Jurassic Park Dilophosaurus Rip-Off - The Dinosaur Project (2012) Discussion

[–] adamcrossstills 12 years ago

ha! how do you suppose someone can sue anyone for depicting an extinct animal?

The people behind Jurassic Park didn't create or make up Dilophosaurus, Dilophosaurus is an extinct species of theropod.

Use your brain.

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[–] VIsraWratS 12 years ago

I haven't seen this movie but, if it features a dilophosaurus with either a neck frill or the ability to spit venom, it ripped off JP.

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[–] adamcrossstills 12 years ago

it doesn't spit venom and as far as I remember it's never referred to as a Dilophosaurus

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[–] xDeeMx 12 years ago

Well, the frill-necked lizards didn't sue Universal for ripping off their shtick so why should Universal sue the makers of this film?

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[–] Mister_Valentine 11 years ago

Their heads looked nothing like dilophosaurus.

Plus, a lot of dinosaur games and movies use the "trope" Raptors, even though velociraptors were nothing like that
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[–] kascha-klaussen 10 years ago

Who's going to sue them? God? Spielberg didn't invent dinosaurs so it's a good bet he never patented them either.

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[–] jbaker1-2 10 years ago

True, Spielberg didn't invent dinosaurs, but there's no evidence that Dilophosaurus or any other dinosaur had a Chlamydosaurus-style neck frill (or spit venom, for that matter). That was purely an invention of Michael Crichton and Spielberg, and one the makers of 'Dinosaur Project' clearly and blatantly copied.

Still, I suspect a lawsuit is highly unlikely.

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[–] kascha-klaussen 10 years ago

It would be sort of hard to credit the venom spitting antics of cobras without them having had some reptilian ancestor that did the same thing though wouldn't it?

Sort of the same thing with the frills. There are lizards right now that have these. From where did those evolve if not from larger ancestors? We have rhinos and such with the same large bony frills as Styracosaurus and Triceratops, right? Are there truly no dinosaurs with soft frills? That would be a shame - I think they're cute!

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[–] jbaker1-2 10 years ago

Neither cobras nor lizards (or rhinos, for that matter) are or evolved from dinosaurs, whose closest living relatives are birds and crocodilians. We don't know for an absolute fact that no dinosaurs had soft neck frills, no, but neither do we have any evidence that any did.

It's perfectly fine to speculate about such things in a fictional story, however, but that isn't the point. The point is whether or not the makers of 'Dinosaur Project' "borrowed" an idea from Jurassic Park - which they plainly did.

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[–] kascha-klaussen 10 years ago

Ugh. I forgot rhinos are mammals and can't be related to dinosaurs. Sometimes I am just the biggest ditz. I had a point when I wrote the earlier post but it is obscured by so many layers of fail because of the above I can't remember what it is.

Sigh

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[–] wolfbynyt 10 years ago

Just found this thread. Interestingly enough when the baby whatevers first appear the British dude calls them something that sounds like "stegosaurus" or "sootasaurus" or something and Netflix wrote "stegosaurus" on the CC. So no, they weren't SUPPOSED to be dilophosaurs. Were they still a JP rip-off? Yes.

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[–] adjudicator_ 10 years ago

Lesothosaurus, I made out. Although the actual ancient creature of that name was rather smaller than those in the film.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesothosaurus

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