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Jurassic World
Fallen Kingdom
Movie
Written by Derek Connolly and
Colin Trevorrow
Directed by J. A. Bayona
June 2018 |
After the fall of the Jurassic World theme
park on Isla Nublar, an ethically-questionable plan to sell the
dinosaurs to global power-brokers is hatched clandestinely.
Read the story summary at
the Jurassic Park Wiki
Notes from the Jurassic Park chronology
The majority of this film takes place about three years after the fall of the
Jurassic World theme park in Jurassic World.
In a tweet, director J. A. Bayona says the opening sequence of
the film with the T. rex and the mosasaur takes place
about 6 months after Jurassic World.
Didja Know?
The title "Fallen Kingdom" likely refers to at least
three different story points: the fallen Jurassic World theme
park (seen in Jurassic World),
the fall of the dinosaur kingdom on Isla Nublar due to the
eruption of Mount Sibo in this film, and the potential fall of
humanity's supremacy on Earth with the release of dinosaurs in
the North American continent (and probably soon elsewhere).
Characters appearing or mentioned in this movie
Marine One submersible pilot (unnamed)
Marine One submersible co-pilot (unnamed)
Mercenary on island
(unnamed)
Helicopter pilot
(unnamed)
Helicopter co-pilot (unnamed)
Rexy (the original T. rex from
Jurassic Park)
Philippa Thomas
Dr. Henry Wu
Dr. Ian Malcolm
Senator Sherwood
Claire Dearing
Zia Rodriguez
Congresswoman Delgado (on phone only, not seen or heard)
Franklin Webb
Sir Benjamin Lockwood (dies in this movie)
Lockwood's secretary (unnamed, on phone only)
Iris Carroll
Eli Mills
(dies in this movie)
John Hammond (deceased, mentioned only)
Maisie Lockwood
Sir Benjamin's daughter (unnamed, mentioned only, deceased)
Blue
Owen Grady
Charlie, Delta, and Echo (seen on video only, deceased)
Ken Wheatley (presumed dead after Indoraptor attack)
Gunnar Eversol
(presumed dead after Indoraptor attack)
Ricky Rathrow
Gregor Aldorich (mentioned only)
Rand Magnus
(mentioned only)
Glenn
Janet
(mentioned only)
Didja Notice?
The submersible pilot at the beginning of the movie tells his
co-pilot that anything in the lagoon arena they're in would be
dead by now. Yet, we soon see that the Mosasaurus that
occupied the lagoon during the Jurassic World theme park's
existence is still alive. How did it survive? Since the lagoon
gates to the outer ocean were closed until the submersible
arrived, it doesn't seem that enough sea life could have been in
the lagoon to keep the beast fed.
At 2:43 on the Blu-ray, the submersible craft discovers the
skeletal remains of the Indominus rex, which was
dragged down into the aquarium by the
Mosasaurus near the end of
Jurassic World.
The helicopter used by the mercenaries is a
Bell
UH-1H-BF Iroquois with registration number N911DN.
At 4:18 on the Blu-ray, the mercenary on Isla Nublar is seen to
be using a GRiDCASE 2530 tablet.
GRiD is a
UK manufacturer of durable electronic equipment for military
use. Later, Franklin also uses one as a member of the dinosaur
recovery team.
At 4:46 on the Blu-ray, the equipment the
mercenary on Isla Nublar is in front of is labeled P2800. It may
be a power generator made by
Polaris,
though I've not been able to find that they make one so large.
They do have a much smaller generator called the P2800.
At 5:25 on the Blu-ray the ruins of the
IMAX theater seen at the park in
Jurassic World
is seen in the background.
The overturned pick-up truck seen at 5:31 on the Blu-ray is a
1994 Chevrolet S-10.
At 5:34 on the Blu-ray, there appears to be a toy dinosaur (or
something) in an overturned wastebasket (or something) as the
Isla Nublar mercenary flees the T. rex.
At 5:40 on the Blu-ray, the
T. rex takes a snap at the mercenary as he jumps
over the water to grab onto the ladder of the helicopter. It is
similar to a scene in the final act of
The Lost World.
The BBC
News anchor
Philippa Thomas seen at 7:31 on the Blu-ray is a real
world reporter for the BBC.
