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May 22, 1997 · The Lost World: Jurassic Park: Directed by Steven Spielberg. With Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Arliss Howard. A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there, while an InGen team approaches with another agenda.
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- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Steven Spielberg
- 1997-05-22
The Lost World: Jurassic Park is a 1997 American science fiction action film. [ 4] It is the second installment in the Jurassic Park franchise and the second film in the original Jurassic Park trilogy. A sequel to 1993's Jurassic Park and loosely based on Michael Crichton 's 1995 novel The Lost World, the film was directed by Steven Spielberg ...
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- List of Prehistoric Creatures in The Film
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Four years after the disaster at Jurassic Park, a wealthy British couple have decided to take a vacation on Isla Sorna, an island 87 miles southwest of Isla Nublar. The couple's daughter wanders off into the wilderness, inadvertently encountering and being attacked by a pack of Compsognathus. The resulting lawsuit filed against InGen leads to John ...
Click herefor a complete list of cast and crew. These are the main characters of the movie. They are divided in two groups.
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1. Apatosaurus(skeleton) 2. Corythosaurus(paper) 3. Dilophosaurus(computer screen and painted wall) 4. Edmontosaurus(skull) 5. Geosternbergia(paper and computer screen)
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Shooting
The Lost World was filmed at Kauai, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, Patrick's Point State Park, Eureka, Burbank, California and San Diego. 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 shot either in Downtown Burbank or northern California. Spielberg suggested the Tyrannosaurus rex attack through San Diego be added to the film story, inspired by a s...
Score
John Williams was again asked to score the second installment of the Jurassic Park series. Few motifs and themes carry on from the first film. The score for The Lost World: Jurassic Park is, instead, almost an entirely different score. Due to the hectic schedule and many changes post John Williamsinvolvement, the score was heavily edited. The Album is available on CD from MCA but has yet to be released in its completion. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Film Score)article contains more informat...
Deviations from the Novel
The plot and the characters of The Lost World: Jurassic Park are very different from the novel of the same name by Michael Crichton. There are more differences than similarities. The film and novel have these plot elements in common: 1. InGen used a second island, Isla Sorna, to clone and breed dinosaurs. 2. A team of scientists, the Gatherers, travel to the island to study the dinosaurs. 3. Another team, the Hunters, wants to exploit the dinosaurs. 4. The Gatherers have a trailer. 5. Members...
Box office
This film broke many box office records upon its release on May 23, 1997. It took an incredible $72.1 million gross on its opening weekend ($92.6 million for the four-day Memorial Day holiday) in the US, which was by far the biggest opening weekend taking at the time. It also took the highest single day box office taking of $26.1 million on Sunday, May 25, and it became the fastest film to pass the $100 million mark, achieving the feat in just five and a half days. The film eventually ended u...
Critical
Although the film did well at the box-office, it received mixed reviews. Many of the fans praised it as a worthy follow-up, while others were less impressed. It has a 53% rotten on Rotten Tomatoes with an average rating of 5.6/10. It also has a 6.4/10 on IMDB. Some of the concerns centered on the characters' reckless and foolish actions (example: Sarah carrying the vest with the infant T. rex blood even though she knew the T. rex could track it), the character of Kelly (who uses gymnastics to...
Awards
1. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Visual Effects. 2. It was also nominated for "Best Action Sequence" in the 1998 MTV Movie Awards for the sequence where the T. rexis destroying San Diego, looking for his son. 3. However, it was also nominated for three Golden Raspberry awards - Worst Screenplay, Worst Remake or Sequel and Worst Reckless Disregard for Human Life and Public Property.
Movie mistakes
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Paleontological inaccuracies
Some of the dinosaur's appearance or behavior in the film contradict paleontological knowledge. 1. The head of Stegosaurus is too broad; there are no throat osteoderms, and there are only 4 digits on the manus and all have hooves.[citation needed] 2. The Stegosaurus are considerably larger than real ones. Actual Stegosaurusesare 7-9 m long (about 21-27 feet) while the movie counterpart is about 12-13 m long (40-43 ft). 3. Velociraptor are much smaller in real life than in the film, and are mo...
Spielberg suggested the Tyrannosaurus rex attack through San Diego be added to the film story, inspired by similar attack scene of a Brontosaurus in London in the 1925 film adaptation of Sir Arthur...Spielberg was approached by the producers of Swingers who needed the director's approval for use of the theme from Jaws. Spielberg asked to see footage of the clip that would eventually feature the...This was the first film to feature Universal's new logo, which was still used until 2012, despite the trailers and TV spots use the old logo.Mercedes-Benz's new sport-utility vehicle, the M-class, had not yet been introduced. Its appearance in the film was strategically placed, along with full-page ads in several newspapers, such as USA...The Lost World: Jurassic World at the Internet Movie Database- 2 min
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