Jurassic Park (1993) FULL Uncut Movie Reaction Part 1
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The first comment I left on this, I left it while I was watching. I do that so that I don't forget to say stuff. Having watched the whole reaction, I'm so glad you loved this. You bet your ass the special effects worked. They still hold up today, even if they are slightly outdated compared to now, but here's the thing. I cannot convey how incredible they were at time this came out. The first time I got a look at the dinos in this film, OMG. I sat there with my mouth hanging open. At the time, no one had ever seen special effects like those. In wide screen, they look a little fuzzy now, and you can see the green screening on them, but at the time, and in the theater, you couldn't. Not in standard screen, either. At the time, they looked so incredibly real. This movie perfectly captured the wonder and spectacle of seeing a real live dinosaur. Nothing has ever done as good a job since, not even the other films in this franchise. Because the truth is, you only get to feel that way once. This was a great reaction. The only bummer is that, now that special effects have improved, and with this movie being so old that now the image has degraded somewhat with time, you will never be able to see it the way we who saw it in the theaters viewed it, as something new and different that had never even been attempted before. It's just the downside that comes with the passage of time. Also, this movie has, hands down, one of my favorite musical scores. It's right up there with Superman and Star Wars. And it's by the same composer, John Williams. The man is a legend, and a musical genius. No, Hammond is not Nedrie's (the tech guy who stole the dino embryos) dad. Nedrie just said that to be sarcastic, implying that Hammond sounded like a nagging parent. I can see why you thought Hammond was his father, since Hammond was kind of showing the sort of annoyance and disappointment with him that a father does. It did have that kind of tone., Yes, Nedrie did take the embryos for profit. Close to the start of the film, we saw him meeting with that guy who gave him that duffle, which he said had money in it, thousands of dollars, though I forget the amount now. At one point, Nedrie said something about "you guys" catching up on ten years of research. The implication there is that that guy was working for someone who was trying to do the same thing Hammond was, creating a park like Hammond's. They wanted to beat him to the market, and they hired Nedrie to steal the embryos they needed in order to create the dinosaurs for their park. Nedrie told the guy to pay for his meal, saying not to get cheap on him. At the end of the conversation, he said, "That was Hammond's mistake." He betrayed Hammond by stealing the embryos because Hammond didn't pay him the money he thought he deserved. You asked about Dr. Malcom's (Goldblum) character's purpose in the film. I'd be remiss if I didn't admit that part of his being there is for eye-candy. He's a gorgeous man. But there is a logical reason for it that had nothing to do with his looks. I'm not sure how much you understood about him by the end, so I will try to explain it better. Doctor Ian Malcom is a chaotician. That means he subscribes to something called Chaos Theory, which, for the purposes of this film, means he believes that anything that can happen, will happen. That's a super oversimplified version of it, but it's way too techy for me to explain properly. What he was trying to explain to Doctor Sadler was that, no matter how you try to control something, such as an echo-system, life will find a way to make it operate the way nature wants. In terms of the story, Malcom's character is there to give the viewers the story theme--that nature can't ultimately be controlled, and to attempt it is a fool's errand that carries, in this case, devastating consequences. In universe, though, his character was brought to the park because if Hammond could get someone like him to sign off on the park, it would shut any naysayers up for good. Because of Malcom's belief in Chaos Theory, he was a natural skeptic, so if Hammond could get him on his side, then his park, and the concept of bringing the dinosaurs back is safe. Hammond says he hates him, and although I know partly that's because he is arrogant and showy, it's also implied that he doesn't like him because his theories poke very large holes in his determination that the idea of a dinosaur park is safe. He's the voice of reason. I didn't know it at the time, but I also subscribe to Chaos Theory, But some of what I believe may or may not be part of the same thing. I don't know Chaos Theory well enough to be sure, but to me it seems connected in some ways. I actually have a profound problem with the concept of cloning, which this movie touches on. I have a problem with it because, although right now, we only have the ability to clone organs or animals, I believe that it is in the nature of humans to destroy ourselves, and that inevitably, someone will not only develop the concept until we can clone humans, but that, inevitably, someone will decide that it is a good idea to use cloned humans for parts so that we can extend human lives and cheat death. I know that doesn't sound like it has anything to do with Chaos Theory but to me, it does. Putting it in those terms, life will find a way to turn cloning, something that sounds like an incredible, life-saving thing, into something horrific, because that's the way human kind works. Any time someone fucks with science, coming up with a concept meant to help others, there is always someone who abuses it. Or in this case, as Malcom was trying to point out, someone inevitably uses it to do something to capture the imagination of the world and make money without taking into account the inherent dangers of introducing something to the world that nature selected for extinction in order to protect itself. With absolutely horrendous results. Keep in mind that I am answering your questions without having seen the second half, so if you ended up figuring some of them out in the second part, forgive me. Hope this helped.
Raven Dark
2021-01-12 10:37:44 +0000 UTCTo answer your question as to what Allen Grant was freaking out about when Hammond showed up at the dig. Allen and Sadler (the woman with him) had just dug up a dino skeleton, which you saw them excavating. This is time-consuming, painstaking, expensive work that would have taken months. At digs like that, skeletons are very fragile and must be excavated with great care. That's why they were carefully brushing the sand away with brushes, very small parts at a time. Any disturbance to the sand, such as heavy wind, can ruin the entire thing. When Hammond's helicopter showed up, it created a lot of high winds that started blowing the sand around. He could have ruined the dig. That's why everyone was running around trying to cover up the skeleton. It would have meant months of work and a shit ton of money lost. I've seen people complain, asking why Hammond was dumb enough to show up at a dig in a helicopter that way, knowing he could destroy their work. Work that it's established he funded. That's the thing. Hammond is a little arrogant and self-centered, only seeing his own work as important, but an equally big implication here is this. He had built a park that had real dinosaurs in it. In his eyes, digs like this, excavations of dinosaur bones, would mean nothing now. If there are real dinosaurs now, Grant and Sadler's work is obsolete, so he didn't care about wrecking their work, and he assumed they wouldn't either once they saw that he had created real dinosaurs.
Raven Dark
2021-01-12 08:14:26 +0000 UTC
