Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Dr. Ian Malcolm: The lack of humility before nature that`s being displayed here, uh... staggers me. Lex: He left us! He left us!
Dr. Alan Grant: But that`s NOT what I`M gonna do.
Dr. Ellie Sattler: I was overwhelmed by the power of this place; but I made a mistake, too. I didn`t have enough respect for that power and it`s out now. The only thing that matters now are the people we love: Alan and Lex and Tim. John, they`re out there where people are dying.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: She`s... ah... tenacious.
Dr. Alan Grant: You have no idea.
Lew Dodgson: You shouldn`t use my name.
Dennis Nedry: [loudly] Dodgson, Dodgson, we have Dodgson here! See? Nobody cares. Nice hat! What are ya tryin` to look like - a secret agent?
Dr. Alan Grant: You married?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Occasionally.
Muldoon: [Muldoon and Ellie have arrived at the site of the T-Rex attack] I think this was Gennaro.
Dr. Ellie Sattler: [about 15 feet away] I think this was too
Dr. Alan Grant: [On the phone after the power failure in the park] Mr. Hammond, the phones are working.
Dr. Alan Grant: Oh my God. Do you know what this is? This is a dinosaur egg. The dinosaurs are breeding.
Lex: I`m a hacker!
Tim: That`s what I said: you`re a nerd.
Lex: I am not a computer nerd. I prefer to be called a hacker!
Dr. Ellie Sattler: We can make it if we run.
Muldoon: No, we can`t.
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Why not?
Muldoon: Because we are being hunted.
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Oh God.
Muldoon: It`s all right.
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Like hell it is!
Henry Wu: You`re implying that a group composed entirely of female animals will... breed?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: No, I`m simply saying that life, uh... finds a way.
[watching Gennaro jump out of the tour car and sprint to the porta-potty at the sight of the T-Rex]
Dr. Alan Grant: Well, where does he think he`s going?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: When you gotta go, you gotta go.
John Hammond: Dr. Grant, my dear Dr. Sattler. Welcome to Jurassic Park
Dr. Ian Malcolm: I`m always on the lookout for the future ex-Mrs. Malcolm.
John Hammond: We`ve made living biological attractions so astounding that they`ll capture the imagination of the entire planet.
[Repeated line]
John Hammond: I spared no expenses.
Dr. Alan Grant: It looks like we`re out of a job.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Don`t you mean extinct?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn`t stop to think if they should.
John Hammond: All major theme parks have had delays. When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked!
Dr. Ian Malcolm: But, John. If the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don`t eat the tourists.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: I`ll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you`re using here: it didn`t require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn`t earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don`t take any responsibility... for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now
[pounds table with fists]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: you`re selling it,
[pounds table again]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: you want to sell it!
[Malcolm walks up to a huge mound of dino-droppings]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: That is one big pile of shit.
[about the velociraptors]
Dr. Alan Grant: What`s their growth rate?
Muldoon: They`re lethal at eight months, and I do mean lethal. I`ve hunted most things that can hunt you, but the way these things move...
Dr. Alan Grant: Fast for a biped?
Muldoon: Cheetah speed. Fifty, sixty miles an hour if they ever got out into the open, and they`re astonishing jumpers...
John Hammond: Yes, yes, yes. That`s why we`re taking extraordinary precautions.
[to Ellie]
John Hammond: The viewing area is over there, and...
Dr. Alan Grant: Do they show intelligence?
Muldoon: They show extraordinary intelligence, even problem-solving. Especially the big one. We bred eight originally, but when she came in she took over the pride and killed all but two of the others. That one... when she looks at you, you can tell she`s working things out.
[Dr. Ellie Sattler has dug through a pile of dino-droppings with her hands]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: You will remember to wash your hands before you eat anything?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Anybody hear that? It`s an... It`s an impact tremor, that`s what it is... I`m fairly alarmed here.
[while being chased by the T-Rex]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Must go faster.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Remind me to thank John for a lovely weekend.
Lex: It`s a UNIX system! I know this!
Dr. Ian Malcolm: God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs...
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth...
Dr. Ian Malcolm: God help us; we`re in the hands of engineers.
