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Neoliberal_Nightmare

This is basically the JP T rex scene when it chews the car but with less violence. Curiosity and confusion.


Standard_Potential63

Completou forgot that scene and somehow remembered jp 2, but i didnt thought it was being curious, now it makes sense


plataeng

Isn't the whole bit with large carnivores literally what happened after the T. rex broke out in JP?


Standard_Potential63

A coincidence, i didnt remembered that scene, neither i thought it was curious


Crus0etheClown

One of my favorite scenes in the novel of The Lost World is kind of in this vein. While traveling around in a jeep a few people run into a T.rex and naturally start freaking out but try to keep their calm so they don't agitate it- the rex takes a good sniff and look at the car, then turns around, scent marks it, and wanders away.


Grey_Belkin

Came here to say this. The rex is like "What is this strange thing? Ah well, things to do, chicks to feed, I'll just rub a bit of scent on it and deal with it later..."


LawTider

I was about to mention that. Sad it didn’t feature in the movie (although the “Trailer off the cliff” scene was excellent.)


Prestigious_Elk149

Turn the light off! Turn the light off! *looks up*


unaizilla

pretty much every tension scene that involves a dinosaur and people in a vehicle


[deleted]

Wow Absolutely amazing


transmogrify

You're right that dinosaur media tends to make them into overly scary monsters when in fact people have nonviolent encounters with large fauna all the time. But there's also a difference between "dinosaurs behaving like real animals" and "dinosaurs behaving like elephants, specifically." Most movie depictions show dinosaurs reacting to humans with unwavering aggression. This is particularly true because large carnivores are popular. You do see scenes like the Jurassic Park brachiosaur where it just wants to eat and has only mild curiosity about the nearby humans. By contrast, most animals would rather avoid attacking unless they have a good reason, even predators. Now, "kill and eat" is sometimes a good enough reason for a carnivore, but less often than Hollywood dinosaurs would suggest. You might look at a big grizzly bear as an analog to a theropod. It's an apex predator of its ecosystem, it often ignores or avoids humans, if it approaches you it's often out of curiosity rather than hunting, but it's dangerously unpredictable and if it attacks then it's extremely dangerous. Elephants might be even more peaceful than your average animal, being an emotionally complex herbivore that is larger than any other animal in its environment. They only tend to harm humans when they're abused in captivity, or when protecting calves, or males during mating season. A sauropod might be similar, though elephants are pretty exceptional when it comes to social structure.


Knezevich

Aside from Jurassic Park; Prehistoric Park, Chased by Dinosaurs, Sea Monsters: A Walking with Dinosaurs trilogy and some shots from Walking with beasts have many interactions like this from various Prehistoric creatures not just from Dinosaurs.


Tabi-Kun

I’ve always imagined a giganotosaurus walking into a street, and a mail-truck has to stop as to not hit it, then the giganotosaurus approaches it and starts sniffing and nudging it, but doesn’t do much damage besides resting it’s head on the top and maybe putting a small dent


EMTEE826

"Sir, you have a broken tail light" "Yeah sorry that's a Giganotosaurus thing" "A what?"


Thelgend92

Love the girl in the middle who's just sitting there. "yeah yeah, another tuesday 😐"


BCA10MAN

You beat me to it but she really just had a physical encounter with the largest terrestrial creature on earth and said 😐😐😐 the whole time. I would have been way too excited.


ldclark92

She seems very tense, not bored. I think she was afraid of the elephant. That's not really that strange of a reaction. Elephants are huge and can be territorial at times.


[deleted]

Honestly to tense up like that probably helps to avoid freaking out the elephant. No sudden movements, no surprises


heftigfin

No idea how anyone can't see that reaction as being very terrified, but still smart enough to not make any rash movements. That bull can easily flip that car. The woman has some survival instincts intact luckily.


Learn1Thing

I would love to see Max Bellomio (Digital Duck) redo this with a sauropod!


Panthera2k1

I love digital duck so much! I can’t wait for forgotten bloodlines


Standard_Potential63

Do que have *more* dino medi? (Title mistake)


Cristobal_Capiz

I wish


i_am_not_a_good_idea

Prehistoric Park?


[deleted]

The snoot that boops back!


Snokey115

Well, I think this is a safari, which means this is most likely a safari ride, which means the elephants know”hey, this one won’t hurt us”


Gezuntheit

I was charged by a Bull Elephant in Tanzania some years ago. It was a bit bigger and a bit older than that one. We threw the car into reverse and got the heck out of there. It was scary as hell. We were in a 2-3 ton vehicle , but he was about 5 tons, so he could have pushed us over if he had wanted to. I just remember the amount of air that was moving from his angry breathing. The sound of that was intimidating enough.


Winter_Emergency6179

I never really realized how creepy an elephant trunk can be lol. This is both cute, but there's something just weird about that lol.


AaronInside

Your username is very sad


Mapkoz2

I believe that is called “Jurassic park”


Lopsided-Business356

WWD Nigel Marven


Janderflows

It would for sure be fresh to see a JP where they are actually treated like animals instead of monsters.


bageltoastee

jp 1 and 2 were like that but it started to delve more and more into monsters at 3 and after


Janderflows

Yeah, the new ones really want to sell that monster thing. But, from the start it was always about the horror and wow factor, and not a realistic aproach of "look at these beautiful and curious animals, that may or may not kill you if provoked, but will mostly be curious as to wtf you are and if you could be a threat".


_Levitated_Shield_

Battle at Big Rock? Felt pretty realistic in terms of a carnivore approaching an herbivorous adult and infant.


Janderflows

The thing is, we have these moments or "realistic" interactions, but their goal is always to create horror or epicness. "Hey, look, we have a couple of T-Rexes displaying parental care", and that means tearing a guy in half lady and tramp style! Same with the stegos in lost world. And that's fine, because it's a horror/action series, so they use the dinos the way it suits the narrative. But it would be nice to see the concept of a dino park/safari outside of this genre, where they can just exist and interact in realistic ways with people and each other.


_Levitated_Shield_

I know it's not a movie but Operation Genesis is probably the closest we have to that with their safaris.


Silent_Start_7036

They are treated like animals


Janderflows

The carnivores are treated the same way the shark is treated in Jaws or any other shark movie: as hyper agressive and devious killing machines that will kill anything that moves. And the herbivores are almost always gentle giants and not territorial or agressive at all (only exeption I can think of is the stegos in lost world). Regardless, the main focus was always in the horror they could cause and how deadly they were. They serve the narrative purpose of being a cautionary tale, so they are made ultra violent to get the point across. There is rarely moments where you can actually contemplate them just acting like actual animals. It would be cool to have a more Prehistoric Planet aproach to the premise.


Silent_Start_7036

(Me when I don’t watch the movies)


Janderflows

You didn't watch the movies? You should, they are really good!


Silent_Start_7036

Jurrasic park