Why was Ian Malcolm at Jurassic Park?

I never understood why Ian Malcolm was asked to be an advisor for Jurassic Park. What input could a theoretical mathematician have on the viability of an exotic nature preserve/theme park?

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Risk assessment.

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I think it was something about him being an expert on Chaos Theory but I can't remember the exact line

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Lawyers wanted a Pop Science dude to endorse the park

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      This. I believe its stated in the movie and the book.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      The correct answer so early? What the thread is gonna be about then?

      to be a self-insert for the author

      In the book. And he's god-awful.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        About the book, as always with good JP threads.
        I will once again bring up this part:
        wift hunters.
        "Actually, what I was driving at," Malcolm said, "was this: Is it a persuasive animal to you? Is it in fact a dinosaur?"
        "I'd say so, yes."
        "And the coordinated attack behavior . . ."
        "To be expected," Grant said. According to the fossil record, packs of velociraptors were
        capable of bringing down animals that weighed a thousand pounds, like Tenontosaurus, which could run as fast as a horse. Coordination would be required.
        "How do they do that, without language?"
        "Oh, language isn't necessary for coordinated hunting," Ellie said. "Chimpanzees do it all the time. A group of chimps will stalk a monkey and kill it. All communication is by eyes."
        "And were the dinosaurs in fact attacking us?"
        "Yes."
        "They would kill us and eat us if they could?" Malcolm said.
        "I think so."
        "The reason I ask," Malcolm said, "is that I'm told large predators such as lions and tigers are
        not born man-eaters. Isn't that true? These animals must learn somewhere along the way that human beings are easy to kill. Only afterward do they become man-killers."
        "Yes, I believe that's true," Grant said.
        "Well, these dinosaurs must be even more reluctant than lions and tigers. After all, they come from a time before human beings-or even large mammals-existed at all. God knows what they think when they see us. So I wonder: have they learned, somewhere along the line, that humans are easy to kill?"
        The group fell silent as they walked.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Pop Science
      Popular Mechanics was kinda popular in the 90s for children's media.

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Ok, here's my theory. So we all know the park turned out to be a failure. I feel like they brought in this Chaotician to be the guy to admit "You're more likely to die in a car accident on the way to the airport than at Jurassic Park™!" as part of his endorsement, as they knew there'd always be SOME risk in going to the park.

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Im pretty sure the joke is that he's basically useless and is only there as an 'expert' to get the park insured, the same thing with Sadler and Grant. They are all there not because Hammond actually values their opinions, they just need certain 'expert' opinions to get the park liscenesed and insured. Thats why they have a 5 star dinner for them as soon as they get there.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      But why serve Chilli and Sea Bass?

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Lesbian holocaust

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    In the book it was pretty obvious he was Crichton's self insert.

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    He was actually just a philosopher but the general public has no actual idea what it means to be one of those, so they always come up with other names for them.

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    you are clearly a moron so this may go over your head, but Ian was very good at applied mathematics and they are generally good people to invite to assess risk from an outside-of-the-box perspective (which he did straight from the get go). It also helped that Crichton was a sucka for chaos theory and Ian was his self-insert. Plus it was the vampire Geronimo that brought Ian in the first place

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

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      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        lol typical cracka always gotta go for the big N. I have had sex once this year and that’s enough for my age

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    His character was Michael Chriton's mouthpiece. He has one in all of his books. Honestly, he is a pulp writer with some good ideas, that's about it though.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Frick off chichton was great

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        He was an idiot Republican.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Pray for this soul, for he is lost to the mind virus.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          bless your heart

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        I mean he wrote great books with catchy ideas but he was def still just a pulp writer that inserted his own biases into his work. Still one of my favorite authors. So many great reads from him.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          I'd be worried if a writer wasn't injecting their own biases and ideas into their own work.

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    There to figure out how much money the park could make, what corners to cut, where to shore up expenses etc.

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    it was chaotic

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    they should've let hammond die to compys like in the book

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >wishing harm to based Sir Dickie

      shame on you

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    CHAOSH

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    People arguing why Malcolm should be invited when it's clear Grant was the one that didn't deserve to be there. Just rewatch the lunch scene. Everyone is offering differing viewpoints and arguments until Grant just mumbles some nothing statements.

    >Malcolm: Genetic power is too dangerous to be commercialized like this. Just because you could doesn't mean you should.
    >Hammond: We are advancing science. We could bring back species that are threatened by extinction.
    >Malcolm: Dinosaurs have been naturally selected for extinction, your argument doesn't apply.
    >Sattler: How can you know anything about an extinct ecosystem and hope to control it? Even these extinct plants can be poisonous.
    >Grant: HURR HOW CAN WE KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT??? I'LL JUST THROW SOME OMINOUS WORDS AROUND

    I submit that Grant is a moron and a fraud

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      kek. He knew they made the points needed and just brought the conversation to an end with a final statement.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Ariana Richards was an amazing kid actor. What was the name of the time travel movie where is she was burned to death?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Kek
      I haven't seen this scene in a long time but I'll have to rewatch. From what I remember he agrees with Malcom and was fairly articulate. But I'll give it another view.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Go easy he just watched Harvey keitel frick his wife through the floorboards in new zealand

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Grant was the one who figured out how and why their computers were mis-counting the Dinos in the book. The movie basically assassinated Grant as a character honestly.

