During our first big-screen introduction to Isla Nublar, many of us fell in love with
the Jurassic Park movies, but in the 20-plus years since then, fans have uncovered many
mistakes and issues with the films.
Yippee-ki-yay, movie lovers, it's Jan here and today I'm explaining how Jurassic World:
Fallen Kingdom fixes or addresses six movie mistakes and complaints fans have about the
Jurassic movies.
Spoilers ahead for the Jurassic World movies, so take care if you haven't seen them yet.
The brutal, drawn-out death of Claire's personal assistant Zara in Jurassic World attracted
plenty of criticism.
Zara's demise, which saw her being pounced on by multiple Pteranodons and snapped up
by a Mosasaur, certainly seemed over the top given all she'd done was lose track of Claire's
nephews after they were dumped on her.
For Fallen Kingdom though, co-writer Colin Trevorrow says he learned his lesson, and
told Empire that he "made sure that every death was earned.
Everybody deserves their death in this movie."
He explained that it's "horrible people" who massistant Eli Mills.
The T-Rex goat scene in Jurassic Park is an iconic moment and there was a brief call-back
to it in the first Jurassic World.
Yet some niggling questions have been raised about the original scene, such as given the
size of the goat, why would a T-Rex leave a leg behind and not eat the whole animal.
Well, in Fallen Kingdom when the T-Rex is moved into Lockwood Manor's basement and she
eats the goat, this time the filmmakers specifically showed Rexy swallowing up that final goat
leg.
And there's another little nod to that Jurassic Park goat moment when Rexy is chomping down
on Eli Mills and one of his legs flies off, Carnotaurus catches it but then leaves it
behind after being scared off by Rexy.
By the way, the T-Rex and goat scene was actually censored in some countries like Italy and
I talk more about that in my video on Fallen Kingdom's deleted and censored scenes.
Something that irked many fans in Jurassic World was how Claire managed to spend the
whole movie running around the island in stilettos.
Of course, watching a dinosaur movie means we have to suspend our disbelief, but seeing
a T-Rex outrun by Claire who was wearing high heels that never snapped, just seemed a little
too silly and unnecessary.
Bryce Dallas Howard defended her stilettos saying they reflected how her character was
more at home in a corporate environment and was disconnected from the animals in the park.
Fallen Kingdom director J.A.
Bayona acknowledged Jurassic World's "heel-gate" with his first shot of Claire in Jurassic
World 2 focusing on her in heels in the office elevator, just like the first movie.
However, once Claire gets back on the island, she ditches her heels for some sturdy boots,
a much more practical choice for the sequel's action scenes.
Although it's well known that many real-life dinosaurs had feathers, none in the first
Jurassic Park movie did.
In fact, dinosaur consultants on that movie did recommend that dinos such as the raptors
and the T-Rex should have feathers; however, unfortunately, computer animation at that
time couldn't handle creating feathers realistically so the idea was abandoned.
The movie's scientific inaccuracy was acknowledged by Jurassic Park 3's filmmakers who gave a
nod to feathered dinosaurs by adding a little tuft of quills to the velociraptors.
But when the franchise returned with Jurassic World, a decision was made to stick with featherless
raptors.
Director Colin Trevorrow defended this choice by saying that Steven Spielberg had been unhappy
with the look and feel of feathered dinosaurs in the Terra Nova TV series which Spielberg
executive produced between the original and new trilogy.
Jurassic World 2 addresses its lack of feathered raptors by adding a little tuft of quills
to the new Indoraptor's head while still maintaining the franchise's continuity by keeping the
overall scaly look of most of the Jurassic dinos.
By the way, the movies have an in-universe justification for the lack of accuracy in
their dino designs as they aren't pure dinosaurs as their genes have been mixed with, for example,
frog DNA.
And Wu explained in Jurassic World that Masrani wasn't interested in realistic-looking dinos,
just scarier ones.
"If their genetic code was pure, many of them would look quite different."
"But you didn't ask for reality."
"You asked for more teeth."
Although Jurassic Park 3 is one of the less popular entries in the franchise, many fans
do love the Spinosaurus which was introduced in that movie.
And key to designing that dinosaur was Ricardo Delgado, who contributed storyboards and concept
art for the creature.
Delgado is a film and comic book artist who went uncredited for his contributions to the
movie; however, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom pays homage to him with an easter egg via
congresswoman Delgado who Claire speaks to on the phone to get support for her plan to
the save the dinosaurs from their impending extinction on Isla Nublar.
One big complaint that fans had about Jurassic World was that there were too many CG dinosaurs
and not enough of the old-school animatronic dinos they loved from the original movie.
We did get an animatronic Apatosaurus scene in Jurassic World, but Colin Trevorrow explained
that budget limitations meant they were only able to write one scene for an animatronic
dino.
Bu after the financial success of that movie, the sequel had a much larger budget and it
hired Star Wars practical effects legend Neal Scanlan to create new animatronic dinos for
the film.
Trevorrow, who co-wrote the script, made sure to include close-up scenes with Blue, T-Rex
and the Indoraptor.
The scene with the injured Blue where Owen, Zia, Franklin and Claire all interact with
the raptor is very realistic and the use of animatronics gave an opportunity for the actors
to have a real physical and emotional connection to the dino.
More than ten people were under the table operating Blue during that scene and the creature
was even able to sweat and drool.
The Indoraptor's close-up scenes also used puppeteers to get more realistic and scarier
shots.
VFX was then also added on top to enhance certain moments difficult to replicate with
puppetry, such as the blink of an eye or a snarl.
Now, let me know what plot holes or movie mistakes you spotted in Fallen Kingdom?
And what did you most enjoy about the movie?
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