
correct me if I'm wrong.....Are you making a connection between your cousin enjoying Jurrassic Park as a kid and this.
No, that itself was an extemporaneous non-sequitur on my part due to the following:
Everytime I think of the original
Jurassic Park film, I remember my young cousin being into it all those years ago when he was fascinated by dinosaurs.
Alas, he is going to be a father soon, and those same childhood fascinations he once had will be passed onto his son or daughter in the coming years.
I assure you, many people liked Jurrassic Park. I was 6 when it came out, so It was THE big movie of my childhood until I discovered Star Wars and Indy. I turned out fine.....of course you would likely state Sam Neil influenced my current Atheism.
I guess you have a point
Well, when I myself was an impressionable 10 year old child, Sam Neill was best known worldwide as the actor who portrayed the antichrist Damien Thorn in
The Final Conflict.
Imagine to my surprise when almost 8 years later I come across a press junket in my high school newspaper with photos of the main cast for the upcoming
Jurassic Park film with actor Sam Neill cast as the lead character.
It just baffled me that the same Christians who were so against Martin Scorsese's
The Last Temptation of Christ did not catch this, considering his image used to promote a high-profile Hollywood film marketed to the entire family -- especially to impressionable little children.
Also, the fact that Neill goes onto play roles where he portrays psychopaths (
Dead Calm) and as disturbing characters such as one he portrayed in
Event Horizon, and turns around and returns again as children's hero Dr. Alan Grant in
Jurassic Park I & III is something that does not sit well with me.
I see some hypocrisy in this.
It is like discovering that the actor behind the Freddy Krueger makeup is infact the same man who portrays Mr. Rogers.