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u latterly cut off 80% of dino scenes and kept more of the talking scene i dont know what is the purpose of watching dino movie reaction if theres no dino scenes .. its actually the more important scenes than the talking scene .. im still gonna give u a (like) for watching but i cannot say im satisfied with the video its just a waste of time if u gonna keep removing dino scenes even they r not so many any way in this movie its only 4-5 dino scenes
how come u r the only one not doing a reaction to PREY ? (its made by disney and is part of the PREDATOR series and its the best predator movie ever and is less then 2 weeks old)
Fun fact: in real life, T. rex actually had eyesight that rivaled that of modern-day hawks and falcons, with an equally powerful sense of smell and hearing.
In the book, they mention that Rexie's poor eyesight was more a result of her genome being combined with Frog DNA. Frog eyesight is hyper-specialized to track small, moving things and very little else, so it kinda makes sense that some of the dinosaurs would have vision issues as a result of being spliced with frogs. I know that was Crichton's explanation for it, and I don't know this 100%, but I THINK there was a deleted scene where this idea was mentioned to Dr. Grant. Without that explanation, though, it is SUCH a plot hole. And even without it, smell would still guide Rexie pretty accurately, so...your guess is as good as mine on that one.
The storm wasn't originally in the script but they filmed in Hawaii and it was hit by a hurricane during filming and it destroyed some of the sets so the wrote it into the movie, the cast and crew had to hide in their hotels during the storm and apparently Spielberg played games with the kids all night to keep their minds off the storm. The scene where the plexiglass glass roof of the SUV falls in on the kids wasn't supposed to happen but the T-Rex malfunctioned and pushed down too hard so that was the kids genuine reaction because they were not expecting it. Recently I saw someone point out in the helicopter scene where they are landing that Alan uses the two female ends of the seat belt to tie around himself and they thought it was a nod to the female dinosaurs breeding.
Correction on the glass roof part (as the roof caving in was featured in the pre-filming storyboards, it was planned. The animatronic T-Rex micro adjustments were based on the weight of the robot. When the rain was happening, the latex skin started absorbing water, which messed up those pre programmed motions, causing juddering and shaking (Que the behind the scenes clips of the set crew slapping a giant T-Rex robot with towels between cuts to dry it off). During an interview, Joseph Mazzello (who plays Tim) said that the Rex hit the plastic roof too hard, and cracked the plastic, and broke off a Rex tooth, which fell on him, and he started laughing. The cut and prepped for the next take. In the next take, the Rex then fully breaks the cracked plastic on the right side, above their faces, adding to their shocked reactions, which they did keep that take in the film. But that story eventually evolved into a rumor that the roof was never supposed to cave in, but it was. Not calling you out or anything. I’m just a Jurassic Park superfan helping others who love the film learn even more about it (:
Funnily enough we were meant to see Sam Jackson's death in the film but he was off island at the time when the hurricane hit and for obvious reasons couldn't make it for shooting the scene hence why he's off screened
It is correct that the real hurricane destroyed some sets and they had to change some scenes and they used some shots of the real hurricane (the waves at the coast). But a storm was already in the script before.
@@DarkheartedMKGamesI saw a guy on UA-cam who claims to have the authentic severed arm and leg of Mr. Arnold (they only used the arm when filming). And "yes" he showed them. But, "no" I don't remember who it was.
I’ve always loved John Hammond’s character. They never try to go the route of the “evil billionaire” willing to sacrifice all to achieve his goal. He’s a kindly old entertainer who’s heart is always in the right place, but goes about things wrong. He never needs comeuppance or redemption, because John never stops being a good man
Funny thing is, "evil billionaire" was exactly how he was in the book. Which is even more funny when you realize that the movie _did_ go the generic "greedy selfish lawyer" route for Gennaro, but he was actually a good person in the book.
@@Dragoncurse4 the dinner scene in the book is properly chilling, Hammond is brushing off the concerns, talking to henry Wu while eating and theres a parallel between him eating the food and the dinosaurs eating the people. you can just FEEL the cold detachment from the possible consequences
Think the only thing missing was his brother Sir David, who should have done a "David Attenborough"-style nature documentary or perhaps being the presenter for the DNA Docu-movie "ride" thing.
The music swelling & the line "doctor Grant my dear doctor Statler, welcome to Jurassic Park" never fails to bring a smile to my face. Alan: hey! T-Rex: *roars* WHAT!?!?!?
I love how they used modern animal sounds and everyday objects to make the dinosaur's sounds. Adult raptors: Tortoise mating call, walrus chest roar, angry goose hiss and dolphin scream recorded underwater Baby raptors: Owlets (baby owls), kits (baby foxes) Gallimimus: Female horse in heat Brachiosaurus: Slowed down donkey brays the sneeze was a whale breathing through its blowhole(s) mixed with a fire hydrant. Dilophosaurus: Hawk, swan, rattlesnake and howler monkey Tyrannosaurus rex: Dog playing with rope toy, elephant calf squeal, an alligator's gurgling vocalizations, a tiger's snarl Triceratops: Cow, human breathing through a tube Bonus content: In an ironic twist, the Tyrannosaurus rex has been my favorite dinosaur since I was a child, even though this movie scared the crap out of me then, and that Raptor popping up behind Ellie Sattler in the maintenance shed is always a BIGTIME jumpscare.
IIRC the Tyranosaurus roar was based off a huge metal ungreased crane, if you listen to the roar and thing of two pices of heavy metal (lol) screeching past each other, thats what you get, its sounds otherworldly and huge
The thing that scared me most as a child was the opening scene. Even after I knew it was only a cage on a forklift, I still kept imagining it as a T-Rex for, probably, 2 years. Everything else was just...COOL! Lol.
In terms of physical acting choices, I've always loved how Sam Neill takes off his sunglasses when he sees his first living dinosaur. It's a great communication of how he's in such shock that he has momentarily forgotten how to remove them.
I find the "6 foot turkey" insult to be hilarious, cuz that would still be terrifying. As for the dino accuracy... Well, the designs were very accurate for what we knew at the time, though the Velociraptor is a lot bigger than its real life counterpart, which was actually around the size of a turkey! Funnily enough, Jurassic Park's dilophosaurus is actually smaller than its real counterpart; they were actually around 6ft tall and 20ft long! Not to mention, the neck frill and venom are just artistic license 😆 **Edit: Evidence shows that the T-rex had amazing binocular vision - even better than ours! And an absolutely stellar sense of smell to boot!
Although since then they discovered fossils of dinosaurs in the same family as velociraptor that were of a size like the ones in the movie, Deinonychus and Utahraptor that is even bigger if my memory's good. Sorta retroactively vindicated ! Haha But Dinos of the raptor family probably had feathers (which hadn't been discovered at the time) not as much as birds, but probably enough to radically change their appearances. And yeah, even if T-rex couldn't see you, it would probably have been able to smell you well enough to not need to see you. But I think there's no way a predator that size could have thrived with only movement based vision : a big rock in it's path (or a cliff) could mean a broken ankle or leg, could mean no hunting for a while and a beast this size couldn't have lasted long without eating a lot. But the idea was genius to create suspense. Edit : Oh and while the long-necked dinosaurs like Brachiosaurus grew surprisingly fast, there is a good chance they would take decades to get to those sizes...Unless maybe Ingen did additional genetic modifications on them... Re-edit as I watch the video : Dilophosaurus was one of my favourite, to imagine that the real ones were many times that size...interesting fact : they still don't know what the flanges on the top of their heads were for :P
If I'm not mistaken, the t-rex in the book has an issue with its eyes, and that's why it can only see them clearly when they're moving. They lost that in the film, and made it a species wide thing rather than just that one specific t-rex.
This was so interesting, I loved hearing your professional input on the acting and directing. This was such a refreshing take on a good ol' classic. Subscribed!
Your description of the blocking in the trailer scene with Alan, Ellie, and Hammond: instant subscribe. I absolutely want more movie analyses like this. This was so great.
44:27 Fun fact: Right here, you can see one of the crew members take out his hand to balance the Velociraptor animatronic. It was literally so top-heavy that someone had to physically hold it down, and the camera just happened to pick them up accidentally.
