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[[File:Jurassic-Park-logo.jpg|frame|Something. Will. Survive.]]
{{quote|''Oh yeah, '[[Visual Effects of Awesome|oooh, ahhh]].' [[Genre Savvy|That's how it always starts]]. [[It Got Worse|Then later there's running, and screaming]].''
|[[Jeff Goldblum|Dr. Ian Malcolm]], in ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'', neatly summarizes the three first movies in the series.}}
Scientists discover the ability to bring extinct animals back to life via a complex cloning process. To make a profit off this technology, the company decides to build a theme park featuring living dinosaurs: '''''Jurassic Park'''''.▼
▲{{quote|''Oh yeah, '[[Visual Effects of Awesome|oooh, ahhh]].' [[Genre Savvy|That's how it always starts]]. [[It Got Worse|Then later there's running, and screaming]].''|[[Jeff Goldblum|Dr. Ian Malcolm]], in ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'', neatly summarizes the three first movies in the series.}}
This in itself would not be such a bad idea, except the organizers rush to get it open, build it on a remote island, and have almost no security personnel, deciding to automate the whole thing with [[
▲Scientists discover the ability to bring extinct animals back to life via a complex cloning process. To make a profit off this technology, the company decides to build a theme park featuring living dinosaurs.
▲This in itself would not be such a bad idea, except the organizers rush to get it open, build it on a remote island, and have almost no security personnel, deciding to automate the whole thing with [[AI Is a Crapshoot|unreliable computers]] - even refusing to tell the software designer what the system is for.
[[Rule of Drama|Naturally]], [[Gone Horribly Wrong|everything goes wrong]].
The book was written by [[Michael Crichton]], while the 1993 movie was directed by [[Steven Spielberg]]. Both were insanely popular then and are considered modern classics now. The film is labeled as having one of the most revolutionary breakthroughs in visual effects that changed movie-making. Despite going to great lengths to create extremely convincing animatronic dinosaurs, this was balanced with groundbreaking realistic CGI ones. The CGI involved essentially killed the use of [[Muppet|Muppets]] and stop motion in modern film. Besides the requisite Hollywood mistakes, many paleontologists and dinosaur fanatics also loved it. [https://web.archive.org/web/20111227233347/http://www.hulu.com/watch/31366/jurassic-park-welcome-to-jurassic-park The moment] in the film where the characters first come across a dinosaur in full view and are just blown away, "...it's a dinosaur!" could be the new generation's equivalent to the Star Destroyer overhead from ''[[Star Wars]]''. The movie was named to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2018.
Two sequels were made to the original film. While the second film shared the name of the second book ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park,'' (1997) it had a wildly different storyline, mostly due to characters that originally died in the first book coming back. ''Jurassic Park III'' (2001) came out several years later. While neither rose to the 'classic' status of the first film, both were fairly well received. The same basic story exists in all of the films, only separated by what characters are involved and certain action scenes. There are also a number of computer-game tie-ins, among the most notable being ''[[Trespasser]]'' (for being [[Obvious Beta|one of the most obvious of betas ever released for retail]]), ''[[Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis|Operation Genesis]]'' (like ''[[Rollercoaster Tycoon]]'' with dinosaurs) and [[Jurassic Park: The Game|an episodic series]] by [[Telltale Games]] (like ''[[Heavy Rain]]'' with dinosaurs).
A fourth cinematic installment,
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* [[Action Film Quiet Drama Scene]]: In the middle of the first film, [[Laura Dern]] and Richard Attenborough eat melting ice cream and talk about flea circuses. It's really quite touching.▼
* [[Achilles' Heel]]: For all their intellect, the Velociraptors don’t know what to do when a Tyrannosaurus Rex shows up. (Remain as still as you can.) They decide to try fighting the far larger T-Rex, and it just doesn’t end well.
▲* [[Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene]]: In the middle of the first film, [[Laura Dern]] and Richard Attenborough eat melting ice cream and talk about flea circuses. It's really quite touching.
* [[Action Girl]]: Sarah Harding in the second book. Probably she's the physically strongest character in the book. However, in the second movie, she [[Faux Action Girl|doesn't quite fit this trope]].
** Kelly
* [[Adaptational Badass]]: Inverted with Gennaro. In the novel, he manages to fend off a ''Velociraptor'' attack and survives to the end. In the film, he becomes a [[Dirty Coward]] who dies a particularly embarrassing death.