[being chased by the T-Rex]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: You think they`ll have that on the tour?
[realizing that the park is out of control]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Boy, do I hate being right all the time!
Dr. Alan Grant: Mr. Hammond, after careful consideration, I`ve decided *not* to endorse your park.
John Hammond: So have I.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: There. Look at this. See? See? I`m right again. Nobody could`ve predicted that Dr. Grant would suddenly, suddenly jump out of a moving vehicle.
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Alan? Alan!
[Jumps out of the vehicle]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: There`s, another example. See, here I`m now sitting by myself, uh, er, talking to myself. That`s, that`s chaos.
[after finding Malcolm with a broken leg]
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Should we chance moving him?
[the Tyrannosaur roars nearby]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Please, chance it.
John Hammond: There is no doubt that our attractions will drive kids out of their minds.
Dr. Alan Grant: What are those?
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Small versions of adults, honey.
John Hammond: [Mr. Hammond is being fed arguments against his park, but Dr. Grant has kept silent throughout] Dr. Grant... if there`s one person here who can appreciate what I`m trying to do.
Dr. Alan Grant: The world is changing so fast, and we`re all running to catch up. I don`t want to jump to any conclusions, but look. Dinosaurs and man... two species separated by 65 million years of evolution, have suddenly been thrown into the mix together. How can we possibly have the slightest idea of what to expect?
John Hammond: I don`t believe it! Hah! I don`t believe it! You`re supposed to come here and defend me against these characters and the only one I`ve got on my side is the bloodsucking lawyer!
Donald Gennaro: Thank you.
[last lines]
Dr. Alan Grant: [motioning John Hammond into the helicopter] Come on, come on.
[first lines]
Voice over PA: [while maneuvering dinosaur cage] Everybody, heads up! Heads up! Keep it clear! Okay, down!
[Dr. Grant enters his mobile trailer home and sees John Hammond in his fridge]
Dr. Alan Grant: What the hell do you think you`re doing in here?
[John pops open a bottle of champagne. The cork comes flying at Grant and he ducks]
Dr. Alan Grant: Hey, we were saving that.
John Hammond: For today, I guarantee it.
John Hammond: You know the first attraction I ever built when I came down south from Scotland? Was a Flea Circus, Petticoat Lane. Really quite wonderful. We had a wee trapeze, a roundabout - - a merry-go - - what you call it? A carousel - - and a seesaw. They all moved, motorized of course, but people would swear they could see the fleas. "I see the fleas, mummy! Can`t you see the fleas?" Clown fleas, high wire fleas, fleas on parade... But with this place, I - - I wanted to give them something real, something that wasn`t an illusion, something they could see and touch. An aim devoid of merit.
Dr. Alan Grant: Kids! You want to have one of those?
Dr. Ellie Sattler: I don`t want that kid, but a breed of child Dr. Grant could be intriguing. I mean, what`s so wrong with kids?
Dr. Alan Grant: Oh, Ellie, look, they`re noisy, they`re messy, they`re expensive.
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Cheap... cheap...
Dr. Alan Grant: They smell.
Dr. Ellie Sattler: They do not smell.
Dr. Alan Grant: Some of them smell.
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Oh, give me a break!
Dr. Alan Grant: Babies smell!
Dr. Ian Malcolm: But again, how do you know they`re all female? Does someone go into the park and, uh... lift up the dinosaurs` skirts?
Henry Wu: No, we control their chromosomes. It`s really not that difficult. It just takes an extra chromosome developed at the right hormonal stage to make them male. We simply deny them that.
Dr. Alan Grant: Try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period. You get your first look at this "six foot turkey" as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T-Rex - he`ll lose you if you don`t move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that`s when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side,
[makes `whoshing` sound]
Dr. Alan Grant: from the other two `raptors you didn`t even know were there. Because Velociraptor`s a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this... a six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the the middle toe. He doesn`t bother to bite your jugular like a lion, say... no no. He slashes at you here... or here... or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is... you are alive when they start to eat you. So you know... try to show a little respect.
Volunteer Boy: [on the Velociraptor skeleton on the computer screen] That`s not very scary. More like a six-foot Turkey.
Muldoon: They should all be destroyed.
