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The Novel The Andromeda Strain By Michael Crichton Was More Detailed Than The

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Term Paper TitleThe Novel The Andromeda Strain By Michael Crichton Was More Detailed Than The
# of Words1150
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)4.6
The novel The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton was more detailed than the
film due to events leading to climax, scientific terminology and characterization.


This record of the earth's first biological crisis is perhaps the most painstakingly
Authentic science-fiction novel ever made. When a satellite falls to earth near a small
New Mexico village, the recovery team finds everyone in the area except an infant and an
old derelict dead. The survivors are brought to a five story underground lab one of the
elaborate sets ever assembled in Hollywood where scientists attempt determine the
nature of the deadly microbe before it starts a world-wide epidemic. A trailblazer in the
realm of science-fact, THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN is based on Michael Crichton's
best-selling novel that created national paranoia for its topical relevance to the first moon landing(Morse).
     As said in the novel “One of the most painstakingly authentic science fiction novel ever made.” (Morse) This can conclude that the movie itself should contain detailed information, scientific terminology, and depictive characterization. With that said the novel should as well, but I concluded that the novel has more depictive details than the movie. Such as when the novel opens on top of a cliff with a man overlook overlooking the small Arizona town. Very descriptive details are used in this opening paragraph that describe the man’s littlest actions. Which can not be expressed very well in a visual way in the movie. Such as very little details like “…the metal will be cold and he knew he would be clumsy in his fur parka and heavyweight gloves.” (Crichton 09) This sentence can be understood well in the novel that makes it more enjoyable to the mind, but in the movie these details can not be expressed in a visual way unless exaggerated to the extent which will ruin the scene. But these little details affect the enjoyment rating a lot. Which makes the novel always more descriptive than the book.
     But also larger detail changes are easily noticed as well. As stated above the scene opens in a minute New Mexico town, which is just the setting of the first act is totally different from novel to movie. This so called minute New Mexico town in the movie is a minute Arizona town as stated in the novel. As well as the scientific terminology changed as well as the characterization from novel to movie. These 3 topics are what I will be comparing and contrasting in this paper.
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