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Comment by Patricia on November 30, 2013 at 5:12pm
I had a couple at the door today........."Do you think the dead can live again?"
I said my 2 cents worth......."This is an atheist household & you'd be smart to check into it!"
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Comment by Keith Sewell on July 28, 2013 at 3:12pm
Hello to my fellow Strong Atheists. Its been a couple of years since I dropped in to check things out here, but they've been busy ones. Sales of the book are now up to about 400, and a staunch friend has been kind enough to build me a website. I'd like to invite any here who have a few minutes to spare to come over for a look, at poppersinversion.org . I can offer as inducement only that the site is about strong and effective anti-theism. Not about bitching, but about how we could win. Don't think that possible? Come over and see....
Best regards to all,
Keith
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Comment by Patricia on July 17, 2013 at 2:02pm
Another 'oh groan' write-up....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/16/vatican-indulgences-pop...
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Comment by david hartley on May 14, 2013 at 9:25am
I've been discussing a few points over the last couple of American elections with the religiously, or slightly religiously minded and I wondered what you think of them. I'm going to have to concede the point to them that the Constitution at the moment continues to trump the religious test for office that some State constitutions still carry.
One thing about the last election was the hysteria created by the media about Romney's chances. The overblowing of poll results, in fact let's face it the outright invalidity to the level of lies and propaganda, and the wretched emotions it seemed to cause to the Republican supporters.
This was followed by the secessionist cries of the extremists.
The manufactured hysteria was the first warning to me which set me thinking. Did anyone believe that the McCain/Palin ticket ever stood a chance? To the objective observer it was as if the Right had set itself to lose on purpose.
To the outside observer there had to be a reason for this, setting such weak candidates against such a media darling had to have an ulterior motive.
When they wished to impose prohibition they took down a State at a time till they had the numbers required to effect a change in the constitution, the disaffection and emotive outpourings after another snub by the votes of the American public plays right into the hands of the Christian zealots who view their way of life under threat if the country is not run by a person that claims to pray to the tooth fairy before any decisions.
The fact that some States still hold onto parts of State Constitution that demands a religious test for office is the worrying part as it remains a possible leverage to begin to shoehorn religion into public life. Indeed some are now examining the 1st Amendment and claiming it only applies to Federal legislation.
The danger doesn't seem that apparent at the moment, but I do believe it's there. The groundwork so to speak which has me wondering what there next move will be.
So just a snippet of thinking out loud, (or a heads up) just wondered if any other Atheists see a possible trend or am I being overly sensitive to a bunch of people I do not trust?
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Comment by Patricia on February 13, 2013 at 1:38pm
An idea:
Don't replace the Pope. End Catholicism. Close the Vatican. Sell all that art & give the money to all
those pederasts' rape victims................
Michael Shermer.
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Comment by ɟǝןıx dǝʇɹɐɹ on April 11, 2012 at 3:59pm
@TNT: Really? One of my wives is transgender. If this is what you learnt from your interaction with transgender people, then you have to open your eyes and ears from now on and be more receptive. Start from zero.
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Comment by TNT666 on April 11, 2012 at 2:20pm
@ ɟǝןıx dǝʇɹɐɹ try not to pretend to know me because you don't. My understanding of transgender people comes from real life relationships.
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Comment by ɟǝןıx dǝʇɹɐɹ on April 11, 2012 at 11:40am
@Regina Goodwin: I pressume it was a TG lady. You can't stop those fucktards from being mean. Be on her side if you can but the solution for her would be to get out of that social environment. They will not stop and don't expect enlightenment on any of them, even less on 13 people together.
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Comment by ɟǝןıx dǝʇɹɐɹ on April 11, 2012 at 11:30am
@TNT: "Transgenders are to me like religionists or homeopathics, way too centred on the mind's misperceptions."
Yes, because you don't know anything about that, you have to formulate an opinion anyway. I don't even bother explain to you what is that; do a little bit of research, find what are transgenders, why are they so and only after that formulate an opinion about that. That is critical thinking and not pointing at one group that they are not such critical thinkers like you.
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Comment by dr kellie on April 11, 2012 at 11:07am
Also, @TNT, I don't think there is anything wrong with any of those procedures. If there was something
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My criticism of the word nonbeliever and a little bit of my religous history
I noticed that other search results for Black Nonbelievers of Chicago deal with " married to a nonbeliever" , " another word for nonbeliever" or " bible verses for nonbelievers". I imagine the first option dealing with being married to a nonbeliever has fundamentalist Christians in particular wondering how they can live with a spouse who never shared or no longer shares their chosen religious beliefs. Another word for nonbeliever could be non- Christian. Why should there be bible verses for nonbelievers. Reading passages from the bible usually isn't going to inspire a nonbeliever to convert to Christianity since Christians cannot prove any of the claims in their religious text are true with the use of verifiable , convincing and conclusive evidence and a good reason for accepting the claims in their texts as " true and infallible", why should nonbelievers care what is written in the bible verses that are supposed to be " for them" ? Nonbeliever isn't really the best word to describe an atheist in my personal opinion. A Christian is a nonbeliever in the eyes of a Muslim even though that Christian may belong to a religion, they are still a nonbeliever in the eyes of Muslims because they do not accept the beliefs and practices of Islam as being "true". Christians and Muslims are both nonbelievers in the eyes of Hindu's, Wiccans and Baha'is since they do not view the beliefs and practices of Hindus, Wiccans or the Baha'is as being "true". Do you see what I am getting at? Mostly every fundamentalist religious person in particular, who believes that their religion and their specific denomination are the " one and only true denomination and religion" deny the beliefs and practices of all the other denominations of their religion or other religion as having any validity, so therefore every religious person is a nonbeliever in someone else's religion.
Religious people can be categorized as nonbelievers too, in that sense of the word. An atheist describes one who does not believe in the existence of a god and most atheists usually don't believe in an afterlife since there are no good reasons to believe in such concepts, which may include there being no good moral reasons to believe in such concepts and no sufficient, testable and conclusive evidence to prove that a deity or an afterlife exists.
Other atheists can call themselves " nonbelievers" if they wish, I prefer atheist for myself. I believe in lots of things. I am just not a person who believes in deities, afterlives or any other supernatural concepts due to lack of testable evidence or moral reason to believe in such concepts and this includes my denying that the claims of any religious texts are " true" or that all of the passages in such texts provide good " moral" advice. Many such texts do not provide good moral advice. The Torah and the Christian Bible both support slavery, genocide, submission of women, degrade the relationships of sexually-active gay male couples, call for the execution of disobedient children , prostitutes, women who cheat on their husbands and people who worship deities other than Yahweh.
Jesus insults a woman whose daughter is possibly being possessed by demons because she is not Jewish. Jesus insists that his message is only for the House of Israel, which means that he has only come to preach to the Hebrews. St. Paul is a heretic by the religious standards of the Jews. He proclaims that Jesus is the Messiah talked about in the Hebrew texts and this not so.
In the Book of Isaiah for instance, which is among the writings of the ancient Hebrews that are believed to have come from the mouths of Jewish prophets, Yahweh tells the Jews that they are his witnesses, the Jews are witnesses to the fact that before Yahweh, there were no other gods in existence and that no other gods were created after him and that apart from Yahweh, there is no savior.
This passage is where the fundamentalist Christian denomination known as The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society also known as the "Jehovah's Witnesses" get their denominational title from. However, what the JW's and all other Christians seem to overlook or ignore is that Yahweh, from what I can tell, in this passage seems to be saying to the Jews who are his chosen people is that Yahweh himself, is the only one that can save his mortal human creations from the horrible fate that he has in store for them. This throws the idea of Jesus as being the Messiah right out of the window if you ask me. Jewish history also reveals that the ancient Hebrews were polytheistic at one time and that Yahweh had a wife but as time went on the Hebrews discarded polytheism and Yahweh's wife Asherah who was a fertility goddess of the Canaanites. There are graves that have been found in Israel that have inscriptions dedicated to Yahweh and his wife Asherah. The Latter-day Saint movement also known as Mormonism is a Christian movement which consists of numerous branches, with the largest and the most well-known being the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( referred to as the LDS Church who are sometimes called Orthodox Mormons) acknowledge that despite the fact that Yahweh is the one and only deity who makes decisions regarding his human creations that there are other deities who exist under his command including his multiple wives and his main wife who is referred to by the Latter-day Saints also known as Mormons as the " Heavenly Mother". Yahweh and his wives live on a planet near the star known as Kolob. Mormon males believe that in they follow all the commands of their religious texts which includes the Book of Mormon, Doctrines and Covenants, the Pearl of Great Price and the Bible ( containing both the Jewish and Christian religious texts) that in the afterlife they will become a god, inherit their own planet and shall be given multiple wives whom they impregnate with their spirit children who shall live on the planet in which the men rule with their wives.
I am an ex-JW and an ex-Mormon, I do think that the Mormons are correct about the polytheism issue and about the baptism of the dead which Jesus does after he asphyxiates on the torture stake ( according to the JW's as the cross is a pre-Christian pagan symbol) and such baptisms of the dead are mentioned in the Torah, I believe. The Book of Mormon, Doctrines and Covenants as well as the Pearl of Great Price are Christian religious texts that are only used by those sects and branches involved with the Latter-day Saint Movement also known as Mormonism. The Mormon version of hell is much different than that of the Catholic, Orthodox or numerous Protestant denominations, sects, branches, splinter-groups or movements in Christianity. In Mormonism, hell is being cast into outer darkness where you are tormented by your own thoughts of all that you did wrong for eternity, this is where ex-Mormons and truly immoral people go after they die which is amongst the three heavens that you are put in. It is better than earth but is not as good as the other two levels of heaven. Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-day Adventists for instance, believe that hell is being annihilated by Yahweh's heavenly army at the Battle of Armageddon and remaining dead for all of eternity for " sins" that you committed during your earthly life ( the JW's version afterlife consists of living on the earth which is restored into the Edenic paradise that they believe it once was, with 144,000 of their leaders going to heaven to rule with Yahweh and Jesus over those that live on the earth, while the SDA's go to live in heaven with Jesus). I grew up as a Jehovah's Witness until I left the denomination at age 22 and later converted to Seventh-day Adventism and then to Mormonism which were just three of the twenty religious groups that I was involved with before becoming an atheist. So I am also a former Seventh-day Adventist and a former Latter-day Saint as well.
