21. "Jurassic Park!"
Superlative title... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ofgXv7JYOM&feature=related Alan Partridge (
Steve Coogan) has used the film's title as a triumphant exclamation, denoting success. This is entirely appropriate.
22. "More like a six foot turkey."
Could of just pulled a gun out on him...
I love this scene, in which Allen Grant scares a little kid - whilst providing handy exposition about the hunting habits of raptors. But mainly I just love the fact that the boy in question looks like a young
Rosie O'Donnell.
24. "It's a UNIX system! I know this!"
She prefers to be called a hacker... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HjOjvu6oKA Movies are filled with ridiculous portrayals of how computing - and hacking in particular - works. Jurassic Park must rank among the funniest of them with the young Lex (
Ariana Richards) roaming around some kind of convoluted Doom-style maze in order to close some electronic doors. Again, if this is the sort of shit Dennis Nedry was having to put up with everyday, no wonder he hated Hammond.
25. "His visual acuity is based on movement... he'll lose you if you don't move"
Spielberg and the iconic... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsGjh6ul7mE&feature=related This is probably my favourite thing about Jurassic Park and certainly my favourite thing about its director. Spielberg cares less about "realism" and more about the "cinematic". Would another filmmaker have caused t-rex footsteps to send ripples through a glass of water? Or had the raptors snort smoke onto that kitchen window? These moments have a sort of poetic reality to them, if not any basis in actual physics. In my opinion, bits like this are up there with
Indiana Jones running from the big boulder, or
E.T. and Elliott cycling past the moon in silhouette.