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3 - Ellie Sattler
When I watched Jurassic Park for the first time in a very long time, I was struck by the people they cast. The kids were perfect, Grant was perfect, John Hammond was perfect, and Ian Malcolm was perfect. But the most perfect of them all was Ellie Sattler. Everyone had the perfect fairytale look that fit their archetype perfectly: this is a kid, this is a well-intentioned billionaire playing God; this is a sarcastic doctor; this is a man; and Ellie Sattler was a woman. And on a very, very important note, a good mother figure for the children, because between her, them, and Grant, they felt like a nuclear family. For which she was also perfectly cast. She lives up to every standard of beauty that anyone could ever possibly live up to.
For all the characters thus far I have had some deep explanation. For the most part I haven't let the pictures do the talking and gave a speech about what the character meant to me instead. But this, well, it truly is all in the picture.
I'm not a huge fan of saying "Enough said", since that's hardly ever true...but she looks like my mother. 'Nuff said.
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Okay, okay, you know me. There's no way I can not do a lot of talking. So, here's my rant about this: Guys, unless you're married and/or have a daughter, and unless you had abusive parents, your mother is the most beautiful woman in the world. She's also the wisest, smarted, all-powerful, all-knowing lady you will ever know, to borrow a catchphrase from my own mother. Obviously, she's not meant to be someone you're supposed to have a crush on (unless you're Oedipus Rex), but beauty isn't necessarily something you crush on. Perhaps it is something, as in this case, that you revere, because I totally revere this character for looking like my mother did back when she was young.
There. 'Nuff said.
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