Jurassic park differences beetwen the movies and the book (Spoilers)

[Killekor]

Hi,
yesterday i've finished the Jurassic park book, and it's different from the movie(s), here's some of them:

-in the book the Compies are not Compies, they are procompies (procompsignathus)
-The Procompies are venomous, their venom is like a Narcotic and do relax (and sleep (forever))
-The Tlw opening scene with the (pro)compies is from the first book
-Do you remember the movie scene with the sick Triceratops? Well, in the book is a Stegosaurus
-hammond dies, killed by the (pro)compies
-Ian Malcolm dies too, killed by an infection caused by a wound caused by the T-Rex (so, who is the main characer of the Tlw Book? probably Dr.Grant...)
-There are 2 Rexies, one adult and a 3 years old one, tall 3 meters
-In the movie, the most old of the 2 kids it's Lex, in the book it's Tim
-The color schemes of the dinosaurs are different: The Velociraptors have 2 color schemes:
Females: Yellow with Brown stripes (Like Tigers)
Males: Green with Brown stripes (Like Tigers)
-Also the Dilophosaurs have a different color scheme: yellow (Oh my god! So Chrichton is obsessed with yellow) with Black spots (like leopards), the clamids are red with blak stripes
-In the book appears also Cearadactylus that attyack Dr. Grant and the Kids), Maiasauras, Apatosaurs (that replace the Brachiosaurus), Hipsylophodonts, Ohttiellas and Triceratops Babies
-Velociraptors are cannibals (they eat a baby Raptor) and they also migrate
-In the end of the story Isla Nublar will be burned by the Costa Rica governement (so Jw have not to exist), but the Procompies and some carnivore dinosaurs (Velociraptors?) survive and escape. It's not clear if some other Dinosaurs Survive
-In the book the "vision based on movement" it's the result of the frog Dna
-Don't die Mulldon, Donald Gennaro and Dr. Harvering

I will modify the post if i remember other differences.

Killekor

[Derek.McManus]

There are always large differences between novelisations and screenplays due to the differences in the two mediums, Jurassic Park sprang from a short story about a man who cloned a pterosaur but the author could not justify in his own mind why someone would go to this expense so John Hammond and a for profit theme park where invented.

[Killekor]

There are always large differences between novelisations and screenplays due to the differences in the two mediums

I know, in fact, i've created this thread only for tel the differences between the book and the movie.

Killekor

[stargatedalek]

They weren't cannibals in the archetypal sense of the word, rather they killed their own domestic counterparts and then had nothing against eating them afterwards. In the films they even killed their own pack mates in fights for dominance, so were arguably "more cannibalistic" or "closer to what we generally associate cannibalism with".

You also forgot to mention who didn't die

Oh and the second book will surprise you, at least at first. Best to read it immediately after the first.

[PumperKrickel]

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[CityRaptor]

The whole "Vision based on movement" thing is due to the frog DNA in the novel, while in the movies it is treated as normal.
Grant likes children to begin with.

[Killekor]

There´s also far more scenes with Grant and the kids. They´re attacked by Pterosaurs in an aviary, they´re chased by the larger Rex as they´re travelling down a river on a raft, the kids ride a baby Trike and form a friendship with it. They meet Maiasaura instead of Brachios as they´re in the tree.

It wasn't a Maiasaura (that appears in another part of the book) but Apatosaurs. I've said that appear pterosaurs (in the book it was a Cearadactylus), but i've thinked that it wasnt important say that they attack Dr.Grant, Tim and Lex. I'd also said about Baby Triceratops in the first post.

The whole "Vision based on movement" thing is due to the frog DNA in the novel, while in the movies it is treated as normal.
Grant likes children to begin with.

You're right, i'd forget it

They weren't cannibals in the archetypal sense of the word, rather they killed their own domestic counterparts and then had nothing against eating them afterwards. In the films they even killed their own pack mates in fights for dominance, so were arguably "more cannibalistic" or "closer to what we generally associate cannibalism with".

