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Welcome to....Jurassic Park: Part One, Character Analysis
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📖✨ In this episode of Book Watch, we head back to where the chaos all began—Jurassic Park. Michael Crichton’s sci-fi thriller first hit shelves in 1990, and just three years later, Steven Spielberg’s groundbreaking film roared into theaters in 1993. But why, decades later, is this franchise still spawning sequels?
We break it down with a deep dive into the characters that launched a cinematic empire. From John Hammond’s dangerously charming vision to Dr. Ian Malcolm’s iconic warnings, we compare the novel and the film’s character portrayals—what changed, what stayed, and what those choices say about the story’s lasting impact.
💡 In Part 1, we’ll explore:
✅ Character portrayals, casting choices, and differences between the book and movie
✅ How the film reimagined characters like John Hammond, Ellie Sattler, and Ian Malcolm
✅ Why these characters helped spark a franchise that’s still making movies today
Join Sarah-Daye and guest host Chris Hitlett as they dig into what makes Jurassic Park timeless—and why we’re still talking about it over 30 years later. 🎬📚
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Intro
Introduction and Guest
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
Hi, everybody, and welcome back to Book Watch. Today, I have Chris Hitlett with me, and we will be covering a very fun um adaptation today. But Chris, why don't you introduce yourself to my listeners?
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Hi, yeah I'm Chris, and I'm a big fan of this podcast idea and one on and with the going into the adaptations because I've always loved a good adaptation of anything, a comic book, a book, and I'm a huge reader. I like movies. they I'm a huge film nerd.
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ah The Marvel stuff has been my biggest thing, but ah dinosaurs were one of my big things back when I was younger, so I'm excited to get into this.
00:01:23
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Mm-hmm.
The Genesis of Jurassic Park
00:01:29
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes. so speaking of dinosaurs, today's topic is Jurassic Park, the original 1993 film and 1990 book by Michael Crichton.
00:01:41
Sarah-Daye McDougall
And fun fact, I didn't know this until I started researching more for the podcast, but Michael actually conceived this idea as a screenplay. um But it instead, it ended up being a novel only to become a film later on.
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what I learned is that it was actually while there, uh, Spielberg was working with him on and the show that eventually he became yeah ER, actually, they were working on that. And then they, he told them about this idea and they immediately turned, uh, stopped that other idea and went into this one cause it sounded so cool.
00:02:13
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Oh, wow.
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And then, uh,
00:02:14
Sarah-Daye McDougall
I didn't know that. I did know that they were working together on ER, r but I didn't know that this was the connection.
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Yeah, i read about that. And then like James Cameron was also bidding on it and he said he was going to make it a lot darker if he'd gotten it. So there's some cool stuff that goes along with the the foundation of this movie starting.
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes, I did read that.
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So I'm excited to get into it more.
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes. ah Yes.
Impact and Influence of Jurassic Park
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
um And of course, the film was directed by Steven Spielberg. The writers, um the book was adapted by David Cope, but Michael hat was um along for the ride and helped adapt it into the film.
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Right. Right.
00:02:47
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um It was the highest grossing film at the time, surpassing Spielberg's own E.T., And i think some more cultural impact, I even talked to my mom about this a little bit because she read the book first and then saw the movie. I mean, because we, i mean, i was just born in 1990. So I will not remember back back when this came out, but I do, obviously there's still Jurassic Park films coming out.
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Right.
00:03:16
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um But it definitely kind of had this resurgence of dinosaur popularity. And like I said, the franchise that we have today.
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but I was 92. So the same thing for me, this one was not so one that I remember actually coming out. But I remember the second one, I have some of the had some of the toys. And I remember really being into dinosaurs of that age because of the second one coming out.
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And this one just had a huge explosion in the 90s of popularity all throughout.
00:03:39
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah. I think the first one I saw in theaters was the third one. i specifically remember seeing that in theaters.
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Oh, sorry.
00:03:48
Sarah-Daye McDougall
I like the third one, actually.
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It's not bad.
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
like them all.
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No, they did fine.
00:03:50
Sarah-Daye McDougall
I'm really not a critical person, so I don't know how this podcast is going to go.
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used I was actually researching the script for the fourth one as they were coming out with it because at the time I'd just gotten in the internet was like, I was getting more access to it as a young a teenager.
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
um but um
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And so I was like researching it, reading about all the dinosaur hybrids and stuff they were talking about at the
Jurassic Park Rebirth and Themes
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time. And so I really got into ah looking into that, but then they never then they pivoted away for a couple years.
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So I was a little sad about that.
00:04:19
Sarah-Daye McDougall
No, I will admit that, you know, the first, the original trilogy is my favorite, of course. um The second trilogy, it's okay.
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Right.
00:04:28
Sarah-Daye McDougall
I still really enjoy them for what they are, but I am very much looking forward to, what is it? Dominion is the one that's coming out? No.
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ah
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
The new,
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re Rebirth.
00:04:38
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Rebirth. Yes, that's the one that's coming out very much looking forward to that. um And I really have high hopes for it. And it will kind of bring people back into the Jurassic World universe.
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I agree.
00:04:48
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes.
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And it seems like they're pulling from some of those fourth movie things that they didn't use and and the lost world and um it should be a lot of fun.
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes.
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I'm really excited for it.
00:04:59
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Me too, me too. um Okay, so let's get into some of the key themes from the book and how that transferred into the film.
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
um
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Yeah.
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
One of the ones that I, go ahead.
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No, but I just ah agree.
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah, so um the main ones that I kind of wrote down were corporate greed, biotechnology, and of course, chaos theory.
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Right.
00:05:26
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Do you have any thoughts on how, well, how those were referenced in the book and then how the film adapted those key themes? Yeah.
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Yeah, the corporate greed and I mean, was the idea really built up in the book as Hammond was just this person that saw an opportunity and he was exploiting it to make money because he had the ability to do whatever he wanted in theme park and entertainment. Whereas if he took that in into the scientific world of medicine or anything else, he would have those um political blocks and stuff like that that would make him make things cheaper, you know, the insulin of it all and all that stuff.
