20 Things You Somehow Missed In Jurassic Park
3. The Subtle Eye Level Changes
The movie's smartest visual motif is one you're almost certain to have been oblivious to. In the first half of the movie, whenever a character is looking at a dinosaur on-screen, they are doing so below eye-level. The birth of the raptor eggs, the sick Triceratops, "they do move in herds", all of this is from a high-to-low perspective.
However, the second half of the film flips this entirely, where all shots are now of the characters looking up at the dinosaurs. Everything with the T-Rex goes without saying, but Tim and Lex crawl along the floor in the kitchen, the brachiosaurus looms over Dr. Grant, and even Muldoon crouches down to hunt the raptor. Very simply, this is to represent the changing levels of control in the park.
The big exception to this is the initial scene where Grant and Sattler first encounter the brachiosaurus, as this is used to represent the marvel and wonder at the park's premise.