Why The Lost World: Jurassic Park Movie Is So Different From The Book

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Hey guys! In this video I go over a TON of information on why The Lost World: Jurassic Park movie is so different from the book. All of this information can be gathered from Jody Duncan's incredible book, The Making Of The Lost World! I HIGHLY recommend you going out and buying it as soon as you possibly can if you're a fan of the Jurassic Park series! The stuff in there about what happened behind the scenes is great and its DEFINITELY something I think every fan should own! Essentially, in this video I break down the process of screenwriting, the themes of Jurassic Park 2 and go into detail about how Steven Spielberg went about on this filmmaking journey from 1997! Hope you all enjoy! :D

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[@paigep5019]

I really wish the movie was more like the book, it would have been so cool to see the camouflaging carnotaurus or the trex nest

[@jinky0u812]

That was one of my absolute favourite parts in the book!

[@alderlopezcastro4928]

Yeah they should make the novels and actual movie about the novel which will be Rated R

[@braddekker7359]

Fyi they were ceratasaurs.

[@mathieuxlaflamme2322]

@@braddekker7359 nope they were carnos in the book.

[@gunnarbishop5399]

@@braddekker7359 they were definitely carnos

[@obsidion1295]

I want it up and running in 30 minutes. That's half an hour. - Understood? Over. - Cancel that order. What? Why? This is a game trail. Carnivores hunt on game trails. You want to set up base camp or a buffet? .....Let's find a new camp shall we?

[@ConorCarlisle]

Peter, if you want me to run your little camping trip, there are two conditions: firstly, I'm in charge, and when I'm not around, Dieter is. All you need to do is sign the paychecks and open up a bottle of scotch when we've had a good day. Second condition: my fee - you can keep it. All I want in exchange for my services is the right to hunt one of the tyrannosaurs. A male, a buck only. How and why are my business. Now if you don't like either of those two conditions, you're on your own. So go ahead, set up base camp right here, or in a swamp, or in the middle of a Rex nest for all I care. But I've been on too many safaris with rich dentists to listen to any more suicidal ideas, okay?

[@obsidion1295]

@@ConorCarlisle I posted that a year ago, I thank you for the continuation, you made my day

[@bodd-energon5502]

@@ConorCarlisle Okay!

[@malice9240]

Yes

[@Bigmojojo]

@@ConorCarlisle correction; "All you need to do is sign the paychecks, tells us we are doing a good job, and open a bottle of scotch when we've had a good day."

[@melvinshine9841]

I love that picture of Spielberg with the baby Stegosaurus. It looks like he's actually giving directions to it. "What is my motivation supposed to be?" "I need you to gaze at the actress and give me 'cute'. Vulnerability, but with a quiet strength." "I don't know if I can, sir." "I believe in you."

[@faceless2302]

I was thinking that too when I saw it, great picture

[@ayebuddy4810]

After reading the book im convinced Spielberg just skimmed thru it

[@iamaidansmith7542]

He had his own ideas for the lost world movie plus keep in mind the ending of the first movie and book is very different so what comes after is very different

[@DragonFangX]

I find it amusing how happy the T-Rex sketches are as they eat Eddie in the rough drafts. XD

[@AMPMASTER10]

4 a split second I thought the t-rex parents were kissing

[@williamhiers1280]

Middle-aged balding men are *delicious*!

[@MrCheesyBaconBits]

Eddie Carr did not deserve that movie death ._.

[@MiguelVega89]

TurtleBurger He didn't but his death in the book was arguably worse.... Ripped in two by t-Rex's or ripped to shreds by a pack of velociraptors?.... either way, no bueno

[@b2themc]

At least Eddie was put out of his misery when the rex bit down after flipping him. The death in the book was far more gruesome and gut wrenching. Either way he went out like a champ in both.

[@MrCheesyBaconBits]

When I read the book death it didn't seem as brutal to me as I assumed he would have been dazed and hurt after falling from such a high height, making him more numb to the pain and not really knowing whats going on.

[@Stoopid_Sandwich]

B MC actually it can be argued that the T-rex scene is way worse. Not only was Eddie confronted with this primordial fear of being eaten alive, but the Tyrannosaurus really just crushed the bones in his body. Neither the buck or the doe rex had actually killed Eddie, even after ripping him in half. In fact according to medical science, the human brain can actually remain conscious for up to two minutes after the time of death, even in the most gruesome of circumstances like decapitation. So there is at least the outside possibility that Eddie was “alive” and aware of what was happening to him, even when he was being ripped in half, eaten and eventually partially digested. Not a great way to go in any circumstances

[@ajurassicfan9557]

No but it was epic!

