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'''''The Lost World: Jurassic Park''''' (also known as '''''Jurassic Park II: The Lost World''''' or just '''''Jurassic Park II''''') is a 1997 [[science fiction film|science fiction]] [[adventure film]] directed by [[Steven Spielberg]]. The film was produced by [[Bonnie Curtis]], [[Kathleen Kennedy (film producer)|Kathleen Kennedy]], [[Gerald R. Molen]] and [[Colin Wilson]]. The [[screenplay]] was penned by [[David Koepp]], loosely based on the 1995 novel ''[[The Lost World (Crichton novel)|The Lost World]]'' by [[Michael Crichton]]. The film stars [[Jeff Goldblum]], [[Julianne Moore]], [[Vince Vaughn]], [[Pete Postlethwaite]], [[Richard Schiff]], [[Arliss Howard]], [[Thomas F. Duffy]], [[Vanessa Lee Chester]], and [[Richard Attenborough]].
'''''The Lost World: Jurassic Park''''' (also known as '''''Jurassic Park II: The Lost World''''' or just '''''Jurassic Park II''''') is a 1997 [[science fiction]] [[adventure]] [[thriller film]] directed by [[Steven Spielberg]]. The film was produced by [[Bonnie Curtis]], [[Kathleen Kennedy (film producer)|Kathleen Kennedy]], [[Gerald R. Molen]] and [[Colin Wilson]]. The [[screenplay]] was penned by [[David Koepp]], loosely based on the 1995 novel ''[[The Lost World (Crichton novel)|The Lost World]]'' by [[Michael Crichton]]. The film stars [[Jeff Goldblum]], [[Julianne Moore]], [[Vince Vaughn]], [[Pete Postlethwaite]], [[Richard Schiff]], [[Arliss Howard]], [[Thomas F. Duffy]], [[Vanessa Lee Chester]], and [[Richard Attenborough]].


The film picks up four years after the events of ''[[Jurassic Park (film)|Jurassic Park]]''. On a deserted island, [[dinosaur]]s have secretly survived and been allowed to roam free. In the time between the two events, John Hammond loses control of his company, [[InGen]], to his nephew Peter Ludlow. Ludlow assembles a team to bring the animals back to the mainland to bring in revenue and restore the company. Hammond sees a chance to redeem himself for his past mistakes and sends an expedition led by [[Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park character)|Dr. Ian Malcolm]] to reach the island before InGen's team can get there. The two groups confront each other in the face of extreme danger and must team up for their own survival.
The film picks up four years after the events of ''[[Jurassic Park (film)|Jurassic Park]]''. On a deserted island, [[dinosaur]]s have secretly survived and been allowed to roam free. In the time between the two events, John Hammond loses control of his company, [[InGen]], to his nephew Peter Ludlow. Ludlow assembles a team to bring the animals back to the mainland to bring in revenue and restore the company. Hammond sees a chance to redeem himself for his past mistakes and sends an expedition led by [[Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park character)|Dr. Ian Malcolm]] to reach the island before InGen's team can get there. The two groups confront each other in the face of extreme danger and must team up for their own survival.

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The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Directed bySteven Spielberg
Screenplay byDavid Koepp
Produced byKathleen Kennedy
Gerald R. Molen
Colin Wilson
StarringJeff Goldblum
Julianne Moore
Vanessa Lee Chester
Arliss Howard
Pete Postlethwaite
Vince Vaughn
Richard Schiff
Peter Stormare
Harvey Jason
Thomas F. Duffy
CinematographyJanusz Kamiński
Edited byMichael Kahn
Music byJohn Williams
Production
company
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • May 23, 1997 (1997-05-23)
Running time
129 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$73 million
Box office$618,638,999

The Lost World: Jurassic Park (also known as Jurassic Park II: The Lost World or just Jurassic Park II) is a 1997 science fiction adventure thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg. The film was produced by Bonnie Curtis, Kathleen Kennedy, Gerald R. Molen and Colin Wilson. The screenplay was penned by David Koepp, loosely based on the 1995 novel The Lost World by Michael Crichton. The film stars Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Vince Vaughn, Pete Postlethwaite, Richard Schiff, Arliss Howard, Thomas F. Duffy, Vanessa Lee Chester, and Richard Attenborough.

The film picks up four years after the events of Jurassic Park. On a deserted island, dinosaurs have secretly survived and been allowed to roam free. In the time between the two events, John Hammond loses control of his company, InGen, to his nephew Peter Ludlow. Ludlow assembles a team to bring the animals back to the mainland to bring in revenue and restore the company. Hammond sees a chance to redeem himself for his past mistakes and sends an expedition led by Dr. Ian Malcolm to reach the island before InGen's team can get there. The two groups confront each other in the face of extreme danger and must team up for their own survival.