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ah Whereas the book the movie didn't really go into that as much. He was just excited about his park. And so he was arrogant and didn't have the ah though as much as the corporate greed. He just spared no expense. You hear it all throughout the film.
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So little different.
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
Mm-hmm.
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And Chaos Theory, I felt like, was ah ah was in the movie, but it ah was so much deeper in the book. of Malcolm was saying things every other scene of why he thought this was a bad idea, whereas in the movie, he just kind of had a comment here or there, and it was it was good, but it wasn't as deep.
00:06:35
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Comic relief, really.
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Yeah, he was very much that, and, you know, the shirtless, what's name?
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
ha Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Jeff Goldblum.
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
ah Jeff Goldblum. Yes.
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Sitting there on the pad.
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
um
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I
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes. um We don't make me blush.
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always forget about that. yeah
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
um We will get more into the differences in the characters because I think John Hammond is the biggest dip like polar opposite.
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Young Jeff Goldblum. which
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Yeah, he's very different.
00:06:59
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Basically, he's the biggest different in the in from page to screen. So I'm excited to get into that. um But ah reading the book. This is the second time I read it for the podcast. I read it for the first time last year.
00:07:13
Sarah-Daye McDougall
And the whole opening is kind of about the biotechnology. And it's it's set in a different world than our world. This is set in a different um universe, if you will.
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See you.
00:07:25
Sarah-Daye McDougall
And um just listening to all the different...
00:07:31
Sarah-Daye McDougall
advancements of the biotechnology and the fact that
Book vs Film: Themes and Characters
00:07:33
Sarah-Daye McDougall
this was written in 1990 and like reading it as um an adult in kind of like
00:07:40
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um and seeing kind of like how in the DNA, I mean, and the making the dinosaurs in general and just like seeing how cutting edge just was in 1990 and then seeing how um it's developed in real life in real time.
00:07:54
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um But it was really interesting to get all that backstory because I don't think we really dive into that into the film as much as he does in the book. And I think his messaging is a lot, like you said earlier, deeper in the book than it is in the film. The film is very much more an action adventure.
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It has a lot more build up, almost a lot more of the political field to the whole concept of the DNA and all that and the biotech world world as a whole. Have you read any other Michael Crichton before?
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Okay, Okay, so.
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
No, I haven't, but it's definitely on my list. I know a lot of his other books have been adapted into films as well, so I know that I'll be getting to some others.
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I read Timeline. I read Timeline last year, which was another adaptation.
00:08:32
Sarah-Daye McDougall
You read...
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did I haven't watched the movie, but that had some of the same feels is what I was kind of going to say here is that it felt a little bit like the alternate world that had one thing changed ah something of something in science. And that was way more advanced and a company was trying to make their advantage of it. So it was interesting to see the comparison of the way he writes his books versus the way it gets portrayed sometimes.
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So.
00:08:55
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Mm hmm. Why do you think that this book, I mean, we already kind of talked that they were working together on ER, r but why do you think instead of why was it chosen for
CGI and Cultural Impact
00:09:05
Sarah-Daye McDougall
adaptation?
00:09:06
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Because we we know why they they had already talked about because they were working together on yeah ER. But why do you think it had the cultural significance that it did both the book and the film?
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Dinosaurs. I mean, once you see that alive dinosaur, that CGI effect they put together on it and why it was so, I mean, that part was evolutionary on its own, but just the effect of, you know, people love the idea of dinosaurs as kids.
00:09:26
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Right.
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It's something that draws us in and seeing them on screen, that fear and awe of this creature that's so much bigger than us. I think that was just the biggest thing of it is it's amazing. It's all, it's all inspiring.
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes, I agree.
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I think that's what did it.
00:09:42
Sarah-Daye McDougall
It is.
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it
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
I mean, it still really holds up the CGI from that film.
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It really does.
00:09:46
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Again, film from the 90s and, you know, you're comparing it 2025 and the T-Rex still looks so good.
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Right. Definitely.
00:09:54
Sarah-Daye McDougall
The Raptors still look so good. um The Brontosaurus looked a little like they were implanted um on my rewatch. But I think our TVs are just so much better. Yeah.
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right
00:10:04
Sarah-Daye McDougall
right now than they used to be. But the fact that the diners, the CGI and the dinosaurs still hold up so well, it's just, um it, I mean, just speaks volumes to the quality of the film.
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definitely I was trying to find a VHS copy of it because I have my VHS player set up and I was really hoping to rewatch it on VHS before we did this, but I never got it.
00:10:25
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Oh man. If you find yet.
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couldn't find a copy.
00:10:27
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Okay. I was going to say, you need to send me a picture.
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i found the third I found the third movie, but I didn't pick it up because we were doing this one. So I'll keep looking.
00:10:33
Sarah-Daye McDougall
I haven't seen a VHS or a DVD in a very long time. Oh,
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I set mine up for a Star Wars Day last year. We did a Star Wars rewatch with a bunch of friends and I got my i got the original series on, like, the before the special edition, so the Unchained original series, and we watched do that on Star Wars Day.
00:10:49
Sarah-Daye McDougall
oh wow. Yeah, yeah. I remember having the three film box, like the three VHSs in the box together.
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Mm-hmm.
00:10:57
Sarah-Daye McDougall
I remember having that as a kid and growing up.
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Yeah.
00:11:00
Sarah-Daye McDougall
And do you remember the – or did you have like the rewinder? would take your v the VHS and put it in the rewinder?
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Yep. We had a separate rewinder. yeah
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah.
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Be kind, rewind.
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
Oh, the good all days. Yeah.
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So I live in ah in Central Oregon where we have the last blockbuster still. So we still have the Be Kind, rewind.
00:11:17
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Oh, wow. oh That's wild.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it's a lot of fun.
