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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]].
* [[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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* [[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.
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