Jaws influenced Jurassic Park

The same director learning from his own accident. Spielberg has told the story often: the mechanical shark failed so constantly that he shot around it, and the withholding turned out to be the film. Jurassic Park applies the lesson deliberately rather than by necessity, and the quotations are exact: a surface disturbed before anything is seen (the water in the glass for the ripples in the sea), a long absence before the animal arrives, and the first full reveal saved for the middle of the film.