"Jurrassic Park"

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"Jurrassic Park"

A discussion of whether the analogy set forth in "Jurassic Park" between film and the theme park ride is appropriate and the implications this has for cinema in general.

1,677 words () | 12 sources | MLA | 2002 Australia

Paper Summary:

This paper examines how throughout the history of cinema there has always been the thrill of the spectacle. It reviews the film "Jurassic Park" within the context of the history of the cinematic arts by placing it in the cycle of spectacle driven films, that has followed cinema since its beginnings. It analyzes the implications this has for cinema in general as a return to the cinema of spectacle in the new guise of themed entertainment, similar to the entertainment arcades of old.

From the Paper:

"Jurassic Park is part of a cyclic trend in cinema that exploits new technologies to hark back to the tradition of early cinema and its amusement park roots. The film begins inside reality, the normal world, where dinosaurs exist only as fossils; technology is limited, allowing us only to see radar outlines of dinosaur skeletons from inside an inhospitable desert. It is in the pristine jungle that the trouble begins. The gates to Jurassic Park open, and with them the metaphoric flood gates of Ian Malcom's chaos theory. The visitors are no longer viewing the theme park from a spectator's view, but the theme park comes to them , and with a millennial rage . The film becomes the ride that explains the process of creating dinosaurs with cute animations, but Sadler, Grant and Malcom subvert the ride, wanting a more real experience. "