[@darthlord1997]

As much as I really love The Lost World, there are some things from the Novel I really wish we could have seen. Such as the Carnotaurus, Dodgson being the villain, the Rex nest, just to name a few. I mean, I'm fine with what we got, however I think more from the Novel would have made the film better. Dodgson being the villain would have made more sense, and connected more to the first film, then just Hammond's nephew that, as much as I like him as an antagonist, basically came out of nowhere. Nevertheless, from what I understand, the reason is because the film was well underway before the book was finished? If so, that's understandable, and again, I'm fine with what we have. However those deleted scenes you mentioned in previous videos are still REALLY unfortunate we didn't see.

[@KlaytonFioriti]

Oh totally agree!

[@Competitive_Bid_]

Klayton Fioriti hey klayton there’s this argument that just because they use geothermal power on Sorna doesn’t mean there is physically a volcano on the surface of the island and they could just be getting it from lava flows under the island what do you think of this argument?

[@Dinoslay]

+darthlord1997 I agree that they dropped the ball on some of the book's potential, the biggest being chameleonic dinosaurs that we didn't get until Jurassic World(for a few seconds). They could have easily done so by one of two ways. One, make some of the Velociraptors chameleons. There was a nice set up for this in the first novel where a juvenile Raptor changes it's skin color according to it's mood. This ability could have made the adults even more scary than they already were. Two, have one of the hunters go look for Dieter and get picked off by a camouflaging Carnotaurus that surprises him from behind just like the Indominus does to Hamada in JW. Leaving it at that could keep the Carno mysterious and add tension to the group's situation as they continue their travel towards the village. They were originally planning to have Ludlow die at the island like Dodgson does in the book thanks to the buck rex pretending to be a rock which is how it sneaks up on them. This seems like a homage to Crichton's Carnotaurus. As it is, it is lost potential and one of my biggest childhood disappointments. Judging by how the new trilogy won't feature any more hybrids akin to Indominus in the future, we likely won't see any more stealth camouflage in the movies which is a bummer.

[@williamhiers1280]

I do enjoy TLW the movie, but I've always hated that it deviated SO MUCH from the book, and this video makes it clear that Spielberg and Koepp never, ever intended on doing a faithful adaptation of it, but their own story using its title, a few setpieces and the very bare bones of the plot setup (i.e. there's a second island and competing teams go to it). And although the San Diego sequence evolved from Spielberg's image of the T-rex looking through the window at the kid, the justification for it in-story was to borrow from the *other* Lost World, that written by Arthur Conan Doyle, or, more specifically, it's 1925 movie adaptation involving a rampaging Brontosaurus Challenger and co. bring to London; the book has a rather less impressive, but still satisfying, ending involving a live Pterodactyl being brought back, which vindicates Challenger's claims. Crichton himself borrowed more from Doyle's book than just its title, as well; the Levine character is very Challenger-esque, particularly in his motivation to prove that dinosaurs have survived extinction in an isolated area, and his extremely arrogant, confrontational personality which makes him difficult to get along with, or even like. Unlike Challenger, however, he is completely wrong in almost all of his assumptions. Unaware of the events of the first novel, he believes Isla Sorna is proof of his theory about prehistoric survivals (and is extremely depressed when he discovers the truth). He is right early on that the dinosaurs showing up on the mainland are coming from an island, but wrong about how they came into existence. He's basically a fun deconstruction of Challenger, where the guy with the crazy theories who nobody believes is... totally wrong. There's still dinosaurs, obviously, he's just wrong about *why*. And Challenger never gets anyone killed. Not in the book or in the 1925 film (unless you count a deleted sequence where they're attacked by cannibals and lose one member of their team, which is hardly Challenger's fault). The only fatalities in the expedition in the book are Gomez and his co-conspirator Manuel, who want vengeance against Roxton for killing Gomez's brother, the cruel slaver Pedro Lopez. They're killed in retaliation by Roxton and Zambo, after they strand the main group to die on the plateau, and not by any of Challenger's actions (unless one blames him for failing to do a proper background check on his team members, difficult at the time even with all the preparation put into the expedition). By contrast, Levine rushing off to Site B like an idiot gets his guide Diego killed pretty much immediately after the two arrive (even though Diego wasn't doing himself any favors by ignoring basically everything Levine told him), and after he gets stranded as a result, Malcolm and co. have to come and rescue his dumb ass, which leads to Eddie's death. To be fair to Levine, both deaths are only *indirect* results of his actions, but, still, his decision to rush off half-cocked with only one guy and then losing that guy basically kicked off a chain reaction of events leading to Eddie dying fighting the raptors. And whereas Challenger, despite his boorish personality, had a kind of gruff likability and a magnetism to him through his sheer confidence, Levine just comes off as an annoying dick. Although part of this may because in both instances, the reader is privy from the get-go about whether both characters are right or wrong in their respective beliefs. We know Challenger is right, so we view anyone who challenges (heh) him is wrong, regardless of the soundness of their reasoning; we know he's right not because of any foreknowledge, even knowing the most basic elements of such an old novel, but because it'd be one really boring book if he were wrong. Meanwhile, we have foreknowledge that Levine is wrong about the existence of an actual lost world because of the first book, so his refusal to listen prejudices us against him from the get-go pretty much, with his acerbic personality not helping matters much. So, I guess, a lot of our perception of a character depends on whether we know they're right or wrong. It's why we can like Malcolm despite the fact he can come off as a smug know-it-all sometimes, because we know he's right, because he's basically the primary mouthpiece by which the books/films get a good chunk of their "misuse of science" philosophy across.

