By Toby Klein Greenwald
Director, WholeFamily Room
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and discuss after the film, around the family dinner table or
while you're out for a ride. Reading them before the film will
help focus your viewing.
There are both business people
and scientists involved in the re-creation of the dinosaurs.
What do you think are the reasons of each? What can we learn
from this about how projects and ideas are created and implemented?
How do you think Hammond and his
company, InGen, could have done things differently so the results
would have been different?
What are the special qualities
of Dr. Ian Malcolm? What kind of relationship does he have with
the other scientists?
Was any part of this film scary
for you?
What are some of the challenges
that have to be overcome and what are the qualities that people
use, from inside themselves, to overcome those challenges?
What are some of the things you
learned about human nature from this film and about how different
kinds of people relate to each other?
What would you do if you had discovered
a deep dark secret and the people who didn't want you to reveal
it were very powerful?
Have you ever found yourself in
a situation in which it would have been safer for you to keep
your mouth shut but you thought it was important to speak up
or to take action? What did you do? How did you feel about it
afterwards
Please
share your thoughts with us that were triggered by these questions
at our Film
Board.
Ms. Toby Klein Greenwald is Co-President
and Director of Creative Development of WholeFamily.com. In her former life she
taught film analysis and wrote scripts.
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