Jurassic Park and Face / Off exist in the same universe?

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Easter eggs in movies are an interesting thing. Sometimes they are only there for the hardest of fans to spot. Rather famous, an Easter egg “Guardians of the Galaxy” has still never been spotted, at least not that director James Gunn admitted. Sometimes modern blockbusters can look more like Easter eggs than anything else. Sometimes, however, an Easter egg is so subtle, but convincing, that it justifies a lot of discussions. This is the case with that of the classic of John Woo’s action in 1997 “Face / Off”. And complete, because things will become weird.

Although this particular Easter egg has been highlighted in the past, it has started to do the online tricks recently. We will consult more in a moment, but, in essence, a flashing, you are taken from “Face / Off”, suggests that the film could take place in the same universe as the films “Jurassic Park”. Yes, really. In the screenshot below, we can see Nicolas Cage as Sean Archer, after having replaced his face by Caster Troy’s, who now has the face of John Travolta, who was originally Sean Archer, executed by a metal box with an Ingen logo on it.

Primordial images

Without entering into the grainy nitty of Who’s Who of “Face / Off”, that the Ingen logo is worth lifting a eyebrow. Ingen is the genetic company that helped make the dinosaurs possible in “Jurassic Park”. Ingen remained an important part of the franchise in the films “Jurassic World”, which have advanced the series in the last decade. This image implies that Ingen also exists in the “face / off”.

Let’s take a look at the logic (if there are any) to reveal an Ingen logo in “Face / Off”. For those who may need a refreshment, the film focuses on the FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta), who is looking for a Troy criminal thrower (Nicolas Cage). After being seriously injured in a plane crash, Archer undergoes surgery to remove his face and replace it with Troy.

Above all, this Ingen box appears in the laboratory where the sadly famous scene of surgery for the transplantation of the face “Face / deactivation” was carried out. Ingen, alias International Genetics Incorporated, is a bio-engineering company in the universe “Jurassic Park” which was funded by John Hammond (Richard Pantalogh). While the main objective of the company was to develop cloning techniques to bring the dinosaurs off, we imagine that they would have had other efforts to help maintain the company afloat – in particular after the events of “Jurassic Park”, which killed the theme park of the Hammond dinosaurs even before the opening.

It is also important to note that “Face / Off” and “The Lost World: Jurassic Park” were released in 1997. Although “The Lost World” is not the best film in the franchise, this treated a lot with Ingen and how the company was trying to recover after the tragic events that took place on Isla Nublar. In the years preceding their development of a plan to bring dinosaurs on the continent, is it not possible that they have been able to develop other sources of experimental income? Like, I don’t know, transplant someone’s face to another person’s body?

Seen through this objective, it is not as bizarre as it seems at first glance. These facial transplantation tips are not crazier than bringing dinosaurs back to life, at least according to the 1997 standards. It is a bit contrary to ethics, madmen and a work of pure science fiction. It is certainly in Ingen’s wheelhouse.

From a practical point of view, a lot of the same people who worked on “The Lost World” also worked on “Face / Off”, including Barbara Harris (Casting), Nancy Young (Cascades) and Grady Holder (special effects), among others according to IMDB. The two films also filmed certain sequences in Los Angeles, which could explain how this Ingen box was included in the two productions.

“The Lost World” was a massive production, and one of these crew members may have obtained the “Face / Off” box. The other big question, however, is whether this Easter egg was intentional or not. Woo or a member of the crew put this Ingen box in the laboratory intentionally? Or was it an accident? The films are strewn with errors, some of which are large, some small ones. Is it possible that this box is simply taken as an accessory of “The Lost World” without someone realizing the implications of this Ingen logo? Or did anyone go so far as to put this Ingen logo on this box in order to provide connective tissue?

The other great thing to consider is that “Face / Off” was published by Paramount Pictures in the summer of 1997. “The Lost World” by Steven Spielberg, and the rest of the films “Jurassic Park”, were published by Universal. If there is one thing that really prevents this theory from carrying a weight, it is the fact that the films come from different corporate entities. That and, you know, nobody never makes references to dinosaurs in “Face / Off”.

Anyway, it’s a single photo of a film that opens up a whole interesting conversation on a shared universe which could, in theory, exist. He will never manifest himself on the screen, but he opens the door to the infinite imagination.

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