The JW's and SDA's and possibly the Christadelphian denomination are descendants of the Millerite Movement. Many JW's don't seem to take this into account. SDA's, in my opinion are a little bit more accurate in their interpretation of the Bible which they usually take quite literally. SDA's are much larger than the JW and Mormon (specifically the members of the LDS Church i.e. Orthodox Mormon) denominations combined. The Jehovah's Witnesses have 7 million members worldwide in their denominational church, Orthodox Mormons have 14 million members worldwide in their particular branch of the LDS movement and I believe that the Seventh-day Adventists have around 24 million members worldwide in their denomination. Seventh-day Adventists are far less known than either the JW's or the Orthodox Mormons. A vegetarian diet is strongly encouraged and they view the founder of their denomination, Ellen G. White as a prophetess in much the same way that Orthodox Mormons and most other branches of Mormonism view the founder of the Latter-day Saint movement, Joseph Smith as being a prophet. Ellen White's writings are also highly revered, so are Joseph Smith's. Adventists believe that the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church which is the largest Christian denomination in the world ( I am also a former Roman Catholic) is the anti-Christ. My beloved father is a Seventh-day Adventist although he is quite liberal. He is ethnically Jewish but his family have been involved with the Adventist denomination possibly since it was founded and even before that they were involved with various Christian denominations, sects, branches, splinter-groups and movements. My father's side of the family haven't been involved with Judaism for a long time. I am an atheist but I do participate in secular Jewish culture as I do consider Judaism as being a part of my heritage. BTW, I should have mentioned that the ancient Jews did not believe in an afterlife for quite some time. Everyone went to the grave ( Gehenna) where they went for eternity whether they were good or bad in the eyes of the ancient Jews.
Most of my family is religious. They are mostly JW's, SDA's and Roman Catholics. I am the only non-religious person as well as the only atheist in my family that I know of. As an atheist, I don't call myself a "nonbeliever". I believe in lots of things, I just don't believe in any deity, an afterlife or in any other supernatural concept due to the lack of convincing evidence.
Religious people can be categorized as nonbelievers too, in that sense of the word. An atheist describes one who does not believe in the existence of a god and most atheists usually don't believe in an afterlife since there are no good reasons to believe in such concepts, which may include there being no good moral reasons to believe in such concepts and no sufficient, testable and conclusive evidence to prove that a deity or an afterlife exists.
Other atheists can call themselves " nonbelievers" if they wish, I prefer atheist for myself. I believe in lots of things. I am just not a person who believes in deities, afterlives or any other supernatural concepts due to lack of testable evidence or moral reason to believe in such concepts and this includes my denying that the claims of any religious texts are " true" or that all of the passages in such texts provide good " moral" advice. Many such texts do not provide good moral advice. The Torah and the Christian Bible both support slavery, genocide, submission of women, degrade the relationships of sexually-active gay male couples, call for the execution of disobedient children , prostitutes, women who cheat on their husbands and people who worship deities other than Yahweh.
Jesus insults a woman whose daughter is possibly being possessed by demons because she is not Jewish. Jesus insists that his message is only for the House of Israel, which means that he has only come to preach to the Hebrews. St. Paul is a heretic by the religious standards of the Jews. He proclaims that Jesus is the Messiah talked about in the Hebrew texts and this not so.
In the Book of Isaiah for instance, which is among the writings of the ancient Hebrews that are believed to have come from the mouths of Jewish prophets, Yahweh tells the Jews that they are his witnesses, the Jews are witnesses to the fact that before Yahweh, there were no other gods in existence and that no other gods were created after him and that apart from Yahweh, there is no savior.
This passage is where the fundamentalist Christian denomination known as The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society also known as the "Jehovah's Witnesses" get their denominational title from. However, what the JW's and all other Christians seem to overlook or ignore is that Yahweh, from what I can tell, in this passage seems to be saying to the Jews who are his chosen people is that Yahweh himself, is the only one that can save his mortal human creations from the horrible fate that he has in store for them. This throws the idea of Jesus as being the Messiah right out of the window if you ask me. Jewish history also reveals that the ancient Hebrews were polytheistic at one time and that Yahweh had a wife but as time went on the Hebrews discarded polytheism and Yahweh's wife Asherah who was a fertility goddess of the Canaanites. There are graves that have been found in Israel that have inscriptions dedicated to Yahweh and his wife Asherah. The Latter-day Saint movement also known as Mormonism is a Christian movement which consists of numerous branches, with the largest and the most well-known being the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( referred to as the LDS Church who are sometimes called Orthodox Mormons) acknowledge that despite the fact that Yahweh is the one and only deity who makes decisions regarding his human creations that there are other deities who exist under his command including his multiple wives and his main wife who is referred to by the Latter-day Saints also known as Mormons as the " Heavenly Mother". Yahweh and his wives live on a planet near the star known as Kolob. Mormon males believe that in they follow all the commands of their religious texts which includes the Book of Mormon, Doctrines and Covenants, the Pearl of Great Price and the Bible ( containing both the Jewish and Christian religious texts) that in the afterlife they will become a god, inherit their own planet and shall be given multiple wives whom they impregnate with their spirit children who shall live on the planet in which the men rule with their wives.
I am an ex-JW and an ex-Mormon, I do think that the Mormons are correct about the polytheism issue and about the baptism of the dead which Jesus does after he asphyxiates on the torture stake ( according to the JW's as the cross is a pre-Christian pagan symbol) and such baptisms of the dead are mentioned in the Torah, I believe. The Book of Mormon, Doctrines and Covenants as well as the Pearl of Great Price are Christian religious texts that are only used by those sects and branches involved with the Latter-day Saint Movement also known as Mormonism. The Mormon version of hell is much different than that of the Catholic, Orthodox or numerous Protestant denominations, sects, branches, splinter-groups or movements in Christianity. In Mormonism, hell is being cast into outer darkness where you are tormented by your own thoughts of all that you did wrong for eternity, this is where ex-Mormons and truly immoral people go after they die which is amongst the three heavens that you are put in. It is better than earth but is not as good as the other two levels of heaven. Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh-day Adventists for instance, believe that hell is being annihilated by Yahweh's heavenly army at the Battle of Armageddon and remaining dead for all of eternity for " sins" that you committed during your earthly life ( the JW's version afterlife consists of living on the earth which is restored into the Edenic paradise that they believe it once was, with 144,000 of their leaders going to heaven to rule with Yahweh and Jesus over those that live on the earth, while the SDA's go to live in heaven with Jesus). I grew up as a Jehovah's Witness until I left the denomination at age 22 and later converted to Seventh-day Adventism and then to Mormonism which were just three of the twenty religious groups that I was involved with before becoming an atheist. So I am also a former Seventh-day Adventist and a former Latter-day Saint as well.
The JW's and SDA's and possibly the Christadelphian denomination are descendants of the Millerite Movement. Many JW's don't seem to take this into account. SDA's, in my opinion are a little bit more accurate in their interpretation of the Bible which they usually take quite literally. SDA's are much larger than the JW and Mormon (specifically the members of the LDS Church i.e. Orthodox Mormon) denominations combined. The Jehovah's Witnesses have 7 million members worldwide in their denominational church, Orthodox Mormons have 14 million members worldwide in their particular branch of the LDS movement and I believe that the Seventh-day Adventists have around 24 million members worldwide in their denomination. Seventh-day Adventists are far less known than either the JW's or the Orthodox Mormons. A vegetarian diet is strongly encouraged and they view the founder of their denomination, Ellen G. White as a prophetess in much the same way that Orthodox Mormons and most other branches of Mormonism view the founder of the Latter-day Saint movement, Joseph Smith as being a prophet. Ellen White's writings are also highly revered, so are Joseph Smith's. Adventists believe that the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church which is the largest Christian denomination in the world ( I am also a former Roman Catholic) is the anti-Christ. My beloved father is a Seventh-day Adventist although he is quite liberal. He is ethnically Jewish but his family have been involved with the Adventist denomination possibly since it was founded and even before that they were involved with various Christian denominations, sects, branches, splinter-groups and movements. My father's side of the family haven't been involved with Judaism for a long time. I am an atheist but I do participate in secular Jewish culture as I do consider Judaism as being a part of my heritage. BTW, I should have mentioned that the ancient Jews did not believe in an afterlife for quite some time. Everyone went to the grave ( Gehenna) where they went for eternity whether they were good or bad in the eyes of the ancient Jews.
Most of my family is religious. They are mostly JW's, SDA's and Roman Catholics. I am the only non-religious person as well as the only atheist in my family that I know of. As an atheist, I don't call myself a "nonbeliever". I believe in lots of things, I just don't believe in any deity, an afterlife or in any other supernatural concept due to the lack of convincing evidence.
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Stan Winston (right) with Michael Jackson during the 50th International Cannes Film Festival.
