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For me personally, two shows/movies made a big impact on me as an early teen:
- Star Trek (TNG at the time)
- Jurassic Park
The reason being that most of the characters in those two shows/movies weren't superheroes/cops/etc. They were geeks and nerds.
Star Trek, the geeks and nerds are prized in society, and their purpose is to explore, to learn. They were scientists. They didn't accomplish their thing by conquest, but by diplomacy and science. There, of course, were battles/warriors/etc, but those are shown as the exception.
In Jurassic Park, every character is a nerd (the Dino obsessed boy, the Unix hacking girl, the Paleontologist/Paelobotanist, the Geneticist, Mathematician, etc). The good guys AND the bad guys were nerds. No strong-man was needed to save the day.
I was a nerdy kid, and those spoke to me. I now work in a science research lab, and love it. I'm still a nerd.
I love this answer. I somehow didn't realize that everyone in JP was a nerd except for Muldoon who was neutralized almost immediately.
It's one of the reasons I don't care for the newer Jurassic Park movies. Chris Pratt plays the strong man to save the day (continually)
I don't care for the newer ones because literally none of the characters or moments are memorable. I can remember a deleted scene of... Whoever the female lead is (Christ, even forgot who she is) rubbing dinoshit all over herself and Chris Pratt getting turned on. Also remember a PA having the most unnecessary and violent death for just existing.
There was a scene that was very memorable to me. It's the scene where Chris Pratt is riding a Triumph Bonneville through a dense forest, full of undergrowth, with his raptor buddies. It is memorable to me because it's impossible. As someone who rides motorcycles and dirt bikes, that scene stood out to me as so stupid. Oh, one other scene. Where the aviary dome is broken and the pterodactyls immediately embark on a homicidal rampage. Because we all know that animals don't kill for food, they kill for fun, and what's more fun than slaughtering an entire city?
If they immediately go to slaughtering everything, that would mean they are hungry, which means the park staff was likely severely underfeeding them... which is animal abuse and gets zoos fined and/or shut down. Well fed animals might take a swipe at someone in their way, but they'd likely just head for the forest and do bird stuff there.
Realistic Jurassic Park would be pretty boring TBH
Bryce Dallas Howard. I remember because I have a thicc redhead thing. Sorry, not sorry.
I mean, even he was a nerd. A survivalist nerd.