![]() ![]() rex runs too fast: Renowned paleontologist Steve Brusatte on Jurassic Park movies The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte The Lost World (which is the name of another Crichton novel that inspired the second Jurassic Park film) is about an expedition to a plateau in Amazon, South America, where prehistoric animals like - you guessed it, dinosaurs - still apparently survive.Īlso Read | The T. I don’t blame you, considering the insane popularity of the sleuth. I am certain most of you didn’t know that Sir Doyle wrote anything other than Sherlock Holmes. This book posits that dinosaurs did not actually die (or at least not all of them) and they survive in a remote region. The Andromeda Strain tells the story of a widespread infection from a virulent virus (which unlike SARS-CoV-2 is of extraterrestrial origin) that has arrived from a US satellite which crash-landed on earth (near Piedmont, Utah, to be precise). Nearly all of his work (the original Westworld movie is another well-known example) is saturated with this theme. The Andromeda Strain by Michael CrichtonĪmerican novelist Michael Crichton was obsessed with the scenario in which technology turns on mankind with catastrophic consequences. The book, which is quite well-written, explores the story’s themes in a more detailed way. The book that inspired the Spielberg movie, Jurassic Park covers many of the themes that the movie probed into: the perils of playing god, how capitalism corrupts people, the relationship between humanity and technology, and so on. More Premium Stories Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton ![]() Even today, the CGI in Jurassic Park does not feel dated. The prehistoric beasts that are as fantastical as dragons, except they actually existed, suddenly came alive thanks to an inventive use of computer-generated imagery (CGI) and animatronics. It was the classic rule of hiding more than revealing. The dinosaurs occupied less screen time for a dinosaur movie, but when they did, it was a magnificent experience. It was an entertaining popcorn flick with eye-popping visuals and stunning background score.īut Jurassic Park had deeper things to say than the usual summer blockbuster, meditating on themes like the audacity of man, man vs nature, man’s relationship with technology and so on. ![]() Adapted from Michael Crichton’s best-selling 1990 novel of the same name by Crichton himself and David Koepp, the film starred Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough in lead roles. Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park is said to have changed the Hollywood blockbuster forever. ![]()
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