Watching Jurassic Park for the first time was an experience I'll never be able to forget. Even though these days there are new Jurassic Park movies (Jurassic World), nothing will ever top watching the first film in the cinema with my parents and my siblings when I was just a teenager, it made me so excited and happy that I actually pestered my dad to take me once again to watch it a second time.
I had never seen anything like it, the practical effects were amazing, the dinosaurs looked so real and the action was beyond exciting, I was very scared at the time at such big, dangerous and beautiful creatures. It sparked something special in each one of us, a sense of wonder for a world that had disappeared so long ago.
Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, being the first installment of what would become a cultural phenomenon and an amazing franchise, sparking in all of us the love for dinosaurs.
This movie is about paleontologists Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler, who are from a selected group of people chosen to tour a private island populated by dinosaurs. These dinosaurs were created using prehistoric DNA and the whole island is like a dinosaur theme park, the creator being a billionaire that assures everyone that the facilities are safe. However, it all goes downhill as the predators escape and try to hunt our protagonists, who have to escape from these dangerous and gigantic creatures.
This is an intense and amazing experience as the audience is horrified at these dinosaurs and roots for the main characters to get out of the island alive.
The iconic Soundtrack for this film became so popular that with only a few chords anyone would be able to recognize it's from Jurassic Park. It was composed and conducted by John Williams, John Neufeld orchestrating most of the cues.
What makes this soundtrack so special to me, it's that it's able to evoke a sense of wonder and beauty in the viewer when we are first introduced to this amazing park and are able to experience these dinosaurs for the first time. But not only that, it also manages to scare us in the most intense scenes.
This is one of my favorite movies! I'm never tired of watching it again and again. Be sure to give it a chance if you haven't experienced this amazing yet terrifying adventure.
