I have watched this movie at least God know how many times and I was really bored with scenes like this. Now I watched the movie not only for the dinosaurs but for the excellent writing and dialogue. I tend to like this more for the dialogue now that I am 20😂
It was a stroke of genius to make Hammond more sympathetic than he is in the book. And Richard Attenborough was perfectly cast here. His enthusiasm about Jurassic Park is infectious!
In the book John Hammond called them, and in the book he was quite the mean old man. I like the movie where he shows up personally showing his different, kinder, personality from the book to the movie.
"...showing his different, kinder, personality" Hammond's personality in the movie is complex, I think. While he does love his grandkids, he is definitely trying to use Allan and Ellie to stave off the lawers' concern over safety. Make no doubt about it, Hammond is definitely into Jurassic Park for the financial returns. Hammond may be many things but he is a business man first. The fact that he comes barging in and opening their champagne proves that he is someone that expects to go where he wants, do what he wants and get what he wants.
I love this performance. His dramatic entrance and intrusion by force into that home tells us exactly who he is: an enthusiastic, powerful, and dangerously ambitious man who's passion is stronger than his respect and assessment of the situation.
I know he was a bit of an egomaniac (especially in the book) but Attenborough plays the character with such charm in the movies that you can’t help but like him! At least the movie version of him 😂😂
Ikr I miss sir Richard a lot, he as Hammond was the heart of Jurassic Park, even if his character was controversial and something of a villain... like even if he didn't have true malicious intent, he was just a disillusioned old gramps with too much money. And hearing his voice like, narrate things... it's got the same good feel as listening to his brother in documentaries.
Any chance of him being the character of the book went out the window when Attenborough was cast. The book character is great in a love to hate kind of way, but I'm really glad that Spielberg decided to go in this direction, he's a far richer character on-screen.
I like how Grant angry mood quickly transition to a calm and kind mood when he heard the name Hammond. Reminds of people when they are dealing with someone of importance 😂.
Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to someone cooking a large meal downstairs at 3am. Deciding whether to grab a gun and check downstairs, and finding Elon Musk preparing sushi and other fine cuisine to feed you and invite you to Mars on his spaceship parked on your driveway and lawn
Probably Hammond grinning to hide the fact that he was starting to regret his decision the moment Ian probably started calling him crazy and thinking John was being a crazy and senile old man.
Malcolm got brought in by the lawyer. Hammond mentions it during the helicopter flight when Malcolm is being... particularly Malcolm-ish. "I brought scientists, you brought the rockstar!"
I always feel bad for poor John Hammond. He lost his friend over a debate in the ethics of cloning, clearly his wife must of died at some point, and his dream park was destroyed. Then he finally got what he wanted, these animals in there natural habitat. Then after his death his business partner and family friend stabbed him in the back and opened up the park again. Man can't catch a break.
@@kirongauff4934 That's like a single raptor, the rest of the dinosaurs aren't so peaceful still, even if it's been a while since we saw one that belongs to a species (aka not hybrid) kill a human I think. Blue's pack maybe, but they straight up did it only out of fear of humans shooting them, so that was literally self-defence if you look closely at the "Irex talks to the raptors" scene. The raptors looked back at the humans suspiciously, but it was ultimately the retarded mercenaries who decided they'd lay down supressive fire on everything in front of them, scaring the raptors and only hitting the bigass indo cuz it was bigass and it was a lot of bullets fired. lol But literally, Hammond is rolling in his grave. Whose idea exactly was it to take dinos to Lockwood's home though? I missed that part. Lockwood himself? Regardless, it was retarded. It's like Bayona completely forgot about how Jurassic Park is on one of five islands packed relatovely close together. If they just shipped the poor creatures back over to Sorna next door they wouldn't have caused a humanitarian crisis on the American mainland and could've probably saved a lot more dinosaurs. But no, to the mainland they went, into the inner garden of Lockwood's big house. That's as good a joke as any. There's no wonder JWFK was received worse than most other Jurassic movies. The new director had probably never read the two novels of Crichton, Spielberg did, even if he was running out of ideas. Pretty sure he was, unless there's an actual backstory, like in his personal life as to why he left the Jurassic franchise. I should look it up, maybe he retired or something actually? Idk I'm clueless at the moment of typing this comment.
