Jurassic Park and Were Back in the Car Again

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• It's called a ground penetrating radar gun or a Fossil Finder used to search for buried fossils without digging. It had the appearance of a two wheeled dolly, and mounted to it was a post in which a shotgun shell was inserted. When activated, two people would stand on it to hold it down and it would fire the shotgun shell into the ground. It would then analyze the reflections of the sound waves created from the blast to produce an image of what was underground. This image was then sent to a computer system underneath a canopy. An interesting fact is that while the machine uses sound waves to detect what is under the ground, making the machine a Sonar machine, the technician refers to it as using Radar. Edit

• Of course not. Malcolm was likely just running for cover. He may have been running to take cover in the outhouse as well. He couldn't have anticipated the walls falling down around them. It's also possible he was running passed the outhouse and the Rex pushed him in to the structure while attempting to bite him. Edit

• When he refers to the Raptor as "The Big One" he means that is the dominant Raptor of the pride (she even killed 5 of the other Raptors) Edit

• Much or our DNA is identical to other species. Thus, two points: a) it is more probable that the gaps in the damaged dino DNA fall in the "shared" code; b) the geneticists at InGen likely assumed that dinosaurs were reptilian, and thus chose amphibians as the closest possible parallel. In fact, in the novel, they use a variety of other base DNA sequences to fill the gaps, not just frogs, and it resulted that only dinosaurs with the frog DNA expressed the mutation. It's also very likely that, whatever DNA they used, embryos in which they guessed wrong in how to fill in the gaps didn't develop into a viable animal. Finding viable matches was therefore very hard and laborious, hence the more "industrial" facility at Isla Sorna. Edit

• Because she probably didn't know how to use one. Muldoon was well trained at tracking animals and possibly hunting them too. Neither of them anticipated being split up. It also heightens the tension in the scene where she's in the shed and turning the generators back on. If she'd had a shotgun as a weapon, it wouldn't have been as scary. Edit

• Yes, so he could enter the park in the Jeep he stole to meet the boat on the east dock to hand off the shaving cream can. There's a brief moment when he stops his Jeep at the main gate and pushes the barrier open to enter the park. The road to the east dock was inaccessible outside the park. Edit

• It's quite possible they did or that Hammond had another team of scientists do so in another location off the island. Also, the island is pretty isolated so prehistoric plant life there could have survived or even flourished over the millennia. Ellie just happened to find one that she knew to be extinct while driving through the forest to the open plain where they first see the Brachiosaurs. Edit

• We don't see the goat when the Rex actually approached. It likely it did react. The last shot of the goat is it laying down in the pouring rain. Edit

• It's likely this was a new adult raptor being brought in. Not the "Big One". And it was killed during the attack. So there were still only 3 Raptors. Alternatively, this was The Big One being brought in. But she manages to run in to the paddock before anyone successfully shot her. Edit

• All things I have been able to find say he DID, actually, slip in the mud because he was wearing dress shoes. Edit

• Paleontologist Dr Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and paleobotanist Dr Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) are invited by billionaire philanthropist John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) to tour, and hopefully endorse, Jurassic Park, an amusement park he has developed on Isla Nublar, an island off the west coast of Costa Rica, featuring living dinosaurs cloned from prehistoric DNA. Joined by chaos theorist Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), Hammond's lawyer Donald Gennaro (Martin Ferrero), and Hammond's grandchildren Lex (Ariana Richards) and Tim (Joseph Mazzello), the six of them set out in two electrified Ford Explorers for a tour of the park. Meanwhile, the park complex's computer expert, Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight), has disabled the park's security system so that he can make his escape with some stolen dinosaur embryos, enabling the dinosaurs to escape from their electrified enclosures. Edit

• Isla Nublar is a fictional island, although Costa Rica is a real country in Central America (see map) bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean on the west, and the Caribbean Sea on the east. Isla Nublar, if it were real, would be located 120 miles off Costa Rica's west coast, somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. However, most of the film was actually shot in Hawaii and California. Edit

