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The real star of the Jurassic Park films was not the T-Rex,
brachiosaurus or velociraptor, but Malcolm: the sardonic, black-clad
philosopher-fool of this morality tale, who sees from the beginning that
the park is an accident waiting to happen – a scientist sex-god who
roamed the screens of this Earth long before everyone went mad for Dr
Brian Cox and “geek chic”.
Michael Crichton, author of the original novel, and Steven Spielberg
realised this, and elevated him to the status of protagonist for the
sequel, which opens with another palaeontological Easter egg. When we
expect the camera to cut to a roaring dinosaur, we instead get a shot of
Malcolm yawning on the New York subway. Malcolm, you see, is a chaos
theorist, and the Greek word for chaos also means “yawn”.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/12/jurassic-world-t-rex-malcolm-jeff-goldblum-dinosaurs-chaos-theory
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Before saying anything about this retread, I should state for the record
that I have a soft spot for some of Spielberg’s work, particularly
“Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “ET”. I also found “Jurassic
Park” entertaining but less so for the rampaging Tyrannosaurus Rex than
for Jeff Goldblum’s character Dr. Ian Malcolm who had such memorable
lines: “What’s so great about discovery? It’s a violent, penetrative act
that scars what it explores. What you call discovery, I call the rape of
the natural world.” (I wonder what Edward Abbey would have made of this
film.)
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/12/mindless-entertainment-while-awaiting-the-next-mass-extinction/
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