He is the only one on the island but there are more developers. Hammond even says to “call his team In Cambridge”.
This joke comes from people ignoring the following:
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The presence of Ray Arnold the Chief Engineer who also worked with computers (not to the same level as Nedry)
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Jurassic Park was operating with a skeleton crew at the time and Hammond thought the automated systems would work because he was assured as much from his Chief IT guy.
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Nedry has a whole team working on the park’s IT system. And I’m not just referencing book material. Hammond even said in the BLOODY movie “call Nedry’s team on the main land” when shit started going down.
So no. Hammond was not stupid enough to trust the entire park’s computer infrastructure on just one guy.
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I dont remember the movie well but I thought everyone left the island and this was the minimum team left behind.
Yes, they were on a reduced crew because of a storm.
I was just thinking about this yesterday - and how it seems like one of the very few flaws with the film was how unclear they made this. Nearly everyone misunderstands this. It would have really helped if there’d been a couple more lines on it, or shots of staff clearing out, etc. Instead it seemed like there were about 10 people at the whole park.
Sounds about right.
Samuel L was also an IT guy, right? But yes, an expense was spared
Nedry was the systems engineer, Arnold was the operations admin. One was a construction worker, the other was the architect. Neither can truly do the other’s job, but are aware of how they do it.
That’s exactly the point. They did spare expenses, on a lot of things.
John Hammond Jurassic Park book spoilers
John Hammond is clearly portrayed as a villain in the book. They lightened him up in the movie.
Supposedly, that is the whole deal with the Chilean Sea Bass that he gloats about. Spared no expense. Apparently that fish sounds fancy, but is actually super cheap. The whole park needed to have the shine of a top-of-the-line facility, but in the end, Ingen and Hammond had no idea what they were really cooking up.
The raptors for instance, I always got the feeling that paddock was kind of small and rapidly constructed. Those things had killed multiple people in the past, and the park’s response was cram them into a jail cell. You’d think an intelligent, dangerous animal, that was not part of the tour or experience would be euthanized, rather than risk the whole park…but here is Ingen not dealing with the problem, and instead, actively making more raptors.
They just needed Chris Pratt, Raptor Whisperer and they would have been fine.
The movie really dumbed Hammond down to “overly optimistic money guy with a vision”. Which was a bit distasteful if you’ve read the books. Just a bit.
Maybe. I really preferred the movie version. Sometimes I prefer to like characters.
The book was a million times better than the movie. It was the first time I had read a novel that was turned into a movie and then saw the movie after reading the novel.
14-year-old me had never been so disappointed. And it taught me to never ever read the book before the movie.
My wife always gets excited when a book she loves is being adapted (right now Verity and project hail Mary) but I learned from many disappointments to not get excited. I still watch most of them but I don’t expect too much
After seeing the trailer for project, Hail Mary, it seems like they’re gonna stick pretty close to the book. Like they did with the Martian.
For me, it was really mostly the story changes they made so the movie could be rated PG instead of R. They also made some changes to some of the characters and the dialogue which made it come off a lot more cheesy than the book. Although, I will say, gender swapping the kids was a good move. I liked that it was the girl who was the UNIX whiz. In 1993, that felt like an especially fresh take.
I saw once that the reason Kristen Stewart was so hated in the Twilight movies is because all the young women who grew up reading the books imagined themselves as Bella. They were never going to like whichever actress was cast into the role since they would no longer be able to project their own likeness onto the protagonist.
because it’s impossible for richard attenborough to be a villain
Also Spielberg saw himself in the character.
Oh I bet he did
He was evil in the books and was horrible to Nedrey
Newman.
I’ve always said the real moral of Jurrasic Park was “don’t fuck with IT”
In the book it was a huge amount of scope creep, Hammond refusing to pay for it and then acting all entitled.
Just like in the real world.
Ah, a rubber duck debugging adherent. At least they paid good money for a professional.
That’s a stress ball
What is the rubber duck used for? Is it like the seashells in Demolition Man?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
tldr; basically you explain your buggy code to the duck, and when you explain it, you suddenly realize what the issue is.
any inanimate or even imaginary object works, but rubber duck is the classic option.
I find my dog works well too, she’s a great listener.
goodbest debuggerBest little bugger
Have you ever been stuck on a problem (school, work, personal, whatever) and as soon as you go to ask someone for help, you start explaining the problem and figure it out? You basically use the duck for that - explain the problem out loud to “someone else” and sometimes you’ll see what you were missing.
lol
Isn’t that Mona Wilder?
He also had Samuel L Jackson.
Yeah, he was always ready to lend a hand.
Arnold was an engineer, though. He was competent in using the system and not totally lost when poking around the code, but he’s no computer scientist. Basically, he was a power user / sysadmin rather than a developer.
Stares motherfuckerly at you…
I understand your opinion of sysadmins but they still fit the definition of an IT guy
Pretty farken standard. IT isn’t considered important unless they want their personal laptop de-porned
one it guy who you could distract with a shiny can of shaving cream
Don’t even, all of us thought that can was cool
As a young child who didn’t yet know what Barbasol was, I was still a little disappointed to find out that the can was not, in fact, filled with delicious whipped cream
