• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Wasnt she introduced as Dr. Ellie Satler? She completed her doctorate in paleobiology before 24 and she outran a velociraptor!

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      3 months ago

      If you graduate college at 21, you could possibly finish your PhD by 24…would definitely be a bit of a rush but maybe in the Jurassic Park universe there’s so much demand for those sorts of experts that they fast-tracked it.

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        Dr. Ellie Satler is in her late twenties, according to the book. Laura Dern, the actress, was simply playing older than she actually was. Also, in the context of these films, Jurassic Park’s operations were still a tightly held secret at the time Dr. Satler would have been obtaining her credentials.

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      she outran a velociraptor!

      They were deinonychus theropods, velociraptor theropods are the size of small turkeys

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      In the movie she’s supposed to be closer to 30. Her character went through some rewrites and was initially supposed to be a grad student like in the book which is probably why they cast Laura Dern, but later aged up her character.