FILM JURASSIC PARK Jurassic Park (1993) is a science fiction-adventuredrama film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the novel of the same name, written by Michael Crichton. The film stars Sam Neill (as Alan Grant), Laura Dern (as Ellie Sattler), Jeff Goldblum (as Jan Malcolm) and Richard Attenborough (as John Hammond). A SYNOPSYS John Hammond, the wealthy owner of a bioengineering firm, has turned Isla Nublar a remote island off Costa Rica into a zoo called Jurassic Park, featuring genetically engineered dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. When one of the workers is killed by a velociraptor, the founder of the park requests top paleontologist (a scientist who studies fossils) Dr. Alan Grant and his research partner Dr. Ellie Sattler to come to the park and ensure that it is safe. He also invites his two excited grandchildren Lex and Tim and Jan Malcolm, a mathematician, to join the group on a tour of the park. Another visitor to the island is Dennis Nedry the computer technician who designed the park s complicated computer network who has been hired to steal some dinosaur embryos by a rival bioengineering company. When Nedry disables the park s security system to steal the embryos, all of the park s other systems start to malfunction and many dinosaurs escape their paddocks getting out of control and inflicting horrible and sometimes deadly injuries on the visitors. BEFORE WATCHING 1. What do you think the job of a bioengineering firm is? 2. Do you know where Costa Rica is? If not, surf the net to find information about it. 3. What does the name Jurassic refer to? 4. If Jurassic Park were real, would you visit it? 5. What is DNA? 6. What are genetically engineered organisms? 172 Module 4 COMPOUNDS