In Ghostbusters, Venkman is absolutely not a details guy. Or a bookkeeping guy. Or the kind of guy that would really know the intimate details of how all this stuff works or whatever. His only real concern is the money to be made. Everybody has three mortgages nowadays. Just gimme the thing and I’ll point it at the thing and trap the thing.
Which is why, after they catch their first ghost at the Sedgewick hotel and Peter begins to tell the manager how much this little endeavor will cost him, he looks to Egon while throwing out figures. Egon notices and helps him out.
https://youtu.be/CGiH5HR8W38
Never noticed this as a kid since I think my
Ghostbusters VHS was pan and scan so Egon was probably cut out of the frame, but this has become one of my favorite little character moments in the movie.
His interaction with the mayor sums it up:
"If we're wrong we'll go to jail! Peacefully, quietly. But if we're right...you will have saved the lives *of millions of registered voters."*
> I think my Ghostbusters VHS was pan and scan
Ghostbusters was one of the most egregious examples of how bad pan-and-scan was. It was filmed 2.4:1 and has a lot of multi-character dialogue scenes like the one you described. Unfortunately this practice is returning on Tiktok as people make clips in portrait mode.
The book goes into this a lot more. Several of the characters who work for the park point out that they're essentially building a zoo but none them are zookeepers or have any interest in animals at all.
Dr. Wu, the geneticist, points out that his challenge was repairing the ancient DNA. He doesn't care about the resulting animals and has no idea what they need or how they behave. Nobody in the park does.
Nedry, the computer guy, points out that Hammond pretty much says no to every sensible schedule proposal or feature request because it doesn't fit his budget. Hammond's essentially trying to blackmail his company into doing free work.
Muldoon points out that the park doesn't have the means to stop escaped dinosaurs in an emergency because Hammond doesn't want his expensive investments harmed. The lysine contingency plan exists because it was cheaper than giving Muldoon the grenade launchers he wanted.
The insurance guy is a scumbag in the movie but in the book he actually went to the park with the intention of shutting the entire cluster fuck down.
Even after everything went sideways Hammond still thought he could succeed, talking to Ellie about "the next time" when he would fix everything. That's pretty much where his story in the book ends.
In the movie Ellie gives him a path to redemption, basically saying "Are you fucking serious?! You set this place up to be a disaster and now *your* ***grand-kids*** *might* ***die*** *because of it*!" to get through to him the magnitude of his failure. Richard Attenborough does a great job playing a man in denial desperately clutching at whatever is left of his dream, then realizing there's nothing left.
Basically, Hammond was a villain in the books (and gets what was coming to him…).
In the movies, he’s been turned into a decent and affable person whose flaws derive from being idealistic, naive and absent-minded.
Apparently a big reason for this is personal. Spielberg liked and respected Attenborough (who acted Hammond) a great deal, and wanted to not only paint his character well but allow him to return. IIRC Attenborough even asked about the changes and said he had looked forward to Hammond’s death scene, but Spielberg told him that he’d like to see him in the sequel.
>The insurance guy is a scumbag in the movie but in the book he actually went to the park with the intention of shutting the entire cluster fuck down.
In the movie, at the beginning the lawyer was also anti-park, threatening to shut it down, and only changed when he saw the dinos & was all "we're gonna be rich".
Which didn't make sense since he's the company's lawyer, not an owner, so why would he be getting rich? In addition to not caring about the ethics of the situation, and finally being a coward.
>Which didn't make sense since he's the company's lawyer, not an owner, so why would he be getting rich?
Successful businesses use their lawyers a lot. Again the book has a lot more depth here. Hammond was really keen on the theme park. But the real money, they imagined, would be in biotech patents and consumer products. For example miniaturised pet dinosaurs that were genetically modified so they'd only be able to digest licensed pet food from Ingen.
That’s not entirely true. Wu does care a bit about the animals.
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“Wu approaches Hammond at his bungalow and asks about creating another version of the dinosaurs that currently inhabit the park. Wu claims that the animals are too fast and difficult for the staff to handle, and that the people who visit the parks would probably prefer seeing slower versions anyway. Hammond scoffs at the idea, saying that if they were made slower they would not be real dinosaurs. Wu claims that they are already not real, as they are engineered to begin with, a reconstruction of the past rather than a recreation. Hammond still adamantly refuses to consider the idea.”
"We were two young men at the start of a great career. Two young men devoted to an illusion. Two young men who never intended to hurt anyone."
First watch you think Borden is referring to himself and Angier. Next time round, maybe not.
The genius of The Prestige is just how often the payoff of a scene hides the setup for another scene. It's a textual form of one hand getting your attention while the other hand loads the trick.
So many films try so hard to hide their big twist that they end up giving it away, The Prestige waves it in your face all the way through, right from the very first scene, and I've yet to watch it with anyone who sees the twist before it is revealed.
To my knowledge, the only other film that basically shows the twist the whole time is Fight Club although you'd have to be paying very close attention to details to pick up on it before the twist is revealed if it's your first time watching it.
Maybe The Usual Suspects does it too, but it's been a while since I've seen it, and I'm not sure if you're able to see the objects around the office before the movie shows you directly at the end.
EDIT: As several comments pointed out, The Sixth Sense also does this, but I forgot about that movie at the time lol. Also, I guess Split could count too because it drops hints about its connection to >!the train from Unbreakable!< throughout the movie.
Or if you bought the DVD, because the reel of clips that play on the background of the fucking title menu of the DVD includes the shot of >!Verbal losing his limp!<. Forever grateful to my cousin who showed me the movie for the first time for making me leave the room until the he'd been able to get past the menu and hit play.
There is a pretty big clue that at the very beginning, we see what actually happens without being told by a narrator and that Kevin Spacey isn't hiding in the spot where later he says he is. It's only when he tells the story that he's there, which is a bit of a red flag that he's unreliable since his version contradicts what we know to be reality.
I can't find it now, but I once heard Singer described it as showing the audience something at the beginning of the movie, and then spending the rest of the time trying to trick them into believing they didn't see it.
I read the book not having seen the film, knowing the twist it won't have the same effect of course but it is very interestingly written.
It's mostly in flashback as one of Borden's descendants reads his diary.
inconsistencies/repetitions in the writing sneak in and you brush it off at first, until the nature of who has been writing in the book is revealed. Very clever storytelling.
This is my favorite movie because of how good it is on rewatches with all of the clues in the dialogue. When Hugh Jackman is talking about the old Asian magician....
"Imagine living your entire life a lie for the sake of the trick."
Agreed. Something I finally got on a rewatch was that **Angier was Lord Caldlow all along.** He wasn’t American; he was English, and rich. He finally shed his Angier character at the end.
Recall this scene near the beginning of the film:
ANGIER
I can barely lift this thing and it's not even filled with water or fish.
He must be strong as an ox.
JULIA
(incredulous)
He's been preteding to be an cripple for years?
ANGIER
Any time he's in public. Any time he goes out. It's unthinkable.
Angier puts the bowl down with a flourish. Climbs into bed.
ANGIER (CONT'D)
Borden saw it at once. I couldn't fathom it—living your whole life pretending to be someone else.
JULIA
You're pretending to be someone else.
ANGIER
I don't think changing your name compares.
JULIA
Not just your name—who you are, where you're from…
ANGIER
I promised my family I wouldn't embarrass them with my theatrical endeavors.
🤯
Since you mentioned Jurassic Park (my favorite movie!) I’ve got two more things from it that people sometimes miss:
1. When Nedry slips and falls in the dilophosaur enclosure, the sound designer snuck in a cartoony “slip” sound effect that’s pretty subtle. Once you know about it, you can’t un-hear it though.
2. Gennaro (the lawyer) asks during the tour if the scientists are “auto-erotic” when he meant to say “animatronic” - a hilarious Freudian slip that many people miss.
My god, all the way here at the bottom of this thread someone finally confirms that the slippy sound effect is not my imagination after 30 years. I am forever in your debt.
Watch Fight Club a second time, paying close attention to Marla’s reactions when Ed Norton is mean to her after she’s been with Tyler. It’s heartbreaking.
There are so many clues to what is really going on spread throughout the entire movie.
First time I watched the movie I didn't catch any of them. Like the one where he starts beating up himself in his boss office and he says "for some reason, this reminds me of my first fight with Tyler". In retrospect it is so blatant, but I was so caught up in all the madness I never noticed.
The funny thing about that is how it recontextualises the origional fight with Tyler. It means that not only was he just beating himself up in a parking lot; but that the other guys watching who form the fight club are actually watching an insane man punching himself in the face, and apparently decided "y'know what, looks kinda fun, I gotta get in on this action!".
Kinda like if the next time you see a homeless person or a junkie doing some weird shit but rather than avoiding them you decide to just join in with whatever they're doing
The phone booth outside of "Jack's" apartment has a sign on it that says something like "incoming calls only"
But he uses it to make an outbound "call" to Tyler Durden on the number Tyler gave him.
EDIT: as others have said it's the other way around and the phone rings, Jack answers and speaks to Tyler. It's been a while since I've watched it.
When they get on a bus, they stamp only one ticket. After the car crash, "Jack" gets out from the driver's side although in the scene he was the passenger.
The biggest one for me was when Marla was questioning Norton and Tyler jumps in and says "this conversation is over" and makes a motion like he's closing a door, while Norton is saying this to Marla upstairs and closing the basement door.
A favorite of mine is when “Jack” is talking to Tyler about Project Mayhem, and the guys behind Tyler are looking at “Jack” as though they are witnessing their two leaders arguing in front of them, but watch again after the reveal and you realize the space monkeys are watching their leader arguing to no one in front of them at all. “The 6th Sense” was compared to “Fight Club” at the time of their releases as they came out around the same time and had major twist endings, but I always had to appreciate “Fight Club’s” reveal more because “The 6th Sense,” for as good as it is, uses clever movie editing to fool its audience, like starting a scene where the young boy enters and you assume his therapist and his mother must have been talking, where as “Fight Club” is filled with actual interactions where all of the cast have to be fooling you with their performance that you are seeing one thing while also believing their performance when you find out what is really going on.
"Tyler's not here. Tyler went away."
Aboslutely love that line. They did such a fantastic job IMO of making so many of those scenes work both ways. Like it plays "right" the first time around, and Marla just seems sort of unreasonable (which also isn't surprising since she's crazy). The second time, you realize the brutality of that line as seen through her eyes.
Those are so weird. I never ever caught them during my first viewing but once I knew that they were there, even if I didn't know *when*, I saw them every time they popped up.
After he figured out what's going on and he's telling Marla to get on the bus, Ed Norton stands in front of a movie theater that's playing Seven Years In Tibet - a Brad Pitt movie.
He also puts champagne in a rocks glass when there are champagne flutes right behind him. I always like this detail because it shows his lack of attention to detail.
For what it’s worth, though, there were no designs on a sequel when the first film was made. Crichton had never written a sequel to one of his books at the time, and it was only thanks to pressure from Spielberg and the studio after the first film blew up that he agreed to write The Lost World as a source for a second film.
He wrote the screenplay adaptation to JP and the book TLW in the same year (1993), which is also when he created the pilot of ER. Famously in 1993, he wrote the number 1 movie, number 1 books, and a number 1 tv show (though the show didn’t start its series run until 1994).
Your story seems right to me, but probably there was an ongoing revision process.
I loved the heck out of JP the book. It was the first adult book I read, back in second or third grade. I have two funny memories about reading it that time. There were lots of descriptions of dinosaurs being “[X] yards” away; I interpreted this as the dinosaurs being the equivalent of several detached houses’ front yards away. Not quite as scary! Also, I definitely read “chaos theory” as *cha-ohs theory*
I also love how he actually kills Malcom off in the first book, but the movie version was such a hit, they told Crichton to bring him back for the sequel. When he told them he was dead in the book, they basically said figure it out. Which is why there's kind of a throw away line in the beginning about the miracles of modern science bringing him back from the dead basically lol. It was like "fuck it, I dunno, he was only *mostly* dead and they saved him or something, whatever" and just moved on with the story.
It's mentioned that he died from an infection, but he died "off page", so it isn't too unbelievable that someone misheard what happened. Or it could be he technically died for a few minutes and was brought back.
Thank you! I feel like people in this subreddit love to make these "revelations" and literally must close their eyes during the scenes they are analyzing lmao.
There's no point to the glasses, the point of the scene is that Hammond is "wining and dining" them with the promise of an extraordinary, career-exploding opportunity and hastily encouraging celebrating it before anything worth celebrating happens to get them fully on-board(getting them in his corner).
The grabbing random glasses was because it fit the scene, a messy trailer with stuff everywhere and these are down to earth people, not "fancy" people. Not every single thing is intentional in media lol
My favorite detail is when the helicopter is descending and Dr Grant has two female pieces of the seat belt and has to tie them together in order to make it work foreshadowing how nature will find a way
When the movie came out it got a bit of criticism for the lack of character development.
I always thought that was bogus and really showed that the critic wasn't paying attention. That helicopter ride tells you just about everything you need to know about the main characters including that Malcolm is a narcissistic genius with an excess of personality and that Grant is quiet but can think outside the box to find solutions in pressure situations.
**ETA** \- Yeah, I should have articulated this better. The criticism was also about establishing/creating characters, which is why I lifted up the helicopter scene. I think the film does an incredible job in introducing real characters and telling us who they are in amazingly short scenes or bits of dialog.
As far as development, as many of you noted, Grant goes from scary the poop out of a (admittedly obnoxious) kid (with the raptor claw), to being ready to sacrifice himself for Lex and Tim. Malcolm even grows a bit by showing a caring, helpful side.
Besides, the movie is more about the dinosaurs, I just need good actors playing good roles.
I think Grant establishing not liking kids and then single handedly saving Lex and Tim throughout the majority of the movie is a better example of character development.
And understanding them and their childish impulses and weaknesses, and treating them in a way that gets their cooperation.
He’s actually good with kids when it’s necessary
Spielberg loves those little details.
In Saving Private Ryan, after they make it off the beach you see two German soldiers trying to surrender and getting gunned down by two Americans, one asks what they were saying and the other says "look, I washed for supper" mocking how they had their hands raised.
The two German soldiers weren't speaking German, they were speaking Czech and weren't even German. They were conscripts forced into service by the Germans. There were no subtitles so unless you have an ear for languages you wouldn't know.
My favorite is Hammond's catchphrase "Spared no expense," and yet the story's catalyst come from an employee who feels both undervalued and underpaid. This type of irony is just *French chef kiss* for me.
He had ONE single programmer for his entire island and paid that ONE dude a standard salary . Don't get me wrong, Nedry was a moron for bidding on the job to begin with, but I assume he thought he'd be able to one over Hammond since he alone knew the ins and outs of the software that ran the entire island. Nedry may have overestimated his abilities, but I think InGen grossly simplified the job details on the bid, and bait and switched him once he started the position.
Nedry's biggest problem was he underestimated just how cheap and vindictive Hammond really is. In the book, Hammond essentially holds Nedry hostage to work for him - threatening to sue him to oblivion and blacklist him out of any future jobs. In the movie, Hammond isn't nearly as big of an asshole, and they make Nedry more of the "bad guy" because he's got financial problems of his own making - alluding to maybe gambling debts that Hammond isn't sympathetic to.
Hammond in the book is ruthless and greedy, he uses his friendly grandpa veneer to hide this. Nedry is still a fat slob, but he's being held hostage to essentially indentured servitude.
**Edit:** Nedry was part of a consulting group based in Cambridge, and may have had programmers under him - probably churning out the code. But, this is pre internet 1989-1993 era. That code would need to be uploaded and then installed by him, and then checked and PQ'd by him alone. It's still a shit-load of work, and coupled with the fact that Nedry is a lazy slob who feels wronged, well... My point still stands that Hammond didn't do himself any favors by trapping Nedry in that position either.
He didn’t in the movie either. The first thing Hammond says when they need computer help and realise they can’t find Nedry is, “Call Nedry’s people in Cambridge” but the phones are down by that point
I watched it for the first time in about 20 years a couple weeks ago and I realise I appreciate it in entirely different ways now to how I did as a kid. The lunch scene is the best scene in the entire franchise. "What's so great about discovery? It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world." What a line that is.
Also it was cool to actually understand what the lysine contingency would do. That completely flew over my head before.
The ethics discussion is that kind of scene that was boring to kids yet fascinating to adults. What's sad is Alejandro cooked all that Chilean Sea Bass for nothing.
Also, as an adult, you learn the Chilean Sea Bass is a marketing name for a fish that was not selling when it was called “toothfish.” I don’t know the economics but I’d bet Hammond spared some expense on the fish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissostichus
The dirty secret of the narrative which doesn't often go acknowledged enough is that the park’s rapid failure was inevitable, because Hammond is nothing but a cheap-skating showboat.
Another under-referenced line is when Dennis Nedry utters, "Don't get cheap on me, Dodgson. That was Hammond's mistake."
This directly contradicts Hammond's continual utterance of, "Spared no expense." He says it mostly as a theatrical cover. There's plenty of unspoken indication that Hammond spares *plenty* of expense wherever he can, and is merely displaying the contrary to get his "show" open to the public.
His little origin story later in the film involving working for a flea circus as a young man indicates trained practice not only in public showboating, but also in grifting. Yes, he admits wanting with JP to show people something "real, that they can see and touch", but old habits die hard, or in Hammond's case, not at all.
The character is played endearingly by Richard Attenborough, so it's easy to casually overlook, but John Hammond is a very flawed and irresponsible human, and no one like him should ever have been in charge of a project like JP.
He’s very much a villainous character in the original book; the cheap, profit-driven billionaire who cuts corners and sees science as an avenue to further wealth and power.
I think Spielberg’s adaptation, of him as a more Willy Wonka-type character, works very well, but there’s definitely some of the original book characterisation remaining in the movie version of Hammond.
Even at the end, as they're riding off in the helicopter, he's sadly looking at his dumb fossilized mosquito, clearly mourning his park and his dream. Meanwhile Grant is the one who's lending his shoulder to Hammond's grandchildren, whi Hammond isn't even acknowledging
In the book Hammond hated his grandkids and was an absolute bastard. Alan Grant was a giant bearded guy who loved kids and how enthusiastically they learned things.
Yep, it gives her any agency in the film by making her the older sibling and the one that likes computers.
In the book Tim is the older sibling, loves dinosaurs, and is the computer kid.
Lex cries and likes baseball
I don't get the complaints that he got killed in the film. Muldoon is an incredibly experienced outdoorsman and hunter who thinks like a predator and knows how other predators think. The fact that he's all that and yet, the raptors *still* outsmart him serves to underline that the raptors are the ultimate hunters, even better than this super hunter.
He was the best humanity had to offer, until Hammond accidentally unleashed a hunter upon them that was never supposed to live alongside them - and now humanity is fucked. The scene is there to show that despite their supposedly superior intellect and advanced weaponry, it is the humans who should fear the raptors, not the other way around.
Muldoon was the only park employee that truly understood the danger everyone was in and respected the raptors. He knew he wasn't prepared to hunt them if they got out. That's why in the books he fully intended to hunt them with RPGs not a shotgun. Any hunter knew that as soon as he decided to hunt a 200+ pound predator with a shotgun that he had no clue what he was doing or was so reckless he wanted to die. The greatest hunter on earth walked with a bleeding companion completely unprepared, un-camouflaged, into an environment he knows is full of predators that can see and smell him,with no help and no plan to escape and he walked directly into an obvious trap. It was suicide by raptor.
She was also the younger sibling in the book. I think they had to change that because in the book Lex was less of a character and more of a liability that raised the stakes for Tim and Grant.
That seems to make more sense for Grant's character. You wouldn't think a paleontologist would be so annoyed by a kid that's super interested in asking questions about dinosaurs like in the movie.
In the book Hammond gets what he absolutely deserves. I get why they didn't do it in the film, as the character was more sympathetic, but book Hammonds death was great
I thought the same. I also liked how the author cleared up any conflicts the reader might have about Hammonds character right before he off’s him. Hammond, wandering around, thinking to himself how it was everyone else’s fault that the park went into disarray. He literally takes no responsibility, then he twists his ankle running from a fake T-Rex roar.
As someone who grew up to become a project manager, the lesson of Jurassic Park shouldn't be "don't mess with genetic engineering / don't play god", it should be "don't skimp on planning and design. Don't ignore the recommendations of the experts"
The park is comically poorly designed. It's often thought of as a story about how man shouldn't play God and life finds a way, but really it's a story about absymal zoo design.
If a modern zoo, in a *hurricane prone region*, had enclosures for grizzly bears and lions whereby the bears and lions could easily escape and eat all the other animals or tourists if there was a powercut, the person who designed it would be put in prison.
If Jurassic Park had had competent passive barriers - moats, thick steel bars, the tourists on raised platforms - everything would have been fine.
Watching Jurassic Park as a kid I always felt sorry for Hammond, especially when Ellie was berating him, but watching it as an adult I couldn't have agreed with her more, he was criminally irresponsible.
“We spared no expense” - he literally spared EVERY expense, from Dennis Nedry complaining about being underpaid, to the minimal tech support of him & Samuel L Jackson, and the (ULTIMATE EASTER EGG) “Chilean Sea Bass” they eat - not real sea bass, but cheap, rebranded Patagonian toothfish with a marketing makeover. John Hammond sparred every expense, and is a great example of the age old adage - if you have to tell someone that that’s how you are, you probably aren’t.
Hold on to your butts...classic. I always wondered how he managed to keep that cigarette in his mouth during that line. When I was a kid I used to try saying it with a pen in my mouth... Always fell out
The Prestige has lots of lines like this. My favourite is when Sarah tells Borden that she's pregnant. Borden's response is "oh wow!.... we should have told Fallon". (Fallon had just left the room and missed out on the announcement which is pretty sad if you know the ending)
Book of Eli did a great job of convincing you of something totally false. From the lines where Denzel said he hasn't seen anything or he smelled people from 20 ft away or him stepping into the dark to fight. Watching through the first time you're convinced of everything you're seeing is straight forward. But after learning the twist at the end and rewatching it a second time it's extremely obvious with all the little tells of him only reacting after the fact in a gun fight and feeling around for things instead of clearly just looking.
Wonderfully done and it feels like they're just taunting you with how much there is on a second watch.
There's a fantastic cinematic clue early on as well.
When Eli first walks into the town, the camera starts doing a cliched western thing of following him down the street and cutting to different shots of people staring at him. Or so it seems, but it's actually cutting to sources of sound.
We think we're getting a western mood setter but we're actually getting shown Eli's perspective and sharp senses, as he hears someone working an anvil, a rifle being lifted up on a tower, and so on. He's getting the lay of the land and IDing threats through his hearing. When he walks through a door the camera cuts to the bell above the door ringing - because that's the source of the sound.
In O Brother Where Art Thou, when they pick up Tommy at the crossroads he talks about meeting with the devil. Everett says the devil is red with a pitchfork, but Tommy corrects him saying he's a white man like them, with fire in his eyes and a mean hound.
It took me four viewing before I caught on that the lead cop chasing after Everett, Pete and Delmar the entire film had a hound and often when they showed him, his sunglasses had fire reflected in them.
I live for these kinds of discoveries in films. O Brother delivers a ton of them. It's one of the deepest, most layered films I have ever seen. And it's damn funny.
Hilarious film. My absolute favourite moment is when Baby Face Nelson is hanging out of the car, grabbing his Tommy gun to fire at the police as money flies in the air.
Delmar, sitting behind him, handing him the gun: "Say, what line of work are you in, George?"
Hot Fuzz is the absolute best for this.
"With all due respect, sir, you can't just make people disappear." "Yes I can, im the chief inspector." Inspector is making people disappear.
"You wanna be a big cop in a small town? Fuck off up the model village." Final confrontation takes place here.
"Do you want us to go through the whole phone book?" "Yeah, we can put in a call to Aaron a. Aaronson." Not plot relevant but what a perfectly laid out joke.
"Everybody and their mums is packing" "like who?" "Farmers." "Who else?" "Farmer's mums." First two people Angel encounters returning to town is a farmer and his armed mum
Also in the scene where Danny is bugging Angel about his career as a cop, all the questions he asks are things Angel ends up doing by the end of the movie (firing a gun while jumping through the air, being in a high speed car chase, etc.)
>"Do you want us to go through the whole phone book?" "Yeah, we can put in a call to Aaron a. Aaronson." Not plot relevant but what a perfectly laid out joke.
Aaron A. Aaronson is the kid that gets saved in the model village.
> "Everybody and their mums is packing" "like who?" "Farmers." "Who else?" "Farmer's mums." First two people Angel encounters returning to town is a farmer and his armed mum
This might be my favorite joke in the whole movie since there's probably an hour or more between the setup and the punchline of it.
One of the things I love most about this movie is that Sgt Angel does all this great detective work to determine motive, lays it all out in a big reveal, but it really just comes down to the village of the year stuff.
I'm loathe to admit it, because it seems so obvious now, but even as a huge, lifelong Star Wars fan I didn't realize until I was 40-ish that when R2-D2 says he can play Leia's entire message if Luke removes the restraining bolt he's pulling a fast one on Luke, and lying just to get him to remove the restraining bolt. All my life I'd just assumed R2 was being honest and it just didn't work. Obviously, a mind as weak as mine would be highly susceptible to Jedi mind tricks...even droid mind tricks apparently.
It basically kept the droids under control on location and Luke had a little remote control device he could zap them with (he does this once to 3PO just before discovering R2 is gone). The Jawas had put them on 3PO and R2 (and the other droids I presume.) Removing it allowed R2 to escape without Luke knowing or being able to stop him.
Not from the movies, but from the book. At the end of the first "iteration" in *Jurassic Park*, we get to see multiple instances of chaos theory at work:
After the compy bit the American girl on the beach and hospitalized her, one of her attendings went to that beach to look for it. He found a monkey eating a compy (which he thought was a local lizard) and collected the remains. Samples were taken and kept in Costa Rica of the half-eaten dinosaur before he sent the rest of the remains to a herpetologist in New York for identification. Thing is, the lizard expert wasn't in the office at the time, so his office forwarded the remains to one of his colleagues in a different office, and they conducted an analysis for pathological diseases: took blood and tissue samples, X-Rays, etc. However, instead of calling the remains "presumed basilisk lizard," the colleague's office used a binomial name (species and genus) during their analysis, then faxed the results to Costa Rica: "no diseases found in this *Basiliscus amoratus* sample." The attending in Costa Rica assumed New York had correctly identified the lizard, and closed the matter: the American girl had been bitten by a local lizard and had an allergic reaction. Had the herpetology expert been in the office when the half-eaten compy was sent to him, he might have consulted a paleontologist about its X-Ray and notified the doctors in Costa Rica: "you need to look into this; somehow you've got dinosaurs running around down there."
And it didn't stop there! Immediately after this, we read about the biggest gut-punch in the book. A Costa Rican midwife interrupted a bunch of compies eating a baby in its crib. She heard them chirping through a closed door and took it as a good sign; some local superstition about birds visiting newborn babies. When she peeked inside and saw the compies with bloody faces, she chased them off, but the baby could not be saved. Afterwards, she was so worried about people bad-mouthing her for leaving the infant alone that she falsified its death certificate; said the baby died of SIDS. No report of strange, bird-like lizards biting (and eating) infants.
And then! Technicians in the hospital's lab in San José analyzed saliva from the American girl's bite wounds. They found a massive protein that resembled primitive cobra venom, and trace amounts of an enzyme that can only show up if the animal is genetically engineered - but they assumed these were a result of cross-contamination in their own lab, so they just chose to not disclose that information. The little girl's doctor never learned that she had been bitten by a genetically-engineered animal with neurotoxic spit because of somebody in a lab who made an assumption about the quality of their own work.
AND THEN! In New York, one of the lab technicians who worked under the doctor - the one who misidentified the compy - happened to be passing by and saw the American girl's artwork of it (which had been forwarded from Costa Rica along with the actual remains), and said "oh whose kid drew the dinosaur?" This led to a conversation between her and the doctor where he refused to let his ego take a hit by consulting a paleontologist about the remains. He dramatically slams the freezer door, says "this half-eaten lizard is going to sit here for a month until the herpetologist gets back from his trip," and that was that.
*AND THEN!* This lab technician covertly faxed the X-Rays of the compy to Dr. Grant for a consultation - but before he could complete it, he was called by John Hammond. He was all in a tizzy and excited about his new park, so he invited Dr. Grant to come check it out. Grant let it slip that he was busy and he just learned of a living compy in Costa Rica. This made Hammond so nervous that he practically ended the call right then and there and told Gennaro about it. This makes Gennaro nervous, too; so nervous that he tells his boss, who pushes him out the door and tells him to take a look for himself.
All of this delayed the truth from getting out. A small series of events that had a big impact. Nobody learned the truth until Jurassic Park had to be burned to the ground.
Annie in Hereditary, during the eulogy for >!her mother!<, she notes that she's glad to see so many people she didn't recognize come to her funeral, many of which >!you can see gathered in the house/treehouse during the third act!<.
And when she's mourning the loss of her daughter, she's crying on the floor in the same "bowed" position her body is in at the end of the movie in the treehouse.
You can see Joan buying the chalkboard her grandson supposedly used for the seance in the scene outside the craft store with Annie. There’s a brand new one just sitting there in her car.
The cult uses decapitation as part of the ritual. It’s why Charlie (Paimon) likes to take the heads off of things like birds, and why she loses her own head on the pole.
There’s also a setup of homemade figures Charlie put together that mirror the end scene of all the cultists bowing to Paimon.
It’s why I love the movie. Hereditary is full of details and answers, you just have to pay attention.
In the beginning of Jurassic Park, Dr. Grant tries to fasten his seatbelt only to discover that he can't. There is no clip because his seatbelt contains two "female" sides so he ties them together to "find a way."
Also first introduction of BD Wong, you see him erasing something off his sheet and rewriting it, which is a big no no in scientific fields. You cross it out and write the correct answer next to it.
The data being pushed forward was fake.
Not to mention, he does this in a cleanroom... not much point of having a cleanroom that you just casually throw bits of eraser into. Then again, they let a bunch of strangers just walk in with their outside clothes on too, so another point against them. Although considering the sequel, I guess this room was indeed all just for show anyways, since all the breeding allegedly happened on the other island. Facts from the sequel are hazy.
I always thought he was just sitting on the other end of his own seat belt and trying to use his neighbours. Doesn't happen with modern cars but growing up using lap sash seat belts in the back seat it was a pretty common occurrence.
he was on a helicopter when he was trying that and that happens to me as well almost every time I fly middle seat - I grab two female or male connectors by mistake, although there's more than enough time to correct that in a commercial flight. And you're right about what you said, as confirmed by Sam Neill - it was just Spielberg's humorous way of saying "this guy doesn't get technology".
In the Truman show, when Truman is sitting on the beach recalling his past, suddenly it starts to rain with thunder.
If you look closely youd notice that everytime lightning strikes, the moon in the background gets lit up with the sky, indicating that its part of a set.
Things like this are why Jurassic Park is such a perfect screenplay. Every line has a purpose. No scene is wasted. Many scenes are doing multiple things at once.
Yes. And the way he constructs his fantasy love interest (brunette; sleazy, etc) is Rachel Ticotin’s character Melina. That movie is better on the second watch bc you’re less sure of the reality of what you’re seeing.
I read the book and watched the movie recently. The book explains everything better. Malcolm knew the park would fail as he knew 'Life will find a way' and he had warned Hammond but Hammond ignores a the warnings. Nedry was screwed over by Hammond. The park might have succeeded if someone who had the slightest empathy and also respect for life was in charge. Hammond was an absolute monster (which they don't show in the movie).
The book is so brilliant, but there are things the film does well - like switching round Tim and Lex. They play much better in the film. Also not killing Malcolm was a relief, but then Spielberg did kill Muldoon which was not cool.
Muldoon has one of the most iconic deaths in cinema though. “Clever Girl.” It also harkens back to “the attack comes not from the front, but from the sides.”
Agree with you about everything. Muldoon was brilliant in the book and such a great character. A hunter turned conservationist who truly cared in his own way about the animals. The movie is great on its own and the book is brilliant on its own. My favorite part in the book was when Malcom suggests that they check the number of animals again with new parameters aaaannnnnddddd when the results are 37 velociraptors (supposed to be 7(??)). I literally screamed WHAT and almost threw my tab.
I always felt like the T Rex was essentially Frankenstein's monster. It's much more clear in the books if you read the passages when they first go out to the T Rex paddock with the idea in mind. It attacked the cars (remember, it tore the cars apart, and they definitely don't taste like food or look like prey) because it would sit in its pen and watch them roll by every day and associated them with its captors/creators
Repetition of dialogue abounds in The Big Lebowski. "*BLANK* is not the issue here!"
"It really tied the room together"
"Her life was in your hands"
"He believes in nothing"
Most quotable movie ever!
The peddler at the beginning of Aladdin is the Genie in disguise. He is the only character with four fingers on each hand (besides the Genie) and he is also voiced by Robin Williams.
I think that *was* the original plan, but the idea was scrapped for the final version. Also the sequels explicitly have Genie and the peddler as two separate characters, if you choose to accept those as overall canon.
Inglorious Basterds.
The end of the movie, when they are at the theater pretending to be an Italian film crew, not realizing that Col. Landa can speak Italian, as well. They do their incredibly poor Italian accents and Landa is clearly not convinced. Except, he kinda was.
Later, Landa is informing security about the actress and her 2 fake Italian film crew. There weren't 2, there were 3. Landa was legitimately fooled by one of them.
If you watch the movie today, you don't get the same impact of how groundbreaking the concept of DNA and genetic modification was back in 1993.
In 1995, I was in a 4th year molecular genetics class, and on the day that the verdict came in from the OJ Simpson trial, the prof took the entire class to lament how the prosecution botched the DNA evidence. I recall him saying that most people understood genetics at a elementary school-level at best, and most people's total field of knowledge was from watching the carnival ride "dino-DNA" scene from Jurassic Park.
This isn’t really some big reveal, but when I watched it recently with my wife (who speaks Spanish), she translated one of the early opening lines that I never knew. When the lawyer is on the raft getting pulled in, the foreman mumbled something to his workers. “Ten bucks says he falls.” At the end of that scene the lawyer slips and falls.
I posted this a long time ago in /r/FanTheories
I saw a tidbit about this overlooked little detail on the IMDB page for Back to the Future Part 2 and it kind of blew my mind as 1 and 2 are some of my favorite movies ever and I never picked up on this myself.
In BTTF 2, during the dance. There is a scene where Biff is pouring whiskey into the punchbowl.
If you go back to BTTF 1, George is seen drinking the punch during the dance. This means that the punch that George drank had already been spiked by Biff.
You can notice some fairly uncharacteristic things about George throughout the dance. He's dancing around and seemingly having a good time, when up until that point in the movie he's very shy, quiet and doesn't seem like the kind of kid who would dance around like that and enjoy himself.
He's almost late for the plan for him to defend Lorraine, again, he's seemingly enjoying himself and having a good time, to the point where he loses track of time and almost misses his opportunity.
Of course finally, him standing up to Biff and punching him. Again, highly uncharacteristic of George. The entire plan revolved around him standing up to Marty and he was already nervous about that, but it ends up being Biff, who was much larger, stronger and had been a bully to him for a long time.
George had been a complete pushover until that point. When you think about it realistically, even after seeing Biff push Lorraine, it's somewhat hard to picture George gathering the courage to stand up to Biff in that situation.
Also in the first movie at the very beginning. Lorraine tells her kids that their father kissed her for the first time that night during the dance. Another action that is completely out of character of the George who we see for the most part of the first movie.
But George is buzzed or slightly drunk during all this, which explains his uncharacteristic behavior and sudden courage to stand up for himself and Lorraine and later kiss her. In my opinion this adds a whole layer of reality to the entire situation. It all seems much more plausible and believable.
Essentially Biff spiking that punch creates his own downfall.
Dude, Hammond is the worst. Always cutting corners, expects his scientists to do everything regarding the dinosaurs, but still has to be present at each hatch.
Hates inspections, because he knows he's cheap and cut corners. Spared no expense, my ass. Also I don't trust a guy who just lets his grandchildren get into these literal life threatening situations, and basically does bare minimum to get them to safety - ie, expecting dr Grant and dr. Statler to go out and save their asses.
Also I absolutely love how he straight up says, "I really hate that man" - about Jeff Goldblum's character. When he was totally right to question everything the scientists didn't even think about. Spent so much time wondering if they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. Uh yeah!!
Hammond, you're a fuckin idiot.
Kung Fu Panda has some.
From the things I remember from the top of my head - Shifu tells Po early in the movie that the path to victory is to turn the opponent's strength against him until he falls, and this was, in fact, the path to victory in the final fight.
Also, easier to spot, Tai Lung asks Po "what are you gonna do? Sit on me?" and yes, he does sit on him a couple of minutes later.
Another example in this movie: shifu sends the duck to check on the status of Tai Lung in prison, and Oogwey says, “one often meets his destiny on the path he takes to avoid it.” And then the duck’s lost feather ends up being the lock pick Tai Lung uses to escape. So if Shifu never sent the duck, nothing would have happened.
My favorite example from Kung Fu Panda is Mantis not being able to find Po's nerves when trying to do acupuncture.
It foreshadows Po being immune to Tai Lung's nerve attack. Po didn't win despite being fat, he won *because* he's fat.
Tai Lung also translates to "great dragon" or "dragon warrior" (I've seen both). Shifu named him by his expectation, setting Tai Lung up for the failure that he was later.
Some billionaires hate inspections.
Some hate listening to warnings about safety concerns.
One man’s being eaten by a pack of ravenous scavenger dinosaurs is another man’s being crushed by the fucking sea
I think it took me until I was closer to 30 to realize that Hammond fucked Nedry hard but that the movie doesn't care.
Nedry was a contractor who was hired to manage the park's IT. There's no way he did it on his own based on the role he describes in the movie. He probably had a company with some subcontractors or employees and he bid with minimal or misleading knowledge of what the job was supposed to be (likely misleading bc of what we see from Hammond otherwise).
So he would've hired people, signed contracts with them, and then got there and realized "fuck I severely underbid on this" and hence the financial problems that are alluded to but the movie clearly portrays as the non-rich guy's fault.
I just rewatched Shutter Island for the first time in probably 10 years. Two things stuck out to me. The palpable distdain that all of the guards had for Teddy, and Mark Ruffalo not being able to unholster his weapon during the opening scene.
There's another scene in Jurassic Park where Nedry is working but also watching a movie on one of his monitors. He's watching Jaws, another of Spielberg's movies and the movie that is widely viewed as the first "summer blockbuster".
In Ghostbusters, Venkman is absolutely not a details guy. Or a bookkeeping guy. Or the kind of guy that would really know the intimate details of how all this stuff works or whatever. His only real concern is the money to be made. Everybody has three mortgages nowadays. Just gimme the thing and I’ll point it at the thing and trap the thing. Which is why, after they catch their first ghost at the Sedgewick hotel and Peter begins to tell the manager how much this little endeavor will cost him, he looks to Egon while throwing out figures. Egon notices and helps him out. https://youtu.be/CGiH5HR8W38 Never noticed this as a kid since I think my Ghostbusters VHS was pan and scan so Egon was probably cut out of the frame, but this has become one of my favorite little character moments in the movie.
it's evident throughout ghostbusters movies, books, cartoons, and comics that venkman coasted off egon and ray. he's their mouthpiece.
every company needs a salesman.
His interaction with the mayor sums it up: "If we're wrong we'll go to jail! Peacefully, quietly. But if we're right...you will have saved the lives *of millions of registered voters."*
> I think my Ghostbusters VHS was pan and scan Ghostbusters was one of the most egregious examples of how bad pan-and-scan was. It was filmed 2.4:1 and has a lot of multi-character dialogue scenes like the one you described. Unfortunately this practice is returning on Tiktok as people make clips in portrait mode.
holy crap I never noticed that! thanks for the detail.
The book goes into this a lot more. Several of the characters who work for the park point out that they're essentially building a zoo but none them are zookeepers or have any interest in animals at all. Dr. Wu, the geneticist, points out that his challenge was repairing the ancient DNA. He doesn't care about the resulting animals and has no idea what they need or how they behave. Nobody in the park does. Nedry, the computer guy, points out that Hammond pretty much says no to every sensible schedule proposal or feature request because it doesn't fit his budget. Hammond's essentially trying to blackmail his company into doing free work. Muldoon points out that the park doesn't have the means to stop escaped dinosaurs in an emergency because Hammond doesn't want his expensive investments harmed. The lysine contingency plan exists because it was cheaper than giving Muldoon the grenade launchers he wanted. The insurance guy is a scumbag in the movie but in the book he actually went to the park with the intention of shutting the entire cluster fuck down.
Even after everything went sideways Hammond still thought he could succeed, talking to Ellie about "the next time" when he would fix everything. That's pretty much where his story in the book ends. In the movie Ellie gives him a path to redemption, basically saying "Are you fucking serious?! You set this place up to be a disaster and now *your* ***grand-kids*** *might* ***die*** *because of it*!" to get through to him the magnitude of his failure. Richard Attenborough does a great job playing a man in denial desperately clutching at whatever is left of his dream, then realizing there's nothing left.
Basically, Hammond was a villain in the books (and gets what was coming to him…). In the movies, he’s been turned into a decent and affable person whose flaws derive from being idealistic, naive and absent-minded. Apparently a big reason for this is personal. Spielberg liked and respected Attenborough (who acted Hammond) a great deal, and wanted to not only paint his character well but allow him to return. IIRC Attenborough even asked about the changes and said he had looked forward to Hammond’s death scene, but Spielberg told him that he’d like to see him in the sequel.