00:11:21
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Okay.
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
Do you go?
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I haven't in a long time, but they did like a block party with some of the breweries the other not too long ago. and so we went to that.
00:11:27
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Fine.
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I have some stickers from that and things like that. Some of the tumblers. And so I've been meaning to get back over there recently because it is pretty fun.
00:11:34
Sarah-Daye McDougall
So before we get into that, that's really great. I i love that. I'm very, very jealous because I would love to have, I think it's all just, it's part of the experience, you know, going, and that's why I still love going to the movie theater because of the experience, you know, going to the store, picking out the movie.
00:11:48
Sarah-Daye McDougall
I always got candy and popcorn as well. And we would go home and watch the movie. um
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Yeah, it was a cultural experience for us that are in our the 90s and the early 2000s there.
00:11:53
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Okay. So before,
00:11:57
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes. Yeah. Yes. I know. The kids these days don't know anything.
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You just don't know.
00:12:02
Sarah-Daye McDougall
They know what they're missing.
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We're going to choose on Netflix.
00:12:05
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um Before we get into our character discussion, do you have any other thoughts about the book and the film and and kind of the cultural impact?
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um I mean, i don't think so. It was one of the main things that I had put down and it's definitely, um yeah, it's aged differently. ah And i think the new ones are better for the new generation. But and you can see some of the parallels as you watch through the film. I was catching the, oh, the first moments were this and they did the same thing in the Jurassic World. So it really was the same adaptation, I feel like, in Jurassic World where they matched up scenes in a lot of ways then expanded upon them.
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So that was kind of cool.
00:12:43
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Interesting. i haven't done a rewatch of all six films. I do plan to do that before the new one comes out. um Of course, I watched the first one in preparation for this episode.
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Yeah.
00:12:57
Sarah-Daye McDougall
But I will pay attention to that while i do my rewatch and see um see those comparisons and take some notes.
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I picked this one up today, so I found that one and I have the 25th anniversary edition of the Jurassic Park one as well with me so that I picked up recently.
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
Oh, you have the hard copy. yeah i
00:13:12
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Awesome. I do want to get the hard copy because I do really like the book um as different as it is. And it's a lot, it's, it's very hard for me to read. And again, i read it for the first time last year.
00:13:24
Sarah-Daye McDougall
and as a newer mom with the copies in the beginning, that was really hard for me to get through.
00:13:29
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Oh, yeah. That was tough. Yeah. That was weird. I didn't remember that part because I had read it a long time ago.
00:13:32
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah.
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And then like, Oh, this is a lot worse than the a lot gra more graphic than the the the book on these parts for that movie.
00:13:36
Sarah-Daye McDougall
So tough.
00:13:39
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes. And then, well, our our next episode, we'll get more into key moments. But briefly, real quick, the whole introduction with the little girl on the beach um and how that is what...
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Right.
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Right.
00:13:52
Sarah-Daye McDougall
how grant gets involved almost um i know that he had been working with hammond but they're asking him this is a dinosaur right and that's how he's like i need to go i need to go on this trip to see you know why this dinosaur has come back um and so to see that change right and i yeah the whole and
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Hmm.
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Right. It was a very different thing compared to Hammond showing up in the book.
00:14:13
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes, exactly.
Casting Choices and Character Evolution
00:14:14
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Right. Okay. So anyway, let's, well, speaking of Dr. Grant, let's start with Dr. Alan Grant, who is played by Sam Neill.
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
How do you think Sam portrayed Alan Grant? And what do you think of his character, um his character development in the book and in the film?
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Did you know that he was supposed to be played by or wanted to be played by Harrison Ford originally by Steven Spielberg? They wanted him to be Harrison Ford in that role because he'd just gotten done with Indiana Jones and whatnot with him.
00:14:43
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Interesting. Yeah, I bet. Yeah.
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So.
00:14:48
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Okay. do you think the like How do you think the film and the franchise would have played out had Harrison Ford been Alan Grant?
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Well, the first thing with Harrison Ford, he saw they they did a little art for him of like a dinosaur chasing him. And he said, yeah, this is, this one's not for me. So Harrison Ford was out from the beginning.
00:15:08
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Oh, no.
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And then Sam Neill, I think Sam Neill is a great choice for it. I think he did a great job with the role and ah that he wasn't quite the Indiana Jones. He was more just the, the, the bones guy. So it kind of helped there to not be um another character.
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That's just that action hero. That's coming to save the day, even though he did a lot of that, he wasn't trying to be that.
00:15:25
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Right. hmm.
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so I think he you know he was a little older than the character in the book as far as his physical age, but I think he portrayed that late 30s guy pretty well as the senior archaeologist that's coming in to just ah be a consultant and not knowing what was happening and then getting dragged into this big adventure.
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so I think he did a good job of that.
00:15:46
Sarah-Daye McDougall
huh And I think that Sam Neill is better for that reluctant father figure than Harrison Ford would be.
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Definitely.
00:15:54
Sarah-Daye McDougall
I don't know that I could see him playing it off as much.
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we saw what happened with his son in the star Wars universe.
00:16:01
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Right. That's true. Okay. Next up, we have Ellie Stadler played by Dern.
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So I remember her feeling like when I watched this, when I was younger, she felt like she looked so much older than when I look back at it now, i like she's supposed to be in her early twenties.
00:16:19
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes.
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And when I look at it now, i'm like, Oh yeah, that does look like, you know, someone in the early twenties, the nineties, but, um But I look at it as a kid and I was like, she looks a lot older than that.
00:16:28
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Right.
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And so it was weird that 90s appearance of a portrayal of people was so much different sometimes.
00:16:34
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Right. Well, and I think that's like across the board, people like shows that came out while we were little, we still see them as being older. So like like for friends, I'm like, I can't, but like, I'm,
00:16:46
Sarah-Daye McDougall
older than or their age, depending on where in the season I'm like this, but they still seem like they're so much older than me.
