10 Subtle Signs Movie Characters Weren't Telling The Truth
2. John Hammond Actually Spared Expense - Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park's creator John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) will forever be bestremembered for the widely parroted claim that he "spared no expense" building the park, despite the rest of the movie basically suggesting otherwise, from the island's clear lack of infrastructure to not giving Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight) a damn raise.
But there's a sign incredibly early in the film which points to the fact that Hammond is basically talking out of his ass. Hammond has a walking stick which is topped with a hunk of amber that contains one of the mosquitos from which dinosaur DNA was apparently extracted.
Yet any mosquito expert out there will surely appreciate that the one on top of Hammond's stick is an elephant mosquito, which famously don't suck blood and so couldn't contain any dino DNA.
You can consider it a filmmaking mistake if you want, or that Spielberg simply chose a larger breed of mosquito that would appear more visible on-camera, but it just makes too much sense that Hammond wouldn't want to place one of his valuable prehistoric mosquitos inside a walking stick.
Instead, Hammond spared expense, deliberately using a fundamentally useless elephant mosquito instead, while assuming that nobody would ever recognise the difference and challenge him on it.
All the same, it's an early sign that Hammond isn't quite as genuine as he first seems.