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franz_conrad

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This webpage started a game of one-upmanship between me and my girlfriend as to who could devise the better auteur-parody version of JURASSIC PARK IV.
http://mynewplaidpants.blogspot.com/2007/04/so-whos-helming-jurassic-4.html
(link describes potential Spike Jonze, Woody Allen, Quentin Tarantino, Werner Herzog and Christopher Guest films of JPIV)We came up with some of our own:
1: Michael Mann
Miami Vice Redux: Ancient Exotics.
A dark street corner. Sonny broods quietly over a cigarette, the hot winds of the desert ruffling through his mullet. Strange blue light, sand everywhere. His hands are still sticky, caked in mud and an unidentified red substance, his tuxedo askew. Suddenly, a truck whips past at high speed; emitting high-pitched screams. Sonny and the other guy leap aboard a high speed boat and jet off to Havana, to create a tidal wave that will halt the truck. The truck goes into a death roll, and out fall its cargo - a baby velociraptor; the ultimate in smuggling exotic animals. They stop at a nightclub and get it on with the club's owner, smashing a drug cartel while waiting for their drinks. Night. Sunglasses, open shirts. More desert winds and Moby songs. The wife of the animal smuggler lies on the bed. Sonny stares at himself in the mirror - she sidles up to him. High romance ensues. The illegal guns are to be shipped to Moscow - the czar's wife walks up to them in a see-through dress. Sonny gets it on with her but she gets knifed in the back. Sonny drinks a bottle of vodka; puts on a clown suit in memoriam. Two shots pierce through the night, a velociraptor whines softly. Credits roll.
2: Terence MalickA disembodied voice meditates on the extinction that claims us all, as we see beautiful scenes of primeval jungle, over distant roaring. Baby stegosauruses drink at a water hole, reptillian birds nurture their young. Up in a tree, a still-evolving primate watches them. The dinosaurs are agitated, and scare away the primate. Cut to several million years later, and the primates have multiplied, taking the jungles by force from the dinosaurs. One particularly charming gorilla - perhaps the source of the voice-over from the opening - is captured by velociraptors, but before he can be ripped limb from limb, the daughter of the raptor leader begs for the ape's life to be spared. We study the grass for a while. The trees. The first eagle soars over the canopy. The daughter of the raptor leader and the gorilla frolic in the fields, disapproved by both of their kindred... The film ends with everything up in the air - it's not quite clear what it was all about as the camera tracks out into the ocean... ... ... lighting on a solitary iceberg before the credits roll. The ice age is coming.
3: M Night Shyalaman
Bryce Dallas Howard, Harvey Keitel, Chewitel Ejeofor
An abandoned Western movie set: fraying, decayed. A single orange light glows momentarily before fading to black - the sound of something cracking. Enter Charles Mason, one time great actor who abandoned his craft when he lost both legs in a horrific accident. He lives on the set now, estranged by his family, eking out a lonely existence, watching re-runs of John Wayne movies. No one knows of what haunts him; the voices of all endangered species. He doesn't know that he's the chosen one to communicate with them and give them closure. One day, as Charles is dragging himself around the set, he sees an abandoned egg shell. The orange light glows again, and he meets the baby Burgkoptil - a dinosaur who miraculously survived the fall. The Burgkoptil, which Charles re-names Stropsifils, is searching for his Perpkolus - his true mother who can translate his thoughts into a manifesto that will save the world. Charles is re-invigorated to repair the movie set and re-call all the out-of-work actors. The scene builds to the climax, where Charles will be the conduit for Strepsifils to communicate with his Perpkolus. Just as the ritual is being completed, the orange light glows and Charles is consumed by the Stropsifils and is re-born as a new baby with four legs. Credits roll.
4: Clint Eastwood
Clint's two-film installment in the Jurassic Park series takes the radical gesture of telling of the same fatal clash between man and lizard from two perspectives. In JURASSIC PARK: FOSSILS OF OUR FOREBEARS, a reporter in 2030 (Laura Linney) re-examines the fatal events of JURASSIC PARK and THE LOST WORLD (as a revisionist, she doesn't acknowledge the third film's existence), uncovering deceptions. It seems that Sam Neill was not the hero after all, merely the 'hero we all needed' to get us through our unending war with dinosaurs. Nor was Richard Attenborough's Hammond as cuddly as we thought, seen in unobserved moments as a ruthless manipulator of science and showmanship for his own game. An unlikely hero emerges in Wayne Kramer's scientist - misunderstood as a traitor selling out in the first film, the truly heroic nature of his sacrifice come to light.
In the second film, JURASSIC PARK: LETTERS FROM ISLA NUBLA, the dinosaur perspective is taken in a daring move by America's most idiosyncratic director. The close-knit family ties of the Velociratpors, and their ongoing feud with the T-rex, is seen in poignant realist terms. We empathise with the realisation of the dinosaurs that their doom is nigh when humans come to Isla Nubla, building up to a devastasting one-take sequence in which the velociraptors choose suicide over capture for the human zoo.posted 04-11-2007 10:14 PM PT (US) 
Southall
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Nice!Do you take requests? (eg Nora Ephron)
posted 04-12-2007 01:35 AM PT (US) 
franz_conrad

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I have laid the challenge down.Also forthcoming: Wong Kar Wai and Jane Campion.
posted 04-12-2007 05:46 PM PT (US) 
Scorro

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I don't have time to write full screenplays right now, but 2 very obvious choices for the IVth are Ridley Scott and Martin Scorsese1) Scorcese : involves both DiCaprio and Spinosaurus running away from Robert DeNiro
2) Ridley Scott : opening titled sequence... "Somewhere in North America. 60 million yrs BC. The Brontosaurs have been living peacefully in their home valleys, but a new conflict begins with the advancing predations of the Tyrant Lizards" Next scene involves a watering hole and half the audience run for the exits with their hands over their eyes.
posted 04-12-2007 07:18 PM PT (US) 
Mark Olivarez

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quote:
Originally posted by Scorro:1) Scorcese : involves both DiCaprio and Spinosaurus running away from Robert DeNiro.
Don't forget Joe Pesci kicking the crap out of a herd of Raptors.
posted 04-12-2007 07:30 PM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB
