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Sesscast # 2: Sesska Suggests Jurassic Park!!

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Thomas Corp

My favorite quote would have to be when Dodgson asks Nedry to not use his name and Nedry yells out, “Dodgson, Dodgson, we’ve got Dodgson here! See, nobody cares. Nice hat. What are you trying to look like, a secret agent?” I do feel that Hammond is a sympathetic character, because he was a man who wanted to create something truly extraordinary for the world. The two scenes that stand out with Hammond are when he reminisces with Ellie about the flea circus and you see where his desire to create the park came from and his last shot in the film where he just looks at his cane with the most forlorn look. It breaks my heart every time I see it. If I’m trapped on an island with dinosaurs, Alan is most definitely the man I want to help get through it. I actually never saw this when I was a kid which, I think speaks more to the fact that I was only two years old when it came out, as well as the fact that my parents really aren’t that into the franchise. I first saw it when I was twenty, ten years ago now, and I felt strong nostalgia even though, as I said, I never saw it as a kid. I very often list music as a reason to see a movie, especially when it’s John Williams. It’s not my number one favorite piece, but the Jurassic Park theme is easily in my top twenty of themes and pieces that John has composed. This was very enjoyable and now I’m really looking forward to the months to come for the future Sesska Suggests.

Dave Hampton

I enjoyed hearing your thoughts on this film. As usual you make some great points and hearing your nostalgia was nice too. I could write a lot here but I will try (and probably fail but it will be shorter than it could have been) to keep it short. I was never into Jurassic park as much as most seem to be. Not that I disliked it. It is a amazing film in the sense of what they were able to do on screen in 1993. At the time I was in college full time and working 32-40 hours a week, or working 80 hours a week in the summer so I did not see it in the theatre. I saw it probably around when you did on VHS. I did not remember much except the major plot line until I re-watched it today. I enjoyed re-watching it and appreciate it more. I am not sure what my favorite quote is. I think either something Ian says (there are several good ones to choose from) or I am going to agree with Thomas and say the scene where Nedry says no one cares about Dodgson name. So yeah that also means Ian would be the one I would choose on the island. I never heard of velociraptors before this film to answer your question about that. I loved dinosaurs as a kid but the ones I knew were were T-rex, triceratops, stegosaurus, and brontosaurus. The big question. How do I feel about John Hammond? I wrote something else here and just deleted it thinking this sums it up better (and shorter). I do not agree with what he did since it was for entertainment/making money. Probably better to not mess with DNA and introduce new elements into an ecosystem. If it becomes "necessary" for more important reasons (maybe some of the ones we face today in the world) then I am more OK with it though I would rather we have not gotten to the point that it is necessary. Explaining further would be way too long, which this is already.

George Teed

I totally can't blame you for this being one of your faves! It's a seriously impressive film and was also a big influence on me when I was younger seeing it for the first time. I learnt a lot about filmmaking just from watching the film and how Spielberg worked these cameras and effects -- it still holds up remarkably well, too. I feel like if I had to be stranded with any of the crew, as much as I love Ian, it'd have to be Ellie. This would've been the beginning of my lifelong delight in Laura Dern (which only heightened by the time I'd discovered David Lynch, lol), she is just so damn cool here. In fact this movie is just cool all around