Masrani actually was on the right side of Hammond as even though he opened a park. He treated the dinosaurs as caring pets and animals put in wide and environmental enclosures and not as ferocious beasts that should require electric fences and a moat. Plus, if he was still alive, He would go to the island with the DPG only and not with Eli mills's help.
"I spared no expense " Said the guy who put no automatic locks on the tour cars and put an entire million-dollar park in the hands of an overweight computer programmer who clearly hated him. Yeah , sure , John....
I'm here after reading on reddit about John Hammond's cost-cutting measures that drove the story line. Quite a different character in the book. And seems the book is much more sympathetic to the exploited Nedry (Neuman). Makes me wanna read the book...maybe the CGI is better there.
It's a testament to the film that the Human characters are just as fun to watch as the Dinosaurs. As revolutionary as the effects were for the time, the dialogue and performances (and the score) are every bit as responsible for the film still being remembered so fondly.
1:30 amazing subtle writing showing how wrong Hammond was about everything. He says that he can instantly tell about people yet he hired Nedry. What an amazing movie holy crap.
Yep, same as at 1:20 when he says that he "knows his way around a kitchen" but doesn't see the champagne glasses right to his left. He can't see the obvious things right in front of him, and it leads to disaster.
Yes, that's a classic one. Magic John Hammond. They had it with in a random, relatively anonymous video from like 2012 or something of Jurassic Park plot holes/inconsistencies (And no, it was before CinemaSins, this was just some random one). Among them are other things such as the door of the trailer opening in the wrong direction from Alan opening it from the outside.
It's always the little things in Jurassic Park that make the whole thing great. -John shaking Alan's hand, then blowing the dust off his fingers. -Alan whispering to himself, demonstrating he's heard about the rich and famous John Hammond before. -Alan whispering in Ellie's ear, causing her to immediately retract her rude comment to John. -Hammond's limp due to him walking without the cane we see later in the film. -the dialogue overlaps in a very real way. -Hammond offering to pour the champagne instead of Ellie, displaying his old school chivalry that comes back later when the park is offline. -Alan fiddling with the tools while Hammond talks. -Hammond mentions his other park in Kenya, showing he has an interest in profiting off of animals. -Ellie's sarcastic joke to Alan about children, reinforcing Alan's parenting arc. -Hammond mentions he doesn't care for lawyers, which pays off in the dinner scene. -Hammond correcting his pronunciation of "schedule" to sound more American. -all 3 of them smiling after they strike the deal. -alan and ellie hugging.
The part where Hammond pours the champagne plays on so many levels. His insistence on doing it is both courteous and charming, showing he has none of those rich people airs and graces, harking back to his old ways when he would have had to charm people at the start of his career, though there is the subtle hint of 'controlling' the situation, paralleling at the control he believes he can exert over nature. The fact that he pours the champagne in tumblers, when there are flutes there (as someone else has noted before), reaffirms he's not 'showy' but also displays his lack of attention to detail and proper protocol, which pays off with the cutting of corners with security and perhaps being 'cheap' (as Nedry remarks later). The 'spared no expense' is just bluster.
As a kid, what I understood from their meeting here is John saying "...for a furthe three years" as if it was a magic word to make Alan and Ellie agree to go to the park lol
Yes, every single line in that scene is magic. It's really fascinating that the "Jurassic Park", along with a handful of other adult movies, almost single-handedly shaped my early childhood frames of reference for adult conversation and how the adult world works.
Haha I have literally been looking for what the hell he said for years - to my young my ears, it always sounded like he said "I've got a jet-sounding bio chopper". I thought he was talking about the damn helicopter! I guess I was close in the end, they took the jet to the mainland first lol
@@ia5662 He says... "I've got a jet standing by----a chopper." like he just goofed on what it was actually called. I like that. People make mistakes in conversations like that all the time. ^_^
3:07 My Dad got me a whole set of that same glassware for Christmas this year. Now I'm gonna use some of them for New Year's Eve drinking sparkling grape.
Am I the only one who sees the hilarious irony in the fact that John Hammond resembles Captain Smith of the Titanic? Seemingly benevolent, but his decisions provoke disaster in the end.
Something I love about this scene that I *just* noticed now is that the more John explains his pitch to Alan and Ellie, the closer gets to him. First in a wide shot to a close-up when he pours the champagne and promises funding for three years. We as the audience are literally drawn into his charisma and charm just as Alan and Ellie are as well.
