Jurassic Park: What Makes This Disaster Story Work Again And Again?

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The disaster movie genre is overwhelmingly dominated by natural apocalypses, from massive earthquakes to torrential floods to cataclysmic meteor strikes. The occasional man-made disaster is prey to an interesting conundrum: how do people seem to keep falling prey to the same obvious mistakes, even while people are mourning the losses from last time?

The Jurassic Park franchise has just made a massive return to the big screen, both in financial return and narrative callback. Returning members of the original cast interact with the new cast of dinosaur ranchers and science fans. The sixth film in the franchise is a controversial piece, but the franchise is unquestionably going strong.

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The most common joke at the expense of the Jurassic Park franchise is to point out the inability of mankind to learn from its mistakes. People keep trying to bring back dinosaurs and bend them to human will, only to be savagely devoured by each new defiance of time and entropy. Whether it's a theme park trying to make bank showing them off, or a military-industrial complex goon trying to weaponize them, it's a losing proposition. The only constant is that whoever tries to make use of these beautiful giant reptiles will find themselves brutalized, typically alongside countless other innocent bystanders. Yet, again and again, people cannot resist the allure of trying to solve their business or governmental problems with reconstituted monstrosities from the distant past. Many mock this detail as a logical inconsistency, but perhaps this common foible is actually more realistic than the alternative.

In the narrative of the ongoing franchise, everyone knows that mankind successfully bred dinosaurs from the blood