Of all the omissions or revisions to the film version of Jurassic Park I have always considered the change of Hammond's personality to be the most integral to the movie's longterm success. Hammond entirely defines and encapsulates the childlike wonder of Dinosaurs that gives JP it's inherent magic, specifically a love of Dinosaurs that can be held by ALL ages and not just shown through the lens of Timmy.
Yeah I was a child and I loved watching this movie over and over again, when I found out about the actual john hammond in the novel Me: ...Yeah no Auther: but it's cannon Me: NOT TO ME HES NOT!
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@GamingTV Yes, he is counting his fingers, however he wasn't counting the potential profit he would make, but rather counted off the members of his scouting team (Hammond counts four fingers, the team (Kelly excluded, since he had no clue she would stowaway) consists of four members: Ian, Nick, Sarah and Eddie.)
@GamingTV No. He was counting the team members. Your version makes no sense, seeing how both Ian's and InGen's team arrived on Sorna the day after this conversation.
Ah, how I love to read people's interpretations on a plot element, only to turn their slightly-heated- yet still civil discussion into discourse by denouncing their intelligence. But that's just another Tuesday on the Internet.
Frank Sanchez Well considering all of the other issues in the park it was always doomed to fail, if nedry didn’t sabotage the park it may have opened but not for long I say.
It is absolutely imperative that we work with the Costa Rican Department of Biological Preserves to establish a set of rules, for the preservation and isolation of that island. These creatures require our absence to survive, not our help. And if we could only step aside and trust in nature, *Life will find a way*
You've got the film portrayal. The loving grandfather, warm and playful. He's a scientist who loves dinosaurs and wants to share his love with the world. He is portrayed as completely innocent in his ideas. It fits with the magic of the film, it makes it appeal to kids and adults alike. Then you've got the book portrayal. The arrogant, cold billionaire who couldn't care less about people unless he gained from it. It's mean, it's cold, it's dark. It perfectly fits into the theme of the book which is a much more gruesome, realistic portrayal of Jurassic Park. Each one is completely different, each one fits their universe. People who read the books as well as watching the film's can immerse themselves in a different mood when watching or reading, and that's the beauty of it. Side note: I think it would be awesome to have some kind of spin off, R-Rated Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park movies that were akin to the novel, with the characters portrayed as in the novels, but they wouldn't be right fit into the franchise Universal have made, they would have to be completely separate and purely targeted at an adult-orientated audience, and so will probably never happen, in the near future at least, and probably not with the same name.
Although John Hammond is still referred to in the movies following The Lost World, I still deeply miss his presence in the later movies. RIP Richard Attenborough.
Novel Hammond is a jerk who´d do anything for money. Movie hammond was a Scientist who loved dinosaurs. what we learned from fallen kingdom puts a new light to the the dinner table discussion where Malcolm Berattes Hammond over his park and how Hammond never earned this genetic power. Fallen Kingdom shows us that he DID earn it, he worked for it, He and Lockwood Broke new ground in genetics and changed the world. Movie Hammond wanted to share his love of dinosaurs with the world. novel Hammond saw it as a way to make money
Plus the movie version works better for an actual debate on the ethics of the dinosaur cloning instead of the asshole rich guy version that feels like straw man.
Richard Attenborough was so amazing as John Hammond. I also picture him when thinking about Jurassic Park. "Welcome, to Jurassic Park" Epic! Such an important piece of my childhood. I saw the movie in theatres with my grandparents when I was six. When the raptor jumped up and almost grabbed Lex's legs, I jumped up in my seat.
"When you try to sound like Hammond, it comes off as a hustle. I mean it's not your fault. They say talent skips a generation. So hey, I'm sure your kids will be sharp as tacks."
@@Steveo92921 That's actually quite funny. Like the scene when Ludlow tells them to get going, but nobody listens until Nick stands up and tells them they need to get the hell out of there.
Hammond was and is everything. He dared to go where others would not- experienced it, and wanted to take care of it in the end. He was everything Wu is not. What an strangely biblical representation of these two men- the wise old elder god who ends up wanting to love and protect- And the young and vain devil who makes them weapons of war.
I can think of no other actor who could've portrayed John Hammond better other than Sir Richard Attenborough. He really brought the character to life and made him a much more-rounded character, capable of remorse and change.
Personally I disagree that Lockwood and Atherton are the same person. Specifically because Atherton's death was the reason Hammond got Wu to join the team. Lockwood was still alive. The business partner aspect of it may be borrowed from that book character, but (of course) it changes things. I still think of a Norman Atherton in whose lab Wu worked until his death, when John persuaded him to come work for them. On book vs movie Hammond: I like both. Book Hammond seems a good depiction of a spoiled billionaire, used to getting his way by throwing money at it. They changed it nicely for the movie and I love Attenborough's portrayal.
I absolutely adore Sir Richard Attenborough. I saw the movie when I was 2 or so (the summer it came out), and according to my family, I was obsessed. Fast forward to high school, I then realized that.. hey.... there's a BOOK. Why it took that long to realize it, I have NO idea. I was shocked when I read the Book Hammond.