Muldoon: Shoot her! Shoot her!
[Just before he gets attacked by a raptor]
Muldoon: Clever girl.
[repeated line]
Ray Arnold: Hold on to your butts.
Muldoon: What about the lysine contingency? We could put that into effect!
Dr. Ellie Sattler: What`s that?
John Hammond: It is absolutely out of the question.
Ray Arnold: The lysine contingency - it`s intended to prevent the spread of the animals is case they ever got off the island. Dr. Wu inserted a gene that makes a single faulty enzyme in protein metabolism. The animals can`t manufacture the amino acid lysine. Unless they`re continually supplied with lysine by us, they`ll slip into a coma and die.
Dr. Ellie Sattler: How could we cut off the lysine?
Ray Arnold: No real trick to it. Just stop running the program, leaving them unattended.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: How long before they become comatose?
Ray Arnold: It would be totally painless - they`d just slip into unconsciousness and die.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: How long until they slip into unconsciousness?
Ray Arnold: Hmm... seven days, more or less.
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Seven days? Seven days? Oh, that`s great. Clever!
Dr. Ian Malcolm: That`ll be a first - man and dinosaur all die together. John`s plan.
John Hammond: People. Are. Dying! Mr. Arnold, will you please shut down the system.
Ray Arnold: OK, but... you asked for it. Hold on to your butts!
[switches the mainframe off]
Dr. Alan Grant: [seeing the Brachiosaur for the first time] Uh... it`s... it`s a dinosaur!
Lex: He`s gonna eat the goat?
Tim: Excellent!
Donald Gennaro: What`s the matter, kid? Ever have lamb chops?
Lex: I happen to be a vegetarian.
Tim: What do you call a blind dinosaur?
Dr. Alan Grant: I don`t know.
Tim: A Do-you-think-he-saurus.
Dr. Alan Grant: Ha ha. Good one.
Tim: What do you call a blind dinosaur`s dog?
Dr. Alan Grant: You got me.
Tim: A Do-you-think-he-saurus Rex.
[All of a sudden their electric car stops]
Dr. Alan Grant: What did I touch?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: You didn`t touch anything. We stopped.
[Tim pops up wearing a pair of night vision goggles]
Donald Gennaro: Hey, where`d you find that?
Tim: In a box under my seat.
Donald Gennaro: Are they heavy?
Tim: Yeah.
Donald Gennaro: Then they`re expensive, put `em back.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: You did it. You crazy son of a bitch you did it.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: I love kids! Anything at all *can* and *does* happen... Same with wives, for that matter...
John Hammond: Condors! Condors are on the verge of extinction. If I was to create a flock of condors on this island, you wouldn`t have anything to say!
Dr. Ian Malcolm: No hold on, this is not some species that was obliterated by deforestation, or the building of a dam. Dinosaurs, uh, *had* their shot, and nature *selected* them for extinction!
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Doctor Grant`s not machine compatible.
John Hammond: I don`t blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.
Dennis Nedry: Thanks, Dad.
Tim: I hate trees.
Lex: They don`t bother me.
Tim: Ya, well, you weren`t in the last one.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: What is so great about discovery? It is a violent, penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world.
[Upon entering through the gigantic park gates]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: What`ve they got in there, King Kong?
John Hammond: Dennis, our lives are in your hands and you`ve got butterfingers?
Dennis Nedry: Don`t get cheap on me, Dodgson. That was Hammond`s mistake.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: [Ian Malcolm leans to face camera in electric tour car when the T-Rex doesn`t appear] Now eventually you might have dinosaurs on your, on your dinosaur tour, right? Hello?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: [he taps the camera lens and breathes on it] Yes?
John Hammond: [John Hammond watches the camera feed with his face in his hands] I really do hate that man.
[Grant sees a group of Dinosaurs drinking at the edge of a lake]
Dr. Alan Grant: They`re moving in herds. They do move in herds.
Donald Gennaro: [after seeing the Brachiosaur] We`re gonna make a fortune with this place.
Dr. Alan Grant: [holding a newly-hatched Dinosaur in his hands] What species is this?
Henry Wu: It`s uh, a velociraptor.
