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This highly energetic piece is empowered by inspired fanfare provided by bright horns bravura, sweeping strings, rolling timpani and clashing cymbals. The Adventure Theme underpins HammondвЂ™s grand vision of Jurassic Park providing the happiness and exhilaration of adventure for those visiting the park. Upon viewing the completed film Williams related that he wanted вЂњpieces that would convey a sense of awe and fascination, given it dealt with the overwhelming happiness and excitement that would emerge from seeing live dinosaurs.вЂќ To that end he created two primary themes to support the film. Spielberg always intended that John Williams score the film. Its monumental success would precipitate a franchise of five films, with a sixth set to debut in 2021. It was a massive commercial success, achieving the most ever made by a motion picture, earning $1.03 billion dollars or nearly 17 times its production costs of $63 million. The film was recognized for its technical accomplishments, securing three Academy Awards for Best Sound, Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Visual Effects. The film received widespread critical acclaim for the revolutionary visual effects, SpielbergвЂ™s directing, and John Williams magnificent score. The pleasant visit quickly becomes a battle to survive as predatory velociraptors and a Tyrannosaurus Rex stalk the party relentlessly. Hammond invites a group of dinosaur experts and scientists вЂ“ Grant, Sattler, and Malcolm, among them вЂ“ to inspect the park before it opens to the public, but everything goes awry when a worker sabotages the parkвЂ™s security containment system so as to facilitate his escape with stolen dinosaur DNA, him having been convinced to turn on his employers as part of a corporate espionage plot.

His vision is to create a park to house the creatures and to bring thousands of tourists in to view them safely, protected by a massive containing electrical barrier system. The film offers a damning commentary on human hubris when billionaire Hammond develops technology which allows him to clone dinosaurs from preserved DNA samples. Wong as Henry Wu, and Ariana Richards and Joseph Mazzello as HammondвЂ™s niece and nephew Lex and Tim. Joining him would be Laura Dern as Ellie Sattler, Jeff Goldblum as Ian Malcolm, Richard Attenborough as John Hammond, Bob Peck as Robert Muldoon, Samuel Jackson as Ray Arnold, B.D. A fine cast was assembled with Sam Neill securing the role of Alan Grant after William Hurt and Harrison Ford both declined. Universal executives brought in Casey Silver and David Koepp who ultimately crafted the script used in the film. Malia Scotch Marmo was tasked with the rewrite in late 1991, but she also did not satisfy SpielbergвЂ™s vision. Crichton was hired to adapt his novel to the screen but Spielberg was unsatisfied with the violence. He turned to George LucasвЂ™ Industrial Light and Magic Company to create groundbreaking computer вЂ“generated imagery and ended up making history. Spielberg understood the challenges he faced bring the dinosaurs to life and sought at all costs to not repeat the technical nightmare he experienced in Jaws. Kathleen Kennedy and Gerald Molen would produce the film with Spielberg directing. A bidding war for the rights ensued, with Spielberg and Universal Pictures prevailing over Warner Brothers and Tim Burton, Columbia Pictures and Richard Donner, James Cameron and Joe Dante.

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Steven Spielberg became aware of Michael CrichtonвЂ™s novel Jurassic Park as the two collaborated on the television series E.R.

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