I've always loved this movie because of just how well it portrays a series of choices and seemingly simple actions into a whole butterfly effect catastrophe, though the book is quite a bit different regarding the fate of certain characters, and it gives some extra information that the movie doesn't. The reason the triceratops is sick isn't explained in the movie - but in the book, Sattler and the dino-vet discover that though they haven't been eating the West Indian lilac berries directly, the triceratops swallow stones to help them crush up the vegetation they eat in their stomachs. As they dig up the stones to eat them, they're also inadvertently eating the berries which makes them sick, but only periodically whenever they go to eat more stones. They also go more in depth into Hammond and the creation of the park, the rivalries between InGen and BioSyn (who were paying Nedry to steal the embryos), and in some side stories and spin-offs they go more into depth about how they acquired Isla Nublar from the Costa Rican government (hence all the Spanish) and the way they forced out some of the native people and tore up the island to make the park.
@@deepermind4884 granted this is more of a demonstration of Domino effect over Butterfly effect as there are clear and direct correlations and sometimes even causations to each event. But I would still say there's a butterfly element with Nedry. Hear me out: Nedry was supposed to only take 20 minutes and reboot the program so only fences he needed would go off but he didn't make it. That's the chaos element so all the fences ended up going off (such as the raptor fences). Basically you had this Domino effect that honestly should have played out one way, but ended up with another result.
Fun fact about this movie here in the uk. My local theatre the lyric in Carmarthen was on the brink of being shut down by the local council. The lady running it reached out to Steven Spielberg asking if they could premiere jurrasic park on the same night as the red carpet premiere event in London so they could save the theatre. Steven replied and accepted her special request. Only my local town theatre in Carmarthen, wales and London were showing the movie for the first time. The theatre is still open to this day, although not playing movies any more it’s strictly a theatre for shows. Sky (our local tv provider here) made a sky movie about it called save the cinema, it starred Tom Felton from Harry Potter along with other actors. My little towns claim to fame with this brilliant movie.
The CGI was incredible for it's time and one thing that makes me love it even more is that it was extremely innovative and much of the techniques that were used here ended up being used in later films! c:
That movie hit me directly in my dinosaur craze when I was a kid. In the first 3 weeks I've pleaded, bribed and tried everything I could to go and see it again....Went at least 5 times. To this day, the score still gives me chills. The awe, the wonder at the dinosaurs (and I might say the respect that the sequels seem to have more or less lost) still manage to wake the child in me.
Fun Fact: I believe them filming the triceratops was the first they ever saw a practical dinosaur on set so the reaction was also genuine. Also, the T-Rex next to the car before seeing the flashlight was the best transition from practical to CGI.
Yhh I think that's true. In the book the animal that needs help is a stegosaurus, but I guess they thought it would be too complex or expensive to make compared to a triceratops
Yeah, I was also a kid when this came to theaters, about 8 or 9. Dad and I went to see it together, and while we loved it, we both agreed that we would have nightmares if we just went home. So we ended up having a double feature that night: we followed this up with Last Action Hero. Seriously. It’s one of my favorite memories.
Oh man I agree on that whole multiple actors and a camera opening everything up. The energy shifts so weirdly once you stick a camera into a scene. I remember my acting classes going well, you’re in the zone but then the teacher brings in a camera and all of sudden people just start over analyzing themselves and get tweaky. Its funny
The shots, frame adjustments all the stuff you said i didn't notice them i was just enjoying the movie like a normal person. But now watching this with you, changed my whole view. I really liked it. And I love that you were explaining how each shots were made and how it's happening in film sets nd the efforts they put to make it perfect is really amazing. ✌️👍❤️❤️❤️🤘😊
I remember seeing this movie a couple of weeks before my 18th birthday with my uncle and my little brother in Austin, Texas. You can’t imagine the goosebumps we all felt seeing the dinosaurs for the first time with the soaring John Williams score.
This movie is such an amalgamation of such amazing people: Spielberg, Winston, Cundey, Williams, Tippett, etc. You said you really loved the lighting Clariss and you can thank the DP Dean Cundey. Incredible how he's had his hands on such well noted movies: Halloweens 1-3, The Fog, Esacpe from New York, Back to the Future 1-3, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, Hook, Death Becomes Her, The Flintstones, Casper, Apollo 13, Flubber, & Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
I love how Hammond assumed the scientists he brought on the island would agree with his idea. Does he not realize that scientists don't agree with each other on everything?
The fact that Alan says "Bet you'll never look at birds the same way again" and it comes back at the end when there's a bird flying outside of the helicopter is legitimately one of my favorite details in the film. This movie is full of stuff like that (more iconic detail being the "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" banner falling in front of the T. Rex), and you really don't get that in the newer films. This is why none of the other films have been as good as this one.
And for me its the seatbelt scene in the helicopter. The two ends of the seatbelts that dr grant holds up and ties together are the "female" ends. All the dinosaurs are bred to be female....
This film was my favourite childhood memories and when I see dinosaur in the film, my mind was blown away by special effects and actors were doing great job to make movies worth it 😊
One thing that 80s & 90s action/adventure movies did better than today…… SUSPENSE WAS EVERYTHING! They wanted to give you thrills & chills before you even see the monsters or dinosaurs
One cool little detail that often goes unnoticed: When the light is shining down on the raptor through the ceiling panel you can see the letters A, C, T, G which are the four basic compounds of DNA: adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and thymine (T).
30:35 Not true at all: we now know that the T-rex would have binocular vision, similar to birds of prey!!! She would ABSOLUTELY see them, even in the rain at night 😂👀🦖
The part when Alan is looking at the dinosaur for the first time, and he's going through everything he thought he knew about dinosaurs gets me every time. Sam kills that scene. "They're moving in herds...they do move in herds." Chokes me up every time.
In the novel nedry died horribly. He was blinded, the dilo, cut open his belly and all he felt was his body was extremely cold but his intestines in his hands were warm. Then dilo came up behind him bit him on top of his head and then snapped his neck. Sam Jackson was gonna have his own scene but a hurricane came and destroyed everything. And fyi the storm scenes spielberg went out and shot that during so it's real live footage from said hurricane. The park ranger had he studied their behavior or knew more he would've known it was a trap and the ambush would come from the side.
Kelly McGillis, Julia Roberts, Linda Hamilton, Bridget Fonda, Jodie Foster, Nicole Kidman, Melanie Griffith, Brooke Shields, Kyra Sedgwick, Uma Thurman, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Geena Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Meg Ryan, Genevieve Bujold, Christina Applegate, Kim Raver, Sarah Jessica Parker, Joan Cusack, Debra Winger, Juliette Lewis Helen Hunt, Mariska Hargitay, and Kim Basinger were considered for Ellie Satler. Johnny Depp, Jim Carrey, Michael Keaton, Bruce Campbell, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Bill Paxton and Michael J Fox were considered for Ian Malcolm. Sean Connery, Clint Eastwood, Paul Newman, Ian Bannen, Charlton Heston and Marlon Brando were considered for John Hammond. Brian Cox, Geoffrey Rush, Bob Hoskins, and Jeffrey Jones were considered for Robert Muldoon. The film was a box office and critical success, making $1 billion dollars ($1.8 billion dollars today) against a $65 million dollar budget. It won Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing. It's still considered to be one of the best Sci-fi movies ever made. Here's my ranking for the Jurassic Park series: JURASSIC PARK: 9/10 The Lost World Jurassic Park 2: 8/10 JURASSIC PARK 3: 6/10 JURASSIC WORLD: 8/10 JURASSIC WORLD 2: 7.5/10 JURASSIC WORLD 3: 7/10.
Nedry's death was even more graphic in the book. The book described Nedry holding something by his stomach, only for him to realize in was his own organs.
I grew up watching this movie and then acting out being chased by a dinosaur in my backyard. I didn’t read the book until I was about 13. Michael Crichton was brilliant; he created such clear characters and believable science along with amazing action. Plus acting on a set with animatronic dinos would be the ultimate dream (even if my character got eaten).