Born
April 7, 1946
Arlington, Virginia, USA
Died
June 15, 2008 (aged 62)
Malibu, California, USA
Occupation
Special effects
makeup artist
Years active
1972–2008
Spouse(s)
Karen Winston (1969-2008; his death; 2 children)
Stanley Winston[1] (April 7, 1946 – June 15, 2008) was an American television and film special effects supervisor and makeup artist. He was best known for his work in the Terminator series, the Jurassic Park series, Aliens, the Predator series, Iron Man, Edward Scissorhands, and Avatar.[2][3][4] He won four Academy Awards for his work.
Winston, a frequent collaborator with director James Cameron, owned several effects studios, including Stan Winston Digital. The established areas of expertise for Winston were in makeup, puppets and practical effects, but he had recently expanded his studio to encompass digital effects as well.
Contents [hide]
1 Life and career 1.1 1970s
1.2 1980s
1.3 1990s
1.4 2000s
2 Death
3 Collaborators
4 Academy Awards
5 Filmography
6 References
7 External links
Life and career[edit]
Winston was born on April 7, 1946, in Arlington, Virginia, where he graduated from Washington-Lee High School in 1964. He studied painting and sculpture at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville from which he graduated in 1968. In 1969, after attending California State University, Long Beach, Winston moved to Hollywood to pursue a career as an actor. Struggling to find an acting job, he began a makeup apprenticeship at Walt Disney Studios.[4]
1970s[edit]
In 1972, Winston established his own company, Stan Winston Studio, and won an Emmy Award for his effects work on the telefilm Gargoyles. Over the next seven years, Winston continued to receive Emmy nominations for work on projects and won another for 1974's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Winston also created the Wookiee costumes for the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special.
1980s[edit]
In 1982, Winston received his first Oscar nomination for Heartbeeps, by which time he had set up his own studio. However, his ground-breaking work with Rob Bottin on the science fiction horror classic The Thing that year brought him to prominence in Hollywood. Between then, he contributed some visual effects to Friday the 13th Part III, in which he made a slightly different head sculpt of Jason in an unused ending.
In 1983, Winston designed the Mr. Roboto facemask for the American rock group Styx.[5]
In 1983 he also worked on a short-lived TV series Manimal, for which he created the panther and hawk transformation effects.
Winston reached a new level of fame in 1984 when James Cameron's The Terminator premiered. The movie was a surprise hit, and Winston's work in bringing the titular metallic killing machine to life led to many new projects and additional collaborations with Cameron. In fact, Winston won his first Oscar for Best Visual Effects in 1986 on James Cameron's next movie, Aliens.[6]
Over the next few years, Winston and his company received more accolades for its work on many more Hollywood films, including Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands, John McTiernan's Predator, Alien Nation, The Monster Squad, and Predator 2.
In 1988, Winston made his directorial debut with the horror movie Pumpkinhead, and won Best First Time Director at the Paris Film Festival. His next directing project was the child-friendly A Gnome Named Gnorm (1990), starring Anthony Michael Hall.
1990s[edit]
James Cameron drafted Winston and his team once again in 1990, this time for the groundbreaking Terminator 2: Judgment Day. T2 premiered in the summer of 1991, and Winston's work on this box office hit won him two more Oscars for Best Makeup Effects and Best Visual Effects.
In 1992, he was nominated with yet another Tim Burton film, this time for Burton's superhero sequel, Batman Returns, where his effects on Danny DeVito as The Penguin, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, and in delivering Burton's general vision for what was an increasingly Gothic Gotham City earned him more recognition for his work ethic and loyalty to what was an intrinsic ability to bring different directors' ideas to life. It was particularly poignant because for Batman Returns, Winston had to follow on from Anton Furst's earlier work, and recreate change according to what Burton wanted to do differently the next time around.
Winston turned his attention from super villains and cyborgs to dinosaurs when Steven Spielberg enlisted his help to bring Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park to the cinema screen. In 1993, the movie became a blockbuster and Winston won another Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
In 1993, Winston, Cameron and ex-ILM General Manager Scott Ross co-founded Digital Domain, one of the foremost digital and visual effects studios in the world. In 1998, after the box office success of Titanic, Cameron and Winston severed their working relationship with the company and resigned from its board of directors.
Winston and his team continued to provide effects work for many more films and expanded their work into animatronics. Some of Winston's notable animatronics work can be found in The Ghost and the Darkness and T2 3-D: Battle Across Time, James Cameron's 3-D continuation of the Terminator series for the Universal Studios theme park. One of Winston's most ambitious animatronics projects was Steven Spielberg's AI: Artificial Intelligence, which earned Winston another Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects.
In 1996, Winston directed and co-produced the longest and the most expensive music video of all time, Ghosts, which was based on an original concept of Michael Jackson and Stephen King. The long-form music video presented a number of never before seen visual effects, and promoted music from two consecutive Jackson albums, HIStory and Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix, which went on to become the biggest selling double-album by a solo artist and remix album of all time, respectively (25 million (50 million units) and 13 million).
2000s[edit]
In 2001, Winston, together with Colleen Camp and Samuel Z. Arkoff's son, Lou Arkoff, produced a series of made-for-cable films for Cinemax and HBO. The five films, referred to as Creature Features, were inspired by the titles of AIP monster movies from the 1950s — i.e., Earth vs. the Spider (1958), How to Make a Monster (1958), Day the World Ended (1955), The She-Creature (1956), and Teenage Caveman (1958) — but had completely different plots.[7]
In 2003, Stan Winston was invited by the Smithsonian Institution to speak about his life and career in a public presentation sponsored by The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. The presentation took place on November 15, 2003, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.[8]
In 2004, he expressed great disappointment when director Paul W. S. Anderson did not come to him for the creature effects for Alien vs. Predator, seeing as how he designed the Predator and the Alien Queen. "They're like my children to me," he stated.[citation needed]
Winston also worked on Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
At the time of his death, Winston was working on the sequel Terminator Salvation.[9] According to reports, next for Stan Winston was Jurassic World.[10][11] Winston designed the original monsters that appeared in the Midway game The Suffering[12] and its sequel, The Suffering: Ties That Bind. He was also helping with his old friend, film director James Cameron and his upcoming film Avatar.
Death[edit]
Stan Winston died on June 15, 2008, in Malibu, California after suffering for seven years from multiple myeloma.[2] A spokeswoman reported that he "died peacefully at home surrounded by family."[3] Winston was with his wife and two children, actor Matt Winston and Debbie Winston. Arnold Schwarzenegger made a public speech about his death, and Jon Favreau dedicated his Spike TV Scream Award to him upon receiving the award for Best Sci-Fi Movie for Iron Man. Terminator Salvation starts and ends the credits with a dedication to him. After his death, his four supervisors (Shane Mahan, John Rosengrant, Alan Scott, Lindsay Macgowan) founded and built their own studio, Legacy Effects, aptly named to honor his memory.
Collaborators[edit]
Winston worked with the following directors on more than one film:
Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Big Fish)
James Cameron (The Terminator, Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Avatar)
John Carpenter (The Thing, Starman)
Dennis Dugan (The Benchwarmers, You Don't Mess with the Zohan)
Jon Favreau (Zathura, Iron Man)
Stephen Hopkins (Predator 2, The Ghost and the Darkness)
Peter Hyams (The Relic, End of Days)
Frank Marshall (Congo, Eight Below)
Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, A.I., War of the Worlds, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
Robert Zemeckis (Amazing Stories episode "Go to the Head of the Class", What Lies Beneath)
Academy Awards[edit]
1982: Oscar Nomination For Best Makeup: Heartbeeps
1987: Won Oscar For Best Visual Effects: Aliens
1988: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: Predator
1991: Oscar Nomination For Best Makeup: Edward Scissorhands
1992: Won 2 Oscars – Best Visual Effects & Best Makeup: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1993: Oscar Nomination For Best Makeup: Batman Returns
1993: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: Batman Returns
1994: Won Oscar For Best Visual Effects: Jurassic Park
1998: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: The Lost World: Jurassic Park
2002: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: A.I.
Filmography[edit]
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
The Bat People (1974)
The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976)
The Wiz (1978)
The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1979)
The Exterminator (1980)
Heartbeeps (Oscar Nomination) (1981)
Dead & Buried (1981)
Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
The Thing (1982)
The Terminator (1984)
Ghoulies (1985)
Invaders from Mars (1986)
Aliens (Oscar Winner) (1986)
The Monster Squad (1987)
Predator (Oscar Nomination) (1987)
Pumpkinhead (1988)
Leviathan (1989)
Edward Scissorhands (Oscar Nomination) (1990)
Predator 2 (1990)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Oscar Winner) (1991)
Batman Returns (Oscar Nomination) (1992)
Jurassic Park (Oscar Winner) (1993)
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Congo (1995)
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1996 film) (1996)
T2 3-D: Battle Across Time (1996)
The Relic (1997)
Michael Jackson's Ghosts (1997)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Oscar Nomination) (1997)
Mouse Hunt (1997)
Small Soldiers (1998)
Instinct (1999)
Lake Placid (1999)
Inspector Gadget (1999)
End of Days (1999)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
A.I. (Oscar Nomination) (2001)
Jurassic Park III (2001)
The Time Machine (2002)
Darkness Falls (2003)
Big Fish (2003)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Wrong Turn (2003)
Constantine (2005)
Zathura (2005)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Doom (2005)
Eight Below (2006)
The Shaggy Dog (2006)
The Benchwarmers (2006)
Skinwalkers (2006)
Iron Man (2008)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)
Terminator Salvation (2009)
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
Pandorum (2009)
Avatar (2009)
Shutter Island (2010)
Enthiran (2010)
7aum Arivu (2011)
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Stan Winston Biography (1946?-)". Filmreference.com. 1946-04-07. Retrieved 2011-07-20.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Cohen, David S. (2008). "Effects master Stan Winston dies. Work included Jurassic Park, Terminator", Variety webpage retrieved 2008-06-16.
