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[[File:Jurassic-Park-logo.jpg|frame|Something. Will. Survive.]]

 

 

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'''''.

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).

 

 

* [[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]].

* [[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.]]

* [[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.

* [[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".

* [[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.

* [[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..."

* [[Fossil Revival]]

* [[Freudian Trio]]: With Hammond as the Id, Malcolm as the Superego, and Grant as the Ego.

* [[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''.

* [[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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[[Category:Dinosaur Media]]

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[[Category:Films Based on Novels]]

[[Category:National Film Registry]]

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