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'hen I read Michael Crichton's book, I flashed back to Jaws and I flashed back to Duel,' Spielberg said in a 2006 interview. After all, Jurassic Park was in his wheelhouse.

Jurassic park 1 movie#

That said, an action movie built around runaway dinosaurs was kind of a no-brainer, especially when somebody like Steven Spielberg wants to do it. Why was it a big deal at the time? Crichton's novel was a hit, but it wasn't necessarily a runaway blockbuster. to Jurassic Park,' Richard Attenborough's visionary entrepreneur John Hammond says famously in the movie. Special effects had been used for decades before Jurassic Park, but never quite like this, never quite so thoroughly and convincingly. But, ironically, it was its use of technology - those very same computers that filled Crichton with such apprehension - that made the film a landmark. The story of a group of scientists (Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum) trying not to become Jurassic lunch once the island's dinosaurs get loose was thrilling, funny, the ultimate popcorn movie. But in terms of its importance in Hollywood, Jurassic Park had a brontosaurus-sized impact.

You could make the argument that no film in the last 30 years is more pivotal than Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park, which is not to say it's the best or the most memorable or the greatest money-maker. On June 11, 1993, a movie based on that book hit theaters. Out of these preoccupations came his 1990 novel Jurassic Park, which imagined what would happen if cloned dinosaurs were raised on a remote island. Isn't it fabulous that we all have computers? Well, yes and no is my response.' One of my interests is to provide that kind of balance to these notions that cell phones and faxes are all wonderful and great.

'We were less exposed to the negative aspects of technology which were inevitably there. 'It seems to me that we live in a society in which technology is continuously presented as wonderful,' he said. But although those ancient beasts fascinated him, he also had misgivings about a world in which his farfetched premise could potentially come true. 'The problem always with these creatures is that once you have them, then what do you do with them?' he would say later, finally hitting on the idea that they should be part of a fantastical theme park. He next wanted to write a book about dinosaurs, but he couldn't figure out the angle. The author of The Andromeda Strain and Sphere, he'd also made a few films, including Westworld and Coma, showing an ability to capture an audience with a killer sci-fi premise. Welcome to This Week in Genre History, where Tim Grierson and Will Leitch, the hosts of the Grierson & Leitch podcast, take turns looking back at the world's greatest, craziest, most infamous genre movies on the week that they were first released.Д«y the late 1980s, Michael Crichton was one of the most popular novelists in the world.