Jurassic Park (movie)

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Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction movie directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. It is about a group of people visiting a park on an island where dinosaurs have been brought back to life. They have to survive when the dinosaurs break out. It premiered on June 11, 1993. It is one of the most famous movies ever made involving dinosaurs.

Jurassic Park
Directed bySteven Spielberg
Produced byKathleen Kennedy
Gerald R. Molen
Written byScreenplay
David Koepp
Malia Scotch Marmo (uncredited)
Michael Crichton
Novel:
Michael Crichton
StarringSam Neill
Laura Dern
Jeff Goldblum
Richard Attenborough
Joseph Mazzello
Ariana Richards
Martin Ferrero
Bob Peck
Samuel L. Jackson
Wayne Knight
Music byJohn Williams
CinematographyDean Cundey
Edited byMichael Kahn
Distributed byUniversal Studios
Release date
June 11, 1993
Running time
127 minutes
CountryUSA
LanguageEnglish
Budget$95,000,000[1]
Box office$1.034 billion

Plot

John Hammond, the owner of a scientific company, creates a theme park on an island that has dinosaurs which have been brought back to life by being cloned. He invites Dr. Alan Grant, a man who studies dinosaurs and doesn't work well with kids, and Dr. Ellie Sattler, a woman who studies ancient plants, to visit the park.

Along with a mathematician named Ian Malcolm and a lawyer named Donald Gennaro, they go to the park and see a few dinosaurs, like Brachiosaurus. John says that the dinosaurs were brought back because of the dinosaur DNA found in some mosquitoes. To fix any broken parts of the DNA, they added the DNA of frogs to the dinosaurs. The dinosaurs were all made to be female so that they would not breed.

Lex and Tim Murphy, who are Hammond's grandkids, join the group. The group goes on a tour of the park in some Ford Explorer cars. A tropical storm heads towards the park, and it starts raining. Ellie is separated from the group when she tries to help a sick Triceratops. Dennis Nedry, a worker at the park, betrays Hammond so he can get money from another company, and he turns off the park's safety systems. The cars that the group are in aren't able to move anymore.

Many dinosaurs, including a T. rex, break out of their pens. The T. rex eats Donald, hurts Ian, and pushes a car off a cliff. As Dennis tries to escape the park, he gets killed by a Dilophosaurus.

Ellie, along with Robert Muldoon, a park worker, look for survivors. They rescue Malcolm and escape the T. rex in a Jeep. John, along with the park's main engineer named Ray Arnold, decide to reboot the park's systems. During the rebooting, the dangerous Velociraptors escape and start to wander the park.

When Ray goes missing, Ellie goes to finish the rebooting process. She finds that Ray has been killed, and she runs away from one raptor. Two of the raptors show up, and they surprise and kill Robert. Meanwhile, Alan, Lex, and Tim, spend the night in a tall tree. They make friends with a Brachiosaurus.

The next day, Alan, Lex, and Tim discover dinosaur eggs. At first, they are confused, since the dinosaurs are all female, and eggs can't be laid unless there is a male dinosaur involved. Alan figures out that the frog DNA in the dinosaur DNA allows the dinosaurs to change their genders.

They come across a group of running Gallimimus, and they head towards an electric fence. When the park's power turns back on, Tim gets shocked by the fence and gets hurt. As Alan goes to look for Ellie, Lex and Tim are hunted by the raptors in a kitchen. They escape and meet up with Alan and Ellie. All four of them end up cornered by the raptors in the park's atrium, but the T. rex arrives and kills the raptors.

John, Alan, Ellie, Ian, Lex, and Tim, all survive, and leave the park in a helicopter. John is disappointed that the park was unsuccessful, but Ellie is happy that Alan has learned to get along with kids.

Production

The movie was based off a book by Michael Crichton. A few people wanted to be the director of the movie, like Tim Burton. Eventually, Steven Spielberg was chosen to direct.

Filming the movie started in 1992 on Kaua'i, an island in Hawaii. The filming was stopped for a day because Hurricane Iniki passed over the island. A few of the scenes in the movie that involve rain were actually filmed during the hurricane. Other scenes were filmed in California, on a stage at Warner Bros. Studios, and in other places in Hawaii.

At first, the dinosaurs were going to be made using stop-motion, but Spielberg didn't think it looked real enough. The dinosaurs in the movie were created using ways called animatronics and CGI. The dinosaurs were either robots, puppets, or made with computers.

After filming for the movie was over, Spielberg monitored the effects work while he was in the country of Poland, where he was filming another movie, Schindler's List.

The music that plays in the movie was composed by John Williams.

Release

Jurassic Park got positive reviews, as many critics and moviegoers enjoyed it. Many people praised the movie's special effects and music. The movie was nominated for three Academy Awards (Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects), and won all three.

At the time, Jurassic Park had made more money than any other movie. However, the movie Titanic ended up making even more money, breaking the record.

