#Gennaro dies because a lot of people think “evil bloodsucking lawyer” is redundant

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I realize this doesn't fit into the Hammond-centric thesis of this post, but how do you feel about Ian Malcom surviving the film so hard that he un-dies in The Lost World?

Jurassic Adaptational Changes

Still upset about the changes made with regards to who lives and who dies in Jurassic Park’s film adaptation.

John Hammond, the millionaire cost-cutter bitterly frustrated with the inconvenience of having to tolerate an investigation into his park’s safety after a display literally kills and eats one of his working-class handlers? A man who responded to a literal park fatality by bringing children to the island? He gets to walk away scot free and live out the rest of his days in his giant mansion.

Donald Gennaro, the attorney hired by Hammond’s investors who are understandably very concerned with the fact that his park is killing people? The man Hammond maligns as “The Blood-Sucking Lawyer”? Eaten by a T-Rex.

Robert Muldoon, the park’s security expert responsible for ensuring the safety of the staff and visitors? A man who has apparently had multiple arguments with Hammond about the fact that the velociraptors are too dangerous to be an exhibit, period? The velociraptors who are, themselves, responsible for the workplace fatality that instigated this whole thing? Forced to sacrifice himself to prevent yet another person from falling victim to the raptors that Hammond adamantly refused to dispose of.

During a financial argument with Dennis Nedry, the spanner in the works who Hammond explicitly hired because he was the cheapest available option, Hammond says these iconic words: “I don’t blame people for their mistakes, but I do ask that they pay for them.” And yet it’s everyone else who has to die in payment for Hammond’s mistakes. It sure is nice to be a rich white man.

But it’s cool, I guess. He feels really bad about it and spends the rest of his life getting more people killed as a dinosaur rights activist in the sequel, so I guess it’s probably better this way.