Just read an article that pointed out how he spends half this scene washing out and drying dirty rock glasses... The absolute wrong glass to serve champaign in... when the whole time clean champaign glasses are seen prominently in the background. That cannot be a coincidence and a reference to Hammond's short-sightedness and lack of attention to detail that would be JPs downfall... it must have flew over 99% of people's heads.
He had his inspiration. You should definitely read Crichton's novel if you haven't. And Spielberg altered the movie plot just enough not to spoil the entirety of the book either, even if that creates controversy and a level of uncertaintly in JP fans whether to treat a given part of the book as canon, or the film as canon. The book is darker though, that's for sure, but if you can, be sure to read, I watched the film first when I was like 5 years old, then the rest of the Park trilogy, only then as a teen have I found a suspiciously familiar-looking title on my grandparents' bookshelf. Poor book was like a 30+ years old beat-up copy. I'm not entirely sure if a page was missing or not by now, but it still kept me hooked. lol
@@hunormagyar1843 Yeah, mostly the same age and experience here. Watched "Jurassic Park" at my best friend's 5th birthday party and then watched "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" and "Jurassic Park III" when I was 8. I first found the book in my school classroom when I was about 11-12, and carefully skimmed through the first one or two chapters, but decided that it wasn't (yet) for me. Perhaps I will read them when I'm like 40 or something, Idk.
Even with all the exciting dinosaur moments, this is the scene I always come back to. Countless films contain improbable dialogue which is devoid from how people behave in real life. But this is absolute perfection, and exactly how you'd expect all those characters to act in this situation. We see Hammond's disregard for true science with his disruptive helicopter entrance. We see the brilliance of Attenborough's acting with his delivery of "for today, I guarantee it" putting a smile on every viewer's face. We see his immediate reference to the "50k a year", and how this establishes him as the power figure in the room. The instant deference of Grant and Satler is exactly how people behave around perceived 'important' figures. And the brilliant Spielberg-esque detail of Hammond pouring the champagne into tumblers- isn't that Hammond all over? A man who does everything half-right, and who's capacity for self-belief far exceeds his intelligence and common sense. It's also worth noting the control and certainty Hammond exudes here compared to the diminshed and reflective character he becomes in the final scene.
Foreshadowing: Hammond opens fridge for champagne but would later leave the fridge freezer door open after collecting the ice cream inadvertently saving Tim’s life from the raptor.
Notice the change in colour with the Towel Hammon is using. This continuity error is down to parts of this scene having to be re-shot at a later date. This was confirmed by 2nd unit director during a 25th anniversary talk
Billionaire flies his helicopter into the middle of nowhere to offer Dr. Grant awesome deal, and first thing he does is violate the poor man's fridge to look for a bottle of champagne.
omg at the beginning you can see how she runs with Alan's hat in her hand, it was the scene after the kiss that was cut but in that scene she took his hat off (after talking about kids and everything)
(Grant runs towards a trailer, punching away a pair of jeans. He goes in to see someone rummaging through the mini fridge.) Dr. Alan Grant: What the hell do you think your doing in here? (Hammond jumps up in surprise, with a bottle of champagne in one hand. He pops the cork like at a celebration, a slightly guilty look on his face. Grant ducks to avoid the cork. Dr. Alan Grant: Hey! We were saving that! John Hammond: For today, I guarantee it! Dr. Alan Grant: Who in God's name do you think you are? John Hammond: John Hammond. And I'm delighted to meet you finally in person, Dr Grant. (They shake hands and Hammond blows dust off his hand) I can see that my 50,000 a year has been well spent. Dr. Alan Grant: (Shocked) Hammond...Hammond Dr. Ellie Sattler: (Storming into the trailer) OK, who's the jerk? Dr. Alan Grant: This is our paleobotanist, Dr... Dr. Ellie Sattler: Sattler. John Hammond: Ah hah! Dr. Alan Grant: Ellie, this is Mr Hammond. John Hammond: Sorry about the dramatic entrance, Dr Sattler, but uh…. Dr. Ellie Sattler: (Apologetic) Did I say jerk? John Hammond: Come on, sit down, sit down. (Alan and Ellie try to help out) No, no, no I can manage this. I know my way around the kitchen. I'll come right to the point. I like you, both of you. I can tell instantly about people. It's a gift. I own an island, off the coast of Costa Rica. I've leased it from the government and