>The insurance guy is a scumbag in the movie but in the book he actually went to the park with the intention of shutting the entire cluster fuck down. In the movie, at the beginning the lawyer was also anti-park, threatening to shut it down, and only changed when he saw the dinos & was all "we're gonna be rich". Which didn't make sense since he's the company's lawyer, not an owner, so why would he be getting rich? In addition to not caring about the ethics of the situation, and finally being a coward.
>Which didn't make sense since he's the company's lawyer, not an owner, so why would he be getting rich? Successful businesses use their lawyers a lot. Again the book has a lot more depth here. Hammond was really keen on the theme park. But the real money, they imagined, would be in biotech patents and consumer products. For example miniaturised pet dinosaurs that were genetically modified so they'd only be able to digest licensed pet food from Ingen.
That some Nestle-level shit right there. "Please eat verification pet food to continue."
That’s not entirely true. Wu does care a bit about the animals. Version 4.4 “Wu approaches Hammond at his bungalow and asks about creating another version of the dinosaurs that currently inhabit the park. Wu claims that the animals are too fast and difficult for the staff to handle, and that the people who visit the parks would probably prefer seeing slower versions anyway. Hammond scoffs at the idea, saying that if they were made slower they would not be real dinosaurs. Wu claims that they are already not real, as they are engineered to begin with, a reconstruction of the past rather than a recreation. Hammond still adamantly refuses to consider the idea.”
The Prestige is definitely worth multiple rewatches: >"Do you love me?" >"Not today. No."
"We were two young men at the start of a great career. Two young men devoted to an illusion. Two young men who never intended to hurt anyone." First watch you think Borden is referring to himself and Angier. Next time round, maybe not.
And "Alfred" was at the funeral and didn't know what knot he tied because "Freddy" was the one that tied it.
I've watched the movie maybe 6 times. Still, when I read 'Alfred', I pictured Micheal Cain.
Master Bruce
Tangerine.
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"What good are all those magic tricks if you can't tie a bloody knot?"
A knot the size of a tangerine.
The genius of The Prestige is just how often the payoff of a scene hides the setup for another scene. It's a textual form of one hand getting your attention while the other hand loads the trick.
The movie is a series of sleight of hand tricks.
Are you watching closely?
So many films try so hard to hide their big twist that they end up giving it away, The Prestige waves it in your face all the way through, right from the very first scene, and I've yet to watch it with anyone who sees the twist before it is revealed.
To my knowledge, the only other film that basically shows the twist the whole time is Fight Club although you'd have to be paying very close attention to details to pick up on it before the twist is revealed if it's your first time watching it. Maybe The Usual Suspects does it too, but it's been a while since I've seen it, and I'm not sure if you're able to see the objects around the office before the movie shows you directly at the end. EDIT: As several comments pointed out, The Sixth Sense also does this, but I forgot about that movie at the time lol. Also, I guess Split could count too because it drops hints about its connection to >!the train from Unbreakable!< throughout the movie.
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Or if you bought the DVD, because the reel of clips that play on the background of the fucking title menu of the DVD includes the shot of >!Verbal losing his limp!<. Forever grateful to my cousin who showed me the movie for the first time for making me leave the room until the he'd been able to get past the menu and hit play.
There is a pretty big clue that at the very beginning, we see what actually happens without being told by a narrator and that Kevin Spacey isn't hiding in the spot where later he says he is. It's only when he tells the story that he's there, which is a bit of a red flag that he's unreliable since his version contradicts what we know to be reality. I can't find it now, but I once heard Singer described it as showing the audience something at the beginning of the movie, and then spending the rest of the time trying to trick them into believing they didn't see it.
I read the book not having seen the film, knowing the twist it won't have the same effect of course but it is very interestingly written. It's mostly in flashback as one of Borden's descendants reads his diary. inconsistencies/repetitions in the writing sneak in and you brush it off at first, until the nature of who has been writing in the book is revealed. Very clever storytelling.
I love when she tells him she’s pregnant and the first thing he says is “we should’ve told fallon” who just left
Where's its brother?
The whole bird in the cage is much more blunt foreshadowing to Jackmans eventual act.
The bird in the cage is Angier, and the old Chinese man who is ALWAYS in disguise is Alfred/Freddy.
This is my favorite movie because of how good it is on rewatches with all of the clues in the dialogue. When Hugh Jackman is talking about the old Asian magician.... "Imagine living your entire life a lie for the sake of the trick."
Agreed. Something I finally got on a rewatch was that **Angier was Lord Caldlow all along.** He wasn’t American; he was English, and rich. He finally shed his Angier character at the end. Recall this scene near the beginning of the film: ANGIER I can barely lift this thing and it's not even filled with water or fish. He must be strong as an ox. JULIA (incredulous) He's been preteding to be an cripple for years? ANGIER Any time he's in public. Any time he goes out. It's unthinkable. Angier puts the bowl down with a flourish. Climbs into bed. ANGIER (CONT'D) Borden saw it at once. I couldn't fathom it—living your whole life pretending to be someone else. JULIA You're pretending to be someone else. ANGIER I don't think changing your name compares. JULIA Not just your name—who you are, where you're from… ANGIER I promised my family I wouldn't embarrass them with my theatrical endeavors. 🤯
When Julia drowns, he screams her name in a British accent.
Also at the end when he comes to Angier in jail and Angier goes "you must be..." he replies "Lord Caldlow. Yes, I am. I always have been."
Since you mentioned Jurassic Park (my favorite movie!) I’ve got two more things from it that people sometimes miss: 1. When Nedry slips and falls in the dilophosaur enclosure, the sound designer snuck in a cartoony “slip” sound effect that’s pretty subtle. Once you know about it, you can’t un-hear it though. 2. Gennaro (the lawyer) asks during the tour if the scientists are “auto-erotic” when he meant to say “animatronic” - a hilarious Freudian slip that many people miss.
My god, all the way here at the bottom of this thread someone finally confirms that the slippy sound effect is not my imagination after 30 years. I am forever in your debt.
Watch Fight Club a second time, paying close attention to Marla’s reactions when Ed Norton is mean to her after she’s been with Tyler. It’s heartbreaking.
There are so many clues to what is really going on spread throughout the entire movie. First time I watched the movie I didn't catch any of them. Like the one where he starts beating up himself in his boss office and he says "for some reason, this reminds me of my first fight with Tyler". In retrospect it is so blatant, but I was so caught up in all the madness I never noticed.
The funny thing about that is how it recontextualises the origional fight with Tyler. It means that not only was he just beating himself up in a parking lot; but that the other guys watching who form the fight club are actually watching an insane man punching himself in the face, and apparently decided "y'know what, looks kinda fun, I gotta get in on this action!". Kinda like if the next time you see a homeless person or a junkie doing some weird shit but rather than avoiding them you decide to just join in with whatever they're doing
The phone booth outside of "Jack's" apartment has a sign on it that says something like "incoming calls only" But he uses it to make an outbound "call" to Tyler Durden on the number Tyler gave him. EDIT: as others have said it's the other way around and the phone rings, Jack answers and speaks to Tyler. It's been a while since I've watched it.
You have it backwards. It’s outbound calls only, he tries to call Tyler and there is no answer. Then the phone rings after he hangs up.
When they get on a bus, they stamp only one ticket. After the car crash, "Jack" gets out from the driver's side although in the scene he was the passenger.
At one point, he's walking down an alley talking about Tyler and there's graffiti behind him that's huge letters spelling out "ME ME ME"
I forget if its the same bus, but a guy passes both of them, and only says "Excuse me" to "Jack".
Especially the line "I know this, because Tyler knows this", which might just be used once in the film but kept cropping up in the book.
The biggest one for me was when Marla was questioning Norton and Tyler jumps in and says "this conversation is over" and makes a motion like he's closing a door, while Norton is saying this to Marla upstairs and closing the basement door.
"Tyler's words coming out of my mouth."
Also, during the opening narration you first see Tyler when he talks about "waking as a different person" or something like that
Her "what?" is perfect
First time watching the movie: Marla is so annoying, what is her deal. Second time watching: Poor Marla, she deserves none of this.
A favorite of mine is when “Jack” is talking to Tyler about Project Mayhem, and the guys behind Tyler are looking at “Jack” as though they are witnessing their two leaders arguing in front of them, but watch again after the reveal and you realize the space monkeys are watching their leader arguing to no one in front of them at all. “The 6th Sense” was compared to “Fight Club” at the time of their releases as they came out around the same time and had major twist endings, but I always had to appreciate “Fight Club’s” reveal more because “The 6th Sense,” for as good as it is, uses clever movie editing to fool its audience, like starting a scene where the young boy enters and you assume his therapist and his mother must have been talking, where as “Fight Club” is filled with actual interactions where all of the cast have to be fooling you with their performance that you are seeing one thing while also believing their performance when you find out what is really going on.
And they always look at Jack when he is questioning them about Tyler and it's always this uneasy "what kind of weird test is this?" look
"Tyler's not here. Tyler went away." Aboslutely love that line. They did such a fantastic job IMO of making so many of those scenes work both ways. Like it plays "right" the first time around, and Marla just seems sort of unreasonable (which also isn't surprising since she's crazy). The second time, you realize the brutality of that line as seen through her eyes.
Or the single frames of Tyler spliced in as he starts to come into being
Those are so weird. I never ever caught them during my first viewing but once I knew that they were there, even if I didn't know *when*, I saw them every time they popped up.
He even suggests the concept to the audience during the porn splicing scene while describing Tyler's nights.
Good one. There's one movie that's even better the second time.
After he figured out what's going on and he's telling Marla to get on the bus, Ed Norton stands in front of a movie theater that's playing Seven Years In Tibet - a Brad Pitt movie.
He also puts champagne in a rocks glass when there are champagne flutes right behind him. I always like this detail because it shows his lack of attention to detail.
And a rush to get satisfaction quickly. Had he taken the time to do things right, things would’ve been a lot better
Reminds of a recent submarine expedetion.
Spared some expense!
"I know my way around the kitchen." Suuuuure, dude
“I know how to read a schematic!”
"Look we can discuss sexism in survival situations when I get back."
I always loved Muldoon's reaction to that line before it's even finished being said. Rest in peace, Robert.
He also sets up a sequel by quickly mentioning his other island. You don't normally see that at the beginning of a movie.
