waited one thing in the reptilo-cultural theme : the coming out of a fourth movie, prone to rumors since 2001, was only stirring me up.
Well... I have still difficulties to realize I just saw it, that's saying something.
That's also saying that the following opinion might be absolutely biased, coming from a passionate. Anyway.
I will not do real spoils ; that is to say I will only make allusion to what had been shown in the first trailer, or by the movie director (Colin Trevorrow) before the coming-out of the movie, speaking about his intentions.
What's important in this sequel, what is really making it apart, to my mind, is the new perspective brought on the story.
I think that a new “Jurassic” movie, after so many years, means here a real taking into account of this new era, this new public, but up to this new relation with the fantastic.
At the beginning of movie, the park is opened for a decade or something, and welcomes around 20,000 visitors a day. And what happened with those happy masses of people, in the long run ? They do not get entertained anymore. They knew about resurrected dinosaurs. They got accustomed to it. Thus the park is losing visitors. New dinosaurs, new attractions are making the park last ; but it needs something bigger, greater, something that could really attract people, something that was never seen before. So comes the idea of creating a new species, by mixing what you want of super-cool as long as it brings life to something more impressive, more frightening. Entertaining more and more and more. To a point, of course, which make the whole thing out of control, and, in our case, eating people.
Isn't it what the public asks for now, above all about fantastic movies ? Don't some complain about lack of innovation ? How many are still marveled by the realism of our special effects ?
I think that's why I appreciate blockbusters. Despite everything ; the fantastic.
The blasé public of nowadays look more at his phone than at the formidable species that is in front of them. And the crowd hungry of awesome things are running for seeing the feeding of a carnivore, shooting photos, videos, and stuff. Even one of the heroes, if his presence at the beginning of the film may be seen as a slight caricature of “young nowadays people”, is staring more at young girls passing by than at dinosaurs.
...This done nothing but breaking my heart. The fact is that, to my mind, Jurassic World represents so well the over-crowded theme park concept whose tourists are not even more impressed by a stegosaurus than an elephant anymore, quoting Claire (played by Bryce Dallas Howard). Was an elephant ever been impressive ? To the kids, the first time, maybe... ? But later, one cthey grew up...? Of course on a website like FA I think that most of us still know that others species are wonderfully interesting.
This brings me to another point I would like to deal with and that quite annoyed me, a critic of a French newspaper Le Point (to which the movie has clearly been a mess) :
"The movie is way to violent for kids, who are often big dinosaurs fans. […]"
Let me be clear.
If there is something I hate in marketing, it is that themes may finished associated with a specific public. In our case, “dinosaurs” = “kids”.
Human species finds itself so egocentric and thinks itself so far from other species than it maybe forgot the beauty of the nature diversity – but maybe you're already aware of that so I don't expatiate on it.
Thanks to the magical aura of the past or I-don't-know-which marketing operations in the long run, we have came to a point where savage, unknown creatures, who have dominated our planet and crashed the prehistorical lands are way too often reduced to a kid toy. A carnivore 20 centimeters teeth,three times and a half our height (I don't even talk about his size snout to tail), evolved for a ferocious life, can be used as a kind educational character.
There is a paradox I can't manage to explain, when we consider that snakes, sharks or spiders are pretty under-represented this way (I'm not saying there are no one of these, but well, I think it's clear enough).
So yes sir, carnivorous dinosaurs killed to eat, while panicking or for sport. That's the way it is sir.
Let's get back to the movie... I don't even know where to begin. Maybe the good surprises. I tell you now that I hadn't unpleasant ones ; considering the feeling of both nervousness and hope that laid in me.
I was first worried y this plot of dinosaur creation. Well, it's really pertinent and assumed, in the spirit of the critique of the public entertainment I was dealing with earlier : something greater for a public accustomed to the T-Rex, as Trevorrow stated. The movie, built over a mythical brand, accept its own exaggeration simply talking about commercial logic ; and the whole scenario, because the dinosaurian creation is its main subject, is built over the consequences of this massive entertainment, going crescendo. Isn't it well done ?
