8 Original Jurassic Park Facts You Must Know Before You See The New

The long-awaited Jurassic World finally hit theaters after 22 years that the first Jurassic Park was released in 1993, followed by The Lost World: Jurassic Park in 1997 and Jurassic Park III in 2001. With so many expectations for the new movie, Since the previous ones were present in the lives of thousands of children, adolescents and adults, it is to be expected that people will begin to remember these classics with typical doses of nostalgia.

Although many of us have seen these movies several times, there are always small facts that go unnoticed, production curiosities and other details we never imagined. So we have listed here in Mega Curious some information you probably don't know about the first Jurassic Park movie. So, come on:

1 - The beginning of everything

Director Steven Spielberg and author Michael Crichton were working together on a project that would later become the ER TV series when Crichton told his friend the ideas of writing a book about a dinosaur park. The director was extremely enthusiastic about the plot, long before the author himself outlined the story in full.

Shortly thereafter, Spielberg went to Universal to offer the project, which was acquired even before the book was released. There is a rare case of film adaptation that was planned to occur even before Michael Crichton's book hit the shelves.

2 - The art of book in theaters

Many of the books that are later adapted to theaters or that are inspired by movies often feature on the cover images of movie posters. In the case of Jurassic Park we have the opposite situation. Do you know that iconic T-Rex skeleton that appears in the title of every movie? This is the art of designer Chip Kidd, who made the design for the original book, but the image was so well received that it was used in the movies as well.

3 - A lot of giant dolls

In the 1990s, of course, there were no computing technologies we have today, making special-effect movies much more challenging. The director and the production team should be very creative in creating illusions that would really convince the audience and not sound silly. To this end, several mechanical dolls were created in Jurassic Park - and for various types of dinosaurs.

For example, we can see in one of the videos below the brachiosaurus doll, consisting of the neck and head and capable of making various movements. In the other video, it is possible to know the clothing used by professionals to create the velociraptor movements. Of course many scenes from the movies are CG, but in the first Jurassic Park there are only 6 minutes of CG, while we see 14 minutes of doll-made dinosaurs.

4 - The terrifying sound of the T-Rex

When they hear the sound of the T-Rex scream, the movie characters soon know that they are in very, very danger. To create this truly menacing roar, the producers have mixed various kinds of animal sounds such as tigers, dogs, penguins, crocodiles and elephants, developing a unique roar that doesn't really exist in the natural world.

5 - No use standing still

Still talking about T-Rex, in the movies we come across several times with the following sentence: If a T-Rex sees you, stay still. In the 1990s, scientists believed that the sight of these dinosaurs was very poor, causing these gigantic beings not to notice certain things around them unless they moved.

However, more recent research by Dr. Kent Stevens of the University of Oregon (United States) states that the T-Rex had a great field of view that could identify surrounding objects and beings. So this trick of standing still so that T-Rex doesn't attack would apparently never work. Nhac!

6 - Touching the terror behind the scenes

Apparently, the T-Rex wasn't scared just on movie screens. According to the production team, sometimes the professionals were on break, having lunch or talking, and suddenly the animated dinosaur doll would call by itself and start roaring and shuffling randomly. Then the technicians discovered the error that was causing it (developed because the doll was exposed to water), and fixed the problem.

7 - Jurassic Park 4?

Before the Jurassic World project kicked off and on, several screenplays were created for the possible sequels to Jurassic Park - and the movie we see today in theaters could be extremely different. A script was written for the fourth movie in which dinosaurs were genetically altered to become war mounts, carrying weapons and wearing armor. Bizarre, no? Fortunately, this possible story has been archived.

8 - Much more than a banal costume

It is not just a coincidence that the characters Ian Malcolm and John Hammond always wear clothes of opposite colors, one in black and one in white. This little detail helps us understand how they have different ideals, with differing opinions about dinosaurs and the park.