Hey, Clariss. I love your commentary at 5:30 + about the little trailer. This is why most cinematography schools (not necessilarily acting schools) revert to iconic movies like 12 Angry Men and The Caine Mutiny (courtroom scene with Humphry Bogart's complete breakdown of character...close-up of his face with maniacal eyes and sweat), camera angle, depth of focus, and lighting...lighting...lighting! The scenes in 12 Angry Men were shot without cuts within a scene...so great. I don't see much of that in any movies today. Do you? I had a close friend at University (UNLV) in 1980 who was a cinematography major, so we went to see oh so many movies in the theatres, and would comment to each other during the movies. You also mention at 12:00 + about the Barbasol, putting it on the pie. Just an aside...the pie fight in "The Great Race" (1965) set the world record for number of pies used (with real cream filling, not Barbasol!) and still holds the record today...58 years later!
There's a show on Netflix called "The Movies That Made Us" (I think that's it) that goes behind the scenes on the making of classic movies, and the episode on this film is really great. It goes into a lot of the backstory on how they created new CGI for the dinosaurs, as well as the making of the giant T-Rex "puppet" by the late legend, Stan Winston.
Watch them all. They're all so different, but great in their own ways. This 1st one is 1 of my favorite movies I've seen in my life, and will be forever.
3:45 Kids often love dinosaurs because they are very big (at least. some of them are), very scary, but also very dead, so not an actual threat. 4:40 The dinos are pretty accurate for what they thought at the time. A lot of new discoveries and revised theories have been made since then. They played about with the sizes of some of the dinosaurs. 44:35 Dogs and cats can sometimes work out how to open doors, more by accident than by design, but I think the raptors accidentally work it out as well. The reason this can't be done, quite apart from sorting the DNA in a mosquito's gut, is that you cannot produce a living animal from dead DNA. We have almost complete frozen Mammoth carcasses and a close living relative but we cannot create clone mammoths. I don't know why they picked frogs as the source of the sex-change, many reptiles do it too, some reproduce entirely through females with no male involvement.
Hmm, can't isn't completely right. To my knowledge (and probably very outdated) the only example of it being done is an extinct species of Spanish mountain goat that was de-extinctioned with another goat as a surrogate womb but died of lung problems a few hours later. As far as I know there is nothing stopping us from doing the same thing with the mammoth except for the expense, lack of interest, and no real surrogate womb. (yes a modern elephant would probably work but that's a lot of time and money on maybes)
@@ADADEL1 I've actually listened to experts talk about this and one of the main issues surrounding de-extincting animals is "is it even ethical to do this when these animals don't have a local niche anymore". Most scientists believe we actually could clone mammoths right now if we wanted to, but where are we going to put them? Where can we introduce a "new" species of enormous animal without it completely knocking the local ecology out of whack? And even if we might set aside a huge tract of land in Canada or Russia for these animals to live, to what end? What good will it do to have them back? The reason they went extinct is because they were adapted to a world that doesn't exist anymore, so should we even bring them back? These are the sorts of questions that are being wrestled with.
They already have plans to somehow bring back the 🦤. They've even picked out where they plan to reintroduce it. I say, if we DO have this kind of technology, go the condor route, that they mentioned in the movie.
@@manxgirl Like the Mammoths they have ,whole dodo corpses, but again we have the living animals from dead DNA problem which we would not have with condors. I don't think cloning has ever been tried but various other methods have been tried (not always successfully) to save species from extinction.
Not accurate at all. People have paid for clones to be created from deceased pets. It’s nothing to do with ‘dead’ or ‘living’ DNA. It’s all about damaged or undamaged DNA. If something is deceased, and has been for some time (in a woolly mammoth’s case we’re looking at 40,000 years minimum), then it’s significantly more likely for the DNA to have been damaged through degradation and contamination. DNA has a half life of 500 years, so woolly mammoth remains (even if preserved in freezing ice) would only contain a minuscule amount of DNA for scientists to work with. And it would be very challenging to establish if the extracted DNA comes from the mammoth, or from the bacteria and parasites that attach to remains. The point about the mosquito’s gut is also incorrect in that DNA does not survive in Amber specimens. So the entire venture is scientifically impossible as presented in the movie. Scientists have recently attempted (under incredibly strict laboratory conditions) to extract DNA from insects in 40,000 year old Copal, and extracted nothing. Now, 100 million years ago is an incredible distance in time from 40,000 years ago. Scientists also recently attempted to work backwards in regards to DNA preservation in amber. DNA was extracted from an insect in 6 year old Amber! So we can clone spiders from 2014! But the process that made Amber from resin millions of years ago involved intense heat underground, and this is not the correct conditions for ancient DNA preservation.
Admittedly, when I was a kid first watching this movie, I understood what Malcolm was saying and even trying to say, but I didn't pick up on *any* of the undertones and how he was tying it all together. One day, about ten years ago, I was watching it randomly and I suddenly picked up on those undertones and it put the whole movie in a different light, starting with Hammond's hubris.
I love the joke/theory that John Hammond is actually a necromancer. Look how happy he is on the island, surrounded by his power. And he uses the crystal on his cane as a focus for his magic, haha.
Great reaction, Clariss! 😊 As always, love your enthusiasm and your insights.🥰 This is one of my favourite films from my childhood; I must have been about 9 or 10, when I saw it in the movie theatre with my parents 😃 Also, Jeff Goldblum just being Jeff Goldblum is always amazing 😄
Fun fact: the dinosaur they're calling a velociraptor (which I spelled correctly, come ON firefox) is actually a deinonychus ("die-NON-ick-us"). Raptors were about half the size, but had a cooler and scarier-sounding name, so they got the Hollywood treatment (though to be fair, I'm not sure if that's Crichton's doing or Spielberg's).
It was Crichton’s in the book they are referred as velociraptor mongoliensis or the 3 foot dinosaur we all know, however they are portrayed as six feet similar to the movie. However in the novel they refer to deinonychus by its other name velociraptor antirrhopus and is what Grant digs up in Montana. I find it strange how Crichton made sure to identify both. He could have easily made the raptors antirrhopus while still using the name velociraptor, but instead made it the clear distinction that it is in fact mongoliensis at the park.
Funny thing is Crichton worked (second hand accounting this by the way fact check yourself) the paleontologist responsible for deinonychus to get them as accurate as possible and even asked his okay to change the name
i don't know what it is, but spielberg has such a way with directing kids that he makes them totally believable. any of his movies that has a child in it, they act realistically and their speech is somehow not stilted, not stiff, and they just seem authentic. i really enjoy watching anything he directs with kids in it, because they never annoy me, but just act like, well, KIDS.
The first T. rex in Jurassic Park has her vision altered because of the frog DNA, if the DNA sequence for her visual abilities wasn't missing than she would see normally just like us and they wouldn't have been able to use that against her.
As someone else commented, both "Jurassic Park" and "Westworld" came from the legendary writer Michael Crichton. The hubris of man was often a theme in his books. In fact, much of the discussion over the Chilean Sea Bass dinner was taken directly from the original "Jurassic Park" novel - which I highly recommend, as it contains a subplot completely left out of the movie. Another point changed for the movie is that Grant is not romantically involved with Dr. Sattler. She is his graduate student, nothing more. Spielberg changed it because he knew that a romantic interest, even an implied one, would tend to make the film more appealing to a female audience.
This was great to watch, not just for your reaction but especially because of all your commentaries about acting and directing. It was very informative and cool to watch.
Jurassic Park is my absolute favorite of the entire saga! I still have memories when I went a local movie theater, and it famous scenes from movies framed on the wall. They had a framed shot of the scene of the T-Rex roaring as the Jurassic Park banner falls. 🦖🖤💛❤️
I might be wrong (last time I was there was 2015 when I graduated from high school) but I believe the Orlando park still mostly has the original Jurassic Park aesthetic and ride, while over in California they transitioned to reflect the Jurassic World movies. As a nostalgic Floridian I'm definitely biased toward the original.
It makes me so happy that people are watching Jurassic franchise, the rest of the sequels may not be like the first one but overall it's an amazing franchise and the first one is a masterpiece so I love dinosaurs for many reasons. Some of the dinosaurs shown in the franchise are very inaccurate like velociraptor are very small and with feathers and etc. And new studies changed so many things so things we thought we know about dinosaurs we didn't know in 1990s. Also we will never ever know how dinosaurs actually looked or sounded. I wish I could see one with my own eyes but it's impossible and aah well that's life. Also the vision based on movement is so not true. T rex was actually very smart with powerful sense of smell so yeah next time if you see one, move!
