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Is Jurassic World Rebirth in on the Joke?

Scarlett Johansson’s character takes a job she doesn’t really care about simply because the money is too good. Does the movie get why that’s funny?

So what’s the motivation for Johansson’s character, famed mercenary Zora Bennett, to risk life and limb to visit an abandoned island full of genetically engineered dinosaurs? That’s the kind of cash that can make a girl do crazy things, like rappel down a 300-foot cliff face while battling a Quetzalcoatlus, which is, as the script so memorably puts it, “a flying carnivore the size of an F-16.” Whether or not the salary beat is a sly in-joke about ScarJo’s own motivation, it’s hard not to spend Rebirth’ s whole first act pondering the question of who’s making more money from this endeavor — Zora Bennett or Scarlett Johansson?

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