You also forgot to mention who didn't die

Oh and the second book will surprise you, at least at first. Best to read it immediately after the first.

In the book the Raptors eat a baby raptor in the nursery, so, if this is not cannibalism...

Didn't die Mulldoon, Gennaro and Harvering.

i have not the 2nd book, but i will order it on amazon, your "the second book will surprise you, at least at first" signify that Malcolm is still alive? cause in the book don't say excactly that he's dead, when you read the end you think that he's dead...

Now i add to the first post the new informations.

Killekor

[Moodyraptor]

The characters of the kids are different as well as their ages - in the book, Tim is into computers as well as dinosaurs, and it's him who manages to reboot the park computers.  In the movie, it's Lex who's the computer geek, and who manages to get the computers working.

There's also a character called Ed Regis in the book, who isn't in the movie at all - in the book, it's Ed who panics and abandons the kids in the car when the Rex attacks, whereas in the movie this role is given to Gennaro.  Ed ends up getting eaten by the juvenile Rex.

[Killekor]

The characters of the kids are different as well as their ages - in the book, Tim is into computers as well as dinosaurs, and it's him who manages to reboot the park computers.  In the movie, it's Lex who's the computer geek, and who manages to get the computers working.

There's also a character called Ed Regis in the book, who isn't in the movie at all - in the book, it's Ed who panics and abandons the kids in the car when the Rex attacks, whereas in the movie this role is given to Gennaro.  Ed ends up getting eaten by the juvenile Rex.

About the Kids, it's clear that Is Tim to use the computers, in the book lex have 7-8 years, so she don't use computers, no?

I didn't mentioned Ed Regis because, how you said he didn't appear in the movie

Killekor

[PumperKrickel]

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[Gwangi]

The characters of the kids are different as well as their ages - in the book, Tim is into computers as well as dinosaurs, and it's him who manages to reboot the park computers.  In the movie, it's Lex who's the computer geek, and who manages to get the computers working.

There's also a character called Ed Regis in the book, who isn't in the movie at all - in the book, it's Ed who panics and abandons the kids in the car when the Rex attacks, whereas in the movie this role is given to Gennaro.  Ed ends up getting eaten by the juvenile Rex.

About the Kids, it's clear that Is Tim to use the computers, in the book lex have 7-8 years, so she don't use computers, no?

I didn't mentioned Ed Regis because, how you said he didn't appear in the movie

Killekor

If you're listing the differences between the book and movie don't you think you should list ALL of the differences? Including different characters?

[Moodyraptor]

The characters of the kids are different as well as their ages - in the book, Tim is into computers as well as dinosaurs, and it's him who manages to reboot the park computers.  In the movie, it's Lex who's the computer geek, and who manages to get the computers working.

There's also a character called Ed Regis in the book, who isn't in the movie at all - in the book, it's Ed who panics and abandons the kids in the car when the Rex attacks, whereas in the movie this role is given to Gennaro.  Ed ends up getting eaten by the juvenile Rex.

About the Kids, it's clear that Is Tim to use the computers, in the book lex have 7-8 years, so she don't use computers, no?

I didn't mentioned Ed Regis because, how you said he didn't appear in the movie

Killekor

I thought Ed was relevant because although the character himself isn't in the movie, his actions and fate have been given to a character who is in the movie.   

Lex was a bit of a useless character in the book, so I assume the movie made her older and gave her some relevant skills to compensate for that. 

[RaptorRex]

Been awhile since I read the book but I recall there being a sub-plot about Raptors making it to the mainland. Wu gets shafted as well by the Raptors.

Also worth mentioning that the beginning before they get to the park is completely different from the film.

[Killekor]

Been awhile since I read the book but I recall there being a sub-plot about Raptors making it to the mainland. Wu gets shafted as well by the Raptors.

This Is the unic part of the book that i didn't understand.

Also worth mentioning that the beginning before they get to the park is completely different from the film.

More and less, not considering the procompies...

Killekor