Jurassic Park (film)

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Jurassic Park is a 1993 film about an island theme park stocked with genetically-engineered dinosaurs. When the park's creator invites three scientists down to solicit their opinions, a series of mishaps strands them all inside with the security systems out of commission, and the humans find themselves under attack by the resurrected predators.

Directed by Steven Spielberg. Screenplay by Michael Crichton and David Koepp. Based on the novel by Michael Crichton.
An Adventure 65 Million Years in the Making – tagline

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Dr. Alan Grant [edit]

  • [Responding to an unimpressed 10-year-old] Now try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period. You get your first look at this "six foot turkey" as you enter a clearing. He moves like a bird, lightly, bobbing his head. And you keep still because you think that maybe his visual acuity is based on movement like T-Rex – he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes. Not from the front, but from the side, from the other two raptors you didn't even know were there. Because Velociraptor's a pack hunter, you see, he uses coordinated attack patterns and he is out in force today. And he slashes at you with this – a six-inch retractable claw, like a razor, on the middle toe. He doesn't bother to bite your jugular like a lion, oh no … he slashes at you here [makes slashing motions below the child's chest] or here … [above the groin] or maybe across the belly, spilling your intestines. The point is … you are alive when they start to eat you. So you know … try to show a little respect.

Dr. Ian Malcolm [edit]

  • You've never heard of Chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractors? Dr. Sattler, I refuse to believe you're not familiar with the concept of attraction.
  • But again, how do you know they're all female? Does someone go into the park and, uh … pull up the dinosaurs' skirts?
  • [seeing the dinosaurs for the first time] You did it. You crazy son of a bitch, you did it.
  • Life finds a way.
  • [After escaping the Tyranosaurus chasing them] Think they'll have that on the tour?
  • Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
  • Oh, God help us. We're in the hands of engineers.
  • What've they got in there, King Kong?
  • All major changes are like death. You can't see what is on the other side until you get there.
  • Boy, do I hate being right all the time.
  • Eventually you plan to have dinosaurs in your dinosaur tour. Right? Hello? (Tap the camera lens) Hello? (exhale) yes?
  • (being chased by a Tyrannosaurus) Must go faster.
  • (Looking at a giant pile of dinosaur feces) That is one big pile of shit.

Robert Muldoon [edit]

  • [seconds before being eaten by a raptor] Clever girl
  • [when trying to save a worker from the raptor] Shoot her!...SHOOT HER!!
  • They should all be destroyed.

John Hammond [edit]

  • Welcome... to Jurassic Park.
  • [regarding about Ian Malcolm to Donald Gennaro] I bring the scientists, you bring the rockstar.
  • Spared no expense
  • [Watching Ian Malcolm from a security camera] I really hate that man.

Lex Murphy [edit]

  • It's a UNIX system, I know this!

Ray Arnold [edit]

  • [Repeated line] Hold on to your butts.

Dialogue [edit]

Ian Malcolm: God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.
Ellie Sattler: Dinosaurs eat man … woman inherits the earth.
Alan Grant: [admiring the Brachiosaurus] How did you do this?
John Hammond: I'll show you.
Donald Gennaro: The full 50 miles of perimeter fence are in place?
John Hammond: [in a annoyed tone] And the concrete moats, and the motion sensor tracking systems. Donald, dear boy, relax. Try to enjoy yourself.
Donald Gennaro: Let's get something straight John, This is not a weekend excursion, this is a serious investigation of the stability of the island. Your investors, the people I represent are deeply concerned. Forty-eight hours from now, if they're not convinced, I'm not convinced. I'll shut you down, John.
John Hammond: [chuckles] In forty-eight hours, I'll be accepting your apologies.
[Discussing Velociraptors]
Alan Grant: Do they show intelligence?
Robert Muldoon: They show extreme intelligence; even problem solving intelligence. Especially the big one. We bred eight originally, but when she came in, she took over the pack and killed all but two of the others. That one...when she looks at you, you can see she's working things out. It's why we have to feed them like this; she had them all attacking the fences when the feeders came.
Ellie Sattler: The fences are electrified, right?
Robert Muldoon: That's right, but they never attacked the same place twice. They were testing the fences for weaknesses, systemically. They remember.
John Hammond: [eating several bowls of ice cream] They were all melting.
Ellie Sattler: Malcom's okay for now. I gave him a shot of morphine
John Hammond: They'll be fine. Who better to get the children through Jurassic Park than a dinosaur expert? You know the first attraction I built when I came down from Scotland … was a flea circus. Petticoat Lane. Really … quite wonderful. We had, uh … a wee trapeze, a merry-go…carousel. Heh. And a see-saw. They all moved, motorized, of course, but people would say they could see the fleas. "No, I can see the fleas. Mummy, can't you see the fleas?" Clown fleas, highwire fleas and fleas on parade. But with this place … I wanted to give them something that wasn't an illusion. Something that was real. Something they could see, and touch. An aim not devoid of merit.
Ellie Sattler: But you can't think through this one, John. You have to feel it.
John Hammond: You're right, you're absolutely right. Hiring Nedry was a mistake, that's obvious. We're over-dependent on automation, I can see that now. Now, the next time everything's correctable. Creation is an act of sheer will. Next time it'll be flawless.
Ellie Sattler: It's still the flea circus. It's all an illusion.
John Hammond: When we have control–
Ellie Sattler: You never had control! That's the illusion! Now I was overwhelmed by the power of this place. But I made a mistake, too. I didn't have enough respect for that power and it's out now. The only thing that matters now are the people we love. Alan, Lex and Tim … John, they're out there where people are dying. So … [takes a spoonful of ice cream] it's good.
John Hammond: Spared no expense.
John Hammond: All major theme parks have delays. When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked.
Ian Malcolm: Yeah, but John, if the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists.
John Hammond: How can we stand in the light of discovery and not act?
Ian Malcolm: Oh, what's so great about discovery? It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what it observes. What you call discovery … I call the rape of the natural world.
Ellie Sattler: [To Alan] What are you thinking?
Alan Grant: We're out of a job.
Ian Malcolm: Don't you mean extinct?
Ellie Sattler: I can see the shed from here. We can make it if we run.
Robert Muldoon: No, we can't.
Ellie Sattler: Why not?!
Robert Muldoon: Because we're being hunted...
[Last lines of the film, as the group piles into a jeep to leave the park]
Alan Grant: Mr. Hammond, after careful consideration, I've decided not to endorse your park.
John Hammond: So have I.

Taglines [edit]

  • An Adventure 65 Million Years in the Making
  • The most phenomenal discovery of our time … becomes the greatest adventure of all time.

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