We all owe Jeff Goldblum a lot for actually making Ian Malcolm something more than Crichton's mouthpiece.

Movie Hammond: Spared no expenses. Book Hammond: Spared all the expenses he could find.

It is important to point out that in the book Nedry's plan is to return to the Command Room in 10 minutes and fix everything. So, after all, he had no intention of fucking up the park or running away.

When book Hammond is told that his own grandchildren are missing in the park (and possibly dead), his reaction is basically the "Yes, very sad. Anyway..." Loki meme.

In the novel, Dr. Grant likes kids because they get more excited about dinosaurs than adults, and i think that's pretty wholesome.

The Jurassic Park novel is basically a sci fi horror. Love it. Hammond is a straight up comic book villain in the novel. Wu’s death in the novel was down right horrifying in the book, came out of nowhere.

One of my favorite scenes in the book is when Ellie is running from the raptors. In the movie she is (quite reasonably) freaking out, but in the book, it's stated that she couldn't be scared. Couldn't. In fact, she felt giddy and excited, almost like it's a game, one she intended to win.

As I said so many times before, I simply love Muldoon and Gennaro. And Muldoon just casually picking up Ed Regis leg and putting it into a "blanket" then giving it to Gennaro was one scene I can't forget. Also Ed Regis pissing himself before running away, can't forget that one.

I'll admit, I prefer the film version of Hammond because I honestly find it more interesting for a genuinely good natured character like him do something that he genuinely believed will bring wonder, only for it to come crumbling down. When you get those moments like the dinner scene or when he's alone eating ice cream, you feel sorry for him but know that he didn't understand what he was dealing with.

Malcolm was taken to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. Later he was taken to a better hospital where doctors upgraded his condition to alive

Considering Lex hit her head when the car was being picked up and shaken in the books, she was even knocked unconscious, I assumed she had a concussion, coupled with her age and the inherent trauma of the situation, that's why she was acting weird/confused, repeating herself often, and regressing a bit, saying "aminals" instead of animals, asking if her parents were on the island etc.

I would love a TV Series that would follow the novels more accurately, much more horror based

In the novel it also notes that the only reason people grew suspicious about the compy Tina drew being a dinosaur was that a janitor walked by and noted that the drawing looked like a dinosaur because she had kids, and then they actually compared it and sent it to Ellie and Allen

Also funnily enough, John Hammond's novel personality is actually shown more in the Jurassic Park game when Dr Sorkins was angrily ranting about how Hammond ran the park and how Wu was the one who made his dinosaurs with frog dna and whatnot which led to the events of Jurassic Park instead of making them with the complete DNA. Dr Sorkins definitely had a lot of flaws but she was very much right on her views on Hammond, InGen and Wu.

When I got to know to the part of the 2th novel, where they reveal that Genneraro died after the Jurassic Park incident, I felt bad for him. He was a way better character then in the film.

To be fair to Wu: He also wanted to advance to a modified version of the dinosaurs because he thought that the current iteration was too unpredictable and posed a safety risk. He just considered them being truer to peoples expectations a bonus. Hammond on the other hand wanted to keep the dinosaurs as close to the original as possible because he thought just having them was already sufficient and moving on to a new version would be a waste of money, plus he liked the idea of offering the real deal and not a knock-off.

next jurassic park video should be the differences between the dinosaurs in the movie and novel

Completely agree people are way too harsh on book Lex. It happens in everything that shows small children acting like small children. There are always people complaining 'the kid character is so annoying, they are so dumb.' Its like... Yes because small children can be pretty annoying. You have to teach them everything because they are a frickin kid with brains that are still developing. They dont know shit yet. That's why one of the biggest lessons people learn from becoming parents is usually patience.

"Being a kid meant Alan Grant was your favourite, being an adult means Ian Malcom is your favourite." Me, a Muldoon enjoyer: "What does that make me?"

The fact that all the characters in Jurassic Park have different personalities in two different things is like a parallel universe

Hammond's death in the books was annoying, because that man did not deserve to die with peace of mind, even if it was a venom induced one.

I remember first reading the book. I was in 6th grade and thought “well I love the movie, so the book should be good!”. As a 6th grader I didn’t understand much of it, but I absolutely loved it. It was so shocking but also interesting at the same time. I then went on to read the lost world, which was also good

Hey, you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. That suits every character in the book.

Excellent as always. I am currently re-reading the novels. And you are spot on about Lex. She is a little kid. She would be absolutely terrified and get them in danger. Because she is a kid.