9:05 Excellent points, loving this commentary it’s taking me back to my high school videography classes. May I add, Hammond is also the only one in a light color wardrobe, Ellie and Alan are wearing darker colors, they’re unified and he’s the odd man out even in this.
Hi, Clariss. Enjoying your reaction to this. I liked your insights into the scene with them and dr. Hammond in the trailer. I had never noticed any of that.
Also, the thing you were saying about people being unable to walk and chew gum in front of cameras holds true in other industries as well! I, for example, am a pretty solid coder and typer normally (which I ought to be after sitting in front of computers since I was but a wee lad, several of decades ago). Put me on the spot, though, and I can't find the dang space bar. It's a real problem. :-\
Nice Corridor Crew name-drop 👍 As a kid, I was speechless and in awe during that T.Rex scene I loved HISHE's Jurassic Park video, especially the part about Sam Jackson surviving lol
My favorite quote from this movie: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with wether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." It's the modern version of Rabelais' quote: "Science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul." Also when I was in 1st year of biology in college, we have an assignment that was to analyze all scientific errors or impossibilities in Jurassic Park and explain why (or how to correct them if possible). There were a lot of mistakes. But it didn't alter my love for this movie at all.
As some people already mentioned, the Velociraptor was smaller than depicted. The Utahraptor was bigger and the size of Velociraptors portrayed in the film.
It was a nice coincidence that Utahraptor's discovery was announced between the filming and the release of this movie. I also liked that they considered naming it Spielberg's raptor.
"In war, everything is simple. But the simplest thing is difficult" - Clauswitz (I think...) Your comment about how difficult it is to act in front of the camera reminded me of that quote... simple... but difficult.
My biggest surprise of this movie came 20 something years after when I found out the little boy Timmy was the same actor that played John Deacon, bass player for Queen in the Bohemian Rhapsody movie.
A number of other people have commented on things like wrong-sized velociraptors, T-rex's binocular vision, and *everything* wrong about the dilophosaurus. So I'd just like to add probably the most obvious thing we've learned about dinosaurs since the 90s, is that a lot of the theropods, especially raptors, had downy feathers for warmth. Which makes velociraptors look even more like a demon-turkey. Also, frog DNA seems like an odd choice to replace genetic gaps. A closer relative, like an ostrich or alligator would have a better chance of creating a viable embryo. Of course then the gender swapping thing wouldn't work.
47:44 - I've seen this movie a bunch of times but I've never noticed this before: When T-Rex throws the Velo against the skeleton, it's a skeleton of T-Rex, then T-Rex stands in place of the skeleton with the same pose, as if to say "I'm REAL, bitches, rawr!!" LOL
Jeff Goldblum Jurassic Park: "Must go faster!" Jeff Goldblum Independence Day: "MUST GO FASTER!" P.S. I saw this 6 times in theaters as a kid with different people almost every time. That's how epic it was. When CGI was brand new and not depended on like cinematic heroin as it is now. Imagine actually feeling the steps of the T-Rex when the water ripples...First time with you and New Subscriber...Now that's chaos.
You should definitely give the book a shot if you're interested in the scientific ethics part of the story because that's ultimately what the book is about. The dinosaurs are just the vehicle for the discussion. Also, there are enough differences in the story, and in the characters and their fates, for it still to be interesting/unpredictable for someone who has already seen the movie.
@@eXpriest I admit that it's been a while since I read the book, so I may be misremembering how much was about ethics. And maybe he is a luddite, but as for the 'science=bad', I didn't really get that impression for this particular story. More an impression that we humans tend to be short sighted, and that we never have as much control as we *think* we do, which can lead to big problems in the long run.
@@LadyFeline3 Admittedly it gets worse in his later novels, but the man has always propagated a distinctly anti-science view. Not to say I'm not still I fan, I just disagree with his worldview.
6:40 love the discussion here. The actor has to be 'one' with the set, with the 'scene' of the script, book, or movie, which means they are 'one' with their co-actors too, as well as the supporting staff who may be doing other things like special effects or lighting, etc, because you have to 'imagine' yourself in a specific scene that looks a lot different after being edited by technology in the actual movie.
Recently, it was discovered that the T rex was actually a stealthy hunter despite it's enormous size and tremendous weight. This is due to it's padded feet to absorb the shock of impact with the ground. So, while it's a very cool and suspenseful effect, you wouldn't actually hear any booming footsteps, or see any water ripples. The T rex would be able to get up close to you, and you wouldn't notice until it was too late...
My favorite fun fact: there are only 14 minutes of dinosaurs on-screen in this movie... but only 6 minutes of that is CGI. The rest are practical puppets and animatronics. That's why so many of the shots still look great today. The other JP movies relied too heavily on CGI and I don't think they look as good as this. I saw this movie 3 times in the theater when it came out. It's one of my all time faves!
Fun movie trivia: to get the rings in the cup of water that Spielberg wanted, the physical effects department ran a bass guitar string from the cup of water through the car down to the ground where a p.a. was plucking the string....and that's how they got that shot 🤔🤓👍
The way Nedry dies in the book is a lot more brutal: The Dilophosaurus blinds him with the venom, clamps its jaws on his head, and proceeds to crush his skull like an egg. It managed to do so because it is of accurate size in the book (about eight feet tall). Side note: the Tyrannosaurus having poor vision is exclusive to the book and films, because in real life it had vision sharper than that of an eagle
The movement based vision sounds interesting but when you take two seconds it also implies that it cant see trees, rocks, sleeping dinosaurs, or even the animals they hold in place for it to eat. It was just a weird way to rationalize having the characters not get torn to bits when faced with a trex
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u latterly cut off 80% of dino scenes and kept more of the talking scene i dont know what is the purpose of watching dino movie reaction if theres no dino scenes .. its actually the more important scenes than the talking scene .. im still gonna give u a (like) for watching but i cannot say im satisfied with the video its just a waste of time if u gonna keep removing dino scenes even they r not so many any way in this movie its only 4-5 dino scenes
You are beautiful
how come u r the only one not doing a reaction to PREY ?
(its made by disney and is part of the PREDATOR series and its the best predator movie ever and is less then 2 weeks old)
Lol, Its so obvious you have been to film school.
What are you acting?? Bad reactions and porn😂
Fun fact: in real life, T. rex actually had eyesight that rivaled that of modern-day hawks and falcons, with an equally powerful sense of smell and hearing.
at least the sequel (the lost world) got the smell angle right
In the book, they mention that Rexie's poor eyesight was more a result of her genome being combined with Frog DNA. Frog eyesight is hyper-specialized to track small, moving things and very little else, so it kinda makes sense that some of the dinosaurs would have vision issues as a result of being spliced with frogs. I know that was Crichton's explanation for it, and I don't know this 100%, but I THINK there was a deleted scene where this idea was mentioned to Dr. Grant.
Without that explanation, though, it is SUCH a plot hole. And even without it, smell would still guide Rexie pretty accurately, so...your guess is as good as mine on that one.
Plus, Velociraptors were only slightly below a meter [near 26”] in height. Not the 2+ meters [near 7 ft.] in height portrayed in the movies.
@@frankiek2269 I’ll never understand why they called them velociraptors when they were based on the UtahRaptor
@@Darkvenom3 Yeah the Utahraptor [minus feathers] more closely fits the raptors in the movie.
The storm wasn't originally in the script but they filmed in Hawaii and it was hit by a hurricane during filming and it destroyed some of the sets so the wrote it into the movie, the cast and crew had to hide in their hotels during the storm and apparently Spielberg played games with the kids all night to keep their minds off the storm.
The scene where the plexiglass glass roof of the SUV falls in on the kids wasn't supposed to happen but the T-Rex malfunctioned and pushed down too hard so that was the kids genuine reaction because they were not expecting it.
Recently I saw someone point out in the helicopter scene where they are landing that Alan uses the two female ends of the seat belt to tie around himself and they thought it was a nod to the female dinosaurs breeding.
