The Surprising Screenwriting Twist That Made Me Fall for Jurassic Park All Over Again
And it’s great! Cause it’s so clear. The mercs are trying to outrun the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs are whizzing around the boat and try to snatch up the humans in their mouths. Guardrails are broken, humans are holding on for their lives. Hungry dinosaurs get closer and closer. It’s good old fashioned set piece storytelling without all the excess nonsense that has destroyed the Marvel Universe with their abysmally over-constructed fuzzy set pieces.
And I have to give props to David Koepp, who came up with the concept and wrote the script. I’ve always seen Koepp as a glorified studio stenographer. He’s never written anything that’s had any major impact on me. But he kicks ass here. Because he understands what I said earlier. Which is that these huge concept movies are not about anything other than building a story that creates great set pieces.
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