Re: Actor Roy Scheider dies at 75

In article <0a6tj.15508$R64.4912@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Derek Janssen <ejanss1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> 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?

No.  I don't think Speilberg ever looked at the book at all.  His 
interviews where he claims to have pretty much prove he didn't.  

I think a bunch of people that never looked at the source sat around 
saying stuff they liked in other dinosaur movies, and somebody said "you 
know what I like, the Chevron dinosaurs, they were cool!"

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