The volcano on Isla Nublar now threatening the life on the
island, Mount Sibo, was previously mentioned in
"The
Survivors" and
The Evolution of Claire.
Also, the in-universe
Jurassic World
website tells us much of the island's power came from
the geo-thermal activity of Mount Sibo.
During the BBC News broadcast at 7:33 on the Blu-ray, an outline
of Isla Nublar is seen on the screen.
Different versions of the shape of Isla Nublar are found in
various source materials. The one seen here matches very closely
to the one seen in
Jurassic World.
At 7:35 on the Blu-ray, video footage
of the catastrophe at the Jurassic World theme park on BBC News
shows a
Nobu
restaurant on the Main Street of the park.
The chiron at 7:38
on the Blu-ray states that the G-8 Summit is to address cloning
issues. The G8 is an inter-governmental political forum of 8
global powers, currently made up of (as of February 2019)
Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United
States, and European Union.
At 7:45, the chiron reads that NASA has found
global warming to be increasing at a pace unprecedented in 1,000
years.
NASA is the United States'
National
Astronautics and Space Administration.
At 7:55, the chiron reads "U.S. PRESIDENT QUESTIONS
'EXISTENCE OF DINOSAURS IN THE FIRST PLACE'", probably a jab by
the filmmakers at current U.S. president Donald Trump's genius
rejection of the scientific assertion of modern climate change.
The final portion of the chiron begins to state
something about former InGen scientist Dr. Henry Wu, but we
don't see the end of the statement.
The signs held by protestors for the dinosaurs of Isla Nublar in
Washington D.C. read: "WE CAN SAVE THEM", "THEY HAVE RIGHTS
TOO", "THEY WERE HERE", "EVACUATE ISLA NUBLAR NOW", "THEY WERE
HERE FIRST", "CATCH THEM, DON'T KILL THEM", and "SAVE OUR DINOS".
Philippa Thomas reports that the Masrani Corporation has paid
out over $800 million in damages to settle class action lawsuits
brought by survivors of the catastrophe at Jurassic World in
2015.
At 9:22 on the Blu-ray, an old billboard for the Jurassic World
theme park is seen on a building. The advertising slogan at the
bottom reads, "A New Age of Adventure".
The scene looks to be at the intersection of O'Farrell
Street and another road I haven't been able to identify in
San Francisco.
In the elevator, Claire carries a cardboard tray of coffee cups
with a CC logo on them. This is Caveman Coffee, a brand
co-founded by mixed-martial artist Tait Fletcher, who had a
brief appearance as an InGen soldier in
Jurassic World.
Claire uses an
Apple iPhone through the early scenes of the film. The news
story Claire is reading on her iPhone screen in the elevator
appears to be about the eruptions at Mount Sibo.
When Claire steps off the elevator at 9:40 on
the Blu-ray, a poster for DPG (Dinosaur Protection Group) is seen
on the wall in the call center. The poster features a vey
stylized stegosaurid and the slogan "They Were Here First."
A map of Isla Nublar is also seen on the wall.
There is a meta-website for the
Dinosaur Protection Group at
www.dinosaurprotectiongroup.com.
A number of dinosaur dolls, figures, and even origami are seen
on the desks and shelves in the DPG call center.
Zia tells Congresswoman Delgado she is a paleoveterinarian,
though she admits she has not seen a dinosaur in person.
At 10:15 on the Blu-ray, Franklin has a can of
Dr. Pepper
on his desk.
At 10:18 on the Blu-ray, a poster with the slogan "Save the Dinos"
and a stylized Triceratops face on it is seen.
At 10:25 on the Blu-ray, Zia says to Franklin, "I'm a doctor,
not a telemarketer." This may be a bit of an homage to Star
Trek, where Dr. McCoy was known to frequently say, "I'm a
doctor, not a [fill in the blank]."
At 10:56 on the Blu-ray, a
Sony
television at DPG displays a news conference from Capitol Hill
regarding the Isla Nublar crisis on the
MSNBC news
network. Capitol Hill is a neighborhood in
Washington D.C.
where the U.S. Congress is located; the term is often used
publicly as another way of meaning the U.S. Congress.
