Steven Spielberg's shadow is elongated. And so is his influence. Without his whimsical conception of dinosaurs, the current vision of this species of reptile would be very different and perhaps only more forgettable. Starting from the fact that they looked more like birds than big lizards, the director did not allow any scientific basis to ruin the emotion of this great spectacle on the big screen. That imagery that King Midas of Hollywood captured with great success in "Jurassic Park", initiating a cinematographic franchise that still exists to this day, perpetuated a mistaken concept about dinosaurs, which were neither so dangerous nor so fast. In fact, a study by the Leipzig Biodiversity Research Centre has shown that, in reality, the Tyrannosaurus Rex, disproportionately large in almost all films, was not so fast. It could not exceed 19 kilometres per hour. Nor would I try to persecute Laura Dern or Sam Neill, because "T-Rex was not a predator at all but an opportunist, who would probably eat anets of animals that were dead that were alive and, without a doubt, would not persecute them," Jack Horner explains in an interview with ABC. Much more lethal, however, were the velociraptores, "who were at the top of the food chain because they were the real lions of the jungle, because they had the ability to mount their prey and start eating it. "Spielberg wanted dinosaurs to have a certain degree of terror. We know that dinosaurs wouldn't be as scary as what we see in the movies, they wouldn't go into houses or knock down cars. They do a lot of things in movies that they obviously wouldn't do in real life," explains the paleontologist, who spent a quarter of a century working for the profitable Jurassic franchise. "The film was made with the intention of being scary, but the dinosaurs were ordinary animals," admits the expert who inspired Alan Grant's character in "Jurassic Park.
The expert, who is currently trying to "make a dinosaur using genetic engineering through a bird; make a reverse engineering with a bird to return to its ancestral form of dinosaur," now reviews his work advising the film director, where his collaboration was to "make the dinosaurs as precise as possible. Obviously he didn't succeed, or at least not as he would have liked. "We knew that dinosaurs had feathers and were more colorful but, as this was not scary enough, Spielberg decided to show it in a different way," says Horner, who, although he gave in to the director's demands after a discussion, nuances, not without a certain irony: "It is true that we know that they had more color than in the tapes, but only males ... and in the movies are all females. That terrifying roar is also the product of fiction, which preferred that guttural sound rather than one more similar to that of the birds, their "direct descendants". In fact, there is no scientific evidence to prove the existence of flying dinosaurs. Although there were flying reptiles, they were called pterosaurs. "Birds developed empty feathers, clavicles and bones after dinosaurs. The only thing the birds developed before and not the dinosaurs was the ability to fly," reveals Jack Horner. Comments are closed.
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