"Dinosaur eats Man, Woman inherits the earth"
"We can discuss sexism in survival situations when I get back"
Yep, long before Star Wars' Holdo was on the scene, Laura Dern was being a feminist here! Why didn't I get the connection before TLJ?
Much as I love Jurassic Park, this is one of a number of lines which make me cringe. JP is a classic case of a poor script nevertheless scoring as terrific entertainment.
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I more or less agree, although i’d nominate Richard Attenborough as a weak link too.
Dern is one of my favourite actresses but I can’t stand her in Jurassic Park.
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I tolerated him when I was younger but watching him now I find him almost unbearably twee, and far too naive as portrayed to convince as the mastermind behind the park. He’s a plot device and not a character.
Dickie was a great actor - Brighton Rock, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, 10 Rillington Place offer more than enough evidence - but this role was beneath him, I feel.
I love Attenborough. I even met him once. And he was indeed a brilliant actor, and incredibly versatile, when you consider that loveable Sir Dickie played two of the most despicable characters in cinema history in Brighton Rock and 10 Rillington Place.
Still, I can't help thinking what Sean Connery, who I believe was the original choice for the part, would have made of the role. As well as having an authentic Scottish accent, I think at that stage of his career he would have been able to channel the more ruthless and arrogant aspects of the John Hammond depicted in the novel, which Spielberg omitted from the final film.
Connery could have been very good indeed. I hadn’t heard that he was the original choice… he would have been as well cast as Hammond as he would have been miscast as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, for which he was also apparently an early contender.
shareAgreed about LOTR. Supposedly Connery rejected the offer to play Gandolf, because he 'didn't understand Tolkien', but that worked out well in the end, because, as you say, he would have been miscast (just as Charlton Heston would have been miscast as Dr. Henry Jones Sr. as I believe was mooted before Connery was cast in the third Indiana Jones film). Sir Ian McKellan turned out to be brilliant casting, and conveyed the intelligence, wisdom and wary nature required for the character. Connery would have been more overbearing and imposing in the role, I feel. The role required an intellectual actor rather than a 'man of action' type.
shareCheck her out in David Lynch’s “Wild at Heart” and then see how feminist you think she is.
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She didn't write the script. And films pre-sjw era are not sjw films or characters. You gen z really need to watch more films prior to 2000.
shareI'm actually a Gen'X'er.
Then why do you see older films as sjw? When that's a newly invented ideology/cult? How are you different from them?
shareIt's not new, at all. It just used to be much more subtle prior to about 2012. It used to be a couple of "jokey" lines like the ones mentioned in this film, which people used to roll their eyes at, but not take too seriously. Since around 2012, it has morphed into an all-out, open, unapologetic assault against anything and everything traditional that made Western civilization what it is. I think 2013 was the first time I saw the term 'Social Justice Warrior' used. But it certainly wasn't the origin of the ideology. Not by a LONG shot.
shareShe showed other things in Wild at Heart!
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So why WOULDN'T a female scientist be a feminist?
This is someone who *knows* she's smarter than most of the men she deals with, and most women with high IQs and high educational achievements are feminist. And believe me, straight guys, you don't want to deal with the exceptions.