Dr. Alan Grant: [in disbelief] You bred raptors?
Dr. Alan Grant: [sees Ian trying to distract the T-Rex] Ian, freeze!
Dr. Ian Malcolm: [starts running with the T-Rex in pursuit] Go get the kids!
Dr. Alan Grant: Get rid of the flare!
Tim: [after the tour car falls on them at the bottom of the tree] Well... we`re back... in the car again.
Dr. Alan Grant: Well, as least you`re out of the tree.
Dennis Nedry: [on computer] unh-unh-uh, you didn`t say the magic word.
Ray Arnold: PLEASE! GODAMMIT! I hate this hacker crap!
Dr. Alan Grant: Dilophosaurus!
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Oh, shit!
Donald Gennaro: I had to promise to conduct a thorough on-site inspection.
Juanito Rostagno: Hammond hates inspections. They slow everything down.
Donald Gennaro: Juanito, they`ll pull the funding. That`ll slow him down even more.
[Dr. Grant gets back in the car after checking with the other car for a working radio]
Dr. Alan Grant: Their radio is out too. Gennarro said to stay put.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: The kids OK?
Dr. Alan Grant: I didn`t ask. Why wouldn`t they be?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Kids get scared.
Dr. Alan Grant: What`s to be scared about? It`s just a little hiccup in the power...
Dr. Ian Malcolm: I didn`t say I was scared.
Dr. Alan Grant: I didn`t say you were scared.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: I know.
Dennis Nedry: [scrambling on the ground] My glasses...
[getting up]
Dennis Nedry: I can afford more glasses!
Tim: Look at all the blood!
Dr. Alan Grant: Mr. Hammond, the phones are working.
John Hammond: My grandchildren?
Dr. Alan Grant: We`re fine. Call the mainland. Tell them to send the damned helicopter."
[glass shattering]
Dr. Ellie Sattler: [referring to `raptor] He`s gonna come through the glass!
Dr. Alan Grant: [gun shots]
John Hammond: [hears gun shots in phone receiver] Grant? GRAAAAANT?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Don`t you see the danger, John, inherent in what you`re doing here? Genetic power is the most awesome force the planet`s ever witnessed, yet you wield it like a kid that`s found his dad`s gun.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it`s that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, expands to new territory, and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously.
Tim: That means they only eat vegetables, but for you, I think they`d make an exception.
Donald Gennaro: Is that... auto-erotica?
John Hammond: You`ll have to get used to Dr. Malcolm, he suffers from a deplorable excess of personality.
Lex: What are you and Ellie gonna do now if you don`t have to pick up dinosaur bones anymore?
Dr. Alan Grant: I don`t know. I guess... I guess we`ll just have to evolve too.
Dennis Nedry: [setting his plan in motion] Anyone want anything to eat or drink?
Dennis Nedry: [off everyone`s look] You know I figured that I was going to stop by the snack machines, since I had just something salty and i thought i would get something sweet and since I was up there... you know?
Dennis Nedry: [no one says anything] Oh, ah... I finished debugging the programs but there were some errors. So for the next 10-15 minutes some power might shut down, but its only temporary, nothing to worry about.
Dennis Nedry: [after still no one answers, he puts one hand on his watch and another on the mouse. He moves the pointer to a "start" button and just as he clicks it he also clicks his watch. A 60-second countdown timer starts ticking down in-sync to the one on his watch]
[taking over Dennis Nedry`s terminal, he finds lots of junk food wrappers]
Ray Arnold: Look at this work station!
[pushes the trash on the floor]
Ray Arnold: What a complete slob!
Muldoon: [with alarm] The raptor fences aren`t out, are they?
Ray Arnold: No, no. They`re still on.
John Hammond: Why the hell would he turn the other one`s off?
Lex: What if the dinosaurs come back while we`re all asleep?
Dr. Alan Grant: Hmm. I`ll stay awake.
Lex: All night?
Dr. Alan Grant: [reassuringly] All night.
Ray Arnold: Whoa, whoa, whoa, fences are failing all over the place!
John Hammond: Find Nedry! Check the vending machines!
Lex: [Grant and the kids are climbing the perimeter fence] Hey Timmy, I bet I can reach the top and get down the other side before you can even make it to the top.