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*"SPARED NO EXPENSE!"* I'm like you, Klayton: as much as I truly find the novel iteration of Hammond interesting (though malevolent), I saw the 1993 film beforehand, and the late Richard Attenborough's performance has left a much bigger impact on me regarding this franchise all my life.
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One of the interesting things about Hammond's elephant (that was small enough to hold in one hand) was how miserable, not unexpected considering how they had physically warped it, and unpleasant the animal actually was. I feel that said so much about book Hammond's whole personality and his approach to the life he created. He has no empathy and only cares how the animals APPEAR to the audience. As a person who has worked in corporate petstores, I can say this is a very common mentality. They are not truly cruel, but cruelty comes from their indifference and/or priority of appearance and money. We had a woman from the zoo thinking of working there and was disgusted at the living conditions (not that they weren't clean or anything since we always did our best to care for them, they just were not anywhere near what the animals needed due to corporate limiting resources and pre-fab setups). I only applied at one petstore that sold dogs (something I truly despise, ADOPT! DON'T SHOP!!!) at a point I was truly desperate for work but just couldn't go through past the interview. They paid employees on COMMISSION for the dogs and openly fought against ethical breeding practices. Horrible mindset, horrible ethics. I won't say the name of the store chain (I am not sure they are even in business anymore), but it was one that was notorious for selling puppymill puppies.
I love both portrayals, and think each fits really well with the respective narratives of the book and film. His having a character arc really works well in the film, and him being the jerk whose most prominent feature is that he has ZERO arc really works in the book.
If you look at the movies you do get Sparks of the meaner John Hammond in Jurassic Park. The Argument with Dennis Nedry, The Confrontation over the Lycen Contingency, the talking to Ellie over the melting Ice Cream, and the insistence on full shut down.
He was an ass in the novel. I am conflicted, on the one hand movie hammond is more interesting than «i exist to be greedy and be an ass» hammond, but his poetic death in the novel is just too good.
What's even better in the novel is that Hammond only falls and breaks his ankle because Lex and Tim were playing around with the Park sound system, which included T-Rex roars for herding the dinosaurs.
I love both iterations of Hammond. Richard Attenborogh's protrait is amazing and the fact he has a change of heart is great. But book Hammond is a great antagonist. For me, Leter Luddlow is as much inspired by him as it is by Lewis Dogson. I was hoping that Irrfan Kahn's chatacter in Jurassic World was going to reveal himself to be more like book Hammond.
I like the movie character more because of his performance and role in the franchise's plot, and I grew up watching the movies before finally reading the novel. He does indeed symbolize Jurassic Park very much and I can agree that he represents much of us in terms of our love for dinosaurs and recreating them. Of course, it's great to add the novel's information into the films and his novel character is unique and impactful in its own way.
I love so much this character to be honest, and the actor who did a 5 stars job doing his incarnation to the big screen, everytime that i see a pic or any kind of reference of John Hammond in the new movies, i can't avoid to put a warm smile on my face, and getting my eyes a little wet ^^
The history of his actions are quite common to the rich wanting to prove something to the people and abuses power. The theme of Ying and yang play out in the book and the movie. Hammond is light; Wanting to prove the positive things that will draw the attention to the public and dependency of technology that he has control over nature. Ian Malcom is the dark; The history of technology's flaws and the countless attempts of playing god is always a great flaw of all attempts to control Nature. Though this is a theme that Nature cannot be controlled. Life cannot be contained, life breaks free, life finds a way! :) Such a great video Klayton! Keep going forward! If so... can you do a video of the Ying and yang; John hammond and Ian Malcolms point of view of Jurassic park.
The change to Hammond from book to film was necessary in a more family-orientated film, but I think the book represents a more realistic version of what someone like that would be like in real-life - a God-complex after literally creating life, focused on business and success over anything else. There are shades of this in the film but it is vailed in naivety and a sense of wonder that makes movie Hammond likeable. But we only get to spend a fraction of a 2 hour film with him, we don't really know film Hammond as well as we think.
It is great that John wanted to atone for his past mistakes. But it is also incredibly naive even foolish to think there wouldn't be people who'd want to take advantage of his cloned dinosaurs.
They way Richard Attenborough played out a new version of Hammond compared to the novel does make me feel happier. I feel like if he wasn’t so much of a nice person yet one minded to set out and be so determined to make the Park work, we won’t have Jurassic Movies like we did after the first, and to Jurassic World today. It would’ve weird to think Hammond played any other way besides a kind hearted and persevered man.
Speaking of him I noticed something while you were doing g the Tresspasser game his middle name in the game is Parker for John Parker Hammond in Fallen Kingdom Eli Mills calls him John Alfred Hammond did you catch that or not?
