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**CallingTheOldManOut: Ellie outright tells a power-tripping John Hammond that he doesn't have the power he thought he had over Jurassic Park in order to bring his attention back to what's really important, namely making sure that they and their loved ones get off the island in one piece.
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''All the dinosaurs are running wild''\\
''Someone shut the fence off in the rain''\\
''I admit it's kinda eerie,''\\
''But this proves my chaos theory,''\\
''And I don't think I'll be coming back again''\\
''Oh nooooooooo!''
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''Someone shut the fence off in the rain''\\
''I admit it's kinda eerie,''\\
''But this proves my chaos theory,''\\
''And I don't think I'll be coming back again''\\
''Oh nooooooooo!''
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** Lex is able to lock down the visitor center's doors by a highly-visual UsefulNotes/{{UNIX}} program[[hottip:+ :which is a real file system, but in reality one made for display, not use.]]. The book's version is more practical, but still unfriendly to uninitiated users. Of course, anyone who would be using it was presumably expected to have some sort of training.
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** "Mr. Hammond I think we're back in business-" *Cue velociraptor attack*
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* TooDumbToLive: As lampshaded by Muldoon - what the ''hell'' is the park doing even sending vehicles into the park that aren't locked electronically by the park staff? In a park filled with dangerous creatures including one that can actually ''spit stuff that blinds you''?
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* {{Irony}}: Despite Hammond's constant declarations of "We've spared no expense.", the park is undone entirely due to the expenses he ''did'' skimp on; notably, leaving the security for masses of incredibly dangerous animals entirely in the hands of a single IT guy he apparently didn't feel the need to pay all that well.
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* {{Irony}}: Despite Hammond's constant declarations of "We've spared no expense.", the park is undone entirely due to the expenses he ''did'' skimp on; notably, leaving the security for masses of incredibly dangerous animals entirely in the hands of a single IT guy he apparently didn't feel may or may not have felt the need to pay all that well.
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** The T-Rex herself.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Hammond and the whole Ingen team, in some way, but Nedry, literally. He tried to use the dinosaurs to protect his escape : [[spoiler:he gets killed by one of them.]]
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* DespairEventHorizon: Shortly after Arnold realizes that he needs Nedry in order to get the park back online, Nedry is attacked and killed by the Dilophosaurus. Eddie being eaten and the trailers/radio being destroyed by the tyrannosaurs in the second film also qualifies. In both cases, the one person who could fix things and provide a means for calling for help has been brutally killed off, driving home the point that the survivors are now stranded on a dinosaur-infested island with virtually no means of escape.
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* EvilLawyerJoke: During the discussion over dinner, Grant, Ellie, and Malcolm argue against Hammond's plans for the park. He laments that the only one to side with him is the "bloodsucking lawyer" (Genarro), who's only concerned in the potential profits.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Hammond's granddaughter was TheLoad in [[Literature/JurassicPark the novel]]. In the film, she got her brother's PlayfulHacker skills, while he kept his knowledge of dinosaurs.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the novel, Hammond was a typical Jerkass with plenty of NeverMyFault moments and he suffers a KarmicDeath. His movie incarnation is a relatively decent man and gets to survive too.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the novel, Hammond was a typical Jerkass with plenty of NeverMyFault moments and he suffers a KarmicDeath. His movie incarnation is a relatively decent man and gets to survive too.
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* MusicalSpoiler: Averted. The [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome impressive fanfare]] kicks in ''at the exact moment'' [[spoiler:the T-Rex enters and kills the Velociraptors who were about to kill our heroes]]; there is no musical build-up whatsoever to the climactic fight.
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* TakeThat: Dr. Robert T. Bakker is dissed when Tim is pestering Dr. Grant about books that he read written by Bakker and Grant himself. Tim is shut up when he first mentions Bakker by Grant promptly slammming the car door of the jeep Tim is inside of closed.
