Jurassic Park
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2015
⏱️ 131 minutes
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Summary
Hold onto yer butts... it's an episode 65 million years in the making! Just in time for the release of Jurassic World, we decided to take a look back at where it all began. The original Jurassic Park made a huge impact on all of us as kids and unlike a lot of other big films from this era, it still packs a punch. Now that it's widely regarded as a modern masterpiece, we take a stab at figuring out what it is about this movie that's allowed it to age so gracefully.
Topics include: Chris' obsession with dinosaurs as a kid and the way they were presented in media prior to this, the various Jurassic Park toys and video games, how Spielberg expertly turned a very adult book into a more wholesome family-friendly adventure, the advantage of not using big stars in the lead roles, the groundbreaking visual effects and the real reason they still hold up two decades later, some poor planning regarding the layout of this park, why this version of John Hammond is more successful than the way he's depicted in the novel, the quieter moments that the sequels sort of forget about, whether or not the complaint that these characters are one-dimensional is valid, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember Jurassic Park? |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome, Hey, do you remember, Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:32.7 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.6 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:34.6 | And today we're revisiting Jurassic Park. |
| 0:56.8 | Thank you. And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting Jurassic Park. It was an adventure It was an adventure 65 million years in the making. |
| 1:02.2 | But before Jurassic Park blew our minds and broke box office records in the summer of 1993, |
| 1:05.0 | it was a best-selling novel by Michael Crichton. |
| 1:09.5 | Crichton's original version of the story was a screenplay that focused on a graduate student who genetically engineers his own dinosaur. |
| 1:12.4 | Crichton's peers in the scientific community actually felt that a lot of the concepts he was |
| 1:16.4 | extrapolating from did have one foot in reality, but there were narrative issues that began to emerge. |
| 1:22.2 | He knew genetic research was wildly expensive and that the logistics of this would require |
| 1:26.4 | a price tag too hefty for a grad student. |
| 1:29.3 | At a certain point, he decided that it made more sense for these creatures to be brought back for |
| 1:33.3 | entertainment purposes. And, as it turned out, he had unknowingly already created the perfect template for |
| 1:39.0 | such a scenario. In 1973, Crichton wrote and directed a film called Westworld. The premise is that a power surge |
| 1:46.1 | causes robots at an amusement park to malfunction and begin killing the guests. Replace robots |
| 1:51.7 | with dinosaurs and amusement park with wildlife preserve and voila. The half-baked script about the grad |
| 1:57.1 | student becomes the novel Jurassic Park. Before the book was even published, |
| 2:01.5 | Crichton was working on a script with Stephen Spielberg for what would eventually become the TV |
| 2:05.4 | series ER. During a break, Spielberg asked Crichton what he was currently working on, and Crichton laid |
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