#333: Life Finds a Way, Pt. 2 — Jurassic World Dominion

The Next Picture Show

Telegraph Road Productions

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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The new JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION is in constant, open communication with 1993’s JURASSIC PARK, from its nostalgic casting to its egregious callbacks. But there’s more going on in Colin Trevorrow’s second sequel to JURASSIC WORLD — perhaps too much, thanks in part to the layers of new mythology that the 2015 film added to the original JURASSIC PARK formula. Is this merging of the two JURASSIC eras to be derided or commended for its ambition in stretching beyond the “dinosaurs on an island” conceit? We argue it out in our discussion of DOMINION, before placing it side-by-side with its source material to consider how the franchise has evolved, and not, in its anthropomorphizing of dinosaurs, its thematic interest in parenthood and reproduction, and its attitudes toward science, heroism, and corporate evil. Plus, the return of Your Next Picture Show, with a recommendation from Keith of Phil Tippett’s MAD GOD. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about JURASSIC PARK, JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION , or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email to [email protected]. We may respond to it on our Patreon (patreon.com/NextPictureShow), where you can also find bonus episodes and more. Show Notes Works cited: • “The ‘Jurassic World’ Movies Were Only About Chris Pratt Holding Out His Arms” by Miles Klee (melmagazine.com) • “Star Wars effects legend Phil Tippett explains his 30-year nightmare project Mad God” by Tasha Robinson (polygon.com) Outro music: George Clinton & the Goombas, ‘Walk the Dinosaur’ Next Pairing: Baz Luhrmann’s MOULIN ROUGE and ELVIS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.0	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:20.0	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:26.9	We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:34.4	Welcome back to The Next Picture Show, a movie that we've podcasted, to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.
0:41.9	I'm Keith Phipps here again with Scott Tobias, Tosh Robinson, and Genevieve Kosky.
0:47.0	On last week's episode, we discussed the classic 1993 film Jurassic Park, but Jurassic Park isn't the end of the Jurassic story. It was followed by the Spielberg directed the Lost World, colon, Jurassic Park. But Jurassic Park isn't the end of the Jurassic story. It was followed by
0:56.0	the Spielberg directed the Lost World, colon, Jurassic Park, in 1997, and again in 2001, by the
1:02.1	Joe Johnson directed Jurassic Park 3. Then, after a long period of seeming extinction,
1:08.2	Jurassic Park or Jurassic Whatever, returned in the form of Jurassic World,
1:12.9	directed by Colin Travaro, a film set at an active dinosaur park built using the same technology
1:18.6	behind Jurassic Park, and despite the disaster that enveloped that park before it even opened.
1:24.4	That movie wasn't great, but it was a big hit.
1:27.1	The J.A. Boena directed Jurassic
1:28.8	World Fallen Kingdom followed in 2018. After a second half set in a classic old dark house,
1:34.2	but one equipped with a cutting-edge lab and dinosaur pens in its basement, the film concluded
1:38.4	with dinosaurs finding their way back into the world, presumably to chaotic effect. As Jurassic
1:43.6	World Dominion opens, we learn that's
1:45.3	true, but only up to a point. Directed by returning Colin Travaro, it's set in a world in which
1:50.5	dinosaurs have become an expected, if not exactly normal, part of everyday life. They've also
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