At 11:02 on the Blu-ray, a poster of a couple of kids playing
with dinosaur figures is on the wall at DPG and reads "Dinosaurs Are
Parents Too, Evacuate Isla Nublar".
At 11:44 on the Blu-ray, a photo of a dog is seen on Claire's
desk at DPG. This may the dog named Earhart mentioned previously
in
The Evolution of Claire.
Claire is driven to the Lockwood Estate in a
Rolls-Royce Phantom with CA license plate "Lock 1".
Interestingly, it appears to have no driver! As Claire is
getting out of the back seat at 12:14 on the Blu-ray, no
driver can be seen in the seat and no one else gets out. I guess
it's one of them self-driving rigs.
At 12:30 on the Blu-ray, what may be a bust of Albert Einstein
is seen inside the doorway of the Lockwood mansion.
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At 12:57 on the Blu-ray, the portrait to the right of
Hammond's portrait may be Reverend William Buckland
(1784-1856), who wrote the first full account of a
fossil dinosaur, Megalosaurus. The portrait is
similar to an actual portrait of the man by Samuel
Cousins in 1833. |
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| Portrait at Lockwood estate in
Fallen Kingdom |
Portrait of Reverend William Buckland
by Samuel Cousins |
In Hammond's portrait, he is seen holding his famous
amber-topped cane.
As Mills walks down the staircase at 13:03 on the Blu-ray, a
number of personages are seen in portraiture hanging on the wall. I wish I knew who
they were!
When Hammond's former partner Sir Ben Lockwood is introduced in
his wheelchair at 14:21 on the Blu-ray, he has a cane topped
with amber in the chair with him. However, it does not appear to
be Hammond's old cane, as the shaft has a different design.
Hammond's cane was last seen whole in
"Redemption" Part 1 (the amber
top was left in Hammond's tomb by his grandson Tim at the end of
"Redemption" Part 5). The
amber on Lockwood's cane is seen in close-up to have a different
insect species in it than did Hammond's. It seems they each had
a unique cane made for themselves when they were working
together.
After introducing the idea of a new human-free dinosaur
sanctuary to Claire, Lockwood remarks, "John said it best:
These creatures don't need our protection. They need our
absence." This is a paraphrasing of what Hammond said in
his CNN interview at the end of
The Lost World.
Though Lockwood was apparently Hammond's partner in conceiving
of dinosaur cloning and the founding of a park, this is the first
mention of him in the chronology. In the novel of
The Lost World, Hammond
was said to have a business partner in the formation of InGen,
Stanford geneticist Norman Atherton.
Lockwood remarks that he and Hammond
were young and foolish, "trying to run before we'd learned to
walk." This could also be another way of saying what Dr. Malcolm
did in Jurassic Park: "...your
scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they
didn't stop to think if they should."
Amusingly, what appear to be paper documents sitting on Mills'
desk at 16:15
on the Blu-ray turn out to actually be digital representations on the surface
of his computerized desk!
This film reveals that every dinosaur in the Jurassic World park
was tagged with a radio frequency ID chip.
Mills claims to Claire that they can save 11 species of
dinosaurs with her help, more if possible.
Mills remarks that Blue is the last of her kind. The other
raptors of Jurassic World,
Charlie, Delta, and Echo were all killed during the events of
Jurassic World.
Owen has at least three vehicles
parked on the property on which he is building his house. At
17:34
on the Blu-ray, the van parked closest to the camera is a 2014
Ford Fiesta. The
right vehicle in the shot is a 1985
Airstream
270 RV: most likely he is living in this until his house is
finished. The pick-up truck in the distance appears to be a
2003-2005 model
Chevrolet
Silverado. There is a also a small aluminum boat parked on a
trailer near the pick-up.
Owen is seen to have a small-tower windmill on his property,
presumably providing power and/or well water.
Does anyone know what song Owen is singing while he's working on
his house frame when Claire approaches him? The lyrics we hear
are: "Oh, time, she is a freight train chugging, oh, stalling,
time is too, When the light at the end of the tunnel, is growing
small behind you, I still love you in the morning."
At 17:57 on the Blu-ray, we see that Owen has a small scale
model of the house he's building.
