Celebrating Sam Neill with James Mottram

All the sadness aside, I was at Dino Con at the weekend, and they had a, in the opening ceremony section, they had a piece and they had celebrating Sam Neill.

And it was just this moment of like, let's let the sadness go for a second and just celebrating.

And there was this huge round of applause, and it just ...

It was a, it was a fantastic moment, I think, just to start that event.

And sort of what it meant to the scientists in the room as well, his depiction of what a scientist was, he wasn't the, you know, mustache-twirling scientist in a lab coat.

He was someone who, when presented with his life's work, was emotional and overawed with it all.

And I think I hadn't really anticipate ...

I just hadn't thought of it in that, in that sort of way, that Sam depicting that scientist.

Do you mean in the way that modern-day scientists-

Yes

... probably, uh, those that saw Alan Grant when they were maybe nine or 10 back in 1993, I'm not saying that necessarily inspired them on that, on a path towards that, but it perhaps eased them along a little bit at something that they could relate to on the screen

Yeah

And yeah, he probably did do a huge amount for the scientific community and in the way, I, I suppose the way the science, albeit the Michael Crichton science is-

Mm-hmm

... has a futuristic bent to it, but the science is treated seriously, I suppose.

Yeah

And that's, it's not in, certainly in the first film, and it, it's, it's not seen as something...

I mean, it is dangerous.

We know that there are dangers, but there, some of these characters, at least some of them, have morals, and they-

Mm

... certainly through Alan Grant's anyway.

Yeah.

Yeah, it, it did just give us a different, it wasn't a sort of mad scientist, Dr. Frankenstein [laughs] vibe.

No, no. Yeah.

And Jurassic Park has a few of those, so it's-

All the sadness aside, I was at Dino Con at the weekend, and they had a, in the opening ceremony section, they had a piece and they had celebrating Sam Neill.

And it was just this moment of like, let's let the sadness go for a second and just celebrating.

And there was this huge round of applause, and it just ...

It was a, it was a fantastic moment, I think, just to start that event.

And sort of what it meant to the scientists in the room as well, his depiction of what a scientist was, he wasn't the, you know, mustache-twirling scientist in a lab coat.

He was someone who, when presented with his life's work, was emotional and overawed with it all.

And I think I hadn't really anticipate ...

I just hadn't thought of it in that, in that sort of way, that Sam depicting that scientist.

Do you mean in the way that modern-day scientists-

Yes

... probably, uh, those that saw Alan Grant when they were maybe nine or 10 back in 1993, I'm not saying that necessarily inspired them on that, on a path towards that, but it perhaps eased them along a little bit at something that they could relate to on the screen

Yeah

And yeah, he probably did do a huge amount for the scientific community and in the way, I, I suppose the way the science, albeit the Michael Crichton science is-

Mm-hmm

... has a futuristic bent to it, but the science is treated seriously, I suppose.

Yeah

And that's, it's not in, certainly in the first film, and it, it's, it's not seen as something...

I mean, it is dangerous.

We know that there are dangers, but there, some of these characters, at least some of them, have morals, and they-

Mm

... certainly through Alan Grant's anyway.

Yeah.

Yeah, it, it did just give us a different, it wasn't a sort of mad scientist, Dr. Frankenstein [laughs] vibe.

No, no. Yeah.

And Jurassic Park has a few of those, so it's-