[@92bagder]

the plot for the antagonists made more sense, small team stealing dinosaur eggs not full grown dinos, They could still keep the badass hunter guy his first mate and one or two death fodder guys that would have more impactful deaths like the first movie.

[@therealrmac]

Man I wish Jurassic Park and The Lost World would be picked up again and adapted into a mini-series on HBO or something that actually follow what Michael Crichton wrote in his novel. Seriously this is one of my favorite books and it's a shame that not all of what he wrote was even considered for the film adaptation(s).

[@testacular6805]

Severe violence and gore and a dose of harsh swearing and dinosaurs and you have the lost world novel Or high school just without dinosaurs.

[@ksoundkaiju9256]

What high school did you go to that had that much gore?

[@testacular6805]

@@ksoundkaiju9256 the one i am currently in

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why am i here columbine survivor 😂

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@@ApeRiderr not gonna lie thats a good joke

[@ApeRiderr]

Haha I appreciate you appreciating the joke

[@tyrantmonnie6618]

I personally enjoy both the novel and the movie for their story, however I do find that Roland, Ajay and Peter Ludlow are for more sympathetic characters to watch, than the BIOSYN team in the novel. Though that might be a little bit of bias as I strongly believe the cast of the movie did wonders. Big props to Pete Postlewait, Harvey Jason and Arliss Howard. and having Richard Attenborough back as his version of John Hammond cements the movie as being my favourite of the Jurassic Park movies, and I feel that Fallen Kingdom echos a lot of that theming and character archetypes now that I think about it as I am typing this response. However the characters in Fallen Kingdom echo those from the novel The Lost World a bit more than the Film does. Mills being more like Dodgson in morality and actions. Franklin is basically Arby aged up. Zia seems to take traits from Thorn and Sarah from the Novel as well as that sibling like friendship Kelly has with Arby. For starters :) Just something I thought of.

[@kevin_ramirez2529]

They’re just protecting their baby... So am I, ....now I get it.

[@williamhiers1280]

Except "his baby" in that context was Sarah. They weren't even aware Kelly was there yet. So... not that kind of baby.

[@joshuadesautels]

Said by Eddie Carr. Who would later be gruesomely killed by T. rexes who were also "just protecting their baby." Tragic irony.

[@therealkingdyl]

I would have liked to see Dodgson and the chameleon Carnotaurus as well... I wasn't a big fan of Kelly in the movie, but I get they wanted the relation. A lot of cool dino scenes in the movie though.

[@Johnnydrag]

I do like a lot The lost world, I´ve been reading a lot the novel and also I watched the movie several times and I realize that there´s a lot of contrast beteen all this stuff, I mean the movie is an instante classic and the novel is so dark (referingt the topics it deals with) and if we get back to the delected scenes if we put all that stuff together.. we have the best Jurassic Park movie! like it or not. I share your thoughts and it´s good to see it in someone else. As always an awesome video! :)

[@TivonSanders]

"Hey, I know you. You're that earth first bastard, aren't you?" lol

[@velociraptor4you3291]

Personally, I'm like you in that I *LOVE* "The Lost World: Jurassic Park!" 😃 The fact that it differs from its source material a lot *never* really bothered me. In fact, I find the differences between the two something that interests me as a "JP" fan.

[@RedDeadSakharine]

Same. I love the movie and the book. The difference is so great, it's like you get two stories for the price of one! Win win!

[@velociraptor4you3291]

No-one...\o/ Yes indeed!😊

[@AMPMASTER10]

Ditto they r both good

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[@davidmartin192]

I love both, but I always lean towards books. The scene with carnotaurus in the book actually scared me when I first read it. The way they are written makes them absolutely terrifying.

[@dtdimeflicks6708]

That photo of Spielberg directing the baby Stegosaurus LOL. Man, I love that guy.

[@ChaosKnightCMV]

TLW is by far my favorite to this day. I love the atmosphere and the idea that life truly did break out and thrive on Sorna.

[@alancoll1987]

I watch the making of Jurassic Park and the lost world after every time I watch the movies and it just proves how much a visionary Speilburg is and his friendship to Micheal Criton. :D

[@nat1bott]

DON'T GO INTO THE LONG GRASS! Proceeds to go into the long grass.

[@melvinshine9841]

Most of those guys probably didn't hear that message over the sound of them crapping their pants in terror.

[@CodyCR]

Peer pressure...

