"This one death in a movie where a ton of people died crossed the line, you guys!"
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You have to admit the tweet itself is worded in a surprisingly open-minded fashion for TMS.
I skimmed the review. In a way, I am strangely impressed. Not a single mention of high heels. But I am being facetious. Other than that his opinion was pretty weak and the article was, as usual, very misleading.
See, I've figured out how TMS twisted this one. Read the following excerpt from the article:
So, the only thing that really characterizes her is that one phone call concerning her upcoming wedding. This is the only thing that really keeps her from being just another face in the crowd, so it’s the only possible thing the movie could be punishing her for, and it fits so neatly into a stereotypically “woman” category that it can lead to only one conclusion: Jurassic World is punishing Zara for being a woman.
You've got to love the sinister-sounding non sequitur he cooks up here."It can only lead to one conclusion, you guys!
Jurassic World hates women!"
No it doesn't, you unperceptive, weaselly fuck. And this is why:
The author does not elaborate on what specifically Zara is addressing in regards to her wedding or, even more importantly, what happens immediately after she does this. Now first let me say that traditionally, weddings in the western world are widely viewed as happy and joyous events that one should look forward to being involved in. Without context, one who has not seen
Jurassic World or was not paying close attention to Zara's dialogue during that scene could assume that talking about her wedding means planning innocently about the kind of dress she will wear and the varieties of food that she wants to have served for her guests at the reception and just how
wonderful her new life with her fiance will be!
This is what she actually says:
[in a childish, selfish tone]
...because it's MY wedding!
...
No, Alec's not having a "bachelor party"!
...
Because all his friends are animals!
Literally immediately after this dialogue, Zach and Gray, the two boys Zara was
supposed to be taking care of while instead choosing to make selfish last minute arrangements to her wedding, took advantage of her self-absorbed planning session and sprinted off to do their own thing. Because of Zara's greedy behavior during this phone call and her decision to spend time making final adjustments to her wedding to ensure that it is all about her instead of the two boys she was tasked to escort, she fails to do her job and the boys are put in serious danger many times after this moment.
One recurring theme you will notice when you study most of the deaths in the Jurassic Park movies is that often times, the characters who are killed "had it coming to them" in some way or another. Gennaro the lawyer and Dennis Nedry from the first film are two great examples of this. So is Peter Ludlow, the greedy corporate exec who was killed by the baby
Tyrannosaurus at the end of
The Lost World. Often there is something about the character of an individual who dies in a
Jurassic Park film that at best makes you feel something along the lines of,
Sucks for them to be eaten, though they weren't very nice. At least it wasn't Jeff Goldblum, and at worst fills you with a sense of satisfaction knowing that the fat motherfucker who stole away your chances of seeing real dinosaurs using nothing but a can of Barbasol got his guts ripped out by a four-foot-tall frilled lizard.
So what was Zara's "crime" that allowed her to become a viable candidate for execution via two sets of razored
Mosasaurus teeth? It wasn't, as the stupid fuck at TMS claims, "because she was a woman".
It was because she was a self-absorbed, controlling bridezilla who cared more about herself and her own happiness than the happiness and safety of the two children she was asked to take care of.
If anything, Zara was killed because she was not a woman at all.