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It's the groundbreaking film

that brought dinosaurs to life.

It was a T-Rex in the same frame as a human being.

I cannot understate how mindblowing that was for 1993.

No movie had ever been made like this before.

"Jurassic Park" would thrill audiences

and smash box office records.

They spent $65 million on the marketing campaign.

That was more than the budget of the film itself.

The film's success all depended on one thing,

how to make these prehistoric creatures

convincing and believable.

Spielberg knew this movie would live and die

based on the dinosaurs.

When we don't believe the veracity of what's on screen,

a blockbuster falls apart.

Steven Spielberg was talking to Michael Crichton and

Michael Crichton says, Steven, how will you do the dinosaurs?

Its special effects changed

how Hollywood made movies.

"Jurassic Park" did stuff we'd never seen before

and it changed it technologically.

CGI barely existed.

The T-Rex's roar is actually a baby elephant.

This is where the genius of Spielberg comes into play.

Live-action puppets and CGI mixed together

and it still works.

And when it all came together on screen,

it was film making at its finest.

The dinosaurs are actually only in this movie,

which is over two hours long for 14 minutes.

"Jurassic Park" taps into our thrill of seeing things

that we can only imagine.

We dig into how this groundbreaking film came

together in an unbelievable combination of science fact

and science fiction.

"Jurassic Park" changed the modern blockbuster,

but also changed what these stories could be about.

Science is cool. Action movies can be unexpected.

An adventure 65 million years in the making.

♪

November 2020, filming wraps on one of the most

anticipated films in the 21st century,

one millions of years in the making.

Fans are gonna lose their minds.

Another "Jurassic Park" is coming.

Everyone will go see it. That's all there is to it.

It's gonna be the culmination of all of the greatest parts

of "Jurassic" that you loved from the very first

up to the most recent one.

And uh, it's going to truly deliver on the promise.

It's going to blow you away.

"Jurassic World Dominion"

is the 6th installment in the action-adventure series.

And reportedly features seven new dinosaur species

previously unseen in the franchise.

Just what will they come up with this time?

Fans are gonna flock to this new movie.

With Colin Trevorrow directing and Steven Spielberg involved

as well, this film is gonna be another monster hit.

But more importantly the $165 million film unites

"Jurassic" legacy actor, Sam Neill, Laura Dern

and Jeff Goldblum with "Jurassic World" stars,

Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard.

That was such a monumental moment when they got announced

for this project.

You have Jeff Goldblum reprising his role

as Dr. Ian Malcolm.

You have Laura Dern reprising her role as Dr. Ellie Satler.

And you have Sam Neill reprising his role as Dr. Alan Grant.

Having the big three that we haven't seen since

"Jurassic Park", the original in 1993 is just incredible,

amazing, spectacular. Just we can't wait.

To see the culmination of the arcs that they set up

back in "Jurassic Park" with the family elements

and all these really intricate things

that they've been layering in throughout the entire saga.

I'm gonna be sad when it all comes to a close.

It is the latest film in a franchise

that has captivated audiences for nearly three decades.

You really can't underestimate the power and the pull that

the "Jurassic Park" franchise has on pop culture today.

When the original "Jurassic Park" was released

it earned nearly $1 billion

and became the highest grossing film of 1993.

This movie grossed $914 million

in the initial release, which is a huge number now.

So imagine how huge that number was then.

It really is the first major blockbuster of this type,

isn't it?

Well, given that I think this film is going to be one of the

biggest of all time, I guess you know, that's fair to say.

Dinosaurs have always fascinated people.

And to suddenly see a movie where they're walking around

was at that time, it was just mindblowing

because CGI was in its infancy.

You have George Lucas, Steven Spielberg.

You have this incredible technology and CGI.

You have the dinosaurs.

When I saw the first movie, it was such a huge feat in cinema.

And it was, it was really, there was like a before and

after point with that film, what Steven Spielberg did.

These things really did exist and they were real-life

monsters, but it's been 65 million years and so

you know, there's, it's exciting and yeah, as a kid I loved it.

I remember the first time I saw "Jurassic Park"

being blown away by the scale.

The close-ups of the eye, the suspense.

They also felt just believable enough

that it hooked you in that like, oh my gosh,

what if this did happen?

That movie made science cool.

It wasn't a James Bond movie. It wasn't a John McClane movie.

It was Sam Neill and Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum

as action stars.

And it's based on real science.

This was written by Michael Crichton

who is a real doctor, someone who went to medical school.

Michael Crichton is a prolific author

behind such books as "The Andromeda Strain"

and "Sphere",

as well as the creative force behind "ER".

Michael Crichton was a filmmaker as well as a novelist.

He was, if you will, a failed doctor.

He had gone to medical school, had written a memoir about that,

which Steven Spielberg had purchased and became "ER",

so there was a relationship there.