3.^ Jump up to: a b Crabtree, Sheigh (2008). "Stan Winston, dead at 62; Oscar-winning visual effects artist suffered from multiple myeloma", Los Angeles Times, Entertainment industry news blog, June 16, 2008; online version retrieved 2008-06-16.
4.^ Jump up to: a b Stan Winston Studio (2008). "Press Release" posted at Los Angeles Times Entertainment industry news blog, June 16, 2008; online version retrieved 2008-06-16.
5.Jump up ^ "Center For Roboto Research And Preservation", webpage retrieved 2008-06-16.
6.Jump up ^ "Bring on the Gore: Top Ten Practical Effects in Horror!". BloodyDisgusting.
7.Jump up ^ Biodrowski, Steve (June 2001). "Stan Winston's Creature Features". Cinefantastique. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
8.Jump up ^ "Two-part podcast of the presentation given by Stan Winston as part of The Lemelson Center's "Inventing Ourselves" symposium". Invention.smithsonian.org. Retrieved 2011-07-20.
9.Jump up ^ McG (2008-05-22). "Terminator Salvation Blog". Official blog. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
10.Jump up ^ Franklin, Garth (2005). "Winston Talks Jurassic Park IV", webpage from Dark Horizons website. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
11.Jump up ^ "Stan Winston talks Jurassic Park IV". MoviesOnline.CA. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
12.Jump up ^ IGN FilmForce (2005-09-08). "Games to Film: The Suffering; Midway action-horror title to Hollywood". IGN Entertainment. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
External links[edit]
Stan Winston Studio
Stan Winston at the Internet Movie Database
"Stan Winston". Find a Grave. Retrieved June 12, 2013.
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Stan Winston (right) with Michael Jackson during the 50th International Cannes Film Festival.
Born
April 7, 1946
Arlington, Virginia, USA
Died
June 15, 2008 (aged 62)
Malibu, California, USA
Occupation
Special effects
makeup artist
Years active
1972–2008
Spouse(s)
Karen Winston (1969-2008; his death; 2 children)
Stanley Winston[1] (April 7, 1946 – June 15, 2008) was an American television and film special effects supervisor and makeup artist. He was best known for his work in the Terminator series, the Jurassic Park series, Aliens, the Predator series, Iron Man, Edward Scissorhands, and Avatar.[2][3][4] He won four Academy Awards for his work.
Winston, a frequent collaborator with director James Cameron, owned several effects studios, including Stan Winston Digital. The established areas of expertise for Winston were in makeup, puppets and practical effects, but he had recently expanded his studio to encompass digital effects as well.
Contents [hide]
1 Life and career 1.1 1970s
1.2 1980s
1.3 1990s
1.4 2000s
2 Death
3 Collaborators
4 Academy Awards
5 Filmography
6 References
7 External links
Life and career[edit]
Winston was born on April 7, 1946, in Arlington, Virginia, where he graduated from Washington-Lee High School in 1964. He studied painting and sculpture at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville from which he graduated in 1968. In 1969, after attending California State University, Long Beach, Winston moved to Hollywood to pursue a career as an actor. Struggling to find an acting job, he began a makeup apprenticeship at Walt Disney Studios.[4]
1970s[edit]
In 1972, Winston established his own company, Stan Winston Studio, and won an Emmy Award for his effects work on the telefilm Gargoyles. Over the next seven years, Winston continued to receive Emmy nominations for work on projects and won another for 1974's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Winston also created the Wookiee costumes for the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special.
1980s[edit]
In 1982, Winston received his first Oscar nomination for Heartbeeps, by which time he had set up his own studio. However, his ground-breaking work with Rob Bottin on the science fiction horror classic The Thing that year brought him to prominence in Hollywood. Between then, he contributed some visual effects to Friday the 13th Part III, in which he made a slightly different head sculpt of Jason in an unused ending.
In 1983, Winston designed the Mr. Roboto facemask for the American rock group Styx.[5]
In 1983 he also worked on a short-lived TV series Manimal, for which he created the panther and hawk transformation effects.
Winston reached a new level of fame in 1984 when James Cameron's The Terminator premiered. The movie was a surprise hit, and Winston's work in bringing the titular metallic killing machine to life led to many new projects and additional collaborations with Cameron. In fact, Winston won his first Oscar for Best Visual Effects in 1986 on James Cameron's next movie, Aliens.[6]
Over the next few years, Winston and his company received more accolades for its work on many more Hollywood films, including Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands, John McTiernan's Predator, Alien Nation, The Monster Squad, and Predator 2.
In 1988, Winston made his directorial debut with the horror movie Pumpkinhead, and won Best First Time Director at the Paris Film Festival. His next directing project was the child-friendly A Gnome Named Gnorm (1990), starring Anthony Michael Hall.
1990s[edit]
James Cameron drafted Winston and his team once again in 1990, this time for the groundbreaking Terminator 2: Judgment Day. T2 premiered in the summer of 1991, and Winston's work on this box office hit won him two more Oscars for Best Makeup Effects and Best Visual Effects.
In 1992, he was nominated with yet another Tim Burton film, this time for Burton's superhero sequel, Batman Returns, where his effects on Danny DeVito as The Penguin, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, and in delivering Burton's general vision for what was an increasingly Gothic Gotham City earned him more recognition for his work ethic and loyalty to what was an intrinsic ability to bring different directors' ideas to life. It was particularly poignant because for Batman Returns, Winston had to follow on from Anton Furst's earlier work, and recreate change according to what Burton wanted to do differently the next time around.
Winston turned his attention from super villains and cyborgs to dinosaurs when Steven Spielberg enlisted his help to bring Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park to the cinema screen. In 1993, the movie became a blockbuster and Winston won another Oscar for Best Visual Effects.
In 1993, Winston, Cameron and ex-ILM General Manager Scott Ross co-founded Digital Domain, one of the foremost digital and visual effects studios in the world. In 1998, after the box office success of Titanic, Cameron and Winston severed their working relationship with the company and resigned from its board of directors.
Winston and his team continued to provide effects work for many more films and expanded their work into animatronics. Some of Winston's notable animatronics work can be found in The Ghost and the Darkness and T2 3-D: Battle Across Time, James Cameron's 3-D continuation of the Terminator series for the Universal Studios theme park. One of Winston's most ambitious animatronics projects was Steven Spielberg's AI: Artificial Intelligence, which earned Winston another Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects.
In 1996, Winston directed and co-produced the longest and the most expensive music video of all time, Ghosts, which was based on an original concept of Michael Jackson and Stephen King. The long-form music video presented a number of never before seen visual effects, and promoted music from two consecutive Jackson albums, HIStory and Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix, which went on to become the biggest selling double-album by a solo artist and remix album of all time, respectively (25 million (50 million units) and 13 million).
2000s[edit]
In 2001, Winston, together with Colleen Camp and Samuel Z. Arkoff's son, Lou Arkoff, produced a series of made-for-cable films for Cinemax and HBO. The five films, referred to as Creature Features, were inspired by the titles of AIP monster movies from the 1950s — i.e., Earth vs. the Spider (1958), How to Make a Monster (1958), Day the World Ended (1955), The She-Creature (1956), and Teenage Caveman (1958) — but had completely different plots.[7]
In 2003, Stan Winston was invited by the Smithsonian Institution to speak about his life and career in a public presentation sponsored by The Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. The presentation took place on November 15, 2003, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.[8]
In 2004, he expressed great disappointment when director Paul W. S. Anderson did not come to him for the creature effects for Alien vs. Predator, seeing as how he designed the Predator and the Alien Queen. "They're like my children to me," he stated.[citation needed]
Winston also worked on Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
At the time of his death, Winston was working on the sequel Terminator Salvation.[9] According to reports, next for Stan Winston was Jurassic World.[10][11] Winston designed the original monsters that appeared in the Midway game The Suffering[12] and its sequel, The Suffering: Ties That Bind. He was also helping with his old friend, film director James Cameron and his upcoming film Avatar.
Death[edit]
Stan Winston died on June 15, 2008, in Malibu, California after suffering for seven years from multiple myeloma.[2] A spokeswoman reported that he "died peacefully at home surrounded by family."[3] Winston was with his wife and two children, actor Matt Winston and Debbie Winston. Arnold Schwarzenegger made a public speech about his death, and Jon Favreau dedicated his Spike TV Scream Award to him upon receiving the award for Best Sci-Fi Movie for Iron Man. Terminator Salvation starts and ends the credits with a dedication to him. After his death, his four supervisors (Shane Mahan, John Rosengrant, Alan Scott, Lindsay Macgowan) founded and built their own studio, Legacy Effects, aptly named to honor his memory.
Collaborators[edit]
Winston worked with the following directors on more than one film:
Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Big Fish)
James Cameron (The Terminator, Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Avatar)
John Carpenter (The Thing, Starman)
Dennis Dugan (The Benchwarmers, You Don't Mess with the Zohan)
Jon Favreau (Zathura, Iron Man)
Stephen Hopkins (Predator 2, The Ghost and the Darkness)
Peter Hyams (The Relic, End of Days)
Frank Marshall (Congo, Eight Below)
Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, A.I., War of the Worlds, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
Robert Zemeckis (Amazing Stories episode "Go to the Head of the Class", What Lies Beneath)
Academy Awards[edit]
1982: Oscar Nomination For Best Makeup: Heartbeeps
1987: Won Oscar For Best Visual Effects: Aliens
1988: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: Predator
1991: Oscar Nomination For Best Makeup: Edward Scissorhands
1992: Won 2 Oscars – Best Visual Effects & Best Makeup: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
1993: Oscar Nomination For Best Makeup: Batman Returns
1993: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: Batman Returns
1994: Won Oscar For Best Visual Effects: Jurassic Park
1998: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: The Lost World: Jurassic Park
2002: Oscar Nomination For Best Visual Effects: A.I.
