Next week, it goes out for rent " The world of the Jurassic period ". This year, many old episodes are returning in general: they have not yet had time to fade the impressions of the new " Mad Max ", And soon the fifth" awaits us " Terminator ". Whether the talented, but not too experienced director Colin Trevorrow will succeed not to shame the honor of the "Jurassic" series?
On the one hand, the second and third parts turned out to be much worse than the original, but we still waited for the fourth. On the other hand, the original once made such a splash that he involuntarily raised the bar of expectations to an almost unattainable height.
Let's remember how it all started, and try to imagine what awaits us in the next Thursday.
The writer created dinosaurs
In the eighties, the famous writer Michael Cruiton became carried away by a cinema and almost retrained to the directors. True, his directorial career did not set, and he did not stop writing.
Cruiton for a long time heeded the idea with cloning dinosaurs. First, he wrote a synopsis of the script about the young graduate of the university, secretly from all the recreated dinosaurus. The script did not interest anyone, and Croiton processed him in a book about the entertainment park on a remote island. In the first version, the narrative was conducted on behalf of a boy who first appeared in the park, but then the writer was disconnected from this venture.
► After the “Park” release, Michael Cruiton turned into one of the most successful US writers.
Cruiton rewrote the text in his branded pseudo -reward style and hit the apple. The novel headed the lists of bestseller, and between the largest Hollywood studios before the book of the book on the shelves, a serious struggle for the right to film adaptation flared up on the shelves.
The Universal studio won, paying the author one and a half million dollars, and in addition to Croiton received a significant percentage of cash fees. Universal offered the director of Stephen Spielberg, who was just planning to start filming " Schindler list ", But agreed to change the projects in places.
The director filmed them
► Tyrannosaurus-Rex became a real film star. Spielberg even rewrote the ending to give the public the opportunity to look at his pet once again.
The greatest problem was the dinosaurs themselves. At first, Spielberg planned to use full-size models of prehistoric monsters for filming and was going to hire specialists who created the mechanical version of King Kong for the picture " King Kong is alive ".
Then he realized that the animals would look unnatural and unconvincing, and thought about combined shootings: for distant plans and common scenes, use miniature models, and to build several mobile models in full growth for a close -up.
► The scene with the tyrannosaurus pursuing the jeep was added by Spielberg for the vast entertainment. It took about two months to create it at the crew.
But Spielberg still remained unhappy, and he was offered to turn to computer animation. The result exceeded all expectations, and at the same time the film crew has found application for both miniature and full -sized models. The miniatures formed the basis of digital models, and the animators who created models that collected a lot of information about habits and dinosaur’s movements were re -qualified as technical consultants.
Cruiton personally wrote the first version of the script, receiving for this half a million and ruthlessly throwing more than half of the contents from the novel. Spielberg broke the text into scenes, choosing those that must be on the screen.
► In fact, most dinosaurs shown on the screen lived in the Cretaceous period. Brachiosaurus was one of two exceptions.
Scriptwriters reduced the number of characters and completely abandoned some storylines. Some of the episodes were removed due to budget restrictions, others were redone to reduce the level of violence. Spielberg deliberately changed the age of two characters-children in order to get the opportunity to work with young actor Joseph Macocelllo.
The most interesting transformation is associated with the image of the creator of Park John Hammond. In the book, it is depicted as “Changing to the Dark Side” Walt Disney – a rich industrialist, ready for anything for the sake of profit. In the film, Hammond turned into a big child, a dreamer and a dreamer who seeks to return to people faith in a miracle. Spielberg saw himself in this character and gave him some of his own features.
► The scene with the self -sacrifice of Yana Malcolm was added at the suggestion of Jeff Goldbamum, who did not want his hero to look like a coward.
► The scenes in the rain were a real test for the tyrannosaurus layout. The figure got wet through and became very heavy. Therefore, all such shootings were put off to the very end.
The preparation was delayed for not one year, but the main field shootings, which took place in Hawaii, took only a few weeks. " Jurassic Park "1993 became a real hit, earned more than 900 million dollars at the box office and before the appearance" Titanic »Wondered the title of cash register in the world. But its main achievement, similar to the appearance of sound cinema in 1927, is associated with the influence of the "park" on the development of special effects.
The film showed the possibilities of computer graphics, and many directors thought about the implementation of ideas that previously seemed unrealized. George Lucas returned to " Star Wars ", Stanley Kubrick – to the thoughts of" Artificial intelligence ", And Peter Jackson looked at his book shelf in a new way. In addition, Park resurrected interest in dinosaurs. Giant lizards again came into fashion and began to appear much more often in mass culture.
Return to the island of dinosaurs
► According to the original scenario, the heroes slipped away from the island on the gliders. Then the ending was changed, but already managed to make toys layouts.
Cruiton never returned to the already investigated topic, but this time crowds of readers, publishers and film studios began to put pressure on him, achieving the continuation, and finally he lost after the personal request of Stephen Spielberg.
CREITON Big Fan " Lost world »Arthur Conan Doyle, and he wanted to place the characters to where the dinosaurs would live in conditions close to real. So the idea came up with Isla-Born, the site B, the second island, where the whole main work on the cloning of dinosaurs proceeded.
Spielberg was imbued with an idea and began to work as soon as the book was written. Kriton was again offered to write the first version of the script, but he categorically refused, and David Capp, the author of the final version of the script "got down to business Jurassic Park ". Capp decided to come up with his own story, leaving only a common tie from the plot of Cryton, an idea with the second island and several names of characters.