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Right.
00:16:52
Sarah-Daye McDougall
And plus social media, like we see the actors so like now, you know, so we're still aging.
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Right.
00:16:58
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um But yes, it is.
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And everybody aged so much better since then.
00:17:00
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah.
00:17:01
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like You watch the Golden Girls are the age that the Friends people are now. so and They're all...
00:17:05
Sarah-Daye McDougall
I know. Yes. They've compared like the Golden Girls and the new Sex and the City series on HBO and how they're the same ages and how drastically different they look.
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Yeah.
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Weird.
00:17:16
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes. ah But apart from appearance.
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But I thought Laura Jerns, yeah, I thought she did a great job with the role.
00:17:20
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes. Let's talk about our arc.
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um I think that she was a little less used in and in the film.
00:17:23
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes.
00:17:26
Sarah-Daye McDougall
The book.
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I feel like, or yeah, in the book, that's what meant. Yeah. ah She was, ah she got had a bigger part in like the action scenes, I feel like in the movie than she did in the book.
00:17:35
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes.
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Yeah.
00:17:35
Sarah-Daye McDougall
I wish that I had – I don't have a hard copy, so I can't highlight, but there was a line and it's at the end of the book and the military has come or the the police have come from the Costa Rica um and the man asks Dr. Grant if he's in charge and Dr. Grant is like, no, I'm not in charge.
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Right.
00:17:55
Sarah-Daye McDougall
He asks – um is it Gennaro that's with them still if he's in charge and he's like no I'm not in charge he looks at um Stadler and doesn't even say anything to her which is just like a key um it just highlights the fact that they didn't really utilize her character as much as they do in the film like she's a much um she has much more to do in this film but the fact that they used her to turn the electricity back on i think is just yes yes
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Doesn't even ask. Yeah.
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She kind of does take charge, yeah. And she does kind of do that that, those moments of ah of action in the scenes. Although I can't understand why everybody kept limping.
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was like, I don't remember seeing that happen, or you became, like, it's Captain the Boy, it happened to her.
00:18:34
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah.
00:18:35
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I was like, why is everybody limping?
00:18:38
Sarah-Daye McDougall
I get why Tim limps, but for her, I agree with you. I don't know why she's limping. Are you talking like that during that power scene?
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When she's running away from that, yeah.
00:18:45
Sarah-Daye McDougall
which she Yes. Yes.
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I was like, why are you limping?
00:18:47
Sarah-Daye McDougall
I agree with you.
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And I meant to go back and look.
00:18:48
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Why are you limping?
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Was it just that the ah thing fell or what?
00:18:51
Sarah-Daye McDougall
no I, I question that as well.
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Yeah, I i was kind of confused, but ah they did it.
00:18:56
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes. So I,
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I think they did fine with her.
00:18:58
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Exactly. i I really like what they did with her character in the film. And I think that they gave more emotion. um Not that the book is dry by any means, but I think there's a lot more development. Like the book is a lot more about the dinosaurs and the science and the corporate greed.
00:19:19
Sarah-Daye McDougall
I would say the politics about all that. But the film, of course, is more about the character development and the arcs that they all grow through.
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Right. And you have to have your your heroes that ah make it through those moments and your focus. Which, you know, yeah, then they killed off certain characters that they wouldn't you did you still have in the movie. It was really weird seeing some of the things they changed.
00:19:40
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And we'll get to that.
00:19:40
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Speaking of which, yeah, Dr. Anne Malcolm, presumed dead in the book, ah then comes back for a Lost World, but um definitely alive and well at the end of the movie, ah which I think is fine.
00:19:49
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Right.
00:19:54
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Like, you can't kill off the comedic relief.
00:19:58
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Right, and he you know he he would kind of, the book talks about how a it um would just have been the worst thing for, would have been worse for mal for Hammond if ah Malcolm had died as his enemy because he was he was he was right and then he died in the whole experience. Hammond talked about how he would have been so much more mad if he died through that whole experience. so um And then, of course, everybody goes.
00:20:20
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah. Yeah. Yes. i Yeah. um Yeah. it It's different and it's darker. um Again, we'll probably talk about it in our next episode, but um Ned – sorry.
00:20:39
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Dennis Nidre's death book versus film is so much more brutal.
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Yeah.
00:20:44
Sarah-Daye McDougall
I mean, you don't even see it on screen in the film.
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The ability to describe. Yeah.
00:20:47
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah.
00:20:48
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The the books description that I was telling my wife about that when we were watching it last night. I was like, you know, this is a lot worse when you watch read it in the book because it's just like you can hear the description of everything happening to him here, whereas it just looks like you get some tar on him in the film.
00:20:58
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah. Brutal.
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So definitely different.
00:21:01
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Right. And then the the actual attack happens inside the vehicle, you know, and you don't see anything much, much less gruesome.
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Which is not.
00:21:09
Sarah-Daye McDougall
It's definitely if you're not into the brutal and gruesome things, it's hard. It's a tough book to read like me. It was tough to get through, especially again, like I said, with the babies in the beginning.
00:21:21
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um
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Right.
00:21:22
Sarah-Daye McDougall
But it is a great book. It's solid writing, solid story. um
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And a lot of that came from his experience with ah the ER stuff was he had the experience of what happens to a body when it gets cut open or something happens.
00:21:27
Sarah-Daye McDougall
So definitely read it.
00:21:34
Sarah-Daye McDougall
ah
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And that's why he was able to create those gruesome scenes, though, which was really kind of cool to have the accurate descriptions.
00:21:43
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Well, and it makes for great writing, but it is, it's tough to, I remember my mom, oh, fun story. I was talking to my mom about this, like I mentioned earlier, and she said that she was reading the book in Key West and it was like she had all of these trees surrounding her as she's reading this book.
00:21:55
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Okay.
00:21:58
Sarah-Daye McDougall
And she's like, I could have sworn a ah raptor T-Rex head could pop through those trees and get me.