Filmography[edit]
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)
The Bat People (1974)
The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976)
The Wiz (1978)
The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan (1979)
The Exterminator (1980)
Heartbeeps (Oscar Nomination) (1981)
Dead & Buried (1981)
Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
The Thing (1982)
The Terminator (1984)
Ghoulies (1985)
Invaders from Mars (1986)
Aliens (Oscar Winner) (1986)
The Monster Squad (1987)
Predator (Oscar Nomination) (1987)
Pumpkinhead (1988)
Leviathan (1989)
Edward Scissorhands (Oscar Nomination) (1990)
Predator 2 (1990)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Oscar Winner) (1991)
Batman Returns (Oscar Nomination) (1992)
Jurassic Park (Oscar Winner) (1993)
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Congo (1995)
The Ghost and the Darkness (1996)
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1996 film) (1996)
T2 3-D: Battle Across Time (1996)
The Relic (1997)
Michael Jackson's Ghosts (1997)
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Oscar Nomination) (1997)
Mouse Hunt (1997)
Small Soldiers (1998)
Instinct (1999)
Lake Placid (1999)
Inspector Gadget (1999)
End of Days (1999)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
A.I. (Oscar Nomination) (2001)
Jurassic Park III (2001)
The Time Machine (2002)
Darkness Falls (2003)
Big Fish (2003)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
Wrong Turn (2003)
Constantine (2005)
Zathura (2005)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Doom (2005)
Eight Below (2006)
The Shaggy Dog (2006)
The Benchwarmers (2006)
Skinwalkers (2006)
Iron Man (2008)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)
Terminator Salvation (2009)
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
Pandorum (2009)
Avatar (2009)
Shutter Island (2010)
Enthiran (2010)
7aum Arivu (2011)
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Stan Winston Biography (1946?-)". Filmreference.com. 1946-04-07. Retrieved 2011-07-20.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Cohen, David S. (2008). "Effects master Stan Winston dies. Work included Jurassic Park, Terminator", Variety webpage retrieved 2008-06-16.
3.^ Jump up to: a b Crabtree, Sheigh (2008). "Stan Winston, dead at 62; Oscar-winning visual effects artist suffered from multiple myeloma", Los Angeles Times, Entertainment industry news blog, June 16, 2008; online version retrieved 2008-06-16.
4.^ Jump up to: a b Stan Winston Studio (2008). "Press Release" posted at Los Angeles Times Entertainment industry news blog, June 16, 2008; online version retrieved 2008-06-16.
5.Jump up ^ "Center For Roboto Research And Preservation", webpage retrieved 2008-06-16.
6.Jump up ^ "Bring on the Gore: Top Ten Practical Effects in Horror!". BloodyDisgusting.
7.Jump up ^ Biodrowski, Steve (June 2001). "Stan Winston's Creature Features". Cinefantastique. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
8.Jump up ^ "Two-part podcast of the presentation given by Stan Winston as part of The Lemelson Center's "Inventing Ourselves" symposium". Invention.smithsonian.org. Retrieved 2011-07-20.
9.Jump up ^ McG (2008-05-22). "Terminator Salvation Blog". Official blog. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
10.Jump up ^ Franklin, Garth (2005). "Winston Talks Jurassic Park IV", webpage from Dark Horizons website. Retrieved 2008-06-16.
11.Jump up ^ "Stan Winston talks Jurassic Park IV". MoviesOnline.CA. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
12.Jump up ^ IGN FilmForce (2005-09-08). "Games to Film: The Suffering; Midway action-horror title to Hollywood". IGN Entertainment. Retrieved 2008-06-18.
External links[edit]
Stan Winston Studio
Stan Winston at the Internet Movie Database
"Stan Winston". Find a Grave. Retrieved June 12, 2013.
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"Jurassic Park"
Single by "Weird Al" Yankovic
from the album Alapalooza
B-side
"Frank's 2000" TV"
Released
October 1993
Format
CD, cassette
Recorded
July 16, 1993
Genre
Comedy rock
Length
3:53
Label
Scotti Brothers
Writer(s)
Jimmy Webb, Al Yankovic
Producer
"Weird Al" Yankovic
"Weird Al" Yankovic singles chronology
"Taco Grande"
(1992) "Jurassic Park"
(1993) "Bedrock Anthem"
(1993)
"Jurassic Park" is a parody of Jimmy Webb's single "MacArthur Park" written and performed by "Weird Al" Yankovic; it was released both as a single and as part of Yankovic's Alapalooza album in October 1993. "Jurassic Park" was penned by Yankovic after he remembered the enjoyment he had when he combined a classic rock track with a recent movie topic with his 1985 song "Yoda". Yankovic decided to combine the plot of the recent movie Jurassic Park—a film about a park on a fictional island where geneticists have succeeded in cloning dinosaurs.
The song was paired with an elaborately animated music video, which was created by Mark Osborne and Scott Nordlund almost entirely via claymation. The video did not receive extensive play on MTV, although it was popular on The Box, VH1, and in Canada, where it was played on MuchMusic. The video, due to its animation, also later went on to be praised at various animation festivals worldwide.
"Jurassic Park" was met with mixed to positive reviews; while many reviewers enjoyed Yankovic's humor, others felt that the song did not satirize the source material, but instead merely recounted the plot to the movie. Webb himself was very pleased with the final result and has been known to sing the parody lyrics in concert. Although the single did not chart in the United States, it peaked at number 5 on the Canadian magazine The Record's single chart. The video was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video at the 37th Grammy Awards, although it did not win.
Contents [hide]
1 Writing
2 Recording and lyrics
3 Music video
4 Release 4.1 Reception
4.2 Reviews
5 Track listing
6 Charts
7 Credits and personnel
8 See also
9 References
Writing[edit]
Yankovic was inspired to write the song after he heard the The Kinks' song "Lola" while driving in his car one day. He noted, "I was driving a rent-a-car through Florida when the song 'Lola' came on the radio, and it got me thinking about how much fun I had doing 'Yoda' [a song from 1985's Dare to Be Stupid] where I took a then-current topic and combined it with a classic rock tune."[1] He soon turned his attention to the film Jurassic Park—about a park on a fictional island, where geneticists have succeeded in cloning dinosaurs. The film is based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Michael Crichton—which had just come out and was already a blockbuster success. Yankovic decided to write a parody about the movie, and considered various songs that he could spoof. Eventually, he decided to parody the 1968 hit single "MacArthur Park", which was performed by Richard Harris. Yankovic approached the original song's writer, Jimmy Webb, who agreed to the idea.[1] In fact, Webb was so amused by the parody that he penned a letter to Yankovic stating "Well, this [the parody] oughta [sic] bury that song once and for all!"[2] In addition, Yankovic received permission from Crichton and director Steven Spielberg to produce the track.[1]
Recording and lyrics[edit]
Yankovic entered the studio to record "Jurassic Park" on July 16, 1993.[3] Backing Yankovic were Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz on drums, Steve Jay on bass, and Jim West on guitar.[4] "MacArthur Park" contained an actual orchestra complete with a strings section.[5] "Jurassic Park", however, features synth strings courtesy of keyboardist Brad Buxer, who programmed the section himself.[4][6] Intermixed during the interlude are various dinosaur sound effects courtesy of Sandy Berman; Berman had previously created dinosaur yells for a major theme park attraction, and loaned Yankovic the sound effects.[7] At 3:53 in length, the song is considerably shorter than the original, which clocks in at 7:21.[4][8] Largely, this is due to the fact that the middle section featured in the original—the so called "After the Loves of My Life" section[5]—is omitted from Yankovic's parody.[9][10]
The song itself recounts both the plot of the movie, and contains various in-jokes and references therein.[4] One line about lawyers—"A huge tyrannosaurus ate our lawyer/Well, I suppose that proves they're really not all bad"—was deliberately placed in the song to be ambiguous, as it could either be referring to lawyers or dinosaurs as being "not all bad".[4][11][12] The song also makes various pop culture references, alluding to the idea of an E ticket and Barney.[4]
Music video[edit]
A claymation version of "Weird Al" Yankovic, surrounded by dinosaurs. The video was directed by Mark Osborne and Scott Nordlund, and completed in two months.
