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Lessons from the Screenplay
Jurassic Park — Using Theme to Craft Character
Jurassic Park — Using Theme to Craft Character
Lessons from the Screenplay
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hi I'm Michael this is lessons from a screenplay
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there it is for
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a kid growing up in the 90s Jurassic
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Park was everything it's
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hard to imagine anything
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cooler than a dinosaur and
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this film brought dinosaurs
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to life in a way never before possible but
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as time is shown simply
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including dinosaurs is not enough to make a movie good Callie
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and in revisiting the film as an adult it's clear that one of the
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most impressive aspects of Jurassic Park is its screenplay
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while the film is filled with exciting action sequences and amazing
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visual effects that is also populated
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by interesting characters who are used to explore an important
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modern theme so today I want to examine how the themes origins
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inspired the creation of two very
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specific central characters to
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look at how both the plot and supporting
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characters challenge their beliefs and dissect
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how every single choice made by the writers fed the theme until it became
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a full-grown unstoppable monster
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welcome to Jurassic Park
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in the early 1980s
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author Michael Crichton was working on a script about a graduate student using
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technology to recreate a dinosaur
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as he was writing
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Crichton arrived at a problem explaining
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this kind of research is tremendously
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expensive and the question arises who will pay for it the
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only thing that I could think of was that it would come from a
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desire for entertainment so the
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idea of a dinosaur theme park became the foundation of Crichton's premise and buried
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inside this premise he would find what would become the
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DNA of the story its
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theme in his book into the woods a five-act
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journey into story John
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Yorke discusses the importance of theme a theory
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is posited an argument explored and a conclusion
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reached that in a nutshell is what theme is subject
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matter is a static given theme
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on the other hand is an active exploration of
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an idea it's a premise to be explored
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it's a question is
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it a good idea to
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bring back dangerous extinct
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creatures just because we have the technology
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to do something does
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it mean that we should and more
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broadly is everything we call progress actually
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progress this is the theme of Jurassic
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Park but Michael Crichton didn't think the question had a simple answer so
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he and screenwriter David Koepp used the theme as a blueprint
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for creating two characters
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with opposing viewpoints when
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we first meet dr.
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Alan Grant he is anti progress in two distinct
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ways computers feeling's mutual
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we see that Grant is completely
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mistrusting of Technology look
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at the extreme would you do
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we also see that he is not compatible with a more symbolic
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representation of the future he
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slashes you here yeah
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you are alive when
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they stop to eat you
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grant doesn't like kids and doesn't
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want to have them what's
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so wrong with kids oh I
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only looked in noisy
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this messy they're expensive
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they smell throughout the first act we see examples of grants dislike of children
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and his contentious relationship
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with technology again and again
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and again Grant clearly represents
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the anti progress side of the theme but
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soon someone with an opposing viewpoint comes
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barging into his world
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John Hammond Hammond is so Pro technology
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and progress he doesn't even consider that
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genetically engineering dinosaurs might be dangerous
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when a worker is killed by a velociraptor
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Hammonds only concern is that it might delay the parks opening in fact
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Hammonds favorite catchphrase spent
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no expense spared no expense spared
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no expense is an expression of this mind set forward
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at all costs we stand in
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the lines of discovery
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the first act of Jurassic Park establishes
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grant and Hammonds opposing
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takes on the theme of progress
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but just having characters embody different perspectives
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isn't enough to truly explore a theme we must find ways of testing
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the characters believes in
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act two the screenplay splits
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grant and Hammond up putting
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an entire island and a 10,000
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volt fence between them this
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separation allows each of them to encounter situations
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uniquely designed to attack their beliefs when
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the power goes out all over the island grant
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is suddenly forced to get along without the help of any technology hey
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what did touch you
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didn't touch anything we stopped while
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at the same time finding
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himself responsible for the lives of Hammonds
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grandchildren but that's not what
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I do throughout the second act of the film every
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single moment and grant story is about one of these two things
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eventually grant even acknowledges
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that he has been resisting
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progress in his own life and then
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he might be ready to change what
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do you know I gonna do now if you don't have to pick up
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dinosaur bones anymore I
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don't know I guess
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guess we just have to evolve too meanwhile
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Hammond is dealing with the fact that the dinosaurs he decided to bring back
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to life are destroying everything he
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is built but even worse they're
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now threatening the lives he values most
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by having to witness the disaster unfold Hammond
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is forced to realize that he only loved progress
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at all costs when he thought he had and control over it but
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it's not just the situations
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that are designed to attack grant and Hammonds beliefs
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the script uses dr.
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Ian Malcolm K audition
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to test the character of grant by flirting with grants partner dr.
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Ellie Sattler divides identified by and in his interactions with grant we see that
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Malcolm might have some of the qualities dr.
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Sattler wants that grant lacks got
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any kids me oh oh
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hell yeah three I love
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anything at all can and does happen this
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hints that if grant doesn't figure out a way to evolve
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he could lose dr.
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Sattler Malcolm tests Hammond by spelling out the exact problem
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with Hammonds pro progress
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obsession our scientists of those things which nobody's ever done before yeah
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yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they
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didn't stop to think of a shot once
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Malcolm is injured dr.
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Sattler another well-designed supporting
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character steps in to test Hammonds beliefs for weaknesses when
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we have control we've never had control that's
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the illusion the only thing that matters now are the people we love
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Allen Lexington John there it
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would be blue timing
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the screenwriter even reminds us of Hammonds catchphrase
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at the end of the scene highlighting
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how Hammonds progress at all costs viewpoint
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has failed in the face of disaster and
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now sits around him
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melting le reaches out and takes a spoon out of one of the buckets
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of ice cream and licks it good
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he looks up at her and his face is different as the
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unhappy irony of what he's about to say finally
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hits home spared no expense
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Ian Malcolm Ellie Sattler and even characters like Dennis Nedry Muldoon
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and Gennaro are fun additions to the story each with their own memorable
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moments but more importantly these
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supporting characters exist to sharpen the film's focus on theme by
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challenging the beliefs of Grant and Hammond and because
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their beliefs are challenged throughout the film by
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the end they have both learned to
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evolve during the movies climax flexes
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skill with new computer technology these
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becomes the reason all the characters are rescued a fact
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grant is forced to acknowledge Ron
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Mr Hammond the phone's work
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and after the trauma of this ordeal
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Hammond has realized that sometimes
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the cost of progress is simply too hot
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consideration I decided not
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to endorse your Park
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so if I the
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both of them have changed their beliefs suggest
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that the central question at
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the core of a theme doesn't
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always have to have a neat easy answer
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as Michael Crichton said it
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seems to me that we live in a society in
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which technology is continuously
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presented as wonderful isn't
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it fabulous that we all have computers
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well yes and no is my response yes
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and Jurassic Park is a great example of how to use theme to guide
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the design of a screenplay it
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celebrates the marvels that technology
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can provide while also warning of the dangers of irresponsible
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progress and taking it a step further the
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filmmakers even found a ways to weave in moments about all kinds of progress
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issues from the early 90s from
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legal and bureaucratic red tape
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to feminism dinosaurs eat
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man woman inherits the earth to
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corporate espionage this commitment to theme elevates
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the film above a simple monster movie helping
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make it one of our most beloved and enduring cinematic
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experiences one that may never go
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and it allows a thrilling
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meaningful adventure to await inside
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the gates of Jurassic
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Park Jurassic Park was first released in theaters in June of 1993
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but it didn't come out on VHS until
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October of 1994 as a seven year old having
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to wait that long to watch it again it was very frustrating but
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I filled that time by playing with my Jurassic Park toys
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and by reading the original book the
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