Concept : Jurassic Park as fast-paced romp through a rockin' party at T-Rex's mom's house.
Will Smith  |  by idolator.com. All rights reserved. 11.10 | 18:19

Concept : Jurassic Park as story of one T-Rex's struggle with, and eventual triumph over, clinical depression. From the first shot to the very last , this video just screams "delightfully misguided." Pretty much the only congruity here is the tone of the song in combination with the dark and stormy setting.

One can imagine Amy Lee at a grand piano, bellowing about some kind of heartache or sadness and getting rained on out by the Raptor pen. So in that aspect this video is a total success; the last half hour of Jurassic Park does, in fact, look like an Evanescence video. But the logic stops there.

Perhaps the most amusing aspect is that the clip choices and the way they're edited suggest that we should be experiencing this song from T-Rex's point of view. For instance, the slo-mo sequence starting at around 30 seconds is very dramatic and surprisingly emotional--it's as if T-Rex is asking Sam Neill to find his spirit and "lead it back home." Overall it's definitely fun to watch, though almost uncomfortably absurd.

(Thanks to commenter RickSlick for the link.) Best music-to-image sync-up moment : Something about the those Raptor claws creeping along to the tinkling piano is just so perfect. That moment is both amusingly ridiculous and (probably unintentionally) masterful.

There's a sort of dual foreboding in motion; the twitchy movement of the claws indicates that we should brace ourselves for the impending Raptor attack, while at the same time the morose piano warns us: Evanescence song! Straight ahead! That's a lot of panic packed into five seconds.

Silliest music-to-image sync-up moment : Take your pick, really. I'll go with the decision to sync up the dramatic ending of the song with the lawyer-gets-eaten-while-on-the-toilet scene. Classy!

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Keywords: t Rex, Jurassic Park
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