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

In other words, the plot’s job here is to make it as easy as possible to get our characters into as many cool dinosaur-led set-pieces as possible. And that’s exactly what it did.

Our first dino set piece is a giant dinosaur fish-thing attacking a small sailboat. And it’s great! What I loved about it was how simple it was. So many of these set pieces these days are big and busy and convoluted. You don’t know what’s going on half the time. Here, it’s simple! Big fish try to knock over boat. That’s it! So it keeps swimming around and bumping the boat. And it keeps getting worse and worse for the family on the boat. And it’s riveting! I was on the edge of my seat.

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