Response to ItsNiceThat brief - International Women's Day

Having worked on early roughs for my zine based around the roles of Laura Dern, I found it quite organic to adapt one of these ideas into a response for this brief. From the get go I was sure I wanted to use the image of Dr Ellie Sattler from Jurassic Park, as I’ve always seen that character as a great and under appreciated female icon in a largely male dominated franchise. She is never made into the damsel, she doesn’t have to depend on the men of the story to teach her anything or patronise her. But she’s often forgotten because she never runs around with bravado in front of the T Rex or has as many quotable lines as Jeff Goldblum’s character.

But since being young she’s always been my favourite character in Jurassic Park, I suppose because above all she’s equal to the men in the story, and there is no patronising story trope that shoves that fact down your throat, it is just an element of the story and it shouldn’t be a shock to anyone that a woman can do a job as well as a man. For that reason, I wanted to illustrate her alongside my favourite quote of hers in the movie, when John Hammond stammers that it's too dangerous for a woman to go outside and fix something with all those angry dinos around.