I just “read” (listened to) Jurassic Park and I’m almost finished with Lost World. Great fuckin books. Dude, yeah I liked the Lost World movie but why the fuck did they fuckin change the damn plot so much? it would have been SO much better if they followed the plot of the book. spielberg sucks for doing that.
i’m not even just talking about him turning Malcolm into a anxiety-ridden little bitch, or how he completely leaves out Biosyn and Dogdson, or how he completely sanitized every character…
it’s the little things like… he took the concept of 2 kids stowing away to the island (Arby and Kelly) and just included Kelly then decides, oh she’s Ian Malcolm’s daughter plus she’s not an academic, instead she’s a gymnist. A plot twist only built so she could do dumb gymnist shit to confuse a velociraptor (what?!) then kick it through a wall (…!!!)
little things like Spielberg couldn’t even be arsed to make the dinosaurs the much more descriptive colors Crichton described.
and… San Diego!!! wtf.
what happened in the first two Jurassic Park movies is they took events from both books, stripped them of all their “believability” (i know), then randomly scattered them into the movies while also assigning roles to the completely wrong characters for said events.
john hammond not dying a death by dinosaurs in the first movie was screenwriting SIN.
anyway, the books are awesome. way fuckin better than the movies. i get how it works but honestly i don’t really understand why they decided to just go in a completely different direction than Crichton’s work. and yeah i know he dgaf because they dumped a shitload of money on him and signed the rights to Lost World before he even wrote it. but still. the fuck, man
Completely agree. I still remember asking myself why they changed that about Hammond after reading the book decades ago!
I don’t mind differences between book and movie, but they have to make sense for me. However, I always thought that the movie adaptation of “Cloud Atlas” was absolutely great, one of the best translations from book to movie I know despite all the creative freedom they took, and that one probably LOST money while Jurassic Park was a huge success, so…
Seminal and very inspiring. I went looking for Curtis’s initial description of pulsar synthesis, ended up reading backwards to get some context and then just started at the beginning. For a 25 year old text it’s chock full of great ideas.
This is adapted from his 1999 dissertation but it’s not completely unreadable. There are certainly technical and analytical sections, but he also includes a lot of “and here is how I put it into practice making music” parts as well. The initial chapter on the history of microsound/granular is really interesting.
It’s worth pointing out that the text occupies a sort of weird middle ground - if you use any sub-tonal/granular effects or synthesis, the people that made them were likely influenced directly or indirectly by this book. At the same time, there are massive amounts of research, implementation and documentation in the intervening 25 years you can read if you want a more cutting edge take on the processes (most of which are incredibly dry but probably more technically useful by comparison). I still think this book serves as a great overview of the field without getting bogged down in the details and can offer up some interesting ways to think about and use those tools.
