#media: jurassic park

[alethianightsong]

"I miss when movies weren't political-"

ALIEN is about a megacorporation coercing some salvagers into transporting a dangerous creature without telling them what it is, all because the creature could be a great bioweapon for them. When a survivor of this failed transport mission wants reparations, they screw her over to avoid a scandal.

ROBOCOP is about another mega-corporation experimenting with a cop's body and declaring him their property, trying to reduce him to an obedient killing machine who can maintain the status quo for them.

JURASSIC PARK is about a rich billionaire going all out to make a dinosaur-themed amusement park, not caring about the real-world implications of resurrecting giant lizards. He also underpays ONE guy to maintain the entire park's security systems so predictably, that one guy betrays him at a crucial moment.

The best movies weave their politics with plot & character, so you can enjoy them as entertainment but can also notice the themes. Movies without themes wind up being all spectacle and no substance, just noise and color like Michael Bay's Transformers franchise. Yeah, they make money, but they'll be forgotten in 2 generations.

[foolishlovers]

anything can be a good omens au if you’re unhinged enough

[astrobei]

byler x jurassic park. thank you for your time.

[albino-parakeet]

jwct fans July 28, 2024 @ 3 pm PST

[thecutestgrotto]

Could I ask for some dinosaurs or Jurassic park 1993 dividers? Thank you!!

Hi anon, sure thing! 🩵🌸

Jurassic Park

[weaselbug]

the fact that physical media is dying is so SO bad you guys. like, fuck.

say your like me, and love Godzilla, Jim Henson's Labyrinth and Jurassic Park (to name a few). to watch godzilla easily, tubi has a bunch of them, but they are the older ones and with ads, if you want to watch the newer ones (heisei and newer), your shit out of luck, AND finding them physically is either hard, or really expensive. to watch Labyrinth it has been dancing around every streaming site imaginable its apparently on tubi too, but its got ads. you could rent it for a buck or two, (which sucks. i hate that.). then Jurassic Park are all on peacock? i think? or something, or you could rent them.

all this is to say, THIS SUCKS!!! these movies should be easily gotten, and easily watched. while i have found libraries still have copies of video games, books, music, and movies to rent, sometimes they have quite a lacking collection.

yall, buy a movie if you like it. you can sell it, burn it, give it away, borrow it, and the best part of it all, you own it forever. and no rich fat cat can ever take it away from you so you have to buy it again.

[twelvebooksstuff]

Some Jurassic Park Daily Reflection-ft Life Finds A Way

I know I’m a few days late to when this chapter was the assigned reading, but I’m still going to make a post about this specific part of the book. I want to highlight the quote in the post title “Life…Finds A Way”. This small phrase has essentially become the slogan of the whole entire franchise, and arguably taken on a life of its own (no pun intended). So I want to talk a bit about the scene where we are first introduced to it, before even the iconic scene in the first film, to when we see the equivalent of that scene in the book.

It’s part of a much larger spiel, which is pretty par for the course for Book!Ian Malcolm, who is prone to long diatribes, many paragraphs long, detailing his opinions on everything from fashion to capitalism to natural history and beyond.

Anyway, the scene where this spiel takes place is actually not the scene in the laboratory like in the film, but rather a scene with an injured stegosaurus (triceratops in the movie). Dr. Sattler and Dr. Grant are trying to help the vet Dr. Gerry Harding assist the dinosaur to recovery, and Tim, Lex, Ian, Ed Regis (a PR representative who was not in the film) and Donald Gennaro (the lawyer, who is essentially a different character in the books) are all crowding around, too. Lex gets board and tries to play catch with some of the adults-Gennaro agrees and has a sidebar conversation with Malcolm at the same time. During this conversation, Gennaro essentially says that he thinks Malcolm’s use of chaos theory is too broad (“is anything not predicted by your theory” he point blank asks). He is skeptical, but Malcolm is able to provided specific examples beyond “things are unpredictable”, which Malcolm is able to do, listing many specifics. When trying to explain his underlying perspective, we get the basis memorable monolouge from the film: “The history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way…I don’t mean to be philosophical, but there it is.”

What’s most interesting to me is that unlike the pristine lab setting where we get this in the film, Malcolm outside talking to his colleague who’s playing catch with a young kid. Not only does it seem less grandiose, in a way, but it seems to have a more practical application, too. Oftentimes, in the later films or even other media, this idea of “life finds a way” takes on this “humanity will survive” kind of context that feels totally applicable, but a bit disconnected from the film scene imo.

But in the book, the entire spiel is happening over a game of catch, a game that means a lot to Lex, who, not fully known to Ian and Gennaro at this point, is having a very rough time at home. She feels unheard and ignored by all the adults in her life, and excluded even by Tim at points. But in this moment, Gennaro takes the time to indulge her game, and as far as Malcolm’s concerned, the more people to hear him talk, the merrier. In the midst of this hectic tour of a prehistoric zoo, they have found a small moment to connect, to build bonds, to be a community, and that represents the survival of humanity and the human spirit to me in a very visceral way.

It makes all the “life finds a way” tied to humanity exclusively make even more sense, too. Because while Malcolm is talking about things on a grand history scale, he’s also doing so while participating in/witnessing this small human moment, and it’s kind of perfect, in a way.

Anyway, I have a lot of thoughts about this and wanted to share!

[asleepies]

I’ve been doing a lot better about drawing more for myself than for likes lately but it’s still hard not to care sometimes. I appreciate the support I do get sooo much, there’s just always the thought in the back of your head with social media, maybe this will be the big one. Even when you draw silly cartoons. So every time I make a post and the likes don’t immediately start rolling in, I think of this meme and remind myself that’s not why I draw. Not a bad excuse to watch the first two Jurassic Park movies either.

[hussyknee]

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

I decided to stop dividing before the 60s for sanity reasons, and I lumped 60s 70s for having basically the same vibe across the decades

[troythecatfish]

Here’s my personal recommendation of a YouTube channel to check out:

[itaviv]

[things-ford-pines-missed]

Jurassic Park (1993)

Thing Ford Missed #36: Jurassic Park (1993).

man. he’d have loved this

[sunshine-tattoo]

Art piece is finally finished.

Acrylic paint, collage, water colors, and yarn.

[weallpartyatybcpatricksfuneral]

I've been obsessed with the silver scream + welcome to horrorwood recently

[heliianth]

i feel like i interact with media like jurassic park and httyd so differently from everyone else like 90% of the time i could not give less of a shit about the human characters and would be completely fine with them as works of xenofiction and its always devastating when i walk into fan spaces and most of it is abt the humans I DONT CARE the thing im here for are dinosaurs and dragons!!! man get with the program!!!!!!!!