when people are like “the hunger games just stole the plot of battle royale” like listen everything steals from the plot of everything the lion king is just furry hamlet westworld is jurassic park but sexier lost is edgy gilligan’s island there are no original stories and the only good piece of media is jennifer’s body
Michael crichton wrote westworld and jurassic park tho so he just pirated himself
michael crichton keeps TRYING to tell y’all about the evils of capitalism impeding on the progress of science when will y’all LISTEN
Maybe he just doesn’t like theme parks
michael crichton in line for a roller coaster at six flags: fuck this
The theme park in Westworld was about how by 1973 the postwar golden age had progressed to the point of businesses directly pitching pleasure and experience for sale, Isla Nublar in Jurassic Park was about post-colonial Caribbean nations letting gringo capitalists establish their own autonomous all-inclusive resorts for the sake of tourists with dollars