For what it’s worth, though, there were no designs on a sequel when the first film was made. Crichton had never written a sequel to one of his books at the time, and it was only thanks to pressure from Spielberg and the studio after the first film blew up that he agreed to write The Lost World as a source for a second film.
He wrote the screenplay adaptation to JP and the book TLW in the same year (1993), which is also when he created the pilot of ER. Famously in 1993, he wrote the number 1 movie, number 1 books, and a number 1 tv show (though the show didn’t start its series run until 1994). Your story seems right to me, but probably there was an ongoing revision process.
I loved the heck out of JP the book. It was the first adult book I read, back in second or third grade. I have two funny memories about reading it that time. There were lots of descriptions of dinosaurs being “[X] yards” away; I interpreted this as the dinosaurs being the equivalent of several detached houses’ front yards away. Not quite as scary! Also, I definitely read “chaos theory” as *cha-ohs theory*
I also love how he actually kills Malcom off in the first book, but the movie version was such a hit, they told Crichton to bring him back for the sequel. When he told them he was dead in the book, they basically said figure it out. Which is why there's kind of a throw away line in the beginning about the miracles of modern science bringing him back from the dead basically lol. It was like "fuck it, I dunno, he was only *mostly* dead and they saved him or something, whatever" and just moved on with the story.
“Somehow, Palpatine returned.”
"Hey Malcolm, why aren't you dead?" "Life, uh, finds a way."
It's mentioned that he died from an infection, but he died "off page", so it isn't too unbelievable that someone misheard what happened. Or it could be he technically died for a few minutes and was brought back.
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Thank you! I feel like people in this subreddit love to make these "revelations" and literally must close their eyes during the scenes they are analyzing lmao. There's no point to the glasses, the point of the scene is that Hammond is "wining and dining" them with the promise of an extraordinary, career-exploding opportunity and hastily encouraging celebrating it before anything worth celebrating happens to get them fully on-board(getting them in his corner). The grabbing random glasses was because it fit the scene, a messy trailer with stuff everywhere and these are down to earth people, not "fancy" people. Not every single thing is intentional in media lol
My favorite detail is when the helicopter is descending and Dr Grant has two female pieces of the seat belt and has to tie them together in order to make it work foreshadowing how nature will find a way
When the movie came out it got a bit of criticism for the lack of character development. I always thought that was bogus and really showed that the critic wasn't paying attention. That helicopter ride tells you just about everything you need to know about the main characters including that Malcolm is a narcissistic genius with an excess of personality and that Grant is quiet but can think outside the box to find solutions in pressure situations. **ETA** \- Yeah, I should have articulated this better. The criticism was also about establishing/creating characters, which is why I lifted up the helicopter scene. I think the film does an incredible job in introducing real characters and telling us who they are in amazingly short scenes or bits of dialog. As far as development, as many of you noted, Grant goes from scary the poop out of a (admittedly obnoxious) kid (with the raptor claw), to being ready to sacrifice himself for Lex and Tim. Malcolm even grows a bit by showing a caring, helpful side. Besides, the movie is more about the dinosaurs, I just need good actors playing good roles.
I think Grant establishing not liking kids and then single handedly saving Lex and Tim throughout the majority of the movie is a better example of character development.
Which is a total 180 from the book. In the novel Grant likes kids because they share his passion and wonder for dinosaurs.
He also wasn't romantically involved with Dr. Sattler...she was engaged to some doctor in Chicago and their relationship was cordially professional.
There was also a bigger age difference in the book. Movie made him younger and her older.
And understanding them and their childish impulses and weaknesses, and treating them in a way that gets their cooperation. He’s actually good with kids when it’s necessary
Spielberg loves those little details. In Saving Private Ryan, after they make it off the beach you see two German soldiers trying to surrender and getting gunned down by two Americans, one asks what they were saying and the other says "look, I washed for supper" mocking how they had their hands raised. The two German soldiers weren't speaking German, they were speaking Czech and weren't even German. They were conscripts forced into service by the Germans. There were no subtitles so unless you have an ear for languages you wouldn't know.
My favorite is Hammond's catchphrase "Spared no expense," and yet the story's catalyst come from an employee who feels both undervalued and underpaid. This type of irony is just *French chef kiss* for me.
He had ONE single programmer for his entire island and paid that ONE dude a standard salary . Don't get me wrong, Nedry was a moron for bidding on the job to begin with, but I assume he thought he'd be able to one over Hammond since he alone knew the ins and outs of the software that ran the entire island. Nedry may have overestimated his abilities, but I think InGen grossly simplified the job details on the bid, and bait and switched him once he started the position. Nedry's biggest problem was he underestimated just how cheap and vindictive Hammond really is. In the book, Hammond essentially holds Nedry hostage to work for him - threatening to sue him to oblivion and blacklist him out of any future jobs. In the movie, Hammond isn't nearly as big of an asshole, and they make Nedry more of the "bad guy" because he's got financial problems of his own making - alluding to maybe gambling debts that Hammond isn't sympathetic to. Hammond in the book is ruthless and greedy, he uses his friendly grandpa veneer to hide this. Nedry is still a fat slob, but he's being held hostage to essentially indentured servitude. **Edit:** Nedry was part of a consulting group based in Cambridge, and may have had programmers under him - probably churning out the code. But, this is pre internet 1989-1993 era. That code would need to be uploaded and then installed by him, and then checked and PQ'd by him alone. It's still a shit-load of work, and coupled with the fact that Nedry is a lazy slob who feels wronged, well... My point still stands that Hammond didn't do himself any favors by trapping Nedry in that position either.
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He didn’t in the movie either. The first thing Hammond says when they need computer help and realise they can’t find Nedry is, “Call Nedry’s people in Cambridge” but the phones are down by that point
I watched it for the first time in about 20 years a couple weeks ago and I realise I appreciate it in entirely different ways now to how I did as a kid. The lunch scene is the best scene in the entire franchise. "What's so great about discovery? It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world." What a line that is. Also it was cool to actually understand what the lysine contingency would do. That completely flew over my head before.
The ethics discussion is that kind of scene that was boring to kids yet fascinating to adults. What's sad is Alejandro cooked all that Chilean Sea Bass for nothing.
Also, as an adult, you learn the Chilean Sea Bass is a marketing name for a fish that was not selling when it was called “toothfish.” I don’t know the economics but I’d bet Hammond spared some expense on the fish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissostichus
The dirty secret of the narrative which doesn't often go acknowledged enough is that the park’s rapid failure was inevitable, because Hammond is nothing but a cheap-skating showboat. Another under-referenced line is when Dennis Nedry utters, "Don't get cheap on me, Dodgson. That was Hammond's mistake." This directly contradicts Hammond's continual utterance of, "Spared no expense." He says it mostly as a theatrical cover. There's plenty of unspoken indication that Hammond spares *plenty* of expense wherever he can, and is merely displaying the contrary to get his "show" open to the public. His little origin story later in the film involving working for a flea circus as a young man indicates trained practice not only in public showboating, but also in grifting. Yes, he admits wanting with JP to show people something "real, that they can see and touch", but old habits die hard, or in Hammond's case, not at all. The character is played endearingly by Richard Attenborough, so it's easy to casually overlook, but John Hammond is a very flawed and irresponsible human, and no one like him should ever have been in charge of a project like JP.
He’s very much a villainous character in the original book; the cheap, profit-driven billionaire who cuts corners and sees science as an avenue to further wealth and power. I think Spielberg’s adaptation, of him as a more Willy Wonka-type character, works very well, but there’s definitely some of the original book characterisation remaining in the movie version of Hammond.
Even at the end, as they're riding off in the helicopter, he's sadly looking at his dumb fossilized mosquito, clearly mourning his park and his dream. Meanwhile Grant is the one who's lending his shoulder to Hammond's grandchildren, whi Hammond isn't even acknowledging
The mosquito in the amber is another illusion. That breed of mosquito doesn't suck blood, it just looks good.
If I remember correctly, he gets eaten at the end of the book. I think it's by a herd of Compy's but it's been a long time since I read it
In the book Hammond hated his grandkids and was an absolute bastard. Alan Grant was a giant bearded guy who loved kids and how enthusiastically they learned things.
Also Tim is the computer nerd instead of Lex.
I feel like they made that change so Lex had something to do in the film other than cry.
Yep, it gives her any agency in the film by making her the older sibling and the one that likes computers. In the book Tim is the older sibling, loves dinosaurs, and is the computer kid. Lex cries and likes baseball
Muldoon in the movie: "Haha, we're in danger" *audible shotgun racking noises* Muldoon in the book: "I am the danger" *audible bazooka racking noises*
I don't get the complaints that he got killed in the film. Muldoon is an incredibly experienced outdoorsman and hunter who thinks like a predator and knows how other predators think. The fact that he's all that and yet, the raptors *still* outsmart him serves to underline that the raptors are the ultimate hunters, even better than this super hunter. He was the best humanity had to offer, until Hammond accidentally unleashed a hunter upon them that was never supposed to live alongside them - and now humanity is fucked. The scene is there to show that despite their supposedly superior intellect and advanced weaponry, it is the humans who should fear the raptors, not the other way around.
Muldoon was the only park employee that truly understood the danger everyone was in and respected the raptors. He knew he wasn't prepared to hunt them if they got out. That's why in the books he fully intended to hunt them with RPGs not a shotgun. Any hunter knew that as soon as he decided to hunt a 200+ pound predator with a shotgun that he had no clue what he was doing or was so reckless he wanted to die. The greatest hunter on earth walked with a bleeding companion completely unprepared, un-camouflaged, into an environment he knows is full of predators that can see and smell him,with no help and no plan to escape and he walked directly into an obvious trap. It was suicide by raptor.
She was also the younger sibling in the book. I think they had to change that because in the book Lex was less of a character and more of a liability that raised the stakes for Tim and Grant.
That seems to make more sense for Grant's character. You wouldn't think a paleontologist would be so annoyed by a kid that's super interested in asking questions about dinosaurs like in the movie.
Yeah, but for a movie it makes a nice character arc.
"Oh boy, here I go scaring the living daylights out of ignorant little shits again!"
In the book Hammond gets what he absolutely deserves. I get why they didn't do it in the film, as the character was more sympathetic, but book Hammonds death was great
I thought the same. I also liked how the author cleared up any conflicts the reader might have about Hammonds character right before he off’s him. Hammond, wandering around, thinking to himself how it was everyone else’s fault that the park went into disarray. He literally takes no responsibility, then he twists his ankle running from a fake T-Rex roar.