When it came time for a video for "Jurassic Park", Yankovic opted to use stop-motion and claymation; he joked during a Q&A that this was because "it's just too hard to find real live dinosaurs these days."[13] "Jurassic Park" was Yankovic's first video that was entirely animated—previous videos, such as "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies" and "Dare to Be Stupid" had featured elements of animation.[1][14] The video was directed by Mark Osborne and Scott Nordlund.[15] Yankovic initially heard of the duo from Bill Manspeaker, the leader singer of the comedy rock band Green Jellÿ.[1] After being hired for the project, the two "basically turned a private residence in Los Angeles into a clay animation studio."[14] The two worked between July and August 1993, and slept in shifts, so that the final project would be ready for its release in October of 1993.[1][14] One critic noted that the music video seems to have been done in the style of Will Vinton's Dinosaurs! – A Fun-Filled Trip Back in Time![16] The video parodies scenes from, as well as the general plot of the 1993 movie, and contains a myriad of sight-gags—as is usual for Yankovic's videos—such as a claymation version of Steven Spielberg running from dinosaurs, Barney having his head ripped off, and a Velociraptor attempting to break down a door, only to realize it has a key.[17]
Release[edit]
Reception[edit]
"Jurassic Park" was released as the lead single from Yankovic's 1993 album Alapalooza. The single did not chart in the United States. However, the song was a sales success in Canada, and peaked at number 5 on the Canadian magazine The Record's single chart.[18] The video for "Jurassic Park" received light rotation on MTV. Yankovic later explained in an interview that "[MTV] played it a few times, and then just yanked it, because it wasn't really part of their sound."[19][20] However, the single was a success on The Box and they played it "incessantly".[19] Furthermore, in Canada, the song was a massive success on MuchMusic. Due to this, Alapalooza is Yankovic's best selling album in Canada, with over 200,000 units sold, according to Music Canada.[19] However, the video was played and remained popular on VH1 well after its release; it ranked within the Top 50 Most-Played Clips during the months of August and September of 1999, according to Billboard magazine.[21][22] The video for "Jurassic Park" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video at the 37th Grammy Awards,[23] but lost to the video for "Love Is Strong" by The Rolling Stones.[24] Nonetheless, it received attention in animation festivals worldwide for its use of claymation effects.[1]
Jimmy Webb was particularly pleased with the finished product. According to Yankovic, several times during different concerts in New York and Los Angeles that Yankovic was in attendance, Webb would start to perform the original, feign forgetting the words, and then invite Yankovic on stage to help him sing "Jurassic Park" instead. For a Christmas present one year, Webb even sent Yankovic a rubber dinosaur mask as a joke. Yankovic later noted that Webb "was the coolest".[2]
Reviews[edit]
Chris Hicks of the Deseret News called the single "absolutely hilarious", and rhetorically asked "who else would think of adapting that ridiculously popular movie's themes to new lyrics for Jimmy Webb's classic ditty 'MacArthur Park'?"[11] Hicks' felt that the song's funniest moments involved the jokes revolving around lawyers and the mention of Barney.[11] Amanda Cohen of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote that it combined "the schlock of the original song with schtick about the dinosaur movie" and proved that "Yankovic is as funny as ever".[25] Furthermore, she noted that it was evidence that "his voice improves with every new release".[25] In a review of the Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation, Arthur Salm called the piece a "knockout" and praised the humor, specifically highlighting the claymation cameo of Steve Spielberg and the "goofy velociraptor" from the opening of the video.[17]
Some critics felt that the song did not satirize the source material, but instead merely recounted the plot to Jurassic Park. Entertainment Weekly referred to the claymation video for the "Jurassic Park" as "clever but toothless".[26] The magazine argued that Yankovic's parody did not satirize the original material, but instead transposed new elements on top of them.[26] Rob Owen of Richmond Times-Dispatch wrote that the song "does nothing but recount the plot of the hit movie" and that "dinosaurs don't lend themselves to music".[27]
Track listing[edit]
CD single[28]1."Jurassic Park" – 3:53
2."Frank's 2000" TV" – 4:04
Promo single[29]1."Jurassic Park" – 3:53
Charts[edit]
Chart (1994)
Peak
position
Canada The Record Singles Chart
5[18]
Credits and personnel[edit]
"Weird" Al Yankovic – vocals, background vocals, production, arrangement[4]
Jim West – guitar
Steve Jay – bass guitar
Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz – drums
Brad Buxer – keyboards, synthetic orchestration
Sandy Berman – dinosaur growls
Tony Papa – engineering
See also[edit]
List of singles by "Weird Al" Yankovic
List of songs by "Weird Al" Yankovic
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Hansen, Barret (1994). Permanent Record: Al in the Box (liner). California, United States: Scotti Brothers Records.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Yankovic, Alfred M. (April 1999). "'Ask Al' Q&As for April, 1999". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
3.Jump up ^ Yankovic, Alfred M. (December 2007). "Recording Dates". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
4.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Alapalooza (liner). "Weird Al" Yankovic. Scotti Brothers Records. 1993.
5.^ Jump up to: a b "Harris, Richard MacArthur Park – Phonograph Recording Contract". The Wrecking Crew. Retrieved April 18, 2012.
6.Jump up ^ "The Players". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
7.Jump up ^ Yankovic, Alfred M. (August 1999). "'Ask Al' Q&As for August, 1999". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
8.Jump up ^ A Tramp Shining (liner). Richard Harris. Dunhill Records. 1968.
9.Jump up ^ The 'Weird Al' Yankovic Anthology: Piano – Vocal – Guitar. Cherry Lane Music. July 1, 1996. ISBN 9781575600215.
10.Jump up ^ MacArthur Park (Sheet Music). Canopy Music. 1968. ASIN B000PI5W4Q.
11.^ Jump up to: a b c Hicks, Chris (November 28, 1993). "Weird Al's 'Jurassic' is Comedy Classic". Deseret News (Deseret News Publishing Company). Retrieved April 28, 2013. (subscription required)
12.Jump up ^ Yankovic, Alfred M. (December 1998). "'Ask Al' Q&As for December, 1998". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
13.Jump up ^ Yankovic, Alfred M. (September 1999). "'Ask Al' Q&As for September, 1999". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
14.^ Jump up to: a b c Yankovic, Alfred (2013), "Jurassic Park", 'Weird Al' Yankovic Official Limited Edition Trading Cards (Volcano Records) (50)
15.Jump up ^ Jay Levey, "Weird Al" Yankovic (2003) [2003]. 'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Ultimate Video Collection (Liner notes). Volcano Entertainment. 82876-53727-9.
16.Jump up ^ Hazen, Natalie. "For Nearly Three Decades...". Splitsider.com. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
17.^ Jump up to: a b Salm, Arthur (January 20, 1994). "Wallace, Gromit Return in Delightful Claymation". The San Diego Union-Tribune (MLIM Holdings). Retrieved April 28, 2013.
18.^ Jump up to: a b "Hits of the World". Billboard 106 (8). February 19, 1994. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
19.^ Jump up to: a b c Yankovic, Alfred M. (February 1995). Visions of Gray. Interview with Jeff Elbel. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
20.Jump up ^ Yankovic, Alfred M. (January 2000). "'Ask Al' Q&As for January, 2000". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
21.Jump up ^ "Video Monitor". Billboard 111 (34). Aug 21, 1999. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
22.Jump up ^ "Video Monitor". Billboard 111 (39). Sep 25, 1999. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
23.Jump up ^ "The 37th Grammy Nominations". Los Angeles Times (Tribune Company). January 6, 1995. p. 16. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
24.Jump up ^ "1994 Best Music Video, Short Form". Past Winners Search. National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. 1995. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
25.^ Jump up to: a b Cohen, Amanda (October 8, 1993). "Entertainment". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Block Communications). Retrieved April 28, 2013. (subscription required)
26.^ Jump up to: a b Kenny, Glenn (March 18, 1994). "Alapalooza Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
27.Jump up ^ Owen, Rob (October 31, 1993). "'Weird Al's Latest Venture Into Parody is a Little Weak". Richmond Times-Dispatch (Berkshire Hathaway). Retrieved April 28, 2013. (subscription required)
28.Jump up ^ Jurassic Park CD single (liner notes). "Weird Al" Yankovic. California, USA: Scotti Bros. Records. 1993.
29.Jump up ^ Schwartz, Jon (December 11, 2008). "Jurassic Park". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
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"Jurassic Park"
Single by "Weird Al" Yankovic
from the album Alapalooza
B-side
"Frank's 2000" TV"
Released
October 1993
Format
CD, cassette
Recorded
July 16, 1993
Genre
Comedy rock
Length
3:53
Label
Scotti Brothers
Writer(s)
Jimmy Webb, Al Yankovic
Producer
"Weird Al" Yankovic
"Weird Al" Yankovic singles chronology
"Taco Grande"
(1992) "Jurassic Park"
(1993) "Bedrock Anthem"
(1993)
"Jurassic Park" is a parody of Jimmy Webb's single "MacArthur Park" written and performed by "Weird Al" Yankovic; it was released both as a single and as part of Yankovic's Alapalooza album in October 1993. "Jurassic Park" was penned by Yankovic after he remembered the enjoyment he had when he combined a classic rock track with a recent movie topic with his 1985 song "Yoda". Yankovic decided to combine the plot of the recent movie Jurassic Park—a film about a park on a fictional island where geneticists have succeeded in cloning dinosaurs.
The song was paired with an elaborately animated music video, which was created by Mark Osborne and Scott Nordlund almost entirely via claymation. The video did not receive extensive play on MTV, although it was popular on The Box, VH1, and in Canada, where it was played on MuchMusic. The video, due to its animation, also later went on to be praised at various animation festivals worldwide.
"Jurassic Park" was met with mixed to positive reviews; while many reviewers enjoyed Yankovic's humor, others felt that the song did not satirize the source material, but instead merely recounted the plot to the movie. Webb himself was very pleased with the final result and has been known to sing the parody lyrics in concert. Although the single did not chart in the United States, it peaked at number 5 on the Canadian magazine The Record's single chart. The video was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video at the 37th Grammy Awards, although it did not win.
