Should Jurassic Park have a "hero?"

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I think the first one is pretty sublime because it's more of an ensemble. You have Grant that's kind of a male lead, but the stakes aren't really set around him in particular.

[TGLS]

No, all you need is one guy to say "It's Godzilla!" and just crowds of screaming extras.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

No, all you need is one guy to say "It's Godzilla!" and just crowds of screaming extras.

You surely need a little more than that.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

The hero of the franchise is Jeff Goldblum's tiddies.

[Madner Kami]

I think the first one is pretty sublime because it's more of an ensemble. You have Grant that's kind of a male lead, but the stakes aren't really set around him in particular.

Jurassic Park lives by it's ensemble cast. You've got Grant, who's kinda backwards oriented, but an upstanding guy with his heart in the right place, willing to take charge about what he technically doesn't like to do (deal with kids), showing that he'd be a great dad. You've got Ellie, who's a strong woman doing her own thing and while she does scream a lot, she's never the damsel. And then there's Muldoon, a down-to-earth hardass with a lot of empathy, willing to risk his life for the benefit of those around him without thinking twice about it. Even Ian is a good man, starting out as a macho know-it-all, who does show he's not just all about his wittyness and contrarianism, but also willing to risk his life for the children, even though it was an ill-advised attempt to not play second fiddle to Grant.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I think the first one is pretty sublime because it's more of an ensemble. You have Grant that's kind of a male lead, but the stakes aren't really set around him in particular.

Jurassic Park lives by it's ensemble cast. You've got Grant, who's kinda backwards oriented, but an upstanding guy with his heart in the right place, willing to take charge about what he technically doesn't like to do (deal with kids), showing that he'd be a great dad. You've got Ellie, who's a strong woman doing her own thing and while she does scream a lot, she's never the damsel. And then there's Muldoon, a down-to-earth hardass with a lot of empathy, willing to risk his life for the benefit of those around him without thinking twice about it. Even Ian is a good man, starting out as a macho know-it-all, who does show he's not just all about his wittyness and contrarianism, but also willing to risk his life for the children, even though it was an ill-advised attempt to not play second fiddle to Grant.

Well it's like we spend so much time with Pratt's character in the other movies. There's only so much time you can spend with him as a foster parent to Blue.

The hero of the franchise is Jeff Goldblum's tiddies.

Typical response from you. Not surprised.

[Beastro]

All of Crichton's work deals with ensembles and his film adaptations seem to go that way as well.

IIRC, 13th Warrior starts from one guys perspective, but eventually he's subsumed into the team by the midpoint and ceases to be much of a view point character.

Even in Westworld the two guys are more "observed" in their actions by both the audience and the parks staff than being characters we're seeing a world through.

I think that is one main thing about Crichton's way of looking at things and writing, where he was very cold and "scientific" towards his characters, not allowing them to be more than what was required to allow his ideas to be expressed.

[Madner Kami]

Well it's like we spend so much time with Pratt's character in the other movies. There's only so much time you can spend with him as a foster parent to Blue.

They hired Pratt because of his audience-pull at the time and for no other reason, if you ask me and it shows. It's to the detriment of both movies, that he's such a central figure to everything happening.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Disclosure is pretty much about Michael Douglas' character.

[Beastro]

Disclosure is pretty much about Michael Douglas' character.

True and it's hard for it not to be.