| Michael Crichton's Rough Draft of Jurassic Park | |
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Origin |
Michael Crichton |
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Type |
Film Script |
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Effects |
Advances scientific data conclusions beyond expected rate of discovery |
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Downsides |
Accelerated rate of changes increases cascading failures in scientific experiments. Minor atavism to dinosaur features. |
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Activation |
Proximity to experimentation |
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Collected by |
Warehouse 13 |
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Section |
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Date of Collection |
May 16, 2024 |
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Origin[]
John Michael Crichton (October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavily feature technology and are usually within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres. Crichton's novels often explore human technological advancement and attempted dominance over nature, both with frequently catastrophic results; many of his works are cautionary tales, especially regarding themes of biotechnology. Several of his stories center on themes of genetic modification, hybridization, paleontology and/or zoology. Many feature medical or scientific underpinnings, reflective of his own medical training and scientific background.
Crichton received an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1969 but did not practice medicine, choosing to focus on his writing instead. Initially writing under a pseudonym, he eventually published 25 novels in his lifetime, including: The Andromeda Strain (1969), The Terminal Man (1972), The Great Train Robbery (1975), Congo (1980), Sphere (1987), Jurassic Park (1990), Rising Sun (1992), Disclosure (1994), The Lost World (1995), Airframe (1996), Timeline (1999), Prey (2002), State of Fear (2004), and Next (2006). Four more novels, in various states of completion, were published after his death in 2008.
Crichton was also involved in the film and television industry. In 1973, he wrote and directed Westworld, the first film to use 2D computer-generated imagery. He also directed Coma (1978), The First Great Train Robbery (1978), Looker (1981), and Runaway (1984). He was the creator of the television series ER (1994–2009), and several of his novels were adapted into films, most notably the Jurassic Park franchise.
Jurassic Park[]
The Jurassic Park franchise focuses on genetically engineered dinosaurs running amok on an island theme park off the coast of Costa Rica. The dinosaurs are cloned by extracting ancient DNA from mosquitoes, which sucked the blood of dinosaurs and then became fossilized in amber, preserving the DNA. Scientists then fill gaps in the genome using frog DNA. Although the films primarily take place on fictional islands located in the Pacific coast of Central America, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) and Jurassic World Dominion (2022) see the dinosaurs relocated throughout the world, including the U.S. mainland.
The film series is notable for its recreation of dinosaurs, achieved primarily through animatronics and computer-generated imagery. The first film was praised for its dinosaur effects, and created an increased interest in the field of paleontology, while changing the public perception of dinosaurs with its modern portrayal.
Effects[]
Influences events to make new advances occur more frequently beyond the predicted scale of experimentation by researchers. Will advance scientific discoveries when in the presence of laboratory or field settings. Will push intuition and analysis in workers to nudge them in the direction of more profound understandings. Makes datapoints more apparent to highlight unusual findings or cause patterns to follow variable-inputs more steadily to equations than randomness.
Unexpected combinations of events often lead to new breakthroughs unthought of previously, such as accidents or new applications of existing methods. This same unpredictability can amass over time to cause full-system failures, usually based on the unknown natures of their new discoveries. Many a one-off experiment or quandary turns into an uncontrollable disaster. A trait of activation is the reemergence of ancient reptilian traits in modern day counterparts (including birds), such as thicker scale armor, clubbed segments or even altered bone structure.