Then I was told about Owen, Chris Pratt's character, who is a dinosaur trainer. I was very worried about seeing the said specimen being treated like dogs, thing that appeared a zillion times in american movies. But thanks Colin Trevorrow : this is not the case at all. It is perfectly handled in the movie, to my mind.
As for the scenario, I don't really see of what some people are complaining about. It is according to me as dense as the first Jurassic Park movie – which was, according to the blasé mind of some critics, just a park where dinosaurs were created, and then oh my god a storm, so the characters are confined on the island and lost, olala, will they survive to all these teeth and scales). Here, it is not a surprise, the created dinosaur is about to be problematic when it comes to being out of control in an crowded theme park.
The music... Michael Giacchino (who is the compositor of numerous fantastic themes of great and big movies since the 2000s) cooked to his way the wonderful theme of John Williams. What can I say aside that it is a real part of the movie's wow factor.
Actors are cool. All is made to make them cool, Pratt ahead. It influences the atmosphere of the movie, which finds itself like an action-adventure movie of the 80-90s with the actual technology and special effects, which allow us to watch a really beautiful movie. As reminds us this dear quotation from Le Point, the "violence" of the movie is maybe slightly greater to what we've been accustomed with the previous Jurassic movies (it may be due to the realism of the special effects), but it is justified. This said, this setting of the cool-attitude isn't too visible in the movie ; it mixes with this modern atmosphere that Trevorrow succeeds to create in this Jurassic World, and which make we're believing it. At least, I believed in it.
Chris Pratt is way more convincing than I thought first. He's a good guy. \o/
I simply hope we will not see him too much... I mean, I do love him, but if we have him everywhere, as main character in every next blockbuster, he's about to lose its savor, even becoming grotesque, you see ? Even if it's that's a bad start when you see his growing popularity. Huh.
I had difficulties with Bryce Dallas Howard at first. I was finding her extremely cold, as if she had been trying to convince herself she was playing in Jurassic World – but I thin I've learnt during the movie that this behavior was part of her character of a bit blind scientist who didn't know the beauty of live.
As for the others, no problem, with kids who aren't unbearable, even if the movie “bad guy” seems barely believable to my taste. And it's always funny to hear Omar Sy speaks French here and there ; he may be not enough used, but it's way better than his very little part in X-Men : Days of Future Past. I really hope he will come back in the sequel, to see him a bit more as a friend for Owen. Oh, yes,, Trevorrow and the movie itself let us think that there will be a sequel to Jurassic World, even if it is not this director who will make it... What ? Don't tell me you haven't understand entertainment logic ?
To conclude :
So yes, the movie may kill the fan with an overdose (see every fucking thing in this movie) – but is it not what we all want when we go to see Jurassic World ? More awesome dinos, more flying reptiles, and even now, marine reptiles ? (FINALLY <3 )
So yes, on paper, it is not so new visually or for plot-related matters... But aren't dinosaurs more realistic ? Don't we let us see them in 3D today (3D that is useful enough in this movie) ? Is there not a new atmosphere inspired from the winds of the ancient times of cinema of adventures ? We do we expect from this type of movie, exactly ?
I think that Jurassic World is really standing on this very effect of greedy spectator's logic, up to offering us a wider point of view about our society of entertainment and our relation to the fantastic than at first sight.
There is a undeniable atmosphere, a monstrous final, and the movie seems new enough to me while building carefully over what his predecessor had left.
I didn't really expatiate on it either, but the movie had a speech not too clumsy about the place of mankind in front of nature, of beasts, of life they think they can be controlled – a lesson of humility, of course.
The director wanted we discover the park in a marveled state, through the eyes of a 11-years old boy – as far as I was concerned I didn't have any difficulty to be marveled in front of these species, but I think it's what one does not forget. I mean, not the 11-years old boy ; the mere fact that every thing and all that is literally fantastic. That it is not so granted.
And damn ! Fucking dinosaurs ! \o/
I really want to insist on the fact that is only my opinion ; I don't want to see me as a professional critic or anything like that. Just saying what I've thought about this movie, and I thought it can help for instance if anyone is hesitating about watching it or not ^o^
Personal note : 4,5 / 5.
