Board Thread:Movie discussion/@comment-1259419-20150601083525/@comment-71.61.43.79-20150621223457

Spinosaurus999 wrote: Let's see the traits of all the Jurassic Park Series main females.

Ellie Satler: Brave, Intelligent, Responsible.

Sarah Harding: Brave, Intelligent, Responsible.

Amanda Kirby: Irresponsible, Stupid. (I didn't put Coward because you'd have to be pretty dang brave to go to an Island of Dinosaurs, which is a no fly zone)

Claire Dearing: Initially Irresponsible yet still Brave and Intelligent, but after the I-Rex escapes she is Brave, Intelligent, and much more responsible.

Zara: Oh crap I lost the kids. (IRRESPONSIBLE) OH I'll just stand here while Pterosaurs are grabbing and tossing people around. (STUPID) AH I'M IN WATER!!! I COULD CALL FOR HELP BUT I'LL JUST SPLASH AROUND LIKE A WOUNDED CREATURE EVEN THOUGH I KNOW THAT WILL ATTRACT THE PTERANODONS AND THE MOSASAURUS. (STUPID AND COWARDLY) The thing here though is that Zara's last moments were, in fact, trying to get Zach and Gray to move. By this point the boys were shell-shocked and inadvertedly throwing themselves in harm's way. In fact, her final spoken words in the film are "Why are you just standing there?"

Zara losing the boys was, in fact, blatantley irresponsible. It seems to be this sin that the movie punishes Zara for, but it is infact subversive; she was a character who died simply because she didn't "deserve" to die. The chief purpose of her demise is to remind us the Mosasaurus is in the film.

In comparison to Sarah Harding (who IS a great character) even she made two fatal mistakes 1.) Interacting with the Stegosaurus and 2.) knowing very well the T-Rex adults could track the scent of the infant's blood, but not discarding her jacket that was covered in the aforementioned blood. Sarah was shell shocked after the attack and thus, reasonable and trained as she was, she made a mistake that came back to haunt her.

Zara, in that regard ,is similar, but with a deadly result. Characters, as well as people, can make mistakes in crisies situations, due to adrenaline, stress and panic. Zara suffers from the latter; being disoriented from the pteradon attack, and presumably as a civilian, was unable to keep calm after being picked up. We honesly don't know much about Zara's personality to make the judgement she was stupid or cowardly, but we know she DID have an irresponsible moment in the film, which directly made her demise inevitable. It was in trying to correct that moment of irresponsiblity that she walks into her own doom.