Jurassic World is massive, smashing box office records as if they're Spinosaurus skeletons. What this tells us, of course, is that audiences the world over really, really like Jurassic Park, and also that dinosaurs still make for popular subject matter in 2015 - despite going extinct 65 billion years ago. Chances are that, given the astounding success of the long-awaited sequel to Jurassic Park III, Universal Pictures are moving ahead with plans for any number of follow-ups. And why not? They're clearly sitting on a huge, bonafide cash cow. As for the quality of the movie... well, it's debatable. Whilst some like to think of Jurassic World as a worthwhile follow-up to the original movie (albeit a dumb one with a lot of modern blockbuster problems), others are calling it a travesty - almost as if the movie had featured a horrific scene in which Dr. Alan Grant and Dr. Ian Malcolm had been eaten alive. The fever surrounding Jurassic World was expected, of course, and on a creative level it's interesting to peer a bit deeper inside the sequel (at its bones, if you will) to see what makes it tick - for better and for worse. Here, then, are 10 lessons culled from Jurassic World's script that anybody with even a passing interesting in screenwriting might find a tad useful...
Sam Hill is an ardent cinephile and has been writing about film professionally since 2008. He harbours a particular fondness for western and sci-fi movies.
