Jurassic Park Page #6

The screen-Hammond extends his finger and the stage-Hammond

reaches out and mimes pocking it with a needle.

HAMMOND (screen)

Ouch, John! That hurt!

HAMMOND (stage)

"Relax, John. It's all part of the miracle of cloning!"

While the two Hammonds rattle on, the screen image splits into

two Hammonds, then four then eight, and so on, like a shampoo

commercial.

Grant, Ellie, and Malcolm huddle together excitedly in the

audience.

GRANT:

Cloning from What?! Loy extraction has never recreated

an intact DNA strand!

MALCOLM:

Not without massive sequence gaps!

ELLIE:

Paleo-DNA? From what source? Where do you get 100

million year old dinosaur blood?!

GENNARO:

Shhhhh!

20IN THE FILM,

the screen-Hammond is joined by another figure, this one

animated. MR. DNA is a cartoon character, a happy-go-lucky double-

helix strand of recombinant DNA. Mr. DNA jumps down onto the screen-

Hammond's head and slides down his nose.

HAMMOND:

Well! Mr. DNA! Where'd you come from?

MR. DNA

From your blood! Just one drop of your blood contains

billions of strands of DNA, the building blocks of life!

21 OMITTED

22IN THE FILM,

Mr. DNA has taken over the show, and is speaking to the audience

from the screen.

MR. DNA

A DNA strand like me is a blueprint for building a

living thing! And sometimes animals that went extinct

millions of years ago, like dinosaurs, left their

blueprints behind for us to find! We just had to know

where to look!

The screen image changes from animated to a nature- photography

look. It's an extreme close-up of a mosquito, its fangs suck the deep

into some animals flesh, its body pulsing and engorging with blood it's

drinking.

MR. DNA (cont'd)

A hundred million years ago, there were mosquitoes, just

like today. And, just like today, they fed on the blood

of animals. Even dinosaurs!

The camera races back to show the mosquito is perched on top of

a giant animated brachiosaur.

The image changes, to another close-up, this one of a tree

branch, its bark glistening with golden sap. Mr. DNA leaps on the sap.

MR. DNA (cont'd)

Sometimes, after biting a dinosaur, the mosquito would

land on a branch of a tree, and get stuck in the sap!

The engorged mosquito lands in the tree sap, and gets stuck. So

is Mr. DNA. He tugs his legs, but they stay stuck.

MR. DNA

WHOA!

Now the tree sap flows over them, covering up Mr. DNA and the

mosquito completely. Mr. DNA SHOUTS from inside the tree sap.

MR. DNA (cont'd)

After a long time, the tree sap would get hard and

become fossilized, just like a dinosaur bone, preserving

the mosquito inside!

23A SCIENCE LABORATORY

The place buzzes with activity. Everywhere, there are piles of

amber, tagged and labeled with SCIENTISTS in white coats examining it

under microscopes.

One SCIENTIST moves a complicated drill apparatus next to the

chuck of amber with a fossilized mosquito inside and BORES into the

side of it. MR. DNA escapes through the drill hole as the Scientist

moves the amber onto a microscope and peers through the eyepiece.

MR. DNA (O.S.)

This fossilized tree sap -- which we call amber �

waited millions of years, with the mosquito inside �

until Jurassic Park's scientists came along!

24THROUGH THE MICROSCOPE

We see the greatly enlarged image of a mosquito through the

lens.

MR. DNA (O.S.)

Using sophisticated techniques, they extract the

preserved blood from the mosquito,

and - -

A long needle is inserted through the amber, into the thorax of

the mosquito, and makes an extraction.

MR. DNA (cont'd)

- -Bingo! Dino DNA!

Mr. DNA jumps down in front of DNA data as it races by at

headache speed. He holds his head, dizzied by it.

MR. DNA (cont'd)

A full DNA strand contains three billion genetic codes!

If we looked at screens like these once a second for

eight hours a day, it'd take two years to look at the

entire strand! It's that long! And since it's so old,

it's full of holes! That's where our geneticists take

over!

25AINTGENETICS LABDAY

SCIENTISTS toil in a lab with two huge white towers at either

side.

MR. DNA

Thinking Machine supercomputers and gene sequencers

break down the strand in minutes - -

One SCIENTIST, in the back has his arms encased in two long

rubber tubes. He's strapped into a bizarre apparatus, staring into a

complex headpiece and moving his arms gently, like Tai Chi movements.

MR. DNA (cont'd)

- - and Virtual Reality displays show our geneticists

the gaps in the DNA sequence! Since most animal DNA is

ninety percent identical, we use the complete DNA of a

frog - -

25BON THE V.R. DISPLAY

we see an actual DNA strand, except it has a big hole in the

center, where the vital information is missing. Mr. DNA bounds into

the frame, carrying a butch of letters in one hand.

He puts it in the gap and turns back against it, GRUNTING as he

shoves into place.

MR. DNA

(straining)

- - to fill in the - - holes and - -complete - - the - -

(finally getting it)

- - code! Whew!

He brushes his hands off, satisfied.

MR. DNA (cont'd)

Now we can make a baby dinosaur!

26IN THE AUDIENCE

The scientist look at each other, not sure.

HAMMOND:

All this has some dramatic music - - da dum da dum da

dum dum - - march or something, it's not written yet,

and the tour moves on - -

He throws a switch and safety bars appear out of nowhere and

drop over their seats, CLICKING into place.

HAMMOND:

For your own safety!

The row of seats moves out of the auditorium.

27INTHALLWAYDAY

The row of seats moves slowly past a row of double-panned glass

window beneath a large sign that reads

"GENETICS/FERTILIZATION/HATCHERY." Inside, TECHNICIANS work at

microscopes.

In the back is a section entirely lit by blue ultraviolet light.

Mr. DNA VOICE continues over a speaker in each seat.

MR. DNA (O.S.)

Our fertilization department is where the dinosaur DNA

takes the place of the DNA in unfertilized emu or

ostrich eggs - - and then it's on to the nursery, where

we welcome the dinosaurs back into the world!

GENNARO has a wondrous grin plastered on his face, just loving

everything now.

GENNARO:

This is overwhelming, John. Are these characters

(people) animatronics?

HAMMOND:

No, we don't have any animatronics here. These are the

real miracle workers of Jurassic Park.

GRANT, ELLIE, and MALCOLM are frustrated, leaning forward,

straining against the safety bars for a better look. But the cars keep

going.

GRANT:

Wait a minute! How do you interrupt the cellular

mitosis?!?

ELLIE:

Can't we see the unfertilized host eggs?!

But the cars are already moving on to another set of windows,

which give a glimpse into what looks like a control room.

HAMMOND:

Shortly, shortly....

MR. DNA (O.S.)

Our control room contains some of the most sophisticated

automation ever attempted

in - -

Grant strains to look back into the labs, but the cars move past

again, no intention of slowing down.

GRANT:

Can't you stop these things?!

HAMMOND:

Sorry! It's kind of a ride!

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