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

VOLUNTEER: This new program's incredible! A few more years of development and you don't have to dig any more!

Grant looks at him, and his expression is positively wounded.

GRANT:

Well, where's the fun in that?

VOLUNTEER:

It looks a little distorted, but I don't think that's the computer.

ELLIE:

(shakes her head) Postmortem contraction of the posterior neck ligaments.

(to Grant) Velociraptor?

GRANT:

Yes. Good shape, too. Five, six feet high. I'm guessing nine feet long. Look at the - - He points to part of the skeleton, but when his finger touches the screen the computer BEEPS at him and the image changes. He pulls his hand back, as if it shocked him.

VOLUNTEER: What's you do?

ELLIE:

He touched it. Dr. Grant is not machine compatible.

GRANT:

They've got it in for me.

The Volunteer LAUGHS and touches a different part of the screen, which brings the original image back. Grant continues, but doesn't get as close.

GRANT:

Look at the half-moon shaped bone in the wrist. No wonder these guys learned to fly.

The group laughs. Grant is surprised.

GRANT (cont'd) Now, seriously. Show of the hands. How many of you have read my book?

Everyone stops laughing and looks away. Ellie raises her hand supportively. So does the Volunteer, Grant sighs.

GRANT (cont'd) Great. Well maybe dinosaurs have more in common with present-day birds than reptiles. Look at the public bone - - it's turned backwards, just like a bird. The vertebrae - - full of hollows and air sacs, just like a bird. Even the word raptor means "bird of prey".

The kid steps forward and looks at the computer skeleton critically.

KID:

That doesn't look very scary. More like a six-foot turkey.

Everyone sort of draws in their breath and steps aside, revealing the KID, standing alone. Grant turns to the Kid, lowers his sunglasses, and stares at him like he just came from another planet.

Grant strolls over to the KID , puts his arms around his shoulders in a friendly way.

GRANT:

Try to imagine yourself in the Jurassic Period.

(or) Try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous Period.

Ellie rolls her eyes.

ELLIE:

(under her breath) Here we go.

GRANT (cont'd) You'd get your first look at the six-foot turkey as you move into a clearing. But raptor, he knew you were there a long time ago. He moves like a bird; lightly, bobbing his head, And you keep still, because you think maybe his visual acuity's based on movement, like a T- rex, and he'll lose you if you don't move. But no. Not VELOCIRAPTOR. You stare at him, and he just stares back. That's when the attack comes - - not from the front, no, from the side, from the other two raptors you didn't even know were there.