FILM CASE STUDY Plot the Film Is Set on the Fictional Island of Isla Nublar, Located Off Central America's Pacific Coast Near Costa Rica
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1993 FILM CASE STUDY Plot The film is set on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, located off Central America's Pacific Coast near Costa Rica. Three billionaire philanthropist John Hammond and a small team of genetic scientists have created a wildlife park of de-extinct dinosaurs. When industrial sabotage leads to a catastrophic shutdown of the park's power facilities and security precautions, a small group of visitors, and Hammond's grandchildren, struggle to survive and escape the perilous island. ❏ Directed by: Steven Spielberg ❏ Produced by: Kathleen Kennedy,Gerald R. Molen ❏ Screenplay by: Michael Crichton,David Koepp ❏ Based on: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton ❏ Music: John Williams ❏ Cinematography: Dean Cundey ❏ Edited by: Michael Kahn ❏ Production company: Amblin Entertainment ❏ Distributed by: Universal Pictures ❏ Release date : June 9, 1993 (Uptown Theater) June 11, 1993 (United States) July 16, 1993 (United Kingdom) ❏ Budget: $63 million ❏ Box office: $1.029 billion Director and Writer Before Crichton's novel was published, four studios put in bids for its film rights. With the backing of Universal Studios, Spielberg acquired the rights for $1.5 million before its publication in 1990; Crichton was hired for an additional $500,000 to adapt the novel for the screen. Koepp wrote the final draft, which left out much of the novel's exposition and violence and made numerous changes to the characters. Filming took place in California and Hawaii between August and November 1992, and post-production rolled until May 1993, supervised by Spielberg in Poland as Steven Spielberg Michael Crichton he filmed Schindler's List. Trailer Posters Production Filming After 25 months of pre-production, filming began on August 24, 1992, on the Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi. The three-week shoot involved various daytime exteriors for Isla Nublar's forests. On September 11, Hurricane Iniki passed directly over Kauaʻi costing a day of shooting.Several of the storm scenes from the movie are actual footage shot during the hurricane. The opening scene was shot in Haiku, on the island of Maui,with additional scenes filmed on the "forbidden island" of Niihau.Samuel L. Jackson was to film a lengthy death scene where his character is chased and killed by raptors, but the set was destroyed by Hurricane Iniki By mid-September, the crew moved to California, to shoot the raptors in the kitchen at Stage 24 of the Universal studio lot,While Crichton's book features Toyota cars in Jurassic Park, Spielberg made a deal with the Ford Motor Company, who provided seven Ford Explorers.The Explorers were modified by ILM's crew and veteran customizer George Barris to create the illusion they were autonomous cars by hiding the driver in the car's trunk. Barris also customized the Jeep Wranglers featured in the production.Over fifteen percent of the film was shot in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic both at the Amber Museum and Mount Isabela de Torres. The film wrapped twelve days ahead of schedule on November 30,and within days, editor Michael Kahn had a rough cut ready, allowing Spielberg to go ahead with filming Schindler's List. Casting ● William Hurt was initially offered the role of Alan Grant, but turned it down without reading the script. Harrison Ford was also offered the role of Grant.Sam Neill was ultimately cast as Grant three Jeff Goldblum as Laura Dern as Sam Neill as Alan Ian Malcolm Ellie Sattler Grant or four weeks before filming began. ● Ariana Richards who plays Lex Murphy, said, "I was called into a casting office, and they just wanted me to scream. I heard later on that Steven had watched a few girls on tape that day, and I was the only one who ended up waking his sleeping wife on the Joseph Mazzello Richard Attenborough couch, and she came running through the hallway to Ariana Richards as As Tim Murphy as John Hammond see if the kids were alright. Lex Murphy ● Cameron Thor had previously worked with Spielberg on Hook, and initially auditioned for the role of Malcolm, before trying out for the role of Dodgson. ● Spielberg chose to cast Wayne Knight after seeing his acting performance in Basic Instinct B. D. Wong as Samuel L. Jackson Cameron Thor as Dr.Henry Wu As Ray Arnold Lewis Dodgson Music Composer John Williams began scoring the film at the end of February, and it was recorded a month later. John Neufeld and Alexander Courage provided the score's orchestrations. Like Close Encounters of the Third Kind another Spielberg film he scored, Williams felt he needed to write "pieces that would convey a sense of 'awe' and fascination" given it dealt with the "overwhelming happiness and excitement" that would emerge from