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Jurassic park

The loudest of its time, the first of its kind, a blockbuster classic and inspirational film to many who are or going into the field of palaeontology.

Jurassic Park or Jurassic Park 1 directed by the genius Steven Spielberg in 1993! Based on the books by Micheal Crichton (Jurassic Park 1 and Jurassic park lost world) the film adaptation that takes a less gory vision as Spielberg wanted all ages to enjoy it while the book goes into detail about how a dinosaur eats its prey. (of any age) 

Spielberg and Crichton were working on a script that became the program's ER. Crichton told Steven about the next book he was working on and from that moment together they worked on a screenplay. Before even the book was published! Crichton got his illustrator Chip Kidd, who did the icon logo for the book to do the logo for the movie. Spielberg wanted to make all the dinosaur life size however that wouldn’t be possible as it would break the budget. 

Spielberg hired his friend Stan Winston who had made the robotics parts for the Terminator to make the robotic dinosaurs for this blockbuster monster. The t rex was the head, torso, arms as one, then legs and bottom half for other dinosaurs, he made small robotics for the computer to scan and work with the brachiosaurus. 

However, Rexy's size was a first. She sometimes has a mind of her own when the would move her head on her own (keep in mind the head is the size of a smart car) and open and shut her jaws randomly. Her robotic skeleton was covered in painted paint and the rain machine made her very very heavy to the point she couldn’t lift her head. 

So the staff had to use towels to slap her dry, and sadly this had a problem with a lot of staff members as they had to be careful in case she swung her head randomly though being a robot would still do serious damage. They couldn’t use fans on the studio industrial size as this would not fully dry her. Instead, you make the phone mouldy and heavier. Spielberg was on a very tight schedule.

Michael Lantieri was in charge of making the CGI of the T-Rex. This was a huge thing as people had never seen such amazing CGI back then, and that song, when, leaving the theatres, actually believed, Spielberg somehow pulled off the impossible, bringing a T-Rex back along with other dinosaurs. 

Dennis Muren did the magic of lights and Phil Tippett did miniatures of the building's island, and sometimes dinosaurs from an aerial view. Such as seen, the Brachiosaurus is propping the heads up that was all stop motion miniature as Spielberg hammered would say spared no expense.

With all these professionals and amazing people in the field of technology, robotics ministers stop motion and light with magic. It was a first and broke the way how we filmed that many films today including CGI would not be as great if it wasn’t for Spielbergs, Jurassic Park.

Not only with all those in the studio some things actually happen completely out of surprise the great storm that happens in the film was not scripted properly. It is in fact a real storm in Hawaii of 1992 of the worst thunderstorms and hurricanes to hit the islands where Jurassic Park was being filmed. Ironically, Richard Attenborough, the man who plays Hammond also related to David Attenborough slept through the whole entire thing when people asked him how he did so it turned out. He was a soldier in World War II and that sort of noise never bothered him.

Spielberg did get some professional advice in the palaeontology world. He wanted to know exactly how would these amazing animals move with a bit of creative license involved something such as of the T-Rex only being able to see some thinking of moving was not true however, it was allowed on the phone in the film, as it was in the books palaeontology however, at the same time, ironically discovered the Utahraptor, which looked iconic to the Raptors in Jurassic Park, which, though or called velociraptors, look nothing like the real things.

Another mind-blowing fact about this film, the T-Rex itself was too big to be made and then transported over to Hawaii so Spielberg got an old bunker found on a warehouse estate to set his crew up. There paid for them, either for hotels, or the travel plane weekly to get to the island to build her. It took three years of robotics special effects and painters all working on this gigantic monster soon, and thank God she was created right there.

Everything is all paid off, not only break in the way of how the cinema views and people being absolutely terrified of the idea that these things were real and the noise itself had to edit some of the cinemas to be able to handle such a loud roar, it cost $63 million to make, but it made $1.64 billion back into this day. The merchandise franchise is one of the biggest franchises out there that films even today I carry on the great legend of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park

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