I really enjoyed this video. I really do like movie Hammond better because his cheerfulness and Malcolm's personality clash and I think it's good for character development. But at the same time, Malcolm doubts the park/island and explains how it's a danger and Malcolm inevitably suffers from Hammonds mistakes by getting wounded. yet Hammond doesn't get harmed, physically at least, in the film. "But with this place, I wanted to show them something that wasn't an illusion. Something that was real. Something they could see and touch. An aim, not devoid of merit."
John Hammond isn't a bad guy He bred the dinosaurs in Site B and shipped them to Jurassic Park before Dennis Nedry (The big greedy jerk who sabotaged his dream by stealing the viable dinosaur embryos for Dodgson) Danny his vengeful nephew vowed to take revenge for his dead uncle by sabotaging Jurassic World by Simon
For me I enjoyed movie Hammond the most. He had that compassionate childhood dream and made it a reality. As for the manner in fallen kingdom. I absolutely hated it after the island exploded. It went from a Jurassic Park/World movie and became an evil villain auctioning off exotic pets. I completely hated the cloned child parts of the movie and if they truly took the ques from the book then we would of seen those first cloned elephants. Hammond was a great character in the first two movies and without him the entire love around Jurassic Park would be greatly less than what we have. Like Malcolm said, you went from capitalist to naturalist in just four years.
Geronimo553 Maisie makes sense as a character because she represents another side of the cloning. Movie Hammond was a bit ignorant but his desires to bring the dinosaurs back wasn’t selfish. However- Lockwood showed just how harmful this technology can really be by cloning his daughter and using said clone as nothing more than a crutch because he couldn’t get over losing her. If the dinosaurs weren’t supposed to be there then neither should Maisie because she’s just as much as an abomination as they are
The book always wins. However, Attenborough's portrayal of John Hammond was still an extravagant job of turning what I call a villain, to an old man who cared but made very big mistakes.
I really honestly wish that Hammond had the same personality in the movie, but the same death scene. He hardly does anything in the next movie, and the death scene that he was given at first was so amazing. An old, wise, billionaire scientist who had finally reached his dream of created dinosaurs, who then falls down a large hill, only to be eaten by compys. And as the compys have a special thing in their bite (I don't know what it is) It makes John feels relaxed and happy, being eaten alive by his own creation, his own dream. Beautiful, and I wish I could see it for myself.
You should have mentioned that the reason Lockwood's Manor had a lab, display room with a conveyor belt, was because this all would have been used for Jurassic Park: San Diego. Had that been continued, they would have cloned the dinosaurs in the lab, held them in the cages, shown them off to investors in what we know as the auction room, before shipping them to San Diego.
Never really liked Hammond in the novel but I really liked his character in the movies. In fact he is one of my favorite characters from the original movie next to Robert Muldoon
JP1 Hammond is innocent and optimistic. JP2 Hammond actually sets the first overall impression but it's his last words "These creatures require our absence to survive, not our help. And if we could only step aside and trust in nature, life will find a way.” That line was by far the most important line he ever spoke, it was a very good one.
I have to agree. Before I read the book I always thought of malcome and grant but after reading the book I really took to john and usually think of him now when thinking of jurassic park. Cant decide which hammond I like better both are so good in different ways.
Of course both versions of Hammond are amazing. The book version shows the great lengths he goes to and as you said in the video, won't take no for an answer. For me it's also he movie version because they couldn't have picked a better person to bring Hammond to life. The part that just perfects his role as John, is where he is telling Ellie about the flea circus and even the music at that moment in the film and the way he is speaking while telling the story you can really see how much regret he has for what has gone wrong in his creation.
I think I prefer novel Hammond to Film Hammond. I like Richard, don't get me wrong, but I just like the darker more corrupt Hammond from the novel. But I prefer the novels anyway. I love the films, and the first few are outstanding, but the novels are even better in my honest opinion.
Great video as always! Movie Hammond was cool and all being the kindly grandfather figure but I never really got the sense of business man from him too much. Apart from his interactions with Nedry, I never really felt that he was a business savvy person. I felt that the Hammond from the novel was more of a petulant and entitled child than an actual businessman. I like the movie Hammond more but I wish that they played more of the business side of him. He did found InGen after all and that aspect seems to be lost in his character. Maybe I'm missing something as its been a while since I've gone through the films but he never really felt like a business man to me.
He was really old and not really there for business anymore, he wanted to realize the dream he had. The novel version might have been a pure business man but the John in the movie as he put it "spared no expense" with his Park. He might have been a really good business man but that he is not sitting in the board of InGen at the time of the movie but he still owns the company. Just like in Batman begins Bruce Wayne didn't sit at the board either but he still owned the whole company.
