It is true that "Jurassic World" is a mixed product of many types like many Hollywood commercial masterpieces. I personally feel that the most profound part is not how new it is. In recent years, Marvel and DC superhero series have more The romance series aimed at teenagers, as well as the "Destiny" series that has just been released for the seventh episode, are more of the scenery of this era. Instead, the retro design of this new work deliberately pays tribute to the first episode in 1993 highlights its old style. style. Not only is the Jurassic World Theme Park a complete presentation of Yanshen’s unfinished business in the first episode, but the same perspectives of the two teenage characters re-emphasize the surprise brought by the dinosaurs, and the relationship between them and the heroine is also the first. Set the repetition of the family theme. The park’s strict protection and control to the inevitable accidents and loopholes, and then to the expansion and loss of control at different stages of the crisis, the disaster type operation one after another is basically to repeat the story of the first episode, and even many scenes and shots are directly Similar to the first episode, the two little protagonists also discovered the "Jurassic Park" ruins that had been abandoned for many years after the first episode. The details are full of tribute.
The male protagonist Chris Pratt's appearance can be said to be a modern remake of Indiana Jones, another popular series in the 1980s by Spielberg, although the actual role in the movie is less humorous than Dr. Jones. The match between him and the heroine Bryce Dallas Howard is more like the combination of Mike Douglas and Katharine Turner in "Romancing the Stone" (Romancing the Stone-1984), especially the heroine's feet are miraculously running and running. The high-heeled shoes that will not fall off repeatedly highlight her out-of-date female image. Of course, the earlier source may be the "African Queen" (The African Queen-1951) by Kairin Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. The combination of beautiful women and tough guys has long been a formula that audiences have been familiar with for decades.
In addition to the movie’s horror and disaster scenes that pay tribute to "Jurassic Park", the first episode of human delusion to create life’s self-effects to life will find a way out of the theme, in this sequel, it is further transformed into a critique of capitalism and people. The complaint that animals are alienated into tools, the "boss" and "company" in order to protect the assets of dinosaurs, and even to train dinosaurs into military weapons, regardless of the safety of employees and tourists, this is almost a complete imitation of the "Alien" series Proposition. The deployment of the two armed forces hunting dinosaurs until they were annihilated one by one reminds people of "Alien 2", can the white Emperor Tyrannosaurus also be linked to the white hybrid alien in "Alien: Rebirth from Fire"? Even the final scene where the heroine released a purebred Tyrannosaurus to confront the Emperor Tyrannosaurus. In addition to being a reference to the first episode again, it also reminds people of "Alien 2" at the end Ripley used the robot crane to fight the alien queen. The scene in Alien is just about the confrontation between the two mothers and the relationship between the labor body and the machine. In the Jurassic, it is a purebred confrontation variant. The battle between the old and the new, and of course the dinosaurs killed each other and swallowed. There will also be shadows of monster movies since "Godzilla".
All these retro imitations just show that what the audience wants is not new. The operation of "Jurassic World" is to summon the audience's desire for nostalgic entertainment, simpler and clearer characters and propositions, more direct, clear and true The action schedule of the movie is no longer a postmodern reference to the present messy era, which makes this movie quite the illusion of returning to the 1980s and 1990s. The only problem left is that most of these imitations to the classics are incapable of being tangible and godless, on the contrary, they are even more outdated and incapable. Neither the charm of the heroes and heroines or the growth propositions of the two children have really been fermented. Others All kinds of critical reflections are also irrelevant. The selling point of dinosaur special effects is of course quite standard, but the action scenes can only be considered unsatisfactory. After all, the new director Colin Trevorrow in this episode is not Steven Spielberg, and the technical problems are different. foot. It's just that the film provides temporary entertainment and nostalgia to achieve the purpose of the commodity. What Hollywood can do is to produce antique products modified by genetic recombination. I think the audience does not really expect the original classics to be replaced and surpassed.
One scene is perhaps the most meaningful and moving picture of the whole film. It is the little protagonist and brother sitting in the audience of Dinosaur Ocean World before the crisis to watch the performance. The brother seems to be indifferent to the performance while sliding his mobile phone, but until the mossaurus leaped from the bottom of the water. The scene was really scared when the water splashed around. Perhaps he was reminded of his childhood experience, and his joyful expression also summoned the audience's memories of being surprised by the dinosaurs 22 years ago. At the time, it was proposed that copying dinosaurs to create Jurassic Park was dangerous, but now we are still ecstatic when we see the new Jurassic World.
The irony is that the person in the play uses real sensory stimulation to make him lift his head and leave the Internet world in his hands, but what he sees is no longer a "real" dinosaur. In fact, it has been changed under the setting of genetic modification and the constant renovation of archaeological biology. It doesn't matter whether it is real or not, let alone the virtual illusion of artificial computer drawing before our eyes in reality. Whether it's real or virtual, when audiences from elephants to dinosaurs can't feel satisfied, what are we forgetting? It reminds me of the protagonist's profile for the Emperor Tyrannosaurus: It is an animal that doesn't know what it is and has never lived normally. It hunts for fun and is no longer just for food. On the other hand, a theme park that takes pleasure in the exploitation of dinosaurs is not a metaphor for the crisis of modern human civilization.
(2015/6/28)
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