Board Thread:Movie discussion/@comment-28675190-20160807123647/@comment-99.116.43.220-20170414073927

I know I'm a little late to the party here, but I just watched Jurassic Park 3 since a marathon was just on and I am also confused about how Ben died. To make matters more confusing, does anybody remember when Eric's mother found her camera in the grass and started to watch some videos they had recorded on there? Well, some of the footage included that moment when Ben had to cut the rope to avoid from crashing after the men in the boat disappeared and from when they had both landed in the tree. The last thing you see in the video is Eric hitting the floor after Ben cut him loose. The last thing Ben said was, "Alright, I'm going to cut myself loose now" with Eric pointing out that the camera is still on before the screen went black.

In the end, Ben never did cut himself loose. He died still dangling from the tree. That implies that something major must have happened before he could cut himself loose and as a result, only Eric was able to get away because he was already on the ground.

Maybe I wasn't looking clearly, but from what I can recall I only saw Ben's corpse from the torso and up. I don't remember seeing his legs. So my best guess is that at some point after he turned the camera off, right before he could cut himself loose, velociraptors appeared. Eric ran away and the velociraptors decided not to give chase because Ben was an easier target just dangling there from the tree.

So my best guess is that maybe the velociraptors chomped off Ben's legs and left the rest of him intact because they couldn't reach the rest of his body. That would have been enough to kill Ben because the amputations would have caused him to bleed out very quickly.

That's the best theory I've got for how Ben died without cutting himself loose. Although it would have been far more helpful if Eric could have addressed Ben's death and the way he died to Grant or his parents at some point during the film after he was found. It's kind of surprising he didn't and that nobody asked him either, considering the fact that Ben was his mother's boyfriend. But even after she found Eric alive and well, she never cared enough to ask. Guess she didn't really love him, lol.