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The dinosaurs don't escape because the mathematics of chaos theory dictate that it is inevitable, they escape because otherwise nobody would pay to see the movi

The dinosaurs don't escape because the mathematics of chaos theory dictate that it is inevitable, they escape because otherwise nobody would pay to see the movie. I am still amazed that this one little piece of artistic puffery managed to singlehandedly meme "GMO bad" into prominence.

lesuorac 5y ago
Did you see how many people were staffing that park? When your facilities crew is in the single digits there are going to be problems!
- fullstop 5y ago
  He spared no expenses, but only had one IT guy. They also drink champagne from water glasses even though there are champagne flutes right on the counter! I think that Hammond didn't really know what he was doing.
  - lesuorac 5y ago
    In Hammond's defense, the IT guy was so good a child could use his work.
- strictnein 5y ago
  I think it's a little clearer in the book, but most of the staff left the island for {insert plot point} reasons.
  - lesuorac 5y ago
    Fair, it's just a big pet peeve of mine how staff in movies is just so bare-bones. Like with the book of bobba fett where there's a crime lord (bobba) whose "coffers are full" and just needs to hire some help and he hires nobody! His "army" was a business partner (fennac), a friend (wookie), another friend (dan), a pet, existing employees (mods), and unpaid citizens (freetown).
  - robonerd 5y ago
    In the book, the park was designed to run with a skeleton crew from the very beginning, to make the park more profitable. Nedry's role of automating the entire park using computers specifically so Hammond wouldn't have to pay as many workers: > "And the secret to making money in a park," Hammond said, "is to limit your Personnel costs. The food handlers, ticket takers, cleanup crews, repair teams. To make a park that runs with minimal staff. That was why we invested in all the computer technology-we automated wherever we could." Virtually all of the problems with the park were caused by Hammond's profit-motivated corner cutting. The movie barely has a trace of these themes, but the book is really about the synthesis of unregulated startup capitalism with scientific research (biotech specifically.) The introduction lays it all out explicitly in the first few pages.

lesuorac 5y ago

Did you see how many people were staffing that park? When your facilities crew is in the single digits there are going to be problems!

fullstop 5y ago
He spared no expenses, but only had one IT guy. They also drink champagne from water glasses even though there are champagne flutes right on the counter! I think that Hammond didn't really know what he was doing.
- lesuorac 5y ago
  In Hammond's defense, the IT guy was so good a child could use his work.
strictnein 5y ago
I think it's a little clearer in the book, but most of the staff left the island for {insert plot point} reasons.
- lesuorac 5y ago
  Fair, it's just a big pet peeve of mine how staff in movies is just so bare-bones. Like with the book of bobba fett where there's a crime lord (bobba) whose "coffers are full" and just needs to hire some help and he hires nobody! His "army" was a business partner (fennac), a friend (wookie), another friend (dan), a pet, existing employees (mods), and unpaid citizens (freetown).
- robonerd 5y ago
  In the book, the park was designed to run with a skeleton crew from the very beginning, to make the park more profitable. Nedry's role of automating the entire park using computers specifically so Hammond wouldn't have to pay as many workers: > "And the secret to making money in a park," Hammond said, "is to limit your Personnel costs. The food handlers, ticket takers, cleanup crews, repair teams. To make a park that runs with minimal staff. That was why we invested in all the computer technology-we automated wherever we could." Virtually all of the problems with the park were caused by Hammond's profit-motivated corner cutting. The movie barely has a trace of these themes, but the book is really about the synthesis of unregulated startup capitalism with scientific research (biotech specifically.) The introduction lays it all out explicitly in the first few pages.