Crichton had been toying with one particular idea

for a decade when in 1990,

he publishes his novel, "Jurassic Park".

I interviewed Michael Crichton.

It was a concept he'd had for a long time.

The basic gist of it was, hey, let's use genetics,

DNA extracted from mosquitoes to recreate dinosaurs.

What people want to see is the thing

you never saw in real life, which is humans, dinosaurs

coexisting at the same time.

How is he gonna have them together?

Ah, theme park.

"Jurassic Park" is about playing God.

It's about bringing something back to life that you shouldn't

necessarily bring back to life.

It follows that long lineage of films that just because

you can do something, doesn't mean you should do it.

So Steven Spielberg and Michael Crichton are friends.

And they're talking about a project that eventually

becomes "ER", but during the process Michael Crichton says,

yeah, I've got an idea about how to bring dinosaurs back to life

through a DNA strain.

Steven Spielberg had read the book.

He's always liked dinosaurs and he told Michael Crichton

he'd like to do it.

And Spielberg goes, ah, ding, ding, ding.

And then his eyes lit up and dollar signs

started just flying by.

Steven Spielberg was the right fit because Spielberg has always

credited monster movies like "King Kong", "Godzilla",

things like that for inspiring him as a filmmaker.

This was the perfect kinda story for him to tell.

Steven Spielberg loved smart heroes.

He did that in a lot of his movies, his dramas

and his action movies.

I mean, Indiana Jones is a smart hero.

He's not always the strongest one in the room,

but he's usually the smartest one in the room.

It's always what he's done.

And he really brought that energy.

And he partnered it with Michael Crichton

who was a very smart, brilliant writer.

Spielberg knows the success of the film

depends on one thing,

how to bring dinosaurs back to life on-screen.

The pre-production for "Jurassic Park" actually lasted

over two years. It was 25 months of work.

It was the dawn of computer-generated imagery,

but there were also older techniques

that were still being employed.

We'll get somebody who can do live-action dinosaurs and

we'll also get somebody that can do stop-motion dinosaurs.

And we'll combine those two. And then maybe add some CGI.

And that was the orginal plan with "Jurassic Park".

Steven Spielberg had a very unfortunate experience

with "Jaws",

with Bruce the shark, which never worked.

He's been quoted as saying, you know that shark they have

in that tank for Universal Tours?

That works much better than the one we ever had.

It was just terrible.

The saltwater was shortening out things.

It didn't have a powerful enough engine.

They had to compromise things.

The great thing about that movie is you don't see the shark

that much, so it's scary.

That was almost out of necessity because they just didn't have

the shark that worked.

So now he's going into a movie where there're dinosaurs,

but it's 10 years later.

It's more than 10 years later and this stuff works better.

Steven Spielberg wanted this movie so bad, right?

He basically begged Michael Crichton for it.

It took a lot of convincing because a movie of this scope

seems unfathomable.

How do you make this? How do you make this real?

Spielberg turns to two Hollywood legends,

special makeup effects creator, Stan Winston and

visual effects innovator, Phil Tippett.

Stan Winston was gonna make the live things full scale,

however he was going to make them move.

Phil Tippett was going to do what they call, go motion.

Stop motion is an old-fashioned technique used in movies like

"King Kong", could do "Kong and the Dinosaurs".

The problem with stop motion is you're filming puppets

one frame at a time and they're not moving,

so Phil Tippett had come up with this thing called go motion,

which kinda surmounted that.

Got some motion blur into it, so the movement looks smoother.

And what they were also investigating was,

maybe we could speed up the process if he did stop motion.

And we'll use computers to add that motion blur,

smooth out the motion, make it look more realistic,

the way it would seem if you photographed a

real dinosaur moving.

And suddenly it was like, hey, we've had the breakthrough.

With special effects advisor, Dennis Muren came in and says,

I think we can do this with CGI. And he said two words, prove it.

George Lucas was actually the one who sort of convinced

Spielberg that this was the way to go.

He built out a model he showed him.

This is how convincing it could be.

And I think Spielberg really had to see it.

Spielberg sees a test reel of fully

computer-generated dinosaurs and he's convinced.

The screening also inspires one of the film's most iconic lines.

In the film, you see them running, attacking,

doing all that stuff.

We don't need stop motion anymore.

And Phil Tippett apparently said something like, I'm extinct.

He really felt broken,

I think to the point where Steven was like,

I'm gonna use that in the movie.

Jeff Goldblum responds to something that

the Sam Neill character says.

- We're out of a job. - Don't you mean extinct?

That line came from the reaction they had in the room

when they were looking at footage

and seeing how good it was.

CGI had gotten to the point by 1991

where it could actually produce those dinosaurs.

But he's not ready to give up

live-action dinosaurs completely.

This is where the genius of Spielberg comes into play.

