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Re: Jurassic World (2015)
By: Mac Date: February 8, 2015, 11:10 am
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I found this interesting...
‘Jurassic World’: Chris Pratt’s Trained Raptors Explained
[quote]Twenty-two years after the release of Jurassic Park,
Universal Studios is set to relaunch the fan-favorite series
with Jurassic World - a fresh installment that will point the
series on a new trajectory going forward. With only minor
characters from the previous trilogy returning, most notably
Jurassic Park‘s Chief Geneticist, Dr. Henry Wu (B.D. Wong),
director Colin Trevorrow has assembled a fresh-faced human cast,
including Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy), Bryce Dallas
Howard (The Help), and Vincent D’Onofrio (Daredevil), to face
off against the biological preserve‘s prehistoric inhabitants.
Yet, in order to differentiate Jurassic World from the films
that came before it, Trevorrow’s addition to the series will
feature a fully operational park – a victory of scientific
ingenuity (that has been entertaining visitors for ten years
without incident). However, when attendance rates begin to
decline, Jurassic Park’s scientists once against become too
preoccupied with whether or not they could, they never stop to
think if they should, creating a new hybrid dinosaur attraction.
Following in the enormous footsteps of prior dino-stars, (the
Tyrannosaurs Rex and Spinosaurus), the genetically modified
creation Indominus Rex will usher in a bold new twist on the
series.
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However, a hybrid dinosaur wasn’t the most controversial plot
point in the Jurassic World trailers – as Chris Pratt’s
“trained” velociraptor squad became a divisive point among fans
who thought the idea of domesticated raptors was either an
interesting development or a completely asinine misstep.
On the most recent Screen Rant Underground podcast, we discussed
why the plot point could be cool – as well as possible
explanations for how Chris Pratt’s character, Jurassic World
game warden Owen, managed to gain control over Jurassic Park‘s
most deadly (and defiant) species.
As a result, we’ve put together four theories that could explain
the velociraptors’ change from malevolent and blood-thirsty
killers to semi-obedient partners in dino-rampage damage
control.
Plenty of fans have scoffed at the aforementioned trailer scene
of Chris Pratt driving a motorcycle, flanked by raptors, through
the jungle. Most skeptics either think the scene is ridiculous
(at a fundamental level) or simply believe that “domesticated”
raptors defeat the entire appeal (and terror) of the iconic
Jurassic Park dinos. However, what if Pratt hasn’t outright
“domesticated” or “tamed” the raptors and has, instead,
established himself as the ferocious animals’ alpha male?
Previous Jurassic Park storylines have presented the raptors as
lion-like pack hunters – led by an alpha that, if necessary,
even kills potential challengers within the pride to secure a
leadership position.
The relationship was clearly laid-out by former Jurassic Park
game warden, Robert Muldoon (Bob Peck) in the original film:
Jurassic World‘s raptors wouldn’t be the first animals to accept
a human being as their pack leader. Plenty of scientists have
lived within animal communities, establishing roles as leaders
within a group of wild (and downright dangerous) creatures.
Speaking on the subject, Trevorrow provided vague hints at a
similar relationship between Owen and the raptors:
“Owen’s relationship with the raptors is complicated. They
aren’t friends. These animals are nasty and dangerous and
they’ll bite your head off if you make the wrong move. But there
are men and women out there today who have forged tenuous
connections with dangerous predators. That’s interesting
territory to me.”
Muldoon’s big game hunter background played a significant part
in how he viewed the dinosaurs on the island – especially the
raptors. As seen the in clip above, Muldoon believed the raptors
should “all be destroyed.” What if Jurassic World‘s Owen
believed that, conversely, the only way to control the raptors
was to become the leader of their pride? Standing up to the
bigger and more aggressive raptors (as seen in a brief Super
Bowl trailer shot) until the entire group begrudgingly
recognizes him as the top dog?
Some might find little difference between this scenario and
“domesticating” the raptors; however, instead of placating the
vicious dinosaurs and teaching them crowd-pleasing tricks (read:
the Mosasaur aquarium), becoming a pack leader would provide
Owen control over the group without undercutting the animals’
inherent ferocity, potential for betrayal, and big screen
appeal.
Similar to the alpha theory presented above, it’s also possible
that instead of fighting for a leadership position in the pride,
Owen has overseen the hatching of each “trained” raptor. In the
original Jurassic Park, John Hammond indicated that he was
present at the birth of every single dinosaur on the island –
which, allegedly, helped the animals trust him. It’s a story
thread that was never really payed-off – as Hammond was still
scared of any meatasauruses running loose in Jurassic Park.
That said, just because we don’t see Hammond halt a T-Rex attack
via his parental connection, there are plenty of animal species
that do imprint at birth – creating a bond that, with continual
interaction, grows stronger overtime. As a result, if Owen was
present at the initial hatching of each raptor, it stands to
reason that even the wildest velociraptor could, potentially,
mind the Jurassic World game warden, allowing him to tame their
predatory impulses or, at the very least, command them to follow
his instructions in certain situations.