00:22:03
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Oh, yeah.
00:22:04
Sarah-Daye McDougall
It's so intense reading the book. Yeah.
00:22:06
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Definitely.
00:22:08
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Okay, John Hammond. He is our most different character, I would say. Would you agree? Oh, and I'm sorry.
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Yeah, yeah.
00:22:16
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Ian Malcolm, played by Jeff Goldblum. John Hammond, played by Richard Attenborough.
00:22:19
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Right.
00:22:21
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I think Jeff Goldblum was the great, it was a great choice for Malcolm. I think he did a great job with that role. I also read that Jim Carrey had auditioned for that role, which would have been a whole different movie at that point, but apparently he had a really good audition for it.
00:22:32
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Right.
00:22:33
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um But
00:22:34
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Wow.
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I thought he did a good job with that.
00:22:34
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Wow.
00:22:36
Sarah-Daye McDougall
I do not think I would like Jim Carrey in that role.
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You know, it could have been a serious, like,
00:22:40
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um Harrison Ford, I could. Yeah, his Harrison Ford, I could i could get down with. But Jim Carrey in this role.
00:22:47
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well, they,
00:22:49
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Good.
00:22:50
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They talked about combining the characters of Grant and Malcolm in the movie, actually. that was They almost eliminated Jeff Goldblum's role altogether and just made it one character that was like he would have been the aed archaeologist and the chaos-like espouser, but they ended up going with Goldblum, which was way better.
00:22:56
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Whoa.
00:23:06
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Well, I don't like that.
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Yeah, I would not like that.
00:23:08
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah, i agree. Because you have – so you have Malcolm who is against this. And I think even in the film you can see his apprehension. I mean the the scene in the boardroom, he really, you know, stands to his ground that he's not for this.
00:23:24
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um And then very much so in the book, like you said, almost every other scene he's talking about the chaos theory and how this is a really bad idea.
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Right.
00:23:30
Sarah-Daye McDougall
And Dr. Grant is more – Not that he's for it, but he's very in awe of how this is even happening. um And this is like, this is his career, you know, digging up the bones of these prehistoric animals and then seeing them in real life and how emotional that is.
00:23:38
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Right.
00:23:50
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um
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And the research potential.
00:23:50
Sarah-Daye McDougall
So combining those two characters, I just don't see how that could have worked.
00:23:54
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No, I don't think it would have been nearly as impactful as having the two different opposing sides there.
00:24:00
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes, I agree.
00:24:00
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And then. So on to Hammond. Hammond. He was definitely, yeah, very changed. I liked the old man that um was just excited about the park, but the way the book portrayed him as being just more brutal, more just out for his company and wanting to grow his ah his business and his money and all that was a much more in-depth character. I feel like I don't see him as that old man the same way either. I see i see him as a little more of that, like, shark of a person,
00:24:33
Sarah-Daye McDougall
It was very hard for me to read that character in the book because i grew up with the John Hammond that we have in the film, like loving grandpa dreamer.
00:24:41
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Right.
00:24:43
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So that's what you picture.
00:24:44
Sarah-Daye McDougall
And to – yes. And to read that – and you still – you know, I still – because I grew up with the film, I still picture as I'm reading the actors that are in the film as these characters. um Lex and Tim, little hard to do that with, but we'll get to that.
00:24:58
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um So to still see Loving Grandpa in my mind when I'm reading, I really had to – adjust my image my mental image of john hammond for the book because i cannot let go of the movie john hammond i love him poor guy and but john hammond in the book is just you know think he is the like poster image for corporate greed and he he didn't mean he doesn't even really care about his grandchildren i don't think
00:25:24
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Yeah, I definitely agree.
00:25:30
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There was a moment, I think he says, like, you know, can you go get them? I think it was in the movie. He says, can you please go get my grandchildren? But in the book, I feel like he didn't actually say anything like that. i don only't think it was ever really expressed that he missed them even or wanted them back in here. Just an annoyance that they were here messing this up for him.
00:25:46
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Right. And I think it's like ah you said annoyance. It's an annoyance that this is even happening. Like he just he wants to fix the problem and move on. And he doesn't even see how dire of an issue this is. He's like, OK, let's just fix it and move on so we can open this park.
00:26:02
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And as it's happening, even it keeps saying, okay, we fixed this problem. Now we can move on and and get going with our park. We fixed this thing. Now we can move back onto this. And it's like, no, you don't get it. You've just killed people. You've had people have have dinosaurs getting out left and right. You've got issues here and there. You don't have a computer system that works.
00:26:19
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We can't open this park.
00:26:21
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah. Yeah.
00:26:21
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And it's like, oh, but it's all fixed.
00:26:22
Sarah-Daye McDougall
It's bad.
00:26:23
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We could do this. No.
00:26:25
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah. You can't just, uh, shortcut your way through this, these issues, which, I mean, it's clear in the book that he did take lots of shortcuts.
00:26:35
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Um, even hiring Nedry to begin with, I think was a shortcut because he wasn't paying him what he should be paying. And that's why he went to the other company.
00:26:46
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The job was so much bigger than Nedry had expected because it didn't reveal enough of what was happening to him. And so he did this job without knowing what it was. It definitely had its greed to it that, you know, that was a ah corner they cut and.
00:27:00
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Well, and I think Wu says the same thing about how the job that he has is not the job that he was promised.
00:27:06
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Right. And that's definitely corporate greed right there and what happens all the time in business.
00:27:09
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah. Yeah. Be corporate America. You're right. Okay. So Tim and Lex, the grandchildren, they are, ages are a little different from book to film.
00:27:21
Sarah-Daye McDougall
ah Lex is the younger one in the book and not so much toddler, but definitely ah immature.
00:27:21
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Right.
00:27:29
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She's like eight or seven in the book, I think. Yeah.
