RE: palaeontologist characterization

["Sticht, Aaron" <Aaron.Sticht@qwest.com>]

Jack Horner was a consultant to the films and in interviews done for the
Special Edition DVD both Spielberg and Crichton noted that Dr. Grant was
loosely based on Jack Horner and like you noted some of Bob Bakkers ideas
were incorporated into the films, but actually more of Bakkers ideas were
incorporated in the original novel.  

-----Original Message-----
From: William M. Svensen [mailto:webmaster@Gondomail.zzn.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 4:14 PM
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: palaeontologist characterization

<<< Hi list
I saw (again) a few days ago the JP trilogy (I'm NOT going to talk 
about the 
dinos of the film). I was just wondering who might have inspired 
Grant's 
character. It MUST be based upon one (or several) living 
palaeontologists..
Anyone got an idea? >>

      A lot of guys "think" they are, but I believe it's basically 
Jack 
Horner sans beer and butts. DV>

I don't know about the movie(s), but I believe I read an interview 
with Crichton somewhere in which he said Grant in the novel was based 
mainly on Horner, with some of Bakker's ideas thrown in. I don't know 
if that's true or not though, it's been about a decade since I'd read 
it. I am certain that Horner was the main influence, however.


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