Jurassic Park 4

Trevorrow, 36, made his feature film directorial debut with the independent time travel comedy "Safety Not Guaranteed," shown at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, and has made a TV movie and documentary, but he has been selected to direct Jurassic Park #4 scheduled for release on June 13, 2014.

Pretty amazing that they are entrusting a movie like this to a promising, but untested director.

There was a 3rd one??

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There was a 3rd one??

there was a second one?

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there was a second one?

The first two were ranked #1 and #3 boxoffice for their respective years. The 2nd movie was roundly beaten by Titanic, and edged out by Men in Black. For the third movie Spielberg turned the directing over to Joe Johnston who was a successful director of Children's movies. He turned the 3rd movie into a "coming of age" story and while it made the top 10 that year, it was clear that after more than a decade, the CGI dinosaurs were no longer guaranteed box-office gold.

Clearly the gamble works at times. Joss Whedon directed only one movie in his life before last year, Serenity, the sequel to the TV series Firefly. But his second directorial effort was "The Avengers".

So what is it going to be? How prehistoric creatures chase modern day vampires?

Trust? Who was that director who Stanley Kubrick fired a guy on his first day on the job because he was carrying a film box upside down. A clapper loader or something?

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Stanley Kubrick fired a guy on his first day on the job because he was carrying a film box upside down. A clapper loader or something?

He was a clapper loader, which is the British term for someone who is responsible for keeping the negative safe. One mistake and at a minimum you lose a days worth of film. At a maximum you may have to reshoot the day's scenes which considering getting correct lighting, rebuilding sets, paying star salaries, and general anger might cost you millions of dollars (potentially the entire lifetime salary of the clapper loader).

It sucks to be on the bottom of the heap. Often if you forget a rule you can cause major damage far in excess of the general importance of your position.


We had a guy at the Naval Ordnance lab in MD who was supposed to put a box containing explosive material in a magazine that was only big enough to take 50 lbs of material. The box didn't fit and it was Friday afternoon so he put it in the general magazine containing thousands of pounds of explosive material. But the box contained unstable material. Over the weekend it blew up, but instead of being isolated it set off thousands of pounds of explosive. It put a mushroom cloud up over suburban Washington DC, started a fire, and blew out thousands of windows. No one was hurt.

Mushroom clouds are about throwing dirt in the air, and are related to any large explosion. They are not directly related to atomic bombs. But very people know that so the news reporter interviewed a suburban homeowner who testified that she could see the atoms ripping apart.

Needless to say the facility was taken from the military and turned into an "Food and Drug Administration" campus and all future explosive research was sent to the Utah desert.

Rules are rules, and they are there for a reason. But much of the time people don't know the rules, or they make a snap judgement. You are usually better being at the top where you have lots of guys doing spin control when you make a decision that goes bad.

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He was a clapper loader, which is the British term for someone who is responsible for keeping the negative safe.

Negatives are so last decade.

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It sucks to be on the bottom of the heap. Often if you forget a rule you can cause major damage far in excess of the general importance of your position.

There's the joke about Cecil B. de Mille setting up a very elaborate shoot for his capstone Biblical Epic Film(tm). Since it was so expensive and complicated, he sets up three camera crews in order to insure he will get it. After the shot he calls the first crew, who inform him they forgot to load film in the camera. The second crew informs him they left the cap on the lens. Finally he tries the third crew and asks:

"Did you put film in your camera?"
"Sure. We have plenty of film."
"Did you take off the lens cap."
"Of course! We're professionals, too, you know. the camera is loaded, we have lots of film, the cap is off and everything is set. Ready when you are, C.B.!"

But that probably never happened...

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Mushroom clouds are about throwing dirt in the air, and are related to any large explosion.

Indeed. many explosions produce a mushroom cloud. Most last only a second or two and dissipate. But a large explosion, of the right kind, which can suck in lots of dirt and debris in the vaccum left by the explosive, will last a good, long time.

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But very people know that so the news reporter interviewed a suburban homeowner who testified that she could see the atoms ripping apart.

Did she testify to eating funny-tasting brownies? ;)

These days its all digital files... but the clapper is the device that contains textual information for the Film, Scene, Take Number and then has that checkered slap stick at the top so sound can be synchronized. He has loaded film and it is critical that he uses the right film and labels it correctly.

Firing someone for such a serious basic error is usually thought of as excessive but obviously not by all and certainly not by Kubrick.