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‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ is not the only link to the franchise’s past.
As expected, the new movie has a lot of easter eggs and nods to the classic 1993 Steven Spielberg filmalthough the writer and director Colin Trevorrow was not willing to saturate ‘Dominion’ with references.
“I was constantly fighting myself. As a fan, you’re going to see opportunities everywhere, so I’ve worked hard enough that when it happens, it’s something pretty subtle,” he told Digital Spy.
“Sometimes it’s hidden or it’s a quick little moment. Fans will recognize it right away.”but there’s a sense of discovery, not like we’re putting it on a plate like, ‘Here’s your childhood.
One of these references will have been detected by the fans, since it also Solve an age-old ‘Jurassic Park’ mystery (Watch out for the lost ‘Jurassic Park 4’ script, which could have made ‘Jurassic World’ very different.)
From here, spoilers for ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’
In addition to bringing back the original trio of Laura Dern, Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum, ‘Dominion’ sees the return of a minor character from ‘Jurassic Park’ who had a full scene in the first film: Lewis Dodgson.
Originally played by Cameron Thor (Campbell Scott now takes on the role in ‘Dominon’), Dodgson was the dodgy guy who offered Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight) $1.5 million to steal some dinosaur embryos from InGen. Nedry managed to smuggle out some embryos in Dodgson’s modified Barbasol shaving cream canister, but never got around to paying him, as it crashed on the way to the dock before being killed by a dilophosaurus.
The can fell out of Nedry’s hands and got covered in mud, and was apparently never found, or so we thought.
In ‘Dominion’ it is revealed that Dodgson somehow got his hands on the Barbasol can at the end, and it takes pride of place in his office alongside other memorabilia like a dino claw. Dodgson is now the CEO of BioSyn, for whom he likely worked on Jurassic Park, although the film never made it clear beyond the fact that he worked for a rival to InGen.
Although Dodgson had in his hands the can of Barbasol, we doubt that it was used to create dinosaurs. In ‘Jurassic Park’, he tells Nedry that the embryos “They must be delivered within 36 hours, otherwise they are useless.”
‘Dominion’ offers no story of how the can got to Dodgson and it is possible that he retrieved it in time. However, we think it’s unlikely given the state of Jurassic Park and the chances of finding her in the mud.
The movie was not the last time we saw Barbasol can in the jurassic universe, since appeared in ‘Jurassic Park: The Game’.
In the game, two BioSyn employees – Nima Cruz and Miles Chadwick – were waiting for Nedry at the dock, and when he didn’t show up, they decided to investigate. They find his Jeep, discover that he is probably dead, and manage to find the can.
Things don’t end too well for them either. Miles is killed by a Dilophosaurus almost immediately and Nima ends the game in a precarious position, dangling from a catwalk with a T-Rex waiting to eat.
The player must decide Nima’s fate: if he goes for the can, he is eaten by the T-Rex, but if he saves a teammate in distress, the can is crushed by the T-Rex after Nima escapes. Since there is no definitive ending, it is unclear if this game is truly canon within the Jurassic universe.
Canonically, it could be that the first option is the one that happened, meaning the can was still there in Jurassic Park for Dodgson to find. We could even see this in the final season of ‘Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous’, as the trailer has revealed that Barbasol’s can makes an appearance.
The final season is definitely set after the events of ‘The Fallen Kingdom’, but it probably takes place before ‘Dominion’. It could show how the can went from the park to BioSyn Valley if the kids in the series get mixed up with BioSyn.
Be that as it may, it seems that by the time Dodgson and BioSyn got their hands on it, it probably wasn’t good for anything beyond a bit of corporate espionage. Dodgson could keep it as a symbol of how far he has comealthough it is clearly valuable to him, as he takes it with him when he attempts to flee BioSyn Valley.
Maybe he did it because the embryos (somehow) still survive inside, but we think Dodgson is just sentimental. It doesn’t matter anyway, as he soon follows Nedry’s trail and the can is left abandoned in BioSyn Valley, never to be found again…
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Camila Luna is a writer at Gossipify, where she covers the latest movies and television series. With a passion for all things entertainment, Camila brings her unique perspective to her writing and offers readers an inside look at the industry. Camila is a graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) with a degree in English and is also a avid movie watcher.
