Watching Jurassic Park, where a computer nerd with a debt problem and delusions of grandeur tears down all the safety systems, with no understanding of the consequences, so he can better facilitate his planned espionage and theft.
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My household used to call him "evil Dennis" because My grandpa was named Dennis. honestly anyone with the name Denis should not be allowed to be evil, its just an objectively not evil name
Then he slips on a rock, falls down a hill, and gets eaten by dilophosaurs, while screaming in the mud. Waiting for that second half of the story to play out.
If you kill a raptor and claim self-defence damn near everyone will believe you.
Kill a Tech Bro, regardless of whether their creations are automatically denying healthcare to millions through an AI algorithm, and somehow self-defence becomes up for debate.
Do you know who we can talk to in order to get some Velociraptors for the White House petting zoo? Or set them free on the WH grounds and tell Donnie Jr it’s a canned hunt for a real endangered species.
I hear they’re clever girls!
Missing from the movie is how Hammond screwed Nedry, threatening to not pay him at all if he didn't do a bunch of unpaid overtime.
The movie was the typical "man's folly in trying to control nature" drivel, while the book was more explicitly about capitalism and the folly of privatizing science.
I read the book just recently, and I don't think I agree with this framing. A lot of the book seems to be anti-science in general. In the movie, Malcom criticizes the scientists at the park, but in the book he straight up says that all scientists are bad people who only care about fucking stuff up.
There's a lot in the book about how it's impossible to predict complex systems, like the atmosphere. And then you remember that Crichton was a climate change denier.
the funniest thing about Michael Crichton is that he was wise enough to foresee where all the silicon valley hubris would end but also too dumb to realize he was being propagandized to re: climate change
Having just read the book, it's kinda bleak listening to his author insert Ian Malcolm rail against science and talk about how we don't need it anymore. Def some warning signs there lol
Hammond spends the movie telling everyone they spared no expense but Nedry who thinks he’s underpaid and under appreciated gets turned down for raises. Eventually looks to get his money from stealing from his employer.
Kinda reminds me of watching Jaws in 2020, in which a greedy bureaucrat ignores science and misinforms the public about a deadly threat in order to turn a profit off of summer tourism
Basically the plot of Henrik Ibsen's "an enemy of the people" where the town doctor tries to close down the local spa due to contaminated water, but the local politicians tries to shut him up.
Musk's a "fan" of whatever bit of pop culture it seems other people are fans of. i bet he even spent a week or so pretending to really love Morbius until someone told him it was a joke.
Was that the movie in which a hubris-driven billionaire who thinks he understands science better than he does spares no expense in bringing back a class of predators from the dustbin of history to help him achieve greatness because he mistakenly thinks he can control them?
Like so many things about JP, Nedry is reduced to a lazy cliche in the movie incarnation. He’s a far more interesting character in the book. A bad actor, yes; but importantly he represents *Hammond*’s poor choices and unpleasant nature as an employer.
If anything he’s more like the unknown Tesla engineer who helped design a car that traps its occupants to burn alive in a crash, because their boss said they couldn’t have physical door handles.
Again, sadly Hammond survives in the movie, whereas Nedry doesn’t. In the book however he gets his just desserts eventually: eaten alive by tiny chicken-sized procompsognathuses.
The big problem with Hammond in the movie is that movie Hammond is portrayed as everyone's favorite grandpa who only wants to see children happy, when in the book, all he wanted was to charge $10,000 a day for people to come see the genetic creations he stole.
I recognize the movie as a classic but boy do I have unnecessarily strong feelings about it doing this with Hammond while making Nedry's death a "lol, got his" moment for the audience.
I read the book probably way too young and that scene is still one of the most impactful deaths I've ever seen in fiction. Really hard to fully hate the guy when you're there in his head as he realizes how he's going to die.
I suspect Crichton wasn't sure which direction he was going with Hammond until he was nearly done writing the book. We get hints of him being a bastard throughout, but you could write a lot of it off as vainglory. It's only in his last scene we get into his head and see how vile he actually is.
He strikes me as a really realistic portrayal of this type of person because of that; a lot of these guys view themselves as world-changing benevolent philosopher kings until they suffer real setbacks or rejection, and then they turn into Sephiroth on a dime rather than reckon with their hubris.
yeah, he's basically what would happen if (entirely predictably) one of those people decided to steal a bunch of data to sell on their way out and set fire to necessary infrastructure to cover their tracks after they stopped giving a shit.
When the corp. lawyer was eaten by T. Rex, people cheered in the theaters.
There's a new T Rex in town.
🟧 👑
He's deranged & out of control.
He schemes & lies constantly.
He'll run you down-just to tear you apart.
He's controlled by vile urges.
He IS CLOSER than you think.
Outsmart the 🟧 monster‼️
Interesting the same - 'nerd gone bad' theme presents in Geostorm, apart from the shitstain Musk, in his yet to be released mini series "Spingtime for Elon". I wonder if there other examples of the 'Nerd gone Bad' genre in cinema?
the incredibly underrated lesson of jurassic park is how many problems were already underway because people only accounted for what they already expected to find
He meets his highly satisfying end at the hands, erm, claws, of a dog-sized dinosaur trying while trying to get away with looted goods. I am still waiting for that
You must be talking about the president. Oh no, that’s right it was a movie. But he is doing exactly the same thing sadly and when you find that out, it’s going to be too late if it isn’t already.
It's the "See? Nobody cares!" when talking about Dodgson being there that's truest, if you imagine everyone around them being Schumer and his closest set of do-nothings.
In the book, they make it very that the dude had employees he had to pay for work Ingen decided to stiff him on, then blackmail him to get finished anyway.
It's even funnier to me in light of the book, where Nedry's debt problems were the direct result of InGen seriously screwing him and his developers over
Just as a bit of trivia, that 3D file system browser was real, although I doubt too many people used it as their main way of opening files on their Irix workstations
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Please don't call him a computer nerd. Some of us earned that title.
All he has ever done on a computer is fraud. He can't even play video games honestly, let alone program something.
Kill a Tech Bro, regardless of whether their creations are automatically denying healthcare to millions through an AI algorithm, and somehow self-defence becomes up for debate.
I hear they’re clever girls!
Getting really sick of these oversimplified conversations.
The movie was the typical "man's folly in trying to control nature" drivel, while the book was more explicitly about capitalism and the folly of privatizing science.
Might be time for a reread.
We should be so lucky...
Movie Hammond: Scrooge McDuck
There's a new T Rex in town.
🟧 👑
He's deranged & out of control.
He schemes & lies constantly.
He'll run you down-just to tear you apart.
He's controlled by vile urges.
He IS CLOSER than you think.
Outsmart the 🟧 monster‼️
#eattherich
#letthemeatcake
Trumps in his 80s, a futurist took a bet on a dinosaur of a different colour.
(And to be completely fair, the Raptor fences weren't directly his fault either)
Hands up if you know?
The real meaning lies in his face, truly scary.
Tesla does their OTA updates by pulling a script over HTTP no S and immediately running it with sudo.
Musk is a less competent version of *that*.
This Wikipedia article is about an open source clone of the original Silicon Graphics fsn: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_System_Visualizer
This is while sparing no expense elsewhere. What did you expect the guy to do?
And, as an IT guy, no single person should ever be able to take down that many systems.
>Hires the bare minimum of staff and spreads their workload ultra thin to save costs
It’s about time to hunt.
Who is the T rex to save them all?