What was the Jurassic Park III ringtone?

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You know… The one the satellite phone rings with while it’s in the dinosaur’s belly?

When I first saw the movie in the theater, the melody seemed familiar but it was really the timbre of the phone ringing that established it as a typical cell phone of the time (before phones could play full on MP3 music files and such).

Was it actually a default ring tone for a Nokia phone at one point? I read or heard that somewhere but I’ve never, ever had a Nokia, and all the searches I’ve done on this just turn up links to download the ring tone to a current cell phone (or a vid clip of the scene where the phone’s ringing from within the belly of the beast).

IIRC, somewhere in the movie the son of the man whose phone it is (the target of a rescue mission) refers to it as the jingle for his dad’s store. Was it an original composition for the movie, then? Was it based on the jingle for a real store somewhere? Because its syncopation and wide range of notes in such a short snippet of melody makes it seem quirky to put words to it (though I guess it is memorable, especially when you hear it by turning around and seeing a huge Spinosaurus behind you emitting it).

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I don’t know but hopefully **PSXer **will be by shortly with an answer for you. This is right up his alley.

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EDIT: I thought it was the classic Nokia tone, but now that I have heard both right after another, I believe that they are different.

4

Could have sworn it was that standard Nokia ring-tone you heard everywhere you went.

5

The Nokia jingle kind of goes like this:

da-dee-da-da
da-dee-da-da
da-dee-da-da
daa

While the Jurassic Park one is something like this:

da-dee
da-da-dee
da-dee
da-da

The rhythm is different between the two.

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sorry to disappoint but I know Jurassic Park a lot better than JP3. I always thought it was just some tune they made up that was supposed to sound similar to but legally distinct from some famous ringtone

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Ah, I finally found a clip of the “classic Nokia ring tone” on a phone from that era (the first one that gets played, called “Nokia Tone”).

I think you’re right, this was meant to sound Nokia-like without being identical, while and I must have heard other people with Nokias with this ring tone which is why it sounded immediately familiar without me knowing why. The reference to his Dad’s store’s jingle was just a red herring.

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It’s probably original to the movie; as you say, it was supposed to be the tune from the commercial jingle for Mr. Kirby’s (William H. Macy’s) bath and tile store. The kid even sings the lyrics as he’s running toward the ringtone, just before he’s reunited with his parents. He sings something like, “Kirby Paint and Tile Plus, in Westgate!”