The Fat Man: A Dinosaur Legend · 9:55pm Jan 14th, 2020
Many strange tales have circulated amongst the dinosaurs of Isla Nublar since its abandonment in 1993. Wild myths of massive monsters dwelling in underwater caverns, or demons with glowing eyes that make their nests in the still-living bodies of their victims, even an entirely other island of prehistoric creatures brought back to life by humans. But amongst these stories, none were more mouthwatering, lip-smackingly glorious-sounding as the tale of an elusive creature known only as the Fat Man.
Humans are considered a delicacy amongst dinosaurs. In spite of what we may think, comparatively few actually get the chance to eat one. But those who do remember it forever. The young raptors bred in the wild would relay the stories told by their mothers of their deliciousness, and even the great Queen herself will fondly recollect a human she managed to catch and eat.
But the Fat Man is–or was, if rumors are to be believed–special. They say he wore little oval-shaped glasses over his eyes, and a bright, slick yellow raincoat that stuck out like a sore toe-claw in the dark green jungles of the island. But his most defining attribute was his namesake; this human was so enormously fat that his body was practically spherical. If you pushed him over, he'd likely roll along the ground, like a ball, or an egg.
Every carnivore on the island couldn't help but salivate whenever the Fat Man was mentioned. A single human so densely packed with pure, delicious meat that it was believed that even the largest of carnivores would find themselves satisfied for years on end after devouring him. You'd never have to eat again. Of course, this latter idea didn't exactly appeal to everyone–the hunt is one half of a carnivore's life–but even so, the story was absolutely tantalizing to all who heard it.
One final curiosity regarding the Fat Man. There is a certain Dilophosaurus who claims that she, in fact, encountered, killed and ate the Fat Man many years ago, when the humans finally left the island to its own devices. But most disregard her story as a hoax; her sisters say that this Dilophosaur was prone to spinning up wild tales since the moment she could communicate. The fact that her stomach has been so enormously swollen for the past 25 years that she can barely walk is seen as nothing more than a convenient (and rather disgusting) coincidence.
And so the legend of the Fat Man remains. Elusive in reality, but present in the mind of every carnivorous dinosaur that prowls the jungles of Isla Nublar.
For those of you who have absolutely no clue what I'm talking about, I'm referring to this scene from Jurassic Park:
*Didn't read it all*
Crazy.
I'm not gonna lie, this is hilarious.
Fat Man is real. And he goes by another name: Denis Nedry.
Nedry got what he deserved. I don't care about anything else.
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In the book it was even worse. The Dilo actually ripped open his belly, and the man felt his own intestines in his hands before it finally killed him.
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I enjoyed that part. I read that book in Junior year. It took a while to read it, though. There was so much technical jargon that I didn't know if it would be used later, so I got bogged down when it came to the diagrams and the explaining.
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Oh, you've read the book too? Nice. I read it back in middle school, and I've been rereading it since the start of this week. In some spots I honestly think it's better than the movie. I didn't really liked how they skimped over things like the lysine contingency and the breeding and all of that in the film.
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There's only so much you can put in the movie. Books can do whatever they want, but movies are different mediums entirely. Besides, if they like the movie so much, they'll read the book, and find all those logistics there.
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Not even just for the logistics; just in general I would have liked to see them run with the implications of what breeding dinosaurs means.
Oh, well. I'm still holding out hope that somebody will re-adapt the novel as a miniseries or something. That'd be neat.
Dennis Nedry.
Hmm.
One one hand, he put everyone in lethal danger immediately.
On the other hand, we know the raptors had already found ways out of their pens before Nedry did his "Ah ah ah, you didn't use the magic word!" bit. The park might have suffered a much worse massacre if he'd been discovered beforehand and the park came online. There's a YouTube video that talks about this.
Nedry did what he did for self gain. But more people would have died if the park went on as is. Of course, people didn't learn, because they actually did it in Jurassic World and dinosaurs ate or wounded half the tourists.
Best thing to do was drop a different Fat Man out of a bomber and blow the place up.
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In the book, they kinda did. The Costa Rican government firebombed Isla Nublar after rescuing the survivors.
It didn't put a stop to the dinosaurs that had already snuck off the island and onto the mainland, though. And that's not even getting into Site B...