At the bar Claire and Owen go to for a beer, the light shade
above the pool table has the
Budweiser
logo on it.
The song playing at the bar is "Don't Look Now" (1969) by
Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Claire and Owen drink
Beck's beer at
the bar.
The plane on which Lockwood's team flies to Isla Nublar is a
Cessna
208B Caravan with registration number N839MA.
The life-size dinosaur models seen in Lockwood's display room at
22:32 on the Blu-ray are Dilophosaurs, with the collapsed neck
fringes seen in
Jurassic Park.
At 22:39 on the Blu-ray, something runs through the fake foliage
of the Dilophosaur display in the Lockwood mansion. There
appears to be a small, green tail that whips by (a compy?), but
it is never explained in the film. From what we know at this point in the film,
there should not be any dinosaurs on the premises. Maybe Mills
and/or Lockwood have already smuggled some compies to the estate
from the island, as they are small and would be relatively
easily to smuggle in.
The sunglasses Wheately is wearing at 24:55 on the Bly-ray are
Ray-Ban
Aviators.
The vehicles used by the dinosaur recovery team on Isla Nublar
are 2007 BAE
Systems Caiman CMTVs and
Oshkosh FMTVs. The vehicles are seen to have
Goodyear
tires on them.
At 26:53 on the Blu-ray, the recovery team drives past the
remains of
Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville, previously seen in
Jurassic World.
At 28:51 on the Blu-ray, notice in
the background that an abandoned monorail train is seen sitting on the
raised tracks.
At 29:43 on the Blu-ray, a copy of the Jurassic World
Employee Handbook is seen. A
replica/retail version is available in the real world!
At 30:19 on the Blu-ray, on the left side of Franklin's GRiD
screen is listed Cretaceous Cruise and Gentle Giants. These are
parts of the Jurassic World park seen in
Jurassic World.
At 31:23
on the Blu-ray,
Yaesu radio equipment is seen used by Franklin at the radio
tower on Isla Nublar.
The overturned vehicle in the jungle at 32:24 on the Blu-ray is
a 1991 Ford Explorer XLT. This is presumalby intended to
be the same overturned Explorer in the tyrannosaur paddock from
Jurassic Park,
the the vehicle is the wrong year.
Wheatley's mercenaries are armed largely with
FN
SCAR-L CQC rifles with
EOTech
EXPS2 holographic sights. They are also seen with a custom
tranquilizer rifle for bringing dinosaurs back to the mainland
alive.
Owen is seen to wear a
Casio
G-Shock Sport Watch GA-700-1B.
At 34:03 on the Blu-ray, a mercenary uses a
SIG Sauer
P226R pistol against Blue. Owen also uses a
P226R a bit later in the film as he tries to blow open the door
of the sinking Gyrosphere holding Claire and Franklin after it
plunges into the ocean.
Owen is shot by Wheatley with the tranquilizer gun, knocking
Owen out. The tranq darts were likely loaded with
carfentanil to take down Blue; such
an amount of carfentanil would have killed Owen through apnea
unless an antidote of naloxone was administered quickly. Yet,
Owen recovers fairly quickly without help.
During Zia's confrontation with the mercenary at 34:52 on the
Blu-ray, Wheatley switches the tranquilizer gun from his right
hand to his left and then motions with his right for his men to
stand down. But when the shot changes to another angle,
Wheatley's gun is back in his right hand and he is motioning
with his left.
The dinosaur that sniffs at Owen's body at 36:54 on the Blu-ray
appears to be a Sinoceratops.
The dinosaur that crawls through the large tunnel into the radio
tower control room to threaten Claire and Franklin is a
Baryonyx.
At 41:36 on the Blu-ray, an Ankylosaurus runs past the
humans during the dinosaur stampede away from the volcano.
The sauropod dinosaurs that run past the Gyrosphere at 41:55 on
the Blu-ray may be Apatosaurus. Gallimimus,
Stegosaurus, and Triceratops are also seen in
the stampede.
The dino stampede is reminiscent of the
Gallimimus stampede seen in
Jurassic Park.
The theropod dinosaur that fights a
Sinoceratops by the
Gyrosphere is a Carnotaurus.
