Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Hammond's boast of lavish spending is also the film's quiet joke, because the park is undone by the one place he skimped: a single programmer who tells the boss his mistake was getting cheap. By the last repetition, over melting ice cream, it is pure irony. People still use it, sarcastically, for anything glossy and expensive that is about to fail.
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John Hammond's catchphrase in Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993). He first uses it at the Montana dig, pouring champagne for Grant and Sattler and describing his Costa Rican island preserve as spectacular, with no expense spared. He says it again on the tour, praising the rides that are not ready yet. It comes back one last time in the dining room, after the park has started to fail, when Sattler admits the ice cream is good and Hammond answers with his refrain.
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- Wikiquote: Jurassic Park (film)Hammond quotes and dialogue (dig site, ride tour, ice cream)Reference checked
- Jurassic Park Wiki: John HammondTrivia listReference checked
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