Is Jurassic Park *the book* antiscience? I think that was a theme added by Spielberg in the movie.

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Slowly but Surly Says:
July 24th, 2008 at 5:58 pm

I think there was a big differnce between the book & the movie. I assumed that Crichton had less to do with the move, which was full of typical Spielberg stupid.

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The problem I had with the JP movie was the ending, which, according to the feature on “The Making of . . . ” which gets tacked on whenever they show the film on TV these days to fill out a longer block of broadcast time, was entirely Spielberg’s responsibility (as if it weren’t obvious to anyone who as I did read the book first before the movie came out.)

Book: Man brings back dinosaurs through technology, something goes wrong and dinosaurs get out of control, Man fixes the problem with technology (military lands and uses bombs and nerve gas to wipe out dinosaurs).

Movie: Man brings back dinosaurs through technology, something goes wrong and dinosaurs get out of control, Man is totally helpless to do anything about the problem and the characters are saved at the last minute by plain dumb luck when the dinosaurs turn on each other.

Seeing parallels to contemporary real world situations is left as an exercise for the reader , though ISTM that the ending of Chrichton’s book comes closer to Phil’s oft-expressed sentiment of “We (humans) did this ourselves!” than does the Spielberg’s ending for the movie.