After the release of the original book and the success of the first film, Crichton was pressured not only by fans, but Spielberg himself, for a sequel novel. After the book was published in 1995, production began on a film sequel. The Lost World's' plot and imagery were made darker than that of the first in order to please fans. During its theatrical run, it grossed $618 million worldwide.

Plot

Four years after the incident at Jurassic Park, a wealthy couple and their daughter hold a picnic on Isla Sorna. The girl wanders off and is attacked by a pack of Compsognathus before being rescued by her father and his servants.

Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) publicized the incident at Jurassic Park, but disbelief has destroyed his academic reputation, and legal action has prevented him getting any evidence. John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), having lost control of InGen to his unscrupulous nephew, Peter Ludlow (Arliss Howard), as a result of the family's accident, summons Malcolm to his home and tells him about Isla Sorna, known as "Site B", where the dinosaurs were engineered and nurtured for a few months, before being moved to Isla Nublar, the location of the park. He explains that after Jurassic Park was shut down, a hurricane destroyed the containment facilities on Isla Sorna, and the dinosaurs have been living free in the wild ever since. Hammond asks Malcolm to join a team that will travel to Site B to document the dinosaurs in their natural habitat to rally public support and prevent Ludlow from exploiting the site for InGen and leave it as a nature preserve. Malcolm initially refuses, but agrees after learning that his girlfriend, paleontologist Sarah Harding (Julianne Moore), is part of the team and is already there, while the others will meet her after three days.

Malcolm meets the team of people he will join with: vehicle engineer Eddie Carr (Richard Schiff), and documentary producer Nick Van Owen (Vince Vaughn). Shortly after arriving on the island, they find Sarah and discover that Malcolm's adopted daughter, Kelly (Vanessa Lee Chester), has stowed away on the trailer. Malcolm tries to get Kelly home, but they are interrupted by the arrival of an InGen team led by Ludlow, which they spot chasing and capturing several dinosaur species such as Parasaurolophus, Pachycephalosaurus, Gallimimus and Mamenchisaurus, for another park in San Diego. Tracker Roland Tembo (Pete Postlethwaite) wishes to hunt and kill an adult male Tyrannosaurus Rex by luring it to the cries of its injured offspring. That night, Nick and Sarah sneak into the InGen camp to free the dinosaurs, which cause a huge commotion as a Triceratops destroys the camp and the dinosaurs escape.

During the commotion caused by the fleeing dinosaurs, Nick frees the baby Tyrannosaurus and takes it to the trailer so Sarah can set its broken leg. Malcolm takes Kelly to the high hide, a lift Eddie built to keep them safe above the trees. Malcolm, after trying and failing to contact the trailer via phone, returns on foot. Shortly after arriving, two adult Tyrannosaurs find the trailer and their baby. The team gives the infant back, but the two adults begin pushing the trailer over the cliff with the team inside. Eddie leaves Kelly in the "high hide" and returns to the trailer in one of the SUVs. With the adults temporarily gone, Eddie is able to tie a rope to a tree trunk and send it down to Malcolm, Sarah, and Nick to grab onto. Eddie then ties a cable to the trailer to pull it back over the edge. He partially succeeds, but is attacked and eaten when the Tyrannosaurs return. The trailer and the SUV fall off the cliff, but Malcolm, Sarah, and Nick are rescued by the InGen team. With both groups' communications equipment destroyed in the attacks, they team up to reach the old InGen compound's radio station.

At night, the Tyrannosaurs come across the group's camp. As everyone flees from the female, Roland stays behind and manages to tranquilize the male rex twice. Many of the fleeing team, including Roland's hunting partner, Ajay Sidhu (Harvey Jason), pass through a field of tall grass near the compound, but are all killed by Velociraptors. Shortly after, Nick, having found Ajay's bag with the coordinates, splits off from the group to reach the compound and radio for help. Sarah, Malcolm, and Kelly run for the compound, with three raptors in pursuit. After escaping from the three raptors, they reunite with Nick and fly away in a rescue helicopter. While flying away, they spot the caged Tyrannosaurus and Ludlow preparing to ship it and its baby back to the mainland.

A cargo ship carries the adult Tyrannosaurus back to the mainland, but crashes into the dock when it reaches San Diego. Ludlow and several guards investigate the boat and find the entire crew dead. A guard opens the cargo hold, thinking there might be some crew members below, inadvertently releasing the Tyrannosaurus, which escapes into the city. Realizing that the creature will likely come for its infant, Malcolm and Sarah learn from Ludlow that the infant is already at the park. They rush to the park to get the baby and use it to lure the adult back to the boat. Ludlow tries to intervene, but is trapped in the cargo hold and devoured by the infant Tyrannosaurus. Malcolm and Sarah manage to tranquilize the adult before it can escape again and seal it in the hold.

