Jurassic Park film vs book
Jurassic Park Film vs. Book The film version of Jurassic Park does not effectively convey the ideas from the novel. The films adaptation changed many things including characters, settings, scenes, ending, and others things. The novel was written by Michael Crichton in 1990. The film was made in 1993 and was directed by Steven Spielberg. The film and the novel were both great. The novel was better in many ways. The novel gave an immense amount of detail in the characters and the settings. The film made it simple and to the point and didn't really consider the detail that was in the novel. The film would have been better if they didn't change the most important parts of the novel. In the film the characters were changed and switched around. Tim and Lex Murphy, John Hammonds grandchildren, were switched around. In the novel Tim was the older sibling and Lex was younger but in the film they were switched so that Lex was older and Tim was younger. In the novel Lex was described as a seven or eight year old girl, relatively outgoing, blonde and "a sporty young girl who loves baseball." Tim was described as a bespectacled boy of about eleven who has an interest in dinosaurs and computers. Steven Spielberg did that so that he can work with the actor who play Tim but some aspects of his personality and story responsibilities were given to Lex. For example, he is still the child interested in dinosaurs, however all of his computer knowledge was given to Lex. The book's opening chapter describes a young American girl on vacation at a beach shore with her family in Central America getting attacked by Procompsognathus while her parents are not looking. Instead, the film's opening showed the events that are alluded to by the bedridden patient in the book's prologue. This is because the film dropped the Procompsognathus dinosaur and also the entire subplot about dinosaurs escaping from the island; consequently the opening scene, the climax of the book in the