This little error drove me nuts since I was 12 years old.
@Rogers6283
2 күн бұрын
Totally! For the longest time thought Crichton muffed it up and didn't know a "sauropod" from a "hadrosaur," but .... I've reconsidered it, and I'm confident that this was an editing mistake. If anything, I've come to give Crichton more credit for knowing more about dinosaurs than I thought he did! ... his editors on the other hand ... lol.
@James-e9p6x
3 күн бұрын
Seems quite plausible, and could've been a very late-stage change, therefore easier to miss those details. I'm sure it's no coincidence that the post-stampede dinosaur tree encounter in the novel was with a brachiosaurus in the movie, as it played the same role as the novel's apatosaurus. Also maybe worth noting are the old die-cast figure series that came out alongside the other tie-in toys and merchandise. One of them includes an art card that explicitly depicts the rex attacking a sauropod.
@Rogers6283
2 күн бұрын
Thanks for commenting! I can't imagine much of the movie tie-in material being prepared prior to the completion of the novel, but if they designed the cards on the comments that are IN the novel, then for sure! The dialogue is right there encouraging readers to think Big Rex wanted to catch apatosaurs, definitely.
@James-e9p6x
2 күн бұрын
@@Rogers6283 I seem to recall somewhere claiming that Spielberg got the film rights before the book was finished, so it might be feasable, however unlikely, that some production inroads were made before the book's release that survived long enough to be passed along to merchandise licencees. The same set of cards did feature pterosaurs attacking a raft, and there's a piece of concept art that has Tim in a tree playing with some baby sauropods while Lex rides the baby triceratops, which might suggets that sauropods were seen as a significant dinosaur at that point in the plot. Or maybe I'm just overthinking things to compensate for the fact that I never noticed this discrepancy in all my years of reading Jurassic Park. I blame it on that giant dragonfly that shows up with barely any explanation!
@MisterMister12Mister
Күн бұрын
Good Job but you do know Jurassic Park is a rehash of the island of dr Moreau and Michaels West World ….
@Rogers6283
17 сағат бұрын
There are definitely thematic elements from both those stories in JP, for sure. That Crichton doubled-down on the "theme-park-run-amok" motif is strange, I agree. Perhaps he figured that because a novel was a different medium than film, that it was ok to resuse the same concept over again? I haven't read Island of Dr. Moreau, but I'd be interested to see if there were any textual connections that strengthen that connection?
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