• Scientists used ancient mosquitoes that had fed upon dinosaurs and then became trapped and preserved in the resin of coniferous trees (amber). From the mosquitoes, they extracted the preserved remains of blood. From the blood, they extracted the dinosaur DNA. Any gaps in the DNA sequence were filled in with frog DNA. The resulting embryo clones were subsequently treated so as to produce only females so that there would be no natural breeding. The animals hatched normally, were nurtured on Isla Nublar, and some were then transferred to the 'park' seen in this film. Edit

• When Gennaro arrives on the raft one of the guys says "[I bet] 1000 pesos he falls". Then somebody tells Juanito they found something. Finally Juanito takes the amber containing the mosquito and says "How beautiful you are...will be". After that, he says "Luz, más luz... muchachos échenme luz!" or in English "Light, more light... guys, give me some light!" Edit

• Though we never find out in the film, the novel offers the answer. The Triceratops (in the novel, it was a Stegosaurus) digests food like vegetables or fruit by swallowing small stones (called "gizzard stones") that crush and mash the food in the stomach. The stones it eats are too close to the poisonous West Indian Lilac berries. Therefore, when it replaces the stones every six weeks or so, it simultaneously picks up fallen berries and is poisoned again. This is suggested in the scene where Dr. Sattler crouches down by the lilac berry bush, picks up some small stones, and plays with them in the air for a second. She fails to find berries in the animal's excrement because the berries are regurgitated along with the stones. Edit

• No. While it is unclear whether he soiled his underwear upon experiencing the T-Rex knocking the toilet down around him, it is clear that he only ran to the toilet to hide from the dinosaur. In several shots, you can see that he is still wearing his khaki shorts when the T-Rex finds and eats him. A scene similar to this appeared in the book, though the unfortunate victim was Ed Regis, who does not appear in the film. Ed Regis is present during the main road attack in the book, and like Gennaro, he abandons the children upon seeing the T-Rex. The book makes clear that Regis wets himself. The film shows a toilet nearby the road instead, which Gennaro runs to. Edit

• Some viewers have assumed that the car tumbles over the other side of the track (the opposite side of the 'road' from where the T.Rex approached) but this is not true. It does show some minor flaws but, overall, it explains this scene not to be a total goof. Edit

• Earlier in the film, Hammond mentions that "they clocked the T. rex going 32 miles per hour," so the car could easily outrun it. Computer simulations using the T. rex's skeletal structure have found that it probably only ran at a maximum of 11-18 mph and that its legs, in ratio to the rest of its body, were not large enough to propel it beyond 25 mph. It was Ian's leaning back in terror that stopped the car from accelerating at first, resulting in the close shave before the getaway. When Ian leans back, he knocks the gear shift lever loose which put the Jeep in neutral. You can hear Muldoon shouting "GET OFF THE STICK! BLOODY MOVE!!!" to Ian. Edit

• Lysine is an amino acid, one of the 'building blocks' of protein. Specifically, it is one of nine 'essential' amino acids that cannot be manufactured by the body and must be consumed in food. Sources of lysine include eggs, meat, soy, milk, Parmesan cheese, fish, and most grains and legumes. The lysine contingency plan called for withholding lysine from the dinosaurs' diets in order to kill them, if necessary. It was included in the construction of the animals' DNA so they could only survive with the diets provided in the park, i.e., they could not survive off the island. However, death by lack of lysine would take a long time, several weeks and even longer for the meat eaters since digestion of meat produces lysine. Hammond was against using the plan for the obvious reason...he didn't want to kill off all the dinosaurs, lose his investment, and be forced to start all over again. It might also be said that he felt a small compassion for his creations (which is why he screamed at Grant over the phone when he heard him shooting at the Raptors). While he certainly felt an attachment to the animals a more plausible explanation of his decision can be ascertained by his exclamation to John Arnold that 'people are dying!' Arnold was adamant he didn't want to be responsible for rebooting the park systems as they may not have come back on at all and seemed more in favour of Muldoon's suggestion to use the lysine contingency. However this would have taken too long to come into effect whereas 'theoretically' rebooting the system would have given them almost immediate control. Edit