The shot of the T. rex killing the
Carnotaurus is
reminiscent of the scene near the end of
Jurassic Park,
when she kills the raptor that is about to pounce on our human
heroes.
The theropod that runs past the
Gyrosphere at 43:56 on the Blu-ray is an Allosaurus.
At 44:04 on the Blu-ray, a pterosaur is seen plummeting to the
ground in the background, probably struck by a piece of debris
from the exploding volcano.
Escaping from the exploding volcano in a
Gyrosphere, Claire and Franklin plunge off a cliff into the
ocean and the Gyrosphere promptly begins leaking water and sinking.
The scene was foreshadowed in
The Evolution of Claire.
As the
Gyrosphere leaks and sinks, Franklin shrieks, "I wanna go home!"
Owen is able to shoot through the transparent construction of the
Gyrosphere. But, in
Jurassic World, the
Gyrospheres were said to be constructed of aluminum oxynitride,
"So tough, it can stop a. 50-caliber bullet."
The helicopters seen carrying dinosaurs off the island to a
waiting ship are
Boeing-Vertol 234LRs.
The semi-truck seen at 47:37 on the Blu-ray is a
Freightliner FLD. Seconds later, a
Honda quad
cycle roars by.
At 47:48 on the Blu-ray, a
Taylor TXH
400 forklift is seen in the background behind Wheatley.
The crane that hoists a theropod at 47:57 on the Blu-ray is a
Drott 1500 Cruz-Crane. A
Rotair
vehicle is also seen, Rotair being an aircraft parts
manufacturer.
The dinosaur-wrangling by the mercenaries at 48:01 on the
Blu-ray is a bit reminiscent of the wrangling scene in
The Lost World.
The truck hauling the stegosaur at 48:13 on the Blu-ray is an
International 9000-Series.
The loader seen behind Zia at 48:41 on the Blu-ray is a 2014
Toyota
8FGU 32.
The military truck seen at the Isla Nublar dock at 49:10 on the
Blu-ray is a
Mercedes-Benz Unimog U 5020 with California license plate
3PC1438. This is the truck that Claire drives onto the departing
ship to escape the island and which she an Owen also drive upon
landing in California. (The same license plate is also seen on
Owen's Jeep Grand Wagoneer in
Dominion.)
After landing the truck on the ship, Claire pulls down a
John Deere
cap from the visor and puts it on to hide her potentially give-away red locks.
I wonder if the Brachiosaur that makes Claire cry as her ship
sails away and it stands baying in fear at the edge of the dock
as the smoke and lava encroach on it is
Pearl, the young
Brachiosaur Claire helped out with her Gyrosphere addiction in
The Evolution of Claire.
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(However, there are reports that director J.A. Barona has said
that the brachiosaur on the dock was the one that was the first
dinosaur seen by Drs. Grant, Sattler, and Malcolm in
Jurassic Park;
so, possibly, the brachiosaur was Agnes, Olive, or Dot as also
named in
The Evolution of Claire.)
At 51:53 on the Blu-ray, we see that
the mercenaries' ship is called Arcadia.
While explaining his plans to weaponize dinosaurs, Mills tells
Eversol about humanity's past use of animals as weapons of war,
including the Soviets' use of rats to spread disease to the
Germans in Stalingrad (now
Volgograd). This refers to World War II's Battle of
Stalingrad, during which the Soviets did use rats to spread
tularemia.
The truck Owen, Claire, and Franklin scoot past in the hold of
the ship at 56:09 on the Blu-ray is a Freightliner FL 70.
When Zia needs help treating Blue for a blood transfusion,
Claire tells her she once did a blood drive with the
Red Cross.
Zia has an arm-length tattoo on her right arm that may be a
stylized representation of a DNA double-helix or medical caduceus.
The truck seen behind Owen in the cargo hold at 57:50 on the
Blu-ray is a
Kenworth T-800.
The tractor-trailer carrying the T. rex has CA license
plate 1QA3779.
The dinosaur fossilized skull seen in the Lockwood mansion at
1:01:00 on the Blu-ray is the skull of an Agujaceratops.
This is the same skull on which the Indoraptor is impaled near
the end of the movie.
