Stupid people create the world, and the wise have to live in it and think about the meaning of the world. - Caption.
For the sake of getting to the point, I'll start with the adaptations of the original books from these two films.
It should be said that the most inherited content of the original work is the first "Jurassic Park", which basically follows the main plot of the novel's "investigation team and relatives and friends cheerleader island in distress", but in my opinion, "Jurassic World" is more in line with the original science fiction setting.
Why?
First of all, I want to ask you a question, do you think the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park and Jurassic World (except for the bastard dragon) are dinosaurs from more than 100 million years ago?
This question, I am afraid that everyone will feel strange, is it not a dinosaur? Well, let's first look at the setting of the original book:
"They weren't real now," Mr. Wu said. "That's exactly what I'm trying to tell you. There's nothing real about this place." He shrugged his shoulders helplessly. He could see that he had spent half a day talking, and the other party still couldn't understand the reasoning. Hammond was never interested in technical details, and the essence of this debate was technology. How could he explain this fact to Hammond? How can he be explained to him about the incomplete tinkering of DNA and the gaps in the sequence of chemical structures that he once had to fill? He makes the best assumptions he can, but the assumptions are hypotheses after all. "Dinosaur DNA is like an old trimmed photograph, basically the same as the original, but in some places it has been patched and made intact, so ||" …… Gülen said, "What does the bottom column show?" "The distribution of animals." The latest version is Four. Four or four. three. We are considering four. Four editions." "Version number?" Are you saying it's like software? New distro?" "Well, yes," Arnold said. "In a sense, it's the same as software. When we found technical flaws in our DNA, Dr. Wu's lab had to produce a new version." Gülen was puzzled by the idea of numbering living animals like soft bodies and constantly being updated and revised. He couldn't tell what it was for, the idea was so novel, he instinctively felt uncomfortable. They are creatures after all... Arnold must have noticed the expression on his face as well, for he continued, "Dr. Gülen, it is pointless to have unrealistic thoughts about these animals. It is important that everyone should remember that these animals were made. It's made by people, and sometimes it goes wrong. When we found out something was wrong, Dr. Wu's lab had to develop a new version. We need to keep track of what versions we already have."
Seeing this, everyone should understand that the so-called "genetic dinosaurs" are artificial creatures that can be continuously upgraded like software. We can constantly modify it according to our needs, for example, to prevent him from escaping:
"So we don't want these animals to survive in the wilderness and make them dependent on pyrine." I added a gene that produces a unique and defective one when proteins are metabolized. The consequence is that these animals themselves cannot produce pyrineine and must be ingested from the outside world. If they can't get enough food from the outside world|| we usually give them paraminic acid tablets|| and they will fall into a coma within twelve hours and then die. These animals are genetically engineered and cannot survive in the real world. They can only live within Jurassic Park. They have no freedom at all, they are pure prisoners of ours."
Even, can not reproduce
"Oh, they can't do that," Wu said. "None of the animals we keep can reproduce. That's why we're building this nursery for the original prisoners. This is the only way to update the animals in Jurassic Park." "Why can't these animals reproduce?" "That is, in fact, we make them like this: we control the chromosomes, we control the reproductive environment within the egg. From a bioengineering point of view, females are easier to nurture. As you probably know, all vertebrate embryos are born female. Our lives all start with females. There must be an additional factor, plus the secretion of hormones at a certain time of development, in order to transform the growing embryo into a male. But if left free to develop, the embryo will naturally become a female. So, the animals we keep are all female."
Got it? This "dinosaur" is not another "dinosaur", but we have created on the basis of the DNA fragments of ancient dinosaurs, using modern genetic technology, which are modern genetic monsters, whether it is A. rex, a dragon or something else.
Jurassic Park abandoned this setting and focused its plot on the second half of the novel, becoming a typical monster film escape movie.
The setting of "Jurassic World" is more in line with the spirit of the original work. Jurassic World is the biggest highlight , the tyrannical dragon , inspired by one of the plot points of the novel:
"Well, not exactly," Wu retorted. He paced in the living room, then monitored with his fingers. "I don't think we should deceive ourselves. We have not been able to recreate the past here. Gone are the days and can never be recreated. What we have achieved is a reconstruction of the past, or at least a variant of the past. In other words, we can make a better variant."