I've spent the last five years setting up a kind of biological preserve. Really spectacular, spared no expense. It'll make the one I've got down in Kenya look like a petting zoo. And there's no doubt, our attractions will drive kids out of their minds. Dr. Alan Grant: What are those? Dr. Ellie Sattler: Smaller versions of adults, honey. John Hammond: And not just kids. Everyone. We're going to open in the Fall, that is if the lawyers don't kill me first. I don't care for lawyers, do you? Dr. Alan Grant: (Together with Ellie) Oh, we... don't really know, really. Dr. Ellie Sattler: (Together with Grant) Oh, we... don't really know, really. John Hammond: Well, I do I'm afraid. This particular pebble in my shoe represents my investors. That they insist on outside opinions. Dr. Ellie Sattler: What kind of opinions? John Hammond: Well, you're kind not to put too fine a point on it. I mean, let's face it... in your particular field you're the top minds. And if I could just persuade you, to sign off on the park, give it your endorsement, maybe even pen a wee testimonial, I could get right back on shedule, er... schedule. Dr. Ellie Sattler: Why would they care what we think? Dr. Alan Grant: What kind of park is this? John Hammond: It's right up your alley. I tell you what. Why don't you come down, just the pair of you for the weekend? I'd love to have the opinion of a paleobotanist as well. I've got a jet standing by at Choteau. Dr. Alan Grant: I'm sorry Mr Hammond, but that's impossible. We just dug up a new skeleton... John Hammond: I could compensate you by fully funding your dig... Dr. Alan Grant: (Wavering) And this is a very unusual time. John Hammond: (Continues) ...for a further three years. Dr. Ellie Statler: (Laughs nervously) Where's the plane? (Grant and Ellie hug each other giddily.)
Can't believe the amount of people here who are having trouble understanding John Hammond's mild Scottish accent! Watch Trainspotting and then you'll appreciate how clear his is 😀
Honestly, I've always had problems understanding it. I'm Swedish and I was little, I thought he said something like "I've got a deal for it" when he says "I guarantee it". It's NOT mild haha; or otherwise, it's strongly influenced by the old aristocratic RP accent.
I like the way he fumbled with the world "schedule". It's since becomes part of the iconic scene, and I always wondered if that's part of the script/direction or Attenborough simply messed up the pronunciation and corrected himself right away.
Someone pointed out that there are champagne flutes above the microwave but how Hammond instead goes for the quickest solution in front of him, foreshadowing the shortcuts he took with the park as well 😅
I didn't notice it until someone pointed it out but hammond be it a simple blunder or impatience serves the champagne in rocks glasses despite there being available champagne flutes clearly visible on the counter, what lovely foreshadowing to not seeing the failures already happening in his park.
2:11 Me: “Hey, before this gets too serious, I need to know of any mental health issues you have so I know how to help you with them.” Her: “Oh, I don’t have any.”
Okay, you know how Hammond in the movie is considered like your happy, caring and polite uncle figure compared to his book version? Look at his face for the last three or five seconds. ...then you remember, that he promises to compensate for their dig for three years, if they come to see his park. When they do, they'll save it to open and to reveal a bunch of living, breathing dinosaurs that will likely make most audiences of the world to give two s..ts about dinosaur bones. That means, that his deal will likely cause them to either lose their jobs or at least to struggle for their attention for the rest of their lives, and he knows it. That face... It haunts me.
I disagree. They'll still have their jobs. There would be (and still is) many aspects of dinosaurs that we don't understand. New species are discovered almost every month. If anything, the world's interest in dinosaurs would spike. Jurassic Park can't have everything.
Ehhh... The main idea of it was to be a joke, but you do have a point. Of course the science community wouldn't just flat out die in a month or two, but there could be serious effects to it, funding battles that wouldn't always have scientific minds to choose who wins, profits that can buy interest, create more profit, buy more interest... However... The general public in JP universe got bored with living dinosaurs in some 20 years. If you think the overall interest for dead dinosaurs would spike after there are living exhibition dinosaurs available (and I don't mean it should die, but...), you have more faith in humanity than I do. ;) Lets just say, that at the very least Hammond knows he is planning on using them to rescue something that will compete with them for attention... and money, and that face still haunts me...
