Episode 36: Jurassic Park 🦖

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2020

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

The LFTS team discusses our childlike obsession with dinosaurs, Jurassic Park's landmark visual effects and brilliant sound design, and how the characters represent two sides of a rich thematic debate.

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LFTS video on Jurassic Park: https://youtu.be/VWz1E3oHd8w

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.
0:09.0	Today we are talking about Jurassic Park, 1993 film directed by Steven Spielberg, screenplay by Michael Crichton and David Kep, based on the book by Michael Crichton.
0:19.9	I'm here with the lessons from the
0:21.2	screenplay team, Tricia Iran. Hello, everyone. Brian Bittner. Hello, hello. And Alex Cayeros.
0:27.0	Hi. What isn't there to say about Jurassic Park? It's even weird hearing you, like,
0:32.6	explain what Jurassic Park is. Be like, it's a 1993 film. Like, ah, is that what it is?
0:37.2	You might have heard of it, this little movie. Spielberg, this one guy, direct Jurassic Park is. It's a 1993 film. Like, ah, is that what it is? Right.
0:37.5	You might have heard of it, this little movie.
0:39.9	Spielberg, this one guy directed it.
0:42.2	I mean, yeah.
0:42.7	So it's like one of the greatest movies of all time, of course.
0:47.2	And also holds a special place in my heart.
0:51.2	And I'm sure everyone's hearts that's here.
0:53.5	Just because it's that childhood here, just because it's that
0:54.7	childhood movie, I think it's perhaps the most frequently cited film as far as why did you
1:01.5	want to go into making movies? Well, I saw Jurassic Park when I was a kid. It's like that in Star Wars.
1:06.7	I feel like are the most common answers. So it's just this magical thing from our past, but also a really great movie that does so many things so excellently.
1:17.7	Yes.
1:18.2	Yeah, I mean, I've mentioned it in the podcast probably too many times at this point, Jurassic Park,
1:23.2	because it is the movie that changed my childhood brain from being interested in other things,
1:29.5	mainly like marine biology and dinosaurs, into like screw digging up fossils of dinosaurs.
1:35.8	I want to make real dinosaurs.
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