My all time favorite movie is Jurassic Park, the original, the classic. I could watch it every day for the rest of my life and never be bored of it, and it always impresses upon me how well the special effects have held up over time. The film was released in 1993, just three years after the book was written by Michael Crichton. I can’t believe it took me all this time, a spell of over twenty years since I first saw the movie in my friends basement, to finally read the book that inspired the movie.
From the start, I could see that there were going to be a lot of differences between the book and its film adaptation. Some scenes in the book were excluded from the film but I recognized them as being used in the plot of some of the other films that followed. Some of the characters that live in the movie actually die in the book, and some of the characters that die in the movie survive the Jurassic Park nightmare. There are also some variations in character personality, gender changes, and deviations to the outcome. The differences don’t change my feelings about the book or the movie, I like them both independently of each other. I’m very interested to read the sequel, I wonder if the movie version of The Lost World coincides with the storyline.
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