00:27:32
Sarah-Daye McDougall
yeah and then um the reason why they did that was because the actor for tim which is joseph mazalow and then ariana richards plays lex um joseph was in or had auditioned for another part with spielberg and he promised that
00:27:43
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Right.
00:27:49
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For Hook.
00:27:52
Sarah-Daye McDougall
that the next role would go to Joseph. And this was the next role. So and because he was a little younger than Tim in the book, they just went ahead and swapped ages.
00:27:58
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Right.
00:28:06
Sarah-Daye McDougall
However, I think their character arcs are still pretty similar. um
00:28:10
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They did, yeah.
00:28:10
Sarah-Daye McDougall
The scene in where the T-Rex breaks out of the paddock is... And Lex is crying. He left us. He left us. Which she is not bawling in the film. But she still says he left us. He left us. And still sporty.
00:28:25
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um So um interesting how how they kind of still develop those characters for the film. But what do you think about Joseph and Ariana's performances?
00:28:35
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They also swapped the tech thing, like where in the book ah ah Tim was the computer hacker and Lex is the hacker in ah the movie.
00:28:45
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And so that was interesting.
00:28:46
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Mm-hmm.
00:28:47
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I honestly didn't care for them in either thing. They just really were an annoying part of the book and the movie to me after rewatching.
00:28:51
Sarah-Daye McDougall
ah
00:28:53
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I'm like, these are... I get the idea that we needed a younger perspective, but it was heartbreaking almost in the reading the book where we get the moment where the T-Rex has destroyed the car and she's huddled down in the pipes on the road or whatever, just ah shaking herself, banging her head on the pipe and just, no, no, no.
00:29:06
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes.
00:29:10
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hey It was just like, oh my goodness, this poor eight-year-old or whatever. It's just so so, traumatized now. And he made it through this whole big dropping out of a tree and like, these poor kids.
00:29:23
Sarah-Daye McDougall
I know. And it seems to be a recurring theme throughout the rest of the films that there is some kid in in need in these films.
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But
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Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
00:29:32
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It seems to be an interesting plot device that yeah, they've continued to use. I'm not sure um if there was a re I guess that's what draws us in is they're these a child is what kids love dinosaurs and yet they're the ones being ah chased after by this creature and what's going to happen there. So
00:29:50
Sarah-Daye McDougall
And that's probably why they keep the films a little less brutal than the book has been because they want to appeal to the kids that like the dinosaurs and they want to come see the film. And then they need to appeal to the adults too that want to go see like dinosaurs killing people.
00:29:58
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They want the families.
00:30:05
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So...
00:30:07
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Next up, we have got Robert Muldoon, who was played by Bob Peck. um So Muldoon is, I forget his actual title, but he's kind of like the... um
00:30:18
Sarah-Daye McDougall
ranger of the park
00:30:19
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Right, right. That's right. He's the, uh, the animal expert or the, the safari expert they brought in from some African something like that.
00:30:29
Sarah-Daye McDougall
yes um now actually now i forget moldoon's he lives in the book right but he's not with him at the end i know i just finished this too and now i can't remember what happens to moldoon
00:30:29
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And so,
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um, oh, I don't remember now.
00:30:44
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I know he gets attacked by the the raptors in and the movie and dies, but...
00:30:51
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes, he's definitely dead in the movie. um Clever girl, famous line from the film.
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Right.
00:30:57
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um I can't remember his.
00:30:58
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He does survive in the book, yes.
00:31:00
Sarah-Daye McDougall
He does. Okay, but is he not with them at the end in the helicopter?
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I
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i don't think we see him. I think there was multiple helicopters or something. They must have brought some of them back because I don't think we see him.
00:31:08
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Okay. Okay.
00:31:11
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Right. Okay. But pretty similar, I would think, um compared to the rest of the characters. not
00:31:17
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Right.
00:31:17
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Not too much different, I don't think. Sure.
00:31:19
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He was a more minor character as far as the actual like ah use of him. I mean, I think they did a good job with the... um You yeah yeah had to combine a couple characters to get that Indiana Jones feel.
00:31:30
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You had this guy that would had his hat and he had his his feel of an action hero, and yet and he's the hunter that knows how the the animal thinks, and so he's looking at...
00:31:32
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Sure.
00:31:39
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ah Always worried about the raptors getting out and what would happen if that the raptors... ah could hunt them and figure out what was going on. So I think that they did a good job with his perspective on that, you know.
00:31:52
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah, and I really like the way the actor portrayed his character as well. um I think Peck did a really great job.
00:31:56
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Definitely. Yeah, I agree.
00:31:59
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Okay, so Donald Gennaro, tell me if you agree with this. Gennaro was played by Martin Ferraro. I think that they combined Donald Gennaro and Ed Regis' his characters because Martin's character says Gennaro, but he really has more of Ed's
00:32:19
Sarah-Daye McDougall
personality and Ed is the lawyer and Gennaro is the marketing
00:32:23
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Right.
00:32:27
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That's right. OK.
00:32:28
Sarah-Daye McDougall
guy So I think they kind of re they combine those characters and make because Genera was not a bad guy in the book. He also lived to the end. He was with them at the end. He was very helpful. um Ed Regis was the lawyer who left them in the car when the T-Rex broke free.
00:32:45
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Right.
00:32:48
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um So this was a really interesting choice. And I would love to pick their brains about this one.
00:32:56
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Well, I felt like in the book, I kept losing track of which one of them was which. And like ah when when the one ran off and was in the like and the bushes hiding, was like, which one is that? i they were They were forgettable characters to me as far as which
Character Combinations and Iconic Portrayals
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one was which.
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So I could see combining them being a ah good call in this case, because you didn't need more than one of these ah lawyer types and and in the story, I don't think. It just needed to be lawyers or need to be...
00:33:19
Sarah-Daye McDougall
I agree with you
00:33:22
Sarah-Daye McDougall
that i also was getting lost from characters. There are a lot of characters in the book. um I just wish that they had stuck.
00:33:28
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Right.
