Quote Originally Posted by Peelee View Post
Oh absolutely. Hammond, in both book and film, was a complete huckster. He even admits it openly when he talked about the flea circus. He presented to people what they wanted to see, is all.
The film Disneyfied him a lot though. Superficially, he's presented as this kindly old man who just wants everything to work out for the best. It's only when you stop and think about it that you realise "wait a minute, doesn't nearly everything that goes wrong in this park trace back to this guy one way or another?"

In the book, Hammond

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panics, falls down a slope in the darkness, breaks his leg, and gets eaten by compys. By that point, it's pretty clear that he deserves it.