A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Cover art for the 1990 first edition by Chip Kidd. (C) 1990 Alfred A. Knopf Nowadays, the title  Jurassic Park  conjures up images from a series of films which began with Steven Spielberg's Apatosaurus-sized blockbuster and became an ongoing franchise. As of this writing, Universal Pictures has released  five  films in the series, including  The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park III, Jurassic World,  and this year’s  Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom  This, of course, is to be expected and is not exactly a new concept in Hollywood; Jaws, which was Spielberg's first real blockbuster (and is in fact the grandfather of the modern "monster hit movie") also started out as a decent horror film about a predator with sharp teeth that, um, snacked on people...and should have, like its 1993 cinematic heir, should have been left as a stand-alone film. What some people tend to forget is that both these franchise-starting Spielberg f...