Jurassic Park Stereotypes

Jurassic Park, a Spielberg masterpiece that brought joy to millions. It showed the struggle a group of people had to go through to survive and not destroy the last remaining dinosaurs in the world. In the whole series, which I will be covering, men and women are showed differently. One may show the relationship of men and women as equals and partners. Another may have them as ex’s and awkward, and another may reverse or show stereotypes. Women and men are neither positive or negative, many can argue it’s negative and others can argue it’s positive or has no negative effect, it changes from film to film, from character relationship to character relationship, and I believe that there is no negative effect, it portrays women in a positive light.

Laura Dern ,the lead female role, who played Dr. Ellie Sattler was shown as a strong independent women who had to survive on her bravery to save her friends. In moment she had to do many things that many men, women and children would dread doing, she had to travel alone in a dark corridor trying to restore power to the island, so her fellow scientists can get off said island. However some moments in the film may make you think is offencive, and wrong, and just might make you want to protest. However the incident in question in the film is the scene where the female nerdy scientist is too caught up in her work and all the small details to see something bigger “This species of vermiform has been extinct since the cretaceous period. This thing - - Grant, never tearing his eyes from the brachiosaur, reaches over and grabs Ellie's head, turning it to face the animal.” (Crichton, Marmo 22). Makes her seem incapable to noticing the larger themes around her and need a man to snap her into reality. Even though this had comedic intentions it may seem offencive to some people. On the other hand it is argued men got the short end of the stick, through the

The dialogue between Malcolm and Dr. Ellie is a prime example of this, “Malcolm lowers his voice, becoming more seductive now. MALCOLM (cont'd) Life's a lot like that, isn't it? You meet someone by chance you'll never meet again, and the course of your whole future changes.” (Crichton, Marmo 56) Malcolm in a way uses his superior knowledge of chaos theory to seduce another scientist, Dr. Ellie. What was the appeal Malcolm had to Dr. Ellie is unknown. It may have been the fact she is an attractive woman, or the intelligence she possessed is what brought him in, it may even be the fact she the only member of the opposite sex in the party. However this is not the only relationship in the film Dr. Grant and Dr. Ellie had a positive relationship. “After Grant speaks explains how dangerous velociraptors were to the fat little bastard he asks Sattler "You want to have one of those?" to which she responds "I don't want that kid but a breed of child Dr Grants could be intriguing." So it's pretty safe to assume they were a couple.”, (Roboto) in the film they have a positive healthy relationship which make people think they have a relationship. However, it is safer to assume they were close colleagues and friends, which in my personal view is a positive