I'd take movie Hammond any day, since I find him much more relatable. His dream of reviving and presenting dinosaurs is kind of similar to how many of us have these seemingly improbable goals that we want to accomplish, yet some of them may lead to disastrous results if we avoid thinking about potential consequences ("Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"). And even though Hammond was overall kind in the film, he still had some arrogant moments. For instance, there was the scene where he told Dr. Sattler about he could regain control of the park, despite all the mishaps that already occurred like the T. rex freeing herself from her paddock. It's a great way of developing his character throughout the movie, and had they used that other ending with him shooting the Big One, it could've capped it off really well.
there is still so much more that can be covered with Hammond. Whether its the other attractions he had in mind for Jurassic Park, how he planned giving everyone in the world the right to enjoy these animals, his flea circus or what he built in Kenya, the list goes on and on.
This is my favorite line in the ENTIRE JP/JW Series: "Dr. Grant, My Dear Dr. Sattler... WELCOME... To Jurassic Park!" said John Hammond. "Brachiosaurus Trumpeting" "They Move in Heards..." Said Dr. Grant "They Do Move In Heards." "How'd you do this" said Dr. Grant.
"I have a island, off the coast of Costa Rica" "Thanks god for Site B." John Parker Alfred Hammond is my favorite character. He reminds me of my grandfather. I think movie canon had a both Benjamin Lockwood and Norman Atherton. Wu officially worked since 1986, but InGen's project was started on 1982. Probably someone led the science team of InGen. Who? I guess it's Norman. Maybe not. Maybe Laura Sorkin was (she's part of soft-canon, so.) Anyway, Hammond is my favorite movie character of all time
I like both versions of Hammond. The one in the book is always interesting to read about, to figure out how this wobbly creepy old dude got far enough to have a mega-millions island with dinosaurs.
So I am currently writing a paper for a popular culture class (what they has to do with geology idk). In my paper I go into how Hammond and Malcolm represent yin and yang. It’s actually very interesting when you compare it.
Wait, so the elephant that Gennaro remembers him and carrying around with him in the cage the little one was in a film cannon created where the first dinosaur was that is so cool
Of all the omissions or revisions to the film version of Jurassic Park I have always considered the change of Hammond's personality to be the most integral to the movie's longterm success. Hammond entirely defines and encapsulates the childlike wonder of Dinosaurs that gives JP it's inherent magic, specifically a love of Dinosaurs that can be held by ALL ages and not just shown through the lens of Timmy.
Yeah I was a child and I loved watching this movie over and over again, when I found out about the actual john hammond in the novel
Me: ...Yeah no
Auther: but it's cannon
Me: NOT TO ME HES NOT!
I love the joke in the Lego game where he says "spared no expense" and in the background the head of the fossil falls off
He bought
He fought
But most importantly
he created 7 tyrannosaurus rex
Spared no expense.
Next Time, t'll be Flawless.
Spared No Expense
As we have seen in later movies it all ends in diaster
Fiasco theory
That was cuz mr capitalism wasn't alive.
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He spared no expense.
That line is spoken only once in the book and not by John Hammond.
“Denis Nedry” has entered the chat
Ford explorers?
That ought to be etched on his tombstone.
It's possible that Hammond knew he was dying of cancer and that his dream was to build a theme park full of dinosaurs.
Shaine White i thought John died of old age
@GamingTV Yes, he is counting his fingers, however he wasn't counting the potential profit he would make, but rather counted off the members of his scouting team (Hammond counts four fingers, the team (Kelly excluded, since he had no clue she would stowaway) consists of four members: Ian, Nick, Sarah and Eddie.)
@GamingTV No. He was counting the team members. Your version makes no sense, seeing how both Ian's and InGen's team arrived on Sorna the day after this conversation.
Ah, how I love to read people's interpretations on a plot element, only to turn their slightly-heated- yet still civil discussion into discourse by denouncing their intelligence.
But that's just another Tuesday on the Internet.
@GamingTV Thanks for the correction, that explanation fits better. Makes more sense than "Because profit."
"I don't blame people for their problems, but I do ask that they pay for them" - John Hammond
He didn't blame people for their mistakes. Ironic, considering the misquotation.
"Thanks Dad."
ironic that if hammond had paid nedry a little better the park would have been up and running in no time
That was clearly an oxymoron
Frank Sanchez Well considering all of the other issues in the park it was always doomed to fail, if nedry didn’t sabotage the park it may have opened but not for long I say.
It is absolutely imperative that we work with the Costa Rican Department of Biological Preserves to establish a set of rules, for the preservation and isolation of that island. These creatures require our absence to survive, not our help.
And if we could only step aside and trust in nature, *Life will find a way*
One of the best endings in any of the films, in my opinion.
@@hufflepunk9562 Specially Since it was His Last Speech. RIP Richard Attenborough, We Spare No Expense
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You've got the film portrayal. The loving grandfather, warm and playful. He's a scientist who loves dinosaurs and wants to share his love with the world. He is portrayed as completely innocent in his ideas. It fits with the magic of the film, it makes it appeal to kids and adults alike.
Then you've got the book portrayal. The arrogant, cold billionaire who couldn't care less about people unless he gained from it. It's mean, it's cold, it's dark. It perfectly fits into the theme of the book which is a much more gruesome, realistic portrayal of Jurassic Park.