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The film is labeled as having one of the most revolutionary breakthroughs in visual effects that changed movie-making. Despite going to great lengths to create extremely convincing animatronic dinosaurs, this was balanced with groundbreakingly realistic CGI ones. The CGI involved essentially killed the use of {{muppet}}s and stop motion in modern film. Besides the requisite Hollywood mistakes, many paleontologists and dinosaur fanatics also loved it. [[http://www.hulu.com/watch/31366/jurassic-park-welcome-to-jurassic-park The moment]] in the film where the characters first come across a dinosaur in full view and are just blown away, "...it's a dinosaur!" could be the new generation's equivalent to the Star Destroyer overhead from ''Franchise/StarWars'': ''Film/ANewHope''.
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Scientists discover the ability to bring extinct animals back to life via a complex cloning process. To make a profit off this technology, the [=InGen=] company decides to build a theme park featuring living dinosaurs.
This in itself would not be such a bad idea, except the organizers rush to get it open, build it on a remote island, and have almost no security personnel, deciding to automate the whole thing with unreliable computers - even refusing to tell the software designer what the system is for.
Naturally, [[GoneHorriblyWrong everything that can go wrong does go wrong]].
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!This film provides examples of:
* ThreeDMovie: The 2013 re-release.
* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene:
** In the middle of the first film, Creator/LauraDern and Richard Attenborough eat melting ice cream and talk about flea circuses. It's really quite touching.
** The equivalent scene in the book happens with Hammond and Dr. Wu eating ice cream and chatting, [[MoodWhiplash right after the chapter where Dennis Nedry's death is described in gruesome detail.]] The exchange is also a little more sinister, as Hammond monologues about how inventing things that would save mankind could never turn a profit.
*** Crichton's tone vs. Spielberg's, in a nutshell.
** The film also ends on a very quiet note, where the characters silently reflect in their helicopter while it flies away.
* ActionGirl: Ellie Sattler in the movie. She is the only member of the cast to survive a physical fight with velociraptors, being able to hit them with slamming doors, to outrun them, and to kick them in the groin.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Gennaro, a reasonably fit, brave, and definitely-not-Tyrannosaurus-chow protagonist, is more-or-less turned into Ed Regis from the novel, a spineless lawyer/PR rep who abandons two helpless children and gets eaten soon after.
* AdaptationalWimp: Gennaro. In the novel, he goes along with Muldoon to catch the Tyrannosaurus, manages to fend off a ''Velociraptor'' attack, intimidates a ship captain with TechnoBabble, and survives to the end. In the film, he becomes a DirtyCoward who dies a particularly embarrassing death.
* AdaptationDistillation: Many side plots from the book are written out in the movie and several characters are combined and their fates change.
** Most notably, in the film, Hammond's character was a kindly old man who just wanted to share the magic of dinosaurs with people. He's not even all that interested in the monetary benefits of creating a dinosaur park. In the novel, he's a manipulative {{Jerkass}} who, while still visionary, really just wants people's money, and won't listen to anyone's advice about how dangerous the situation is. Apparently this was because Spielberg saw a lot of himself in Hammond.
** [[spoiler: [[KarmicDeath And he gets eaten by a flock of chicken-sized Procompsognathus.]]]]
* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: The film is still a very good adaptation, but compressing the book meant removing most of the exposition of the book, which contained some explanations that filled multiple small logic gaps present in the movie, such as why the Triceratops was sick.
* AirVentPassageway: A variant, they climb in between the foam ceiling panels and its supports and the actual ceiling.
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Nedry assumes this about the dilophosaurus, and tries to distract it by throwing a stick. It doesn't work, so he figures it's just stupid. [[spoiler: Then it eats him.]] Even dogs will prefer a meaty steak to a bone.
* AllNaturalGemPolish: The bugs trapped in amber come out in nice chunks.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: Grant and co. are finally surrounded by the raptors. The leader of the pack looks right about to pounce... [[spoiler:and then the T. rex comes in.]]
* AnalogyBackfire: John Hammond compares the park's problems to Disneyland not working when it opened.