[@AMPMASTER10]

He was going in there 2 rescue them despite knowing the dangers, I wish more people would realize that

[@williamhiers1280]

Yeah, I was *just* about to post that he went in there after their stupid asses, and by the time he caught up, they were already too far in to turn back, so he just decided to go with the flow and hope for the best, hence why you see him in the center of the group, where it's safest, as opposed to on the fringes or in the lead/bringing up the rear.

[@channelgrantito7662]

Poor Eddie. One of the most heroic and resourceful characters in Jurassic Park history received such brutal and undeserving deaths. RIP Oh yeah, could you do a video on the death of Howard King in the lost world book? I played the ps1 game and I just realized that the velociraptor intro cutscene is a live representation of what happened, and it is a short but brutal and awesome little excerpt.

[@dr_mafoony]

Another great Lost World video. The whole process this movie went through from idea to screen is such a cool thing to hear and read about, it’s probably the Jurassic Park film I’ve seen the most

[@nicolai2mxtbrider]

i came across your channel by chance a few weeks ago and now im hooked! i love watching all these and finding out more about how it came to be, its so gripping keep up the awesome work!!

[@austinsmith1524]

Absolutely love your channel dude, your videos are so insightful and I honestly appreciate the movies even more after watching what you put out on your channel, keep up the great work

[@Lionrisesproductions]

I recently read both JP and LW (based on your recommendations). I absolutely love TLW film. But I truly appreciated the novel. Like the movies, I like TLW novel and film over JP film/novel. The scene with the raptors and the high hide was something I would have loved to see.

[@jonaskarlsson1144]

I really love your channel and to get more info with one of my favorit franchises of all time is something that has made the jurassic park universe even more fantastic. You where the one that motivated me to read the first book this summer and it was awesome! Thank you a lot!

[@mackinblack]

*YOU'RE THE MAN, KLAYTON!!*

[@KlaytonFioriti]

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[@PlanetMobius87]

This movie has a very special place in my heart. I saw the first film in theaters three times (I was 5 and begged my mom to keep taking me) and I remember a couple years later, before internet leaks and articles, the genuine surprise I had when I saw the teaser for The Lost World in a movie theater and I said out loud, "There's going to be a second Jurassic Park?!". The Bull's shadow through the tent has always stuck with me from that first trailer. Real movie magic. Anytime you cover The Lost World I click so fast

[@andyd8284]

Lost world is my favorite jp movie of the whole franchise....😁

[@mattbell5602]

The Lost World Novel is so fantastic. The movie is too all over the place to be very enjoyable.

[@FrankVila]

Beautiful, Klay. It's still my favorite sequel since I saw it in theater at 14, at the premiere in my town.

[@menotyou9836]

I prefer the novel having just finished it. The suspense of the high hide chapters, the Raptor eating a chocolate bar… so much amazing tension.

[@patikobalavadze615]

Personally the lost world is my fav jurassic park movie

[@jaketate7257]

I remember being 8 years old, seeing this movie in theaters with my mom opening weekend in Texas, and right at the T-rex attack on the trailer, the film burned and they scrambled to find another roll to get it going again. Talk about ruining the experience. But they got it rolling again and evened backed it up a few minutes to let the audience settle back into the scene. Good times. Love your channel and the work you do man! Keep it up!

[@FilmerJack992]

I enjoy all the videos !!! Keep it up !!!

[@williamhiers1280]