He's got like live-action puppets and he's got CGI

mixed together and it just, to this day it still works.

If you're a geek with like your Blu-ray player

and you want to freeze-frame and spot which is the real dinosaur,

the full-size, mechanical thing that was actually there

on the set versus CGI. It's pretty simple.

If you're seeing only part of an animal.

If you're seeing a foot or a claw, or maybe just a head

of a T-Rex peering through a window of a Jeep,

that's probably the life-action thing.

If you're seeing a full-scale, top-to-bottom figure,

head-to-foot, walking, running, that's gonna be CGI.

As a filmmaker, Steven Spielberg knew he had

to get the dinosaurs right.

What he ended up getting was groundbreaking CGI

and a really smooth marriage of computer effects

and practical, real-life sets all in one movie.

Spielberg turns his attention to his human cast

finding the actors who can turn scientists into super heroes.

It's summer of 1992

and only weeks away from filming.

Spielberg is still searching for the perfect lead actor

to play paleontologist, Alan Grant.

After his leading man in "Indiana Jones",

Harrison Ford turns down the role.

He'd worked with Spielberg before.

He had been in "Raiders of the Lost Ark",

"Star Wars". He was kind of the name in Hollywood.

Sam Neill was a fairly successful leading man

from Australia.

He was kind of a fall back when Harrison Ford said no.

It's not a role that's gonna attract a lot of stars.

And you know something? It didn't need a star.

It didn't want a star. The dinosaurs are the star.

You know, it's not often you get asked to play with dinosaurs

and um, you get a story that you know,

takes you by the scruff of the neck

and hurls you down a rollercoaster

for a couple of hours.

Crichton's inspiration for

Neill's character is a real-life paleontologist.

He's a guy called uh,

Jack Horner and he digs up bones in uh, in Montana.

And my character's very much based on him.

And he was also advising us on the film.

Spielberg's vision for John Hammond, the creator

of "Jurassic Park" is different from Michael Crichton's.

John Hammond, in the book is not a good guy.

Even at the end after seeing all the disaster,

he's just saying to himself,

you know, I just didn't hire the right people.

Next time, it's gonna be okay. And then the dinosaurs eat him.

So...

Instead, Spielberg sees Hammond

played by Richard Attenborough as an idealist.

Here he's an overenthusiast child.

He's much more interested in all the wonders of these dinosaurs.

And he even brings his grandchildren to see them.

- Grandpa! - Kids!

He has no sense of the jeopardy they might get into.

The John Hammond we got in the film

is kinda the polar opposite.

He's warm-hearted. He's well-intentioned.

He's trying to give something grand to people.

Richard Attenborough, he brings this gravitas and this

heft to that role because it is a pretty layered character.

And you need somebody of that scope to be so happy-go-lucky,

but also very serious and delusional at the same time.

That scene where he's just standing there, just looking

at the park where the helicopter's just behind him.

And Grant startles him because he's just seeing his

dream completely shattered. It's his arc.

It comes from very happy, look what I've done

to what have I done?

The role of Ellie Satler was apparently read

by every woman in Hollywood.

This is one of the biggest films at the time

and a lot of actresses were clamoring for the role.

It's reported that Julianne Moore was up for the role,

Gwyneth Paltrow, Sandra Bullock.

And what's so interesting is that Laura Dern got a call

to audition for this and she had just come off of a movie

with Nick Cage. And she was kind of like,

I don't know if this is right for me.

She was doing smaller movies and she mentioned it to Nick Cage

and he was like, a dinosaur movie?

You've gotta do this.

And she was kind of like, really, Nick Cage?

I have to do a dinosaur movie?

And he convinced her to go and do this,

so if it weren't for Nick Cage,

we wouldn't have Laura Dern on the screen in this movie.

No one can really imagine anyone else

other than Jeff Goldblum in the role of Ian Malcolm because

he brought such charisma and Jeff Goldblumness to the part.

Here's the thing with Jeff Goldblum, Jeff Goldblum

always seems like he's intrigued.

And as a scientist, it worked perfectly.

He's like, oh my, yes, hmm.

So you're taking the DNA out of the amber? Hmm.

Like how great is that? Like he was perfect.

I guess I'm attracted to parts and maybe emphasize that the

element of parts that are... I would feel to me um, special

and refreshingly distinctive in some way and unique.

Jeff Goldblum made the character cool.

I think he was always meant to be.

The book describes mathematicians in general

who study chaos theory as being the rock stars

of the science world.

And he came across that way with his black, leather jacket.

He's the Michael Crichton character.

You can tell that Michael Crichton

is speaking through him.

Strangely enough, he could be kind of a sex symbol.

I didn't realize that at the time it came out,

but a couple of years ago I saw a screening

at the Hollywood Bowl, life-to-screen kind of thing

with the orchestra playing the music.

