Why John Hammond Faked Jurassic Park

One of the movie's most commonly cited "plot holes" is the sheer practical impossibility of cloning dinosaurs by extracting their DNA from mosquitoes preserved in amber, yet most viewers are simply prepared to accept this as junky movie science in order to get things moving.

But this actually backs up the theory that the park as a whole was a staged trick - cloning any creature, let alone a dinosaur, is intensely difficult, and the dinosaur's DNA within the mosquito would've unquestionably degraded long before InGen gained possession of it.

And while it's often suggested that Hammond simply engineered artificial dinosaurs in a lab and slapped the "clone" label on them for marketing purposes, that still doesn't explain how he obtained the frankly absurd amount of funding required to create the dinosaur experiments in the first place.

The reason for that is one simple truth - long before he became an industrialist, Hammond was first and foremost a salesman, and his years of hustling taught him how to tell investors exactly what they wanted to hear.