Correction on the glass roof part (as the roof caving in was featured in the pre-filming storyboards, it was planned. The animatronic T-Rex micro adjustments were based on the weight of the robot. When the rain was happening, the latex skin started absorbing water, which messed up those pre programmed motions, causing juddering and shaking (Que the behind the scenes clips of the set crew slapping a giant T-Rex robot with towels between cuts to dry it off). During an interview, Joseph Mazzello (who plays Tim) said that the Rex hit the plastic roof too hard, and cracked the plastic, and broke off a Rex tooth, which fell on him, and he started laughing. The cut and prepped for the next take. In the next take, the Rex then fully breaks the cracked plastic on the right side, above their faces, adding to their shocked reactions, which they did keep that take in the film. But that story eventually evolved into a rumor that the roof was never supposed to cave in, but it was. Not calling you out or anything. I’m just a Jurassic Park superfan helping others who love the film learn even more about it (:
Funnily enough we were meant to see Sam Jackson's death in the film but he was off island at the time when the hurricane hit and for obvious reasons couldn't make it for shooting the scene hence why he's off screened
It is correct that the real hurricane destroyed some sets and they had to change some scenes and they used some shots of the real hurricane (the waves at the coast). But a storm was already in the script before.
@@DarkheartedMKGamesI saw a guy on UA-cam who claims to have the authentic severed arm and leg of Mr. Arnold (they only used the arm when filming). And "yes" he showed them. But, "no" I don't remember who it was.
I’ve always loved John Hammond’s character. They never try to go the route of the “evil billionaire” willing to sacrifice all to achieve his goal. He’s a kindly old entertainer who’s heart is always in the right place, but goes about things wrong. He never needs comeuppance or redemption, because John never stops being a good man
Funny thing is, "evil billionaire" was exactly how he was in the book.
Which is even more funny when you realize that the movie _did_ go the generic "greedy selfish lawyer" route for Gennaro, but he was actually a good person in the book.
@@Dragoncurse4 the dinner scene in the book is properly chilling, Hammond is brushing off the concerns, talking to henry Wu while eating and theres a parallel between him eating the food and the dinosaurs eating the people. you can just FEEL the cold detachment from the possible consequences
@@Dragoncurse4 the route with them and the book is the perfect contrast, with both of them being the opposite and it turned out amazing
@@christopherbowers7236 yes. And I kind of love how his character arc ends in the book.
Think the only thing missing was his brother Sir David, who should have done a "David Attenborough"-style nature documentary or perhaps being the presenter for the DNA Docu-movie "ride" thing.
The music swelling & the line "doctor Grant my dear doctor Statler, welcome to Jurassic Park" never fails to bring a smile to my face.
Alan: hey!
T-Rex: *roars* WHAT!?!?!?
I love how they used modern animal sounds and everyday objects to make the dinosaur's sounds.
Adult raptors: Tortoise mating call, walrus chest roar, angry goose hiss and dolphin scream recorded underwater
Baby raptors: Owlets (baby owls), kits (baby foxes)
Gallimimus: Female horse in heat
Brachiosaurus: Slowed down donkey brays the sneeze was a whale breathing through its blowhole(s) mixed with a fire hydrant.
Dilophosaurus: Hawk, swan, rattlesnake and howler monkey
Tyrannosaurus rex: Dog playing with rope toy, elephant calf squeal, an alligator's gurgling vocalizations, a tiger's snarl
Triceratops: Cow, human breathing through a tube
Bonus content: In an ironic twist, the Tyrannosaurus rex has been my favorite dinosaur since I was a child, even though this movie scared the crap out of me then, and that Raptor popping up behind Ellie Sattler in the maintenance shed is always a BIGTIME jumpscare.
IIRC the Tyranosaurus roar was based off a huge metal ungreased crane, if you listen to the roar and thing of two pices of heavy metal (lol) screeching past each other, thats what you get, its sounds otherworldly and huge
The thing that scared me most as a child was the opening scene. Even after I knew it was only a cage on a forklift, I still kept imagining it as a T-Rex for, probably, 2 years. Everything else was just...COOL! Lol.
In terms of physical acting choices, I've always loved how Sam Neill takes off his sunglasses when he sees his first living dinosaur. It's a great communication of how he's in such shock that he has momentarily forgotten how to remove them.
I find the "6 foot turkey" insult to be hilarious, cuz that would still be terrifying.
As for the dino accuracy... Well, the designs were very accurate for what we knew at the time, though the Velociraptor is a lot bigger than its real life counterpart, which was actually around the size of a turkey! Funnily enough, Jurassic Park's dilophosaurus is actually smaller than its real counterpart; they were actually around 6ft tall and 20ft long! Not to mention, the neck frill and venom are just artistic license 😆
**Edit: Evidence shows that the T-rex had amazing binocular vision - even better than ours! And an absolutely stellar sense of smell to boot!
I bet that kid has never seen a live turkey. They can be intimidating.
Although since then they discovered fossils of dinosaurs in the same family as velociraptor that were of a size like the ones in the movie, Deinonychus and Utahraptor that is even bigger if my memory's good. Sorta retroactively vindicated ! Haha
But Dinos of the raptor family probably had feathers (which hadn't been discovered at the time) not as much as birds, but probably enough to radically change their appearances.
And yeah, even if T-rex couldn't see you, it would probably have been able to smell you well enough to not need to see you. But I think there's no way a predator that size could have thrived with only movement based vision : a big rock in it's path (or a cliff) could mean a broken ankle or leg, could mean no hunting for a while and a beast this size couldn't have lasted long without eating a lot. But the idea was genius to create suspense.
Edit : Oh and while the long-necked dinosaurs like Brachiosaurus grew surprisingly fast, there is a good chance they would take decades to get to those sizes...Unless maybe Ingen did additional genetic modifications on them...
Re-edit as I watch the video : Dilophosaurus was one of my favourite, to imagine that the real ones were many times that size...interesting fact : they still don't know what the flanges on the top of their heads were for :P
Even regular a turkey is terrifying! Believe me I had a dozen of them they can go realy wild.
If I'm not mistaken, the t-rex in the book has an issue with its eyes, and that's why it can only see them clearly when they're moving. They lost that in the film, and made it a species wide thing rather than just that one specific t-rex.
Clearly this kid has also never encountered swans or geese before....they're brutal!
I was working at a theater the summer of 93 and this movie was so big! For an almost 30 years old film I think the effects hold up very well!
This was so interesting, I loved hearing your professional input on the acting and directing. This was such a refreshing take on a good ol' classic. Subscribed!
Your description of the blocking in the trailer scene with Alan, Ellie, and Hammond: instant subscribe. I absolutely want more movie analyses like this. This was so great.
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Fun fact: Right here, you can see one of the crew members take out his hand to balance the Velociraptor animatronic. It was literally so top-heavy that someone had to physically hold it down, and the camera just happened to pick them up accidentally.
Jeff Goldblum wasn't playing Dr Ian Malcolm, he was playing Jeff Goldblum as if he himself was in this situation and I love him for it
I've always loved this movie because of just how well it portrays a series of choices and seemingly simple actions into a whole butterfly effect catastrophe, though the book is quite a bit different regarding the fate of certain characters, and it gives some extra information that the movie doesn't. The reason the triceratops is sick isn't explained in the movie - but in the book, Sattler and the dino-vet discover that though they haven't been eating the West Indian lilac berries directly, the triceratops swallow stones to help them crush up the vegetation they eat in their stomachs. As they dig up the stones to eat them, they're also inadvertently eating the berries which makes them sick, but only periodically whenever they go to eat more stones. They also go more in depth into Hammond and the creation of the park, the rivalries between InGen and BioSyn (who were paying Nedry to steal the embryos), and in some side stories and spin-offs they go more into depth about how they acquired Isla Nublar from the Costa Rican government (hence all the Spanish) and the way they forced out some of the native people and tore up the island to make the park.
Domino effect, not butterfly effect. There's a difference.
@@deepermind4884 okay but if a butterfly flaps its wings in china and the resulting typhoon knocks over a series of dominoes....
@@deepermind4884 granted this is more of a demonstration of Domino effect over Butterfly effect as there are clear and direct correlations and sometimes even causations to each event. But I would still say there's a butterfly element with Nedry. Hear me out: Nedry was supposed to only take 20 minutes and reboot the program so only fences he needed would go off but he didn't make it. That's the chaos element so all the fences ended up going off (such as the raptor fences). Basically you had this Domino effect that honestly should have played out one way, but ended up with another result.
imagine a theater full of people watching this in '93... we were astounded....
