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Even now it's hard to tell (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Wasnt she introduced as Dr. Ellie Satler? She completed her doctorate in paleobiology before 24 and she outran a velociraptor!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

If you graduate college at 21, you could possibly finish your PhD by 24…would definitely be a bit of a rush but maybe in the Jurassic Park universe there’s so much demand for those sorts of experts that they fast-tracked it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Dr. Ellie Satler is in her late twenties, according to the book. Laura Dern, the actress, was simply playing older than she actually was. Also, in the context of these films, Jurassic Park's operations were still a tightly held secret at the time Dr. Satler would have been obtaining her credentials.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

she outran a velociraptor!

They were deinonychus theropods, velociraptor theropods are the size of small turkeys

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

In the movie she’s supposed to be closer to 30. Her character went through some rewrites and was initially supposed to be a grad student like in the book which is probably why they cast Laura Dern, but later aged up her character.