*inspires*
*expires*
I watched Jurassic World.
Saying that I was eager to watch it is of course a euphemism...
I am in awe in front of dinosaurs and others extincted reptiles since I'm a kid.
Since the day I saw the Jurassic Park trilogy, I only waited one thing in the reptilo-cultural theme : the coming out of a fourth movie, prone to rumors since 2001, was only stirring me up.
Well... I have still difficulties to realize I just saw it, that's saying something.
That's also saying that the following opinion might be absolutely biased, coming from a passionate. Anyway.
I will not do real spoils ; that is to say I will only make allusion to what had been shown in the first trailer, or by the movie director (Colin Trevorrow) before the coming-out of the movie, speaking about his intentions.
What's important in this sequel, what is really making it apart, to my mind, is the new perspective brought on the story.
I think that a new “Jurassic” movie, after so many years, means here a real taking into account of this new era, this new public, but up to this new relation with the fantastic.
At the beginning of movie, the park is opened for a decade or something, and welcomes around 20,000 visitors a day. And what happened with those happy masses of people, in the long run ? They do not get entertained anymore. They knew about resurrected dinosaurs. They got accustomed to it. Thus the park is losing visitors. New dinosaurs, new attractions are making the park last ; but it needs something bigger, greater, something that could really attract people, something that was never seen before. So comes the idea of creating a new species, by mixing what you want of super-cool as long as it brings life to something more impressive, more frightening. Entertaining more and more and more. To a point, of course, which make the whole thing out of control, and, in our case, eating people.
Isn't it what the public asks for now, above all about fantastic movies ? Don't some complain about lack of innovation ? How many are still marveled by the realism of our special effects ?
I think that's why I appreciate blockbusters. Despite everything ; the fantastic.
The blasé public of nowadays look more at his phone than at the formidable species that is in front of them. And the crowd hungry of awesome things are running for seeing the feeding of a carnivore, shooting photos, videos, and stuff. Even one of the heroes, if his presence at the beginning of the film may be seen as a slight caricature of “young nowadays people”, is staring more at young girls passing by than at dinosaurs.
...This done nothing but breaking my heart. The fact is that, to my mind, Jurassic World represents so well the over-crowded theme park concept whose tourists are not even more impressed by a stegosaurus than an elephant anymore, quoting Claire (played by Bryce Dallas Howard). Was an elephant ever been impressive ? To the kids, the first time, maybe... ? But later, one cthey grew up...? Of course on a website like FA I think that most of us still know that others species are wonderfully interesting.
This brings me to another point I would like to deal with and that quite annoyed me, a critic of a French newspaper Le Point (to which the movie has clearly been a mess) :
"The movie is way to violent for kids, who are often big dinosaurs fans. […]"
Let me be clear.
If there is something I hate in marketing, it is that themes may finished associated with a specific public. In our case, “dinosaurs” = “kids”.
Human species finds itself so egocentric and thinks itself so far from other species than it maybe forgot the beauty of the nature diversity – but maybe you're already aware of that so I don't expatiate on it.
Thanks to the magical aura of the past or I-don't-know-which marketing operations in the long run, we have came to a point where savage, unknown creatures, who have dominated our planet and crashed the prehistorical lands are way too often reduced to a kid toy. A carnivore 20 centimeters teeth,three times and a half our height (I don't even talk about his size snout to tail), evolved for a ferocious life, can be used as a kind educational character.
There is a paradox I can't manage to explain, when we consider that snakes, sharks or spiders are pretty under-represented this way (I'm not saying there are no one of these, but well, I think it's clear enough).
So yes sir, carnivorous dinosaurs killed to eat, while panicking or for sport. That's the way it is sir.
Let's get back to the movie... I don't even know where to begin. Maybe the good surprises. I tell you now that I hadn't unpleasant ones ; considering the feeling of both nervousness and hope that laid in me.
I was first worried y this plot of dinosaur creation. Well, it's really pertinent and assumed, in the spirit of the critique of the public entertainment I was dealing with earlier : something greater for a public accustomed to the T-Rex, as Trevorrow stated. The movie, built over a mythical brand, accept its own exaggeration simply talking about commercial logic ; and the whole scenario, because the dinosaurian creation is its main subject, is built over the consequences of this massive entertainment, going crescendo. Isn't it well done ?
