Jurassic Park is trending, aka my favorite movie, so I’m here to say that out of the whole franchise, the second movie is the best. No, I will not explain.
jurassic park is a good movie but the angle the books came from will always be more interesting to me. "playing god" is not the problem with hammond's ideals, "playing petting zoo" is. mixing a bunch of dna without really paying attention to the outcome would be harmless if they were lab specimens to be studied, the problem is that he made those things and then immediately built an enclosure and got ready to charge people thousands of dollars to look at them
scientific exploration is important and necessary!! a lot of hammond's technology could have AMAZING implications for geneticists and paleontologists but his only concern was to privatize it and profit from it. and as is pointed out in the second book, he was bringing these creatures "back" (supplementing dna when necessary, so they aren't "pure") to a world that does not resemble the one they left. the plants are different, the oxygen content of the air is different. that's what chaos theory IS, you cannot control for every one of the millions of variables involved in a living ecosystem
and then of course normal capitalism kicked in and they tried to save costs on the back end, they fed sheep to the predator species and gave them all prion diseases. they had a secondary island for the defective births, the failures, everything that wasn't clean and pretty enough for public view. the raptors were raised by people and never gained mothering instincts so their hierarchy was in shambles and they cannibalized their young. the species never reached full size. they died young and in great numbers
it's good!! points are made!! but no one understands this and just says funny chaos theory and now they're making jurassic world 4 and i'm in hell
Imagine Jeff goldblum plays a role in a movie adaptation of your book and he makes the character so popular you have to bring them back from the dead for a sequel novel.
This shouldn’t be as funny as it is to me but jdkskskdkdk no I love when a character gets so popular a author has to go back and write “my death was greatly exaggerated”
The way Hammond says “Its our last chance at redemption” (emphasis added) to Ian Malcolm is so insidious. What does Ian of all people need redemption for in relation to the park? All he did last time was get seriously injured and traumatized for life. But Hammond loves trying to the shift the narrative from something he/InGen did to Ian and the others to something they all did and are responsible for together.