I enjoyed the book Jurassic Park that we read in class but just like every book that is turned into
a movie, the story line is twisted by hollywood movie makers. While I was reading the book I couldn't help but think of the movie the entire time, constantly comparing every scene and how it differentiates from the motion picture. In the novel, the main predator was the velociraptor. However, in the movie Steven Speilberg changed the villan of the story to the tyranosaurous rex. This difference stood out to me the most while comparing the pieces. I could not understand why Speilberg would want to make this change. Is a t-rex simpler for an audience to understand than a velociraptor? Is it scarier? Would chaning the predator from the sleek, vicious and inteligent raptor to a large and powerful t-rex really help the movie in 
the box office? I still cannot figure this out. It seems that all that movie makers care about is what will improve ticket sales so that they can make more money and they do not care if they change a piece of literature to do so. This is shown in countless movies and it is an issue we have disscussed in class from studying Frankenstein as well as reading essays by Stephen Gould. These issues put aside, I still enjoy both the book and the movie. While the movie keeps the audience captivated by the exciting adventure, action, and science fiction elements the book challanges the audience intellectually while still keeping you on the edge of your seat.
a movie, the story line is twisted by hollywood movie makers. While I was reading the book I couldn't help but think of the movie the entire time, constantly comparing every scene and how it differentiates from the motion picture. In the novel, the main predator was the velociraptor. However, in the movie Steven Speilberg changed the villan of the story to the tyranosaurous rex. This difference stood out to me the most while comparing the pieces. I could not understand why Speilberg would want to make this change. Is a t-rex simpler for an audience to understand than a velociraptor? Is it scarier? Would chaning the predator from the sleek, vicious and inteligent raptor to a large and powerful t-rex really help the movie in 
the box office? I still cannot figure this out. It seems that all that movie makers care about is what will improve ticket sales so that they can make more money and they do not care if they change a piece of literature to do so. This is shown in countless movies and it is an issue we have disscussed in class from studying Frankenstein as well as reading essays by Stephen Gould. These issues put aside, I still enjoy both the book and the movie. While the movie keeps the audience captivated by the exciting adventure, action, and science fiction elements the book challanges the audience intellectually while still keeping you on the edge of your seat.
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