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** There's also the fact that velociraptor had feathers, which was sort of addressed in the third film by giving them weird looking little feather "mohawks."

* [[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]].

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* ~~[[Shout-Out]]:~~ In the first film, the shot of the T-Rex wolfing down the goat before looking at the jeeps is modeled after the shot of the Rancor wolfing down the Gamorrean guard before looking at Luke in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]''.

** 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...] [http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/pseudosc/atmoviedna.htm and it ended with the reconstructed Tyrannosaurus getting loose in San Diego]. It might also be a reference to another short story involving dinosaurs recreated from DNA that predated ''Jurassic Park'', i.e. [[Robert Silverberg|Robert Silverberg's]] ''Our Lady of the Sauropods''. In this story the resurrected dinosaurs were isolated on the "Dino Island" ([[Non-Indicative Name|which was actually a space station]]) "after that unfortunate San Diego event with the tyrannosaur"... which itself was a reference to aforementioned ''Paleontology: An Experimental Science''.

** 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.

** The cardboard standee of [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] as [[King Lear]] may be a combination of [[Take That]] against ''[[Last Action Hero]]'' as well as a [[Shout-Out]] to a [[Steven Spielberg]] produced cartoon, ''[[Animaniacs]]'', where it was a line from the song, "Variety Speak".

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** In the first film, the shot of the ''T. Rex'' wolfing down the goat before looking at the jeeps is modeled after the shot of the Rancor wolfing down the Gamorrean guard before looking at Luke in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]''.

* [[Shown Their Work]]: The book takes an excruciatingly long time explaining the genetic science in-depth, before any of the main characters show up or the first hints of the park are mentioned. It is legitimately fascinating, though. Crichton also spends a fair amount of time on computer science and chaos theory. This is a storytelling device of Crichton's in every one of his books, however, with whatever the book is centered on.

** Also, while [[Science Marches On|most of the information pertaining to the dinosaurs is very out of date]], a lot of it was considered to be very accurate when the book was written, with a couple of deviations for [[Rule of Cool]], such as dilophosaurus being able to spit venom; this was also likely [[Rule Of Plot]] to help illustrate that they simply couldn't know everything about the creatures they were recreating, since there might be no way to tell the creature had a venom sack from its bones.