00:33:31
Sarah-Daye McDougall
like and like They could have just cut Gennaro's character out and just made Martin Ferraro Ed Regis and have Ed Regis be the lawyer man.
00:33:42
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um
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sure
00:33:43
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Because reading, you know much like Hammond, it's so different. reading
00:33:49
Sarah-Daye McDougall
How Gennaro, I mean, he's really just there to be like, to be told what to do. He's there to count the eggs, the raptor eggs at the end. And then again, he, he does survive the book.
00:34:00
Sarah-Daye McDougall
And I do like that. It's the kids. And then the the trio that survive in the film. And it's like a core little group.
00:34:05
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Right.
00:34:06
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um And like in the book, he, like we said, we don't even know where he was at the end. Did he, or no, no, sorry. That was Muldoon. Yeah. So yes, we're we're losing track of characters.
00:34:18
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um But I think they could have just got rid of the Gennaro character and made Ed Regis be the Ed Regis from the book.
00:34:27
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Yeah, and I mean, in in the book, he's the one that they use that character, one of those characters, I'm not even sure which now, to be the one that like has to take the the person to, in the airlift, they got attacked by the raptor at the beginning.
00:34:39
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he had to see how these people got attacked and take them over to the other island to get treated and things like that. And so he was utilized really as like all these administrative, like, and he was the fall guy for a lot of us.
00:34:45
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah.
00:34:50
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It almost felt like the the lawyer type.
00:34:52
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah, it was Genaro.
00:34:54
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Yeah.
00:34:54
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um And they do kind of hinted that in the film hes he's visiting the the Amber location.
00:35:00
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Right. Mm-hmm.
00:35:01
Sarah-Daye McDougall
And, um but again, like that could have been a lawyer. He's, he was like PR, I think in the book. um So I agree that these, they didn't need both of these roles. um It was just really confusing for me to keep them separate.
00:35:16
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um As I'm reading and watching the film. But I think he did fine as a ah as a creepy lawyer um leaving the kids. Oh, and another thing in the book, you kind of hear his internal monologue feeling guilty for leaving the kids in the truck, which you don't get at all in the film.
00:35:31
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Right.
00:35:33
Sarah-Daye McDougall
He's just a scared little man.
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No.
00:35:36
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You needed somebody to get eaten by the T-Rex pretty early on like that. So he was a good call.
00:35:41
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um I'm going to skip Dennis for now, even though he's next in our list, but I want to, i want to do him last. Let's go to Ray Arnold next played by none other than Samuel L. Jackson. um I really liked his take, really liked his take um as Ray Arnold.
00:35:53
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Hold on to your butts.
00:35:58
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um
00:35:59
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Yeah.
00:36:00
Sarah-Daye McDougall
and Again, a minor character in both the book and the film, but I think he really stands out because I mean, of course it's Samuel L. Jackson. Yeah.
00:36:07
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That helps. That always helps when you can get Tamela Jackson to play someone that you would otherwise forgotten.
00:36:14
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But no, he did a good job with the character.
00:36:14
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um
00:36:16
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i mean, it was a little unfortunate, you know, to the arm in the moment when Ellie is in Or what was... Yeah.
00:36:25
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah, the electricity room.
00:36:25
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Yeah, Ellie is in the electricity room and you get his arm on her shoulder and like, oh, Ray, it's you. ah That was pretty funny.
00:36:33
Sarah-Daye McDougall
No, not so much. A part of you.
00:36:35
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But also...
00:36:36
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes, um
00:36:36
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it very It definitely traumatized her. You could see her leaving that room like, oh my God, what just happened?
00:36:41
Sarah-Daye McDougall
yes, yes, yes.
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but And so they did a good job with it.
00:36:42
Sarah-Daye McDougall
yes
00:36:43
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And he did a good job throughout the rest that he was in. His attempt at ah unraveling the computer problem and all that was very entertaining. And so I liked it.
00:36:53
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah, yeah. Okay, that brings us to Dr. Wu, who is played by B.D. Wong, another minor character, but important as he is the scientist that makes this happen.
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the brain behind it all.
00:37:08
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Exactly, yes. And he pops up from time to time in other properties.
00:37:13
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Yeah, he's been he's kept been kept around all the way through the newer Jurassic World. It's almost like the the new corporate greed person after after a while.
00:37:20
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Right. Right.
00:37:20
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But in this one, he just wants to do his science. And it was interesting between the book and the movie because he has, well, he dies in the book. And so you don't have any chance for him to come back and cause more issues.
00:37:34
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But in the movie, he has that conscience of back and forth a little bit.
00:37:35
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Right.
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Even there, you see, well, should I be doing this? Is this right? We... we need to do this right, I felt like.
00:37:47
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Okay, so now we can talk about Dennis Nidre. And the reason why i wanted to put him last is because none of this would happen. Sure, there might be other problems, but the Jurassic Park story that we know would not have happened if it wasn't for Dennis Nidre and his portrayal.
00:38:05
Sarah-Daye McDougall
So ah he's played by Wayne Knight, um who's a recognizable face.
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Right.
00:38:10
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um How do you think Wayne portrayed Dennis in the film compared to his character in the book?
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I mean, the same way as you seeing John Hammond, it's the only thing I see now. when i look at the When I hear the character in the book, I only see his face. And so it's what I expect now. But i think he did play the character well. The person that just was greedy and needed or and felt slighted and wanted to get back at his boss and get back at the company that didn't pay him enough.
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I think that the role was played well by him. yeah Would that be the character or the person I would think would be doing that role nowadays? Maybe not. But someone you know his appearance was... Definitely well done for the for the role he was in here.
00:38:50
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um that kind of sparked a fun little game we could play since this came out 30 years ago rounding up a little bit um what do you think or who do you think would play these roles you don't have to go through the whole list you some of the key ones but who would you put into these roles if they were to make jurassic park not the franchise that we have but this is the first jurassic park film coming out
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It's so much harder now because they've used all these characters in the new one now that like, you know I see them as the gay Jurassic
Modern-Day Recasting Speculation
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characters now. And and and now that that someone's put Jonathan Bailey in my mind for Jurassic stuff, I'm like, oh, wow, yeah, you got to have him in that.
