Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park
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Genre: Action and adventure Science fiction Directed By: Steven Spielberg Produced By: Kathleen Kennedy Gerald R. Molen Written By/Screenplay: David Koepp Based On: Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park Photography: Dean Cundey Cinematography: Dean Cundey Lighting: John Frazier Editing: Michael Kahn Sound: Gary Rydstrom Costumes & Makeup: Steve Winston Music By: John Williams Production Company: Amblin Entertainment Distributed By: Universal Pictures Release Date: June 11, 1993 Runtime: 127 minutes Country: United States Language: English Budget: 63 millions of dollars Box Office: 1.03 billion of dollars Franchise: Jurassic Park Sequel: The Lost World: Jurassic Park

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Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, the late Richard Attenborough, the late Bob Peck, Martin Ferrero, B. D. Wong, Samuel L. Jackson, Wayne Knight, Joseph Mazzelo and Ariana Richards. It is an adaptation of the 1990 novel of the same name by Michael Crichton, who himself wrote the film's screenplay along with David Koepp. It was released on June 11, 1993, by Universal Pictures, the film received universal acclaim and was a box office success. The film was re-released in 3D on April 5, 2013, for the film's 20th anniversary, with some minor changes. The film spawned six sequels, toys, video games, comics, and merchandise.

In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry for being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

Plot

Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, the late Richard Attenborough, the late Bob Peck, Martin Ferrero, B. D. Wong, Samuel L. Jackson, Wayne Knight, Joseph Mazzelo and Ariana Richards. It is an adaptation of the 1990 novel of the same name by Michael Crichton, who himself wrote the film's screenplay along with David Koepp. It was released on June 11, 1993, by Universal Pictures, the film received universal acclaim and was a box office success. The film was re-released in 3D on April 5, 2013, for the film's 20th anniversary, with some minor changes. The film spawned six sequels, toys, video games, comics, and merchandise.

In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry for being culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.

Why Life Will Find A Way

1. Ground-breaking visual and special effects for the dinosaurs, especially the animatronics that still hold up today. The special effects artists Phil Tippett, Dennis Muren, and the late legendary Stan Winston later won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1994. (see below)
   • In the iconic kitchen sequence, the raptors, in some shots, are portrayed by guys wearing suits, and it's well done because you cannot tell if they are CGI-rendered or played by guys in suits.
2. Amazing acting, especially from Sam Neill, Richard Attenborough, and Jeff Goldblum. Wayne Knight was also good as the villain Dennis Nedry.
3. Fantastic, thrilling, and sometimes beautiful score composed by none other than the legendary John Williams, especially the "Main Theme." And this was his twelfth collaboration with Spielberg, after 1991's Hook and 1989's Always.
4. Great casting choices, especially Sam Neill, Richard Attenborough, and Samuel L. Jackson.
5. The story, despite taking some liberties, followed the plot's key moments of the novel and was also written by Michael Crichton, the author of the original novel.
6. The fight between the T. rex (nicknamed "Roberta" in Phil Tippett's storyboards for the film) and the raptors is awesome!
   • WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH
7. Memorable characters, especially Alan Grant and Ian Malcolm.
8. The T. rex terrified many people, further proving how advanced the special effects are.
9. Pretty scary moments like when the T. rex first appears in the dark and the opening scene.
10. Speaking of the opening scene, it is great and is like a wild cross between King Kong and Area 51, and all you see of any dinosaur from now at least; is a yellow eye.
11. The film spawned a couple of pretty good video games for the Sega Genesis and arcades, among others.
12. The "Mr. DNA" cartoon is nicely animated.
13. It has the iconic scenes with the raptors in the kitchen, Donald Gennaro getting eaten by the T-rex while sitting on the toliet and the T. rex chase, which are still iconic. The T. rex chase scene was later parodied in 1999's Toy Story 2.
14. The entire theme park itself looks amazing since it was shot in a Kauai, a nice place.
15. The cinematography is pretty good.
16. Excellent directing by Steven Spielberg.
17. Excellent pacing that is purposeful and taut, considering the film is 2 hours and 6 minutes long.
18. There's a nice Easter Egg reference to Spielberg's 1975 classic Jaws where during the scene before the group encounters the sick Triceratops, you can see the scene from Jaws where Brody sees the shark on one of Nedry's computer screens. Not only that, but there are also references to 1933's King Kong and even Return of the Jedi from 1983.
19. Great dialogue and like "Dr. Grant and my dear Dr. Sattler, welcome to Jurassic Park" (which is found on the infobox), "We have a T. rex."
20. Great and memorable quotes, such as "Clever girl," which later became a very well known internet meme.
21. The poster by the late John Alvin is well-drawn, and there are also some very well drawn alternate posters too.
22. Amazing sound mixing, especially the iconic T. rex roar, which was an amalgamation of crocodile, alligator, lion, baby elephant, penguin, and tiger sounds.
23. The film was inspired by many other dinosaur movies and documentaries due to it's success, such as BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs series.
24. Nine words: "Uh, uh, uh! You didn't say the magic word!"

