Re: Actor Roy Scheider dies at 75

Anim8rFSK wrote:

>>>
>>>Did you read the book? Mr. DNA was such a total change in tone, it was 
>>>all over at that point.
>>
>>(snipped lots of valuable stuff)
>>
>>   No.  If I'd read the book... well, I don't see movies of books I 
>>really like.  They always disappoint.
>>
>>   There was certainly the presence of all the things you noted - I was 
>>just curious about why Mr. DNA would have been such a harbinger of doom.

>>  He was a little cartoon guy, after all.
>  
> Well, let's say there's a Sherlock Holmes story you're famliar with.  
> And come the big scene where Holmes reveals how he figured out who the 
> killer was, the filmmakers chose to have an animated Jerry Mouse run in 
> and explain it to everybody while Holmes stood there with a stupid grin 
> on his face saying "I wish I was smart enough to have thought of that"
> 
> That's approximately how much of a change "Mr. DNA" was.

Okay, in still trying to unpack the incrutable rubric, I'm guessing 
you're saying that Spielberg looked at a book that was supposed to be a 
pessimistic "Allegory of chaos theory", and saw his own upbeat "Personal 
childhood tribute to 70's Disneyland"...

....Would it clear things up if we just put it simply like that?

Derek Janssen (who agrees, but doesn't completely harbinge doom, since 
those kitchen-raptors *were* creepy enough for Crichton)
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