Over the next two weeks and two blogs you will notice something... that
“Jurassic Park” is one of my favorite films of all time.
One of my favorite things about the film is the dialogue, especially of the character Dr. Ian Malcolm, played by Jeff Goldblum. I think the fact that Michael Crichton, with David Koepp, had a hand in the screenplay, based on his book, was a determining factor in the dialogue being so well-written.
When it came to picking one quote from the film that I liked the best, it was a no-brainer.
John Hammond: All major theme parks have had delays. When they opened Disneyland in 1956, nothing worked, nothing.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: But, John. If the Pirates of the Caribbean breaks down, the pirates don't eat the tourists.
Malcolm also has some other great lines that I enjoyed.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here: it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you even knew what you had you patented it and packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it, you want to sell it!
Dr. Ian Malcolm: But again, how do you know they're all female? Does someone go into the park and, uh... lift up the dinosaurs' skirts?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: [Ian Malcolm leans to face camera in electric tour car when the T-Rex doesn't appear] Now eventually you might have dinosaurs on your, on your dinosaur tour, right? Hello? yes? [he taps the camera lens and breathes on it]
Check out some other great lines from “Jurassic Park” here
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