Each one is completely different, each one fits their universe. People who read the books as well as watching the film's can immerse themselves in a different mood when watching or reading, and that's the beauty of it.
Side note:
I think it would be awesome to have some kind of spin off, R-Rated Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park movies that were akin to the novel, with the characters portrayed as in the novels, but they wouldn't be right fit into the franchise Universal have made, they would have to be completely separate and purely targeted at an adult-orientated audience, and so will probably never happen, in the near future at least, and probably not with the same name.
Jurassic World: Rebirth Will be R Rated
*"Adults aren't as dumb as their children!"*
Every corporate business since the 1930s lmao
Although John Hammond is still referred to in the movies following The Lost World, I still deeply miss his presence in the later movies. RIP Richard Attenborough.
Completely agree. I'd like either a film or mini series to explore/explain some of hammonds backstory before jurassic Park. Interesting character.
Novel Hammond is a jerk who´d do anything for money. Movie hammond was a Scientist who loved dinosaurs. what we learned from fallen kingdom puts a new light to the the dinner table discussion where Malcolm Berattes Hammond over his park and how Hammond never earned this genetic power. Fallen Kingdom shows us that he DID earn it, he worked for it, He and Lockwood Broke new ground in genetics and changed the world. Movie Hammond wanted to share his love of dinosaurs with the world. novel Hammond saw it as a way to make money
Sounds alot like Ludlow and Mils
Plus the movie version works better for an actual debate on the ethics of the dinosaur cloning instead of the asshole rich guy version that feels like straw man.
Does hammond really was a scientist? I thought he only provided the money to clone the dinosaurs.
@@belmont1960 He was. He and Lockwood had a lab at lockwood manor
@@markusnavergard2387 really? i mean never saw hammond act as a scientist on the two first films. Unless is something from the novel.
Richard Attenborough was so amazing as John Hammond. I also picture him when thinking about Jurassic Park. "Welcome, to Jurassic Park" Epic! Such an important piece of my childhood. I saw the movie in theatres with my grandparents when I was six. When the raptor jumped up and almost grabbed Lex's legs, I jumped up in my seat.
To think, Peter Ludlow was pretty arrogant, just like how his Uncle was protrayed in the novel, runs in the family i guess, the franchise family.
The BGamerSaurus To me, Ludlow felt like a subtle combination of Novel Hammond & Novel Dodgson.
"When you try to sound like Hammond, it comes off as a hustle. I mean it's not your fault. They say talent skips a generation. So hey, I'm sure your kids will be sharp as tacks."
@@Steveo92921 Is that from The Lost World movie? (It's been a while since I've watched all these movies so I'm rewatching them in a few days)
@@MechaKnuckles yeah. Malcolm says it to Ludlow
@@Steveo92921 That's actually quite funny.
Like the scene when Ludlow tells them to get going, but nobody listens until Nick stands up and tells them they need to get the hell out of there.
The truth is he sparred no expense
Hammond was and is everything. He dared to go where others would not- experienced it, and wanted to take care of it in the end.
He was everything Wu is not.
What an strangely biblical representation of these two men- the wise old elder god who ends up wanting to love and protect-
And the young and vain devil who makes them weapons of war.
I can think of no other actor who could've portrayed John Hammond better other than Sir Richard Attenborough. He really brought the character to life and made him a much more-rounded character, capable of remorse and change.
Personally I disagree that Lockwood and Atherton are the same person. Specifically because Atherton's death was the reason Hammond got Wu to join the team. Lockwood was still alive. The business partner aspect of it may be borrowed from that book character, but (of course) it changes things. I still think of a Norman Atherton in whose lab Wu worked until his death, when John persuaded him to come work for them.
On book vs movie Hammond: I like both. Book Hammond seems a good depiction of a spoiled billionaire, used to getting his way by throwing money at it. They changed it nicely for the movie and I love Attenborough's portrayal.
I absolutely adore Sir Richard Attenborough. I saw the movie when I was 2 or so (the summer it came out), and according to my family, I was obsessed. Fast forward to high school, I then realized that.. hey.... there's a BOOK. Why it took that long to realize it, I have NO idea. I was shocked when I read the Book Hammond.
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John Hammond Is the grandfather everyone wanted at some point In there life
The Batman
Really? You would want your grandfather to put you in the path of a large carnivorous animal?
@@wschippr1 he never intended no that but a theme park owner who wants people to have the adventure of a liftetime
Fuck no. I don't want someone who cheaps out on safety for profit.
Even as a kid, Hammond and Malcolm were always my favourite characters.
I like both versions. They each have their own unique charm.
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I randomly stumbled upon your videos by accident and they quite enjoyable. I always enjoyed the original Jurassic Park movie..
But I never really cared much for their sequels, but these "extended universe" or "in depth lore" all sound far more interesting than we've seen on the silver screen.
So kudos to you!
