Week 5 Blog 1

After watching Jurassic Park the movie I realize now how much Spielberg screwed with the story. It’s no longer the science fiction story with a message, it’s now just a science fiction Hollywood story. Malcolm is a much more scaled-down version of the book-Malcolm. That might be Spielberg, but that also might be Goldbloom. As much as I (and Colbert) like Goldbloom, he tends to always play the same character. The end of the movie is very, very different from that of the book. In the movie, the remaining people fly off to safety in a helicopter. They will, the movie implies, go back to their normal lives. That’s a far cry from the characters being held by Costa Rica at the end of the book. Oh yeah, and Hammond and Malcolm are still alive in the movie. In the book, Hammond gets eaten by compys (funny how he gets eaten by the smallest dinosaur in the park), and in the movie he just flies away. Malcolm in the book dies from his wounds, but in the movie he survives to see another day. In a Hollywood movie, one can’t kill of Goldbloom, it just doesn’t work. Maybe Spielberg should have thought of that before he cast Goldbloom as Malcolm.