Everyone who has seen Spielbergs film Jurassic Park remembers the opening scene. When a Velociraptor turns on its handlers inside of its transfer cage, as game warden Robert Muldoon watches helplessly as one of his co-workers gets eaten alive. The novels beginning, however, takes place on Costa Rica, rather than Isla Nublar, with members of a medical clinic admitting an injured InGen employee who was dropped off via a helicopter. The staff are told that the patient, a teenager of Latin-American descent, was injured in a construction accident, but his injuries resemble that of a vicious mauling, not a construction incident. The boy ends up dying from his injuries, but not before attempting to tell the staff that he was attacked by a raptor. If Im being honest the reason that this was changed in the movie was one for run time restraints and two its just kind of boring whereas the mauling is
unexpected and in your face.
The novel and movie have quite a few differences, with one of the most notable differences being the Compy (Procompsognathus) attack. Unlike the movie the novel spends a considerable amount of time ensuring a key chain reaction of events is set in motion from the InGen employee to children being killed and a young girl getting bitten. These all wind-up, making Jurassic Park the failure, it is because it tells you from the beginning of the book that it isnt safe and that dinosaurs are escaping and killing people. After a scene that was identical to the beginning of The Lost World: Jurassic Park, where a wealthy couples daughter is attacked by a pack of Compys, a group of scientists attempt to determine the identity of the creature responsible with the result only coming when doctor grant gets a phone call about it but it is never followed up on in the movie.