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Jurassic
Park (1993)
In Steven Spielberg's big-budget version of Michael
Crichton's 1990 best-seller, featuring the revolutionary use of special
effects (live-action models, miniatures, CGI-generated images) to
recreate realistic-looking prehistoric dinosaurs:
- the scene of the first view of the real-life creatures
- a Brachiosaurus eating from a tall treetop - in the island's
theme park
First View of Brachiosaurus
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- the scary build-up to the appearance of the T-Rex,
with the glasses of water vibrating on the car's dashboard from
the dinosaur's ominous footsteps signaling the coming disaster
- the sudden dropping of a bloody goat's leg onto the
windshield after teenage Alexis "Lex" Murphy (Ariana Richards)
wondered: "Where's the goat"? - and the first sight of
the giant monster chomping on the animal
Approach of Monstrous T-Rex
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- the suspenseful stalking of T-Rex around the vehicle
with the kids trapped inside, including the monster's giant eyeballing
of Lex and then crashing through the vehicle's viewing roof with
its giant jaws
- the monster's stalking and chewing of cowardly lawyer
Donald Gennaro (Martin Ferrero) cowering in a thatched-roof toilet
- the rear-view mirror image in which objects were closer
than they appeared (OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR),
as the group of adults fled in an open jeep (Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff
Goldblum): "Must go faster!") from the menacing, approaching
monstrous T-Rex; after they had escaped, Malcolm joked: "You
think they'll have that on the tour?"
- the view of a herd of small, bird-like animals racing
past the human beings ("They're flocking this way") when
being followed and attacked by the T-Rex
- the tense, hide-and-go-seek scene in the restaurant
kitchen with a pair of velociraptors stalking the young grand-children
Alexis and Tim (Joseph Mazzello) while Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern)
assured everyone that they were probably safe ("Unless they
figured out how to open doors...") - with a cut to a close-up
of the kitchen door handle turning and the creature pushing the door
open, while the two kids were huddled together worrying: ("It's
inside!")
Kids Stalked in Restaurant Kitchen
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- the exciting finale in the Visitor's Center amidst
fossil/skeleton displays when the group was 'saved' from becoming
dinner for the velociraptors by a voracious T-Rex (roaring as a
banner reading
"When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" fluttered down)
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T-Rex Stalking Jeep
Attack on Gennaro on Toilet
Menacing T-Rex Seen in Rear-View Mirror
Flock of Animals
Finale in Visitor's Center
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