

This is a list of all dinosaurs in the park according to John Arnold's computer counter. Tomassi made the logo that is shown on top of this article. This is the only description of the park's logo in the novel. In the chapter The tour (#2) from the first novel it is said that “woman was passing out pith helmets with "Jurassic Park" labeled on the headband, and a little blue dinosaur logo”. Jurassic Park Security Guard (Laboratory Guard).Robert Muldoon (Game Warden and Animal Supervisor).Jurassic Park Operation Management Team/Employees Management 1 Jurassic Park Operation Management Team/Employees.It’s never too late to revisit Jurassic Park. This leads me to say that… You should read the novel.Įven if you’ve seen Jurassic Park over 100 times, the novel provides interesting context and additional adventures that every fan of the movie will enjoy. The endings between the two are also quite different and while I’m confident it’s not a spoiler-alert for the movie, I don’t want to spoil the novel in case you haven’t read it yet. In the book, there’s also more man vs dinosaur violence such as when Robert Muldoon (the clever girl guy) blows up raptors with a bazooka. Grant and the children being chased by the T-rex down a river on an inflatable raft. But there are more adventure type scenes in the book such as Dr. Obviously the action in the film is top notch. Hammond in the novel is also more greedy and selfish, instead of a more flamboyant, but kind, man. He is much more charming in the film, where in the novel he has one too many monologues about his issue with the park’s scientists. Alan Grant also has more of an emotional arc in the film while in the book, he is more there to serve as reaction to everything that’s happening in the park. They are actually sort of flip flopped when it comes to their interests. Tim and Lex are different ages and altogether different characters. Instead, in the movie version, we have the workers attempting to transport a velociraptor to its holding pen, which was also creepy. This start was not included in the first movie but an altered version of was featured as the opening scene of the second movie. The book starts off in a disturbing fashion with a young American girl attacked by a procompsognathus.


Let’s take a look at some of the key differences between the two: No procompsognathus This evolved to what would eventually become Jurassic Park. Apparently, it began as a screenplay about a graduate student who recreates a dinosaur. The history of how the book came to be is also pretty interesting. I know the movie version so well that I wasn’t sure if the book would capture me, but of course it did – it is Michael Crichton after all, the master of the scientific thriller. I actually didn’t read the novel until a couple years back.