20:47 This illustration depicts what is arguably the darkest scene in the book, and it’s never been dramatized because it would give any Jurassic Park film an R-Rating. It has nothing to do with the events that later happen in the Park. But shortly after the little girl is injured by a compy on the beach in Costa Rica, a swarm of them manage to find their way to a village, then kill and partially eat a baby in its crib while the nurse is temporarily distracted and out of the room. What the nurse finds when she returns is truly horrifying.

Genarro surely got the worst change. He is one of the prime point of view characters in the novel and survives the whole trip while in the movie he starts of very annoying and is the first one to die.

7:24 Hammond’s death in the novel is also mentioned in Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous, when Yaz says that she heard Hammond was killed by Compies, but Darius corrects her that he died of natural causes Edit: wow 80 likes

Muldoon was my absolute favorite character from the book. I remember being so disappointed with how he went out in the movie.

I remember reading the novel in high school and was fascinated by the amount of differences compared to the film and the horror aspects later in the book, growing up with the film as a child and then reading the book as a teen, it made me appreciate the original material even more and Crichton's message of being wary of messing with the natural order of things. I remember we also were in english class and we were assigned to write a quote that stuck with us from the book everyone was reading at the time, and then later we had to read a passage that stuck with us in order to show our progress in our book reading and give an idea to fellow students if they wanted to read what you were reading, I then read the passage of Denis' demish to the dilophosaurus, to my whole class cause I knew it would give shock value as many had seen the film but knew generally nothing of the brutality and horror in the book, after that a few fellow students started reading it a little while later :)

Gennaro was a stand-up dude in the book and does not abandon the kids. He's actually a pretty ballsy guy for being extremely out of his element the entire movie, ie being a big game hunters, rocket launcher assistant. Lol. His epilogue-style death was my least favorite part.

It's so strange hearing all this bad stuff about book Hammond, because whenever I hear the name John Hammond I think ok the kind, friendly, charismatic, and loveable movie version who just wants to show people the wonder at and the beauty of these extraordinary animals

Muldoon was such an awesome character in the book. When he asks Gennaro if he "wants to live dangerously" before they go hunt the Rex is so badass.

Like many people of my age, I had seen the movie first before reading the book much later on. And I will be honest, I much prefer the book version of the events. I like Grant's character far more in the book as he's far more enthusiastic when dealing with the kids, he likes Tim because he has "Dinosaurs on the brain" a passion that equals Grant's own for dinos. I like that Muldoon doesn't get himself killed in a very avoidable fashion, even in the movie he knew the velociraptors hunt in pack and gets himself caught like a rookie. Nedry's reason for stealing the embryos were understandable, it was still wrong, but we can understand his grievances towards Hammond. I honestly did not see any differences in Malcom's character though despite the book's description of his appearance, I always saw him as Jeff Goldblum.

JP and Lost World were my two favorite books in junior high; Crichton was tough to keep up with, all the techno thriller material is a fight to follow but the story is incredible. None of my friends would read it because of the thickness and the amount of dryness early on so they didn’t believe me when I told them how much more violent and terrifying the books were than the movie. Man i’d kill for that carnosaur scene…

I always like the chapter where nedry encounters the dilophosaurs. His death is one of the most intense chapters ever . The last part of his chapter is the words I say . This last understanding came with a final praying wish that it would all be over soon

In the Book you know Muldune is the one guy who’s gonna survive because he’s a South African big game warden and he intimately knows how the dinosaurs hunt. He would have never be stupid enough to get killed by a raptor. Plus the raptors in the book hunt completely different. They hunt in groups of thee with the lead in front with the other two on either side and slightly behind

Something important to note about Wu in the film is that during his introduction scene he was actually erasing data from the clipboard which shows a breach or loss of integrity on his part.

I always found it wierd how they switched the ages of Lex and Tim in the movie. In the novel, I’m pretty sure Tim was the older of the two, and Lex was the younger one.

The reason I LOVE The Lost World is because Malcolm was my favourite character from the first movie (and was my introduction to Jeff Goldblum), and he was the main character this time around.

4:38 "Being a kid meant Alan Grant was your favourite, being an adult means that Ian Malcolm was your favourite." Being dino fax means the dinosaurs were you favorite.

I feel like the Jaws movie and novel are similar to this too, the plot is more or less the same but the characters are very different. With the Jaws novel, I was surprised to find that the character I had some of the most sympathy for was the mayor! Who I hate in the movie but they provide more information behind his reasoning for wanting to keep Amity open and the rest of the main cast is far less likeable than they are in the movie.