Then I was told about Owen, Chris Pratt's character, who is a dinosaur trainer. I was very worried about seeing the said specimen being treated like dogs, thing that appeared a zillion times in american movies. But thanks Colin Trevorrow : this is not the case at all. It is perfectly handled in the movie, to my mind.
As for the scenario, I don't really see of what some people are complaining about. It is according to me as dense as the first Jurassic Park movie – which was, according to the blasé mind of some critics, just a park where dinosaurs were created, and then oh my god a storm, so the characters are confined on the island and lost, olala, will they survive to all these teeth and scales). Here, it is not a surprise, the created dinosaur is about to be problematic when it comes to being out of control in an crowded theme park.
The music... Michael Giacchino (who is the compositor of numerous fantastic themes of great and big movies since the 2000s) cooked to his way the wonderful theme of John Williams. What can I say aside that it is a real part of the movie's wow factor.
Actors are cool. All is made to make them cool, Pratt ahead. It influences the atmosphere of the movie, which finds itself like an action-adventure movie of the 80-90s with the actual technology and special effects, which allow us to watch a really beautiful movie. As reminds us this dear quotation from Le Point, the "violence" of the movie is maybe slightly greater to what we've been accustomed with the previous Jurassic movies (it may be due to the realism of the special effects), but it is justified. This said, this setting of the cool-attitude isn't too visible in the movie ; it mixes with this modern atmosphere that Trevorrow succeeds to create in this Jurassic World, and which make we're believing it. At least, I believed in it.
Chris Pratt is way more convincing than I thought first. He's a good guy. \o/
I simply hope we will not see him too much... I mean, I do love him, but if we have him everywhere, as main character in every next blockbuster, he's about to lose its savor, even becoming grotesque, you see ? Even if it's that's a bad start when you see his growing popularity. Huh.
I had difficulties with Bryce Dallas Howard at first. I was finding her extremely cold, as if she had been trying to convince herself she was playing in Jurassic World – but I thin I've learnt during the movie that this behavior was part of her character of a bit blind scientist who didn't know the beauty of live.
As for the others, no problem, with kids who aren't unbearable, even if the movie “bad guy” seems barely believable to my taste. And it's always funny to hear Omar Sy speaks French here and there ; he may be not enough used, but it's way better than his very little part in X-Men : Days of Future Past. I really hope he will come back in the sequel, to see him a bit more as a friend for Owen. Oh, yes,, Trevorrow and the movie itself let us think that there will be a sequel to Jurassic World, even if it is not this director who will make it... What ? Don't tell me you haven't understand entertainment logic ?
To conclude :
So yes, the movie may kill the fan with an overdose (see every fucking thing in this movie) – but is it not what we all want when we go to see Jurassic World ? More awesome dinos, more flying reptiles, and even now, marine reptiles ? (FINALLY <3 )
So yes, on paper, it is not so new visually or for plot-related matters... But aren't dinosaurs more realistic ? Don't we let us see them in 3D today (3D that is useful enough in this movie) ? Is there not a new atmosphere inspired from the winds of the ancient times of cinema of adventures ? We do we expect from this type of movie, exactly ?
I think that Jurassic World is really standing on this very effect of greedy spectator's logic, up to offering us a wider point of view about our society of entertainment and our relation to the fantastic than at first sight.
There is a undeniable atmosphere, a monstrous final, and the movie seems new enough to me while building carefully over what his predecessor had left.
I didn't really expatiate on it either, but the movie had a speech not too clumsy about the place of mankind in front of nature, of beasts, of life they think they can be controlled – a lesson of humility, of course.
The director wanted we discover the park in a marveled state, through the eyes of a 11-years old boy – as far as I was concerned I didn't have any difficulty to be marveled in front of these species, but I think it's what one does not forget. I mean, not the 11-years old boy ; the mere fact that every thing and all that is literally fantastic. That it is not so granted.
And damn ! Fucking dinosaurs ! \o/