-->'''Malcolm:''' Yeah, but John, when ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' breaks down, the pirates don't ''eat'' the tourists.
* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The scene where Nedry makes the deal to sell the embryos is set in San Jose, Costa Rica at a restaurant next to a beach. In reality, San Jose is completely landlocked, surrounded by mountains and isn't near any large bodies of water.
* {{Badass}}: Subverted: Muldoon and Grant try to kill Velociraptors...with a ''shotgun''! It doesn't work either time, [[spoiler: with fatal results for Muldoon]].
* BadVibrations: The famous "shaking glass" scene when the ''T. rex'' realizes the fence is no longer active.
* BilingualBonus: At the beginning, when Gennaro is being pulled on the raft-thing, the miner says, in Spanish, "Betcha a million bucks he falls!" Then he does fall.
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Played straight right off the bat with the black [=InGen worker=], Jophery, who gets eaten in the first scene. Later averted when [[SamuelLJackson Arnold]] is among the last to die after everything goes to hell.
* BrickJoke: Alan at the end:
--->Mr. Hammond, after careful consideration I have decided ''not'' to endorse your park.
* ByWallThatIsHoley: With a hole in a falling car.
-->'''Tim:''' And we're back . . . in the car . . . again.
* CallingTheOldManOut:
** Ellie outright tells a power-tripping John Hammond that he doesn't have the power he thought he had over Jurassic Park in order to bring his attention back to what's really important, namely making sure that they and their loved ones get off the island in one piece.
* CasualDangerDialog: Ian gets one before the T-Rex's DynamicEntry:
--->'''Ian''': Does anyone feel that? That's an impact tremor, is what it is. I'm [[{{Understatement}} fairly]] alarmed here.
* ChekhovsLecture: The raptors' "Bait with one, flank with another" plan that Grant describes, and that [[spoiler:Muldoon]] falls victim to. Grant probably should've told him about that...
* ChildHater: "Babies smell." Grant does get better during the course of the movie, enough to not mind the kids sleeping on him. In the book, the ChildHater is Regis. Worse, in the book, Grant ''loves'' kids. He finds their fascination with dinosaurs to be heartwarming. [[AuthorAppeal In most of Spielberg's films]], all fathers or father-figures are either absent or aloof, probably as a result of his parents' divorce when he was a child.
* ChewingTheScenery: How Robert Muldoon is introduced. '''''"SSSSHOOOOOOOOOOOOT HHHHHHEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!"'''''
* CloserThanTheyAppear: The TropeCodifier is the view of the charging ''T. rex'' in the rearview mirror, with the hilarious {{lampshading}} caption "objects in mirror are closer than they appear".
* CloserToEarth:
-->'''Ian Malcolm''': God creates dinosaurs, God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man, man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs...
-->'''Ellie Sattler''': Dinosaurs eat man... woman inherits the Earth.
* CompositeCharacter: Gennaro was basically Ed Regis (a {{Jerkass}} publicist from the book), with Gennaro's name and law degree. He's also ''supposed'' to be muscled, but in the movie, that went to Malcolm.
* CoolVsAwesome: At the end, Tyrannosaurus vs. Velociraptor [[spoiler: Tyrannosaurus wins]]
* CoveredInGunge: Lex, after a Brachiosaurus sneezes on her.
--> '''Tim:''' God bless you!
* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: Tim is revived easily after being shocked by the electric fence. {{Justified|Trope}} in that he was hanging in the air at the time, which would lessen the damage considerably.
* DangerTakesABackSeat: Well, technically, a passenger seat (the Dilophosaur with Nedry).
* DeadpanSnarker: Ian Malcolm.
--> '''Ian:''' Now eventually you might have ''dinosaurs'' on your, on your ''dinosaur'' tour, right? Hello? Yes?
--> '''Hammond:''' ''(watching on camera feed)'' I really hate that man.
** Later:
--> '''Ian:''' ''(After surviving being knocked down by a T-rex)'' Remind me to thank John for a lovely weekend...
