The analysis of the character of John Hammond as portrayed in the film and the book.

Many times in literature, a character may remind the reader of a character of another work of literature or someone famous. When this piece of literature is translated to a film, the character's representation may change entirely. A wonderful example of this representation is Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park. In this work, the character John Hammond portrays a greedy, arrogant, and pompous old man with a dream to build a park full of cloned dinosaurs using …

…to childish ignorance and not selfish blindness. The audience watching the movie takes the childish ignorance as a mistake that anyone could have made and excuses it. Hammond is thus more widely liked in the movie, while he is hated by the end of the novel. This altering of Hammond's character changes a theme that presents challenges against the modern computer and bio-tech age, into a theme that is as simple as an adventure story.