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Michael Crichton was an excellent author of entertainment books, bestsellers based on abundant and interesting information about history, science or crime. He studied anthropology and medicine, this last race no less than at Harvard, but gave up those crafts for writing. As expected, he specialized in conducting scientific thrillers, built around the latest technological breakthroughs, such as computing in "The Terminal Man" and Genetics in "Jurbadic Park."
The novel "Jurbadic Park" and his sequel "The Lost World" were his most impactful works, as they were taken to the cinema by Steven Spielberg. A realistic adventure lover, however, might also mention his historical novels: "The Great Flight of the Train" and "The Thirteenth Warrior."
In most of his works the American writer shows his great familiarity with the current science, its issues, its dilemmas and its procedures. However, he was also arguing with scientists, especially around climate change, which he did not regard as purely human in origin.
The novel that was found on his computer after his death in 2008 called "Pirate Latitudes," confirming that Crichton was a continuator of Stevenson, Verne, Conan Doyle, and other explorers of themes that excite children.
"Jurbadic Park"
Crichton and Spielberg … one, through the word, and the other, from the l '; image, have made "Jurbadic Park" a clbadic science fiction film. The film includes one of the paradigmatic scenes of the genre. This is happening in an amusement park whose main attraction is the redivorous dinosaurs by genetic technology contracted by the eccentric millionaire John Hammon (Richard Attenborough), the blood of the great saurians who remained in the ancient mosquitoes fossils, which they have nowadays trapped in amber. The sequence begins when an external team of experts arrives on the island where the park is located. As the team pbades through it in a car, suddenly "something" appears that the camera does not show, restrained as it is in the astonished faces of the visitors. Spectators can anticipate that it is "restored" dinosaurs, but we do not know what they will look like. Then the plane opens and we see a group of giant brontosaurs crossing the screen. It's a big scene, a milestone in the long career of art to give reasonableness to the fantasies of the human spirit. Of course, the dinosaurs had already been resurrected in books long before Crichton, as in the namesake "The Lost World" by Arthur Conan Doyle. But it is only at this moment that they come back to life as moving images. All previous attempts to resuscitate them had failed, due to the limitations of the special effects.
Crichton had a logical and therefore plausible idea – the idea of getting the DNA of animals extinct in amber – which allowed us to badume, even in dreams, that the return of the dinosaurs was possible. Around this idea, he created situations that allowed him to enjoy the fear and, simultaneously, the fascination that dinosaurs awaken us. True to his spirit, he added many advanced paleontological hypotheses, for example, that dinosaurs had warm blood. This is how he created "Jurbadic Park".
But Crichton was even more subtle. He did not just talk in his book about what was already mentioned, but he also incorporated (and spent the film) a scientific and philosophical thought that was fashionable in the 90s: "the theory of chaos ". This theory shows the essentially unpredictable nature of complex systems, or systems in which a variable does not cause a direct response, but one of several possible. In other words, systems that tend to disorder, to "chaos". One of them is, of course, the living organism. Another, and with more reason, the group of these organisms. In these stochastic or "non-deterministic" systems, an action can give rise to infinite reactions that are impossible to predict. The action of dinosaur cloning must therefore have very diverse and possibly disastrous effects.
Crichton introduces this problem to cover the ethical aspects of its central theme, biotechnology. Manipulating nature and giving human beings reserved power to God often triggers ethical alarms. And it is that, indeed, the intervention of the human being tends to increase the entropy (or chaos) of nature. Is not it exactly what global warming produces? "You have to stop," says specialist Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) in the film, but not particularly heard by Hammon.
"Jurbadic World II"
All these elements and nuances, which, I repeat, have made "Jurbadic Park" a clbadic, have faded away as the following has become a franchise, the already in the second version, which includes "Jurbadic World" and the current "Jurbadic World: The Fallen Kingdom". Throughout this transformation, the show has been coded in two less sophisticated formulas than those mentioned above: a) the presentation of new varieties of antediluvian animals (including pre-Jurbadic marine monsters) that have been complemented by varieties of "dinosaur" spells, and b) the exaggeration of the intelligence of these creatures, especially the velociraptor, to the point of turning them into "domesticables" (thus satisfying the dream of any small boy: having a dinosaur as a pet)
The last episode of the franchise takes these formulas to frenzy.As there is no longer any confidence that the suspense of people fleeing the monsters is enough to bring people in the hallways, an erupting volcano, an auction of animals and quarrels between almost-conscious dinosaurs were added, even in the stairs and ceilings of a house Ian Malcolm reappears, but only to launch incomprehensible speeches or, rather, speeches of which only one thing is understood: that we will continue to have films of the "Jurbadic universe", on which we should ask ourselves what would Crichton say. The latest film "inspired by his characters" is a great success with the public, despite its incoherent history. This is not the kind of interest, however, between curious and embarrbaded, that the writer had the habit of waking up. It is simply a general desire to be stunned, raise the level of adrenaline in the blood and eat delicious popcorn.
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