Jurassic Park
I have been fascinated with dinosaurs for as long as I can remember. When my
mom noticed that passion, she told me I should watch the Jurassic Park movies. At
that moment only three movies had been released, so I watched them repeatedly,
to the point that I learned every dialogue in the movies. When I grew up three more
movies were released and I discovered that the first and second movies were
based on two books, so I started to ask on every birthday for the book as a gift and
I never got it, until I found it one day at the IGA’s library and of course I borrowed it.
In this blog entry, firstly, I’ll tell you a little bit about the story of Jurassic Park;
secondly, I’m going to tell you about the differences that I found between the movie
version and the book version; and finally, I’m going to talk about how I felt reading
the book after a lot of time wishing the book.
Jurassic Park is a sci-fi story about a new but different kind of park. A park with
dinosaurs, but not made like robots, real dinosaurs. Different engineers and
paleontologists were invited to the park to approve it and say to the authorities that
it’s a safe place. The plot happens when the park loses electrical energy and all the
cages get opened and the dinosaurs escape. So, the owners and guests have to
run away from the dinosaurs before being killed.
Although the first movie is based on the first book, there are many differences
between both versions, including script changes and story changes. The most
important changes I found were that Robert Muldoon (the hunter) didn’t die in the
book, instead in the movie, he was killed by three velociraptors, and the other one,
was when all the characters stopped the car to watch sick dinosaurs, in the movie
were triceratops and in the book were stegosaurus.
I felt amazing reading this book for many reasons; I could read and imagine
Jurassic Park's story from a different perspective and with an alternative ending. I
also felt like the main character, because I read that book when I already had
watched the whole movie, so I could mix both versions and I tried to be into the
story, running away from the dinosaurs and feeling that terrible fear of being eaten.
I felt happy because many of the characters who died in the movie, hopefully in the
book survived and escaped out of the park. Reading this book was exhilarating, I
could extend my knowledge about dinosaurs, I knew a lot of new characters who
weren’t in the movie and finally, l revived that exciting emotion that I always feel
when Jurassic Park is mentioned.
In summary, my blog post tries to emphasize how important is to know both
versions of the universe you are watching or reading. By doing these things you
are going to extend the way you imagine the movie or book, and your knowledge
about that universe, you can make comparisons of which version is better for you
or what are you going to recommend as well. On this occasion, I’ll recommend
both versions of Jurassic Park, it doesn’t matter if you read first the book and then
watch the movie, the main theme here is that you can’t miss any more of the
Jurassic Park Saga.