Contents [hide]
1 Writing
2 Recording and lyrics
3 Music video
4 Release 4.1 Reception
4.2 Reviews
5 Track listing
6 Charts
7 Credits and personnel
8 See also
9 References
Writing[edit]
Yankovic was inspired to write the song after he heard the The Kinks' song "Lola" while driving in his car one day. He noted, "I was driving a rent-a-car through Florida when the song 'Lola' came on the radio, and it got me thinking about how much fun I had doing 'Yoda' [a song from 1985's Dare to Be Stupid] where I took a then-current topic and combined it with a classic rock tune."[1] He soon turned his attention to the film Jurassic Park—about a park on a fictional island, where geneticists have succeeded in cloning dinosaurs. The film is based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Michael Crichton—which had just come out and was already a blockbuster success. Yankovic decided to write a parody about the movie, and considered various songs that he could spoof. Eventually, he decided to parody the 1968 hit single "MacArthur Park", which was performed by Richard Harris. Yankovic approached the original song's writer, Jimmy Webb, who agreed to the idea.[1] In fact, Webb was so amused by the parody that he penned a letter to Yankovic stating "Well, this [the parody] oughta [sic] bury that song once and for all!"[2] In addition, Yankovic received permission from Crichton and director Steven Spielberg to produce the track.[1]
Recording and lyrics[edit]
Yankovic entered the studio to record "Jurassic Park" on July 16, 1993.[3] Backing Yankovic were Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz on drums, Steve Jay on bass, and Jim West on guitar.[4] "MacArthur Park" contained an actual orchestra complete with a strings section.[5] "Jurassic Park", however, features synth strings courtesy of keyboardist Brad Buxer, who programmed the section himself.[4][6] Intermixed during the interlude are various dinosaur sound effects courtesy of Sandy Berman; Berman had previously created dinosaur yells for a major theme park attraction, and loaned Yankovic the sound effects.[7] At 3:53 in length, the song is considerably shorter than the original, which clocks in at 7:21.[4][8] Largely, this is due to the fact that the middle section featured in the original—the so called "After the Loves of My Life" section[5]—is omitted from Yankovic's parody.[9][10]
The song itself recounts both the plot of the movie, and contains various in-jokes and references therein.[4] One line about lawyers—"A huge tyrannosaurus ate our lawyer/Well, I suppose that proves they're really not all bad"—was deliberately placed in the song to be ambiguous, as it could either be referring to lawyers or dinosaurs as being "not all bad".[4][11][12] The song also makes various pop culture references, alluding to the idea of an E ticket and Barney.[4]
Music video[edit]
A claymation version of "Weird Al" Yankovic, surrounded by dinosaurs. The video was directed by Mark Osborne and Scott Nordlund, and completed in two months.
When it came time for a video for "Jurassic Park", Yankovic opted to use stop-motion and claymation; he joked during a Q&A that this was because "it's just too hard to find real live dinosaurs these days."[13] "Jurassic Park" was Yankovic's first video that was entirely animated—previous videos, such as "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies" and "Dare to Be Stupid" had featured elements of animation.[1][14] The video was directed by Mark Osborne and Scott Nordlund.[15] Yankovic initially heard of the duo from Bill Manspeaker, the leader singer of the comedy rock band Green Jellÿ.[1] After being hired for the project, the two "basically turned a private residence in Los Angeles into a clay animation studio."[14] The two worked between July and August 1993, and slept in shifts, so that the final project would be ready for its release in October of 1993.[1][14] One critic noted that the music video seems to have been done in the style of Will Vinton's Dinosaurs! – A Fun-Filled Trip Back in Time![16] The video parodies scenes from, as well as the general plot of the 1993 movie, and contains a myriad of sight-gags—as is usual for Yankovic's videos—such as a claymation version of Steven Spielberg running from dinosaurs, Barney having his head ripped off, and a Velociraptor attempting to break down a door, only to realize it has a key.[17]
Release[edit]
Reception[edit]
"Jurassic Park" was released as the lead single from Yankovic's 1993 album Alapalooza. The single did not chart in the United States. However, the song was a sales success in Canada, and peaked at number 5 on the Canadian magazine The Record's single chart.[18] The video for "Jurassic Park" received light rotation on MTV. Yankovic later explained in an interview that "[MTV] played it a few times, and then just yanked it, because it wasn't really part of their sound."[19][20] However, the single was a success on The Box and they played it "incessantly".[19] Furthermore, in Canada, the song was a massive success on MuchMusic. Due to this, Alapalooza is Yankovic's best selling album in Canada, with over 200,000 units sold, according to Music Canada.[19] However, the video was played and remained popular on VH1 well after its release; it ranked within the Top 50 Most-Played Clips during the months of August and September of 1999, according to Billboard magazine.[21][22] The video for "Jurassic Park" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video at the 37th Grammy Awards,[23] but lost to the video for "Love Is Strong" by The Rolling Stones.[24] Nonetheless, it received attention in animation festivals worldwide for its use of claymation effects.[1]
Jimmy Webb was particularly pleased with the finished product. According to Yankovic, several times during different concerts in New York and Los Angeles that Yankovic was in attendance, Webb would start to perform the original, feign forgetting the words, and then invite Yankovic on stage to help him sing "Jurassic Park" instead. For a Christmas present one year, Webb even sent Yankovic a rubber dinosaur mask as a joke. Yankovic later noted that Webb "was the coolest".[2]
Reviews[edit]
Chris Hicks of the Deseret News called the single "absolutely hilarious", and rhetorically asked "who else would think of adapting that ridiculously popular movie's themes to new lyrics for Jimmy Webb's classic ditty 'MacArthur Park'?"[11] Hicks' felt that the song's funniest moments involved the jokes revolving around lawyers and the mention of Barney.[11] Amanda Cohen of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote that it combined "the schlock of the original song with schtick about the dinosaur movie" and proved that "Yankovic is as funny as ever".[25] Furthermore, she noted that it was evidence that "his voice improves with every new release".[25] In a review of the Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation, Arthur Salm called the piece a "knockout" and praised the humor, specifically highlighting the claymation cameo of Steve Spielberg and the "goofy velociraptor" from the opening of the video.[17]
Some critics felt that the song did not satirize the source material, but instead merely recounted the plot to Jurassic Park. Entertainment Weekly referred to the claymation video for the "Jurassic Park" as "clever but toothless".[26] The magazine argued that Yankovic's parody did not satirize the original material, but instead transposed new elements on top of them.[26] Rob Owen of Richmond Times-Dispatch wrote that the song "does nothing but recount the plot of the hit movie" and that "dinosaurs don't lend themselves to music".[27]
Track listing[edit]
CD single[28]1."Jurassic Park" – 3:53
2."Frank's 2000" TV" – 4:04
Promo single[29]1."Jurassic Park" – 3:53
Charts[edit]
Chart (1994)
Peak
position
Canada The Record Singles Chart
5[18]
Credits and personnel[edit]
"Weird" Al Yankovic – vocals, background vocals, production, arrangement[4]
Jim West – guitar
Steve Jay – bass guitar
Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz – drums
Brad Buxer – keyboards, synthetic orchestration
Sandy Berman – dinosaur growls
Tony Papa – engineering
See also[edit]
List of singles by "Weird Al" Yankovic
List of songs by "Weird Al" Yankovic
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Hansen, Barret (1994). Permanent Record: Al in the Box (liner). California, United States: Scotti Brothers Records.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Yankovic, Alfred M. (April 1999). "'Ask Al' Q&As for April, 1999". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
3.Jump up ^ Yankovic, Alfred M. (December 2007). "Recording Dates". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
4.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Alapalooza (liner). "Weird Al" Yankovic. Scotti Brothers Records. 1993.
5.^ Jump up to: a b "Harris, Richard MacArthur Park – Phonograph Recording Contract". The Wrecking Crew. Retrieved April 18, 2012.
6.Jump up ^ "The Players". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 26, 2010.
7.Jump up ^ Yankovic, Alfred M. (August 1999). "'Ask Al' Q&As for August, 1999". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
8.Jump up ^ A Tramp Shining (liner). Richard Harris. Dunhill Records. 1968.
9.Jump up ^ The 'Weird Al' Yankovic Anthology: Piano – Vocal – Guitar. Cherry Lane Music. July 1, 1996. ISBN 9781575600215.
10.Jump up ^ MacArthur Park (Sheet Music). Canopy Music. 1968. ASIN B000PI5W4Q.
11.^ Jump up to: a b c Hicks, Chris (November 28, 1993). "Weird Al's 'Jurassic' is Comedy Classic". Deseret News (Deseret News Publishing Company). Retrieved April 28, 2013. (subscription required)
12.Jump up ^ Yankovic, Alfred M. (December 1998). "'Ask Al' Q&As for December, 1998". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
13.Jump up ^ Yankovic, Alfred M. (September 1999). "'Ask Al' Q&As for September, 1999". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
14.^ Jump up to: a b c Yankovic, Alfred (2013), "Jurassic Park", 'Weird Al' Yankovic Official Limited Edition Trading Cards (Volcano Records) (50)
15.Jump up ^ Jay Levey, "Weird Al" Yankovic (2003) [2003]. 'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Ultimate Video Collection (Liner notes). Volcano Entertainment. 82876-53727-9.
16.Jump up ^ Hazen, Natalie. "For Nearly Three Decades...". Splitsider.com. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
17.^ Jump up to: a b Salm, Arthur (January 20, 1994). "Wallace, Gromit Return in Delightful Claymation". The San Diego Union-Tribune (MLIM Holdings). Retrieved April 28, 2013.
18.^ Jump up to: a b "Hits of the World". Billboard 106 (8). February 19, 1994. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
19.^ Jump up to: a b c Yankovic, Alfred M. (February 1995). Visions of Gray. Interview with Jeff Elbel. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
20.Jump up ^ Yankovic, Alfred M. (January 2000). "'Ask Al' Q&As for January, 2000". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
21.Jump up ^ "Video Monitor". Billboard 111 (34). Aug 21, 1999. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
22.Jump up ^ "Video Monitor". Billboard 111 (39). Sep 25, 1999. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
23.Jump up ^ "The 37th Grammy Nominations". Los Angeles Times (Tribune Company). January 6, 1995. p. 16. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
24.Jump up ^ "1994 Best Music Video, Short Form". Past Winners Search. National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. 1995. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
25.^ Jump up to: a b Cohen, Amanda (October 8, 1993). "Entertainment". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Block Communications). Retrieved April 28, 2013. (subscription required)
26.^ Jump up to: a b Kenny, Glenn (March 18, 1994). "Alapalooza Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 14, 2012.
