18 Genius Pieces Of Movie Exposition

Tell it like it is...

By Matt ChapmanNov 10th 2011

1. Jurassic Park (1993)

The Exposition: Hammond: “Well! Mr DNA! Where'd you come from?”

Mr DNA: “From your blood! Just one drop of your blood contains billions of strands of DNA, the building blocks of life. A DNA strand like me is a blueprint for building a living thing. And sometimes animals that went extinct millions of years ago, like dinosaurs, left their blueprints behind for us to find.

We just had to know where to look! A hundred million years ago, there were mosquitoes, just like today.

And, just like today, they fed on the blood of animals. Even dinosaurs!

Sometimes, after biting a dinosaur, the mosquito would land on a branch of a tree, and get stuck in the sap. After a long time, the tree sap would get hard and become fossilised, just like a dinosaur bone, preserving the mosquito inside!”

The Short Version: Mosquitoes fed on dinosaurs and then became trapped in amber. Hello dinosaur blood, hello cloning!

Why It's Genius: Time to prove that even science can be fun in a Spielberg movie!

Mr DNA might look like that annoying Microsoft Office paperclip from days gone by but this animated character offers the basic facts about DNA and genetics in an easily digestible format.

Anything that stops your mum asking, “What's going on?” during a film has to be a good thing.

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- Azazeal4eva
  
  Nov 10th 2011, 16:44
  
  Im shocked that the Harry Potter Deathly Hallows part 1 animation about the 3 brothers/ Deathly Hallows is not there! that is awsome and could be a short film in its own right!
  
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- nkutzler
  
  Nov 10th 2011, 17:07
  
  I like the Incredibles newsflash montage.
  
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- FBMWells
  
  Nov 10th 2011, 17:42
  
  I can not believe Back to the Future part 2 is't included. The Doc, a black board, a piece of chalk and an alternate 1985...classic!
  
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- Murphy0806
  
  Nov 10th 2011, 17:55
  
  No it hasn't. No Indianapolis speech from Jaws? One of the greatest of them all.
  
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- timbatman
  
  Nov 12th 2011, 10:43
  
  Ermmmmmmm freakshows - where on earth is the Prologue from the Lord of the Rings? The first 5 minutes of that is just stunning and sets up the trilogy perfectly! I also agree with Azazeal - The Tale of the Three Brothers is just a beautiful piece of cinema too!
  
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- marc96
  
  Nov 12th 2011, 19:00
  
  i def agree about harry potter and lord of the rings, but i found Serenity to be a great one, finding out the history of the alliance and the war in an actual history class then Wham! straight into Rivers situation and her escape, which once again turns out to be exposition as well
  
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- FBALyta
  
  Nov 12th 2011, 20:50
  
  Download films in HD http://hdload.blogspot.com/
  
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  Nov 14th 2011, 14:15
  
  No Watchmen opening credits? Scandelous!
  
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