It's interesting Koepp talks about reduction when the movie actually ADDS characters. In the novel, the bad guy expedition consists of only three guys in a Jeep Wrangler, whereas in the movie, it's a gigantic army of men and vehicles. He also invented another character for the good guy team, Dr. Juttson, instead of using Jack Thorne or Richard Levine. Juttson was eventually cut from the story and his lines divided up among the various other good guys. In particular, I remember that he was the one who had the rivalry with Burke in the script, not Sarah, and the two are have a sort of Professor Challenger/Professor Summerlee style antagonistic relationship with one another after the two groups join forces. Juttson is present in the draft(s) of the script that feature Hammond dying at the end and his funeral, and he's interesting for two reasons. He dies during the raptor attack in the worker village, and was the only other casualty among the gatherers besides Eddie. Cutting him meant that Eddie was the only good guy to die in the film. The other reason he's interesting (and why he may have been considered so superfluous) was that he would've been the only other character besides Carter on either team that didn't have a full name; no draft I've read ever gives him a first name. Does anyone know why Juttson got cut? My theory ties into the idea of reduction Koepp mentions. And I think his goal in making the hunter side bigger, with more people and vehicles, was to make the gatherers seem like the underdog, whereas in the novel, Dodgson and two goons don't exactly come off like much of a threat to anyone, least of all the dinosaurs, especially since their sound device that they use to ward the dinosaurs off malfunctions the second time they use it, making them seem like complete incompetents. By contrast, the huge mercenary team Ludlow hires, led by Roland, is efficient and well-armed and highly effective, and they already outnumbered the gatherers even before Juttson's character was excised from the story. So my thinking is that, in addition to being kind of a superfluous redshirt and lacking any real defining traits beyond his antagonism with Burke (which goes nowhere because Burke dies in the waterfall scene just as he does in the final film), Koepp wanted to make the group that much smaller by eliminating a character, and it was easy enough to write Juttson out for the final version of the script (which I don't believe I've ever seen, myself; if no such draft exists, then the draft with Juttson was used and he was simply ignored during casting and filming), and simply give the lion's share of his dialogue, as well as his rivalry with Burke, to Sarah. My other question is when was Juttson cut? I remember vaguely that Sliders' Jerry O'Connell was rumored for the role (or maybe he was simply rumored and people assumed he'd been considered for Juttson after the fact), and, around the time Jurassic Park III came out, it was rumored that the not-very-Eddie-Like Eddie Carr action figure was actually originally designed to be Juttson. I have no proof of either of these things, though. I do know, though, that there was a very small fan campaign to get Juttson included in the then-unmade fourth movie that petered out and went nowhere, which I was part of, if only because I was obsessed with seeing every unused character get used. I was also a member of a tinier, even less noteworthy "Ed Regis for Jurassic Park 4!" fan campaign. These little campaigns were pitiful in hindsight and never got beyond user post signatures on a few forums (where I went by the screen name "Bloodsucking Lawyer"). Anyway, if (and it's a big if) the Jerry O'Connell rumor is true and so is the rumor about Eddie's action figure originally being made for Dr. Juttson, then Juttson was still being considered as a character for the story up to the casting and merchandising phase, and got cut then, with O'Connell never being cast and Juttson's toy being recycled for Eddie. I'm interested to hear others' thoughts, especially yours, Klayton. Juttson isn't a terribly important footnote in TLW's production, but I still find him and why/when he got cut interesting.

[@ukotoa1639]

This is so fascinating. It’s amazing how you can grip me with what you say.

[@47streetcop96]

So the idea for the "long grass" scene came from "hunting literature" and not the numerous times Crichton talks about it in both books and when the raptors stalk through it and then pop their heads up when the Triceratops discover their ambush approach... interesting. Maybe if he had of read The Lost World five times he could have saved all the other research.

[@dtdimeflicks6708]

I love this movie. I saw it twice within a 24 hour period the weekend it came out. It's a fun adventure flick and a very worthy sequel to JP. I don't quite remember too much of the novel (only read it once years ago in middle school) but I do remember noting the differences and actually being pretty happy the film was the way it was.

[@thebitsanpiecesman4423]

Simply great content you are the man :)

[@GanonGhidorah]

I can just imagine the conversation between Steven and David that lead to the Raptor Long Grass scene. David: "Hey Steven, I've been doing some research for the movie. I read this really interesting story about Jaguars hunting in the long-grass, not being scene. Its very tense and frightening stuff. Think we can use it for the movie?" Steven: "Jaguars? .........Raptors." David: "Raptors?" Steven (nodding): "Raptors." David (nodding understanding): "Raptors..." But in all seriousness, THIS has given me a greater appreciation for Kelly's role in The Lost World. Back during the summer, I had a movie marathon with some friends of the Jurassic Franchise, and one friend was confused as to why we should "like" John Hammond in that movie...I tried to explain it to him, but he still insisted that Hammond was a bad guy because his desire to keep the animals alive was inherently "selfish." This explanation of Kelly's role in the movie provides the PERFECT answer that I should have given - it connects the plot together. The idea that parents have the desire to protect their young...Hammond is the Father of all the Dinosaurs on Isla Nublar - it's not just about preserving these creatures for the sake of preserving them; they're his children...I kept saying they were his Legacy, because they WERE his legacy...

[@crankywombat2598]

I have to admit i haven't seen the first 3 movies since i was a kid and teen. But after i came across your channel, well the way you talk about these films made me revisit the movies that made me jump all those years ago. Well played sir lol

[@conradojavier7547]

Now we need a Book Accurate Jurassic Park as a Netflix Show.

[@kylgrv]

Most of what was explained here, I didn’t know about before. That being said, I too find it awesome to research the making of movies that I really enjoy. I find it really cool that this all started at a restaurant meeting between three guys.

[@AirbenderHawk]

Damn Eddie, a hero’s sacrifice shall never been in vain. The theme remix in the intro still gives me chill. 👏👏👏😁

[@josefontanez3186]

So I know that I’m late since I been watching a lot of your videos recently...!!! Well at least these JURASSIC PARK videos... but even when I’m super late watching them i still 💯 enjoy every single one of them...!!! And as a DIE HARD JURASSIC PARK FAN...!!! I love and enjoy these videos and I don’t get tired watching them... so keep them coming whenever you have a new idea for a new video do it cause I’ll be here waiting to watch them asap...!!!