--> '''Ian:''' ''(after being chased by a ''T. rex'')'' Do you think they'll have ''that'' on the tour?
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Gennaro and Muldoon]] survive in the first novel but are killed in the first film.
* DeathByGenreSavviness:
** [[spoiler:Subverted, where Ian Malcolm, who has been predicting disaster from the start, is attacked by the T-Rex but survives.]]
** [[spoiler:Played straight with Muldoon, who knows exactly how dangerous the dinosaurs are, and is killed by a velociraptor.]]
* DescriptionCut: "[[TemptingFate We'll be all right as long as they can't open doors]]."
* DespairEventHorizon: Shortly after Arnold realizes that he needs Nedry in order to get the park back online, Nedry is attacked and killed by the Dilophosaurus. Eddie being eaten and the trailers/radio being destroyed by the tyrannosaurs in the second film also qualifies. In both cases, the one person who could fix things and provide a means for calling for help has been brutally killed off, driving home the point that the survivors are now stranded on a dinosaur-infested island with virtually no means of escape.
* [[DeusExMachina Deus]] [[{{Pun}} Rex]] [[DeusExMachina Machina]]: It appears the protagonists [[spoiler: are about to be killed by the raptors when the T-Rex appears and attacks the raptors, allowing them to escape]]. This in itself isn't that far fetched but what is is the fact that [[spoiler: the T-Rex appears rather suddenly and is already in the visitor center, despite there being no way it could have appeared by surprise the way it did]].
** It's easy to miss when watching the film, but [[spoiler: the wall of the Visitor's Center is actually unfinished, with a conveniently T-rex-sized hole in it covered only with some plastic sheeting. Right after the T-rex appears, the sheet can be seen now ripped to shreds. Doesn't explain how none of them heard it coming, though.]]
* DramaticLandfallShot: The helicopter's arrival at Isla Nublar.
* TheDreaded: Velociraptors are treated as such by Grant and Muldoon. They are also presented that way in the opening scene to drive home to the audience that modern predators have absolutely ''nothing'' on ancient predatory dinosaurs.
* DroppedGlasses: [[spoiler: Nedry]] is killed in this way.
* EnvironmentalSymbolism: The dinosaur bone exhibit getting demolished by the real deal.
* EveryoneOwnsAMac: Dennis Nedry's terminal into the Jurassic Park supercomputer network is a Mac.
* ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation: The 3D, video game-like computer interface Lex uses to interact with the Jurassic Park systems was a real, though unfinished, file manager called fsn.
* FamousLastWords:
** [[ItCanThink "Clever girl..."]]
** "Stick, stupid - stick! Ah, no wonder you're extinct... I'm gonna run you over when I come back down". Cue PoeticJustice.
* FingerWag: "Ah-ah-aah... you didn't say the magic word."
--> "PLEASE! Goddammit! I hate this hacker crap!"
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Alan Grant
** TheLancer: Ellie Sattler
** [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Guys]]: Ian Malcolm and Ray Arnold
** TheBigGuy: Robert Muldoon
** TheHeart: John Hammond
** TheChick: Donald Gennaro
** [[TagalongKid Tagalong Kids]]: Lex and Tim
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The first half of the movie is ''loaded'' with moments that hint at serious design flaws in the park, as well as scenes of nature just plainly not cooperating with human control. From the top:
** Grant's seatbelt in the chopper is made of two female buckles ([[spoiler: Grant's resolution of this might be intended as very subtle foreshadowing of the female dinosaurs "finding a way"]]). Ellie seems to have no problem tying hers on, which means he didn't just grab Ellie's by mistake.
** Grant, Ellie and Malcolm can easily break out of the restraints during the presentation.
** Ellie notes that the prehistoric plants, placed in the visitors center simply because they were pretty, are poisonous.
** The Dilophosaurus and T-Rex no-shows.
** The car doors aren't locked during the tour. This is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Muldoon.
** The Triceratops is sick and nobody can figure out why.
** A tropical storm is heading straight for the island. Normally they should have had days of warning and would have therefore rescheduled the tour. It's as if Hammond kind of just expected the storm to kindly swerve out of the island's path just for his sake. Which is quite fitting for his character, actually.