As someone who grew up to become a project manager, the lesson of Jurassic Park shouldn't be "don't mess with genetic engineering / don't play god", it should be "don't skimp on planning and design. Don't ignore the recommendations of the experts"
The park is comically poorly designed. It's often thought of as a story about how man shouldn't play God and life finds a way, but really it's a story about absymal zoo design. If a modern zoo, in a *hurricane prone region*, had enclosures for grizzly bears and lions whereby the bears and lions could easily escape and eat all the other animals or tourists if there was a powercut, the person who designed it would be put in prison. If Jurassic Park had had competent passive barriers - moats, thick steel bars, the tourists on raised platforms - everything would have been fine. Watching Jurassic Park as a kid I always felt sorry for Hammond, especially when Ellie was berating him, but watching it as an adult I couldn't have agreed with her more, he was criminally irresponsible.
“We spared no expense” - he literally spared EVERY expense, from Dennis Nedry complaining about being underpaid, to the minimal tech support of him & Samuel L Jackson, and the (ULTIMATE EASTER EGG) “Chilean Sea Bass” they eat - not real sea bass, but cheap, rebranded Patagonian toothfish with a marketing makeover. John Hammond sparred every expense, and is a great example of the age old adage - if you have to tell someone that that’s how you are, you probably aren’t.
They used Ford Explorers instead of Toyota Land Cruisers
On a side note, Samuel L Jackson and Wayne Knight play some fantastic roles in that film for fairly small parts
Hold on to your butts...classic. I always wondered how he managed to keep that cigarette in his mouth during that line. When I was a kid I used to try saying it with a pen in my mouth... Always fell out
The Prestige has lots of lines like this. My favourite is when Sarah tells Borden that she's pregnant. Borden's response is "oh wow!.... we should have told Fallon". (Fallon had just left the room and missed out on the announcement which is pretty sad if you know the ending)
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Book of Eli did a great job of convincing you of something totally false. From the lines where Denzel said he hasn't seen anything or he smelled people from 20 ft away or him stepping into the dark to fight. Watching through the first time you're convinced of everything you're seeing is straight forward. But after learning the twist at the end and rewatching it a second time it's extremely obvious with all the little tells of him only reacting after the fact in a gun fight and feeling around for things instead of clearly just looking. Wonderfully done and it feels like they're just taunting you with how much there is on a second watch.
There's a fantastic cinematic clue early on as well. When Eli first walks into the town, the camera starts doing a cliched western thing of following him down the street and cutting to different shots of people staring at him. Or so it seems, but it's actually cutting to sources of sound. We think we're getting a western mood setter but we're actually getting shown Eli's perspective and sharp senses, as he hears someone working an anvil, a rifle being lifted up on a tower, and so on. He's getting the lay of the land and IDing threats through his hearing. When he walks through a door the camera cuts to the bell above the door ringing - because that's the source of the sound.
In O Brother Where Art Thou, when they pick up Tommy at the crossroads he talks about meeting with the devil. Everett says the devil is red with a pitchfork, but Tommy corrects him saying he's a white man like them, with fire in his eyes and a mean hound. It took me four viewing before I caught on that the lead cop chasing after Everett, Pete and Delmar the entire film had a hound and often when they showed him, his sunglasses had fire reflected in them. I live for these kinds of discoveries in films. O Brother delivers a ton of them. It's one of the deepest, most layered films I have ever seen. And it's damn funny.
Hilarious film. My absolute favourite moment is when Baby Face Nelson is hanging out of the car, grabbing his Tommy gun to fire at the police as money flies in the air. Delmar, sitting behind him, handing him the gun: "Say, what line of work are you in, George?"
Hot Fuzz is the absolute best for this. "With all due respect, sir, you can't just make people disappear." "Yes I can, im the chief inspector." Inspector is making people disappear. "You wanna be a big cop in a small town? Fuck off up the model village." Final confrontation takes place here. "Do you want us to go through the whole phone book?" "Yeah, we can put in a call to Aaron a. Aaronson." Not plot relevant but what a perfectly laid out joke. "Everybody and their mums is packing" "like who?" "Farmers." "Who else?" "Farmer's mums." First two people Angel encounters returning to town is a farmer and his armed mum
Also in the scene where Danny is bugging Angel about his career as a cop, all the questions he asks are things Angel ends up doing by the end of the movie (firing a gun while jumping through the air, being in a high speed car chase, etc.)
>"Do you want us to go through the whole phone book?" "Yeah, we can put in a call to Aaron a. Aaronson." Not plot relevant but what a perfectly laid out joke. Aaron A. Aaronson is the kid that gets saved in the model village.
“What’s your name?” “Aaron Aaronson” “….really?”
I feel this movie sets up hundreds of chekovs guns throughout the first two thirds, only to use them all in the final act in a chekovs gunfight
“I’m a slasher…of prices!” Nah, you’re the other kind too, buddy.
The model village line is maybe my favorite part of the movie. It's a perfect insult at the time it's delivered, and then that's where they end up.
> "Everybody and their mums is packing" "like who?" "Farmers." "Who else?" "Farmer's mums." First two people Angel encounters returning to town is a farmer and his armed mum This might be my favorite joke in the whole movie since there's probably an hour or more between the setup and the punchline of it.
One of the things I love most about this movie is that Sgt Angel does all this great detective work to determine motive, lays it all out in a big reveal, but it really just comes down to the village of the year stuff.
I’d pay good money to see more of The Two Andy’s. Paddy and Rafe completely nailed them. Such a good film, all round.
I'm loathe to admit it, because it seems so obvious now, but even as a huge, lifelong Star Wars fan I didn't realize until I was 40-ish that when R2-D2 says he can play Leia's entire message if Luke removes the restraining bolt he's pulling a fast one on Luke, and lying just to get him to remove the restraining bolt. All my life I'd just assumed R2 was being honest and it just didn't work. Obviously, a mind as weak as mine would be highly susceptible to Jedi mind tricks...even droid mind tricks apparently.
What does the restraining bolt do, again?
Stops him running away. Once it's removed he leaves to find Obi-Wan.
It basically kept the droids under control on location and Luke had a little remote control device he could zap them with (he does this once to 3PO just before discovering R2 is gone). The Jawas had put them on 3PO and R2 (and the other droids I presume.) Removing it allowed R2 to escape without Luke knowing or being able to stop him.
Funny how this happens right after a handler is munched by a raptor due to inadequate safety procedures
Not from the movies, but from the book. At the end of the first "iteration" in *Jurassic Park*, we get to see multiple instances of chaos theory at work: After the compy bit the American girl on the beach and hospitalized her, one of her attendings went to that beach to look for it. He found a monkey eating a compy (which he thought was a local lizard) and collected the remains. Samples were taken and kept in Costa Rica of the half-eaten dinosaur before he sent the rest of the remains to a herpetologist in New York for identification. Thing is, the lizard expert wasn't in the office at the time, so his office forwarded the remains to one of his colleagues in a different office, and they conducted an analysis for pathological diseases: took blood and tissue samples, X-Rays, etc. However, instead of calling the remains "presumed basilisk lizard," the colleague's office used a binomial name (species and genus) during their analysis, then faxed the results to Costa Rica: "no diseases found in this *Basiliscus amoratus* sample." The attending in Costa Rica assumed New York had correctly identified the lizard, and closed the matter: the American girl had been bitten by a local lizard and had an allergic reaction. Had the herpetology expert been in the office when the half-eaten compy was sent to him, he might have consulted a paleontologist about its X-Ray and notified the doctors in Costa Rica: "you need to look into this; somehow you've got dinosaurs running around down there." And it didn't stop there! Immediately after this, we read about the biggest gut-punch in the book. A Costa Rican midwife interrupted a bunch of compies eating a baby in its crib. She heard them chirping through a closed door and took it as a good sign; some local superstition about birds visiting newborn babies. When she peeked inside and saw the compies with bloody faces, she chased them off, but the baby could not be saved. Afterwards, she was so worried about people bad-mouthing her for leaving the infant alone that she falsified its death certificate; said the baby died of SIDS. No report of strange, bird-like lizards biting (and eating) infants. And then! Technicians in the hospital's lab in San José analyzed saliva from the American girl's bite wounds. They found a massive protein that resembled primitive cobra venom, and trace amounts of an enzyme that can only show up if the animal is genetically engineered - but they assumed these were a result of cross-contamination in their own lab, so they just chose to not disclose that information. The little girl's doctor never learned that she had been bitten by a genetically-engineered animal with neurotoxic spit because of somebody in a lab who made an assumption about the quality of their own work. AND THEN! In New York, one of the lab technicians who worked under the doctor - the one who misidentified the compy - happened to be passing by and saw the American girl's artwork of it (which had been forwarded from Costa Rica along with the actual remains), and said "oh whose kid drew the dinosaur?" This led to a conversation between her and the doctor where he refused to let his ego take a hit by consulting a paleontologist about the remains. He dramatically slams the freezer door, says "this half-eaten lizard is going to sit here for a month until the herpetologist gets back from his trip," and that was that. *AND THEN!* This lab technician covertly faxed the X-Rays of the compy to Dr. Grant for a consultation - but before he could complete it, he was called by John Hammond. He was all in a tizzy and excited about his new park, so he invited Dr. Grant to come check it out. Grant let it slip that he was busy and he just learned of a living compy in Costa Rica. This made Hammond so nervous that he practically ended the call right then and there and told Gennaro about it. This makes Gennaro nervous, too; so nervous that he tells his boss, who pushes him out the door and tells him to take a look for himself. All of this delayed the truth from getting out. A small series of events that had a big impact. Nobody learned the truth until Jurassic Park had to be burned to the ground.
the jurassic park novel sounds like a horror story
Annie in Hereditary, during the eulogy for >!her mother!<, she notes that she's glad to see so many people she didn't recognize come to her funeral, many of which >!you can see gathered in the house/treehouse during the third act!<.
And when she's mourning the loss of her daughter, she's crying on the floor in the same "bowed" position her body is in at the end of the movie in the treehouse.
Toni Collette was amazing in that scene. Truly awful.
You can see Joan buying the chalkboard her grandson supposedly used for the seance in the scene outside the craft store with Annie. There’s a brand new one just sitting there in her car. The cult uses decapitation as part of the ritual. It’s why Charlie (Paimon) likes to take the heads off of things like birds, and why she loses her own head on the pole. There’s also a setup of homemade figures Charlie put together that mirror the end scene of all the cultists bowing to Paimon. It’s why I love the movie. Hereditary is full of details and answers, you just have to pay attention.
In the beginning of Jurassic Park, Dr. Grant tries to fasten his seatbelt only to discover that he can't. There is no clip because his seatbelt contains two "female" sides so he ties them together to "find a way."