Tim: What would you give me?
Lex: Respect.
[Sattler and Muldoon see that the raptors escaped]
Dr. Ellie Sattler: Oh, God. Oh, God.
Muldoon: The shut down must`ve turned off all the fences. Damn it, even Nedry knew better than to mess with the raptor fences.
Ray Arnold: [trying to bring the system back on-line] Access main program. Access main security. Access main program grid.
[the computer denies him finally saying, "You didn`t say the magic word!"]
Dennis Nedry: [on computer] Uh uh uh! You didn`t say the magic word! Uh uh uh!
Ray Arnold: Please! God damn it! I hate this hacker crap!
Trivia
William Hurt was offered the role of Dr. Grant, but turned it down without reading the book or the script.
Harrison Ford turned down the male lead.
Richard Attenborough`s first acting role in 15 years.
Michael Crichton`s agents circulated the book to six studios and directors. Warner Brothers wanted it for Tim Burton to direct while Columbia was planning it for Richard Donner. Fox was also interested and was intending the project for Joe Dante, while Universal wanted `Steven Spielberg` to direct. Crichton was reluctant to submit to a bidding war, He instructed his agents to put a set price on the film rights and he could decide who was more likely to actually get the film made. After interviewing all the prospective directors, he agreed to sell the rights to Universal and Spielberg, who was already his first choice.
The first draft of the screenplay had Hammond left behind on the island.
In Michael Crichton`s novel, John Hammond proudly says that the narrator on the prerecorded park tour is Richard Kiley. Later, Kiley was hired to play himself in that role for the movie; possibly the only instance of a celebrity appearing in a book, and then later cast as him or herself in the film version.
The glass of water sitting on the dash of the Ford Explorer was made to ripple using a guitar string that was attached to the underside of the dash beneath the glass.
Director Steven Spielberg was worried that computer graphics meant Nintendo type cartoon quality. He originally only wanted the herd of gallimimus dinosaurs to be computer-generated, but upon seeing ILM`s demo animation of a T-rex chasing a herd of galamides across his ranch, he decided to shoot nearly all the dinosaur scenes using this method. The animation was first plotted on an Amiga Toaster, and rendered for the film by Silicon Graphics` Indigo workstations.
Generally speaking, any shot of a full dinosaur was computer-generated, but shots of parts of dinosaurs were of animatronics.
The full-sized animatron of the tyrannosaurus rex weighed about 13,000 to 15,000 pounds. During the shooting of the initial T-rex attack scene that took place in a downpour and was shot on a soundstage, the latex that covered the T-rex puppet absorbed great amounts of water, making it much heavier and harder to control. Technicians worked throughout the night with blow driers trying to dry the latex out. Eventually, they suspended a platform above the T-rex, out of camera range, to keep the water off it during filming.
A baby triceratops was built for a scene where one of the kids rides it. Special effects technicians worked on this effect for a year but the scene was cut at the last minute as Steven Spielberg thought it would ruin the pacing of the film.
Ellie Sattler says "Something went wrong" to Dr. Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum). In The Fly (1986), Veronica Quaife said this to Seth Brundle (Goldblum).
The park software is written in Pascal; a program is clearly visible in one of the monitor close-ups on the UNIX system. The graphical interface recognized as a UNIX system was a fictional Silicon Graphics 3D File System Navigator, a real-life version of which was later written in response to the film. The version number of the Silicon Graphics UNIX Operating System is 4.0.5 and is visible in one of the close-ups in the operating system`s shell window (command program).
In the egg-hatching scene, a new-born baby triceratops was originally supposed to come out of the egg, but it was changed to a velociraptor.
There were so many wires and rigging to control the velociraptor animatrons in the kitchen stalking scene that the child actors had to literally step over and around them while the scene was being filmed. The kitchen set was greatly expanded from the original design to accommodate the velociraptors. Some reports say that all of the dinosaurs in the kitchen scene were computer-generated.
Many errors were corrected digitally: some stunt people were made to look like the actors, and in one scene an entire Ford Explorer was digitally generated.
The first film to use DTS digital surround sound.