One of the sources of DNA, including the Tyrannosaurus, is also mentioned in the original book:
"When you make dinosaur DNA," Gülen said, "you do it with fragments, right?" "Yes." Wu said. "In order to make a complete string of DNA, have you ever needed to take dna fragments from other species?" "Yes, it happens once in a while," Wu said. "It's the only way to get the job done. Sometimes we use the DNA of all kinds of birds, and sometimes we use the DNA of reptiles." "Have you ever used amphibian DNA?" Especially the DNA of frogs?" "Possibly. I'll have to look it up." "Look it up," Gülen said. "I think you'll find out that the answer is in it."
Some scientists spit that the velociraptor in "Jurassic World" is too big and too cute, in fact, taming the velociraptor is also Wu's idea in the original book
"Of course. But I'm just saying, why stay where you are? Why not continue to study and then create the kind of dinosaur that exactly matches what we expect? What about a dinosaur that is more acceptable to tourists, one that can be kept in our park and walks slowly, and is more tame and docile?"
Why do I have to repeatedly emphasize the question of true and false dinosaurs? This is a question that is closely related to the theme of the novel!
The theme of science fiction, in addition to the familiar space opera, the end of the world, alien genres, there is also a type of best-selling book, called science and technology thrillers. This kind of novel often combines the rich rigor of scientific knowledge with the twists and turns of thrilling novels, and belongs to the kind of science fiction that is "hard and cool". The most famous of these is probably "The Da Vinci Code", but the highest-selling is Also "Jurassic Park" by Michael Clayton, which is said to have sold 100 million copies, making it the highest-selling science fiction novel in the world. Moreover, this sales volume was set before the "Jurassic Park" movie began, that is, the hot sales of the movie are not unrelated to the hot sales of the novel.
Let's talk about the four major highlights of the novel "Jurassic Park"
1. Author Michael Clayton - rich and handsome in the three major fields of film, television series, and bestsellers
Let's take a look at the dazzling resume:
Harvard University Department of Literature + Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, University of Cambridge , UK + Doctor of Medicine at Harvard University + Guest Writer at MIT.
Look at what he looks like: 2.06 meters tall, long-legged Oba, in 1992 People magazine named him one of the 50 most elegant people in the world (FiftyMost BeautifulPeople).
Film achievements: Screenwriter of "Horror of the Congo", "The Great Robbery of the Golden Train", director of "Tornado", "Ultimate Raider", "Deep Sea Doubt" and "Rebellious Sexual Harassment".
Achievements in TV dramas:
The producers of "The Emergency Room Story" and the writers of the first three episodes of the first season basically established the historical status of this classic series.
Achievements in best-selling novels are highlighted below
This duke died in 2008 (tribute), but this version of "Jurassic World" still left him a place in the screenplay, does it mean that the script of this film was completed as early as 2008 years ago? Or hollywood rules?
Second, scientific and technological thrillers that are "harder" than "hard" and "science fiction" and "science fiction"
As in the resume listed earlier, usually the writers of tech thrillers have strong expertise, otherwise they would not have been able to do this genre. Michael Crichton is even more of a genius, basically a book for a technical field, in addition to the dinosaur theme of "Jurassic Park", there are also the environmental theme of "State of Fear", the bacterial theme of "Andromeda Strain" and so on.
Tech thrillers usually have a lot of technical details interspersed with plot. The reason why it is technology and not science is because such novels are not written about the universe, space-time, etc., but about real contemporary technologies, such as virtual reality, biological engineering, nanotechnology, etc. In order to construct a complete authenticity, authors often have to cite a large number of scientific research materials, and their technical details are so many that they can be described as hard science fiction in "hard science fiction".
For example, there is a classic "DNA restoration animation explanation version" in the movie, which is good for the audience who watch the movie map, but for people who really have the spirit of "knowing", the detailed description of DNA technology in the book is enough to enjoy, this is one of the paragraphs -
He pointed to the image and said, "This is a typical example. The DNA you see has an error on line one or two hundred one below. Much of the DNA we get is fragmented or incomplete. So, we have to fix it first, or rather, with a computer. Computers will use something we call restriction to cut DNA and will select a range of things that can be used to do the job. (Please refer to Figure 3). "It's the same part of the DNA, and the location of the restriction has been determined." As you can see on line 1201, two can cut DNA on either side of the point of injury. We usually let the computer make the choice. But we also have to know which nitrogen-containing salt pair we insert to repair the damage. To do that, we have to arrange the various DNA slices, like this. "Now we're looking for a fragment of DNA. This fragment superimposes the damaged area and tells us what was lost. As you can see, we can not only find this fragment, but also do more precise restoration work. The "black bars" you see indicate restrictive fragments which are a small part of dinosaur DNA, which are composed of ?? Cut and analyze. Computers are reassembling and arranging these fragments by looking for overlapping parts of the passwords. It's a bit like integrating puzzles. Computers can do this job very quickly. "That's the DNA that was repaired by the computer." What you've seen can take months in a regular lab, but we can do it in seconds." "Do you handle all the DNA?" Glen asked. "Oh, no," Wu replied. "That's impossible. We're already a long way ahead of the sixties. At that time, to translate a batch of code that appeared on the screen, the whole laboratory had to do it for four years. Now the computer can be done in just two hours. But even so, the DNA molecule is still too big. We see only those parts of DNA that vary depending on animal species or that are different from fragments of existing biological DNA. Nucleoglycides that differ from species to species account for only a few percent of the total. That's what we're going to analyze, and that's still a huge project."