It was so good
Fun fact about this movie here in the uk. My local theatre the lyric in Carmarthen was on the brink of being shut down by the local council. The lady running it reached out to Steven Spielberg asking if they could premiere jurrasic park on the same night as the red carpet premiere event in London so they could save the theatre. Steven replied and accepted her special request. Only my local town theatre in Carmarthen, wales and London were showing the movie for the first time. The theatre is still open to this day, although not playing movies any more it’s strictly a theatre for shows. Sky (our local tv provider here) made a sky movie about it called save the cinema, it starred Tom Felton from Harry Potter along with other actors. My little towns claim to fame with this brilliant movie.
The CGI was incredible for it's time and one thing that makes me love it even more is that it was extremely innovative and much of the techniques that were used here ended up being used in later films! c:
And this innovation is both a blessing and a curse coz everything is cgi now.
That movie hit me directly in my dinosaur craze when I was a kid. In the first 3 weeks I've pleaded, bribed and tried everything I could to go and see it again....Went at least 5 times. To this day, the score still gives me chills.
The awe, the wonder at the dinosaurs (and I might say the respect that the sequels seem to have more or less lost) still manage to wake the child in me.
Fun Fact: I believe them filming the triceratops was the first they ever saw a practical dinosaur on set so the reaction was also genuine. Also, the T-Rex next to the car before seeing the flashlight was the best transition from practical to CGI.
Yhh I think that's true. In the book the animal that needs help is a stegosaurus, but I guess they thought it would be too complex or expensive to make compared to a triceratops
"Chest compressions, Chest compressions, Chest compressions." Ah, Dr Mike would be so proud.
Yeah, I was also a kid when this came to theaters, about 8 or 9. Dad and I went to see it together, and while we loved it, we both agreed that we would have nightmares if we just went home. So we ended up having a double feature that night: we followed this up with Last Action Hero. Seriously. It’s one of my favorite memories.
Oh man I agree on that whole multiple actors and a camera opening everything up. The energy shifts so weirdly once you stick a camera into a scene. I remember my acting classes going well, you’re in the zone but then the teacher brings in a camera and all of sudden people just start over analyzing themselves and get tweaky. Its funny
The shots, frame adjustments all the stuff you said i didn't notice them i was just enjoying the movie like a normal person. But now watching this with you, changed my whole view. I really liked it. And I love that you were explaining how each shots were made and how it's happening in film sets nd the efforts they put to make it perfect is really amazing. ✌️👍❤️❤️❤️🤘😊
I remember seeing this movie a couple of weeks before my 18th birthday with my uncle and my little brother in Austin, Texas. You can’t imagine the goosebumps we all felt seeing the dinosaurs for the first time with the soaring John Williams score.
This movie is such an amalgamation of such amazing people: Spielberg, Winston, Cundey, Williams, Tippett, etc. You said you really loved the lighting Clariss and you can thank the DP Dean Cundey. Incredible how he's had his hands on such well noted movies: Halloweens 1-3, The Fog, Esacpe from New York, Back to the Future 1-3, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China, Hook, Death Becomes Her, The Flintstones, Casper, Apollo 13, Flubber, & Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
I love how Hammond assumed the scientists he brought on the island would agree with his idea. Does he not realize that scientists don't agree with each other on everything?
The fact that Alan says "Bet you'll never look at birds the same way again" and it comes back at the end when there's a bird flying outside of the helicopter is legitimately one of my favorite details in the film. This movie is full of stuff like that (more iconic detail being the "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" banner falling in front of the T. Rex), and you really don't get that in the newer films. This is why none of the other films have been as good as this one.
And for me its the seatbelt scene in the helicopter. The two ends of the seatbelts that dr grant holds up and ties together are the "female" ends. All the dinosaurs are bred to be female....
This film was my favourite childhood memories and when I see dinosaur in the film, my mind was blown away by special effects and actors were doing great job to make movies worth it 😊
One thing that 80s & 90s action/adventure movies did better than today…… SUSPENSE WAS EVERYTHING! They wanted to give you thrills & chills before you even see the monsters or dinosaurs
One cool little detail that often goes unnoticed: When the light is shining down on the raptor through the ceiling panel you can see the letters A, C, T, G which are the four basic compounds of DNA: adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and thymine (T).
30:35 Not true at all: we now know that the T-rex would have binocular vision, similar to birds of prey!!! She would ABSOLUTELY see them, even in the rain at night 😂👀🦖
The part when Alan is looking at the dinosaur for the first time, and he's going through everything he thought he knew about dinosaurs gets me every time. Sam kills that scene. "They're moving in herds...they do move in herds." Chokes me up every time.
In the novel nedry died horribly. He was blinded, the dilo, cut open his belly and all he felt was his body was extremely cold but his intestines in his hands were warm. Then dilo came up behind him bit him on top of his head and then snapped his neck.
Sam Jackson was gonna have his own scene but a hurricane came and destroyed everything. And fyi the storm scenes spielberg went out and shot that during so it's real live footage from said hurricane.
The park ranger had he studied their behavior or knew more he would've known it was a trap and the ambush would come from the side.
Kelly McGillis, Julia Roberts, Linda Hamilton, Bridget Fonda, Jodie Foster, Nicole Kidman, Melanie Griffith, Brooke Shields, Kyra Sedgwick, Uma Thurman, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Geena Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Meg Ryan, Genevieve Bujold, Christina Applegate, Kim Raver, Sarah Jessica Parker, Joan Cusack, Debra Winger, Juliette Lewis Helen Hunt, Mariska Hargitay, and Kim Basinger were considered for Ellie Satler.
Johnny Depp, Jim Carrey, Michael Keaton, Bruce Campbell, Steve Guttenberg, Ted Danson, Bill Paxton and Michael J Fox were considered for Ian Malcolm.
Sean Connery, Clint Eastwood, Paul Newman, Ian Bannen, Charlton Heston and Marlon Brando were considered for John Hammond.
Brian Cox, Geoffrey Rush, Bob Hoskins, and Jeffrey Jones were considered for Robert Muldoon.
The film was a box office and critical success, making $1 billion dollars ($1.8 billion dollars today) against a $65 million dollar budget.
It won Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing.
It's still considered to be one of the best Sci-fi movies ever made.
Here's my ranking for the Jurassic Park series:
JURASSIC PARK: 9/10
The Lost World Jurassic Park 2: 8/10
JURASSIC PARK 3: 6/10
JURASSIC WORLD: 8/10
JURASSIC WORLD 2: 7.5/10
JURASSIC WORLD 3: 7/10.
Nedry's death was even more graphic in the book. The book described Nedry holding something by his stomach, only for him to realize in was his own organs.
I grew up watching this movie and then acting out being chased by a dinosaur in my backyard. I didn’t read the book until I was about 13. Michael Crichton was brilliant; he created such clear characters and believable science along with amazing action. Plus acting on a set with animatronic dinos would be the ultimate dream (even if my character got eaten).
This movie was so well made, this is why people love it ! Plenty of action, stunts and scary bits. xx
Hey, Clariss. I love your commentary at 5:30 + about the little trailer. This is why most cinematography schools (not necessilarily acting schools) revert to iconic movies like 12 Angry Men and The Caine Mutiny (courtroom scene with Humphry Bogart's complete breakdown of character...close-up of his face with maniacal eyes and sweat), camera angle, depth of focus, and lighting...lighting...lighting! The scenes in 12 Angry Men were shot without cuts within a scene...so great. I don't see much of that in any movies today. Do you? I had a close friend at University (UNLV) in 1980 who was a cinematography major, so we went to see oh so many movies in the theatres, and would comment to each other during the movies.
You also mention at 12:00 + about the Barbasol, putting it on the pie. Just an aside...the pie fight in "The Great Race" (1965) set the world record for number of pies used (with real cream filling, not Barbasol!) and still holds the record today...58 years later!
