10 Things You Didn't Know About Jurassic Park

6. There's Only 15 Minutes of Dinosaur Footage In The Entire Film

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It really is bizarre to think that a film with a running time of 127 minutes that's entirely about the dangers of resurrecting an extinct race of reptiles only actually features said extinct race on-screen for a total of 15 minutes. Not even a seventh of the film's entire running time is devoted to showing dinosaurs on screen, yet it's the most famous film ever to feature them. Perhaps it's a prime example of less is more - after all, the impact of seeing the most accurate representations of dinosaurs (at the time) in cinema would probably have been lessened if every scene featured one trying to tear the face off of someone.

Considering the short amount of time that the beasts appear on-screen and the subsequent amount of time the cast spend running away from the T. rex, there's little room for doubt as to why the giant dinosaur is the most famous of them all. The only species that comes close to its popularity is the Velociraptor, and there's little wonder why that is; poor Ray Arnold, we wonder where the rest of his body went after losing that arm.

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