I published a new piece at The Escapist yesterday evening. With the looming release of Jurassic World: Dominion, it seemed like a good opportunity to take a look at the original Jurassic Park.
Spielberg’s classic is regarded as one of the defining summer blockbusters, and deservedly so. However, Jurassic Park is also a quintessential Spielberg film, dealing with some of the director’s core themes and preoccupations. Like so many Spielberg movies, Jurassic Park is a movie that is essentially about fatherhood, and about what it means to be a father in a radically changing and evolving world. It’s an interesting exploration of an idea that preoccupies Spielberg as a filmmaker, and which spoke to the cultural anxieties of the era that produced it.
You can read the piece here, or click the picture below.
Filed under: On Second Thought | Tagged: escapist, fatherhood, in the frame, jurassic park, steven spielberg, the escapist |
The link leads to your Top Gun article instead of your Jurassic Park article. Clicking on the picture also doesn’t work.