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An eccentric billionaire who spares no
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expense creates a theme park where his
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customers have to run for their lives
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to avoid becoming lunch for trans
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dinosaurs. Jurassic Park is a
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masterpiece of popcorn cinema, bringing
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important reflections on humility in
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the face of nature and introducing an
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entire generation to GIF files. Life
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finds a way, so come with us to learn a
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little more about this story. The film
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was directed by Steven Spielberg and
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based on the draft of the same name by
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author Michael Crichton, since the
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novel would only be released after
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production. The author supposedly drew
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inspiration from his concern over the
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rise of scientism and the exploitation
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of biogenetics for profit. Filming took
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place on the Hawaiian island of Kauai
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and production was interrupted when the
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location was hit by Hurricane Iniki,
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affecting all the sets. Spielberg took
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advantage of the situation to record
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some real footage of the storm, which
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ended up being used as part of the
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atmosphere of Isla Nublar. For safety,
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the cast and crew were taken to the
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ballroom of the hotel where they were
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staying. But Sir Richard Attenborough,
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who plays John Hammond, preferred to
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keep sleeping in his room. When asked
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about his reasons, the war veteran
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simply replied: "My dear boy, I've
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survived the Blitz." Initially, the
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idea was to use Go Motion. An evolution
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of Stop Motion developed by ILM for the
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creation of the dinosaurs. But the idea
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was dropped in favor of CGI. Upon
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realizing his work would be replaced,
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the animator allegedly declared: "I
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think I'm extinct." Spielberg found the
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line so iconic that he incorporated it
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into the production, to be spoken by
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Alan Grant. The director wanted Judith
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Barsi for Lex, since they had worked
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together before on The Land Before Time
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, only to be shocked to discover she
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had been murdered by her own father.
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Ariana Richards took on the character
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after a particularly weird audition
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that consisted of screaming at a camera
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to assess her lung capacity. When
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filming wrapped, Spielberg immediately
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began working on his next project,
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Schindler's List, alternating at night
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with the editing of Jurassic Park. To
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keep the work going in parallel, the
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director rented two satellite channels
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from Polish television and kept them
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connected at all times. The iconic line
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"Must go faster" from Ian Malcolm's
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character, while being chased by a
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dinosaur, would end up influencing
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other cinematic works. Just 3 years
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later, director Roland Emmerich
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requested that Jeff Goldblum repeat the
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same mantra in a scene from
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Independence Day, when he and Major
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Hiller are fleeing the mothership. The
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sequence where the water starts to
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vibrate inside a glass did not come
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from a scientific observation.
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Spielberg had the idea after noticing
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his car mirror vibrating while
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listening to the group Earth, Wind&Fire
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. To reproduce the effect, the team
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placed a guitar string under the
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vehicle's dashboard and used it to make
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the water vibrate at the desired
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frequency. The T-Rex animatronic would
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occasionally fail because the rain
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running down its surface would
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interfere with the hydraulic system.
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This created some truly bizarre
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situations, like when, during a lunch
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break, the creature simply came to life
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and sent everyone running in complete
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panic. Beyond the big screen, the film
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was adapted for practically every home
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console and platform known to man,
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recreating or expanding the cinematic
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experience. Not only that, Topps Comics
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would release a comic book to follow
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the film's theatrical release, using a
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very peculiar sense of scale. Jurassic
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Park was a smashing success at the time
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of its release, becoming the
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highest-grossing film in history for a
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long time and confirming all of its
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author's fears. Beyond being an
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incredible work of pure entertainment,
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it kicked off a new era of digital
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effects, influencing everything that
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followed and expanding the
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possibilities of what could be done. On
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the other hand, it spawned an extensive
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film franchise that never ends,
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recycling ideas and creating
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increasingly fecal entries. To
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paraphrase what the good Dr. Ian
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Malcolm said over 30 years ago, greed
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