To study the movement of the Gallimimus herd, the film`s digital artists were ordered to run along a stretch of road with some obstacles, their hands next to their chest.
At one point Lex is hanging from a floorboard between stories. She looks up for a moment. The stunt double looked up accidentally while filming and Ariana Richards` face had to be superimposed in post production.
The scene where the T-Rex takes the last of the goat into his mouth and shifts his gaze toward the jeep from behind the fence resembles a shot from Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), in which the Rancor, after taking the last of the Gamorrean (pig-like) guard into his mouth, shifts his gaze toward Luke Skywalker.
# Fred Sorenson was the pilot who flew the crew off Kauai when the hurricane hit during production. He played Jock, the pilot who flew Indiana Jones away in the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), also directed by Spielberg.
In this film, Steven Spielberg directs the man who beat him to the Best Director Oscar in 1983 (Richard Attenborough, whose film Gandhi (1982) also beat Spielberg`s _E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)_ as Best Picture).
The computer in the back of the computer room with the many (65536) red LEDs is actually a real computer: The Connection Machine CM-5 made by Thinking Machines. It contained many SPARC 2 RISC processors and the LEDs were added to make the machine more aesthetically pleasing than their previous models. Unfortunately, it was not actually a very good supercomputer and the company failed not long afterwards. The comment about networking five connection machines is pretty superfluous as they were meant to be used like this. The bigger problem was writing programs that efficiently mapped onto the data parallel architecture.
According to Daan Sandee (Thinking Machines Corp), the CM-5 super computer used in the control room was one of only two ever built to that size (1024 nodes). The other machine was at Los Alamos. The machine used in the movie was sold as smaller segments after the scenes were complete. Mirrors were used to make it seem like more CM-5`s were present.
Steven Spielberg was so confident with this film that he started making his next film (Schindler`s List (1993)), placing post-production in the hands of George Lucas.
Scenes of the T-Rex attacking Grant and the kids while they ride down a river and through a running waterfall were cut before filming.
Steven Spielberg wanted the velociraptors to be about 10 feet tall, which was taller than they were known to be. During filming, paleontologists uncovered 10-foot-tall specimens of raptors called Utahraptors.
Tim makes references about Robert Bakker and his dinosaur book. Bakker was a technical advisor on Jurassic Park (1993).
Dr. Malcolm`s quip that Sattler`s and Grant`s jobs are extinct is quoted from what puppeteer Phil Tippett said to Steven Spielberg when he decided to use CGI and not Go-Motion. Spielberg stuck it into the film.
Juliette Binoche was offered the role of Dr. Ellie Sattler, but turned it down to make Trois couleurs: Bleu (1993).
The raptors in the kitchen scene was filmed on Joseph Mazzello`s birthday. Due to a misunderstanding, Joseph ran into one of the raptors on one of the takes and was injured.
On 11 September 1992, Hurricane Iniki hit the island of Kauai, delaying production of the film.
The scene where the T-Rex comes out of the bushes and eats the gallimimus was actually shot on the island of Oahu at Kualoa Ranch. This was the only outdoor scene not filmed on Kauai, due to Hurricane Iniki.
Ariana Richards was upset by the fact that an action figure of her character was not produced. (Kenner only made dolls of Grant, Sattler, Muldoon, Nedry, Tim, and eventually Malcolm.)
After making this movie, Ariana Richards developed a great interest in dinosaurs, and assisted Jack Horner (paleontologist advisor for the film and the inspiration for the Dr. Grant character) on an actual dinosaur dig in Montana the following summer.
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# All the merchandise (T-Shirts, stuffed dinosaurs, lunch boxes, flasks, etc.) shown in the film were, in some part, actually created to be sold with the movie.
Before Steven Spielberg decided to use animatronic dinosaurs and computer-generated effects, he wanted to use stop motion animation for the dinosaur effects and had Phil Tippett put together a short demo of the kitchen scene using claymation dinosaurs (Barbie dolls were substituted for the actual actors).
After Joseph Mazzello was turned down for a role in Steven Spielberg`s Hook (1991) for being too young, Spielberg told Mazzello that he was still impressed with his audition and would try to cast him in a future project. Mazzello was then cast as Tim in this movie.
