The correct name of this film is "The Lost World: Jurassic Park", but I've
turned it around. I think my alternative title makes more sense.
If you object to this, you can leave me a comment complaining about it, but
only if your name is Steven Spielberg.
I shan't go into too many details about the plot, because I'm sure all my
readers have seen it. It's one of the films most commonly shown on television.
It was made in 1997, four years after
the first film, and the story itself takes place four years later. Dr. Hammond is
still nominally the head of InGen, the company that genetically recreated the
dinosaurs, but his health is failing, so the board of directors has given his
nephew the power to run the company.
"Lost World" (as I prefer to call it) has more action than the first film.
There's no need for further exegesis about where the dinosaurs come from. The
first film explained everything. Apart from John Hammond, who we only see
briefly at the beginning and end of the film, the only character who returns
from the first film is Dr. Ian Malcolm. Hammond sends him on a mission
to Isla Sorna, the breeding ground for the Jurassic Park dinosaurs. He's
accompanied by the palaeontologist Dr. Sarah Harding, the cameraman Nick
van Owen and the engineer Eddie Carr. The first two are presented in great details in
the character development section, but we don't get to know Eddie Carr. This
is a hint that he'll be killed soon.
That's Eddie in the middle. Rest In Pieces.
Sarah Harding. I can't help feeling that she's a last minute replacement for
Laura Dern as the palaeobotanist Ellie Sattler in the first film. They have
similar personalities, even though their careers are different.
This is Dr. Malcolm's daughter Kelly, who stows away on the mission.
There's not much of a family resemblance, as Eddie remarks when he sees them together.
Steven Spielberg needs to plant children in his action films, just as Stephen
King puts children in his horror stories.
Camilla Belle was only 10 years old when she appeared in a small role in "Lost
World". Since then she's appeared in more than 20 films, and she's also
directed a few films. She likes cute little dinosaurs. It's not named in the
film, but it's a Compsognathus. Does that knowledge make you any smarter?
The film's cinematography is darker than the first film's, underlining the
darker subject matter. More scenes take place at night, but even in the
daytime the colours are darker.
Unfortunately, this was the last film in the Jurassic Park franchise directed
by Steven Spielberg. None of the following films live up to the quality of the
first two films. On the other hand, there's a steady increase in the quality
of the computer graphics as technology improved.
"Jurassic Park 3"
has the best graphics, even though the overall film quality is inferior.
As for a comparison of the first two films, I'm not sure I placed them in the
right order. Maybe "Jurassic Park" is better? I don't know. I like the
structure of "Lost World", with an epilogue that takes place in San Diego
after the main part that takes place on the island of Isla Sonar. It reminds
me of
"King Kong".
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