《朱罗纪公园》JurassicPark

1、朱罗纪公园JurassicPark jurassic park first draft bymichael crichton re-write bymaria scotch marmo3/14/92-extreme closeup of glowing honey-colored stones. their shapes abstractas the camera examines air bubbles and crystalline patterns.moving up and over this amber abstraction, the camera finds unusualsha

2、pes and imperfections caught in the glassy stone: flecks of dirt,hairs, cracks. still moving. starbursts of light ricochet off thedifferent surfaces of the stones.camera turns along a creamy stretch of amber. it turns in deeper,abstracting the picture further only to find a tiny blur that suddenlyra

3、cks into focus - a bug, a mosquito lodged within an amber tomb. it isfolded on its back.slow motion as the tip of a fine-pointed drill bores into the ambertoward the trapped bug. orange flecks fly. the mosquito trembles. thedrill continues, stopping just before it touches the tiny body.a shiny pair

4、of thin needle-nose pliers reach in the borehole andextricate the mosquito remains. these are dropped on a brightly litglass slide. a conveyor belt starts, and the slide moves along.arriving under a long-lensed microscope.in microscopic perspective, a thin needle pierces the bug and delicatelyremove

5、s a fragment of tissue.pincers snare the fragment, dropping it into a narrow tube. the tubespins, faster and faster until it is a blur on the screen.the screen floods with an infra-red light. gray, oval shapes rock in aneutral mist. wash out to:hot sun overhead in a big sky -ext badlands - afternoon

6、lodged in the cracked earth are the partially-exposed fossilized remainsof a velocirapter, a carnivorous dinosaur. widen out to a sweepingpanorama of a dinosaur dig, a major excavation filled with workersshoveling earth and stone, making measurements, taking photographs,scribbling notes, and conferr

7、ing with each other.the center of all this activity is one man. in a roped-off area thatcircumscribes the exposed bones of the raptor, is dr. alan grant, headpaleontologist. good-looking, late 30s, with a think beard.grant lies on his belly, completely absorbed in a small piece of bone.a group of tw

8、elve students, notebooks in hand, await his next sentence.close on - the tiny bone. grants nose touches it.grant brushes the bone with a toothbrush. then he decides on a quickerway to clean it. he licks it. excited by his discovery, he gets to hisfeet and addresses his students, who listen raptly. g

9、rantright calcaneus of an adult femaleraptor. mild stress fractures. whatsthis tell me?students look at each other. a tentative hand. grant continues. grantit tells me that this bone connects tothe navicula which we already foundarticulating to the cuboid.offscreen, a woman shouts to him. elliedr. g

10、rant! dr. grant!grant looks up.dr. ellie sattler, late 20s, sharp-eyed, tough if she wants to be, runslike a gazelle across the arid land. exuberant, she leaves a trail ofdust behind her.she zips by a student guarding the cordoned area. he tries to stop her. studentdr. sattler! dr. grant is thinking

11、!dr. grant waves her over enthusiastically with his bone and continues. grantso, what can we stay for sure? stressfractures in the heel .uncertain students. ellie arrives and immediately gets into it. ellieshe jumps.grant turns around to her and smiles. shes got it. other students to- they knew is a

12、ll along. grantright as rain, ellie. now, why did shejump?no answer. ellie gives it a try. elliea defensive posture against a vicious,blood-thirsty t-rex? grantperhaps. or maybe to select the smaller,more tender leaves in the higher brancheswith which to suckle her young?ellie jumps up. elliei bet i

13、s was a mating ritual.students laugh. one student eyes grants self-conscious smile at ellie. grantthe science of paleontology cant answerthese questions. novelists and artistswho dream a vision of the jurassic periodcan attempt these questions with theirimaginations. what we scientists can sayis con

14、sidering the mass and kineticarticulation of these bones, this animalhad a vertical leap of about twelve feet.not as entertaining as fiction, butabsolutely fact without prejudice.ellie intrudes again. ellieexcuse me, dr. grant. but . fact is,were late. theres the car.she points. on the horizon, a li

15、mousine speeds toward them, leaving adusty wake.grant sets the rules for his departure, giving instructions individuallyas ellie pulls him away, carrying their bags. grantjim, you keep making up the plasterbatches. whatever ratio youre using,its perfect. nora, no digging afterfive - when the temperature drops, thosebones are just too brittle. bill, idont want any tourists walking over myraptor - i dont care if the governor ofmontana is with them, just you guys.grant and ellie continue walking. she interrup