What was the reasoning for turning off the fences?
In Jurassic Park, Dennis Nedry uses his programming abilities to mess up the whole park while he makes his escape. My question is, why did he turn off the fences? The whole disaster could have been avoided if he had just left those alone.
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Right after Hammond wonders why Nedry would turn off the fences it cuts to this scene:
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According to the script the latter sign says:
DANGER!
ELECTRIFIED FENCE!
This Door Cannot Be Opened When Fence is Armed!
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Why did nedry turn the fences off?
In the end Dennis Nedry was hired by a competiting organization/company for industrial espionage, to steal the embryos. So producing some disaster by turning off the fences could on the one hand help him escape unnoticed or at least unbothered.Why did the power go out in Jurassic Park?
The most common one will be that the outage happens when you've got too many buildings or substations relying on one power station and the station cannot keep up with demand. The other reason can be because a substation or a power station has been damaged in a tropical storm that has hit your park.What was Dennis nedry plan?
Nedry decided to accept an offer to commit economic espionage for Lewis Dodgson to steal InGen's dinosaur embryos, which would grant BioSyn a competitive edge. In exchange, Dodgson would give Nedry $1.5 million.Will 10000 volts stop dinosaurs?
Certainly it's OK for a Tyrannosaurus to take a "mild" 10,000 volt shock, probably along with the Triceratops and Stegosaurus due to their thick hides and size, but that type of voltage would likely kill smaller dinosaurs with the exception of Velociraptors, who had attacked the fences multiple times without suffering ...Turn Off Cloverdale's Electric Fences | Burn the Crier Nests | We Couldn't Take the Risk | DAYS GONE
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Still it wasn't his goal to avoid any disaster, rather on the contrary.
In the end Dennis Nedry was hired by a competiting organization/company for industrial espionage, to steal the embryos. So producing some disaster by turning off the fences could on the one hand help him escape unnoticed or at least unbothered. And on the other hand sabotaging the park could only be in the best interrests of his real employers.
Of course he didn't anticipate that it could also make it much more difficult for him to escape either. Maybe he didn't even anticipate anybody getting seriously injured (or he just didn't care, but "even Nedry knew to keep his fingers off the raptor fences"). From his point of view a little chaos could only work to his advantages (even if he was wrong in the end).
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