Jurassic World Dominion: what dinosaurs are for director Colin Trevorrow

under the tutelage of Colin Trevorrow who directed Jurassic world ( 2015) and the new one Jurassic world: domination , the director also co-wrote the trilogy he completes Jurassic world: fallen kingdom (2018), with all those dinosaurs having enough metaphorical weight in their own way to have nearly grown $ 3 billion at the box office.

Questions about the dangers of humans manipulating nature are part of the DNA of films Jurassic Park but they are intensified in the trilogy Jurassic world .

In Jurassic world the resuscitation of colossal beings from the past reflected its very nature of rebooting the franchise. the fallen kingdom , with poachers and dinosaurs in the craters, it echoed endangered animals. Domain for which cast members returning from the original film Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum has dinosaurs scattered across the planet with few safe habitats and growing ecological threats.

In a recent interview, Trevorrow discussed how environmental anxieties fueled the next installment of the film series and Domaincurrently on the bill.

-These films focus on human responsibility for these creatures. Do you think this trilogy is, after all, a parable about animal rights?

-That’s how. We are telling a story about how genetic power is extremely dangerous when used carelessly. But also the danger of removing animals from their natural habitat and putting them in environments to which they do not belong. In these three films, we tended to tell a story about someone seeing dinosaurs, or genetic power, as an opportunity.

-Have you felt the irony of making a movie with locusts in a time of plague?

-Our world is headed for an imbalance of ways that we are witnessing now. The consequences of this will be predictable and even unexpected. So we wanted to design an unexpected consequence of the manipulation of genetic power.

The we found this out by talking to geneticists and scientists in Tel Aviv many years ago who laid the groundwork for ways the planet could be put at risk, particularly the food chain, by the use of genetic mutilation.

Go back to the rooms

-After pressing moments, cinemas are nearing the return to pre-pandemic ticket sales levels. Do you trust the state of attendance at the theater?

There has been a lot of concern about it, especially in the past six to eight months, but it has proved to be unfounded. People will go to the cinema if you show them something they want to see. If nothing else, I could say that as a person who loves cinema, this makes me a little sad, we just don’t have the diversity of experience available to people in cinemas as we used to.

It’s a certain type of film, in this case a film that we made. I’d like people to go see it. But I hope we get back to where there are all kinds of different films in theaters.

Did the making of “Jurassic World: Dominion” during the pandemic influence the film?

– Surely we all feel the same fears and, in many cases, that feeling of hopelessness and helplessness that every human being on the planet felt then. You can see we made a movie that is imbued with what we were feeling while we were making it. It’s woven into every frame, even the smallest characters saying things like: “However, we won’t last long.. There is a tone that was the result of making the film when we made it.

Did you project your environmental anxieties when you wrote these films?

– Somehow, but it’s not just me. It is all of us who made the film. The actors and I work closely together with Emily Carmichael, my co-author. We were really able to get inside our fears. I don’t know if the other movies were related to the experience we were having like this one.

The first, Jurassic world it’s about the fact that if there was any money involved they would bring the dinosaurs back, whatever happened last time. the second was on the trafficking of animals outside their natural habitat. I remember when the fallen kingdom Before -there is a volcano in the film-, u A volcano erupted two or three months before the movie was released. It was disturbing that something we had put into a science fiction movie was happening in the real world.

-For you, dinosaurs have been quite flexible metaphors …

-I need, as a storyteller, to understand why we are making more of these films. I often find the answer by connecting them to what I fear most, as we continue to rush towards whatever will be the consequence of our actions and decisions in the last century … It’s also a lot of fun, it’s super fun.

There is also an entire apocalyptic threat transition at the beginning of the film and an “Indiana Jones” style ending.

-At the end of the day, I knew we had to reach a place of hope. I’m not here to tell people to be hopeless forever. I wanted to make sure that if we talk about the inevitability of the way we are going, we also come to a place that will get people out of the theater and feel that with cooperation, unity and coexistence, we can overcome this.

Source Agency AP

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