--- Natasa wrote:
Yes, I had quite a different impression while watching Jurassic Park (I haven't read the book). There is, for instance, the curious fact that practically everybody ends up with a leg injury - starting with the grandad who uses a walking stick from the start. What does it suggest, the warning that the society is moving in a wrong direction? Is it the same in the novel?
In spades ! In the novel, there is a kind of running commentary from Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum in the film) explaining the shortcomings of technological and scientific society, shortcomings which threaten humanity, as exemplified by the park. Science is equated with the will to dominate/ destroy. There isn't an explicit statement that this is a masculine thing, but the scientists, entrepeneurs and investors in Jurassic Park are all men which may not be a coincidence. Congo, the only other Crichton novel I've read, is less apocalyptic but shows the alliance of business and technology as being amoral and short termist. The most sympathetic character is a gorilla called Amy !
So it seems reasonable to assume that the patriarchal subtext of 13th Warrior had little to do with Michael Crichton. Mind you I thought Deliverance wasn't sexist so what do I know :-)
Stephen.
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