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As Samuel L Jackson would say, "Hold on to your butts."
And that's in comparison to the film's running length of 127 minutes.
Including gross and profit participations as well as merchandise, Spielberg's sum remains the largest amount any one individual has made from a film.
That was enough for Jurassic Park to overtake E.T. and become the highest-grossing movie of all time. That is until Titanic surpassed it in 1997 and Avatar in 2009.
The injury took place during the scene in which Grant uses the flare to distract the T. rex. According to Neill: "It [the flare] dropped some burning phosphorous on me, got under my watch, and took a chunk of my arm out."
To cast the character of Lex, Spielberg auditioned a number of girls and asked them to record their screams. Richards' on-tape scream was the only one loud enough to awaken Kate Capshaw (Spielberg's wife) and send her running down the hall to see if her children were alright.
Initially Mazzello screen-tested for Hook, but he was turned away by Spielberg for being too young. Promising to get him in a movie that summer, the director then cast 9-year-old Mazzello as Tim in Jurassic Park. This proved slightly problematic, as in the original novel Tim is the older sibling. And since Spielberg refused to cast someone so young for the character of Lex, the decision was made to switch their ages.
Even though it looks fake, the Unix system seen in the film is a real 3D file management browser called Fsn (Fusion) that was released in the 1990s by Silicon Graphics.
If you look closely, Nedry's communication link to the dock is actually just a QuickTime video playing on screen. You can even see the time bar moving along the bottom of the screen as it plays.
Prior to filming, the T. rex animatronic had to be enclosed in foam rubber that would resemble the dinosaur's skin. According to Alan Scott, one of Jurassic Park's mechanical designers, there was a whole section in the middle that could only be reached by crawling into the animatronic while it was powered up in a particular position. If the power went off for any reason, the head of the T-Rex would move and cause all of the hydraulic cylinders and sheets of metal inside to be in the pathway of the crew member's body. As luck would have it, the power went off in the entire studio while Scott was inside working. But fortunately he was able to avoid all the moving metal parts and escaped unscathed.
According to Laura Dern, the sight of Spielberg making roaring dinosaur noises through a bullhorn became commonplace while filming. The only problem was the actors trying not to laugh in response.
According to screenwriter David Koepp: "I remember Steven [Spielberg] and I were wrestling with that very issue, about the DNA, and one of us said, 'What are we supposed to do? Have a little animated character called Mr DNA?' And the other one said, 'Yes! That’s exactly what we’re going to do!'"
The dilophosaurus was also significantly scaled down in the film so that the audience wouldn't confuse it with the velociraptors.
The suits were designed by placing raptor drawings over various images of a designer, followed up by a body cast and a full sculpture of the final form. To fit inside the suit, the designer had to bend over, in a pose similar to that of a skier, for up to four hours at a time during filming.
While the first T. rex scene used a mixture of animatronics and CGI, the ending required the dinosaur to be completely designed on a computer. So the actors would know what they were screaming at, the crew built what Spielberg called "barber poles", which were the long poles with a T. rex face attached to them.
On the last day of shooting, Hurricane Iniki made landfall at the film's central location of Kauai. Funnily enough, while most of the 130-strong cast and crew waited out the storm in their hotel, Richard Attenborough slept soundly through the whole ordeal.
The two sweethearts also got engaged after Jurassic Park, and they stayed together for two years before eventually splitting up.
Spielberg saw many parallels to himself in Hammond's desire to dream of bigger and better things. On the other hand, Crichton said that his views on science and genetic engineering were largely reflected by Malcolm's voice of reasoning. Their diametrically opposed views are also shown by the contrast of Hammond's all-white attire and Malcolm's black outfits.
If you look closely during Nedry's argument with Hammond, you can just make out Jaws playing on one of the computer screens.
The original ending had one of the raptors killed after getting stuck in a T. rex skeleton that crashes to the ground. But after seeing the success of the T. rex sequences, Spielberg was inspired to bring back the gigantic dinosaur for one last heroic appearance.