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#Dinotopia movie part code#
The dinosaurs imparted their millions of years of wisdom onto their new human wards, building a utopian society guided by the Code of Dinotopia. They emerged to further develop their society, eventually encountering humans who, like the Denisons, found their way to the island by accident or incident. On this island, thought to be somewhere in the Indian Ocean perhaps, a group of dinosaurs escaped extinction in deep, subterranean caverns. More astonishing than this, as though it could get more astonishing, is that these dinosaurs are highly intelligent, rational and wise beings who have taught generations of humans to live in harmony with them and with one another. Or, if we are to believe the prologue, Gurney was merely the recipient of a sketchbook once belonging to Arthur Denison, a naturalist who set sail on an exploratory voyage in His ship encountered a ferocious storm and was destroyed, pitching himself and his son Will on the shores of an uncharted island teeming with living dinosaurs. The idea of elevating these paintings to a narrative, to tell the story behind them and the kind of world they take place in, came to Gurney and the result is a work capturing the very essence of Scientific Romances. Unlike countless scenes of antagonism between dinosaurs and cavemen, these paintings depicted idyllic scenes of parades processing past Greco-Roman columns. Rather than a Science Fiction author, Gurney is a painter. His copious literary talent and careful attention to detail made this relatively late entry into the field of Scientific Romances a genre archetype of its own: the "lost world" story. Despite the best efforts of pretty well every Science Fiction author at one time or another, one could likely count the most memorable attempts on one hand. Really good dinosaur books are few and far between.