I'd love to see you go over the differences in the plot of book and movie

And the poor newborn baby that got eaten by compys when the window to the hospital or birthing center was left open, that was probably the saddest part for me.

Ian in the books is literally the line, “I died, but I lived!”

I always felt the film did Genarro dirty. He was much more likeable and competent in the novel. Of course, the second novel probably wouldn't have happened the way it did if not for the film, so Malcom surviving was a no brainer. Grant liking kids, I'm glad you brought that up. I'm almost 50 years old and if a kid shows an interest in dinosaurs, that's a win. Dr. Wu's demise in the book was a gut punch. Literally. Crichton had a way with words that made things feel too real. In the film they hint at Hammond's perspective with his love of the flea circus, which requires a suspension of disbelief. In the novel, he's all about exploitation with that dwarf elephant that he planned on marketing as a pet. He didn't care about its health at all. Great video. Thanks for making it.

novel Alan Grant is heavily inspired by Bob Bakker which explains his appearance and fondness for children, other than that Spielberg, Crichton and the actors really did a great job in making their movie counterparts so much more likeable

I feel like you should have also mentioned how the computer system in the book also failed. It was only designed to track decreasing amounts of dinosaurs and manually added amounts into the index. But towards the end they discovered there were significantly more dinosaurs on the island using the computer system search. Which proved there was breeding and how it became possible for dinosaurs to be off the island. The technology aspects of JP is what got me interested in computers as a 90s kid. No other book/film has really matched that feel for me. I also want to say I enjoyed the call back horror music playing throughout the video. It slowly scales up the horror as you go over each character's demise. Unsure if it was apart of the JP games or dino crisis.

The movie was my childhood, I watched it at around 5-7 years old because it had a dinosaur on the VHS box, i begged my parents to watch it and they let me because they knew a lot of the more grown up content would go over my head. That I wouldn’t repeat things they said either or tell others I watched the movie (my parents were worried that others would judged them for letting their small child watch such a “gruesome” movie at the time) They also assumed I’d get scared and not want to watch it anymore, but unknowingly to them my autistic brains special interest is prehistoric creatures and modern day things related to them, and I LOVED EVERY BIT OF THAT MOVIE. I watched it so much and still to this day love the movies. The Park trilogy is a classic, and the new ones are good but they don’t feel the same for me. I’ve bought and read both Jurassic Park novels. The differences are HUGE in storyline and timeline. Even the characters are quite different in their own ways. Yet I love each to their own. It’s so much fun to watch the movies and read the books then compare the two. I love and am ecstatic to share my wacky facts and knowledge on dinosaurs, prehistoric creatures, as well as scenes and movie making facts about the old Jurassic park movies. To watch my first Jurassic movie in the cinema was amazing, especially with my mom who will willingly binge the series with me and listen to me spew dinosaur facts throughout or in between the movies. I also got to share my sisters first Jurassic movie watch at the cinema with her and her first time watching all the old Jurassic park movies with me. That is a special memory of mine. She loves the movies now too. (She saw the movie when I first saw it, but came in during the “kitchen chase scene” ever since then she had been scared of the movie - she was around 3yrs old) I need to read the books again, it’s been a while since I’d done so. Same with Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit books. (Haven’t finished those movies because I read the book first and my family is tired of me sharing the differences between them lol)

The four major deaths in novel, are by characters who thought they had control and had a plan for everything, the one’s who survive are the know, they never had control and should go with the flow

Unpopular opinion: thank god they made John Hammond a likable hero than making him more like in novel, I don’t really like the novel version of him

You and Klayton Fioriti need to collaborate FR

Ok the compys eating the baby was the most disturbing part of the book

When I watched the movie for the first time, my favorite character was of course Alan Grant (why wouldn’t it be?), but then as time went on i started to like Muldoon more and more, and then I read the book….yeah Muldoon instantly became my favorite character. He is probably the most logical character in the boom, straight to the point with everything, and he carries a rocket launcher everywhere with him AND he doesn’t die! Best character ever.

Over 20 minutes of this?! Let’s Go!

Alan Grant is such a badass in the novel

Even though this vid is about the characters, I love to think about the rex breakout scene...in the movie, it's night time but the audience has to see what's happening for the film. In the book, it's total darkness and the only time the characters can see the rex during the attack is when the lightning strikes. Takes my anxiety reading that part way up, lol. Great video, glad I found your channel

4:37 lol looks like Im still a kid. Fr Grant acting like Grant in JWD was one of the things I actually liked about that film. The hat bit is brilliant, my only gripe was I wish he got to do more palaeontology stuff and spent more time like 'wow, dinosaurs are very cool' and got to encounter the pyroraptor. Oh also Gennaro is an absolute badass.

