20 Mind-Blowing Facts About The Jurassic Park Franchise
10. Spielbergs Dinosaur Impressions Were Troubling
Much as Jurassic Park would elevate CGI from expensive luxury to essential filmmaking tool, some aspects of the films shoot were refreshingly lo-fi. Michael Lantieris solution to the water ripple problem was evidence enough of that, as were what Spielberg described as the barber poles essentially a crude paper T. rex head on a giant stick that the crew used as a marker to prep the final sequence. And then there was Spielbergs own contribution to helping his actors provide the necessary reactions to dinosaur sounds that hadnt, as yet, been created; something that caused a good deal of amusement for all concerned. The director took it upon himself to fill in the vocalisations for the T. rex when he found his cast looking in disparate directions at different times during shooting. When they explained that there was no sound for them to respond to, Spielberg filled in with his best dinosaur impression, as Laura Dern gleefully recollected:
He goes, 'Oh, oh, okay, I got this. Rolling and action!' And we're all there looking, and the camera pushes in, and then Steven, through a megaphone, goes, RAWR! RAWR! And all of us looked at each other, and I remember Richard Attenborough going, Oh, Steven, um, this is troubling.
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