There's a show on Netflix called "The Movies That Made Us" (I think that's it) that goes behind the scenes on the making of classic movies, and the episode on this film is really great. It goes into a lot of the backstory on how they created new CGI for the dinosaurs, as well as the making of the giant T-Rex "puppet" by the late legend, Stan Winston.
I literally learned so much after watching your video. Thank you!
Watch them all. They're all so different, but great in their own ways. This 1st one is 1 of my favorite movies I've seen in my life, and will be forever.
3:45 Kids often love dinosaurs because they are very big (at least. some of them are), very scary, but also very dead, so not an actual threat.
4:40 The dinos are pretty accurate for what they thought at the time. A lot of new discoveries and revised theories have been made since then. They played about with the sizes of some of the dinosaurs.
44:35 Dogs and cats can sometimes work out how to open doors, more by accident than by design, but I think the raptors accidentally work it out as well.
The reason this can't be done, quite apart from sorting the DNA in a mosquito's gut, is that you cannot produce a living animal from dead DNA. We have almost complete frozen Mammoth carcasses and a close living relative but we cannot create clone mammoths. I don't know why they picked frogs as the source of the sex-change, many reptiles do it too, some reproduce entirely through females with no male involvement.
Hmm, can't isn't completely right. To my knowledge (and probably very outdated) the only example of it being done is an extinct species of Spanish mountain goat that was de-extinctioned with another goat as a surrogate womb but died of lung problems a few hours later. As far as I know there is nothing stopping us from doing the same thing with the mammoth except for the expense, lack of interest, and no real surrogate womb. (yes a modern elephant would probably work but that's a lot of time and money on maybes)
@@ADADEL1 I've actually listened to experts talk about this and one of the main issues surrounding de-extincting animals is "is it even ethical to do this when these animals don't have a local niche anymore". Most scientists believe we actually could clone mammoths right now if we wanted to, but where are we going to put them? Where can we introduce a "new" species of enormous animal without it completely knocking the local ecology out of whack? And even if we might set aside a huge tract of land in Canada or Russia for these animals to live, to what end? What good will it do to have them back? The reason they went extinct is because they were adapted to a world that doesn't exist anymore, so should we even bring them back? These are the sorts of questions that are being wrestled with.
They already have plans to somehow bring back the 🦤. They've even picked out where they plan to reintroduce it. I say, if we DO have this kind of technology, go the condor route, that they mentioned in the movie.
@@manxgirl Like the Mammoths they have ,whole dodo corpses, but again we have the living animals from dead DNA problem which we would not have with condors. I don't think cloning has ever been tried but various other methods have been tried (not always successfully) to save species from extinction.
Not accurate at all. People have paid for clones to be created from deceased pets. It’s nothing to do with ‘dead’ or ‘living’ DNA. It’s all about damaged or undamaged DNA. If something is deceased, and has been for some time (in a woolly mammoth’s case we’re looking at 40,000 years minimum), then it’s significantly more likely for the DNA to have been damaged through degradation and contamination. DNA has a half life of 500 years, so woolly mammoth remains (even if preserved in freezing ice) would only contain a minuscule amount of DNA for scientists to work with. And it would be very challenging to establish if the extracted DNA comes from the mammoth, or from the bacteria and parasites that attach to remains.
The point about the mosquito’s gut is also incorrect in that DNA does not survive in Amber specimens. So the entire venture is scientifically impossible as presented in the movie. Scientists have recently attempted (under incredibly strict laboratory conditions) to extract DNA from insects in 40,000 year old Copal, and extracted nothing. Now, 100 million years ago is an incredible distance in time from 40,000 years ago. Scientists also recently attempted to work backwards in regards to DNA preservation in amber. DNA was extracted from an insect in 6 year old Amber! So we can clone spiders from 2014! But the process that made Amber from resin millions of years ago involved intense heat underground, and this is not the correct conditions for ancient DNA preservation.
15:21-17:12 Best introduction in CGI history one of my favorite movies of all time. Clariss
31:41 "she will forever be terrified of flashlights." 🤣🤣🤣
and dinosaurs.
Clariss! I just ran across your channel and I love your explanations from the acting side of things! Keep doing it!
Admittedly, when I was a kid first watching this movie, I understood what Malcolm was saying and even trying to say, but I didn't pick up on *any* of the undertones and how he was tying it all together. One day, about ten years ago, I was watching it randomly and I suddenly picked up on those undertones and it put the whole movie in a different light, starting with Hammond's hubris.
I love the joke/theory that John Hammond is actually a necromancer. Look how happy he is on the island, surrounded by his power. And he uses the crystal on his cane as a focus for his magic, haha.
I'm so glad I found your channel! Your reaction was delightful, thoughtful and funny!
Great reaction, Clariss! 😊
As always, love your enthusiasm and your insights.🥰
This is one of my favourite films from my childhood; I must have been about 9 or 10, when I saw it in the movie theatre with my parents 😃
Also, Jeff Goldblum just being Jeff Goldblum is always amazing 😄
Loved this reaction! Keep up the great work and I look forward to seeing more
Fun fact: the dinosaur they're calling a velociraptor (which I spelled correctly, come ON firefox) is actually a deinonychus ("die-NON-ick-us"). Raptors were about half the size, but had a cooler and scarier-sounding name, so they got the Hollywood treatment (though to be fair, I'm not sure if that's Crichton's doing or Spielberg's).
It was Crichton’s in the book they are referred as velociraptor mongoliensis or the 3 foot dinosaur we all know, however they are portrayed as six feet similar to the movie. However in the novel they refer to deinonychus by its other name velociraptor antirrhopus and is what Grant digs up in Montana.
I find it strange how Crichton made sure to identify both. He could have easily made the raptors antirrhopus while still using the name velociraptor, but instead made it the clear distinction that it is in fact mongoliensis at the park.
Funny thing is Crichton worked (second hand accounting this by the way fact check yourself) the paleontologist responsible for deinonychus to get them as accurate as possible and even asked his okay to change the name
@@cyberdragon5247 Plus Crichton did the screenplay for the movie version so everything was fact checked by himself but ya know Hollywood lol.
i don't know what it is, but spielberg has such a way with directing kids that he makes them totally believable. any of his movies that has a child in it, they act realistically and their speech is somehow not stilted, not stiff, and they just seem authentic. i really enjoy watching anything he directs with kids in it, because they never annoy me, but just act like, well, KIDS.
The first T. rex in Jurassic Park has her vision altered because of the frog DNA, if the DNA sequence for her visual abilities wasn't missing than she would see normally just like us and they wouldn't have been able to use that against her.
well... she can see just fine in the rest of the series?
@@Enthymene nope her vision never changes
As someone else commented, both "Jurassic Park" and "Westworld" came from the legendary writer Michael Crichton. The hubris of man was often a theme in his books. In fact, much of the discussion over the Chilean Sea Bass dinner was taken directly from the original "Jurassic Park" novel - which I highly recommend, as it contains a subplot completely left out of the movie.
Another point changed for the movie is that Grant is not romantically involved with Dr. Sattler. She is his graduate student, nothing more. Spielberg changed it because he knew that a romantic interest, even an implied one, would tend to make the film more appealing to a female audience.
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I so agree with you. The shot itself is so good, but John Williams' score just takes it to a level beyond anything! So moving🥹
This was great to watch, not just for your reaction but especially because of all your commentaries about acting and directing. It was very informative and cool to watch.
Spielberg definitely created some of the best movies of all time
Jurassic Park is my absolute favorite of the entire saga! I still have memories when I went a local movie theater, and it famous scenes from movies framed on the wall. They had a framed shot of the scene of the T-Rex roaring as the Jurassic Park banner falls. 🦖🖤💛❤️
The music was perfection in this movie.
I saw this in the movie theater when it first came out, and it really blew my mind.
I might be wrong (last time I was there was 2015 when I graduated from high school) but I believe the Orlando park still mostly has the original Jurassic Park aesthetic and ride, while over in California they transitioned to reflect the Jurassic World movies. As a nostalgic Floridian I'm definitely biased toward the original.
I just found your channel. I just love hearing the point-of-view of an actress. Some of the things you brought up were interesting to learn.
This is my new favorite reaction channel. Clariss, you are extremely well spoken and thoughtful.
Thank you so much! Means a lot and we’re happy to have you!