Country Premiere
  Canada 11 June 1993
  United States 11 June 1993
  Brazil 25 June 1993
  Colombia 2 July 1993
  Uruguay 2 July 1993
  Chile 8 July 1993
  El Salvador 9 July 1993
  Argentina 15 July 1993
  Belize 16 July 1993
  Costa Rica 16 July 1993
  United Kingdom 16 July 1993
  16 July 1993
  Honduras 16 July 1993
  Ireland 16 July 1993
  16 July 1993
  Nicaragua 16 July 1993
  Panama 16 July 1993
  South Korea 17 July 1993
  Taiwan 17 July 1993
  21 July 1993
  Dominican Republic 22 July 1993
  Peru 23 July 1993
  Japan 24 July 1993
  Bolivia 29 July 1993
  29 July 1993
  30 July 1993
  Antigua and Barbuda 4 August 1993
  Barbados 4 August 1993
  Dominica 4 August 1993
  Grenada 4 August 1993
  4 August 1993
  Saint Kitts and Nevis 4 August 1993
  Saint Lucia 4 August 1993
  Puerto Rico 4 August 1993
  Trinidad and Tobago 4 August 1993
  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 4 August 1993
  Indonesia 5 August 1993
  Malaysia 5 August 1993
  Singapore 5 August 1993
  Thailand 5 August 1993
  Philippines 11 August 1993
  Venezuela 11 August 1993
  Fiji 20 August 1993
  New Zealand 20 August 1993
  Australia 2 September 1993
  Germany 2 September 1993
  Austria 3 September 1993
  Finland 3 September 1993
  Norway 3 September 1993
  Poland 3 September 1993
  Sweden 3 September 1993
  Bulgaria 17 September 1993
  Denmark 17 September 1993
  Faroe Islands 17 September 1993
  Italy 17 September 1993
  Turkey 17 September 1993
  South Africa 17 September 1993
  Hungary 24 September 1993
  Spain 30 September 1993
  Greece 30 September 1993
  Croatia 30 September 1993
  Netherlands 30 September 1993
  Slovenia 30 September 1993
  Gambia 1 October 1993
  Portugal 1 October 1993
  United Arab Emirates 4 October 1993
  Bahrain 4 October 1993
  Egypt 4 October 1993
  Kenya 4 October 1993
  Kuwait 4 October 1993
  Namibia 4 October 1993
  Nigeria 4 October 1993
  Zimbabwe 4 October 1993
  Czech Republic 14 October 1993
  Slovakia 14 October 1993
  Cyprus 15 October 1993
  Belgium 20 October 1993
  Algeria 20 October 1993
  France 20 October 1993
  Luxembourg 20 October 1993
  Morocco 20 October 1993
  Monaco 20 October 1993
  Russia 20 October 1993
  Tunisia 20 October 1993
  Ukraine 20 October 1993
  22 October 1993
  Romania 11 March 1994
  India 15 April 1994
  Sri Lanka 15 April 1994
  Pakistan 15 April 1994

3-D version

Country Premiere
  United Arab Emirates 4 April 2013
  Australia 4 April 2013
  Bahrain 4 April 2013
  4 April 2013
  Kuwait 4 April 2013
  Serbia 4 April 2013
  Russia 4 April 2013
  Ukraine 4 April 2013
  India 5 April 2013
  United States 5 April 2013
  Cambodia 11 April 2013
  Pakistan 12 April 2013
  Slovenia 25 April 2013
  Belgium 1 May 2013
  France 1 May 2013
  Hungary 2 May 2013
  Netherlands 2 May 2013
  New Zealand 2 May 2013
  Bulgaria 3 May 2013
  Taiwan 3 May 2013
  Finland 10 May 2013
  South Africa 10 May 2013
  Philippines 29 May 2013
  Malaysia 30 May 2013
  Singapore 30 May 2013
  Thailand 30 May 2013
  Egypt 5 June 2013
  Sweden 5 June 2013
  Vietnam 7 June 2013
  11 June 2013
  Iceland 12 June 2013
  Denmark 13 June 2013
  Norway 14 June 2013
  Romania 14 June 2013
  Greece 20 June 2013
  Portugal 20 June 2013
  South Korea 27 June 2013
  18 July 2013
  Turkey 9 August 2013
  Peru 15 August 2013
  Brazil 16 August 2013
  16 August 2013
  China 20 August 2013
  Bolivia 22 August 2013
  Spain 23 August 2013
  United Kingdom 23 August 2013
  Ireland 23 August 2013
  Mexico 23 August 2013
  Chile 29 August 2013
  Uruguay 29 August 2013
  Colombia 30 August 2013
  Germany 5 September 2013
  Venezuela 13 September 2013
  Argentina 3 October 2013

Sequels

Jurassic Park has five sequels: The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Jurassic Park III (2001), Jurassic World (2015), Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), and Jurassic World: Dominion (2022). Animated web series include: LEGO Jurassic World: Legend of Isla Nublar, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous.

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References

  1. McBride. Joseph 1997. Steven Spielberg. Faber and Faber, 416–9. ISBN 0-571-19177-0

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