And there's a scene where Goldblum appears shirtless

and the female half of the audience let us know

they approved pretty loudly.

And I thought, God, how did I miss that all these years?

He's, he's not just an intellectual nerd.

He's, you know, he's a sex symbol, a scientific sex symbol.

Who knew?

Ariana Richards and Joseph Mazzello

are cast as Hammond's grandchildren.

It was just, I think the most wonderful experience with Steven

and the dinosaurs and everything.

Joe, how about for you?

Was it fun or was it scary some of the time?

It was uh, really a thrill to work with all the dinosaurs,

but the dinosaurs were scary because they were just so real.

Like a lot of these giant, influential films,

it's a film where you wouldn't change a single cast member.

I think everyone works all the way down to Samuel L. Jackson

and Wayne Knight, like every person in this movie fits.

With the human cast in place, Spielberg's

special effect's team finally reveals their dinosaurs.

And thanks to that ingenious combination of CGI

and real-life science,

they are like nothing else audiences have ever seen.

Steven Spielberg, I believe wanted to change the way

that we see dinosaurs on screen. He wanted to make them

more agile, faster, scarier, more predatory.

There had been a paleontologist for a least

a decade theorizing that dinosaurs were not cold-blooded,

slow, stupid reptiles, but warm-blooded creatures

that moved fast.

So Spielberg, actually there's some science here.

Dinosaurs we know, they're kind of the precursors to birds.

So they weren't lumbering.

They made them more birdlike.

Kind of like when you see uh, an ostrich running.

That thing moves. That thing's fast.

I'll bet you'll never look at birds the same way again.

It gave the animals believable behaviors

and I think that had a lot to do

with Crichton thinking things through.

We can't know for sure how a T-Rex hunted,

how a raptor hunted,

but he looked at real-world animals and said,

well, what do they do? How do they hunt?

Hey, let's say raptors hunt in packs.

The animatronics actually had to be operated by a person

who was inside the velociraptor

and it was extremely claustrophobic.

They have a full-body animatronic or just the

half suit where somebody could step into it,

and then blending that with the CG

as it's jumping up onto a counter.

It's incredible what they did.

They spent at least two weeks on that, maybe more.

It's an amazing bit of choreography with camera,

effects, kids, animatronics that Spielberg was able to pull off.

I just don't know how many directors could do that.

I think that if we hadn't had CGI,

Spielberg probably could have done

the raptor sequence at the end

where they're stalking the kids through the kitchen,

but it would have been shadows on the walls.

You would have seen a live-action raptor head

come over a table for a second.

You would've seen a claw on the floor.

And it would've been a lot of stuff on the kids wondering,

is it this way? Is it that way?

Where is it coming from?

And it could have been a pretty good sequence,

but once you add the CGI,

you could film a full-scale raptor walking

from head-to-foot, jumping up on a table, looking around.

It works to such a degree that you were on the edge

of your seat the entire time.

The way Spielberg brings the actors and dinosaurs

together on-screen changes filmmaking forever.

Half the time there's nothing there,

so you're reacting to nothing.

And then half the time, and Dennis Muren and his

Oscar-winning team of ILM people.

And then half the time, it's Stan Winston's animatronic

models that were there.

You can't tell what is what. It's seamless.

It is so perfectly done that it was awe-inspiring

and that's what made the movie.

Spielberg knew, this movie would live and die

based on how well presented the dinosaurs were.

They had to be scary. They had to be agile.

Spielberg did a great job building the suspense

and making them horrifying.

As shooting begins, Spielberg learns to direct

dinosaurs and resorts to roaring at the actors himself.

Principal photography

on Steven Spielberg's, "Jurassic Park"

begins in August of 1992 in Hawaii and California.

The triceratops animatronic is the first dinosaur on set

with the cast and she makes quite an impression.

The actors were all completely enthralled.

They were all just taken back how this thing looks so real.

They actually made it look like it was breathing.

Where you'd see its stomach actually rise and fall,

rise and fall.

And I feel like it's an avatar for Spielberg at that moment.

You get to see the love that Steven had for these creatures

when Alan Grant is laying on the side of the triceratops there.

It's beautiful.

Directors love on-set live effects

because you don't have to wait a month

for the effects company to bring the footage back

and maybe it works, maybe it doesn't.

And you've got to ask them to do it again

and it takes another month. It's right there on set.

You have an opportunity for real-life improvisation.

The actors walk in and they see it and they get an idea

of how their character would react to seeing this thing live,

you know?

You can tell the operator to do this or that,

or do some little gesture.

So directors would prefer to have as much of that

as they can.

The actors on set said that they kind of had that moment.

You know, when they saw the T-Rex for the first time,

it was this huge, heavy, hulking thing.

The animatronic T-Rex was so massive.

