Jurassic Park

Jurassic World was the first ever movie to make $500m at the global box office within its introductory weekend. It has accumulated $1.4billion so far and experts believe it will be in the top 3 movies of all time alongside Avatar and Titanic. The question is how.

There are many reviews on the Jurassic World movie which elaborate how the film portrays human arrogance through futuristic knowledge and how people get bored so easily unless they have something bigger and better being produced. This film illustrates this as the theme park is already so popular. However that isn’t satisfying as they are constantly modifying it in order for more visitors, generating more money for the corporation. Without retelling the story of the film, here are some of the reasons for its success.

Jurassic World was first planned to be released back in 2005. However they spent 10years improving the script and the quality of the film in order to make it better by relating it to real-life. The new modified dinosaur (the Indominus Rex) symbolised the greed of humanity and how we humans always want bigger, faster, louder etc. This is controversial because they are trying to stop the dinosaur completely as they have finally realised they went too far. Does this mean humanity is just waiting for that ‘too far’ moment where they are hoping they never made that decision in the first place?

Steven Spielberg (executive producer) is one of the world’s best known and most respected film directors. He directed the Jurassic Park 1 and 2 and produced Jurassic Park 3. Clearly the 4^th film had to be a success, financially and also for his reputation as a great director. This will be one of the reasons why the film was delayed and why so much effort was placed on the story line, the special effects, the casting and the music. 

Having modern media especially social networking sites allows the official advertisement of the film (trailer) to be easily shared in far more places. This will increase the number of people with an interest of watching the film. The picture below depicts an interesting mix of old and new technology- for example the 4x4 and the broken pod and the juxtaposition of the business lady and the ‘outdoor guy.’ Strong imagery like this help create an interest in watching the film making it even more so successful.

Not all reviews were good, for example shortly after Jurassic World was released there was some commotion with the paleontologists as they found out that the Pterodactylus dinosaurs originally had feathered wings, not scales. As this discovery was found out before the releasing of the film, they wanted this small detail to be put in the new Jurassic movie, however it wasn’t. Although this made the news at the time, this didn’t deter people from watching.

Having seen the movie myself, I believe the critics were correct in their review. The film was “visually dazzling” and the story kept me captivated from start to finish.

References

cinemablend.com

theguardian.com

wikipiadia.com

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