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But um I would definitely see like, you know, ah I think Tom Holland could play a good role in something like this. I'm not sure what role, but I think he would do well in and something here.
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um
00:39:39
Sarah-Daye McDougall
I think be a good Ian Malcolm.
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Oh, yeah, that could actually be a lot of fun. um You know, we got...
00:39:47
Sarah-Daye McDougall
I know I put you on the spot.
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which
00:39:48
Sarah-Daye McDougall
I'm sorry.
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Yeah, this would be a lot of fun to do, but I would want to think about it a little bit more because there's a lot of characters there that I'm not sure what I'd do with them. You still got to put Samuel Jackson still in the Ray Arnold role. You can't replace him.
00:40:01
Sarah-Daye McDougall
No, you're right. You can't. um And I think his character at his age now would be would he be even better. um Yeah.
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Trying to think who Nedry would be played well by now. um Someone who's played a bit of a more sleazy character.
00:40:17
Sarah-Daye McDougall
That, yes, I know Sleazy. And I, for some reason, what is his name? Adam Driver is coming to mind.
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I think my my wife mentioned something like that and and yesterday, actually, with one of these. When we were watching it, she kept getting that in her head for some reason. um So yeah, that could be fun.
00:40:32
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah, I think he would be good as if like a good Nedry. Although it's a fairly small part for Adam Driver, but... um
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I think the Wayne Knight was pretty big, though, at the time, too. So he took a pretty... I mean, I think he'd been on a lot of TV shows and stuff and was pretty popular.
00:40:45
Sarah-Daye McDougall
True. Yeah.
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So... But yeah, put... it put ah Probably give him his short hair, the glasses look, and kind of the... Make him more of the computer nerd look that's just overworked and a slob.
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And yeah, I think that could work well.
00:40:58
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah. Yes, absolutely. um Okay, well...
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Maybe have him destroy a wall with light... The computer with a lightsaber something, and you're there.
00:41:06
Sarah-Daye McDougall
And I could see, oh well, and he was also in a Jurassic, not a Jurassic Park film, but a prehistoric film recently.
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65 or whatever that was.
00:41:16
Sarah-Daye McDougall
That's the one.
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Yeah.
00:41:17
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes. Uh-huh. Which was fun. and That's a fun movie if you haven't seen it, listeners.
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i didn't watch it yet, but I might check it out.
00:41:20
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah. Okay, yes, that's a fun one. Okay, so let's kind of wrap up our first part of our Jurassic Park coverage.
Conclusion: Success Factors of Jurassic Park
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Sarah-Daye McDougall
What were your initial impressions? What made the book ripe for adaptation?
00:41:36
Sarah-Daye McDougall
How did the public respond? And do you think that the film was a faithful adaptation?
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it's always nice when books are adapted right as they're being published, because it means that there's not a lot of time for people to do that fan casting of who's going to be these roles or whether we're going to have ah um a big difference in the characters. They just get both of them presented to them as options. and they Okay, that was a lot of fun.
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So I think it was a... A very good adaptation for the time. I think that the fact that they were able to get the CGI to be as good as it was to be the best of the time, the best we'd ever seen ah made a big difference.
00:42:08
Sarah-Daye McDougall
huh
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I mean, it's always weird for the characters, the actors to have to be playing to ah to a tennis ball above them, but it seems like they all. pulled it off in the end and did a good job with acting ah across from these non-existent creations there.
00:42:25
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Right.
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And so I think they did well.
00:42:25
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes.
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The public seems to really loved it. It was obviously ah a huge hit being the the largest movie ever at the time.
00:42:28
Sarah-Daye McDougall
I know. Well,
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So, and still Titanic, I think.
00:42:33
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah, and we're getting our seventh film, and we also have several shows.
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Yeah. Oh yeah. It's still here.
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Yeah.
00:42:40
Sarah-Daye McDougall
So, yeah, and definitely had a
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And they've used it to make some of the Lego things, some of the kids' ah shows and stuff too. And that's been kind of fun to have that less state lower stakes things that they brought out for kids and um ah kind of playing to their different markets more.
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And um it's been a merchandising giant.
00:42:57
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes. Have you seen Camp Cretaceous or the sequel series to that?
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I haven't watched it. I keep seeing it on there and it kind of looks fun, but no, I haven't seen it yet.
00:43:11
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah, they are. I have seen both. um
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Okay.
00:43:14
Sarah-Daye McDougall
And it is fun. And it's fun to see all the Easter eggs from the show.
00:43:17
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Right.
00:43:18
Sarah-Daye McDougall
It's set during the first of the second trilogy, I believe, if I'm not mistaken.
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Okay.
00:43:24
Sarah-Daye McDougall
um But yes, very fun series. Very fun to see all the Easter eggs that they tie into the films, both the original trilogy and the newer trilogy.
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And then video games another area that they've used this movie as a huge marketing thing for. There was obviously the arcade games that we were all um familiar with going into the arcades, but they've done multiple just ah console games.
00:43:39
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes.
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They've had more recently, they've had the Jurassic World Evolution games, which is basically oh like a SimCity or enough but like one of the building games where you get to build out your own park, which is kind of cool.
00:43:52
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Interesting. Okay.
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So it's definitely been been ah something that's stuck around for the long haul with all the different all these different money-making ways.
00:43:54
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yeah.
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So I like that.
00:44:00
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes. Okay. Any other final thoughts before we sign off for our part one?
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No, it's a lot of fun. I'm excited to talk about some of the more key points next time.
00:44:12
Sarah-Daye McDougall
Yes. All right. Well, listeners, thank you for joining us. and We'll be back next week.
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Thank you.