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Jurassic Park (1993)

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It belonged to Arnold, who was killed by the raptor.

Steven Spielberg asked Michael Crichton to adapt his novel into a screenplay, but Crichton preferred not to, having exhausted himself just writing the book. They compromised, and Crichton agreed to write only a first draft, then let Spielberg find another writer to finish the revisions. The final shooting script was written by David Koepp. Under WGA rules, the writer of the first draft must be credited unless said writer declines credit. For this reason, Crichton is credited for his work on the first draft. Koepp read the novel, but decided not to read Crichton's draft, so essentially the writing started over from scratch once he was hired. When Spielberg decided to make the sequel, he opted not to have Crichton write the first draft, but instead to go straight to a writer he knew could deliver a final shooting script.

Well the differences are plentiful. For example, almost every character is somewhat different in the book than the film:

In the book Gennaro is a young, muscular man and is a fairly likeable character. Also in the book he lives. Though in the second book (The Lost World) it is mentioned that he died of dysentary on a business trip in between the timeline of the two stories. A cover up to for his death at Jurassic Park. In the book there is another character named Ed Regis whom works on the island and goes on the tour with the others. In the film Gennaro is combined with many of Ed Regis' traits and is killed in a very similar way to Regis.

Muldoon is pretty much the same in both the book and the film only he is described as being South-African and might have a drinking problem, whereas in the film he is British. In the book he is wounded but lives. In the film he dies.

Nedry is exactly the same, almost down to the last detail. He dies in the same way in both the film and the book, though the book is more graphic. Also in the book he was planning to shut down the security system deliver the embryos to some people on a boat, then return to the control room and reset everything back to normal. But is killed before he could do any of that. In the film it is unclear whether he was deliberately sabotaging the park and was planning to escape on the boat or if he was going to return to the control room.

Dr. Harding has a brief appearance in the movie as the veternarian looking after the sick triceritops, but then leaves on the boat heading to the mainland. In the book, he stays on the Island throughout the whole ordeal, he is wounded by a raptor, but lives.

Dr, Henry Wu has a much more significant role in the book than in the film. In the book he explains in great detail how the dinosaurs are cloned etc. He too stays on the island throughout the ordeal and is killed by raptors near the end of the book. In the film he leaves on the boat for the mainland and lives.

In the film Ray Arnold is the lead computer engineer. In the book his name is John Arnold (it was changed most likely due to the fact that there was another character named John Hammond and having two Johns in the film might be confusing.) His traits are very similar in both the book and the film. He dies in the same way in both the book and the film.

Ian Malcolm is described in the same way in both the book and the film except in the book he is 'a balding man'. But is said to have a deplorable excessive personality. In the film he is witty and also provides the comic relief. In the book he is much more serious, philosophical and at times condescending. He and John Hammond absolutely loathe each other. He is injured the same way in both the book and the film, but in the book he succumbs to his wounds, slips into a coma and dies. Though he is brought back for the second book The Lost world saying that 'I only appeared dead but the surgeons did excellent work to revive me.'

Alan Grant is very casual in the book. He wears tattered jeans, sneakers, has a beard. In the film he is much more clean-cut, wearing collared shirts and khaki pants and clean-shaven. Also in the book he likes kids, in the film he hates kids.

In the book, Tim is around the same age as in the film, but Lex is younger and doesn't provide much to the plot in the book. Tim is the one who is good with computers and helps activate the park security systems in the book.

John Hammond is very different in the book. He is arrogant, deceptive, disrespectful and rude. In the film he is still eccentric but he is very friendly, honest and generous. In the book he falls down a hill and is attacked and killed by Compys. In the film he lives.

Ellie Sattler is described as being 23, tanned and is noticed more by the male characters. In the film she is dating Grant and is rather reserved. In the book she is Grant's student and is engaged to someone else.

Earlier in the film, Hammond mentions that "they clocked the T-Rex going 32 miles per hour" so the car could easily outrun it.

Though we never find out in the film, the novel offers the answer: the triceratops digests food like chickens and other birds, by eating small stones that crush and mash the food in the stomach. The stones it eats are too close to the West Indian Lilac berries. Therefore, when it replaces the stones every six weeks or so, it is poisoned again.

The film does offer us a minor clue when Ellie picks up the stones beneath the plant.