Board Thread:Movie discussion/@comment-124.107.40.130-20150613082140/@comment-2.102.49.212-20170128053446

Wow I'm surprised how this topic descended into an argument over how sexist or racist Zara's death was. First off I'm British I don't find the screenwriters decision to kill off Zara offensive to me or any other British person there are plenty of other people that die in that film from all different nationalities some onscreen some offscreen so it's hardly an affront to the British that a person of that nationality is killed. The sexism thing ok I think some comments may have mentioned it but an extinct animal in fact any animal throughout the history of our planet that would prey on a human doesn't give a f**k if you're male, female, black, white, brown, tan, religious, atheist, heterosexual, homosexual or whatever it will eat you regardless. The only thing of interest in that scene is a person suffers a brutal fate at the mouth of a mosasaur. In my previous post, in case the number by my post has changed I'm the guy who said she probably suffocated or was essentially melted by the mosasaurs stomach acids and digestive juices which seems to have sparked this whole, "oh my God you're all sick sociopathic degenerates" stream of posts. The point of that is that they are two of the many possible outcomes of her being swallowed whole and such a fate is not pretty, there's no way to sugar coat it to appease people of fragile mind. Zara is eaten whole and alive in fact the mosasaur probably didn't even notice it was eating her given its focus on the Pteranodon. Zara therefore gets swallowed by the mosasaur which is a considerable size it is unlikely she is crushed by its closed mouth but she could be crushed under the Pteranodon also in its mouth but it would be a slow death as the breath is squeezed from her, if she escapes that fate she may be crushed as she is swallowed but it's unlikely given mosasaurs don't chew their food they swallow it whole. Oh and if she got her hand or arm stuck on one of its serrated teeth she would have had it cut off as she was swallowed though being on its tongue when it's mouth closes she probably drops straight down its gullet. So Zara is still alive inside the mosasaur and found herself in the stomach, provided she hasn't already had the life crushed out of her by its internals. The stomach does not have any air in it, oxygen does not pass into the stomach it goes into the lungs so Zara has no air to breath which means she's going to suffocate and at the same time the stomach will begin digesting her so the acids will be burning her and she will be suffocating and having her body broken down as the mosasaur digests her a very painful process. She's also not going to come out as mosasaur poo either have you ever pooed out a carrot that's completely intact and not a brown mess, if so there's something seriously wrong with you; consult a doctor immediately. The reason for that is her body will be digested and all the nutritious parts of her will be taken into the mosasaurs own body to help it function anything else will be discarded as waste but it will be defecated and given the digestive process of an animal anything human is now a congealed mess with whatever else the creature has eaten though you may get the odd bone or two, see JPIII. All in all the point of pointing that out is not because there is some unhealthy fascination with how disgusting a death Zara receives but to show how particularly gruesome it is. A T Rex and an Indominus Rex grabs its prey in its mouth and violently shakes it around tearing flesh apart. They find bits of Genarro in the remnants of the toilets when Dr Satler and Muldoon arrive at the T Rex paddock to search for any survivors. In the novel all they find of Ed Regis after the juvenile T Rex attacks him is his leg. The Velociraptors and Dilophosaurus kill their prey before ripping chunks of flesh from the body the Spinosaurus crushed and ripped its prey apart. So Zara's death and if you've played Telltales game of JP the character Laura Sorkin receives a similar fate in that both of them are still alive when they are eaten the others are all dead whether killed before eaten or ripped apart in the process of being eaten and given the size of the mosasaur and the fact it eats its prey whole there is no chance Zara was dead before being swallowed. She would probably have stayed alive until reaching the stomach. A very gruesome death and the whole point of this topic to me seems to be did she deserve what she got? No, no she f**king didn't. Sure she's somewhat negligent but the boys don't exactly give her an easy time of it and though she wasn't paying attention to them she is obviously panicked by them running off. She is quite distressed when talking to Claire and when she finds them again during the Pterosaur attack she is furious with them for running off giving them a telling off before she's grabbed. No doubt she did take the responsibility of looking after them seriously but she is a PA and not a nanny so is it any wonder she's disinterested with babysitting, she's only doing it as a favour to Claire. In Crichton's work people that mess with science and pervert the natural order of things end up meeting a grim fate look at the seemingly innocent park worker in Westworld though he probably didn't engineer the androids or force them to live a monotonous existence he seemed to only be a repairman but Yul Bremner kills him mercilessly nonetheless. Apply that to Zara she doesn't do anything wrong that we know of but she's affiliated with the people that do. Then again since the films aren't as direct in that stance, both Dr Henry Wu and John Hammond are killed in the novel but survive the film, we can only assume that like a number of unfortunate people in the Jurassic Park universe Zara was one person who was unfortunate to be in the wrong place at the wrong time like Nick the Indominus Rex Paddock supervisor did he do anything wrong? No but he gets to be the second human to discover the insides of the Indominus Rex. The films have a lot of horrific deaths but given the target audience you aren't going to get a focus so much on the more gruesome aspects but that doesn't mean they aren't occurring I mean the bloke who shoots the net around the Indominus Rex's mouth gets torn apart behind a bit of flora we even see the rain of blood pouring down through the tree leaves and hear his screams what do you think happened the Indominus swallowed him like a tic tac? If you're grossed out by the brutality of the characters deaths then don't read a topic that's talking about the characters death it's in the title just avoid it. The novels themselves go into great detail concerning the characters deaths, Ed Regis, Dr Henry Wu and Dennis Nedry. They aren't supposed to be likeable events but they do bring the question up of did the character deserve such a fate as bad as they were or as good as they were or as unknown as they were did they deserve it? No they don't deserve to die but the point is they messed with things they shouldn't and they paid the price for that. Dr Malcolm summed it up best, "You were all so concerned with whether you could, you didn't stop and think whether you should" that is the point Crichton is trying to get across and those that meddle without thought unleash terrible consequences on themselves and the innocent alike in the case of Zara she dies because Hoskins, Wu and InGen were completely obsessed with the military applications of dinosaurs particularly raptors and hybrids that could be engineered for such means and even though she's innocent her death is simply a sideshow of how deadly and efficient these creatures are.