Jurassic Park Scene 1 Summary

  • We open with a handful of credits and some ominous instrumental music. (Seriously, guys, the closed captions say "Ominous instrumental music.")
  • What's the omen?
  • Hmm, we have rustling branches, weird noises, a strange light, and…a black guy in a hard hat.
  • Also, there are a bunch of white people with cattle prods (if they gave the black dude a cattle prod, we can't see it), and another guy with a pith helmet and a very big shotgun.
  • Some text on-screen says we're on Isla Nublar, 120 miles west of Costa Rica.
  • A crane lowers a big metal box to the ground, and pith helmet orders some guys to push the growling metal box up to the entrance of a high-tech pen.
  • Jophery, a different black guy without a tazer or any sort of weapon at all, climbs atop the box and opens the gate to let whatever animal is inside the box into the pen…
  • But the box slides away from the gate. Uh-oh…the creature grabs Jophery's legs and pulls him inside. Gulp.
  • The man with the pith helmet tries to save Jophery, yelling, "Shoot her!" to the men nearby. They shoot, but can't save Jophery. Sorry, Jophery.