* ForTheFunnyz: When Grant touches the (inactive) T-Rex paddock fence in the first film and acts as if he's being electrocuted. Alexis is [[DudeNotFunny not amused,]] but Tim thought it was funny as hell.
* FreudianTrio: With Hammond as the Id, Malcolm as the Superego, and Grant as the Ego.
* GadgeteerGenius / MrFixit: Possibly Arnold (even more in the book).
* GenreSavvy: In the first film, when Nedry [[spoiler:shut off the power to the park]], he intentionally left the Raptor fences powered because he knew how dangerous they were.
** This one doubles as EvenEvilHasStandards.
** Might be less about Nedry knowing not to set the raptors loose, and more about him not needing to bypass the raptor fences to get to the docks.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "Is this... auto... erotica?" (Hammond somehow manages to immediately guess he means "animatronic".)
* GodzillaThreshold: Arnold and the others realize that the only way to get wipe out what Nedry did and get the park back online is a total system shutdown, which will wipe out what little electrical power they have left, resulting in the Velociraptors being finally let loose. It was either that or wait seven days for the dinosaurs to die from lysine deficiency, that the dinosaurs had managed to overcome unbeknownst to anyone.
* HackedByAPirate: Probable inversion, as the hacker screen came up only after Samuel Jackson's attempt at hacking Nedry's computer to restore security.
* HaveYouTriedRebooting: When the operators are locked out of the computer system, they restart it entirely and manage to gain access again. [[spoiler:This unwittingly screws things up more.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Roland experiences one after learning of [[spoiler:Ajay]]'s death.
* HeroicSacrifice: Malcolm very nearly made one to save the kids from the ''T-Rex''.
* HollywoodHacking: "It's a UNIX system... I know this!"
* ImprobableTaxonomySkills: Ellie, a paleobotanist, recognizes certain (formerly) extinct plants as poisonous.
* IronicEcho: Hammond repeatedly tells everybody very proudly that "We've spared no expense." After the park goes completely to hell and his grandchildren and Dr. Grant go missing, he talks with Dr. Sattler. She compliments him on the ice-cream and he once again says, rather sadly, "We spared no expense..."
* ItCanThink: Muldoon demands that the velociraptors be killed as they're far too intelligent; testing the electric fence for weaknesses (but never the same spot twice; "They remember," he warns) before they were moved to their high-walled prison. [[spoiler:They seem to realize when the power is cut and claw their way through the electrified wire at the top (it's mentioned they test the fences for weaknesses). Even Muldoon underestimates their intelligence - as he's stalking one velociraptor, another ambushes him from the side. His FamousLastWords are a genuinely admiring, "Clever girl!" And of course there's that TemptingFate scene: "We'll be all right as long as they can't open doors."]]
* IveHeardOfThatWhatIsIt: When Lex notices a blood spot on the floor:
-->'''Lex:''' How come it isn't real red?
-->'''Tim:''' You're morbid.
-->'''Lex:''' What's 'morbid'? I am not.
* JumpScare: "Where's the goat?" ''THUNK''
* KillerRabbit:
** "Squeeeeeeeee-hoo-hoo?" Come on, it's only a stupid spitting dilophosaur-- ARGH I'M BLIND!
** This could also be said of the virus Nedry implanted into the computer that killed all the systems, called: whte_rbt.obj
* LookOnMyWorksYeMightyAndDespair: Hammond at the end of the film is particularly sad, for every reason you can think of. Appropriate, as there was an alternate ending: Trespasser where Hammond reads this poem in voiceover.
* MadeOfIron: Tim. That kid goes through ''a lot'' , and while he's a limping, frazzled mess by the end of the movie, many of the things he endured [[InfantImmortality would have killed a grown man]].
* TheMole: Dennis Nedry, designer and administrator of the park's [=IT=] systems, is hired by a competing biogen firm to steal embryos which the rival will then reverse-engineer.
