Michael Crichton: An Appreciation

By Stuart Heritage on Thursday, November 6, 2008 at 7:09am2 Comments


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Sad news – author Michael Crichton has died after a battle with cancer, it has been announced. He was 66.

While some will say that Michael Crichton’s legacy will be Jurassic Park, the best-selling novel that was turned into movie phenomenon; or ER, the TV series he created from his own experiences as a doctor; or even Westworld, the movie he directed that was exactly the same as Jurassic Park except with a bald-headed robot cowboy instead of dinosaurs, they are respectfully wrong.

For us, Michael Crichton will be remembered for one thing and one thing only – this video. It’s the climax to the movie adaptation of his novel Congo. Evil gorillas have never been brutally dismembered by a laser gun inside a volcano so gracefully. Michael Crichton, you will be missed.

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