Generally speaking, it is always difficult to break through when a well-known IP film series enters the second part. Sit two and watch three, link the past and the future, tell the story well, take care of the old narrator’s face and pay tribute to the past, speak new ideas, protect the feelings of a crowd of fans and let them applaud for innovation, except In addition, I have to lead people to chase to the third part and finally make a foot pad-it is like doing a dojo in a snail shell, sad to the sky.
Presumably Spielberg, the creator of "Jurassic Park", didn't have the guts to make a new Jurassic? It is better to be smart and put it in the hands of newcomers. It is a blessing or a curse, and it is always difficult to surpass the classics. So we watched it with the mentality of "the second part anyway", and we didn't expect to see the effect beyond expectations-not only was it good-looking, but it was so scared and sweaty! Why? Because the director almost turned the dinosaur movie into a ghost movie!
Juan Antonio Bayona, the long-named director from Spain, made me remember this time. He is good at thrillers, all kinds of horrors—undersea horror, jungle horror, confined pipeline horror, lonely castle horror...From the vast space where dinosaurs can move (the deep ocean bottom and the dense volcanic island) have been transferred to human activities The space (the underground laboratory in the castle and the child's attic bedroom) is getting more and more cramped and narrower. When a dinosaur head with fierce fangs dripping from a halazi slowly appears at the end of a dark, invisible pipe, your guts will not be intact even if it is not frightened.
Of course, if we have watched hundreds of similar movies, we still convince ourselves that this is a special effect, this is a model, but what is strange is precisely-even if we know that this is a thrilling effect created by the props, we can’t help being frightened. sweat. Why? Because dinosaurs are less and less like dinosaurs, more and more like humans themselves.
I remember watching a few films that left my childhood shadows when I was a child. It was horrifying to suddenly emerge from the water like "Jaws"-Spielberg also repeatedly paid tribute to "Jaws" in the Jurassic series. It shows that this trick is very useful. People are afraid of monsters that suddenly appear out of the water. But I remember that more terrifying than monsters, aliens, white sharks, etc., is the drama of people chasing people. For example, in "The Silent Lambs", when the heroine played by Judy Foster finally plucked up the courage to walk towards the dark house, the terrifying thing was that from behind her, looking at the back door of her head, a wicked hand was about to stretch out. Or like the most horrible thing in my heart, "The Shining", when a child is running alone in a closed castle promenade, in the maze of the Dark Night Garden, a wicked person who doesn’t know what to do is closely followed ( And he is the most familiar relative). To be honest, compared with those ugly big monsters, nothing is more terrifying than the hands of the wicked in the dark, the eyes of the wicked, and the smile of the wicked. Destroy, that moment was more frightening than the bloody struggle itself, as if the vast dark night fell into complete depravity.
And Juan really understands the true fears in the children's hearts-even to this day, when I watch "Ready Player One", I will still be frightened by the scenes that pay tribute to "The Shining". So, why not put this trick on dinosaurs? They are big enough, they are fierce enough, as long as a little bit of human evil is injected into their blood like a scientific experiment, the horrible dark flower will bloom as hard as possible, and we will enter the world that seems to be real. Species that do not live with us, but there are various evil people we are more familiar with calling.
In "Jurassic World 2", the base for the horror effect is its super special effects technology. The restoration of the dinosaur model in 2018 is no longer just a matter of fact. When you wear 3D glasses, the dinosaur's drool and the dense blue and black bumps on the skin are as real as they are in front of you. You can even imagine that your hand becomes the hand of the soldier in the film, holding a vise, and pulling out the huge teeth of the fallen dinosaurs-you must feel that your teeth are hurting because their mouths are so real. Their expressions are like our own pain when we are pulled out.
However, what I want to say is that with the blessing of special effects technology, humans (or director Juan's team) have added a little new imagination to this completely unknown world of dinosaurs. It seems reasonable, but the results are always unexpected. They allowed dinosaurs to be domesticated by humans, and the regenerated dinosaurs not only possessed animality, but also possessed a little humanity. Some kind behaviorist Owen taught them to treat cute pets, and evil biologists trained them as super military weapons. What happens when dinosaurs have human intelligence bit by bit? You see, the scariest thing is coming.
When the genetically modified tyrannical raptor was released from the cage, everyone at the huge castle auction site scattered and fled. Only the leader of the soldiers who was used to knocking down the dinosaurs with anesthesia guns thought that the dinosaur in front of him was nothing but limbs. Developed idiot. As usual, he took out his anesthesia gun, lazily, and prepared to hit it casually, and then this behemoth would collapse suddenly and let him kill under his high-tech anesthesia weapon...
Sure enough, the Velociraptor fell down after a shot of anesthesia, and the soldiers stepped forward and had to pull out its teeth as usual to teach it a lesson. However, he couldn't pull it out. Still can't pull it out a few more times? Let's rewind the camera for a few seconds, can you see it? The moment the dinosaur fell, it smiled. The corners of its mouth are slightly raised, and its eyes are half-open and half-closed. It looks like a hunter who has already set up a trap, just waiting for the mindless prey to be hooked. However, it is ridiculous that its prey is human, and people think it is prey.
The soldier fell into the mouth of the cunning and tyrannical raptor. It is not so much that its brutality defeated people, it is better to say that a little bit of human-like wisdom has brought it more lethality. It has learned strategy, learned how to go through the warehouse in secret, learned how to shift a thousand catties in two or two ways, and learned to effortlessly defeat the earth-dominant species that is accustomed to using its brain—humans.
The evil smile of the Velociraptor in the cage is simply the most exciting part of "Jurassic World 2." It is innovative and unprecedented. It is more terrifying than the mouth of the blood basin that suddenly opens on the seabed, more terrifying than the reflection of the minions on the wall of the castle, and terrible than the shaking of any mountain that is chasing after it, because it is quietly Silently changed the frightening nature of dinosaurs- it was scary, not because it was a dinosaur, but because it looked like a human being.
This whimsy has become the magical touch of "Jurassic World 2" that should have been moderate. Because no one would have expected what would happen to a human dinosaur. Like the little cute pet Blue, when the world collapses, it will look back at the people who tamed it? Or is it like the invincible raptor who only knows how to use evil to bless its tyranny? No one would have expected what would happen when these mixed factors of good and evil were mixed in the body of dinosaurs when they rushed into the human world.
So Juan’s mission was completed, and he successfully led us to the imaginary third, a completely unknown world. There are exiled dinosaurs similar to humans, and humans who have always stood at the top of the biological chain and still want to defeat any species. When they compete in the new world, it is more than the simple fairy tale-like Jurassic Park 25 years ago? More than a simple collision between the prehistoric world and the modern civilized world 65 million years ago? In the new Jurassic world, there must be a deeper level of competition between the animal nature in human nature and the human nature in animal nature.
Those who love to watch movies must expect that this movie will leave a path to the future, like all blockbusters that link the past. The end credit egg appeared after nearly ten minutes of super-long music subtitles, and some dinosaurs flew over the city, the center of human activity. What will happen in the future? We can only look forward to it with imagination.
We may see the winding dragon as lonely as a human on a volcanic island, or we may see a human as desperate as an endangered dinosaur in the city. Whether it is good or evil, loneliness or fear, in the new Jurassic world, we will see ourselves in the mirror more.
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