"Jurassic Park" is not an action novel, the first half has a strong suspense color, the film does not focus on performance, the second half of the scene is thrilling, which is the focus of the film adaptation, but the novel has more details than the movie.
The following plot of zero-distance contact with the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the form, demeanor, and action are all in shape, and the film special effects team can basically do it, in addition to the sense of reality of the picture, and the psychological state description of the novel is something that the movie cannot do:
At this moment, with a loud roar, the head of the Tyrannosaurus rex was seen reaching out through the waterfall to their side. The Tyrannosaurus Rex opened its blood basin and Dingmu stared at it in horror. Liz screamed and threw herself to the ground. The head swung back and forth for a while, then retracted again. But Dinm could see its shadow reflected on the waterfall. He pulled Liz into the hole. The big mouth came in again, and it roared as the thick tongue reached out and indented as fast as a snake letter. The beads of water on its head flew everywhere, and then it shrank back. Liz snuggled up to Dinm, trembling. "I hate it." She said. She tried to shrink in, but the hole was only a few feet deep and full of machines. There is not much room for them to hide. The head came out of the water again, but this time it moved very slowly, its mouth pressed against the ground, squirting its nose, its nose folded and breathing in the air, but its two eyes were still outside the water. Dinm thought to himself: He can't see us, he knows we're here, but his eyes are outside the waterfall, and it can't see us. The Tyrannosaurus Rex's nose sucked. "What is it doing?" Liz asked again. "Shhh||" With a low roar, its upper and lower jaws slowly opened and its tongue crept out. The tongue was thick and large, blue-black, and the tip of the tongue had a fork, four feet long, and could reach all the way to the innermost wall of the cavity without any effort. The tongue slid toward the filter, making a harsh scraping sound. Tim and Liz's bodies cling to those water pipes. The tongue slowly moved to the left, and then slowly slid to the right, and the machine inside was licked to the answer. The tip of the tongue wraps around the water pipe and the trapdoor, Feel what they are. Tim saw that the tip of his tongue moved like an elephant's trunk, very powerful. The tongue retracted along the right side of the pit and touched Liz's leg. "Yo." Liz cried out. The tip of the tongue stopped moving, then rolled up and crawled towards her like a snake|| "Don't move." Tim gently reminded her. It moved across her face, then slid over Dinm's shoulder, finally wrapping around his head. Tim closed his eyes tightly, and the slimy, slippery thing covered his face: hot, wet, and a smell of urine. The tongue wrapped around M and began to slowly drag him towards the open mouth. "Dinm..." Dinm couldn't answer: his mouth was blinded by his flattened black tongue. He could see, but could not speak. Liz desperately took his hand. "Dinm, hurry!" The tongue dragged him towards his foul mouth, and Tim's legs felt the heat coming out of his mouth. Liz tugged at him hard, but she couldn't compete with the force that grabbed it. Dinm let go of her, pushing the tongue with both hands, trying to push it away from his head, but he couldn't push it at all. He stuck his foot in the mud, but he was still dragged to the mouth of the T-Rex. Liz wrapped her arms around his waist, pulled him back, and shouted at him, but there was nothing he could do. Venus began to rise in front of his eyes. A sense of tranquility, a sense of calm that reality was inescapable, spread throughout his body. He was slowly dragged away. "Dinm?" Suddenly, the tongue loosened and slowly stretched out. Dinm felt it slip down his face. His body was covered with sticky white foam, and his tongue was hanging softly on the ground. Its mouth closed suddenly, biting its own tongue. Black blood gushed out and mixed with the mud. The nose is still breathing intermittently. "What's wrong with it?" Liz cried. Then the head slid back slowly, slowly, out of the pit, and made a long probing sound on the ground. Eventually, it disappeared completely. All they saw was a silvery white waterfall.