The next day, Malcolm, Sarah and Kelly watch television reports of the cargo ship on its way back to Isla Sorna, surrounded by a convoy of naval vessels. During the program, they see an interview with Hammond, who explains that the American and Costa Rican governments have agreed to declare the island a nature preserve so the dinosaurs can live free of human interference, and adds "Life will find a way," paraphrasing something Malcolm told him on Isla Nublar four years earlier.

Cast

Main article: List of Jurassic Park characters
  • Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm, a mathematician and chaos theorist and the main protagonist.
  • Julianne Moore as Dr. Sarah Harding, a behavioral paleontologist and Ian's girlfriend.
  • Vince Vaughn as Nick Van Owen, a well-traveled and experienced documentarian and environmentalist.
  • Vanessa Lee Chester as Kelly Curtis Malcolm, Malcolm's teenage daughter from a failed marriage.
  • Pete Postlethwaite as Roland Tembo, a big-game hunter from Africa and the leader of his team.
  • Peter Stormare as Dieter Stark, the second-in-command of the InGen team under Roland Tembo.
  • Richard Attenborough as John Hammond, the former CEO of InGen.
  • Arliss Howard as Peter Ludlow, the current CEO of InGen and Hammond's conniving nephew.
  • Richard Schiff as Eddie Carr, a timid and sardonic field equipment expert.
  • Harvey Jason as Ajay Sidhu, Roland's immensely loyal and long-time hunting partner from India.
  • Thomas F. Duffy as Dr. Robert Burke, the dinosaur expert of Tembo's team.
  • Ariana Richards as Lex Murphy, Hammond's granddaughter and a survivor of the Isla Nublar fiasco.
  • Joseph Mazzello as Tim Murphy, Hammond's grandson and also a survivor the events on Isla Nublar.
  • Thomas Rosales Jr. as Carter, Dieter's only friend.
  • Geno Silva as Carlos, the captain of the Mar Del Plata who took Ian Malcolm and his team to Isla Sorna.
  • Alex Miranda as Higo, the son of Carlos.

Production

After the release of the novel Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton was pressured by fans for a sequel novel. Having never written a sequel, he initially refused, until the success of the first film prompted Steven Spielberg himself to request one.[1] After the book was published in 1995, production on the sequel film began in September 1996.[2]

The Mercedes-Benz W163 used in the film

The Lost World was filmed in Eureka, San Diego, Burbank, and Kauai. Although the ending takes place in San Diego, only one sequence is actually shot there, where the InGen helicopter flies over the wharf and banks towards the city. The other sequences were all shot in Burbank.[3]

Spielberg suggested the Tyrannosaurus rex attack through San Diego be added to the film story, inspired by a similar attack scene of a Brontosaurus in London in the 1925 film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World.[4]

Many elements from the original Jurassic Park novel that were not in the first film were used for The Lost World.[5] The opening sequence of a vacationing family's young daughter being attacked in Costa Rica by a group of Compsognathus was similar to the opening scene in the original novel, and Dieter Stark's death is analogous to John Hammond's compy-related death in the novel. Also, Nick, Sarah, Kelly, and Burke being trapped behind a waterfall by one of the T. Rexes is taken from the first novel, where Tim and Lex are trapped behind a man-made waterfall with the T. rex attempting to eat them, and Roland Tembo shoots the T. rex with tranquilizer in the same way that Robert Muldoon did in the first book.

According to Jack Horner, part of the waterfall scene was written in as a favor for him by Spielberg. Burke greatly resembles Horner's rival Robert Bakker. In real life Bakker argues for a predatory Tyrannosaurus while Horner views it as primarily a scavenger. So Spielberg wrote Burke into this part to have him killed by the Tyrannosaurus rex as a favor for Horner. After the film came out, Bakker, who recognized himself in Burke and loved it, actually sent Horner a message saying "See, I told you T. rex was a hunter!".[6]

Distribution

The Lost World: Jurassic Park was released on May 23, 1997. The film made its VHS and LaserDisc debut on November 4, 1997.[7] The DVD, first released on October 10, 2000, includes deleted scenes involving Hammond's ouster from InGen that were incorporated into the Fox broadcast television premiere of the film. However, the deleted scenes are included separate of the actual movie, and are of lesser quality than the corresponding scenes from the broadcast version, despite being released some time after the broadcast. The Blu-Ray version of the film released in 2011 also includes the deleted scenes, but they are now of even lesser quality than the DVD version. Universal Home Video, Amblin Entertainment and director Steven Spielberg have all declined comment on the matter.

