The Surprising Screenwriting Twist That Made Me Fall for Jurassic Park All Over Again

The Surprising Screenwriting Twist That Made Me Fall for Jurassic Park All Over Again

The T-Rex set piece here is a show-stopper. It’s better than the T-Rex jeep scene in the original movie. And again – I know I’m beating a dead dinohippus here – but it’s because it’s so simple. It’s just a T-Rex stalking the family on an inflatable raft down the stream. So the T-Rex is sort of dancing around from side to side on the stream as it picks at this strange contraption full of potential hors d’oeuvres. It’s actually quite brilliant spatially. The T-Rex is on the right side, then the left side, at one point when the water gets deep, it swims under them.

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