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Jeff Goldblum’s Secret Tattoo

02.02.2021 - By Select WorksPlay

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A listener emails Underunderstood: "Jeff Goldblum has a tattoo in Jurrassic Park - no one noticed, no one can identify. Help!"

Show notes:

01:20 – Clip of Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) with the flare in Jurassic Park

06:50 – The Reddit post

08:50 – Jeff Goldblum’s community number

10:22 – Correction: The word “tattoo” does show up in Jurassic Park, the book once. Quote: “We got another hadro dead. Juvenile.” Muldoon bent down among the flies and checked the skin on the sole of the right foot. A number was tattooed there. “Specimen is number HD/09.”

12:42 – Jurassic World: Dominion started shooting in February 2020. Universal Studios halted production on March 13. The film was mostly shot in England.

16:40 – Ana Maria Quintana’s IMdB page

18:45 – Here’s a typical continuity analysis of the goat scene. This writer actually concludes it was not an error. If you feel compelled to email us about this, please don’t — we won’t appreciate it. Try one of the many active Jurassic Park forums instead!

19:30 – Jurassic Park is the 40th top-grossing film of all time. Movie theaters boosted it to the top of the box office again in 2020, when COVID-19 put new releases on pause.

21:10 – Christina Smith’s IMdB page

24:50 – Dom Nero on Twitter

25:50 – Dom’s article about Colin Trevorrow’s Star Wars script

40:10 – Wikipedia page for Blowup (1966), directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

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