The blip sound on the Silicon Graphics computers and the blip on the Apple Macintosh Quadra 700 is a blip sound from a Motorola-brand cell phone.
The helicopter used in the movie was later involved in an accident in Hawaii in March 2001. In the accident, the chopper dropped ten feet to the ground, bounced back up and then tipped on its right side.
Briefly held the box office record until it was beaten by Titanic (1997).
Newspaper clippings on the fridge in Grant`s trailer read "Space Aliens Stole My Face" and "Dinosaurs On Mars!"
The unusual looking gun that game warden Muldoon uses is an Italian Franchi SPAS 12.
In the original script, the T-Rex skeleton in the lobby was hooked up to pulleys like a giant marionette. In the ending, Grant was going to man the controls and act as puppeteer, using the skeleton`s head and feet to crush the raptors.
Near the beginning, Jeff Goldblum`s character Dr. Malcolm misquotes Einstein, saying "The complete lack of humility for nature that`s being displayed here is staggering." However, in Powder (1995) Jeff Goldblum`s character, science teacher Donald Ripley, delivers the quote correctly.
Both the film and the book generated so much interest in dinosaurs that the study of paleontology has had a record increase in students, and interest in general has skyrocketed, and has been at an all-time high ever since.
The novel was published in 1990. However, pre-production of the film began in 1989, using only Crichton`s manuscript. It was widely believed that the book would be such a hit that it would make an outstanding movie. It turns out that assumption was correct.
The original idea for Jurassic Park came from Michael Crichton`s attempt in 1983 to write a screenplay about a Pterodactyl being cloned from an egg. The screenplay and movie never came to fruition. Originally, Crichton`s novel was rejected by his "people", a group of about 5 or 6 personal acquaintances who always read his drafts before he sends them off. After several rejections, Crichton finally figured out what was wrong: he had originally intended for the story to be through the eyes of a child who was at the park when the dinosaurs escaped, which his peers felt was too ridiculous, and could not identify with the character. Crichton re-wrote the story as it is today, and it became a huge hit. (The story also incorporates the "amusement park run amok" element of Crichton`s Westworld (1973).)
In the scene where the survivors are crawling through vent spaces, the computer monitors are shining on the raptor after them. This is usually mistaken as being the shadows from the air vents. It`s the letters GATC, the four letters used to denote the components of DNA.
Malia Scotch Marmo did some rewrites on the final script but remains uncredited.
Brian Cox was interviewed for Muldoon
Director Trademark: [Steven Spielberg] [music]
[Steven Spielberg] [stars]
[Steven Spielberg] [father] Grant hates the idea of being a father.
Gerald R. Molen] film`s producer played Dr. Gerry Harding, the character who was out on the field with the sick triceratops.
A large photo of J. Robert Oppenheimer (one of the scientists who created the atomic bomb) is displayed on Dennis Nedry`s workstation.
Ariana Richards` audition consisted of standing in front of a camera and screaming wildly. Director Steven Spielberg "wanted to see how she could show fear."
For the part where the T-Rex catches a Galliminus and shakes it in his mouth, the sound was taken from a dog shaking a toy in its mouth.
The part played by Laura Dern was originally offered to Robin Wright Penn.
Sean Connery was offered the role of Hammond.
Steven Spielberg considered Richard Dreyfuss for the role of Dr. Alan Grant.
The name of character "Lewis Dodgson" is a fusion of the "Alice in Wonderland" author`s pen-name Lewis Carroll, and his real name "Charles Dodgson".
Principal photography finished 12 days ahead of schedule and on budget.
The release strategy was planned 15 months before the studio had the chance to see a frame of the movie.
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# In the shots of the gift shop, clearly visible is a book entitled "The Making of Jurassic Park" by Don Shay and Jody Duncan. This title was published but tells the behind the scenes story of how the film was made. Jody Duncan also wrote the "Making Of" book for The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997).
Steven Spielberg considered hiring Bob Gurr to do the full size dinosaurs because he was impressed with his apes in the "Kongfrontation" ride at Universal Studios.
When the T-Rex comes through the glass roof of the Explorer in the first attack, the glass was not meant to break, producing the noticeably genuine screams from the children.