** In the [[Master System]] game, instead of trying to escape the island, Grant is called to fight and capture the dinosaurs. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|At the end of the game, he defeats the ''Tyrannosaurus'' and the park is allowed to open as planned.]]
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* [[Author Filibuster]]: Ye gods, Malcolm did this a lot in the first book. He does it again in the second, but less frequently and less annoyingly (and high off his ass on morphine). The third movie lampshaded his tendency to ramble when Eric says he preferred Grant's book to Malcolm's for precisely this reason.
** It seems Spielberg realized how irritating Malcolm was as a character and so gave most of the screentime to Alan Grant. Hammond even remarks, "I really do hate that man" in regards to Malcolm's constant smugness. This may also explain why Malcolm's personality was considerably changed in the second film...
* [[Back
* [[Badass]]: {{spoiler|Roland Tembo}} is not only the only named character from Ingen who doesn't get eaten, but he also ''captures a bull'' ''T. Rex''... ''alive''.
** In the novel, even before the events on the island occur, {{spoiler|Grant}} breaks his leg when his truck falls a hundred feet into a canyon, yet he walks back to his dig in four days without food or water. Once on the island, he faces down a ''T. Rex'' multiple times (once with a plastic oar and dart gun) and kills several raptors using a few eggs and some deadly syringes.
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* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: Played straight in the first movie right off the bat with the nameless black InGen worker who gets eaten in the first scene. Later averted when [[Samuel L. Jackson|Arnold]] is among the last to die after everything goes to hell.
** Averted again in the second film, where a Velociraptor pounces on a black Ingen hunter, and in the third film, where the black mercenary is the second one to die.
* [[Both Sides Have a Point]]: No side is being portrayed as being in the wrong while at the dinner table (though Gennaro is indeed kind of silly). Hammond should indeed be careful when he creates life though.
* [[Brick Joke]]:
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* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: How Robert Muldoon is introduced in the first film. '''''"SSSSHOOOOOOOOOOOOT HHHHHHEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!"'''''
* [[Closer Than They Appear]]: The [[Trope Codifier]] is the view of the charging ''T. Rex'' in the rear-view mirror, with the hilarious [[Lampshading]] caption "objects in mirror may be closer than they appear".
* [[The Comically Serious]]: Samuel L. Jackson made Ray Arnold nothing short of comedic.
* [[Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like]]: Levine does this in the second book, saying that (specifically) Thorne was driving too recklessly from the ''charging Tyrannosaur'', and (generally) that he was doing all right on the island and didn't need help anyway. Bear in mind this is ''after'' his panicked, static-filled phone call begging for help. His rescuers are not pleased.
* [[Composite Character]]: Two examples from ''The Lost World'' novel that were mixed into one for the movie: the [[Wise Beyond Their Years|precocious]] twelve year-old Kelly and black [[Child Prodigy]] Arby, Levine's pupils, were merged into the single character of Kelly, Malcolm's daughter. The rugged, badass Doc Thorne and his younger (but very capable) employee, Eddie Carr, were similarly combined into the movie's relatively mousy Eddie, while book!Eddie's physical appearance was transferred to new character Nick Van Owen. In the first, Gennaro was basically Ed Regis (a [[Jerkass]] publicist from the book), with book!Gennaro's name and law degree.
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* [[Creator Cameo]]: The character credited as "Unlucky Bastard" that the ''T. Rex'' eats in ''The Lost World'' is David Koepp, assistant screenwriter to Michael Crichton in the first movie and screenwriter of the second.
** Steven Spielberg's reflection can be seen in the TV screen at the end of ''The Lost World'', when Kelly is watching the news. He's eating popcorn.
* [[Creator
* [[Credits Gag]]: In the credits of ''The Lost World'', the name of the character who is devoured by the ''T. Rex'' in front of the video store is given as "Unlucky Bastard".
* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: In the first film, in the second the pretense is dropped.
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* [[For Science!]]: The motivation of InGen's geneticists, and Ian Malcolm's main beef with them.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: In the third film, when Mr. Kirby tells Grant that he can pay him any amount of money, the song in the background plays the line, "And I lie, lie, lie..."
** Robert Muldoon expresses concern that the velociraptors would escape, which they did eventually. Though Nedry decided not to tamper with their pen.
** Grant foreshadows how Muldoon will die…and that a kid should show them respect, which Muldoon does. And no, holding still doesn’t work as with the case of the T-Rex, as Grant explains. And yes, Muldoon was alive when the raptor ate him.