It weighed eight tons.

It was 36 feet long and 18 feet tall.

It was something you just can't fathom these days.

Scale matters, right? Why make people act?

Just build a real dinosaur and get them to react.

It's brilliant if you think about it.

It's like, wow, that's a real dinosaur, bro.

You sort of forget that actors are on set acting

and responding to things that don't actually exist.

Spielberg wanted to make it a little bit easier for them,

so he was on set with a megaphone making roaring noises.

In theory to make it easier for the actors to respond,

but what we know was that on set, they were just cracking up.

Sometimes there's a guy with a stick with a

cardboard dinosaur head on it.

And you know, sometimes Steven Spielberg takes

the bullhorn and goes, roar, you know.

You have to look terrified?

Yeah, I mean, I have to go, what's that?

So Spielberg actually is like,

you're gonna talk to this tennis ball.

Like seriously creating scenes out of nothing.

They don't look like actors looking at tennis balls

or waiting for green screens.

They look like people who are experiencing

what this movie is about.

We fall out of blockbusters when we don't buy what's happening.

Because then we start to see the seams.

We start to see the CGI. We start to see the problems.

When we don't believe the veracity of what's on screen,

a blockbuster falls apart.

Skywalker Sound went out to find new sounds.

They actually went out and recorded all new animal sounds.

And they got some really iconic sounds from there.

They did so much testing and recording, upwards of like 20

or so different animals for just one creature.

And then you see them splicing it all together and making sure

all the levels are accurate. And it came out perfectly.

The T-Rex's roar, the main roar that we all hear,

it's actually a baby elephant.

The velociraptors have many different sounds,

but when it comes to the attack, there is this bassy sound to it,

but also this really, really high-pitched noise.

And apparently they used a walrus for the lower end and

a boy dolphin trying to go after a girl dolphin

for the higher register.

How do you come up with that? It's brilliant.

The most difficult dinosaur effect to create

appears on screen to be the simplest.

So when the characters are inside the Ford Explorer,

you need to have a sense of,

something big is out in the jungle,

something big is coming.

And there's of course, there's the impact.

You can hear it out there, but you also need to feel it.

And you need to sense it in a different way.

It actually was Spielberg's idea, all that tonnage

hitting the ground has to create some type of tremor.

It's a brilliant idea.

It's a little like "Jaws" where you have da, da, da, da

where that gives you something's coming.

There's the warning. And it works magnificently

'cause now you've got both fear and suspense going for you.

One of those great Spielberg touches that's now part

of pop culture history.

You just want them to get out of there.

Michael Lantieri was playing guitar and he had a glass

of water on the guitar, and he created the perfect ripple.

And he rigged it up, so that he took a guitar string,

fed it through the vehicle into that glass

and plucked it, and it created that perfect circle

that you see inside the film.

It's just one of the best sequences

in action-film history.

Spielberg makes another key change

to Crichton's book, the ending.

The ending in the book is very different from the film.

The ending of the book actually kills off two characters

that don't die out in the film.

Hammond dies in the book, and Malcolm dies in the book.

Spielberg, when they filmed the scene with the T-Rex,

he realized this is the star of the movie.

The audience wants more T-Rex.

So they brought him back and yeah, he ate the raptors

at the end, which was great. That was a great moment.

I think that's something that you see in other Spielberg work.

He exec-produced "Gremlins".

And originally, Gizmo, the good gremlin was only going

to be like in the first act. And he told, Joe Dante,

the director, the audience is going to love Gizmo.

They're gonna want to see him throughout the rest of the film.

So that was his understanding of what audiences wanted.

It's like, you can't have this big thing with the T-Rex

in the middle of the movie and then not see him anymore.

He saw that potential in the T-Rex and he said,

no, we've got to bring her back. What is it?

The most iconic scene in cinema history.

The banner falling down saying, when dinosaurs ruled the earth,

it's just incredible.

Filming finishes on budget and 12 days ahead

of schedule in November 1992.

It's a tribute to how much Spielberg knew about filmmaking

by this time in his career to be able to do that

and hit his mark so perfectly.

Spielberg's producing partner,

Kathleen Kennedy teams up with George Lucas

to oversee post-production.

Since Spielberg is already on set of his next film,

"Schindler's List".

He'd have a day spent at a concentration camp draining him.

And he'd come back at night and had to spend two or three hours

on the phone to people back in Hollywood

worrying about dinosaurs running around.

And he was living in both worlds.

This was the movie that was going to win him an Oscar.

This was a really deep, heavy movie.

He was beginning to realize that he got into filmmaking

to say something.

And creating dinosaurs isn't really saying anything.

He was wearying of the fact that he was worrying about dinosaurs

when he really wanted to worry about what happened in Poland

and what happened to his ancestors.

And so, I can see this is a turning point for him.