*"SPARED NO EXPENSE!"* I'm like you, Klayton: as much as I truly find the novel iteration of Hammond interesting (though malevolent), I saw the 1993 film beforehand, and the late Richard Attenborough's performance has left a much bigger impact on me regarding this franchise all my life.
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One of the interesting things about Hammond's elephant (that was small enough to hold in one hand) was how miserable, not unexpected considering how they had physically warped it, and unpleasant the animal actually was. I feel that said so much about book Hammond's whole personality and his approach to the life he created. He has no empathy and only cares how the animals APPEAR to the audience. As a person who has worked in corporate petstores, I can say this is a very common mentality. They are not truly cruel, but cruelty comes from their indifference and/or priority of appearance and money. We had a woman from the zoo thinking of working there and was disgusted at the living conditions (not that they weren't clean or anything since we always did our best to care for them, they just were not anywhere near what the animals needed due to corporate limiting resources and pre-fab setups). I only applied at one petstore that sold dogs (something I truly despise, ADOPT! DON'T SHOP!!!) at a point I was truly desperate for work but just couldn't go through past the interview. They paid employees on COMMISSION for the dogs and openly fought against ethical breeding practices. Horrible mindset, horrible ethics. I won't say the name of the store chain (I am not sure they are even in business anymore), but it was one that was notorious for selling puppymill puppies.
I totally forgot that elephant.
Chilling detail indeed.
Killing off film Hammond was actually a terrible idea, considering he was a kind old man with a child like belief that dinosaurs would live again.
except that can't be helped.
richard attyenbough died.
@@taliesincoleman6569 CGI him, Disney would do it.
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I love both portrayals, and think each fits really well with the respective narratives of the book and film.
His having a character arc really works well in the film, and him being the jerk whose most prominent feature is that he has ZERO arc really works in the book.
If you look at the movies you do get Sparks of the meaner John Hammond in Jurassic Park. The Argument with Dennis Nedry, The Confrontation over the Lycen Contingency, the talking to Ellie over the melting Ice Cream, and the insistence on full shut down.
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He was an ass in the novel. I am conflicted, on the one hand movie hammond is more interesting than «i exist to be greedy and be an ass» hammond, but his poetic death in the novel is just too good.
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My full name is Michael John Hammond Pettersson. And im proud of it. Best character 😊
I agree. I prefer his character in the film, however he did get his comeuppance in the novel just because of his ignorance really
What's even better in the novel is that Hammond only falls and breaks his ankle because Lex and Tim were playing around with the Park sound system, which included T-Rex roars for herding the dinosaurs.
I love both iterations of Hammond. Richard Attenborogh's protrait is amazing and the fact he has a change of heart is great. But book Hammond is a great antagonist. For me, Leter Luddlow is as much inspired by him as it is by Lewis Dogson. I was hoping that Irrfan Kahn's chatacter in Jurassic World was going to reveal himself to be more like book Hammond.
I like the movie character more because of his performance and role in the franchise's plot, and I grew up watching the movies before finally reading the novel. He does indeed symbolize Jurassic Park very much and I can agree that he represents much of us in terms of our love for dinosaurs and recreating them. Of course, it's great to add the novel's information into the films and his novel character is unique and impactful in its own way.
I love so much this character to be honest, and the actor who did a 5 stars job doing his incarnation to the big screen, everytime that i see a pic or any kind of reference of John Hammond in the new movies, i can't avoid to put a warm smile on my face, and getting my eyes a little wet ^^
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The history of his actions are quite common to the rich wanting to prove something to the people and abuses power.
The theme of Ying and yang play out in the book and the movie. Hammond is light; Wanting to prove the positive things that will draw the attention to the public and dependency of technology that he has control over nature.
Ian Malcom is the dark; The history of technology's flaws and the countless attempts of playing god is always a great flaw of all attempts to control Nature.
Though this is a theme that Nature cannot be controlled. Life cannot be contained, life breaks free, life finds a way! :)
Such a great video Klayton! Keep going forward!
If so... can you do a video of the Ying and yang; John hammond and Ian Malcolms point of view of Jurassic park.
The change to Hammond from book to film was necessary in a more family-orientated film, but I think the book represents a more realistic version of what someone like that would be like in real-life - a God-complex after literally creating life, focused on business and success over anything else. There are shades of this in the film but it is vailed in naivety and a sense of wonder that makes movie Hammond likeable. But we only get to spend a fraction of a 2 hour film with him, we don't really know film Hammond as well as we think.
It is great that John wanted to atone for his past mistakes. But it is also incredibly naive even foolish to think there wouldn't be people who'd want to take advantage of his cloned dinosaurs.
Hammond SCARED The Hell Out Of Me, In The Book.
wow interesting i love it john is and was a great character also great vid once more never disappoint:)
I am glad for the movie version!:)
They way Richard Attenborough played out a new version of Hammond compared to the novel does make me feel happier. I feel like if he wasn’t so much of a nice person yet one minded to set out and be so determined to make the Park work, we won’t have Jurassic Movies like we did after the first, and to Jurassic World today. It would’ve weird to think Hammond played any other way besides a kind hearted and persevered man.