* MusicalSpoiler: Averted. The [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome impressive fanfare]] kicks in ''at the exact moment'' [[spoiler:the T-Rex enters and kills the Velociraptors who were about to kill our heroes]]; there is no musical build-up whatsoever to the climactic fight.
* MythologyGag: Muldoon says they originally had eight raptors. This is how many they had in the book...well, until the breeding started.
* NightVisionGoggles: Relatively realistic ones, too.
* NoseNuggets: The scene where they're in the tree petting the brachiosaurus and it sneezes on Lex, covering her in snot.
* OffscreenTeleportation: Throughout the first movie, the ''T. rex'''s approach is announced by earth-shaking steps. At some point, she apparently takes a few levels in Ninja, since she [[DeusExMachina somehow manages to sneak up on the survivors and the Raptors at the end.]]
** In fact, creatures being invisible offscreen is pretty common; ''Jurassic Park'''s [[TheReveal big reveal]] of the Brachiosaurus has a massive dinosaur hiding just off-screen until Grant and the others notice it, whereupon it starts making loud calls and huge, thumping footsteps they couldn't possibly have missed; even if they could, there turns out to be an entire ''herd'' of dinosaurs just off to one side they would ''have'' to have seen on the drive in.
* OhCrap:
** See the image for this trope on the Film subpage. It should look quite familiar.
** ''"You've bred raptors?"''
** The look on Grant's face when the jeep starts to slide out of that tree. Not to mention the looks on everyone's faces when they realize what happened to the goat...
** The two kids have gotten back to the main buildings, and are tucking into food...when the girl looks up, and has a classic OhCrap moment when she realizes she's looking at the shadows of raptors in the next room, moving around.
** Tim realizing that the herd of Gallimimus was suddenly "flocking" into their direction in the first film. "They're, uh... they're flocking this way", indeed.
* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Sam Neill's American accent holds up pretty well, except for one line during the scene where [[spoiler:he throws the stick at the fence.]]
* PrecociousCrush: Lex has one for Grant.
* PrecisionFStrike:
** Ray Arnold's reaction to [[spoiler:[[HackedByAPirate Nedry's hacker picture]].]]
-->''(Hacker picture comes up on another monitor)''
-->'''Nedry portrait:''' ''(Wagging finger)'' Ah ah ah, You didn't say the magic word. ''(repeats "ah ah ah")''
-->'''Arnold:''' Please! Goddamn it! I hate this hacker crap!
** Ian Malcolm's reaction to the triceratops feces:
--> That is one big pile of shit.
* PunctuatedForEmphasis: "People - are - ''dying!"''
* [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech "The Reason We Suck" Speech]]: When Sattler joins Hammond eating in the cafeteria of the Visitor Center after everything's gone to Hell:
-->'''Dr. Sattler:''' It's still the flea circus. It's all an illusion.\\
'''Hammond:''' When we have control again-\\
'''Sattler:''' We never ''had'' control, ''that's'' the illusion! I was overwhelmed by the power of this place! But ''I'' made a mistake too, I didn't have enough respect for that power and it's out now!
* SchrodingersCast: Several characters, most notably Ian Malcolm ([[{{Retcon}} temporarily]]) and John Hammond.
* ShoutOut:
** The shot of the T-Rex wolfing down the goat before looking at the jeeps is modeled after the shot of the Rancor wolfing down the Gamorrean guard before looking at Luke in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''.
** Malcolm: "What you got in there, ''Film/KingKong''?"
* SlasherSmile: The Big One, the leader of the raptors, makes one as she catches sight of the kids escaping the kitchen and gets ready to follow in the first film.
* SlowElectricity: When the main switch is turned back on, the hall lights come on one at a time.
** Mocked by Music/WeirdAlYankovic in the RiffTrax
* SmugSnake: Dennis Nedry.