After this film, he continued to make a popcorn movie.

He continued to make "Jurassic Park".

He even made another "Indiana Jones" film.

He will always go to those crowd pleasers,

but he's now made "Lincoln". He's now made "Munich".

He's now made "Schindler's List".

He now wants to make serious films

that utilize all his talents as a filmmaker.

Spielberg calls it one of the most difficult times

in his life as a filmmaker, but will it pay off?

He also knows that if film goers don't buy his dinosaurs,

"Jurassic Park" will flop.

It's a box office gamble 65 million years in the making.

"Jurassic Park" began as a book that took

mega-author, Michael Crichton nearly a decade to write.

And three years after it was published, director,

Steven Spielberg has brought dinosaurs roaring back to life

on the big screen.

The film is set to premier in June of 1993

and in an unprecedented move,

Universal spends more on the film's marketing

than it does on the film's $63 million production budget.

Little known fact about "Jurassic Park".

It really wasn't a movie as much as it was a t-shirt,

cup, toy campaign supported by a movie.

They spent $65 million on the marketing campaign.

That was more than the budget of the film itself.

The only thing more gigantic than the dinosaurs themselves

was the marketing for this movie.

Nowadays, big marketing campaigns

where production houses put millions of dollars into it

is sort of the norm,

but you have to keep in mind that in the early '90s,

what "Jurassic Park" did was unprecedented.

You could not turn a corner, turn on the TV,

turn on the radio without hearing about this movie.

The funny thing about the marketing campaign

is the movie makes fun of it.

There's a panning shot of all the "Jurassic Park" merchadise

that's going to be on display when this park finally opens.

And in fact, that is the merchandise for the movie.

And I think Spielberg took a little bit of flack

for that film.

Some people accused him of hypocrisy.

I mean, it's a movie about how bad an idea this theme park is,

but then when you go to the scenes of the theme park,

there's merchandise caps for sale, and there was

this feeling of, hey, they're gonna be selling

those caps and those water bottles in real life.

How hypocritical is that?

So he's kind of spoofing theme parks, but he's also spoofing

his own marketing campaign. It's almost funny, you know?

And he was smart enough to put that in the movie.

Both the marketing campaign and the filmmaker's

movie magic pay off when "Jurassic Park" hits theaters.

It's a thundering success.

There aren't a lot of movies that appeal

to literally every generation and every type of person.

Everything comes together to make it so it's a movie

that you kind of can't look away from.

And I think whether you were a nine year old like me,

or you were a 90 year old,

you weren't going to miss this event.

People went to see it more than once.

This was a movie that was unbelievable.

That you could see this on film.

"Jurassic Park" made over $914 million at the worldwide

box office during its first initial release.

It exceeded all expectations and in the long run,

Steven Spielberg actually broke his worldwide record

set by "ET".

So once again, Steven Spielberg

proving that the only person that can beat Steven Spielberg

is Steven Spielberg.

"ET", highest grossing movie.

And then of course,

"Jurassic Park", highest grossing movie.

It was a summer blockbuster that stayed in theaters

until February.

The cast of the film is so wonderful,

but that's not why audiences sought this movie out.

They sought this movie out because of the dinosaurs.

These are the main attraction and the main stars of the movie.

But Steven Spielberg, he's a clever director

and he kinda teases the audience.

He shows you a brachiosaurus, so gentle, so beautiful.

And then he tells you... - We have a T-Rex.

So he's giving you something beautiful

and giving you something deadly at the same time.

And that's the magic of Spielberg

'cause he's been making you wait this entire time.

Spielberg doing what he does best,

orchestrating a moment that takes your breath away

as the actors themselves lose their breaths.

Sam Neill grabs Laura Dern's head, turns it around,

and then we get that massive,

expansive shot of the dinosaurs roaming freely in the fields.

It's beautiful. It's majestic.

It's this thing that you and I will never see in real life.

This thing is 30 feet, 40 feet tall, a long neck,

their feet look like trunks of trees.

These things are huge.

You believe that they're actually looking at dinosaurs.

They sell the moment.

They sell the believablity of it.

And that is so essential to movies like this.

We fall out of blockbusters when we don't buy what's happening.

There's not a moment in "Jurassic Park"

where we don't buy it. There's not a moment.

No movie had ever been made like this before.

And it was just a phenomenon and deservedly so.

Now the T-Rex, I would say is the star of the film,

the star of the franchise really.

And Steven Spielberg really, really is clever in the way

that he unveils this guy.

Earlier in the film, there is a goat that shows up

to entice the T-Rex. The T-Rex doesn't show up.

But in the rain later, Lex in the film starts wondering,

where's the goat?

And you see the goat like pop right on top of the car,

and then you see the goat being eaten,

swallowed up by the T-Rex.

And you see that T-Rex lumber out and she does that epic roar.