In addition to the name Lewis Dodgson, another reference to Alice`s Adventures in Wonderland is the program name Nedry uses to shut down the security systems: White Rabbit.
Later in the movie, as one of the jeeps pulls up, right before they get out, the camera zooms in on the jeep door. The Jurassic Park logo is on the door, but it is covered in mud so that the only words that can be read is "ur ass Park", perhaps a subtle joke about many of the characters getting hurt or killed in the movie.
Ian Malcolm argues with John Hammond`s comparison of his park to Disneyland, saying " If Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don`t eat the tourists!" It was that very ride that inspired Michael Crichton to write his original theme-park-gone-awry story, Westworld (1973).
Universal paid Michael Crichton $2 million for the rights to his novel before it was even published.
During the T-Rex chase scene with Malcolm (played by Jeff Goldblum) injured in the back seat of the vehicle, he says, "Must go faster! Must go faster!" This same exclamation is also used by Goldblum in Independence Day (1996) to Will Smith`s character when escaping from the alien mother ship.
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# Steven Spielberg was in the very early stages of pre-production for the film "ER" (based on a Michael Crichton novel), when he heard about the "Jurassic Park" book. He subsequently dumped what he was doing to make the film. Afterwards, he returned to "ER" and helped develop it into a hit TV series ("ER" (1994)).
To give the 1993 Ford Explorer XLTs the appearance that they were driverless and were running on an electric track, the SUVs were driven by remote from the rear cargo area of the vehicle. The driver was hidden under the Ford Explorer`s cargo canvas, which was always pulled closed during filming. To see where to steer the SUV, the driver watched a small TV that was fed outside images via two cameras. One camera was mounted on the dash in front of the steering wheel, and the other was mounted on the lower center portion of the front bumper, above a black box. Both cameras can be clearly seen in the movie several times.
Anna Chlumsky auditioned for the role of Lex.
In Crichton`s original book, the sick animal is a Stegosaurus.
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# In Crichton`s original story, Malcolm cites the fact that the dinosaur is sick because the Jurassic era air had more oxygen than today. This was another element of chaos theory.
During the T-Rex chase the dinosaur at one point slams her head against the right side of the vehicle, rocking it fiercely - this shot was inspired by a similar scene in the 1962 Howard Hawks film Hatari! (1962), in which a rhinoceros does the same to a speeding jeep (the clip from "Hatari!" is seen in the "Making of..." featurette while Spielberg is talking about the chase sequence).
[Steven Spielberg] [Signs] Using a sign with directions or instructions as a joke. In this case, the T-Rex`s jaws filling the side-view mirror of the car, with the mirror reading, "Objects in mirror are closer than they appear."
The company name "InGen" is actually the Norwegian word for "nobody". It means the same in Swedish and Finnish Swedish.
At the end of the movie mud covers some of the letters on the door of the car leaving "UR ASS PARK".
Director Steven Spielberg and author Michael Crichton first met over two decades earlier, when Spielberg gave Crichton a tour of Universal Studios during the production of The Andromeda Strain (1971).
Was followed by two sequels. There were plans for a fourth film, but they were immediately scrapped in late 2008, after the death of Michael Crichton.
The ending where the T-rex saves the day was added when the production team and John Williams decided that it was the hero of the film.
In one of the first drafts of the script, the character of Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) was not included. Instead, the character of Donald Gennaro (Martin Ferrero) is injured in the scene where the T-Rex attacks the cars.
In the original script, Gennaro and Malcolm were combined into one character, and Muldoon survived in the end. In the original book, Gennaro and Muldoon both survived, and Hammond and Malcolm died (though Malcolm returned in The Lost World, explaining that "doctors did excellent work").
With every new draft of the script, there was a different set of survivors and a different set of characters dying. At various points during pre-production, Hammond, Malcolm, and Dr. Wu were going to die and Gennaro and Muldoon were going to live.
: In the original novel, John Hammond is killed by a small dinosaur called a Procompsognathid, a species which does not appear in this film. However, this death scene was resurrected and reworked for the sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997).
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Sam Neill
(as Dr. Alan Grant)
with Laura Dern
(as Dr. Ellie Sattler)
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