* SoundtrackDissonance: The main theme song is a grandiose and adventurous piece fitting for Hammond's vision for the theme park as a whole. Completely ignoring the real horrors that happen such as feeding live animals to the dinosaurs and of course what happens when the power gets switched off.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Hammond and Wu]], die in the first book but survive in the first movie. Also [[spoiler:Ian Malcolm]], until the second book {{retcon}}ned his death. [[spoiler:Wu]] wasn't a major character in the film, and [[spoiler:Hammond]] wasn't a {{Jerkass}} like his literary counterpart.
* SuperSpit: The Dilophosaurus that kills Dennis Nedry could spit thick, viscous venom to blind its prey.
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:The velociraptors first kill Muldoon by springing a decoy trap, eating him alive with the obligatory screaming, to show they have managed to escape their pen.]]
* TechMarchesOn: Nicely averted by the movie. The original novels described the Jurassic Park computer network as consisting of multiple Cray X-MP machines. By the time of the movie, those machines weren't the computing behemoths they were considered to be back in the day, and they decided to replace them with Connection Machine CM-5 supercomputers instead. This makes sense in-universe as that's the kind of machine a business that needed ridiculous amounts of computing power at the time would have plumped for, and it made sense visually because the CM-5 computers were utterly festooned with Blinkenlights, making them the ideal movie prop.
* TemptingFate: The raptors are contained, right? "Unless they figure out how to open doors." Guess what happens. Taken to ridiculous extremes in the Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}.
* ThemeMusicPowerUp: The Jurassic Park theme kicks in for ''T. rex'' herself, who proceeds to kick raptor ass and save the day.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich:
** The commissary scene, where the main characters are debating the ethics of dinosaur cloning. Did any of them even ''touch'' the food that was in front of them? Though Ellie seems to have utterly lost her appetite after seeing the raptors 'feed'.
** After the kids are dropped off at the restaurant to eat something, and they load their plates with goodies from the buffet, a raptor suddenly shows up, sniffing for them from behind a decorative screen. Whatever hunger pangs they had went completely ignored from then and to the end of the movie.
* ToiletHumour: "Dino...droppings?" -- "That is one big pile of shit." [[spoiler: said by Ian as another scientist goes arm-deep in a gigantic pile of Triceratops feces, looking for traces of poisonous berries]] Also, the characters in the third film dig through spinosaur dung to find the lost satellite phone.
--> '''Ian Malcolm''': I hope you remember to wash your hands before you eat anything.
* TooCleverByHalf: Ian Malcolm accuses Hammond and his team of genetic scientists of this.
--> '''Ian Malcolm''': I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done, and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you, you've patented it, and packaged it, you've slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it! You want to sell it!
-->'''John Hammond''': I don't think you're giving us our due credit. Our scientists have done things which nobody's ever done before...
--> '''Ian Malcolm''': Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn't stop to ''think if they should''!
* {{Understatement}}: "Mr. Hammond, after careful consideration, I've decided ''not'' to endorse your park." Hammond agrees.
* UnPaused: When Tim is stuck on the fence, he gets ready to jump on "three." He gets blown off on two. When he comes to, he finishes the countdown.
* ViewerFriendlyInterface:
** Lex is able to lock down the visitor center's doors by a highly-visual UsefulNotes/{{UNIX}} program[[hottip:+ :which is a real file system, but in reality one made for display, not use.]]. The book's version is more practical, but still unfriendly to uninitiated users. Of course, anyone who would be using it was presumably expected to have some sort of training.
** Averted with Arnold's terminal and his attempted bypass of Nedry's sabotage. That was all command-line.
* ViewersAreMorons: Back when the first movie came out, DNA wasn't a household term, so the lengthy explanation was necessary at the time. Modern audiences, however, probably feel like the movie is insulting their intelligence. This is also justified in-universe as well. It's supposed to be for the kids, as Hammond explicitly points out. Very simplistic, lots of dramatic music and cool animals.
* VillainousRescue: Grant, Sattler and the kids are cornered by the velociraptors, who are just about to attack [[spoiler:when the T.rex comes out of nowhere and slaughters them.]]
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