The film was also released in a package with Jurassic Park.[8] The DVD has also been re-released with both sequels on December 11, 2001 as the Jurassic Park Trilogy[9] and as the Jurassic Park Adventure Pack on November 29, 2005.[10] The soundtrack was released on May 20, 1997. On the same day it was first released to DVD, a deluxe limited edition box set was released that included Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park, soundtracks for both films with packaging made exclusively for the set, two lenticulars, eight 8x10 stills (4 from each film), and a certificate of authenticity signed by all three producers of the set, all inside a collector case.[11]

Reception

Box office

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The T. rex wreaking havoc received an MTV Movie Awards nomination for "Best Action Sequence"

Following four years of growing anticipation and hype, The Lost World: Jurassic Park broke many box office records upon its release. It took in $72,132,785 on its opening weekend ($92.6 million for the four-day Memorial Day holiday) in the U.S.,[12] which was the biggest opening weekend at the time,[13] surpassing the previous record-holder Batman Forever at $52.8 million. It held onto this record for four and a half years, until the release of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in November 2001. The Lost World took the record for highest single-day box office take of $26,083,950 on May 25,[14] a record held until the release of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. It also became the fastest film to pass the $100 million mark, achieving the feat in just six days.[15] However, its total box office gross fell below the total of the original film.[16] With grossing $229,086,679 domestically and $389,552,320 internationally, the film ended up grossing $618,638,999 worldwide,[17] becoming the second highest grossing film of 1997 behind Titanic.

Critical

The Lost World: Jurassic Park has a 52% "rotten" score with 33 out of 63 reviewers giving it a positive review.[18] It also has a 59/100 on Metacritic.[19] Roger Ebert, who gave the first film three stars, gave the film only two, writing that "It can be said that the creatures in this film transcend any visible signs of special effects and seem to walk the earth, but the same realism isn't brought to the human characters, who are bound by plot conventions and action formulas." Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times saw improved character development over the original, saying, "It seemed such a mistake in Jurassic Park to sideline early on its most interesting character, the brilliant, free-thinking and outspoken theorist Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) with a broken leg, but in its most inspired stroke, The Lost World brings back Malcolm and places him front and center," calling it "a pleasure to watch such wily pros as Goldblum and Attenborough spar with each other with wit and assurance."[20] The dinosaurs were even more developed as characters, with Stephen Holden of the New York Times saying, "The Lost World, unlike Jurassic Park, humanizes its monsters in a way that E.T. would understand."[21] Entertainment Weekly remarked in 2008, "Mr. T-Rex was cool in the first Spielberg flick, sure, but it wasn't until [it was in] San Diego that things got crazy-cool. It's the old 'tree falling in the woods' conundrum: Unless your giant monster is causing massive property damage, can you really call it a giant monster?"[22]

Spielberg has confessed that during production he became increasingly disenchanted with the film, admitting, "I beat myself up... growing more and more impatient with myself... It made me wistful about doing a talking picture, because sometimes I got the feeling I was just making this big silent-roar movie... I found myself saying, 'Is that all there is? It's not enough for me.'"[23]

The movie was nominated for the Academy Award for Visual Effects[24] and for "Best Action Sequence" in the MTV Movie Awards 1998 for the T. rex rampage through San Diego.[25] It was also nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film, Best Director, Best Young Actress for Vanessa Lee Chester, Best Special Effects, and Best Supporting Actor for Pete Postlethwaite.[26] However, it was also nominated for three Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Screenplay, Worst Remake or Sequel and Worst Reckless Disregard for Human Life and Public Property, but failed to win any of those prizes.

See also

References

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  5. ^ "A tale of two 'Jurassics'". Entertainment Weekly. 1993-06-18. Retrieved 2007-02-17.
  6. ^ Gritton, Lance. Personal interview. 14 Apr 2007.
  7. ^ IGN staff (2000-06-16 In between, it was also broadcast on Fox in an expanded version.). "Jurassic Park". IGN. Retrieved 2007-03-06. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
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  21. ^ Stephen Holden (1997-05-23). "The Lost World: Jurassic Park". New York Times. Retrieved 2007-07-07.
  22. ^ Marc Bernadin (2008-01-17). "Attack of the Giant Movie Monsters!". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
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  26. ^ "Past Winners Database". Los Angeles Times. 1998-06-10. Archived from the original on 2007-08-15. Retrieved 2007-07-07.
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