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Nedry’s Delimma, the Anne B, a no-show Rex, and we move on towards the stegosaurus as the storm builds.
Looks like the sick animal will be a stego again, like the book, considering we passed the triceratops already. I’m wondering if Harding has become Muldoon this time?
I also realized that we had no scene establishing Nedry’s relationship with BioSyn in this draft, unlike both the book and the film. Crazy! I see how it makes sense to preserve the reveal, but I prefer knowing about it. There’s something about Jurassic Park where you understand how Malcolm’s Chaos Theory predicts the collapse of the park (and a lot of this is delivered on the pages as you see the iterations become more complex).
Read the book for the fifth time last summer (the first time since high school though), so it’s still pretty fresh in my head. As I recall, the BioSyn scene never actually states that Dodgson is meeting with Nedry. He’s just meeting with an unnamed man. Crichton may have described his physique, but we never surely make the connection till he implements his plans. Since Crichton wrote the first draft of the screenplay, I’m sure he was still trying to keep this reveal as best as one can in the film medium. I agree though, the final film version is better. It’s still a bit of a surprise in the movie when Hammond asks if Nedry had butterfingers and the same guy who met with Dodgson turns around in the swivel chair. Better reveal for a movie.