"Condors! Condors are on the verge of extinction! If I were to create a flock of condors on this island, you wouldn't have anything to say!"
"Dinosaurs had their shot and nature selected them for extinction!"
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loved your playthrough of JP Trespasser.
I love movie Hammond! Thank for this video.
4:57 When he eats Ice Cream in JP, he talks a little about his backstory, off the top of my head he had a flea circus
I still miss him😢🙏
I agree he is the face of Jurassic Park/World
Speaking of him I noticed something while you were doing g the Tresspasser game his middle name in the game is Parker for John Parker Hammond in Fallen Kingdom Eli Mills calls him John Alfred Hammond did you catch that or not?
Michael Thompson yeah,trespasser was wiped out of Canon by fallen kingdom, another reason for me to hate fallen kingdom
Trespasser was never canon but Eli Mills was actually lying in that scene. The portrait in Fallen Kingdom says "Parker"
Klayton Fioriti thanks for clearing that up for me
@@KlaytonFioriti oh I missed that
Klayton Fioriti Really? Cause I just rewatched that scene and the name plate was too small & out of focus for me to read.
I really enjoyed this video. I really do like movie Hammond better because his cheerfulness and Malcolm's personality clash and I think it's good for character development. But at the same time, Malcolm doubts the park/island and explains how it's a danger and Malcolm inevitably suffers from Hammonds mistakes by getting wounded. yet Hammond doesn't get harmed, physically at least, in the film.
"But with this place, I wanted to show them something that wasn't an illusion. Something that was real. Something they could see and touch. An aim, not devoid of merit."
John Hammond has always been my favourite character in the films
I highly doubt it will ever happen but I would love a cameo of David Attenborough acting as the final words of John Hammond
John Hammond isn't a bad guy
He bred the dinosaurs in Site B and shipped them to Jurassic Park before Dennis Nedry
(The big greedy jerk who sabotaged his dream by stealing the viable dinosaur embryos for Dodgson)
Danny his vengeful nephew vowed to take revenge for his dead uncle by sabotaging Jurassic World by Simon
Absolutely false. He cared little about the people who died, and was actively cheaping out on safety and programming.
The man who said the most iconic quote in the entire history of cinema other than Ian Malcolm and Rexy.
If your wondering what did Rexy say in the movie, then:
"Ima T.rex motherf*cker!"
-Rexy, at the end of JP
For me I enjoyed movie Hammond the most. He had that compassionate childhood dream and made it a reality.
As for the manner in fallen kingdom. I absolutely hated it after the island exploded. It went from a Jurassic Park/World movie and became an evil villain auctioning off exotic pets. I completely hated the cloned child parts of the movie and if they truly took the ques from the book then we would of seen those first cloned elephants. Hammond was a great character in the first two movies and without him the entire love around Jurassic Park would be greatly less than what we have. Like Malcolm said, you went from capitalist to naturalist in just four years.
Geronimo553 Maisie makes sense as a character because she represents another side of the cloning. Movie Hammond was a bit ignorant but his desires to bring the dinosaurs back wasn’t selfish. However- Lockwood showed just how harmful this technology can really be by cloning his daughter and using said clone as nothing more than a crutch because he couldn’t get over losing her. If the dinosaurs weren’t supposed to be there then neither should Maisie because she’s just as much as an abomination as they are
The book always wins. However, Attenborough's portrayal of John Hammond was still an extravagant job of turning what I call a villain, to an old man who cared but made very big mistakes.
His memoirs in Trespasser were nice too~
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I really honestly wish that Hammond had the same personality in the movie, but the same death scene. He hardly does anything in the next movie, and the death scene that he was given at first was so amazing. An old, wise, billionaire scientist who had finally reached his dream of created dinosaurs, who then falls down a large hill, only to be eaten by compys. And as the compys have a special thing in their bite (I don't know what it is) It makes John feels relaxed and happy, being eaten alive by his own creation, his own dream. Beautiful, and I wish I could see it for myself.
You should have mentioned that the reason Lockwood's Manor had a lab, display room with a conveyor belt, was because this all would have been used for Jurassic Park: San Diego.
Had that been continued, they would have cloned the dinosaurs in the lab, held them in the cages, shown them off to investors in what we know as the auction room, before shipping them to San Diego.
“These creatures need our absence not our help survive, and if we can just step aside and trust in nature, life will find a way”
Never really liked Hammond in the novel but I really liked his character in the movies. In fact he is one of my favorite characters from the original movie next to Robert Muldoon
I loved this man. Rip Richard Attenborough.
JP1 Hammond is innocent and optimistic. JP2 Hammond actually sets the first overall impression but it's his last words "These creatures require our absence to survive, not our help. And if we could only step aside and trust in nature, life will find a way.” That line was by far the most important line he ever spoke, it was a very good one.
