Jurassic Park - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[gabriel]

When Nedry slips and falls down the hill from his vehicle while attempting to run its winch cable, a cartoon sliding sound can be heard.

[eli]

In the original novel, John Hammond was killed by a flock of small dinosaurs called Procompsognathids, (Compies), a species which does not appear in this movie. However, this death scene was resurrected and re-worked for another character in The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997).

[frances]

This is the movie that inspired BBC's Tim Haines to produce the groundbreaking dinosaur documentary series Walking with Dinosaurs (1999) and its various follow-ups. But it also made his and the animators' job at Framestore harder, as people have already had an idea of what dinosaurs "should" look and move like.

[harry]

In the original novel, the armed forces of Costa Rica play a key role in the end of the story, both rescuing and holding the surviving characters and bombing the island and the dinosaurs into oblivion. Filmmakers decided against this idea for budgetary reasons and to remain open the possibility of any sequels but, interestingly, this is also a mistake by author Michael Crichton himself, since Costa Rica hasn't had a military force since 1948.