In a diorama seen in the background in the Lockwood mansion at
1:01:06 on the Blu-ray, a Dimetrodon statue is seen.
At 1:01:23 on the Blu-ray, Maisie gets on the elevator in the
Lockwood compound and hits the last button on the panel for the
bottom floor. But when she gets off at her destination, she is
on a mezzanine level of the sub-basement and there is clearly
one more elevator stop below!
The x-ray skull image seen at 1:01:53 on the Blu-ray as Maisie
enters the restricted area is probably that of the Indoraptor, the genetically-invented beast
created by Dr. Wu for Mills seen later in the film.
The computer on which Maisie sees the
video of Owen training the young raptors is an Apple iMac 21.5.
At 1:06:02 on the Blu-ray, Maisie appears to be wearing
Converse
sneakers.
Though not fully visible in this scene, the dinosaur that tries
to grab Maisie at 1:06:09 on the Blu-ray is the Indoraptor, seen
fully later in the film.
To lure the T. rex out of its cage, at 1:09:48 on the Blu-ray a
goat is used as bait. This is similar to a scene in
Jurassic Park
to lure her into viewing range in the paddock of the park and
another similar scene occurred in
Jurassic World.
At 1:11:18 on the Blu-ray, Claire and Owen see a road sign
pointing towards the 101 North and reading Orick 5 miles away. Route 101
is an actual highway running north-south along the coastline of
California. The tiny community of Orick lies along the upper
north portion of the route.
Wheately pulls a
Smith & Wesson Model 500 pistol on Owen and
Claire when he finds them in the stolen truck on the road to
Lockwood mansion.
The car arriving for the auction at Lockwood mansion at 1:14:04
on the Blu-ray is a Rolls-Royce Ghost.
One of the men arriving for the auction is said to be
Ricky Rathrow of Aldarus Pharmaceuticals.
Aldarus Pharmaceuticals appears to be a fictitious company.
Introducing the arrivals to Mills, Eversol mentions an equine
(horse) buyer for Rand Magnus, an oil magnate from
Houston.
When Mills asks why he would be interested in their auction,
Eversol answers, "His kid wants a baby Triceratops."
The truck seen transporting the Ankylosaurus at 1:20:48
on the Blu-ray is a
Volvo N 10.
The dinosaur that Owen entices into helping he and Claire break
out of their cell is a Stygimoloch (though there is
much dispute whether Stygimoloch is an actual species, but
rather, just a juvenile form of Pachycephalosaurus).
Eversol introduces Henry Wu as the creator of the Indoraptor
during the auction, referring to him only as Mr. Wu, not Dr. Wu.
This is probably because Wu was stripped of all his credentials
after being found guilty of bio-ethical misconduct after the
Jurassic World incident (this according to the
Dinosaur Protection Group
website).
The mercenaries acting as security during the auction at
the Lockwood compound carry
SIG SG
552 rifles.
At 1:29:34 on the Blu-ray, notice that the
Stygimoloch runs off into the Northern
California forest after creating havoc at the auction.
At 1:34:30 on the Blu-ray, Wu shouts at Franklin that he needs
blood samples from the raptor and asks for 50 cc's of
carfentanil and a phlebotomy kit. CC stands for "cubic
centimeter".
Carfentanil is a
real world drug, an opioid intended only for use in
tranquilizing large animals; it was used to tranq a
T. rex in
The Lost World and
a
pachycephalosaur in
Jurassic World. A
phlebotomy kit is a kit for extracting blood samples.
Franklin uses the carfentanil
syringe to sedate Wu. An amount of carfentanil which would
tranquilize a raptor would kill a human through apnea unless an
antidote of naloxone was administered quickly.
When Wu walks close to Blue's cage, the raptor takes a snap at
him through the bars. But she doesn't bother Zia or Franklin.
She seems to have accepted them as friendly, possibly because
she saw that Owen accepts them when they all (along with Claire)
treated her wound earlier in the film.
At 1:35:14 on the Blu-ray, Zia is seen to have a tattoo reading
"Semper Fi" on her right neckline. This is short for the Latin
phrase Semper fidelis, meaning "always loyal" and is
the motto of the U.S. Marines. Is Zia a former Marine?
