Ellie Sattler

I feel this character would do here, especially the original, the OGs.

They would consult with Laura Dern quite a lot about where Ellie Sattler would be, who she would be.

Sam Neill and Laura Dern had this workshop together where they said what was on their characters' minds.

And all this to say, I'm pretty sure the character beats were informed by the actors, but the overall story... beginning, middle, and end, and the scenes, and certainly where the movie ends up, whereas Trevorrow said, always had an end in sight, and the movie ends where he wants it to

feminist movie though really

there's that quick sequence of like you know where laura dern ellie sadler's like we can discuss sexism in the workplace later because she's like i need he's like i need to go because you're uh you know whatever when they need to uh this is like like

old old man who

doesn't know how to do anything oh my They would have never got that power.

She is one of the people.

She does save the day.

There's no power without Ellie Sadler.

There is no computer system without Little Lex hacking into the system.

No.

For me, it's like, where am I going to wear it? Like last year we did Ellie Sattler and Ian Malcolm from Jurassic Park and maybe it was a dinosaur, which was extremely cute.

But we just like walked around the neighborhood and then that was it.

And it was like, well, I had to buy that costume that I'm not going to really wear again.

Both Fulton Sheen and Edith Stein tell us to discipline those qualities according to the truth so that the woman can fulfill her mission of life-giving love.

And this is going to sound flippant, but that's why female characters like Cady Heron or Dr. Ellie Sattler, and yes, Elizabeth Bennet or any Jane Austen female lead, keep us coming back.

I mean, how many adaptations of Pride and Prejudice are there now? They're tapping into a deeper female archetype that feels real because it is real.

Only women can be formed into mothers, whether physical, spiritual, or metaphorical.

Yeah

... for Ellie Sattler, you know?

Thank God.

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I will just say one last word on the topic before we go here.

I think everything that, uh, Ian, Dr., uh, Ian Malcolm and Dr. Ellie Sattler said about Jurassic Park is also applicable to AI.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

It's not like screaming sex, but...

She's kind of like a prototype Ellie Sattler type of character.

Totally.

I mean, there's a few scenes in this movie that reminded me a lot of Jurassic Park.

Yeah.

You know, it's a rough start for her.

I mentioned a prototype Ellie Sattler type of woman.

Oh,

But on screen, Spielberg and Goldblum turn him into pure rock star charisma.

Instead of a lecture, the movie gives us that brilliant, simple scene where Malcolm flirts with Ellie Sattler by dropping water on her hand to visually demonstrate how unpredictable variables work.

Yes, the water drop scene.

It takes a 10-page essay and turns it into 40 seconds of undeniable cinematic charm