Cinema, since its inception has striven to bring magnificent, amazing and wondrous imagery onto the canvas of the 'big screen'. One of the first such images of awe is the legendary 1895 movie L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat, directed and produced by French brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere. The fifty second short showed a steam locomotive pulling into a station from afar; the static camera placed close to the edge of platform is reported to have caused panic at the movies premiere showing in January 1986. Since then movies have amazed and awestruck with both beautiful and frightening imagery of wonders above and beyond our imagination; be it an army of sword bearing skeletons fighting real life actors, a giant Gorilla scaling the Empire State Building, a space station spinning silently amidst the blackness of space, a caped man flying among the clouds, or a Tyrannosaurus Rex bellowing aloud as its strides free from its enclosure.
Blockbuster Hollywood movies have always sought to amaze us with spectacles beyond our comprehension, taking our dreams and our nightmares from the secret depths of our psyche and painting them across the cinema screen, as though they were real. But the best filmmakers, the best directors take your most desired fantasy and turn it into your innermost fear. What if the thing you desired came at a cost too dear to justify your dream, what if ET turned out to be Jaws? What if everyone's desire to see Dinosaurs made flesh again could be used to recreate the monster movie genre. This is what Steven Spielberg set out to do, and achieved with 1993's Jurassic Park, and new director Colin Trevorrow has taken one step further with this summers record breaking Jurassic World.
Despite all of the controversy from scientists and the dedication from dinosaur loving fans, the fact is that the Jurassic Park movies and the latest instalment Jurassic World are nothing more than monster movies. Dinosaurs, the magnificent and wonderous creatures that once ruled this world are not the stars of these films. The stars of these films are abominations, hybrids, monsters. The much beloved Velociraptor was in actuality no taller than a turkey, the real Dilophosaurus was taller than depicted, had no frill and spat no paralysing venom, and the fan favorite T-Rex was likely adorned from head to toe in proto-feathers.
While the new movies antagonist Dinosaur, the Indominus Rex has been likened to an analogy of an audiences greed and apetite for things to get bigger, louder and more extravagant to maintain interest, the hybrid creature can also be used as analogy of the franchise that brought it into being; the Indominus Rex and the Jurassic Park franchise are monster movies disguised as Dinosaur flicks – wolves in sheeps clothing.
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