Minor Characters

Character Analysis

Dinosaur Food

Most of the film's other characters exist to feed the dinos, and we're not talking about the goats and cows, either.

First is poor Jophery, the black guy who dies first.

Then there's Donald Gennaro, the lawyer whose job it is to inspect the park's safety. He actually has a good point here. The park isn't safe, and John Hammond needs this dissenting opinion to keep from getting carried away. However, where Gennaro screws up is when he cowardly abandons the children to a hungry T. rex. He hides in the bathroom, which the T. rex checks for a quick snack.

Next is Ray Arnold (Samuel L. Jackson), the film's chain-smoking pink-sock-wearing, soon-to-be-dead other black guy. He decides to just traipse across the Velociraptor-infested park to flip some switches in the power shed. His catch phrase is "Hold onto your butts," but he can't hold onto his own butt—or his arm—when he gets chomped up by a raptor.

Finally, we have a few characters who actually survive. There's one Latin American guy who digs up the mosquito-filled amber, though we don't even know if he has a name. There's Henry Wu, played by B.D. Wong, who spouts some scientific jargon (and returns in Jurassic World). Dr. Harding is checking out the Triceratops poop before Ellie digs in, but he doesn't even have any lines. And Hammond mentions Alejandro, who isn't the inspiration for a Gaga song, but instead a chef who prepares Chilean Sea Bass for dinner.