[@andysdinosaurreviews]

Do you know what would be awesome? I've been thinking about it for quite a while, while watching your videos. I'm not sure if it's possible but if you could read the entire original novel and the Lost World novel while adding in the pictures like you do with these videos that would be amazing! Maybe in different sets and parts you could get through an entire novel and then move to the next. I'd watch those videos for sure even though I've already read both books. It'd be the closest we'll probably ever get to a movie actually matching the original novels.

[@paulofernandesroberto9336]

I don't know if it's a Herculean task but I'd love to know more about Jurassic Park III' s production as it seemed to be rather convoluted ^^. Great video as always!

[@davidcolantuono3622]

I wonder if the scene where the S.S. Venture came crashing into the dock in San Diego was a slight nod to something from the original *Jurassic Park* novel where a ship containing Raptors on board was nearing port before being ordered to return to the island. If so, I wish they had kept the Raptors *WITH* the male T-Rex in San Diego. When Malcolm asked if there were any more dinosaurs on the boat (after the Rex comes out from the cargo hold and begins its rampage), it would have been so cool to see a few Raptors emerging from the boat. After all, they were the suspected reason the crew was killed on board while the boat had no significant damage. If the T-Rex had killed the crew, that boat would have been significantly damaged and possibly would have sunk before it even got to the dock. Just my thought. I might add that the Raptors had too little screen time in this franchise. In the original film, we don't actually see them until one surprises Ellie at the shed. In this film, we don't see them until the "long grass" sequence. In the third film, we don't see them until one attacks Amanda Kirby in that building. In the fourth film, it's not until we see them chasing after a pig in their pen before we see them. And, in the fifth film, Blue is the last surviving Raptor who doesn't show up until Owen meets up with her. Getting back to this film, there are at least two other sequences that they could have used from the original novel as well as one very important plot hole that was never mentioned from the original film. The first sequence is the teen boy who was attacked by a Raptor and the doctor named Roberta "Bobbie" Carter had to find out what "Raptor" meant. She was first told it was a Spanish word that meant "abductor" (or "hupia") who kidnaps a baby or child. Then, she finally found the word in her English dictionary. *raptor* \ noun [derived of L. raptor plunderer, fr. raptus]: bird of prey The second sequence that they could have used is the Compies that attacked people in the village, most notably the baby in its crib where the grandmother discovers the dinosaurs attacking it. To keep the PG-13 rating, both sequences would have had to have been implied and not graphically shown as the novel depicted them. As for the plot hole, the canister containing dinosaur embryos that were left behind after Nedry was killed by the Dilophosaurus. What the heck happened to them? This could have been at least mentioned before going to the second island. Nothing...not one word. Not in the novel or the film version.

[@thealienbros5431]

David Colantuono the video game shows what happens to the embryos

[@ProfessorHurt]

For me, it comes down to quite simply Roland is in the movie and I've watched the movie multiple times because of this character. I've read the book twice. While the book is entertaining, the movie is my answer as to what I enjoy more between the two.

[@EddieD218]

Same

[@meerschweinchenn]

i finally got my hands on jurassic 1 + 2 books and i read them as fast as possible so i could finally come and watch all of your videos hahaha

[@longobardo9871]

The second film of Jurassic Park is based more on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World than Michael Crichton's The Lost World

[@williamhiers1280]

Which itself featured references to Doyle's book. In particular, Levine is a rather caustic deconstruction of Professor Challenger. Like Challenger, he's boisterous and arrogant and a know-it-all and difficult to get along with. Unlike Challenger, he's wrong about the existence of prehistoric survivals, and is a poor planner; his hastily thrown-together two-person "expedition" gets his guide killed (a "guide" who doesn't listen and doesn't seem to know about concealing oneself's existence from predators, meaning Levine is a poor judge of character), forcing his friends back in the US to come and rescue his dumb ass, leading to Eddie getting killed. Had he not decided to go ahead with only one guy accompanying him, who immediately gets killed, he wouldn't have turned the whole thing into an ad-hoc rescue operation that endangers two kids and indirectly gets at least one other person killed. This is solved in the film by having the expedition, despite Malcolm's protests, be necessary in order to prevent the exploitation of the island and dinosaurs being brought to the mainland in large numbers. In the book, it was all about rescuing Levine's stupid ass because no one knew about what Dodgson and Biosyn were up to until after he and his goon squad arrived. I think Levine's only redeeming traits are his affection for Kelly and Arby and how he inspires them, and the fact that, after losing his guide Diego, he proves remarkably adept at surviving all by himself on the island.

[@LeonGun8]

@@williamhiers1280 But Crichton's novel was a great decontruction of the original Lost World novel. The movie was just an action flick that took the most "interesting" setpieces and made a movie out of them.

[@williamhiers1280]

@@LeonGun8 Yes, I'm aware, but even mediocre movies have some worthwhile elements in them, usually.