At 1:36:38 on the Blu-ray, the
computer screen in Wu's lab displays "HCN Detected".
HCN is the chemical formula of hydrogen cyanide, a compound that
boils into poisonous and explosive gas at only 78.1° F. Seconds
earlier, we saw
hydrogen tanks in the lab punctured by bullets when the security
men fired at Blue; the flammable hydrogen was then ignited by
sparks from damaged electrical equipment and the explosion
damaged a tank of toxic gas (presumably containing at least part
cyanide), resulting in the deadly HCN combination.
At 1:37:20 on the Blu-ray, Owen, Claire, and Maisie see the
Indoraptor drag a security man's body behind the
Agujaceratops display. But when they circle around the
display seconds later in hiding from the beast, the man's body
is nowhere to be seen! The Indoraptor could not have eaten the
entire body in just a few seconds. And there is not even any
blood on the floor.
As the Indoraptor prowls through the mansion, notice it has
occasional muscle quivers and ticks in its limbs and torso. This was
meant to show how this "prototype" Indoraptor was a less than
perfect specimen and work still needed to be done to achieve the
creature Mills' team was trying to create.
The dinosaur diorama statue Owen hides behind at 1:40:41 on the
Blu-ray appears to be a Dilophosaurus.
The shot of Maisie closing the door of the dumbwaiter to protect
herself from the Indoraptor at 1:42:22 is similar to a shot of
Lex closing the door of a metal kitchen cabinet to protect
herself from a raptor in
Jurassic Park.
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As Blue and the Indoraptor fight in Maisie's room at
1:46:05 on the Blu-ray, a stuffed E.T. toy falls to the
floor. E.T. is the alien character from Steven
Spielberg's 1982 film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
Spielberg, of course, directed the first two Jurassic
Park films and remains an executive producer on all
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When Claire starts using the console to open the dinosaur cage
doors, she presses the button for Cage 1 and the readout on the
display screen shows Cage 1 opening. But we see Cage 2 opening
instead!
At 1:53:06 on the Blu-ray, Mills opens the sliding door of
a 2008
Chrysler Town
& Country SUV as he is about to place the Indominus rex
rib bone inside. But then the dinosaurs start stampeding out of
the Lockwood compound towards him and he crawls under the
vehicle for safety and we can see the door is closed again even
though he's still holding the bone.
At 1:53:23 and onward on the Blu-ray, why is the ground dry and
dusty outside the Lockwood compound as the dinosaurs flee into
the woods? We just saw minutes before that it had been pouring
rain!
At 1:54:42 on the Blu-ray, notice in the bottom-right corner of
the screen that a bunch of compies rush to nibble on the fallen
limb from Mills' body that was dropped to the ground during the
fight between Rexy and the Carnotaurus.
At 1:55:50 on the Blu-ray, Blue is seen to have some scars on
her head from her tussle with the Indoraptor.
At 1:56:00 on the Blu-ray, Blue looks at the cage sitting nearby
on the estate grounds and seems to know that going with Owen
would mean being caged and denied freedom to roam.
The car sitting in the driveway as Blue runs off into the forest
at 1:56:19 on the Blu-ray is a 2009
Jaguar XJ.
The airplane that has a caged dinosaur loaded onto it at 1:56:39
on the Blu-ray is an
Ilyushin
Il-76.
At 1:56:50 on the Blu-ray, a case full of labeled dinosaur
genetic samples is seen. Some of the labels are illegible and
others are familiar dinosaurs we've seen in the films. A new one
is Dreadnoughtus, one of the largest titanosaur
sauropods ever found in the fossil record.
The dino-hauling trucks rushing down the desert highway at
1:57:03 on the Blu-ray are a Freightliner Cascadia and
International DuraStar and ProStar models.
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The vehicle Owen, Claire, and Maisie drive
off in at the end of the film is a
Jeep Grand
Wagoneer (roughly 1991 model).
It's probably just a coincidence, but I have to wonder
if the shot of
Owen, Claire, and Maisie in the Jeep was inspired at all by the
opening theme sequence of the 1990's
Land of the Lost TV show, which debuted in 1991!
