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You can't disregard the bias towards an interesting story. For example, if Jurassic Park was real the worst case scenario would be ecosystem damage, not dinosaurs taking over the zoo (or whatever happens in the later films, I forget). That would be a bad story though, so in the book/films things need to go horribly wrong.


There are some good films about ecosystem damage, the documentary Mad Max for example.


Woah, I thought I was the only one who attributes films as documentaries.


Whereas Thermians know your both wrong: they're historical documents.


>There are some good films about ecosystem damage, the documentary Mad Max for example.

I was really hoping for Attenborough to narrate Fury Road, but it didn't quite pan out.


I know it's not at all the same, but my mind just brought me a snippet of Attenborough's voice over the trailer clips from the 2015 version, and it felt like The Gods Must Be Crazy.


Well it is technically more of a docudrama, he doesn't really do those :P


Could you elaborate on why you think that would that be a bad story? Isn’t dinosaurs taking over the zoo basically the same thing as a metaphor for “ecosystem” damage, just on a smaller scale so it’s easier to frame the action for an audience?


Maybe not a bad story, though watching people get chased around by dinosaurs is undoubtedly more exciting.


I love JP but I always felt the odds of dinosaurs taking over the park would be similar to gorillas and tigers taking over a zoo.


The rivers that flow into Lake Michigan are electrified, killing everything in them.

It prevents invasive species from getting to Lake Michigan and wiping out, well, everything.




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