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...Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park...
Until the latest discovery, the largest velociraptor ever found was about the size of a human. But that did not stop Steven Spielberg from featuring supersize velociraptors in his upcoming movie Jurassic Park, based on the Michael Crichton novel of the same name. In it, real dinosaurs, grown from bits of ancient DNA to populate a theme park, go on a rampage and terrorize humans trapped there. Until the Utah find, Spielberg's creatures would have been just another Hollywood exaggeration; now, they will seem even more monstrously real...
...these effects are like Lego blocks compared with the task confronting < ILM now: Spielberg's Jurassic Park, from the Michael Crichton best seller about dinosaurs roaming through a modern theme park. The mammoth mechanized beasts being assembled at Stan Winston Studio in Van Nuys, Calif., will be filmed, broken down into computer code and inserted onto the live-action frame to interact with the humans. Spielberg's requirements for absolute movie realism will mean a 21st century marriage between the modelmaking Gepettos in Los Angeles and the video futurists in San Rafael. One ILM animator says the challenge...
...Montrealers, you see, are not inscrutable. They just would not work as villains. A Michael Crichton thriller in which the heavy is a crafty Quebecois? Not a chance. Instead Crichton rides the zeitgeist to the top of the charts with Rising Sun, a best seller whose No. 1 villain is quite simply Japan and things Japanese...
RISING SUN by Michael Crichton (Knopf; $22). Japan-bashing has never been more exquisitely calibrated for best-sellerdom. There is a whodunit at the heart of this commercial thriller, but the identity of the bad guys is never in any doubt. Lay out some plastic for this novel before publishers' row becomes a subsidiary of Sony...