The novel arranges a total of 15 kinds of dinosaurs, the movie out of the Tyrannosaurus rex, velociraptor, bispindrosaurus, duckbillosaurus, Shixiu Jaw Dragon, etc., can only see the appearance, and in the book, each dinosaur has a detailed appearance, personality, life habits description, is completely a dinosaur encyclopedia.
In addition to being a dinosaur encyclopedia, the novel also involves two major types of knowledge, one is biotechnology, medicine, engineering, information systems and other partial engineering technology knowledge, and the other is system cybernetics with "chaos theory" as the core. If the former type of knowledge is necessary for the development of the plot, then the latter type of content is very, very important for the subject matter, and will be discussed in detail later.
Based on this dense amount of hard knowledge, the reading experience is "real", people will never think "whether this is true" after watching the "Base" series, but when reading "Jurassic Park", you always feel that it is something that happens in real life.
Third, the content that has not been put on the screen is equally good-looking
Perhaps it is the reason for the long-term film and television creation, the author's suspense construction and plot laying skills can basically let you read nearly 500 pages of the book without urine points.
Four movies only chose 10% of the original novel! The parts that have not been adapted are not unsightly, but not suitable for visualization, mainly some overly scientific backgrounds, themes that are not related to the film, and some scenes that are too bloody. Arguably, the rest is deeper and more exciting!
For example, in the following paragraph, don't want to move to the big screen at all:
Elena opened the door. The baby was lying in a wicker cradle, wrapped in a light-colored blanket, with only its small face exposed. On the edge of the cradle crouch three dark black lizards, like three strangely shaped statues. When they saw Elena, they looked up at her curiously, but did not flee. In the light of the flashlight, Elena saw blood running down their mouths. One lizard, while barking softly, lowered its head and flicked it quickly, tearing a piece of flesh from the baby's face. Elena screamed and rushed forward, and the lizards flew into the darkness. But as early as she reached the cradle, she had seen what the baby's face had become. She knew the child was probably dead. The lizards squeaked and flew into the rainy night, leaving only the three-toe footprints with blood like bird's claws.
Well, the episode at the beginning of Jurassic Park 2 where the little girl is bitten by a small dinosaur is another not-so-amazing episode of the novel.
Because the first "Jurassic Park" adapted the main plot of the novel, the next few parts of the use of the novel's part of the setting, in fact, the novel, there are quite a lot of interesting plots, for later adaptation, for example, the park uses a lot of modern means to control the actions of dinosaurs, but the more complex the system, the more loopholes, dinosaurs are using this loophole to fight with the management side, which has a lot of room for adaptation.
Fourth, a deeper theme
If a science fiction novel has no science and only thrilling plots, it is not called science fiction. As mentioned earlier, "Jurassic Park" is not a purely showy technology novel, and the thinking of "chaos theory" is the soul of this novel.
The themes of the four films generally follow the theme of the novel: man cannot grasp nature. So the classic line in the first part is: "Life will always find a way out". But for the sake of the market box office, the ending of the film always uses the power of human nature to weaken its own theme, making the criticism less acute.
The novel does not have so many scruples, and the chaotic theory is the clue that runs through the book:
Wu holds deep-seated beliefs that the park is essentially infallible, just as he firmly believes that there is something wrong with the DNA of the ancient times he has developed. Whatever the problem with DNA is essentially a problem in the genetic code, and this leads to a specific problem in the reciprocal outcome of the genetic environment: either some is not connected, or some protein is not folded. No matter what kind of difficulties you encounter, with a slight adjustment in the next version, the problem can be solved. Similarly, he knew that the problems facing Jurassic Park were not fundamentally big problems. Not a control issue. There is no problem as serious or fundamental as the possibility of an animal escaping. When someone believed that he would do such a thing, committed to building a system where such dangerous accidents could occur, Wu felt offended whenever he thought of this. "Blame that Malcom," Hammond said sullenly. "He is the bane, you know, from the very beginning he has opposed us, he has his own theory that complex systems are uncontrollable and nature cannot be imitated. I don't know what's wrong with him. Hell yes, we're just building a zoo here. There are zoos all over the world, and they all run well. However, he wanted to prove that his theory was correct, otherwise he would not even be blinded when he died. I just hope he doesn't scare Kinnaro into closing the park."
