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Doesn't quite have the ring to it.
I think it would, if that was what they named the book and movie.
It's named that way because of the raptor intelligence. "Can this raptor open doors?" "You bet jurassican"
Daaad!
We really won't talk about those "velociraptors"? The annoying kid at the beginning of the movie was the only one to get their description surprisingly accurate when he said they looked like a 2m turkey.
But a very smart one!
I thought that they were a little smaller too
Also, wrong continent for Velociraptors (they were in Hell Creek Montana/South Dakota). Velociraptors are found in China/Mongolia.
Deinonychus or UtahRaptors are the right size and continent, but don't sound as cool as "Velociraptor"
I mean, I don't think the film says that they stuck to cloning local dinos.
I'm referring to the beginning of the first movie where Grant discovers a Velociraptor, while being in South Dakota.
And most likely it's because of that movie that regular people know a Cretaceous even existed and what animals where there. It did kick the field and public interest into high gear.
You aren't suggesting that not every child has a dinosaur fixation somewhere from ages 2-10?
Don’t be pedantic. They picked the name because it sounded cool and got the point across.
And "they" means the characters, not the writer.
Not just that but a character that is written as glossing over important details for profit
The fact that the movie turned Hammond into a kindly grandfather figure rather than the rich, greedy bastard he was in the book was probably one of the bigger mistakes in the adaptation... The way he's presented as a visionary who actually cares in the movie makes the cut costs not really make that much sense.
Greedy capitalist fuck who only sees how much money he can milk out of the park like he was in the book? That made perfect sense.
TIL book