27.Jump up ^ Owen, Rob (October 31, 1993). "'Weird Al's Latest Venture Into Parody is a Little Weak". Richmond Times-Dispatch (Berkshire Hathaway). Retrieved April 28, 2013. (subscription required)
28.Jump up ^ Jurassic Park CD single (liner notes). "Weird Al" Yankovic. California, USA: Scotti Bros. Records. 1993.
29.Jump up ^ Schwartz, Jon (December 11, 2008). "Jurassic Park". The Official "Weird Al" Yankovic Web Site. Retrieved June 23, 2010.
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InGen
Ingen.jpg
Logo of InGen as depicted in the films
Formation
1980s
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California, and one location in Europe.
Location
Denmark
CEO
John Hammond
InGen (International Genetic Technologies, Inc.) is a fictional genetic engineering company appearing in the Jurassic Park franchise of novels, films and other media.[1]
Contents [hide]
1 Narrative 1.1 In the books
1.2 In the films
2 Reception
3 References
4 See also
5 External links
Narrative[edit]
The fictional company, InGen, is based in Palo Alto, California, and has one location in Europe.[2] Nevertheless, most of InGen's research took place on both the islands of Isla Sorna and Isla Nublar.[2]
While official records indicated InGen was just one of any number of small 1980s genetic engineering start-ups, the events of the novel and film revealed to a select group that InGen had discovered a method of cloning dinosaurs and other animals (including a quagga) using blood extracted from mosquitoes trapped in amber during various periods in time, ranging from the Mesozoic era to the 1800s.[2]
Following sabotage during an inspection visit (Last week of August 1989 in the novel, unknown date in 1993 for the film) several people were killed by escaping dinosaurs.[2]
At this point the film continuity and books diverged.
In the books[edit]
In the novel, InGen founder John Hammond is killed in the accident and InGen files for Chapter 11 on October 5, 1989, the island is destroyed by the (fictional) Costa Rican Air force, the survivors are sworn to secrecy and by the time of The Lost World, InGen is defunct with its equipment being sold off.[2]
Lost World also reveals that much of InGen's Isla Nublar research operation was a smoke screen covering up the fact that most research occurred on the nearby island of Isla Sorna.[2] The novel reveals that in 1995 Ian Malcolm (who had survived the first incident) discovered InGen's second operation with help from a small group of associates.[2] They investigate the island and discover that dinosaurs were left running free after the collapse of the company. Despite interference from a group attempting to steal dinosaur eggs for research, they are able to conceal the island's status and InGen's legacy, though the novel indicates that animals have been showing up on the mainland which may lead to the island's discovery and destruction.[2]
In the films[edit]
In the 1993 film adaptation, the genetics company InGen was never named in any dialogue on-screen, however its logo was placed on helicopters and ID badges worn by employees. For the most part, the first film follows the novel, except for the fact that John Hammond survives and decides that the park is dangerous and no longer viable.[2] The operation is shut down and dismantled.
Unlike the second novel, InGen still exists in the second film, replacing their rival Biosyn as the antagonists, and been on the verge of Chapter 11 bankruptcy since the incident.[2] In the film Hammond is forced out by the board of directors who plan to exploit the surviving animals from Isla Sorna and place them into a developing exhibit in San Diego, in order to restore the company's lost fortunes.[2]
Hammond organized and sends a team of experts led by Ian Malcolm to Isla Sorna to document the animals before the InGen assault which goes horribly wrong, both due to sabotage (by Malcolm's team) and underestimation of the animals' abilities. A pair of T-Rex specimens were captured (one adult, one juvenile) and taken to San Diego where they were to be exhibited, however the adult T-Rex escapes and goes on a rampage before finally being subdued and returned to the island.[2]
In Jurassic Park III the island is quarantined pending a final decision as to what to do about the animals. InGen never appeared and is only mentioned once in passing, leaving the fate of the company unknown and is presumably bankrupted from the incident in San Diego.[2]
Reception[edit]
Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction describe InGen as comparable to another "sleazy organization".[3] Other sources reference the company's receiving the baby T-Rex as an allusion to other exploitative entrepreneurs depicted in King Kong.[4] Ken Gelder describes InGen as "resolutely secretive, just like the firm in Grisham's novel."[5]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ First appearance in Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1990.
2.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m As described in Jurassic Park and Lost World, both novels and films.
3.Jump up ^ Kirk H. Beetz, Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: biography & resources (Beacham Pub., 1996), 2238.
4.Jump up ^ Nigel Morris, The Cinema of Steven Spielberg: Empire of Light (Wallflower Press, 2007), 249.
5.Jump up ^ Ken Gelder, Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field (Routledge, 2004), 113.
Malcolmson Baily, "Case 15: State of Costa Rica v. Donald Gennaro," At the Bar: Legal Cases from Literature (Montreal: Lulu.com), 127. ISBN 0-9782864-1-3.
See also[edit]
Evil corporation
External links[edit]
"Official" InGen website from lost-world.com
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It has been suggested that this article be merged into Jurassic Park (franchise). (Discuss) Proposed since January 2014.
InGen
Ingen.jpg
Logo of InGen as depicted in the films
Formation
1980s
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California, and one location in Europe.
Location
Denmark
CEO
John Hammond
InGen (International Genetic Technologies, Inc.) is a fictional genetic engineering company appearing in the Jurassic Park franchise of novels, films and other media.[1]
Contents [hide]
1 Narrative 1.1 In the books
1.2 In the films
2 Reception
3 References
4 See also
5 External links
Narrative[edit]
The fictional company, InGen, is based in Palo Alto, California, and has one location in Europe.[2] Nevertheless, most of InGen's research took place on both the islands of Isla Sorna and Isla Nublar.[2]
While official records indicated InGen was just one of any number of small 1980s genetic engineering start-ups, the events of the novel and film revealed to a select group that InGen had discovered a method of cloning dinosaurs and other animals (including a quagga) using blood extracted from mosquitoes trapped in amber during various periods in time, ranging from the Mesozoic era to the 1800s.[2]
Following sabotage during an inspection visit (Last week of August 1989 in the novel, unknown date in 1993 for the film) several people were killed by escaping dinosaurs.[2]
At this point the film continuity and books diverged.
In the books[edit]
In the novel, InGen founder John Hammond is killed in the accident and InGen files for Chapter 11 on October 5, 1989, the island is destroyed by the (fictional) Costa Rican Air force, the survivors are sworn to secrecy and by the time of The Lost World, InGen is defunct with its equipment being sold off.[2]
Lost World also reveals that much of InGen's Isla Nublar research operation was a smoke screen covering up the fact that most research occurred on the nearby island of Isla Sorna.[2] The novel reveals that in 1995 Ian Malcolm (who had survived the first incident) discovered InGen's second operation with help from a small group of associates.[2] They investigate the island and discover that dinosaurs were left running free after the collapse of the company. Despite interference from a group attempting to steal dinosaur eggs for research, they are able to conceal the island's status and InGen's legacy, though the novel indicates that animals have been showing up on the mainland which may lead to the island's discovery and destruction.[2]
In the films[edit]
In the 1993 film adaptation, the genetics company InGen was never named in any dialogue on-screen, however its logo was placed on helicopters and ID badges worn by employees. For the most part, the first film follows the novel, except for the fact that John Hammond survives and decides that the park is dangerous and no longer viable.[2] The operation is shut down and dismantled.
Unlike the second novel, InGen still exists in the second film, replacing their rival Biosyn as the antagonists, and been on the verge of Chapter 11 bankruptcy since the incident.[2] In the film Hammond is forced out by the board of directors who plan to exploit the surviving animals from Isla Sorna and place them into a developing exhibit in San Diego, in order to restore the company's lost fortunes.[2]
Hammond organized and sends a team of experts led by Ian Malcolm to Isla Sorna to document the animals before the InGen assault which goes horribly wrong, both due to sabotage (by Malcolm's team) and underestimation of the animals' abilities. A pair of T-Rex specimens were captured (one adult, one juvenile) and taken to San Diego where they were to be exhibited, however the adult T-Rex escapes and goes on a rampage before finally being subdued and returned to the island.[2]
In Jurassic Park III the island is quarantined pending a final decision as to what to do about the animals. InGen never appeared and is only mentioned once in passing, leaving the fate of the company unknown and is presumably bankrupted from the incident in San Diego.[2]
Reception[edit]
Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction describe InGen as comparable to another "sleazy organization".[3] Other sources reference the company's receiving the baby T-Rex as an allusion to other exploitative entrepreneurs depicted in King Kong.[4] Ken Gelder describes InGen as "resolutely secretive, just like the firm in Grisham's novel."[5]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ First appearance in Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1990.
2.^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m As described in Jurassic Park and Lost World, both novels and films.
3.Jump up ^ Kirk H. Beetz, Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: biography & resources (Beacham Pub., 1996), 2238.
4.Jump up ^ Nigel Morris, The Cinema of Steven Spielberg: Empire of Light (Wallflower Press, 2007), 249.
5.Jump up ^ Ken Gelder, Popular Fiction: The Logics and Practices of a Literary Field (Routledge, 2004), 113.
Malcolmson Baily, "Case 15: State of Costa Rica v. Donald Gennaro," At the Bar: Legal Cases from Literature (Montreal: Lulu.com), 127. ISBN 0-9782864-1-3.
See also[edit]
Evil corporation
External links[edit]
"Official" InGen website from lost-world.com
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Kathleen Kennedy ·
Gerald R. Molen ·
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Larry J. Franco
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Peter Buchman ·
Alexander Payne ·
Jim Taylor ·
Colin Trevorrow ·
Derek Connolly
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Jurassic Park Adventures: Survivor ·
Jurassic Park Adventures: Prey ·
Jurassic Park Adventures: Flyers
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Jurassic Park: The Ride ·
Jurassic Park River Adventure ·
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