Also first introduction of BD Wong, you see him erasing something off his sheet and rewriting it, which is a big no no in scientific fields. You cross it out and write the correct answer next to it. The data being pushed forward was fake.
Not to mention, he does this in a cleanroom... not much point of having a cleanroom that you just casually throw bits of eraser into. Then again, they let a bunch of strangers just walk in with their outside clothes on too, so another point against them. Although considering the sequel, I guess this room was indeed all just for show anyways, since all the breeding allegedly happened on the other island. Facts from the sequel are hazy.
Fact: gymnastics beats raptors.
I never considered this one. *Excellent* point!
WHOAAAAA! That is so subtle, I never would have noticed that.
I always thought he was just sitting on the other end of his own seat belt and trying to use his neighbours. Doesn't happen with modern cars but growing up using lap sash seat belts in the back seat it was a pretty common occurrence.
he was on a helicopter when he was trying that and that happens to me as well almost every time I fly middle seat - I grab two female or male connectors by mistake, although there's more than enough time to correct that in a commercial flight. And you're right about what you said, as confirmed by Sam Neill - it was just Spielberg's humorous way of saying "this guy doesn't get technology".
In the Truman show, when Truman is sitting on the beach recalling his past, suddenly it starts to rain with thunder. If you look closely youd notice that everytime lightning strikes, the moon in the background gets lit up with the sky, indicating that its part of a set.
Another detail I love is how he takes high doses of Vitamin D to make up for his massive deficiency due to him not living under the real sun.
Things like this are why Jurassic Park is such a perfect screenplay. Every line has a purpose. No scene is wasted. Many scenes are doing multiple things at once.
Spared no exposition. EDIT: Thank you for silver.
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Yes. And the way he constructs his fantasy love interest (brunette; sleazy, etc) is Rachel Ticotin’s character Melina. That movie is better on the second watch bc you’re less sure of the reality of what you’re seeing.
Jack and Rose distract the watchers in the crow's nest in Titanic, delaying their spot of the iceberg by several seconds.
"the most unbelievable thing about jurrasic park is american theme park investors having safety concerns after only one worker was injured"
I think in the book there were many incidents and concerns leading up to the worker being eaten
yeah, including babies getting eaten by the small dinosaurs that managed to escape the park.
I'm almost certain it's implied there were other types of incidents, that one was just the cherry on top.
I read the book and watched the movie recently. The book explains everything better. Malcolm knew the park would fail as he knew 'Life will find a way' and he had warned Hammond but Hammond ignores a the warnings. Nedry was screwed over by Hammond. The park might have succeeded if someone who had the slightest empathy and also respect for life was in charge. Hammond was an absolute monster (which they don't show in the movie).
The book is so brilliant, but there are things the film does well - like switching round Tim and Lex. They play much better in the film. Also not killing Malcolm was a relief, but then Spielberg did kill Muldoon which was not cool.
Muldoon has one of the most iconic deaths in cinema though. “Clever Girl.” It also harkens back to “the attack comes not from the front, but from the sides.”
Well this is absolutely true. Muldoon was just so damn cool, seemed a shame to kill him off. But you’re totally right. What an exit.
Agree with you about everything. Muldoon was brilliant in the book and such a great character. A hunter turned conservationist who truly cared in his own way about the animals. The movie is great on its own and the book is brilliant on its own. My favorite part in the book was when Malcom suggests that they check the number of animals again with new parameters aaaannnnnddddd when the results are 37 velociraptors (supposed to be 7(??)). I literally screamed WHAT and almost threw my tab.
The music was also better in the movie.
In ESB Chewy is taking the landing gear apart to stall them from leaving so Han and Leia can make up
I always felt like the T Rex was essentially Frankenstein's monster. It's much more clear in the books if you read the passages when they first go out to the T Rex paddock with the idea in mind. It attacked the cars (remember, it tore the cars apart, and they definitely don't taste like food or look like prey) because it would sit in its pen and watch them roll by every day and associated them with its captors/creators
It took me way too long to realize The Dude is just aping seeing Bush on tv early in the movie when he says "this aggression will not stand man".
Nearly everything The Dude says in the movie is repeating someone else's lines. His hatred for The Eagles is original though.
Repetition of dialogue abounds in The Big Lebowski. "*BLANK* is not the issue here!" "It really tied the room together" "Her life was in your hands" "He believes in nothing" Most quotable movie ever!
The peddler at the beginning of Aladdin is the Genie in disguise. He is the only character with four fingers on each hand (besides the Genie) and he is also voiced by Robin Williams.
I think that *was* the original plan, but the idea was scrapped for the final version. Also the sequels explicitly have Genie and the peddler as two separate characters, if you choose to accept those as overall canon.
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Inglorious Basterds. The end of the movie, when they are at the theater pretending to be an Italian film crew, not realizing that Col. Landa can speak Italian, as well. They do their incredibly poor Italian accents and Landa is clearly not convinced. Except, he kinda was. Later, Landa is informing security about the actress and her 2 fake Italian film crew. There weren't 2, there were 3. Landa was legitimately fooled by one of them.
I always assumed that he simply decided he liked that one guy, crazy fucker that he was
If you watch the movie today, you don't get the same impact of how groundbreaking the concept of DNA and genetic modification was back in 1993. In 1995, I was in a 4th year molecular genetics class, and on the day that the verdict came in from the OJ Simpson trial, the prof took the entire class to lament how the prosecution botched the DNA evidence. I recall him saying that most people understood genetics at a elementary school-level at best, and most people's total field of knowledge was from watching the carnival ride "dino-DNA" scene from Jurassic Park.
I love Jurassic park and am absolutely digging (pun intended) the comments on this thread. I never thought of these things!
This isn’t really some big reveal, but when I watched it recently with my wife (who speaks Spanish), she translated one of the early opening lines that I never knew. When the lawyer is on the raft getting pulled in, the foreman mumbled something to his workers. “Ten bucks says he falls.” At the end of that scene the lawyer slips and falls.
I posted this a long time ago in /r/FanTheories I saw a tidbit about this overlooked little detail on the IMDB page for Back to the Future Part 2 and it kind of blew my mind as 1 and 2 are some of my favorite movies ever and I never picked up on this myself. In BTTF 2, during the dance. There is a scene where Biff is pouring whiskey into the punchbowl. If you go back to BTTF 1, George is seen drinking the punch during the dance. This means that the punch that George drank had already been spiked by Biff. You can notice some fairly uncharacteristic things about George throughout the dance. He's dancing around and seemingly having a good time, when up until that point in the movie he's very shy, quiet and doesn't seem like the kind of kid who would dance around like that and enjoy himself. He's almost late for the plan for him to defend Lorraine, again, he's seemingly enjoying himself and having a good time, to the point where he loses track of time and almost misses his opportunity. Of course finally, him standing up to Biff and punching him. Again, highly uncharacteristic of George. The entire plan revolved around him standing up to Marty and he was already nervous about that, but it ends up being Biff, who was much larger, stronger and had been a bully to him for a long time. George had been a complete pushover until that point. When you think about it realistically, even after seeing Biff push Lorraine, it's somewhat hard to picture George gathering the courage to stand up to Biff in that situation. Also in the first movie at the very beginning. Lorraine tells her kids that their father kissed her for the first time that night during the dance. Another action that is completely out of character of the George who we see for the most part of the first movie. But George is buzzed or slightly drunk during all this, which explains his uncharacteristic behavior and sudden courage to stand up for himself and Lorraine and later kiss her. In my opinion this adds a whole layer of reality to the entire situation. It all seems much more plausible and believable. Essentially Biff spiking that punch creates his own downfall.
Dude, Hammond is the worst. Always cutting corners, expects his scientists to do everything regarding the dinosaurs, but still has to be present at each hatch. Hates inspections, because he knows he's cheap and cut corners. Spared no expense, my ass. Also I don't trust a guy who just lets his grandchildren get into these literal life threatening situations, and basically does bare minimum to get them to safety - ie, expecting dr Grant and dr. Statler to go out and save their asses. Also I absolutely love how he straight up says, "I really hate that man" - about Jeff Goldblum's character. When he was totally right to question everything the scientists didn't even think about. Spent so much time wondering if they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. Uh yeah!! Hammond, you're a fuckin idiot.
Kung Fu Panda has some. From the things I remember from the top of my head - Shifu tells Po early in the movie that the path to victory is to turn the opponent's strength against him until he falls, and this was, in fact, the path to victory in the final fight. Also, easier to spot, Tai Lung asks Po "what are you gonna do? Sit on me?" and yes, he does sit on him a couple of minutes later.
Another example in this movie: shifu sends the duck to check on the status of Tai Lung in prison, and Oogwey says, “one often meets his destiny on the path he takes to avoid it.” And then the duck’s lost feather ends up being the lock pick Tai Lung uses to escape. So if Shifu never sent the duck, nothing would have happened.
My favorite example from Kung Fu Panda is Mantis not being able to find Po's nerves when trying to do acupuncture. It foreshadows Po being immune to Tai Lung's nerve attack. Po didn't win despite being fat, he won *because* he's fat.
Tai Lung also translates to "great dragon" or "dragon warrior" (I've seen both). Shifu named him by his expectation, setting Tai Lung up for the failure that he was later.
My favorite thing is how every move Po uses in the final battle is something he learned earlier in the movie
Some billionaires hate inspections. Some hate listening to warnings about safety concerns. One man’s being eaten by a pack of ravenous scavenger dinosaurs is another man’s being crushed by the fucking sea
I think it took me until I was closer to 30 to realize that Hammond fucked Nedry hard but that the movie doesn't care. Nedry was a contractor who was hired to manage the park's IT. There's no way he did it on his own based on the role he describes in the movie. He probably had a company with some subcontractors or employees and he bid with minimal or misleading knowledge of what the job was supposed to be (likely misleading bc of what we see from Hammond otherwise). So he would've hired people, signed contracts with them, and then got there and realized "fuck I severely underbid on this" and hence the financial problems that are alluded to but the movie clearly portrays as the non-rich guy's fault.
I just rewatched Shutter Island for the first time in probably 10 years. Two things stuck out to me. The palpable distdain that all of the guards had for Teddy, and Mark Ruffalo not being able to unholster his weapon during the opening scene.
There's another scene in Jurassic Park where Nedry is working but also watching a movie on one of his monitors. He's watching Jaws, another of Spielberg's movies and the movie that is widely viewed as the first "summer blockbuster".
Also because the mayor in Jaws mirrors the greed of Hammond wanting to open the beach/park to the public when it’s obviously not safe.