Written by Mr. Mouseburger 20th Feb 2006
Kindly submitted by Dan
Kindly submitted by Kooshmeister
"Don't move! It can't see us if we don't move!"
Try that strategy when facing a Tyrannosaurus rex and you're likely to end up like InGen's lawyer, Donald Gennaro. With the tour of the park cut short by the coming hurricane, everyone but Ellie Sattler return to the electric jeeps to be brought back to the visitor centre. Unfortunately for them it is at this time that Dennis Nedry decides to steal the dinosaur embryos for a rival company, to do this he must turn off the power. The jeeps stop. No one is to worried despite the fact they're alongside the Tyrannosaurus rex paddock.
And then.
BOOM.
BOOM.
BOOM.
The Tyrannosaurus is there holding the fence. At this point the occupants of the jeep realise that the fence isn't electrified anymore. At this revelation, Gennaro freaks out and runs, abandoning the kids and hiding in the bathroom. The Tyrannosaurus breaks out of its enclosure and begins to trash the car with the kids in.
In an attempt to save them, Allen Grant distracts the monster with a flare. Ian Malcolm follows his example and lights his own. However, instead of immediately throwing it to the side as Grant did, Malcolm foolishly keeps waving his flare which causes the Tyrannosaurus rex to charge right towards him. Malcolm turns and runs towards the restroom, where Gennaro is hiding, saying a Hail Mary.
Malcolm bursts in but the dinosaur rams into the building, causing it to collapse all around Gennaro. Malcolm fortunately ends up buried alive in the rubble, while Gennaro survives relatively unharmed. Sitting on the toilet, trying to get the water out of his eyes and not sure what's going on. He just has time to register what is happening when the Tyrannosaurus bites down, lifts him in the air, shakes him violently and promptly gobbles him up in a scene loved by millions of lawyer-hating moviegoers.
Why is Gennaro listed under Decapitation...?
Cheers for letting us know, the death has been amended.
This is why I think eating (someone else as opposed to "food and drink") should be a category
This is a fair comment, we might have to think about adding this in as a category, i think the original intention was that anyone that gets eaten would invarialy be eaten by a "monster" and there were not really many deaths through being eaten by an animal - although the victims of hannibal lecter would probably have created a problem...
Don't forget zombie-related deaths.
Now that Devoured is a category it should be added to this death.
Also the "R" in rex shouldn't be capitalized, the genus (in this case Tyrannosaurus) always starts with a capital but the species modifier (in this case rex) never does.
The species name (genus and species modifier) should also be in italics or underlined to get real technical...
Thanks for pointing this out Dan, it has been amended - you learn something new every day
Did anyone else think Gennaro didn't deserve to die? I don't think he did. The only person in the film who deserved to die was Nedry, since he caused Gennaro's death as well as those of Muldoon and Arnold (and himself, incidentally). Gennaro was, at worst, just a whimp who panicked in an extreme situation and sometimes I wonder whether I'm the only one who doesn't hold it against him and think he deserved being eaten.
Incidentally, what archetype is he? He's definitely not a Baddy. He may have been greedy and cowardly, but these don't always equal villainous, and he was never mean or anything. I personally would list him under Ambivalent or Innocent Bystander.
The coward-type in these sorts of movies always dies, still, what was he supposed to do, just stay perfectly still right in front of it like those other morons? I suppose what he did was a natural human response to seeing an umpteen-foot-tall Tyrannosaur although I still think he could have at least taken the children with him, although we know how that would have turned out, right?
He left the kids in the car. Sounds pretty cowardly to me.
And your point is? Like I said before, he may have been greedy and cowardly, but these don't always equal villainous. Yes he runs away with no thought of the kids. But that's not the same thing as being willfully malicious.
In fact, movies and their audiences' constantly condemning, often to death, characters who exhibit either greed or cowardice drives me insane. The poor guy wasn't even given a chance to own up and make good (we don't know that he wouldn't).