Jurassic Park: 8 Unbelievable Differences Between The Book And The Film

Everyone knows that a lot of people die in the Jurassic Park disaster, but one thing you can say for the film is that it has a happy ending... kind of. The main characters survive, the danger is left behind, and the loose ends are all tied up, ready for the credits to roll. The book, on the other hand, does not conclude so neatly.

Instead of simply escaping, the novel's penultimate chapters find Dr. Grant and Ellie investigating a raptor nest, and they end up discovering a large group of the animals on the beach, all staring in the same Southwest direction. Dr. Grant identifies that they seem to be preparing to migrate off the island, somehow.

Of course, those raptors are destroyed in the bombing, but the final page of the book suggests that not every dinosaur was killed. Grant is told by a government official that creatures have been discovered in the South American mainland, travelling from the coast to the jungles and mountains in the exact same Southwest direction as the raptors were facing, as though they were migrating...

In a chilling little twist, the book clearly suggests that some raptors have escaped the island, just as they did at the novel's beginning. The dinosaurs live on, and the reader can't help but feel unsettled at what danger still remains. This is something the film just doesn't include... but then again, who doesn't love a happy ending to a movie?