**Hammond doesn’t blame people for their mistakes, but he asks people pay for them. So Hammond agrees to pay for his own mistakes. Admittedly, he wasn’t entirely responsible for what happened, but he shouldn’t have bred velociraptors. At least, not without trying to tame them, or doing something about The Big One.
* [[Fossil Revival]]
* [[Freudian Trio]]: With Hammond as the Id, Malcolm as the Superego, and Grant as the Ego.
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* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "Is this... auto... erotica?"
* [[Giant Flyer]] : The various pterosaurs that feature as background characters. The ''Pteranodons'' get [[A Day in the Limelight]] in ''Jurassic Park III''.
* [[Good Is Not Dumb]]: None of the heroes are dumb, John Hammond included. Hammond simply makes mistakes, that’s all. A good example of this is during the dinner table scene, where they all respectfully disagree with Hammond, with the partial exception of Donald Gennaro.
* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: Well into the park's collapse, Wu reflects that the dinosaurs' breeding means he's succeeded at recreating these creatures of the past, enough that they can even reproduce themselves.
* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: The series loves the "character gets attacked by a dinosaur and dragged offscreen, where a bloodcurdling scream (and maybe a trickle of blood) is used to show that they've been horribly killed" method. Nearly every death that isn't caused by a big dino happens this way.
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* [[Rule of Scary]]
* [[Scenery Porn]]: It was filmed in Hawaii.
* [[
* [[Science Is Bad]]: Stronger in the book than the movie, though not as strong as some of Crichton's later novels.
* [[See No Evil Hear No Evil]]: It fails in the first movie, and it's [[Lampshaded]] in ''The Lost World'' book.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The ''T. Rex'' rampage in San Diego is so much ''[[Godzilla]]'' that it even has [[Japanese Tourist|Japanese Tourists]].
** There's probably no way to prove or disprove that, but ''T. Rex'' in San Diego might also be a reference to a short SF story ''Paleontology: An Experimental Science'' [[Older Than They Think|published in 1974]]. Its plot [http://books.google.com/books?id=N8qXUT06WucC&pg=PA129&lpg=PA129&dq=%22olsen%27s+earlier+entry%22+paleontology+%22an+experimental+science&source=bl&ots=7PQOWrLoyl&sig=4v9VV63lsRPn-_bvHS2iAN-FOJ8&hl=pl&ei=EHMyTKHsB4eWOMnA1KoG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22olsen%27s%20earlier%20entry%22%20paleontology%20%22an%20experimental%20science&f=false involved reconstituting dinosaurs from DNA preserved in fossilized bone and skin fragments...] [https://web.archive.org/web/20150906101639/http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/
** Roland Tembo and Nick Van Owen in the second film. [[wikipedia:Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner|Someone is a Warren Zevon fan...]]
** Cooper being {{spoiler|the first one to die, and doing so virtually the second he sets foot on the island}}, could be a shout-out to ''[[Dino Crisis]]'', where a team member named Cooper does the exact same thing.
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** In ''The Lost World'', there's notable diss to paleontologist Robert T. Bakker. Quick history lesson: Dr. Bakker has been a longtime rival of Dr. Jack Horner, the ''Jurassic Park'' series' official paleontological consultant. Horner is well known for having a massive ego (he proudly states that he was the inspiration for Dr. Grant's character), and always seemed to be in a perpetual state of bickering with Dr. Bakker, even on the most petty of speculative topics (such as the ''T. Rex'''s eyesight, which there is no way of actually studying). And thus in ''The Lost World'', Dr. Bakker is given his very own [[Captain Ersatz]], a bumbling poser who gets scared out of hiding by a snake, and [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|into the jaws of a ''T. Rex'']]. Bakker seemingly loved the scene, though.
** Dr. Bakker is also dissed in the first film, when Tim is pestering Dr. Grant about books that he read written by Bakker and Grant himself. Tim is shut up when he first mentions Bakker by Grant promptly slamming the car door of the jeep Tim is inside of closed.
** Some of the sting was probably taken out of all this by the fact that book!Grant is an [[Expy]] of Bakker himself.
* [[Techno Babble]]: Doctor Wu's tour. Justified -- they're explaining how they did it.
* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: The ''Jurassic Park'' theme kicks in for ''T. Rex'' herself, who proceeds to kick raptor ass and save the day.
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