Assuming Hammond and Dr. Wu were correct in saying that
dinosaurs imprint at the time of their hatching, and that the
imprinting raises the amount of trust they have for an
individual, it makes sense that Owen could be uniquely
positioned to work with/command the dinos – even if they aren’t
outright “tamed.”
Considering that Masrani Global (the new owners of Isla Nublar)
toyed with dino DNA to create an entirely new (hybrid) creature,
it stands to reason that the company’s scientists could also
have altered certain aspects of the velociraptor genome. After
all, even in the early days of dinosaur cloning, inGen was
making calculated alterations to their creations: denying
embryos the possibility of a Y chromosome (to ensure all the
animals were female) as well as engineering the dinosaurs with
faulty genes that prevent production of the amino acid lysine
(in case they ever got off the island).
According to the film, it was Dr. Wu that made the lysine
contingency possible - and, since Wu is back for Jurassic World,
it wouldn’t be particularly surprising if the geneticist made
adjustments to the park’s most dangerous dinosaurs (once again).
To that end, it’s possible that Wu and Masrani engineered their
new raptors to be slightly more docile and obedient. While the
notion of nerfed velociraptors would be upsetting to series
fans, there’s a precedent for the idea as far back as Michael
Crichton’s original story.
Check out the full conversation between John Hammond and Dr.
Henry Wu from Crichton’s Jurassic Park novel (via Reddit and
/Film):
“The dinosaurs we have now are real,” Wu said, pointing to
the screens around the room, “but in certain ways they are
unsatisfactory. Unconvincing. I could make them better.”
“Better in what way?”
“For one thing, they move too fast,” Henry Wu said. “People
aren’t accustomed to seeing large animals that are so quick. I’m
afraid visitors will think the dinosaurs look speeded up, like
film running too fast.”
“But, Henry, these are real dinosaurs. You said so
yourself.”
“I know,” Wu said. “But we could easily breed slower, more
domesticated dinosaurs.”
“Domesticated dinosaurs?” Hammond snorted. “Nobody wants
domesticated dinosaurs, Henry. They want the real thing.”
“But that’s my point,” Wu said. “I don’t think they do. They
want to see their expectation, which is quite different…. I’m
just saying, why stop there? Why not push ahead to make exactly
the kind of dinosaur that we’d like to see? One that is more
acceptable to visitors, and one that is easier for us to handle?
A slower, more docile version for our park?”
Hammond frowned. “But then the dinosaurs wouldn’t be real.”
“But they’re not real now,” Wu said.
Following the destruction of Jurassic Park, it makes complete
sense that Masrani would be interested in taking added
precautions – especially with the park’s most dangerous
inhabitants. What if Wu and Masrani executives both felt that
raptors, in their natural form, were a liability and too hard to
handle – leading to genetic modification that made the animals
“more docile” and “acceptable to visitors“?
No doubt, it’s hard to imagine the Trevorrow would turn the
fan-favorite velociraptors into entirely docile shells of their
former onscreen selves but it’s not too much of a stretch,
especially considering the series’ ongoing thematic emphasis on
humankind manipulating nature, that Dr. Wu could have done some
minor tinkering with raptor genes/hormones in order to make them
a bit more agreeable. After all, Jurassic World appears to be
tightly controlled theme park – one that has learned from the
mistakes of InGen’s past, maybe that security came at a cost:
significant genetic tampering.
A less likely (but still feasible) explanation, one that could
justify concerns about Pratt’s raptor pack, is the possibility
that Jurassic World’s velociraptors have determined Indominus
Rex is a greater immediate threat than their human captors –
since the sizable hybrid is on a blood-soaked rampage (simply
for the sake of sport and fun).
Taking into account raptor intellect, it’s conceivable that the
normally ruthless predators would want to eliminate any
significant competitor encroaching on their territory (and food
sources). After all, this wouldn’t be the first time that the
raptors have attempted to takedown an apex predator – simply
because it got in the way of their own feeding frenzy.
Still, the aforementioned scene of the raptors actively running
alongside Owen’s motorcycle in the jungle (coupled with a brief
shot of Pratt “training” the dinos) makes it hard to believe
that Trevorrow intends to present the velociraptors as
completely free-thinking strategists. Nevertheless, it’s still
conceivable that the brainy dinos are smart enough to understand
they’ve got a good reason to assist Jurassic World‘s game warden
(for the time being at least).
After all, the raptors of Jurassic Park III proved that the
dinos aren’t thoughtless killing machines and, depending on the
circumstances, have spared humans they encounter – in the
interest of more pressing matters (specifically the protection
of their eggs).
Should Jurassic World‘s velociraptors have similar motivations,
it wouldn’t be entirely out of left field for them to refrain
from killing Owen, if he served to help protect their pack from
annihilation at the hands of Indominus Rex.
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If you have your own theories, or can help fill in the holes in
our own (or poke brand new ones), we invite you to share them in
the comments!
Update: How it Should Have Ended has offered a fifth
(tongue-in-cheek) theory of their own:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6OEChj-UiI
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