If use wants us to choose Jesus Christ to date the events of our history, unreduced saurian fans will gladly prefer him Jurassic Park. The latter inveterate could thus very well decree that we are in the year 29 after JP, as this cinema monument has been able to overthrow Hollywood and fascinate the entire planet. This community of enthusiasts who know each of the replicas of the film with their lips knows how the dinosaurs have been a source of wonder among young and old. There was one before and after 1993 which we will call soberly year 0. A year that would prefigure the transition from physical special effects to digital. As a bridge between two epochs, while the transition is now widely consumed. Before the losers Jurassic World, shot in nanars by the greed of Universal, there was a film that had brought together the best specialists in the Hollywood industry. Nicolas Deneschau released this summer a book dedicated to Jurassic Park, a scholarly and accessible work recommended for your summer readings.
The theory of mercantile chaos
In addition to having done a remarkable synthesis work on the theories and anecdotes of the film, Nicolas Deneschau offers new personal analyses, he who was – like any kid of the 1990s – caught by the dinomania. By opening avenues for reflection, the author does not hesitate to question the reader at each beginning of the chapter, with an express reference to a contemporary enterprise that catches up with fiction: Ingen, Monsanto and other multinationals so eager to play with science while detroking ethics.
An original way to show the impact and contemporaneity of the questions raised by Spielberg, even thirty years later. The book directly addresses the film's main themes on man's relationship to creation and Nature, feminism or the quest for fatherhood, while placing the whole in a romantic perspective that represents Jurassic Park Against the sublime. Nicolas reminds us of the effect « Yeah. » which loves so much Spielberg when these characters, stunned, are subjugated in front of the first dinosaurs they discover off-field under the famous theme of John Williams.
Nicolas Deneschau also highlights how much the future franchise Jurassic Park in 1993 ahead of productions especially dedicated to testosterone. Like Elen Ripley in Alien, she's a woman, Ellie Sattler, who leads the boat and does not hesitate to take reindeer when the danger rumbles. It is the meaning to give to this cult scene where Ellie does not hesitate to rebuke John Hammond, somewhat uncharted in front of his distribution. The hunter loads his big caliber, John releases a huge and unlikely map. What more macho to inaugurate the sequel? « It won't be as easy as lighting the kitchen light... » Throw that good old John out before going on: « But it's really mine to go ! » « Why? ? » Are you questioning Ellie? And Hammond sinking into the misogyny that hides the tree of the galantry: « I'm a... and you're a... ». « Come on. » Let her go as a reprimand.
Darwin's Inverted Theory
It is also the image of this famous replica of this young paleontologist who does not hesitate to associate the scientific excesses of capitalism with masculinity. Professor Ian Malcom philosopher: « God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs. » And Ellie concludes:
« The dinosaurs eat man. And the woman inherits the Earth. »
From scripts forgotten at the beginning of the project, Nicolas Deneschau peels all that surrounds this frankness and the author knows how to reveal what gives him this singularity. It is when you read this book that you grasp (if you still had to) how large the gap is between the first film and its iterations, of which the most distressing are those from the turnips. Jurassic World, as if the great capital systematically caught up with the work. It's a bit like John Hammond in pathetic demiurge who remembers his flea circus, while the park is now out of control. We can easily imagine the disarray of Spielberg and Crichton in front of the suites offered on a model of nostalgia for quadra degarnis.
"Dinomania" a global success never seen
JUrassic Park It is also one of the most successful cultural products in cinema history. Long before the frenzy Marvel, Universal was able to rely on a Merchandising striking by flooding the market with teddy and teddy, even in our cereal packages and nutella pots. Who remembers that velociraptor claw that let blood vessels see when it was warmed up in the middle of the hand? This is all the ambiguity of a stage film that will also carry all the technologies to come for digital special effects. From animatronics to the beginnings of digital, Jurassic Park is a relay film of two epochs.
We also think of this scene of the perfidious Dennis Nedry and his hack « You didn't say the magic word. ».« Meeeerde! I can't stand this computer crap! » Ray Arnold played by Samuel L. Jackson. Like a taste of 21Second century before the passage of the bug of the year 2000.
Portrait of Nicolas Deneschau
Nicolas defines himself as a « Freed Omnivore by Kaiju-Eiga, SF films in black and white and piracy novels ». After passing through the cinema box via Cinegenre.net and then on the website Merlanfrit, it publishes today at Third Editions. His last book Welcome to Jurassic Park – Film Science was released this summer and available in ebook or paper. A book that reads without restraint and a fine tribute to the work of Spielberg. Extract available Here.
Author's books published at Third Editions
- Uncharted – Journal of an explorer
- The mysteries of Monkey Island. At collision
- Apocalypse according to Godzilla. Japan and its monsters
- Decrypt The Last of Us games. What remains of humanity?
- Jurassic Park – Film Science
Trailer of Jurassic Park (1993)
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