Spoiler Alert: Even though everything went very very bad at the park, and Dinosaurs went loose. Did John Hammond ever kept his word and compensated Grant and Sattler dig as he said he would for three years?
After what they went through on the island there is little doubt they were compensated for more than that. I am sure they got a nice settlement and could get a killer book deal writing about the experience.
@@samanthony8121 They signed Non Disclosure Agreements as was mentioned in The Lost World: JP2. So no book deals. Their three year deal was no doubt honored and settlement money was certainly given, but by JP3 Grant was coming to the end of whatever money Hammond gave them bcuz Grant was fundraising in that movie. Also we see that Sattler bailed anyway.
Wait a sec, Hammond needs their unbiased opinion, but then agrees to pay for their research for 3 years if they review the park? Conflict of interest much?
He says he want an unbiaised opinion but he really wants their seal of approval asap to keep the investors calm. The phrase makes sense then, he is being a tad hypocritical.
Hammond slipped up his line at about 2:38 here. "...I could get back on shedule...uh, schedule." I wonder why Spielberg left it in instead of yelling, "Cut!"
Nah it wasn’t a slip up, I think It was intentionally scripted. He’s Scottish, so he’ll pronounce certain words differently. He does it again later when he references a carousel as a Merry go round, he cuts himself off before finishing the word and refers to it as a carousel instead.
Jurassic Park is one of those rare cases where the book and the film exist as two entirely distinct interpretations of the same story and they both work for different reasons. The themes are stronger in the book and the horror aspect really elevates it, but the movie has a sense of wonder and a larger than life quality that the book doesn’t.
"My first attraction in Scotland was a flea circus. It was all motorized of course." There were lots of competing interests going on during the book, which is what made it a great read.
0:15 if you do this in real life there is a good chance you have no head, or you are missing a large piece of your head. You never run up on a heli like that...yikes
After watching this as a little kid, the next day I walked into my bedroom and saw my mom cleaning inside. I shouted Grant's line "What the hell do you think you're doing in here?!" and got scolded😂
So... Hammond propose them to finance their research if they Come and give their opinion about the park for Hammond to convince his stakeholders who gave him an ultimatum... Isn't there a conflict of interest for Alan and Ellie ? 😐
Not really though. They did have the integrity to disapprove of the park when they saw it before the chaos. It's just right now, they only knew it as a biological preserve and nothing else
It would've depended on the final outcome too. If it was a quid-pro-quo, where Hammond withdrew his funding of their dig if they didn't endorse his park, then most definitely. Otherwise it just sounds like he's generously compensating them for their time and consideration (at least up front). Who knows if Hammond would've made good on his word if it hadn't gone horribly wrong and finally made even Hammond realize its failure.
Him arriving via helicopter in the middle of dig is excellent foreshadowing of how this doctor doesn’t respect what he has done, nor the industry itself.
I love this Hammond so much more than the book Hammond. The book Hammond is devious, cunning, and would do anything to make a profit. The movie Hammond is such a cheerful old man who wants to make an impact with dinosaurs. Richard killed this role and it was such a marvel to watch him
I've narrowed down the possible PowerBook selection for this scene to the 140, 145, and 170 based on the production timeframe placing the Montana dig shoot somewhere in the second half of September 1992. I was barely half a year old back then!
So the colors in this movie represent a few things: yellow = natural order, blue = control, green = dinosaurs, and red = bad/danger. Note where the green and blue is used in this scene agains the yellow sandy backdrop of the old fashioned dig site. The chopper, the plant life as Grant heads to the trailer, the hanging clothes, the Champaign bottle, and a plant hanging right next to Hammond.
He had to have hopped out the copter before it landed, did a Texas roll and sprinted like usain bolt to get to the RV that fast, and he wasn’t even out of breath!
As a kid I had no idea that Hammond is bribing Statler and Grant. Kid me always thought that they went to the Island because Hammond asked them to come. 😂
Me, when watching this scene: "I wanna watch the dinosaurs." Me, when watching the opening scene: "How did I forget that Steven Spielberg made the movie, 'JAWS'" Occasionally, cinema fans can get reminded of the current working legends.
