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Jurassic Park (1993) is a masterful piece of film-making. The audience know what the island is from the moment the film starts but the first act still manages to build suspense about it through dialogue and editing right up until the scene where the Brachiosaurus is revealed.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Goldblum is more memorable but Neill and Dern deliver excellent performances. Neill puts so much into the simple line "They're moving in herds. They do move in herds." You really feel that moment as the culmination of a career-long search for answers.Permalink On Internet Archive
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If there isn't one already, there should be a gif of Laura Dern's reaction when she gets served the Chilean seabass with way too much shredded carrot.Permalink On Internet Archive
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A great thing about this film is that it doesn't shy away from the scientific, philosophical, and ethical discussions from the novel. Sure, it's a blockbuster film but there are whole scenes of people doing nothing but discussing corporate ethics and scientific responsibility.Permalink On Internet Archive
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There are moments in two films that always surprise me, no matter how many times I've seen the films: when the Millennium Falcon swoops in to save Luke on the Death Star trench run and when Samuel L. Jackson turns up in Jurassic Park.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight) is a classic IT single-point-of-failure. I bet he doesn't keep documentation either. smdh.On Internet Archive
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Ian Malcolm is such a creep. It's testament to Jeff Goldblum's acting in this role that he manages to come across as charming. Any other actor would have made this character seem like such a douche.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Fun Nedry fact: Nedry has a photo of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the inventors of the atomic bomb, stuck to his computer monitor. A subtle reference to the film's theme of the dangers of scientific 'advancement'. "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."Permalink On Internet Archive
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Gary Rydstrom's sound design for Jurassic Park is incredible: he creates unique, memorable, and realistic-sounding roars and sounds for a whole range of dinosaurs. I will never be able to think of a T. rex making any sound other than the sound the T. rex makes in this movie.Permalink On Internet Archive
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The T. rex growl is made from a Jack Russell terrier's noises. The T. rex roar is made from a baby elephant's noises. Source: vulture.com/2013/04/how-the-dino-sounds-in-jurassic-park-were-made.htmlPermalink On Internet Archive
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I viewed the shaving can of embryos that Nedry drops as a proper Chekhov's gun when I was a kid. It was inconceivable to me that it wasn't meant as a future plotline for sequels. In retrospect, that's purely down to how the object is framed and given prominence through a zoom.Permalink On Internet Archive
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"They're not monsters, Lex, they're just animals." That's a powerful sentiment in this film and one that I think subsequent films in the series - particularly Jurassic Park III (2001) and Jurassic World (2015) - miss out on.Permalink On Internet Archive
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The scene with Hammond eating the ice-cream is the best scene in the film. John Williams' score, stellar understated performances from Dern and Attenborough, effective camera framing. It represents a thematic turning point in the film and does so much for both characters. Superb.Permalink On Internet Archive
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The film isn't perfect: there is only one woman character and one black character. But, for 1993, Ellie Sattler is a fairly badass feminist character.Permalink On Internet Archive
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tfw I get given a new server to look after at work.Permalink On Internet Archive
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The T. rex has turned up triumphantly at the denouement. This account will soon no longer be a Jurassic Park appreciation account. Thank you for your patience.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Supplement to last night's thread: there's a whole @denofgeek article here on details and symbolism in Jurassic Park denofgeek.com/uk/movies/jurassic-park/51113/jurassic-park-10-things-you-might-have-missedPermalink On Internet Archive