Last night I watched the original Jurassic Park for the first time in many many years. It was great to watch as an adult because I started picking up on some small cues that really gave me a vastly different interpretation of the movie.Throughout the movie, Hammond takes great pride in telling Grant, Sattler and anyone who will listen how 'he spared no expense' on something. Self driving cars? Check. The voiceover inside the cars a famous person? Check. Gourmet chefs, interactive rides you name it, he often pips "spared no expense!"Then we get to see his interaction with Nedry (Neumann of Seinfeld fame) where Nedry is clearly upset with his compensation. Hammond gets into an argument with Nedry about his financial problems and how he will not be dragged into another financial debate with him. This is one area he clearly spared expense because if you notice, there are exactly TWO people running all of the systems in the entire park...Samuel L. Jackson and Nedry. Clearly Nedry is the person who designed everything too because Nick Fury is wholly unable to determine what Nedry did to the system to cause everything to go offline. He even mentions that Nedry wrote all the code for the system (over 2 Million lines worth) at some point.Hammond spent money like a drunken sailor on anything and everything in the park except his IT. If he had, he would have had a small crew of IT people who would have been able to design a better system that was not dependent on one individual's know how to operate and troubleshoot. Who writes one giant piece of software with millions of lines of code to run multiple systems? A guy who doesn't know any better or wanted to have job security.Jurassic Park is often lauded as a cautionary tale about man's hubris in thinking he could play god by bringing back dinosaurs. I would counter that by saying Jurassic Park is more a cautionary tale of management's continued underestimating the importance of, and applying the proper funding for, IT management.Yeah I'm an IT guy by trade so maybe that colors things a bit but there are some clear subtextual things going on in this movie that makes it seem like Hammond might have been successful if he hadn't hired Neumann to create and run his IT for him. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/2Ckktwk
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