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Jeep ride in Land of the Lost |
The opening lines of Dr. Malcolm's monologue to the
Congressional committee at the end of the film could well be a
way of speaking about man-made climate change by the writers and
director: "How many times do you have to see the evidence?
How many times must the point be made? We're causing our own
extinction. Too many red lines have been crossed. And our home
has, in fundamental ways, been polluted by avarice and political
megalomania."
The film has an end credits sequence depicting Pteranodons
perching on top of the pseudo-Eiffel Tower of the
Paris Las Vegas resort hotel and casino in
Las Vegas,
Nevada. Also seen in the aerial shot are
Aria,
Planet Hollywood, and
Bellagio.
As the film ends, dinosaurs are no longer confined to a couple
of small islands. Of course, readers of the expanded JP universe
of the comic books know that this is not the first incursion of
the beasts onto the mainland: in
"Trapped", the raptors Alf and Celia
disappear into the Columbian jungle with six hatchlings; at the
end of
The Lost World,
Pteranodons are seen flying free on Isla Sorna,
implying they could fly to the mainland as well: in
"Death Lizards", Dilophosaurs
reach Costa Rica; in Jurassic Park III,
Pteranodons are freed from their aviary on Isla Sorna,
implying they are free to fly to the mainland, which
Flyers confirms they have
done when they attack the Universal Studios theme park in Orlando,
Florida; dinosaurs get loose in Glen Rose, Texas in
Redemption and it is not
clear at the end of that story if all them have been rounded up;
and
Pteranodons are again seen in the American
southwest in
The Devils in the
Desert.
Notes from the bonus material on the Blu-ray release
Director
J. A. Bayona was inspired by the 1979 film adaptation of
Dracula by director John Badham for the scene where the Indoraptor
climbs down from the roof of the mansion and through the window
into Maisie's bedroom. Dracula performs a similar maneuver in
Badham's film.
The Sinoceratops that awakens Owen in the jungle as the
lava is approaching did it out of a maternal instinct, not
accidentally.
Unanswered Questions
What about the dinosaurs on Isla Sorna? The island is barely
mentioned, only once, in fact, and just in passing. Even if the
volcano on Isla Nublar wipes out the dinosaurs there, aren't there
still dinos on Isla Sorna?
Is Maisie a healthy child? Is she even the first Maisie? Recall
that at 1:41:25 on the Blu-ray, we see the Indoraptor's face
superimposed over Maisie's due to the reflection on the display
case glass
and we see, through the animal's involuntary ticks and muscle
spasms (and are told by Wu), that the Indoraptor is not a
finished, perfected specimen. Both the Indoraptor and Maisie are
genetically-created beings, so does Maisie also have genetic
imperfections? And why is Maisie still a little girl in 2018,
when we are told that Lockwood and Hammond had a falling out due
to Lockwood's desire to clone not just dinosaurs, but also his
dead daughter decades ago; so it's seems likely that previous
attempts to clone the daughter must have taken place and been
failures, with the current Maisie the latest attempt.
Memorable Dialog
the debate over Isla Nublar.mp3
do dinosaurs deserve the same protections.mp3
our magnificent glorious dinosaurs.mp3
God's not part of the equation.mp3
a landmark technological power.mp3
the de-extinction of the dinosaurs.mp3
change is like death.mp3
de-extinct creatures.mp3
young and idealistic.mp3
these creatures don't need our protection.mp3
how many can you save?.mp3
you might know someone who could help.mp3
I left.mp3
ventriloquist.mp3
I like
pool.mp3
you should write fortune cookies.mp3
my cousin had a drone bigger than this.mp3
we're not compatible.mp3
you're not a wild animal.mp3
mirror
image.mp3
the T rex would be dead by now, right?.mp3
if I don't make it back.mp3
how
is this better?.mp3
the
Indoraptor.mp3
like riding a bull.mp3
it
needs a mother.mp3
a marathon sounds expensive.mp3
you got a heartbeat?.mp3
what a nasty woman.mp3
the first time you saw a dinosaur.mp3
we'll make some more.mp3
how many times must the point be made?.mp3
this change was inevitable.mp3
woven into the very fabric of existence.mp3
if
we're not careful.mp3
welcome to Jurassic World.mp3
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