[@alexlemonds2838]

Love those drawings. :)

[@jamesschmidt6993]

If I would've read the book after the movie, I would've liked the movie more. I'm a firm believer that movies should be as close to the books as possible, with writers slightly changing scenes as needed. I loved the Lost World right until they put the T-rex on the ship and had him storm through San Diego. That took me right out of the movie and I couldn't get back into it. That's why it's on the bottom of my list for Top 5 Jurassic movies.

[@CarlosFontes]

I feel like 'The Lost World' novel and film are so their own thing, I kind of struggle to compare and contrast them like the first film and novel.

[@JFree41]

I feel like the San Diego ending really hurt this movie for me. After reading the novel it was just such a smarter finale than the movie. I remember the tension being palpable. While as a kid the T-Rex running through the city seemed so cool but now I think it was a bad idea and really lets the movie down. I understand why some things need to be cut to make the movie work but I’ll never understand direct changes to something so brilliant as the true ending to the lost world. While we’re on the topic of being cut, how much cooler would Jurassic Park have been if they’d taken ten extra minutes to include the river scene with the Rex trying to get at grant and the kids!? Still my all time favorite movie but damn that was so tense in the book. Would’ve made for some incredible moments in the movie.

[@bartlett247]

The irony of them trying to trim characters from the book when there were probably 4 times the characters in the movie vs the book which is why I think the book is far more intense. having such a small group vs a completely unrestrained island of dinosaurs. I like the second movie, but I think they went way too overboard with how many were on the island

[@tein1339]

Those T-rex at 3:27 seem to be having so much fun...

[@chaoticiandrac5929]

I like the insight about the long grass scene coming from reading about S. American jaguars.. that's pretty neat. Still want to have seen the more elaborate version of the Worker Village.

[@davidp9292]

Good video! I only recently read the novel and I absolutely loved it (much more than I did the JP novel), although I also loved the movie. Having them be different allowed me to feel I was enjoying two separate stories and getting more Jurassic bang for my buck than movie that closely follows the book.

[@paperstacksfilms]

The only thing that makes this movie bad, is the glaring plot hole of how the boat crew got ripped to shreds if the trex was in the loading bay the whole time. Yes the final sequence wasn't necessary but it was still pretty cool

[@alaskanactressp30]

I love ❤️ everything about Jurassic Park movies 🎥. I did not know Steven Spielberg owned a restaurant 😮 “ We all live in a yellow submarine “🎼🎶🎵😃. I Love Jurassic Park brings back memories from day one . I love ❤️ the soundtracks , I loved Lost World 🌎, Jurassic World now I have to see the Fallen Kingdom . I hope there will be more Jurassic Park movies to come. Steven Spielberg my favorite director of all time. HUMONGOUS JURASSIC PARK FAN❤️. Excellent video 👍💐. Kudos from Alaska 😉

[@alaskanactressp30]

Oh yeah one more thing 😮, I prefer the movie do the reading for me 😃. I like to watch than read 🌹

[@toasttherodan8012]

Amazing bravo awesome video klayion.

[@WellHiFellers]

Never really got into the production stuff, so cool!

[@kirkhonore]

Klayton, you need to make a longer series of videos on this. It demands more than 8 minutes and change. We'll have to work on the Patreon or something like that. But good video nonetheless. True, Lost World didn't really capture me the way the first film did for a variety of reason and now I understand why and for me it was because this film baked too long on napkins and too many idea sessions that it created more of a headache of a film to follow than the previous entry. I did read both books prior to seeing the movies and now it's standard fare for me to avoid reading the book or re-reading before seeing a movie adaptation because of the intense frustration with all of the many changes that can be made between literary and cinematic versions of a story. But still, I can watch it over and over again along with the third and then have a complete story of the journey from Critchon's mind to the big screen.

[@rileyfisher9979]

Bro I love your new intro

[@barryauguste9734]

1. Any idea on how Rexy got out of the mansion? When all the dino's are released they are milling around but obviously no T-rex or Carnotosaurus. Rexy just appears out of nowhere to eat Mills . 2. Many incubating eggs shown - do you think the are all Indoraptors? The one in FK is said to be a prototype. 3. Any new concrete explanation of how the Mososaur survived in is tank? You touched on it back in September '17 but there were only theories then. Keep up the great work - best KZbinr out there!

[@Dark_Mishra]

Personally, I don’t mind the movie being so different, and really love some of the new characters, but I’ve heard Micheal Crichton didn’t like it very well - enough that it’s the reason he’s never written another sequel to any of his books.

[@Franniiv3]

I remember my dad got me the Jody Duncan book around the time the film came out on VHS. I used to always stare at the Raptor illustration and imagine the scene it could be from. Later I got the companion book by Duncan for the first film, not looked at it in ages but remember that yellow comic or was it script at the back was really cool.

[@doug_b330]

I would have also added that the t rex in San Diego is not only a slight nod to Godzilla, but also the fact The Lost World is also with the Brontosaurus city attack from the early 1900s.