Fun story: in camp Cretaceous, The athlete girl ( forgot her name) told everyone about a rumor that Hammond got eaten by compies. It might be meant to reference Hammond’s death in the novel

I feel for Nedry since I have learned IT. I completely understand why he did what he did. There was an easier way to do it too but the blacklisting from Hammond was screwed up

The only thing that carries the characters in the movie is the actors. But overall one of the best movies in history.

Random fun fact about Ellie in the book: They mention Ellie is engaged to someone her own age back home... this is the same person the movies had Ellie married to in Jurassic Park 3 near the start of the film. I thought it was kind of cool they made that connection eventually even if it was a small wink to the books from the movies that the Universe sort of feel into place on it's own. Also Ellie gets some great one liners like "These things happen" when Genaro finds out Ellie is a woman, and "isn't this always the way..." when she finds out the door on the roof is locked while running from the Raptors

I loved the Jurassic Park movies as a kid and finally bought a hardcover of the first book around 2 years ago and absolutely loved it. I actually finished reading the book by candle light because a hurricane turned tropical depression passed through my state. Hammond's death is stuck in my mind because of it.

They should make a movie much more accurate to the novel, it would be quite interesting

Just recently found this channel. It has brought back my love for dinosaurs

>Mfw we've been running on auxiliary power this whole time >Mfw auxiliary power doesn't electrify the raptor enclosure >Ohgodno.jpg

You neglected to mention that ellie is also a beer swilling tom boy in the novel lol I fell in love XD It's like her whole intro, taking the can of beer inside the trailer in the book and downing it

I wouldn't mind a video about the differences between The Lost World film vs novel.

I fully read the novel and something that I noticed was that Tim is not a computer genius, he does turn on the security but only after sheer luck with the touch screen.

Imagine surviving jurassic Park just to die of dysentery

I have gone into DEEP DIVE conversations about how different the Film and Novel versions of the characters are from each other, and how some characters are combinations of the novel characters in the movie like Genaro being like 3 people and all of the Dark Side of Hammond.

Alan Grant:" It's, it's a dinosaur." Dinofax : 'I've been here this whole time, look at my head, i am a dinosaur'

Aaah man it's so nice to get a long video out of you bud. Good edit, audio is great, and it's something you love. Great Job, my favorite part of the novel was how the big long neck at the beginning was described as fast and alert. The baby crib was pretty wild too.

Funny how you said when you're an adult, you like Ian more than Grant. I just bought the LEGO T-Rex breakout set and the number one selling point was an Ian Malcolm minifigure! Look at the set... it comes with so much more but I love my mini Jeff Goldblum.

The one thing that I really like about the writing is how everyone but Hammond and those closest to him sees the problems coming from a mile away, but Hammond signs the paychecks so the mistakes continue until everything fails catastrophically. People would have died even without Nedry's sabotage; several had been maimed and at least one had died by then. One legitimate power outage or computer virus ("The Lost World" establishes just how bad InGen's data security was) would have caused a worst-case scenario with thousands of tourists on the island. If anything, the movie presented an optimistic view of a failure condition because there were so few people on the island when the system failed. A scenario similar to Jurassic World, where many dozens or even hundreds of people die when the park loses containment, would have been inevitable once the park opened. I can't help but feel sorry for Wu. Everything that you said about him was right, but there's one point that I think puts him in a slightly better light. He did indeed want to make the animals slower and more placid, but it wasn't entirely due to matching customer expectations. Part of his justification was that nobody knew how dangerous the animals were (or even *what* they were) until they hatched and matured, and he was frightened by what he saw. The animals were all modified anyways, and they'd never be 100% accurate to the real dinosaurs, so he thought that Hammond should reject the illusion that they were dealing with the real deal and manage the animals that they'd created. He wanted to modify the animals because people were already being maimed and killed - indeed, several already had - and he wanted them to be modified to be safer to handle. By then, Hammond didn't really need to listen to Wu anymore. Hammond had his "dinosaurs", Wu outlived his usefulness, and Hammond marginalized him. It doesn't fully excuse Wu's actions, but the fact is that Wu saw warning signs well before the power went out but was powerless to act on them. I'd love to see a video discussing the difference between Velociraptor mongoliensis (the turkey-sized raptors from Mongolia) and Velociraptor antirrhopus (the Deinonychus species from North America). According to popular legend, the mix-up happened because, when Crichton was writing the book, the scientific materials to which he referred lumped Deinonychus antirrhopus into the Velociraptor genus (hence Velociraptor antirrhopus), so it was technically accurate to refer to Deinonychus as a species of Velociraptor. This, it turns out, masks the real issue. Grant and Tim actually have a discussion on this classification shortly after they see the baby raptor in the nursery, and Grant says that Deinonychus is now considered one of the Velociraptors. Wu indicates that, while Grant had been excavating Velociraptor antirrhopus skeletons, the raptors on the island were all Velociraptor mongoliensis specimens because the amber from which the blood was extracted came from China. The baby is explicitly called a Velociraptor mongoliensis, and Grant asks if there are any adult specimens on the island; Wu says that there are 8. A little while later, when they look at the computer headcount of all the dinosaurs on the island, they only list 8 [expected!] Velociraptors, which indicates that the scientists didn't create any Velociraptor antirrhopus specimens. So... it turns out that the raptors in the movie weren't actually relabeled Deinonychuses like we've accepted, but Crichton legitimately made Velociraptor mongoliensis much, much larger than it really was.

