The film wisely treats this old-hat science-fiction theme as a quasi-joke, with Goldblum throwing away his lines in a jittery deadpan. Arriving by helicopter at the lush, mountainous island, they are joined by a mercenary lawyer (Martin Ferrero) who represents Hammond’s investors and by Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), a black-clad mathematician who keeps jabbering on about the perils of tampering with nature. Hammond needs scientific approval of his project to satisfy his investors, so he offers Alan and Ellie a tour of Jurassic Park.
The main feature? Real live dinosaurs, cloned from strands of fossilized DNA. “Returning to his trailer, Grant stumbles upon a mysterious visitor, John Hammond (Sir Richard Attenborough), a billionaire Scottish developer who has created an extraordinary new amusement park on a tropical island just off Costa Rica. Spielberg is so good at setting up the wonders to come that he leaves us just about dizzy with anticipation. His tale evokes an early scene in Hollywood’s first great giant-monster fable, the 1933 King Kong, and from that moment on the audience is hooked. He tells an ominous story about the vicious, cunning velociraptors (”raptors” for short), who would work as a team to outwit their prey. Under the glaring sun, Grant dispels the myth that all dinosaurs were pea-brained. Before long, we’re off to the desert, where Grant and his paleobotanist girlfriend, Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), are digging up fossils. From the opening moments of Jurassic Park, Spielberg toys with our expectations. “As rays of blinding white light - Spielbergian light - poke through a dark forest, something large and ominous is crashing through the trees. Created through a blend of computer-generated animation and electronically controlled models, they are so marvelous, and Spielberg choreographs their scenes with such wit, tension, and verve… has enough of innocent, playful virtuosity to send you out of the theater grinning with delight.
”In JURASSIC PARK, adapted from Michael Crichton’s 1990 best-seller, the dinosaurs - some benign, some terrifying, all wondrous - tap into the giddiest science-class daydreams you had as a kid. Friday, November 9 - Saturday, November 10, 2018
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