侏罗纪公园 1 Jurassic Park (1993) Movie Script

They all turn and look at him.

GENNARO:

Thank you, Dr. Malcolm, but I think things are a little different than you and I feared.

MALCOLM:

Yes, I know. They're a lot worse.

GENNARO:

Now, wait a second, we haven't even see the park yet.

Let's just hold out concerns until - - (or alt. version) Wait - we were invited to this island to evaluate the safety conditions of the park, physical containment.

The theories that all simple systems have complex behavior, that animals in a zoo environment will eventually begin to behave in an unpredictable fashion have nothing to do with that evaluation. This is not some existential furlough, this is an on-site inspection. You are a doctor. Do your job. You are invalidating your own assessment. I'm sorry, John - -

HAMMOND:

Alright Donald, alright, but just let him talk. I want to hear all viewpoints. I truly do.

(or) I truly am.

MALCOLM:

Don't you see the danger, John, inherent in what you're doing here? Genetic power is the most awesome force ever seen on this planet. But you wield it like a kid who's found his dad's gun.

MALCOLMGENNARO: If I may....It is hardly appropriate to start hurling Excuse me, excuse me - -generalizations before - - I'll tell you.

MALCOLM (cont'd) The problem with scientific power you've used is it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge yourselves, so you don't take the responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you knew what you had, you patented it, packages it, slapped in on a plastic lunch box, and now you want to sell it.

HAMMOND:

You don't give us our due credit. Our scientists have done things no one could ever do before.

MALCOLM:

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should. Science can create pesticides, but it can't tell us not to use them. Science can make a nuclear reactor, but it can't tell us not to build it!

HAMMOND:

But this is nature! Why not give an extinct species a second chance?! I mean, Condors. Condors are on the verge of extinction - - if I'd created a flock of them on the island, you wouldn't be saying any of this!

(or) have anything to say at all!

MALCOLM:

Hold on - - this is no species that was obliterated by deforestation or the building of a dam. Dinosaurs had their shot. Nature selected them for extinction.

HAMMOND:

I don't understand this Luddite attitude, especially from a scientist. How could we stand in the light of discovery and not act?

MALCOLM:

There's nothing that great about discovery.

(or) What's so great about discovery? It's a violent, penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you call discovery I call the rape of the natural world!

GENNARO:

Please - - let's hear something from the others. Dr.

Grant? I am sorry - - Dr. Sattler?

ELLIE:

The question is - - how much can you know about an extinct ecosystem, and therefore, how could you assume you can control it? You have plants right here in this building, for example, that are poisonous. You picked them because they look pretty, but these are aggressive living things that have no idea what century they're living in and will defend themselves. Violently, if necessary.

Exasperated, Hammond turns to Grant, who looks shell-shocked.

HAMMOND:

Dr. Grant, if there's one person who can appreciate all of this - - (or) What am I trying to do?

But Grant speaks quietly, really thrown by all of this.