I would debate that Malcom was supposed to be the voice of the audience in the book. Even Michael Crichton said that he modeled Malcom's opinions after himself as he was a big proponent of chaos theory. It also shows Crichton's lack of understanding about Chaos theory because Malcom, despite never actually explaining WHY things might fail, he simply keeps repeating that things will fail and when something goes wrong basically says 'I told you so" but also clearly doesn't understand that in a true chaos field, it is possible, however improbable, that things go perfectly.

All in favour of having Samuel L. Jackson reprise his role as Ray Arnold in the Jurassic Park remake just so he can actually film his death scene, say aye.

"Being a kid means Alan Grant is your favorite, being an adult means Ian Malcolm is your favorite." What does that make me? Ed Regis and Wu are my favorite characters

The death scene of Hammond in the book is basically the death scene of Peter Stormare in The Lost World movie.

even as an adult grant was my favorite. i understood his beliefs a lot better. Malcolm always seems an ass. Grant isnt outright against jurassic park, he just understands dinosaurs cant match up with the modern world with so suddenly. I always prefer the film. Mostly because it seems more realistic in s strange way i cant explain

14:34 what kind of Oregon trail bulls**t is that Me LOL also nice reference

I want this guy as my mentor. His teaching is nothing short of phenomenal. He knows how to get me interested in anything.

Now do one about the characters in JP Lost World Book vs Movie. That's a much more drastic difference

14:36 Honestly, this is the perfect reaction to a character's off page death by dysentery...

One thing I really like about the book is the way the dinosaurs in the book are described. They where faster stronger and far far more vicious then any of the human characters could believe. Especially the raptors

i wanna see you do both the difference with the dinos and the plot. that would be sick and i think very entertaining.

The differences between Lost World and Novel are vast... Eddie, Dr Levine, Thorne, Sara and Dodgson,... I love the book and the film of Lost World.

Finally someone who understands book Lex! Dont be too harsh on her, people, shes literally just a kid!

Don't recall his name. But in the book the hunter was one of the only people on the island that respected the dinos and saw them as independent living creatures. Not as creations or amusement park exhibits. Glad he lived in the book.v

Been watching your channel for some time and it inspired me to get the book, thank you.

Love the video!! You should make a video/ series reading the Jurassic park and world books

I love how you're making Jurassic Park videos nowadays. I suggest you should make a video on the differences of the dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park movie and the Jurassic Park novel. Mainly because you've started doing Jurassic Park after a long time.

As a kid watching ian Malcolm distract the trex instantly made him my favorite character

It takes a lot to scare me… but when I read the part where the compy ate off the newborn’s face, that scarred me for life and I literally felt sick 💀 Also, what’s the name of the song you used for the video? I’ve been searching for it for a while 😅

Love the silent hill background

I like how the book version is a lot more realistic and I also think the kids in there get too much hate as yes, of course kids are gonna be annoying, and they’re gonna do dumb stuff and get scared when scary disturbing shit happens. I also like how much more brutal the novel is (Also what is the music used in the background?)

would love to see more long format videos from you! this was great 😊 going to finally read the book now!

I kind of want to see a well written tv or movie series closer to the books.

Love the breakdown. Show me both the Dino and plot differences.

I actually prefer the novel to the movie, and the character differences are a pretty big reason why. Nice to see a video comparing the two!

Brian Cox needs to play Hammond in a remake. He'd be awesome as the "Evil Walt Disney" from the book.