The mathematician Malcom is the soul of the book, and through his conversations, the novel hints step by step to the uncontrollability of a complex system
"Yes. But surprisingly, very few people are willing to sit down and listen," Malcom said. "Long before Hammond broke ground, I told him this information: Are you going to genetically engineer a bunch of prehistoric animals and put them on an island?" Very good. It's a beautiful dream and fascinating. But it won't go your way. It's like the weather, it involves inherent unpredictability." "You've said that to him," Kinnaro asked. "Said. I also told him where the deviation would be. Obviously, the adaptation of animals to their environment is a factor. This stegosaurus is 100 million years old, and it's not for our world. The air changed, the solar radiation changed, the land changed, the insects changed, the sounds changed, the vegetation changed. Everything changed. The amount of oxygen in the air has decreased. The poor animal was in a situation like a man resting at an altitude of ten thousand feet. Listen to how hard it gasped." "What else?" "Broadly speaking, there is also the park's ability to control life form sprouts. This is because the history of evolution is a history of life escaping all obstacles. Life breaks free and is free. So life expanded into new territories. The process is painful, perhaps even dangerous. But life has found a way out." Malcom shook his head. "I don't want to say it philosophically, but that's the way it is."
The theme of the novel is very pessimistic, and the chaotic theory reveals to us the disillusionment of the illusion that "man controls everything with science.". "Life will find a way out" is just a seemingly optimistic expression, and science is powerless in this sentence.
The power of "human nature" is amplified in the film to comfort the audience, but the novel basically does not think in this regard, the natural creation of dinosaurs and human creation of dinosaurs, in the eyes of the author, there is no difference, what dinosaurs are exterminated and what humans are exterminated, are also unpredictable.
Mathematician Dr. Ian Malcomb's book God Creates Dinosaurs appears briefly on Lowery's table in the control hall. The title alludes to his line in the first book: "God created the dinosaurs, God destroyed the dinosaurs." God created mankind, man destroyed God, and man created dinosaurs. ”
Just seeing other Q&A discussing The Jurassic Park's profit model, this question reminds everyone how far our minds are from Dr. Malcomb (actually Michael Clayton)? When we YY the fee model, the author already thinks that the Jurassic Park product model is doomed to failure — either unable to make ends meet, or full of danger, and novels and movies show the latter result.
First of all, the author proves with various facts that the investment in the safety of the park is unimaginably high, and no matter how high the income is, it is impossible to equalize.
But more importantly, Jurassic Park is not a zoo, but a small complex ecosystem, for example, to maintain dinosaurs at the top of the food chain, there must be enough herbivores and plants, and these plants must be digestible by dinosaurs. Maybe these can be done with money, then you must have forgotten the more important link, that is, the microorganisms that digested the excrement of dinosaurs, and the microorganisms of the Jurassic era have disappeared with the disappearance of dinosaurs. Well, you model and microbes again to get it out, but what about modern bacteria and viruses? These dinosaurs were nearly impossible to fend off modern bacteria and viruses that had evolved for more than a hundred million years.
Ecosystems are extremely complex, and any small missing one can lead to the collapse of the entire system. Maintaining this ecosystem is God's work at a cost that no one can do.
Any complex ecosystem must be the result of natural selection, which is a constant failure, failure, failure, and a great deal of replication after a very accidental success, which is based on a very small success rate.
Man cannot be God, it is first and foremost a matter of money, but it is not just a matter of money.
I saw the plot of the film's chaos theory on the Time Network and added to this answer:
After the loss of a large number of authors and readers to fantasy novels in the 1980s and 1990s, american hard science fiction novels emerged, and the genre of technological thrillers combined with real life emerged, and Jurassic Park is undoubtedly the most recommended of them.
Finally, talking about the translation of the book, the old "Translation Forest Edition" and the new "Reader Edition" can be seen on the market.
The "Yilin Edition" was jointly translated by several veteran translators, and was finally drafted by Mr. Zhang Zude, the old president of Yilin Publishing House, and signed as "Zhong Ren", which is the harmonic pronunciation of "everyone". The text of this translation is beautiful and readable, and it is said that some of the official translations of dinosaurs we use now were officially determined at that time by the opportunity of translating this book. But there is a problem, too early, some technical proper nouns and slang proverbs, translated inaccurately. This is also a common problem of older versions of tech novels.
I haven't seen the new "Guest Edition", which is said to have been released in June in June, and the entire publishing work has been less than two months, which makes me a little psychologically shadowy. However, the overall level of translation before the "Reader" science fiction novel is not bad, and it is a revision based on the "Zhong Ren" translation by one of the original translators Qi Ahong, which should be able to read it, and when I have read this version, I will report to you.
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