One of the best scenes ever.

It's the best sequence, I think in that film.

And it's something that really stands the test of time

where anytime somebody mentions "Jurassic Park",

it's that moment.

Everyone loved the lawyer getting eaten on the toilet.

I mean, what did lawyers ever do to you, people?

I mean, seriously to this day, people love that scene.

You'll see interviews with people who study animal behavior

going, oh yeah, I saw real predator behavior in that movie.

T-Rex picking up the lawyer from the toilet, it's like,

maybe that's how a 20-foot tall predator

would deal with its prey, you know?

Pick it up, yank it up into the air, and shake it, and kill it.

There's not much worse of a death that you can have

than dying on a toilet from a T-Rex.

It was sort of that mix of like cringing and jumping,

and laughing at the same time.

It was like a meme moment before memes were a thing.

Another iconic scene is the T-Rex chase scene.

It was a challenge for the CGI team to create this bipedal

of say 15 foot, 40 long, 40 long, um, carnivore running

because there's nothing to reference it from.

It gets closer and closer, hits the side of the car.

You see the terror in Laura Dern's face.

And Goldblum had so many great moments in this movie.

The dinosaurs chasing them in the open-air Jeep

and Goldblum says, - Must go faster.

This is what makes that movie so memorable and has

staying power is that you get these little, comedic

relief moments while you're also terrified.

The dinosaurs are actually only in this movie,

which is over two hours long for 14 minutes.

It doesn't matter.

All we're gonna talk about is the dinosaurs.

Steven Spielberg smashes records

whenever he feels like it.

He goes off and makes a side passion project, then he comes

back and breaks box office records with movies like this.

It took off. It was huge.

Anyone who saw "Jurassic Park" knew they were going to make

more of these. They were going to make toys.

They were going to make video games.

They were going to probably make a TV series eventually

and they have.

It was an industry from the minute we saw it.

The next question for Spielberg,

how to convince Michael Crichton to write a sequel.

After the success of the novel,

"Jurassic Park" in 1990,

Michael Crichton had no plans to write a sequel.

He's never written one before.

But given the success of the film, he reconsiders.

The movie made so much money and was so well received

that they needed a sequel, so Steven basically begged

Michael Crichton to write a novel that they could use.

"The Lost World" was published in September 1995

and spends eight weeks at number one on the best seller list.

It is the only sequel Crichton ever writes.

Months before the release in '97, well, we got this teaser.

There was just rain. It said something has survived.

And the leading star of this film was Jeff Goldblum

reprising his role as Dr. Malcolm.

The thing about "Lost World" is it had a lot to live up to.

That first movie was record breaking and industry changing,

and the number-one movie of the year,

and people's favorite movie of all time.

So how do you follow that up?

It was mid 1997.

The lines went three times around this theater.

This film was huge.

"The Lost World" makes $92 million

in its opening weekend and reaches the $100 million mark

in just five and a half days.

Another sequel is immediately planned.

And "Jurassic Park III" is released in 2001.

With director Joe Johnston at the helm instead of Spielberg.

And who's reprising his role is Sam Neill as Alan Grant.

And it's so great to see Grant back in the franchise

'cause he wasn't in the second film.

They go back to this island and a new dinosaur is introduced,

a bigger, badder dinosaur than the T-Rex.

I loved making the film. I had a great time doing it.

And um, if they ask me to do it again, I'd do it.

We'll see.

Here's the thing about "Jurassic Park III",

I think they weren't quite sure what movie to make when

they made "Jurassic Park III".

I think they were trying to tell multiple stories

at the same time and it lacks the focus.

It was not Spielberg anymore and it felt different.

Some of the CG wasn't up to par, but a lot of it was

actually really, really great. It looked brilliant.

The third movie is successful enough

to warrant a fourth,

but in 2008, Crichton dies after battling lymphoma.

And plans for the sequel are shelved.

It was kind of dead in the water for a very long time.

In 2015, Spielberg reboots the series

as an executive producer creating "Jurassic World".

We were waiting 14 years for this.

Finally we got an announcement that was real

and it was "Jurassic World".

And Colin Trevorrow was going to direct it.

With T-Rex sized expectations

for the new film series, the pressure is on its new stars,

Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard.

"Jurassic Park" was sort of our generation's "Star Wars".

Like it's a really, it's a really big deal.

What we keep finding ourselves doing on set is when we're

watching playback, we'll be like, da, da, da, da, da

like all in chorus.

We'll all be singing along as we watch some kind of like

sweeping shot unfold.

"Jurassic World" makes $200 million in three days

and $1.67 billion in total.

Fans are gonna flock to this new movie because

it's been revived.

People love Chris Pratt, what he's brought to the franchise.

We're just wondering, where is this going to go next?

I thought "Jurassic World"

was like the stupidest idea I had ever heard.

