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Mr. Hammond, I've decided not to endorse your park.
— Jurassic Park · 1993
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
It is a paleontologist's review of a theme park, delivered like a polite business letter after he has been chased by dinosaurs. The deadpan formality is the joke, and Hammond's three-word reply is the film's moral: the man who built it agrees it should never open. Fans quote it whenever a grand project ends in an obvious disaster.
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Spoilers for Jurassic ParkShow the scene
The closing exchange of Jurassic Park (1993). After the raptor attack on the visitor centre and the T. rex's last-minute rescue, the survivors flee Isla Nublar by helicopter. Paleontologist Alan Grant, who spent the film trying to get off the island, turns to park creator John Hammond with a formal verdict. Hammond, chastened, answers that he has decided the same. The page's wording is the popular shortened form; the film's line begins "after careful consideration".
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- Wikiquote: Jurassic Park (film)Dialogue tagged as the last lines of the filmReference checked
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