I have to agree. Before I read the book I always thought of malcome and grant but after reading the book I really took to john and usually think of him now when thinking of jurassic park. Cant decide which hammond I like better both are so good in different ways.
Of course both versions of Hammond are amazing. The book version shows the great lengths he goes to and as you said in the video, won't take no for an answer. For me it's also he movie version because they couldn't have picked a better person to bring Hammond to life. The part that just perfects his role as John, is where he is telling Ellie about the flea circus and even the music at that moment in the film and the way he is speaking while telling the story you can really see how much regret he has for what has gone wrong in his creation.
I think I prefer novel Hammond to Film Hammond. I like Richard, don't get me wrong, but I just like the darker more corrupt Hammond from the novel. But I prefer the novels anyway. I love the films, and the first few are outstanding, but the novels are even better in my honest opinion.
But he’s more fun and a better charecter in the movie
Great video as always! Movie Hammond was cool and all being the kindly grandfather figure but I never really got the sense of business man from him too much. Apart from his interactions with Nedry, I never really felt that he was a business savvy person. I felt that the Hammond from the novel was more of a petulant and entitled child than an actual businessman. I like the movie Hammond more but I wish that they played more of the business side of him. He did found InGen after all and that aspect seems to be lost in his character. Maybe I'm missing something as its been a while since I've gone through the films but he never really felt like a business man to me.
He was really old and not really there for business anymore, he wanted to realize the dream he had.
The novel version might have been a pure business man but the John in the movie as he put it "spared no expense" with his Park.
He might have been a really good business man but that he is not sitting in the board of InGen at the time of the movie but he still owns the company.
Just like in Batman begins Bruce Wayne didn't sit at the board either but he still owned the whole company.
Late Sir Richard Attenborough did a great job. He will be in our hearts forever. He was responsible for JURASSIC PARK.
I'd take movie Hammond any day, since I find him much more relatable. His dream of reviving and presenting dinosaurs is kind of similar to how many of us have these seemingly improbable goals that we want to accomplish, yet some of them may lead to disastrous results if we avoid thinking about potential consequences ("Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should").
And even though Hammond was overall kind in the film, he still had some arrogant moments. For instance, there was the scene where he told Dr. Sattler about he could regain control of the park, despite all the mishaps that already occurred like the T. rex freeing herself from her paddock. It's a great way of developing his character throughout the movie, and had they used that other ending with him shooting the Big One, it could've capped it off really well.
there will never be a better john hammond than the one in the movies. the father of dinosaurs!
there is still so much more that can be covered with Hammond. Whether its the other attractions he had in mind for Jurassic Park, how he planned giving everyone in the world the right to enjoy these animals, his flea circus or what he built in Kenya, the list goes on and on.
I definitely think we will get a prequel movie featuring a younger Hammond and Lockwood.
That and show the construction of Jurassic Park and Site B.
This is my favorite line in the ENTIRE JP/JW Series:
"Dr. Grant, My Dear Dr. Sattler... WELCOME... To Jurassic Park!" said John Hammond.
"Brachiosaurus Trumpeting"
"They Move in Heards..." Said Dr. Grant "They Do Move In Heards."
"How'd you do this" said Dr. Grant.
His personality changed greatly, like the lawyer guy.
"I have a island, off the coast of Costa Rica"
"Thanks god for Site B."
John Parker Alfred Hammond is my favorite character. He reminds me of my grandfather.
I think movie canon had a both Benjamin Lockwood and Norman Atherton. Wu officially worked since 1986, but InGen's project was started on 1982. Probably someone led the science team of InGen. Who? I guess it's Norman. Maybe not. Maybe Laura Sorkin was (she's part of soft-canon, so.)
Anyway, Hammond is my favorite movie character of all time
I love Richard as John Hammond he was warmly caring guy
I like both versions of Hammond. The one in the book is always interesting to read about, to figure out how this wobbly creepy old dude got far enough to have a mega-millions island with dinosaurs.
The movie Hammond is the Hammond I'll always remember.
So I am currently writing a paper for a popular culture class (what they has to do with geology idk). In my paper I go into how Hammond and Malcolm represent yin and yang. It’s actually very interesting when you compare it.
“These people don’t need our attention they need our absence” John Hammond
Movie version hands down, I wish he was my grandfather!
I like the movie's version of John Hamilton better than the book's version😁
Wait, so the elephant that Gennaro remembers him and carrying around with him in the cage the little one was in a film cannon created where the first dinosaur was that is so cool
You have good opinions
The lost world: "step aside and trust in nature."
Jurassic world: dying wish is to build a dinosaur theme park.... again...
It was Lockwood's wish to make his oldest friends dream into a reality.
He is the heart & soul of Jurassic Park franchise
I read an interview from the 70s where John Hammond had problematic views about Dodo birds. 2019 is the year we cancel John Hammond!
Read something from the 70s? But the book was released in the 90s...🤔
HACK THE MOVIES I agree with Murdo, how the hell could something like that be from the 70s when this franchise didn’t even exist until the 90s?