      Movie Grant
      >Hates kids
      >Hates computers
      >Fricking his student like a degenerate

      Book Grant
      >Loves kids (because kids love dinosaurs, just like him)
      >Good with computers
      >Is not fricking his students

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Grant was the one who figured out how and why their computers were mis-counting the Dinos in the book.

        Nah that was Malcolm

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    chaos theory is such a meme

  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Why was Ian Malcolm at Jurassic Park?
    to hard carry the movie

  18. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    to be a self-insert for the author

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Crichton has a lot of self-inserts, it's kind of his thing. I love him though.

      Grant was the one who figured out how and why their computers were mis-counting the Dinos in the book. The movie basically assassinated Grant as a character honestly.

      Movie Grant
      >Hates kids
      >Hates computers
      >Fricking his student like a degenerate

      Book Grant
      >Loves kids (because kids love dinosaurs, just like him)
      >Good with computers
      >Is not fricking his students

      They had to give Grant some kind of journey to go on because in the movie he's just a generic ultra-capable scientist/archaeologist/action hero. Also a Gary Stu self-insert.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >in the movie
        In the book I meant

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >23yrs old

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Dear god I would have done things

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Long and sinewy.

  19. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Ian wasn't there to sign off on the park. John was hoping he'd get eaten.

  20. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    At $300k starting, his opinion on things were extremely valuable.

  21. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    In the book it says he was an expert at chaos theory which gave him the ability to see where things could go wrong and he had a feeding fetish for chili and sea bass. He sees several things that could go wrong so in the book they throw him off the path a buffet of chili and sea bass but that part of the story gets lost in the film.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      i'm going to cook chili and sea bass someday

  22. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Why was Ian Malcolm at Jurassic Park?
    because he was right

  23. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The thing about the movie and the general theme of "life finds a way" is that everything bad that happened were due to very specific scenarios that were the result of bad oversight and poor planning.

    It was a major coincidence that the frog DNA they used to fill the gaps allowed the dinosaurs to switch sex. That is a very rare trait characteristic of a very small percentage of the animal kingdom. Likewise, the park fricking up was just due to paying a single guy to handle all the tech on the entire park and not even paying him enough so he commits corporate espionage. With better planning, genetic analysis, and corporate safeguards these "inevitable" descents into chaos are far from truly inevitable.

    I'm sure this was explored in the books, but why didn't Hammond just make a normal zoo-like park for the dinos on somewhere that's not an isolated island. Legal reasons? Not enough food? Why didn't he just sell his Velociraptors to rich Arabs?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      if you own the ferry, the means of transportation around the island, the food supply, the accommodation, literally an entire state, effectively, you will make a lot of money when they visit your land. They're not just park visitors, they're tourists to your country and you own the ferry service.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      In the book, Hammond chose Costa Rica because it was a poor country with no rules nor legislation. He was able to do whatever the frick he wanted. And he wanted to make money.

      On the contrary to piss gay trevorow, Crichton knew "selling dinosaurs as weapon" was moronic as frick

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Isolation probably works best for massive fauna and ridiculously exotic flora.A combination resort/super zoo for the obnoxiously wealthy Isolation is probably the best idea Hammond had, big picturewise atleast. If any dinosaurs escape, it's better they're confined to an island than having the ability to terrorize the mainland. A Normal Zoo would be even more of a nightmare than Jurassic Park.
      Also the point is the poor planning, it's just the general hubris of thinking you can rebirth megafauna from millenia ago and stick them in a zoo. Hammond's eyes were always bigger than his stomach, him believing he spared ever expense thought out every wrinkle when in reality he just sent people to carry out his vision so he could stand in front of it and feel he gave that wonder to the world himself. His Game Warden was basically telling him "can we please, please kill these fricking Velociraptors they're a ticking timebomb no matter what way you spin it". The smartest most cautious move is to NOT MAKE JURASSIC PARK so no manner of better planning and worker satisfaction will negate the unstable nature of what they're playing with. The dinosaurs being fertile is just an extra frick you because them breeding isn't a dire issue just yet, it's just another mark of thinking you got all the wrinkles settled when you made a major miscalculation.

  24. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Still remarkable that there’s a Jurassic Park movie where there are things to talk about other than dinosaurs eating people

  25. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    he was CIA

  26. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >What input could a theoretical mathematician have on the viability of an exotic nature preserve/theme park?
    Chaos theory. It's literally what Jurassic Park is all about...

  27. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The book has an interesting concept but it's frustrating how unconcerned the characters are about the dinosaurs breeding or the that they made ones that spits acid 50 feet and didn't think that would be an issue.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Regarding the dilos I think that them having poison glands was only discovered after they were incubated. They had no fricking idea about that aspect until they already had those dinosaurs at their hands.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Correct - if you listen to the voiceover during the tour, it mentions that they discovered the poison glands when they recreated it (and had thought it was harmless). No fricking excuse applies for the velociraptors though. Making those was a dumb move, and not killing them off after the game warden found that a big one had taken over the pack and organized them was an even dumber move.

        T-Rex was probably a bad idea as well, but, well. T-Rex.

  28. 11 months ago
    Anonymous
  29. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    the inverstors want to close the park and they brought a guy who can argue how the park will fail.
    when there are legal documents and money you need judicial expert, malcolm is that guy.

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