► Spielberg personally added scenes with a tyrannosaurus in San Diego, paying tribute to the film adaptation " Lost world "1925. Cruiton admitted that he was thinking about this, working on the manuscript, but refused the idea due to its banality.
Stephen Spielberg personally changed the third act of the film in the script of Kapp by adding a line with the advent of a tyrannosaurus in San Diego. In the original version, the events took place only on the island, and everything ended in the fact that the heroes ran away from Isla-Born on a helicopter and reflected the attack of giant pterenodones.
" The lost world "The atmosphere was completely different, more gloomy and tough. The creators added to the narrative several scenes from the first book carved from the script "Park" due to excessive cruelty.
Most likely, the point is the evolution of the views of Stephen Spielberg. Previously, the director believed that films should first of all please and entertain the audience, but after " Schindler list »I felt that he wanted to speak more gloomy topics.
► The scene with the treatment of a broken foot of the tyrannosaurian cub is the only one in the film from the book unchanged.
► "The Last White Hunter" Roland Tembo performed by Pete Stoletuet became the pretty character of the film.
Although " The lost world "Became one of the most box office films of 1997, he failed to surpass the original. The authors could not offer the audience anything fundamentally new, besides, the picture was brought up by the plot. Critics rightly smashed Capped for plot holes, for the unbearable and unattractive characters of the main characters, and noting the excellent drawing of dinosaurs, mercilessly summed up that computer lizards in the film are much more alive and convincing than people.
The third film is lumpy
► In the third part of the Raptors, for the first time showed from the more positive side: as loving parents, for whom care for offspring is more important than hunting.
After " Lost world "Cruiton and Spielberg decided that there was enough of them, and when the Universal studio announced the third part, they tried to minimize his participation: Spielberg limited himself to the role of the executive producer, and Croiton visited the brainstorming of the script and was the same.
The script became the weakest part of the 2001 picture, which is not surprising: the concept changed literally on the move, and the final version was written after the start of filming. At first, the creators wanted to talk about how the main character of the first part, Dr. Alan Grant, lived for eight years on the side with dinosaurs, then an almost detective story was drawn on how a grant was investigating the mysterious murders associated with the island. In the end, they agreed that the grant was dragged into the second island to save the missing boy.
► In a real battle, the spinosaurus would not have survived against tyrannosaurus and pairs of rounds.
The scriptwriters actively used the ideas of Michael Cruton, who did not find application in previous films. The third part is borrowed from the source even more scenes than " The lost world ", But otherwise the plot makes a deplorable impression. Almost from the first frames you can guess which of the heroes will be saved and who is not. The characters of most characters are spelled out weakly, their actions are sometimes completely not friends with logic.
► Jeff Goldbbum was supposed to return to his role in the third part, but soon after the start of the filming he damaged his leg and dropped out of the project.
The role of the main star of the film was read to the role of the new lizard – Spinosaurus. According to the creators, the ferocious predator was to overshadow the tyrannosaurus, but his appearance caused a lot of questions. No one understood where he came from, because the spinosaurs were not among the initially cloned lizards. But even if it was created in an atmosphere of complete secrecy – why no one noticed it earlier, for example, in the second part? The main catch is that the spinosaur could not compete with the tyrannosaurus at all, since he ate small game, fish and carrion.
Again in the ranks
► The secret of communication between Owen Grady (Preett) with Raptors is very simple: he was present in their life since birth and established himself as an alpha-sovereign.
Despite many negative reviews, the third part paid off at the box office, which gave rise to a lot of rumors about the filming of the fourth film. Once on the Internet, the details of the script of William Monakhan even leaked to the Internet, where scientists crossed the genes of the dinosaur and man, there were new genetically modified soldiers and the former American marine.
In the end, the project received a green light. Spielberg again limited himself to the role of the producer, and young Colin Trevorrow sat in the directorial chair. He, in the company with his co -author Derek Konnoli, brought to mind the script written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver.
► In the new film, we will see a completely open and active park with dinosaurs for the first time.
The identity of the director and the first details of the fourth part caused the public a skeptical attitude. They can be understood. Colin Trevorrow is a representative of independent cinema, and although his debut work " Security is not guaranteed "Caused positive assessments, he never worked with high -budget projects.
True, the habit of trusting blockbusters of talented youth is in Hollywood in fashion, just remember " Godzilla "Gareth Edwards and New" Fantastic four "Josh Trinka. But this trend also has a flip side: the same track, unable to withstand the pressure, self -stir from the filming of the second branch entrusted to him from " Star Wars ".
Many were still randed the artificially bred new dinosaur and “manual” raptors of the protagonist. Although this can be selected by a logical explanation. For the first time, https://sister-site.org/slotonights/ Michael Cruiton spoke about the possibility of creating completely new types of dinosaurs in the first book with the mouth of the same character, which in " The world of the Jurassic period »Fulfilled. As for the rapists, for three films they were shown as smart, adaptive and, most importantly, herd animals. In other words, under certain conditions, they are ready to endure themselves next to the hero Chris Pratt. True, this does not mean at all that this can be relaxed at least for a second.
► Despite all the precautions and previous failures taken, danger awaits visitors in the new park.
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Colin Trevorrow is a large connoisseur of the original and tries to act very carefully. He does not seek to reject what was done before him (although the events of the second and third part, for the most part, will simply be ignored), nor repeat the word already shown in the word. Trevorrow promises to tell a new story based on the existing material, and, judging by the trailers, he may well succeed.
So, the legendary park will open seriously and for a long time.
