Jurassic Park: “Now You Want to Sell It” scene

INT. VISITOR CENTER PRESENTATION ROOM - DAY

HAMMOND, GRANT, ELLIE, MALCOLM, and GANNARO eat lunch at a long table in the visitor's center restaurant.

There is a large buffet table and two WAITERS to serve them.

The room is darkened and Hammond is showing slides of various
scenes all around them. Hammond's own recorded voice describes current and future features of the park while the slides flash artists' renderings of all them.

The real Hammond turns and speaks over the narration.

HAMMOND
None of these attractions have been finished yet. The
park will open with the basic tour you're about to take,
and then other rides will come on line after six or
twelve months. Absolutely spectacular designs. Spared
no expense.

More slides CLICK past, a series of graphs dealing with profits,
attendance and other fiscal projections. Donald Gennaro, who has
become increasingly friendly with Hammond, even giddy, grins from ear to ear.

GENNARO
And we can charge anything we want! Two thousand a day,
ten thousand a day - - people will pay it! And then
there's the merchandising - -

HAMMOND
Donald, this park was not built to carter only to the
super rich. Everyone in the world's got a right to
enjoy these animals.

GENNARO
Sure, they will, they will.
(laughing)
We'll have a - - coupon day or something.

HAMMOND
(on tape)
- - from combined revenue streams for all three parks
should reach eight to nine billion dollars a year - -

HAMMOND
(to Gennaro)
That's conservative, of course. There's no reason to
speculate wildly.

GENNARO
I've never been a rich man. I hear it's nice. Is it
nice?

Ian Malcolm, who was been watching the screens with outright
contempt, SNORTS, as if he's finally had enough.

MALCOLM
The lack of humility before nature that's been displayed
here staggers me.

They all turn and look at him.

GENNARO
Thank you, Dr. Malcolm, but I think things are a little
different than you and I feared.

MALCOLM
Yes, I know. They're a lot worse.

GENNARO
Now, wait a second, we haven't even see the park yet.
Let's just hold out concerns until - -

HAMMOND
Alright Donald, alright, but just let him talk. I want
to hear all viewpoints. I truly do.

MALCOLM
Don't you see the danger, John, inherent in what you're
doing here? Genetic power is the most awesome force
ever seen on this planet. But you wield it like a kid
who's found his dad's gun.

MALCOLM GENNARO
If I may.... It is hardly appropriate
to start hurling
Excuse me, excuse me - - generalizations before - -
I'll tell you.

MALCOLM (cont'd)
The problem with scientific power you've used is it
didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read
what others had done and you took the next step. You
didn't earn the knowledge yourselves, so you don't take
the responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders
of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you
could, and before you knew what you had, you patented
it, packages it, slapped in on a plastic lunch box, and
now you want to sell it.

HAMMOND
You don't give us our due credit. Our scientists have
done things no one could ever do before.

MALCOLM
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not
they could that they didn't stop to think if they
should. Science can create pesticides, but it can't
tell us not to use them. Science can make a nuclear
reactor, but it can't tell us not to build it!

HAMMOND
But this is nature! Why not give an extinct species a
second chance?! I mean, Condors. Condors are on the
verge of extinction - - if I'd created a flock of them
on the island, you wouldn't be saying any of this!
(or)
have anything to say at all!

MALCOLM
Hold on - - this is no species that was obliterated by
deforestation or the building of a dam. Dinosaurs had
their shot. Nature selected them for extinction.

HAMMOND
I don't understand this Luddite attitude, especially
from a scientist. How could we stand in the light of
discovery and not act?

MALCOLM
There's nothing that great about discovery.
(or)
What's so great about discovery? It's a violent,
penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you
call discovery I call the rape of the natural world!

GENNARO
Please - - let's hear something from the others. Dr.
Grant? I am sorry - - Dr. Sattler?

ELLIE
The question is - - how much can you know about an
extinct ecosystem, and therefore, how could you assume
you can control it? You have plants right here in this
building, for example, that are poisonous. You picked
them because they look pretty, but these are aggressive
living things that have no idea what century they're
living in and will defend themselves. Violently, if
necessary.

Exasperated, Hammond turns to Grant, who looks shell-shocked.

HAMMOND
Dr. Grant, if there's one person who can appreciate all
of this - -
(or)
What am I trying to do?

But Grant speaks quietly, really thrown by all of this.

GRANT
I feel - - elated and - - frightened and - -
(starts over)
The world has just changed so radically. We're all
running to catch up. I don't want to jump to any
conclusions, but look - -

He leans forward, a look of true concern on his face.

GRANT (cont'd)
Dinosaurs and man - - two species separated by 65
million years of evolution - - have just been suddenly
thrown back into the mix together. How can we have the
faintest idea of what to expect?

HAMMOND
I don't believe it. I expected you to come down here
and defend me from these characters and the only one
I've got on my side it the bloodsucking lawyer!?

GENNARO
Thank you.