October 2011
2 posts
"The plot of Jurassic Park was recycled." →
austinkleon:
Great piece on the fanboy cult of Jurassic Park. (I wrote about seeing Jurassic Park when I was 10 in Steal Like An Artist).
The plot of Jurassic Park was recycled. Crichton was an expert recycler. His Congo (1980) is King Solomon’s Mines (1885) with an ape-voice synthesizer and the racism dialed down. Sphere (1987) is Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870). And Jurassic...
