![]() ![]() It turns out John Hammond, the eccentric billionaire who created Jurassic Park, had an equally rich and eccentric partner in that dodgy enterprise. Jurassic World raked in the fifth-highest box-office take in film history, grossing a paltry $1.7 billion, so you can see why the filmmakers felt compelled to tweak the formula into something a little closer to Jurassic Wuthering Heights. Monsters on the auction block, with creepy Toby Jones holding the gavel! Oh, and a little girl (Isabella Sermon) whose stern-but-loving governess (Geraldine Chaplin) scolds her when her enunciation sounds too American. Second, Las Vegas is a boisterous city associated with excess, indulgence, and risky behavior (who hasn’t accidentally lost a small fortune while playing the slots?) - sounds a lot like the work of Hammond and Lockwood, who took a monumental gamble in playing God with their living, breathing creations, no? Of all American cities, Vegas (otherwise known as Sin City, mind you!) is the perfect people-populated center to serve as the backdrop for Jurassic World‘s undoing.Monsters in the basement. dinosaurs using genetic material from their predecessors spliced together with frog DNA. ![]() For starters, the tower itself is a crude recreation made in the image of a monolithic icon (in this case, the real Eiffel Tower in Paris, France), much like Hammond’s Jurassic Park dinosaurs were essentially knockoffs crafted in the likeness of O.G. Though it works as an ominous glimpse into the setup for the next Jurassic World film (yes, we’re probably in for a Lost World-style battle between humans and dinosaurs on urban turf), the brief footage also serves as a greater thematic purpose. ![]()
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