• Alan, Ellie, Lex, and Tim evade the Velociraptors thanks to the intervention of a T. rex. They run outside of the demolished visitor's center to find a car awaiting them. Both Alan and Hammond agree not to endorse the park. They are escorted to a helicopter. In the final scene, Ellie, Ian, Hammond, Alan, Lex, and Tim are shown flying away. Lex and Tim are resting on Alan's shoulders, and Ellie looks on approvingly. Grant looks out of the window and sees birds flying in the sky and smiles, not aware that Nedry's stolen canister of dinosaur embryos is still out there. Edit

• The Visitor's Center was still under construction. A large open space was present for the T. rex to enter, right behind the white canvas from which the second raptor appeared in the finale. Supposedly, the T. rex followed this raptor in. Edit

• Michael Crichton's method is a concept that may one day be possible but, at present, we cannot create something even close to the original animal. The ethical and religious issues alone are enough to stop the development of one anyway. Crichton was fully aware of this when writing the story, but he needed a way for dinosaurs to exist in modern day. So, he created a plot device using cloning. In the book, however, it was explained that these were not exact replicas of their prehistoric ancestors but "Dr. Henry Wu's creations" made from fragments of DNA available, and corrected and changed according to the needs of the client, Mr. Hammond. The animals replicated in this way would have represented a truly towering achievement in the biological sciences -- the manufacture of fully synthetic organisms with structures based on theoretical models as opposed to truly observed biology. That the dinosaurs thus manufactured display the characteristics of natural organisms, including responding to environmental pressures (such as the all-female population, and lysinergic biochemical pathway degradation) increases the magnitude of the achievement. To put it simply, these are manufactured creatures made to look and act as real dinosaurs would have, but they are not 100% clones. Although scientists have been able to create totally synthetic life and, at least theoretically, if you used the DNA of a bird (the current believed closest relative to the dinosaurs) to fill in the gaps, you could create a dinosaur-like animal. This also explains how the dinosaurs were able to spontaneously change sex, whereas real dinosaurs presumably wouldn't have this ability. It may also explain the ferocity of some dinosaurs that in real life may not have been quite as hostile such as the Spinosaurus in Jurassic Park III (2001). Edit

• Yes. The series was to have been a direct sequel to The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), itself a sequel to this film, and was to be the premise of the Chaos Effect line of toys, depicting scientists cross-breeding dinosaurs that are decreasing in their population, five years after the second film. It went pretty far into production, even including creature designs and meetings with Steven Spielberg himself, but the project never took off. The toys were too far into production to be withdrawn and were ultimately released to mixed reactions. Rumors presist that producers are still considering making this show, but it is highly unlikely. Edit

• There are 2 cuts with a length of 11.12 seconds. No cursing has been removed, even though it has been done in the "Back to the Future" films. The big pile of dinosaur droppings is still called "one big pile of shit" even though that could have been easily cut out. This is probably due to the fact that the UK channels rarely change their masters. The two cuts remove two of the more graphic sequences, those being Gennaro's death and Arnold's arm. Edit

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• Because they were being hunted. If Muldoon went in to the maintenance shed with Ellie, it would give time for the Raptors to re-locate or ambush them as they left the shed. Muldoon knew where at least one of the Raptors was. So he thought it best to draw them away from the shed and try and hunt them. Edit

• The book offers an explanation for this, Dodgson needed to have the embryos quickly so he could make his own dinosaurs before Hammond was able to have his dinosaurs patented. Once the dinosaurs were patented it would have been illegal for Dodgson to make his own, however once he made his own dinosaurs he could have them patented before Hammond and then the tables would have been turned. Nedry chose that night to steal the embryos because the facility was down to a skeleton crew. With almost no people around, it would be significantly easier to execute his plan. As we see, he never encounters a single person. Also, we see Nedry speak to "the guy on the boat". It's likely Nedry's 18 minute window included when all the crew leaving for the boat would have been boarded, but before the boat cast off. Due to the storm, it appears the boat was leaving earlier than it was supposed to. So Nedry had to rush to get it done. Edit

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