Аниматронный Ти-Рекс из «Парка Юрского периода» мог разгрызть человека пополам

Jurassic Park's Animatronic T. Rex Could Bite A Person in Half—Thankfully, It Didn't Happen The animatronic T. rex puppet built for Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park may have been fake, but it was no less deadly than its real-life counterpart. The Tyrannosaurus rex in Jurassic Park didn't just look deadly—it was deadly. Stan Winston Studios did such a good job building the animatronic for the paddock escape sequence, that the faux dinosaur's jaws basically had the terrible biting power of its real-life counterpart. Jurassic Park's T. Rex Animatronic Was Capable of Biting People in Half "My biggest concern was, essentially, the [T. rex's mouth] has a gripping capacity of a backhoe," stunt coordinator Gary Hymes recalled in James Mottram's Jurassic Park: The Ultimate Visual History. "I mean, it could cut somebody in half." Added Steven Spielberg, "There was so much power in the steel armature. And the way it could swing its head and its body and move its arms...no person could have a successful head-on collision with that moving head." Hymes' backhoe comparison feels rather eerie when placed alongside the very first chapter in Michael Crichton's novel, which begins with a grievously wounded Jurassic Park worker brought to the Costa Rican mainland for emergency medical treatment. When the doctor inquires about the circumstances that led to young man's condition, PR man Ed Regis claims he was run over by a backhoe. The worker, who was actually savaged by a Velociraptor, ends up succumbing to his injuries. Thankfully, life did not imitate art during production on the game-changing summer blockbuster. Unlike John Hammond's reckless island venture to resurrect some of the most dangerous animals the world has ever seen, safety was of the utmost concern, with the creature's jaws prevented from fully closing via a mechanism made from steel pipes. "The T. rex was so big," said Winston Studios team member Shane Mahan, "it was if as each artist was working on their own little island." By the time it was complete, the ersatz dinosaur weighed several tons. Not wanting any spoilers to reach the public, Spielberg insisted the animatronic be transferred in the dead of night. Explained puppeteer John Rosengrant, "They didn't want this giant dinosaur, even covered with a tarp, to be on the 101 freeway at rush hour." And because the film had already taken up all the available shooting spaces at Universal, an additional stage had to be rented on the Warner Bros. in Burbank (located nine miles from Winston's headquarters in Van Nuys). But when Rexy arrived at WB some time after midnight, the security guard on duty initially refused to let it through the gate. "Somehow," shared Rosenbgrant, "that guy didn't get the memo that there was an eight-ton dinosaur on the way!" Further precautions onstage included a crisscrossing of yellow police tape that stopped anyone from getting near the animatronic when cameras weren't rolling. "When I saw it for the first time on set," Spielberg said, "with [production designer] Rick Carter's ten-thousand-volt fencing on one side, and the two Ford Explorers parked on their rails, the first thing I asked Stan before I walked up to the T. rex, I said, 'Now are you sure it's turned off? I don't want to walk past that yellow police tape if that thing can suddenly come to life!' And so Stan assured me...it was safe to go into the danger zone."