Bad Qualities

1. There are some continuity errors like during the birth of the baby raptor, there's a robotic arm behind the egg. However, it later disappears when the raptor is born.
2. While the CGI stills hold up to this day, it may be slightly dated in a few scenes.
3. Though the dialogue is great, some are rather odd and not the kind of stuff you hear in real life.
4. Seven words: "It's a UNIX system, I know this!"
5. It deviates from and leaves out lots of parts from the book, most of which would have been beneficial.

Reception

Box Office

The film followed $3.1 million from midnight screenings on June 10, it earned $47 million in its first weekend, with a total of $50.1 million breaking the opening weekend record set by Batman Returns released a year before. The film grossed over $81.7 million by the end of its first week and stayed at number one for three weeks. In the United States and Canada, it eventually grossed $357 million. Box Office Mojo estimates that the movie sold over 86.2 million tickets in the US in its initial theatrical run. Jurassic Park did very well in international markets, breaking opening records in India, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom, ultimately grossing over $914 million worldwide, with Spielberg reportedly making over $250 million from the film. The film surpassed Spielberg's own E.T. the Extraterrestrial released in 1982 as the highest-grossing film of all time worldwide and became second to E.T. in North America earnings before 1997's Titanic, the first film to gross more than $1 billion surpassed the film's record in 1998.

The film's 3D re-release opened at #4 in North America, with $18.6 million from 2,771 locations. IMAX showings accounted for over $6 million, with the 32% being the highest IMAX share ever for a nationwide release. In the last week of August, the international release had its more successful weekend when it succeeded in climbing to the top of the overseas box office with a $28.8 million debut in China. As of August 2013, the reissue earned over $45 million in North America and over $44.5 million internationally, leading to a lifetime gross of over $402 in North America and over $628,723,171 overseas, totaling up to a worldwide gross of $1.029 billion, making it the 17th film to surpass the $1 billion mark. It was the first and only Universal film to surpass the $1 billion mark until 2015, when the studio got three such films, Furious 7, Minions and Jurassic World, the fourth installment in the Jurassic Park franchise. By 2017, it ranks as the highest-grossing film directed by Spielberg, the 4th highest-grossing Universal released film, and the 22nd highest-grossing film of all time.

Critical response

Jurassic Park was critically acclaimed by critics. The film currently holds a 91% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 123 reviews, with an average rating of 8.3/10 and a critic consensus that reads "Jurassic Park is a spectacle of special effects and life-like animatronics, with some of Spielberg's best sequences of sustained awe and sheer terror since Jaws. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 68/100 based on 20 critic reviews, and it got an 8.1/10 on IMDb.

Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a 3 out of 4 stars and noted, "You want great dinosaurs, you got great dinosaurs." Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A-, saying "Spielberg's peerless twin gift has always been for making the fantastic seem real (Close Encounters, E.T., the Indiana Jones trilogy) and the real fantastic (Jaws)." Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave the film a 3 out of 4 stars, saying, "You won't believe your eyes." Chris Stuckmann of Moviedex gave it an A+, calling it "A film that managed to terrify a generation of children one minute, leave them eager to hunt for fossils in their backyard the next."

Awards

Jurassic Park won three Academy Awards (Best Sound Editing for Gary Rydstrom and Richard Hymns, Best Sound Mixing for Gary Summer, Rydstrom, Shawn Murphy, and Ron Jenkins, and Best Visual Effects for Dennis Murren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett, and Michael Lantieri). At the BAFTA Awards, it won two of them; Best Special Effects to Murren, Winston, Tippett, and Lantieri and Best Sound for Summers, Rydstrom, Murphy, and Judkins. The film won a Czech Lion Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Spielberg, and it also won a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

In 2018, the same year mh:awfulmovies:Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom was released, the film was preserved in the United States Film Registry, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

Trivia

• Isla Nublar was modeled after Cocos Island.
• The original ending for the film showed a raptor getting crushed by dinosaur bones and the Big One getting shot by John Hammond.
• The T. rex animatronic created for the movie stood 20 feet (6 meters) in height, 40 feet (12 meters) in length, and weighed 9 tons. It was built from fiberglass and 3,000 pounds of clay, and it took 12 different operators to get it to replicate the right movements.
• This was Richard Attenborough’s first film role in 14 years (since The Human Factor in 1979)
• The film had a paleontologist consultant who advised not only Sam Neill and Laura Dern regarding their characters, but also Steven Spielberg and the production on the aesthetics and behaviors of dinosaurs.
• The film features only about 15 minutes of dinosaur footage, despite a running time of more than two hours.
• Most of Jurassic Park was shot on location in Hawaii. At one point, production was delayed due to a hurricane!
• Steven Spielberg was in post-production on Jurassic Park while filming Schindler’s List.
• When the film was released, it quickly surpassed the previous box office record holder: another Steven Spielberg film, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
• This film won three Academy Awards: Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Visual Effects.
• Despite being "Jurassic Park," just like the novel it was adapted from, only two dinosaurs from that period appear in this movie. They're the Brachiosaurus and Dilophosaurus, the rest including, Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Triceratops, Gallimimus and Parasaurolophus are from the Cretaceous period.
• The barks made by the velociraptors are heavily modified sounds of tortoises having sex.

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