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Originally Posted by webz

Book Grant is an amalgamation of several paleontologists: 95% Jack Horner (also bearded and bespectacled), and subtle influences by Bob Bakker, John Ostrom, and "enthusiast" Gregory Paul.

Book version of Alan Grant is primarily a Hadrosaur specialist, and was credited for many discoveries and theories attributed to Horner. Bakker gets a nod here and there for some of the T. rex theories, and Ostrom and Paul's influence comes shining through when the focus on Velociraptors happen at the end of the book, but all of the nesting, and social aspects of dinosaurs is ALL 100% Horner stuff back in the late 80's when Crichton was doing his research.

True, but he tends to act more like Bakker in the book, with a much more outgoing and childfriendly personality.
Horner is always more reserved, and strikes me that he tends to keep to himself more, like Grant in the movie. (Not to imply that Horner doesn't like kids, since Grant didn't)

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Originally Posted by JanSolo

Can I just say how happy it makes me that so many Arkers are not just JP movie fans, but of the books as well. I like the 1st and 3rd movies, but love the books. Which is one of the reasons I really liked 3 because even though not based on one it felt closer to the books than the first two films did. Does anyone else think that 20 years is long enough of a time for a true to the books remake? I'd gladly take a 4th JP film if it weren't like 2, but really think remake is the way to do it.

I don't think I would like that at all, a true to the book adaptation, that is. The book was ultra modern in the early eighties, but was massively outdated by the early ninties. And 20 years on, even the movie is pretty dated. The book is outright ancient.
Also, I personally don't like most of the characters in the book. Hammond is the biggest asshole imaginable who deserved to die. He was more reprehensable than Nedry. I personally think, save for Malcom (And it could be due to the fact I can't stand Jeff Goldbloom), that everyone is a much better character in the movie.
So, I read the book, not a fan.
Though if they used more better dinosaurs (Deinonychus instead of Velociraptors, so on and so forth), most current theories, I wouldn't mind an update using the book characters, even though I don't care for them.
Either way, the humans aren't the draw for me.