"Thank you jesus"
One of the main themes discussed ad nauseum by Ian Malcolm (aka Goldblum) in Jurassic Park (the movie with dinosaurs and the most awkward phrasings every recorded in film history) was the notion of chaos theory, that any happening can have any sort of outcome in being relation to a single causal event. It seems like fate, but could also be the opposite of fate since it may not have anything to do with you but with something completely unrelated causing something to happen to you. It's like thinking about your great great great great grand father. You are only alive because he did up your that great... mother, but also the odds that you were created almost exist for the very purpose that you were created. Some people like to explain it as a butterfly flapping its wings in Japan will cause a storm in New York, yeah right like that could happen. I like the feather to Lt. Dan’s plan, both is happening at the same time.
The most important scene in the movie and what typifies this notion is the scene where Grant discovers that a Triceratops (that dinosaur is all animatronics) is sick. What is the discussion that Ellie has with Malcom in the jeep on their return home from failed dinosaur showings? It is about water trickling down her arm, and when they do it a different time it follows a different path based on small microscopic imperfections of the skin, that one tiny plinko bar of the skin made the plinko chip go in one direction. I only hope that the discussion was put there for this reason. Malcolm even says “no one could have predicted Dr. Grant jumping out of the car, and leaving me by myself, talking to myself, and that is chaos theory”, or something to that effect.
If the following events don’t happen they don’t make it off the island, dinosaur gets sick, Grant notices something out his window, decides to investigate, while Malcolm is distracting Ellie the whole time. What happens right after that one? Ellie is fascinated with what is going on so she decides to stay but the rest drive towards the visitor center via the Tyrannosaur paddock in their electric cars. She gets to go in the gas jeep with Harding from the book. The Trex attacks the 2 electric cars, Gennaro and Malcolm get demolished, Grant takes care of the kids, and tries to get them back safely. Meanwhile with Ellie back at the visitor’s center they encounter Nedry’s problem, but decide to go out and try to save whoever is left. If Ellie would have been remained with her original group, would she have been able to find Malcolm to save his life, where would she be in this situation was different, how close was he to dying? He did get bashed by what would be the equivalent of a semi hitting him at 30 mph. If Ellie wasn’t there who would have been available to turn on the power and avoid the raptor? The Australian dude, and Sam L Jackson get killed, would the old man been able to do it on his own, and survive the raptor infestation up the neck of the worst kind. She also creates this bonding experience for Grant and the kids by being separated. Not to mention the “spark” that causes Timmy to almost die. This experience of bringing a child to life, Grant's life obstacle, changed him for the better (until the third shit fest). That dinosaur wasn't the reason they came there, it was the reason they got out of there, they needed to get separated to survive.
But not only does it allow all these events to happen but it allows it in a certain time frame. If they don’t stop for the Triceratops, it throws everything off kilter. They wouldn’t have been in front of the T-Rex paddock, maybe the Dilophsaurus one, do you survive those things better? What if she tries to save the Gennaro dude in the bathroom? She gets killed. By the way when Malcolm was laid up in there jeep, where were Ellie and Muldoon running from, what were they investigating? Were they doing it? As we know from the 3rd one she wasn’t happy with Grant.
That dinosaur causes this to happen and for everything to work out perfectly. Maybe that is chaos theory. That something is going to happen it is just a matter of how, there is always an outcome but by what trail will we reach it. This dinosaur that was born tens of millions of years in the past happen, to have a mosquito land on it, happen to have it survive that ordeal and land on a tree and get covered in sap. But a seed had to land there where the tree was, to develop a certain species that created sap. Then on top of that have the .00001% chance or less of getting the right conditions to be fossilized then have the .0000001% chance your fossil gets found by a civilization that will understand it, then have a species evolve enough to understand what you are, then have it evolve enough to develop complex thought capable to produce technology quickly and create a god big enough to play one. To do that, then to hatch, then to pick a thing to eat and get sick over it, yeah what are the chances of that. It all happened in order to save these peoples lives. And what if they have a kid because of this series of events of what happened to them. That kids entire being can be thanked by a dinosaur. Yes of course they couldn't predict Nedry, but Nedry couldn't predict nature’s chaos fucktion and that sick dino. Because that caused them to break up, well the storm too. The sound of thunder could have also have been the sound of thunder if you know what I mean. Just think if the chaos of that storm coming wouldn't have happen, did a butterfly flap it's wings in Nanking to create that tropical storm that set its course to hit this tiny island that would make Nedry rush everything. Chaos is fucking everywhere causing fate left and right. How do we fit into all of this?
Something was meant for that triceratops to get sick and you wonder none of the following events would have happened. Is it about Grant finding God, could it be? That genetic engineer, that is his god essentially. That exact Triceratops to be cloned and place right there to get sick on. The ultimate case for chaos theory and it is chaos theory personified that saved their lives. Or I guess we don’t know how much time they spend with the Triceratops, maybe they could have made it back to the visitors center and everyone lives. Fuck you Grant and chaos theory. So maybe Grant is the reason everything goes to shit, everyone could have been better off if he never happened. Grant being born is the reason for Gerraro's death and everyone else, there you go.
I like how everyone was pissed when they didn't see the T-Rex or Dilophosaurus during the tour, dude you got to see a brachiosaur and duck billed thing in the beginning, and a baby raptor being born what are you complaining about.
By the way I hear off an on rumors about a Jurassic park IV(check out this story Worst Previews) . What they should do is do it for the 20th anniversary (2013) and do a 20 part mini-series of the book straight, every single event in there, 20 hours total so they can tell it completely, a season of TV, honor Crichton, erase the horrible memories of Jurassic Park III and San Diego in 2. Use all the original actors too. Cash money.
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