IN NATURE, IF YOU'RE NOT THE PREDATOR... YOU ARE THE PREY.
A group of Japanese high school teenagers are lost on a deserted island located somewhere in the South Pacific, where they must overcome nature's most formidable forms of life in order to fi...
There are a lot of fans out there that love the Jurassic Park franchise — and I happen to be one of those people. People had loved this epic franchise ever since the first film by legendary director Steven Spielberg came out in 1993, and it took 65 million years to create. That is a huge amount of preproduction, retakes, and scheduling conflicts. But every millennium of preproduction was worth it for one of the greatest blockbusters of people all time. The original Jurassic Park is loved by many but the sequels have always seemed to be missing something that made the first film so great. It's a triumph of science fiction, suspenseful filmmaking, and storytelling in general that captivated audiences around the world with the perfect mix of spectacle and substance. It has since been followed by two sequels - "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" (1997), "Jurassic Park III" (2001), a reboot - "Jurassic World" (2015), "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" (2018, sequel to the reboot), and the upcoming 2022 film, "Jurassic World: Dominion". But none of the follow-ups have come close to recapturing the magic of the original, and we have many reasons why. The special effects of the first Jurassic film were groundbreaking. Using then-revolutionary CGI along with life-sized animatronic dinosaurs by Stan Winston, the movie and the effects have both aged remarkably well. The sense of wonder the characters feel when they first catch glimpses of prehistoric lizards grazing in a field has now been shared by movie audiences all over the world, and it never gets old, no matter how many times you view it.
Many of us have enjoyed the sense of adventure, terror, and thrill that the movies bring to the big screen. But the novel started before the film was made and even Universal had bought the rights for a film version before the book was even published. "Jurassic Park" was written by author Michael Crichton and published in 1990. Most people know it as the inspiration for the film adaptation, and both the book and the film follow up the same basic outline, but the film excludes many scenes and storylines, including a subplot about dinosaurs getting off the island and making their way to the Costa Rican mainland.
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Michael Crichton: The author of Jurassic Park
It is hard to tell which is better because both versions have the same basic story, cast of characters, and main events, but they do have very different priorities. When I have read the first novel for the first time after I have seen the original movie, I feel like the book that Michael Crichton wrote seemed more of an intellectual experience and the film is more of an emotional one but it had much of a darker tone and more violent than the film with several gruesome death scenes that read like something from an R-rated horror movie.
The Spielberg film is more of a family-adventure story with a lighter tone, while still retaining a good deal of the suspense of the novel. There was also a great emphasis on character development, human drama, and more heartfelt moments. The movie was the first thing that was part of my childhood and I grew up watching it before I have read the novel. Neither is inherently better than the other, both contain elements of the other, and the two versions complement each other nicely. I do recommend fans to either watch the movie or read the books, so they can decide which they prefer.
