Introduction: Ever since humans discovered dinosaurs, scientists have never stopped studying them. As time goes by and science and technology advance, our understanding of dinosaurs becomes clearer and clearer. Many film and television works depict dinosaurs in vivid and amazing ways. Let’s follow the special group to see what film and television works are related to dinosaurs!
1. History of Dinosaur Movies
The emergence of dinosaur movies is closely related to the development of science fiction movies. At the end of the 19th century, science fiction films were born in France almost at the same time as entertainment films.
1. In the 1920s, American science fiction films began to diverge from European science fiction films. and German "Metropolis" (1927)
Compared with European science fiction films, Hollywood science fiction films pay more attention to legendary plots, fast pace, thrilling actions and superb stunts. Representative Hollywood science fiction films of this period include The Lost World (1925)
2. In the 1990s, the emergence of computer special effects greatly promoted the development of science fiction movies. Hollywood science fiction movies begin to rely heavily on computers
Composite imagery (CGI) and taking it to the extreme, like "Jurassic Park."
3. Beginning in the 1930s, Hollywood science fiction films began to favor mad scientist themes with horror, pessimism and romance. During this period
Produced King Kong (1933).
2. Excellent movies about dinosaurs
Most of the movies related to dinosaurs are American blockbusters, and almost all of them are science fiction and suspenseful, which is shocking.
1. "Jurassic Park" series
The film mainly tells the story of Dr. Hammond convening a large number of scientists to use the blood of the living dragon condensed in amber to extract the terrifying genetic genes, and resurrect the prehistoric behemoth that has been extinct for 65 million years, bringing the entire Nubra to life. The island became a paradise for dinosaurs, namely "Jurassic Park".
2. "The Lost World"
The play is adapted from the novel "The Lost World" by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. It is divided into three parts, the first part is "The Explorer" (1999), the second part is "The Jungle Adventure" (2000), and the third part is "The Lost World". For Strange Plateau (2001). The story tells the story of a dangerous encounter with dinosaurs in an unexplored land.
3. "The Land Lost in Time"
During World War I, after a German submarine sank a British ship, the submarine was taken over by the survivors. But the submarine went in the wrong direction, taking the survivors to an unknown land. There were a lot of dinosaurs and cavemen living there. Can they return home smoothly?
4. "King Kong"
An adventurous entrepreneur and filmmaker led a filming team to a desert island for filming, including the heroine Ann and the screenwriter Jack. They encountered attacks by dinosaurs and local indigenous people, and Ann's screams elicited King Kong's response. This huge orangutan, even the ferocious dinosaurs are afraid of it, but it just loves An. An later brought King Kong back to New York from the desert island, but this was the beginning of its tragic fate.
3. Other dinosaur film and television works
1. Animation
Animated dinosaurs are mainly designed to enlighten children, allowing them to get to know this giant creature in an interesting storyline, and at the same time feel family affection and warmth.
(1) "The Good Dinosaur"
The film tells the story of Arlo, an adventurous brontosaurus who becomes friends with a human boy. Although there is a huge difference in height, they take care of each other and travel around.
The world has experienced a warm and exciting journey. The film was released in the United States on November 25, 2015.
(2) "Dinosaur"
The appearance of "Dinosaurs" has once again subverted the audience's definition of the real world. The 1,300 special effects shots make it the most complex and spectacular film of its kind, and it can be called the most visually stunning film in Hollywood history. one.
(3) "Interstellar Dinosaur"
"Interstellar Dinosaurs" is a 52-episode cartoon produced in the United States. It tells the story of dinosaurs of all sizes in the ancient times 65 million years ago.
Wander the then green, wet earth. The story of dinosaurs who travel to the 21st century through a wormhole and acquire knowledge through the combination of DNA and become intelligent. They fight with their enemies to save mankind and maintain world peace and order.
2. Documentary
Documentaries about dinosaurs lack the eye-catching images of live-action movies. Instead, they tell everything about dinosaurs seriously and bring everyone the most accurate information about dinosaurs.
(1) "Prehistoric Park"
The film simply uses a biological documentary technique commonly seen on the Discovery Channel to describe biological explorer Negi's return to the era before the dinosaurs became extinct, to catch the extinct dinosaurs and bring them back to modern times to be raised in "Prehistoric Park" among.
(2) "Dinosaur Planet"
"Dinosaur Planet" was produced by the BBC in 2011. The documentary uses a large number of computer special effects to truly restore more than 50 prehistoric species and their living environment to the maximum extent possible. From Spinosaurus to the ultimate predator to Majungasaurus, creatures of unimaginable size, ferocity, and strangeness have left their mark on this planet.
(3) "Walking with Dinosaurs"
Also known as "Walking with Dragons," the film uses computer synthesis technology and model reshaping to reconstruct Mesozoic scenes, changing the way dinosaurs are told in previous educational feature films, and also invites many paleontologists to participate.
4. How to restore dinosaurs
We cannot restore that era, but we can restore the dinosaurs.
1. When the fossils were discovered, they were scattered all over the ground like bones eaten by dogs. Scientists had to assemble them first. The first step after discovering a fossil is to trace each fossil. After tracing, put them together to restore its approximate appearance.
2. After assembling the dinosaur skeleton, we can use precision instruments to find traces of multiple muscle connections on the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, and then use these traces to correspond one to one to calculate the direction of these muscles. With the direction of the muscles, we You can calculate the true size of the muscles.
3. The vivid dinosaurs in the movie are the result of computer stunts. The lifelike, ferocious and brutal dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park" were created through computer stunts.
4. Mark the position of each bone on the sketch, attach muscles to the existing bones, then color it according to the brightness of the sun, and finally use wrinkles, scales and some soil to carefully trim it.
5. forTo make these dinosaurs chase and fight on the screen like real beasts, people used super drawing computers to draw a 10-second close-up of the dinosaur movement.
Conclusion: With the continuous advancement of science and technology and the continuous in-depth understanding of dinosaurs, I believe that we will see more excellent works about dinosaurs in the near future, let us look forward to it together!