Michael Crichton's Big Lizard Imagination On The Big Screen!
As a former marine biologist as well as someone who studied tropical reptiles in graduate school--crocodiles, sea turtles, and monitor lizards--reading Michael Crichton's book Jurassic Park was vivid enough to scare the mess out of me (in a good way!).
Watching the movie, however, was a whole 'nuther dimension--even more scary.
In addition to beautiful cinematography--the settings, the scenery, the angles, and the good choice of actors--the story was well represented as a PG (Parental Guidance) version of the tad more graphic novel. The movie is good for kids (I took my 7-year-old boy to it--it did scare the mess out of him--but he liked enough to go to watch it again two or three more times).
The movie is done well enough (as the book is) such that "suspended disbelief" is possible and it's easy to imagine romping around in the wilds along with the actors being chased by huge reptiles.
If it weren't for "global cooling", we'd probably still be fighting the big reptiles! But now with climate change (which our planet does frequently on a galactic/universal scale anyway) and "global warming" and with the new advances in biotechnology, maybe there is a way to have bigger lizards marching around in the boonies.
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When Fiction Resembles Reality... The Lines Blur For Jurassic Park
There's that one scene where visitors are told that the dinosaurs do not reproduce--because they are genetically "engineered" to be all female so that the population can be controlled. Then, Dr. Grant (Sam Neil) discovers eggs. Hatched eggs. Dr. Grant says, "Nature found a way."Recently a zoo that had a single female Komodo Dragon (Monitor Lizard) in captivity discovered eggs in the animal's enclosure, which then later were found to be viable and which even later, hatched into a bunch of baby Komodo Dragons.
This story fits so well into what was first thought to be semi-plausible "fiction" in the movie. But now it's real!
Now, when you watch any of the Jurassic Park movies, you have to ask yourself--what part of this can really be true? And even better... when you get home, try sleeping through the night. And be careful before you go camping on the beach!
Jurassic Park Collectibles--You Might Not Have a Trip There, But You Can Still Get the Souvenirs!
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Where Do You Find Dinosaurs? Or Where They Might Have Lived?
In movies, the location or setting, is just as important to the story as the characters. In Jurassic Park, there are the badlands of eastern You Can Keep The Jurassic Park Going All The Time With This Stuff
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