Was Jurassic Park Inspired By An Episode Of Astro Boy?

[InfernotheHedgehog]

You've gotta be kidding! How was Jurassic Park inspired by an episode of Astro Boy? That's just weird.....I tried to watch the video, but this stupid computer won't load it.

[jeffbert]

This should answer your question:

In 068 Rebellion of the Dinosaur People Duke Red has created a theme park with robotic dinosaurs. However, he has also brought real dinosaurs to life by some chemical process. They escape from his lab, & terrorize the people in the park. [url]http://en-f.tezuka.co.jp/anime/sakuhin/subtitle/ts002.html [/url]

I think this is on the English version. In relation to the 2003 Frankenstein story, Atom,Tamao, & Shib are acting as chaperones when one little boy is separated from the class. He is carried away by a Pterodactyl.

BTW, there is another episode that has a very similar plot to Armegeddon. Dr. O, Atom, Hamegg, & 1 other go to plant explosives on an asteroid to destroy it before it collides with earth.

It is one thing to say that Rebellion predates Park by several decades, but quite another thing to say Michael Crichton ripped off Tezuka. Without a thorough examination of scifi of the early 20th century, I would not venture to say that Tezuka originated any given story. I do know of one short story (Arena) that was used by The Outer Limits, Astroboy, Star Trek, Buck Rodgers, Sp 1999, & a few other scifi programs. irate: Yet, how many actually credited the author?

Tezuka does credit The Fly as the inspiration for his own manga story, whose animated version was 049 Transparent Giant, & we might assume that the credits to 078 The World in Five Hundred Thousand Years properly cited The Time Machine, but anyone who watches movies regularly will surely see newer ones that certainly borrowed from older ones. The unforgivable thing is to deny being inspired by an older work when it is obvious that that is the case.

[richardthebrave]

his own idea? inspired? ripped off? we are not sure, but who cares..

i guess some people make a mistake of calculating the odds and ratio of people ripping off a similar theme of a story by just including the number of scriptwriters and writers that got it made. this includes having similar situations in a story. this is a mistake since not all creative people (as in most) never get to have careers in media or literature.

what i meant was the dinosaur park theme could be pervading human imagination as early as the 19th century but wasn't floated early since most of the people that has that idea in their heads never get to write about it. most of them probably died of starvation/war, left off for another career, never got any chance of having their materials published, crappy publisher, mediocre education (esp. in writing), et al.

some of JRR Tolkien's buddies who are writers got killed off in the first World War. we are talking about a number of potential ideas and literary work gone.

we are talking about millions of imaginary stories in people's heads including mine and you (the reader). only a handful of these gets shown in tv or books or in any other media. that should also include the possible combinations of ideas/situations that our brain makes for a particular story that thousands or a million others have in their minds right NOW.

just like the astroboy story we are making up in our head a few minutes ago, how sure are we that somewhere halfway around the globe that no other person or persons are imagining the same story but with a few alterations to the scenario?