Shortly after this first clip from Jurassic World was released, Joss Whedon called it “’70s era sexist” on Twitter, for which he later apologized. Not because the tropes of the clip weren’t arguably sexist when proffered with no context, but because he didn’t think he should be putting out negativity about others’ work in the “wrong venue,” classifying his comments as “dinner party conversation.”
Now Jurassic World director (and huge Jurassic Park fan) Colin Trevorrow has responded to Whedon’s comments in Italian language site Bad Taste, with the translation below provided via Coming Soon.
FIGHT FIGHT FI–oh, wait, he kind of agreed? Welp.
“I wasn’t bothered by what he said about the movie and, to be honest, I don’t totally disagree with him. I wonder why [Universal] chose a clip like that, that shows an isolated situation within a movie that has an internal logic. That starts with characters that are almost archetypes, stereotypes that are deconstructed as the story progresses. The real protagonist of the movie is Claire and we embrace her femininity in the story’s progression. There’s no need for a female character that does things like a male character, that’s not what makes interesting female characters in my view. Bryce and I have talked a lot about these concepts and aspects of his character.” (translated from the original Italian)
In other words, he didn’t choose the clip, and taken out of context it may not be a good representation of what the characters are like later in the movie when they’re faced with the DINOPOCALYPSE™. (Sidenote: DINOPOCALYPSE™ is not a new Mountain Dew flavor. We think.)
Coming Soon points out Bryce Dallas Howard said something a bit similar on Tuesday, when she praised Whedon but said about the Girl Friday tone of the clip, “When you see the movie it’s not at all like that.”
Well, yeah. I guess we just assumed Universal only picked that clip because Chris Pratt is a handsome devil.
Burt Macklin, you son of a bitch.
(Via Coming Soon)