It makes me so happy that people are watching Jurassic franchise, the rest of the sequels may not be like the first one but overall it's an amazing franchise and the first one is a masterpiece so I love dinosaurs for many reasons. Some of the dinosaurs shown in the franchise are very inaccurate like velociraptor are very small and with feathers and etc. And new studies changed so many things so things we thought we know about dinosaurs we didn't know in 1990s. Also we will never ever know how dinosaurs actually looked or sounded. I wish I could see one with my own eyes but it's impossible and aah well that's life. Also the vision based on movement is so not true. T rex was actually very smart with powerful sense of smell so yeah next time if you see one, move!
I love how you explained screenplay and screenwriting here.
26:00 Scenes for Jurassic Park, Kong Godzilla were filmed at Kualoa Ranch Park in Hawaii. You can go there to see the actual props and locations used.
9:05 Excellent points, loving this commentary it’s taking me back to my high school videography classes.
May I add, Hammond is also the only one in a light color wardrobe, Ellie and Alan are wearing darker colors, they’re unified and he’s the odd man out even in this.
Wow, she really feels like an actress. It's not like watching most youtubers, the charisma is wild.
I sincerely appreciate that thank you very much! :)
@@callmeclariss you should react to the show Young Justice on HBO/Max
@@callmeclariss most the dinosaur facts they give are wrong
Hi, Clariss. Enjoying your reaction to this. I liked your insights into the scene with them and dr. Hammond in the trailer. I had never noticed any of that.
Your reaction to Jeff Goldblum posing was great, made me crack up! Keep up with your reactions, you’re doing great, love your channel!
The score for this movie is so magical. I love it so much. One of Williams' best.
Hammond is not a scientist nor is he a doctor. He is a wealthy entrepreneur.
Also, the thing you were saying about people being unable to walk and chew gum in front of cameras holds true in other industries as well! I, for example, am a pretty solid coder and typer normally (which I ought to be after sitting in front of computers since I was but a wee lad, several of decades ago). Put me on the spot, though, and I can't find the dang space bar.
It's a real problem. :-\
This is one of my favorite movies!! Thanks for reacting. I love all if your videos!!
Nice Corridor Crew name-drop 👍
As a kid, I was speechless and in awe during that T.Rex scene
I loved HISHE's Jurassic Park video, especially the part about Sam Jackson surviving lol
My favorite quote from this movie: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with wether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." It's the modern version of Rabelais' quote: "Science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul."
Also when I was in 1st year of biology in college, we have an assignment that was to analyze all scientific errors or impossibilities in Jurassic Park and explain why (or how to correct them if possible). There were a lot of mistakes. But it didn't alter my love for this movie at all.
As some people already mentioned, the Velociraptor was smaller than depicted. The Utahraptor was bigger and the size of Velociraptors portrayed in the film.
It was a nice coincidence that Utahraptor's discovery was announced between the filming and the release of this movie. I also liked that they considered naming it Spielberg's raptor.
Rest in peace and thank you to Stan Winston who's artisans in the industry created most of the animatronic dinos that you see in the film.
This was my first movie. My mom set me in the carrier in front of the tv when this was on and it stopped my hours of crying.
"In war, everything is simple. But the simplest thing is difficult" - Clauswitz (I think...)
Your comment about how difficult it is to act in front of the camera reminded me of that quote... simple... but difficult.
My biggest surprise of this movie came 20 something years after when I found out the little boy Timmy was the same actor that played John Deacon, bass player for Queen in the Bohemian Rhapsody movie.
The raptors in the kitchen scene scared the shit out of me when I saw this at the cinema as a kid. So good!
There are so many moments in this where your voice could be used for tiktoks xD
A number of other people have commented on things like wrong-sized velociraptors, T-rex's binocular vision, and *everything* wrong about the dilophosaurus. So I'd just like to add probably the most obvious thing we've learned about dinosaurs since the 90s, is that a lot of the theropods, especially raptors, had downy feathers for warmth. Which makes velociraptors look even more like a demon-turkey.
Also, frog DNA seems like an odd choice to replace genetic gaps. A closer relative, like an ostrich or alligator would have a better chance of creating a viable embryo. Of course then the gender swapping thing wouldn't work.
47:44 - I've seen this movie a bunch of times but I've never noticed this before: When T-Rex throws the Velo against the skeleton, it's a skeleton of T-Rex, then T-Rex stands in place of the skeleton with the same pose, as if to say "I'm REAL, bitches, rawr!!" LOL
I still say “hold on to your butts” when driving with my family
Jeff Goldblum Jurassic Park: "Must go faster!"
Jeff Goldblum Independence Day: "MUST GO FASTER!"
P.S. I saw this 6 times in theaters as a kid with different people almost every time. That's how epic it was. When CGI was brand new and not depended on like cinematic heroin as it is now. Imagine actually feeling the steps of the T-Rex when the water ripples...First time with you and New Subscriber...Now that's chaos.
You should definitely give the book a shot if you're interested in the scientific ethics part of the story because that's ultimately what the book is about. The dinosaurs are just the vehicle for the discussion. Also, there are enough differences in the story, and in the characters and their fates, for it still to be interesting/unpredictable for someone who has already seen the movie.
Crichton is less concerned about the ethics and more about proselytizing about how science bad; man's a luddite.
@@eXpriest I admit that it's been a while since I read the book, so I may be misremembering how much was about ethics. And maybe he is a luddite, but as for the 'science=bad', I didn't really get that impression for this particular story. More an impression that we humans tend to be short sighted, and that we never have as much control as we *think* we do, which can lead to big problems in the long run.
@@LadyFeline3 Admittedly it gets worse in his later novels, but the man has always propagated a distinctly anti-science view. Not to say I'm not still I fan, I just disagree with his worldview.
Goldblum says the “must go faster” line in Independence Day too
6:40 love the discussion here. The actor has to be 'one' with the set, with the 'scene' of the script, book, or movie, which means they are 'one' with their co-actors too, as well as the supporting staff who may be doing other things like special effects or lighting, etc, because you have to 'imagine' yourself in a specific scene that looks a lot different after being edited by technology in the actual movie.
The rex in the breakout scene was an animatronic and is still my favorite part other than the lawyer getting eaten off the toilet. Rexxy is beautiful.
Recently, it was discovered that the T rex was actually a stealthy hunter despite it's enormous size and tremendous weight. This is due to it's padded feet to absorb the shock of impact with the ground. So, while it's a very cool and suspenseful effect, you wouldn't actually hear any booming footsteps, or see any water ripples. The T rex would be able to get up close to you, and you wouldn't notice until it was too late...
i read the book Jurassic Park recently and it was so good! made me appreciate the movie more!
i think the current research suggests that trexs had such a good sense of smell it wouldnt matter if they could see you or not, they know youre there.
We have no way of knowing what the T-Rex's vision is based on. In the book, Alan Grant discovers it entirely by accident.
My favorite fun fact: there are only 14 minutes of dinosaurs on-screen in this movie... but only 6 minutes of that is CGI. The rest are practical puppets and animatronics. That's why so many of the shots still look great today. The other JP movies relied too heavily on CGI and I don't think they look as good as this. I saw this movie 3 times in the theater when it came out. It's one of my all time faves!
7:59 - Spielberg is very good in this. See his "Close encounters' & ET - where there are scenes with 5 to 6 actors who talks at the same time.
Fun movie trivia: to get the rings in the cup of water that Spielberg wanted, the physical effects department ran a bass guitar string from the cup of water through the car down to the ground where a p.a. was plucking the string....and that's how they got that shot 🤔🤓👍
The way Nedry dies in the book is a lot more brutal:
The Dilophosaurus blinds him with the venom, clamps its jaws on his head, and proceeds to crush his skull like an egg. It managed to do so because it is of accurate size in the book (about eight feet tall).
Side note: the Tyrannosaurus having poor vision is exclusive to the book and films, because in real life it had vision sharper than that of an eagle
Yes, it was a great reaction. Glad I found it and will watch more. Bless and be well.
The movement based vision sounds interesting but when you take two seconds it also implies that it cant see trees, rocks, sleeping dinosaurs, or even the animals they hold in place for it to eat. It was just a weird way to rationalize having the characters not get torn to bits when faced with a trex