[@curtishammonds1333]

Awesome content man. Still really wish they would have squeezed the camouflaging carnos scene in the film. Nonetheless still my favorite JP movie.

[@ingenbioengineering4305]

Harvest leader to harvest base.

[@MegaChucky2001]

I love that making-of book. I bought it when the movie came out and read it cover to cover. It’s sitting on my subwoofer now. I may re-read it.

[@TylerRakstis]

It's ironic since they came up with the ideas of the movie in a restaurant, Pixar's head writers John Lasseter, Pete Doctor, Joe Ranft and Andrew Stanton did the same thing when they came up with many more ideas after the success of Toy Story. Which included A Bug's Life, Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo and WALL-E.

[@joshlampman8717]

I wish they kept Dodgeson as the cillian like they did in the book. His death was perfect

[@kevintaylor3792]

I just ordered the book off of eBay! Thanks for the heads up! Hopefully we will get more deleted scenes to this movie. I want more Ajay!

[@kylekissack4633]

The books are amazing the movies are great in their own right! I just can't get enough of them for 20 plus years.. I want to remake JP and TLW more true to the novels who wants a role 😊

[@Dsturb85]

Me please

[@generalgeek]

I know you must hear this so often but I have to say LOVE your new intro! Did you make it?

[@magnawaves]

Loving the new intro dude, though I am gonna miss the little corny looking trex chomp lol

[@samallen6064]

I read both the jurassic park books before I watched the films. Lost World, just makes me want to cry.

[@epicraptorman]

136K subscribers!? Damn, good job! I subscribed before you hit 3K btw ;)

[@derrabbit7289]

I saw this when I was a little kid. Loved it and had to have as many toys as I could lay my hands on. My dad’s train set got the lost world treatment.😋

[@Grand_History]

I grew up with the movies, not the novels. So I can’t help but have a deeper love for the movies

[@baecotte]

I know I’m super late here. Been a fan of the series and yours, Klayton, for years. I finally, FINALLY, read the novels this past month. Wow. I missed a lot. I’m so glad I was able to read them. I love TLW novel. There are scenes in it that make no sense to me, like raptors rolling the boy in this seemingly 600+ lb cage, faster than a car. And the movie has, what to me is, a top 3 worst direction change: San Diego incident with the t-rex. Just too unrealistic for my liking, especially reeling it back to the boat. A better, more realistic edition of both combined, would have been a chef’s kiss from me. Childhood me was infatuated with the “safari” scene in the jeeps and the slide out shooting seat. And the long grass work was unbelievable. Either way, can’t rewrite history. Crichton and Spielberg however, will always be my favorites for the rest of time for these masterpieces.

[@pokeballz2502]

JP and Lost World are two of my absolute favorite movies of all time. I recently read the novels for the first time, and I have pros and cons for both versions. (Reviving one character and killing off another from JP, ehh. Dodson in the shed for half the book - and not bleeding out?) I find myself wondering what the 3rd Novel would have been.

[@rubywhiterose6888]

I like both the movie and book. Because their both epic and cool in their own way.

[@Jmizz2022]

I DID like the movie a lot.... until I read the book. Book was amazing

[@chriskeoni9922]

"Don't go into the long grass!" 😂

[@daniellee5147]

Watching those people scatter at 5:53 made me laugh, and I don't even know why lol.

[@KEVMAN7987]

With the deletion of thr CG Rex it goes from tense/scary to ridiculous/hilarious.

[@onyxsky2304]

I used to own that book there was an awesome part where it showed the behind scenes of the cliff edge scene, the set looked so good

[@RaspberryStudios]

I do love the Lost World movie buuuut I would have also loved to see the Lost World how it was in the book as I found that to be much more exciting

[@ganbagoos4082]

That new intro is like an animated explainable jpog title screen (press start screen) with the trex and the spino fighting

[@ambds1975]

I liked the movie. A few scenes, notably the trailers over the cliff and the raptors in the long grass, were compelling enough that they stuck in my mind. The glass spidering under Sarah's hands was as scary as anything I'd seen in a movie. I don't need movies to stick to the book, but I agree with a few of the other posters; maybe a liiiittle more of Crichton's stuff. Thank you for the video. :)

[@IAmSamsquatch]

TL;DR - The movie is so different from the novel because Spielberg already had a vision in mind (on paper) before Crichton wrote the novel. So he just slapped the title on the movie more or less.

[@ymeyers6225]

I liked all of the original movies but both books were literally impossible to take a break from

[@sintarsis]

I love the new intro

[@sleepylabone19]

I wonder if he still harts new comments on old videos if he does that’s so COOL

[@wolfthornnholtzklau4913]

Love the Carnotaurus 'Demon' in the intro. Still looking for this guy. Ill have him one day.

[@brettstees1037]

I love the novel and movie equally. All though i would have liked more raptor time in the movie along with the carnotaurus gas station scene.