They're gonna be training the raptors to be like some

kind of paramilitary group taking orders.

It sounded really dumb and then I saw the movie and I thought,

God, that was so wonderful. So it made a believer out of me.

It's inspired a lot of people to again start to look

into palentology or to do things you know, in the CG world.

So it kind of is doing

exactly what "Jurassic Park" did for a new audience.

This film was a monster in the box office.

Dinosaurs rule the earth again in 2015.

Any other film that came out that year

was just trampled by this film.

"Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom"

arrives in 2018 and is the third "Jurassic Park" film

to pass the $1 billion mark.

The park has been abandoned.

The dinosaurs have been left to fend for themselves

on the island. There're no human beings here

and there's an extinction-level event happening

that is going to wipe out the remaining dinosaurs,

and Claire wants to go and get them.

"Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom"

comes out of nowhere and decides it wants to destroy

everything you know about "Jurassic Park".

It literally burns the island to the ground.

It was a beautiful way to kind of send off the island

and that storyline, the old past kind of disappearing.

But it starts to encounter new terrors and new horrors

as dinosaurs are getting let out into the wild in America.

And you have to now deal with even scarier hybrids.

Obviously, by the time

of "Jurassic World" and "Fallen Kingdom",

CGI has totally taken over.

The "Jurassic" franchise is now among the

most profitable on the planet based on its rate of return

surpassing even "Star Wars" and "Harry Potter".

The only people that I feel bad for when I look at

"Jurassic Park" are the dinosaurs

'cause they're not getting anything.

They're making no residuals, baby.

In addition to the films, there are

theme park attractions on multiple continents,

toys, games, collectibles and an animated series.

"Jurassic Park" is an iconic commodity now,

and I do mean commodity.

The movies, I don't know if they existed to promote the toys,

if the toys were just to promote the movies.

It's kind of hard to tell.

And there's been enough time going by that I think a new

generation can rediscover "Jurassic Park" and they can

rediscover, especially the younger kids, the wonder,

which is what the whole thing is predicated on.

It's what the Richard Attenborough character,

John Hammond was, the wonder of these creatures.

I mean, he's in awe.

He's childlike and that's the audience.

The childlike nature of our own selves.

Even Jimmy Kimmel remains enchanted

a quarter of a century later when he awards a

Lifetime Achievement Award to Martin Ferrero

for one of the films most memorable scenes.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is my honor to present this

Lifetime Achievement Award to the guy who got eaten off

the toilet in "Jurassic Park", Martin Ferrero.

Martin, come on out.

For "Jurassic" fans,

the original film remains the mosquito in the amber.

It's the treasure that brought dinosaurs back to life forever.

I think fans of dinosaurs have forever been changed

by "Jurassic Park".

The toys, and figures, and merchandise we all have

in our collections, it's given us places to go and experience

whether it be a theme park or a live tour, or an exhibition.

We get to actually, physically walk through "Jurassic World".

We cannot get enough dinosaurs.

This explains why there's been sequel after sequel,

theme park ride after theme park ride.

"Jurassic Park" taps into our thrill of seeing things

that we can only imagine. It's got the monster movie.

It's got the action, adventure, survival and heroes.

"Jurassic Park" really holds up.

It has stood the test of time.

I think that speaks to how much time the team spent

on the technology to make sure it was believable,

that it really sucked you in.

There is a scientific grounding to a lot

of the stuff that happened.

And it created a whole huge interest in young kids

in paleontology.

It's one thing to see a skeleton in a natural history museum.

It's quite another to see it come alive on screen.

And you see the way it could've moved

and the way it could've attacked.

And the speed at which these things move, the T-Rex.

That still is amazing and you can watch this film many times

and still get off on all this information you're being given

about creatures that no longer exist, but did once exist.

When I hear the words, "Jurassic Park", I think

of something that might not be what everyone thinks of.

I think that movie made science cool.

I think that movie introduced so many people to history,

and genetics, and mutations in ways that no one could

have ever predicted.

And it starred characters who played scientists

and it made science neat.

I think about the legacy of intellectualism

related to "Jurassic Park".

It doesn't have to be a sexy hero or a strong hero,

it can be a smart hero.

We had palentologists. We had mathematicians.

We had a hacker with Lex.

A lot of that influenced a lot of kids growing up at the time.

I wanted to be a palentologist.

And I feel like the palentology field grew from "Jurassic Park".

It made kids become interested in these subjects.

Alan Grant is the hero of the film and you can be him.

"Jurassic Park" changed the modern blockbuster.

A lot of people think it changed it purely through CGI

and through effects.

And that's a certain huge part of it, but it also changed what

these stories could be about. Science is cool.

Blockbusters can be about dinosaurs and they can be about

stuff we never imagined before.

Action movies can be unexpected.