Jurassic World: Similarities And Differences

Cinthia E. Gomez Prado

ENG 100

Professor McCulley

18 May 2018

Characters with Similarities and differences

The movie Jurassic based on the novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton and the movie sequel Jurassic World have similarities and differences as demonstrated in some of the main characters. These stories of the parks are parallel and they are connected in different ways. For example, the sequel movie shows the night vision goggles and the building of Jurassic Park and Claire’s outfit, a white suit, is almost the same as Hammond used. Two of the common characters the director used in these movies are John Hammond in the Jurassic Park movie, same as the novel, and Claire Dearing in Jurassic World movie. Hammond is the creator, multimillionaire,

In the novel, John Hammond has cynical and greedy motivations; in the film, most of Hammond’s negative personality traits are the same. John Hammond is not the nice guy, he’s actually a real piece of work. He appears with his white beard, his soft, white shirt and trousers combo. He also has an amber-topped walking stick and a playful, ageless smile. Well, John Hammond is not quite the big softy he is in the film as shown in Crichton’s Jurassic Park book. In the film he comes across as a billionaire CEO turned philanthropist, but in the book he is more like a cold, heartless, ruthless person. This decision spirals out of control, rapidly growing into a company-wide problem which is now all on Claire. Deep down, Claire is not heartless and she is not cold. One of the most important scenes for Claire is when the dinosaur is ripping through the ACU team. The owner Masrani continues with the facade of company first, park first. Claire tries to maintain that same level, but it is now evident that she is losing that inner battle between what is right and what she was trained to believe is right. You see her start to break down and show concern for the park’s operation, the safety of the guests, the safety of the employees, the safety of her assets, and amongst her own worry of what others will think of her. She has to be in charge, she has to make another rash decision, but this time, she

Dearing’s character is strong and she is a determined woman, who cares about her nephews, something that Hammond never shows. Hammond is careless and selfish; he is only worried about himself and his park. On the contrary, in some point she reacts, Dearing started getting really worried about the safety of the people, especially her nephews. For instance, while Hammond was eating ice cream, the dinosaurs were killing everyone as he demonstrates “by the time we finish this ice cream. So let's just wait and see what develops, shall we?” (228). However, Dearing was in field trying to protect them. The first important scene for Claire is when she jumps to the conclusion that the Indominus Rex has escaped. This is a case of Claire showing that she is not as confident as she led on. The uncertainty displayed in her first introduction is surfaced once again, but so is the pressure to ‘make it happen at all costs’. Once again, she is pulled between who she is and what she is supposed to do and maintain. The audience is also pulled with her in both directions due to having been let into her vulnerability early on. However, her corporate built ego and status cannot allow for such an error as this, so she must act in haste. This could come across as an unintelligent move, but understanding the stakes weighing on Claire and her already displayed lack of true confidence to the viewer. This way