seeing live dinosaurs. In turn more suspenseful scenes such as the Tyrannosaurus attack required frightening themes.The first soundtrack album was released on May 25, 1993. For the 20th anniversary of the film's release, a new soundtrack was issued for digital download on April 9, 2013, including four bonus tracks personally selected by Williams. Jurassic Park : Theme Song Pre-production: Dinosaurs on screen ❏ Brachiosaurus is the first dinosaur seen by the park's visitors. It is inaccurately depicted as chewing its food and standing up on its hind legs to browse among the high tree branches. ❏ Dilophosaurus was also very different from its real-life counterpart, made significantly smaller to ensure audiences did not confuse it with the raptors.Its neck frill and its ability to spit venom are fictitious. Its vocal sounds were made by combining a swan, a hawk, a howler monkey, and a rattlesnake. ❏ Tyrannosaurus was acknowledged by Spielberg as "the star of the movie", and he rewrote the ending to feature the T. rex for fear of disappointing the audience.Winston's animatronic T. rex stood 20 feet (6.1 m), weighed 17,500 pounds (7,900 kg),and was 40 feet (12 m) long. Its roar is a baby elephant mixed with a tiger and an alligator, and its breath is a whale's blow. ❏ Velociraptor plays a major role in the film. The creature's depiction is not based on the actual dinosaur genus in question, which was significantly smaller. Dolphin screams, walruses bellowing, geese hissing, an African crane's mating call, tortoises mating, and human rasps were mixed to formulate various raptor sounds Brachiosaurus T-Rex Velociraptor Post Production Special effects work continued on the film, with Tippett's unit adjusting to new technology with Dinosaur Input Devices:models which fed information into computers to allow them to animate the characters like stop motion puppets. In addition, they acted out scenes with the raptors and Gallimimus. Compositing the dinosaurs onto the live action scenes took around an hour. Rendering the dinosaurs often took two to four hours per frame, and rendering the T. rex in the rain took six hours per frame Along with the digital effects, Spielberg wanted the film to be the first with digital sound. He funded the creation of DTS (digital theater system), which allows audiences to "really hear the movie the way it was intended to be heard". The sound effects crew, supervised by George Lucas, were finished by the end of April. DTS (Digital Theater System) Marketing Universal took the lengthy pre-production period to carefully plan the Jurassic Park marketing campaign.It cost $65 million and included deals with 100 companies to market 1,000 products.These included: three Jurassic Park video games by Sega and Ocean Software; a toy line by Kenner distributed by Hasbro; McDonald's"Dino-Sized meals"; and a novelization for young children. McDonald's"Dino-Sized meals Release The film premiered at the Uptown Theater (Washington, D.C.) on June 9, 1993, in support of two children's charities.Two days later it opened nationwide in 2,404 theater locations and an estimated 3,400 screens internationally.Following the film's release, a traveling exhibition called "The Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park" began, showcasing dinosaur skeletons and film props. Jurassic Park was broadcast on television for the first time on May 7, 1995, following the April 26 airing of The Making of Jurassic Park.Some 68.12 million people tuned in to watch, garnering NBC a 36 percent share of all available viewers that night. Jurassic Park was the highest-rated theatrical film broadcast on television by any network since the April 1987 airing of Trading Places. In June–July 1995 the film was aired a number of times on the Turner Network Television (TNT) network. Theatrical re-releases ❏ In anticipation of the Blu-ray release, Jurassic Park had a digital print released in UK cinemas on September 23, 2011.It wound up grossing £245,422 ($786,021) from 276 theaters, finishing at eleventh on the weekend box office list ❏ Two years later, on the 20th anniversary of Jurassic Park, a 3D version of the film was released in cinemas.Spielberg declared that he had produced the film with a sort of "subconscious 3D", as scenes feature animals walking toward the cameras and some effects of foreground and background overlay ❏ It opened in the United States and seven other territories on April 5, 2013,with other countries receiving the re-release over the following six months. Box Office Jurassic Park became the highest-grossing film released worldwide up to that time.Following $3.1 million from midnight screenings on June 10, the film earned $47 million in its first weekend, with the $50.1 million total breaking the opening weekend record set by Batman Returns the year before.By the end of its first week, Jurassic Park had grossed $81.7 million, and remained at number one for three weeks.