Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, is sequeling up our cineplexes this weekend.
And since Jurassic Park was one of the very first "what's
the differences" we did, it's time to move into sequel
territory ourselves. >> The second of two Jurassic Park novels
by, Michael Crichton.
The Lost World was written and published in 1995, after the first film came out.
In fact, it was Spielberg himself who lobbied Crichton to write another one.
So that they could have more material for
a film sequel. >> Help me,
Michael Crichton, help me. >> So what does it look like, when you
write a sequel to a book, specifically to inform a sequel to a movie.
That already changed a bunch of stuff from the original book.
That film was based on, then make the film sequel version of that book sequel?
>> Probably a Big god damn mess?
>> Probably,
I'm Clint Cage. >> And
I'm Casey Redmond. >> So go check out our old Jurassic Park
episode, for a quick primer on the first book and movie.
And with no restraint on spoilers, it's time to ask, what's the difference?
(Music)
Let's start by answering the question asked,
whenever anybody decides to make a sequel, why the hell are we doing this?
The answer, for the money. >> For the science.
>> Really, because I kind of thought that.
>> Yeah no.
I guess kind of. >> Because you know that science rules.
>> Well, we're kind of both right.
Both book and movie, feature two different groups going to MGM's.
Other dinosaur filled island, Isla Sorna.
One that's in it for academia and
one that's trying to stack that paper. >> In the book, on team science,
we find Doctor Ian Malcom. >> Totally not dead,
as the first novel sort of implied.
But totally hobbled by the bum leg,
left over from his adventures in the first book.
He's giving lectures on his new theories about extinction,
they seemingly denying the existence of dinosaurs.
And being hounded by the super-rich, super-arrogant scientist name
Richard Levine. >> Levine is the heir to a doll making
fortune and
he's convinced a lost world is on the verge of being discovered in Costa Rica.
Dinosaurs are turning up on the mainland and
the Costa Rican government is doing a hell of a job, covering it up.
The first third or so of the book, covers months of investigation leading to
the discovery of Jurassic Park's secret 2nd island, site B.
Ultimately, Levine chips away at Malcolm and they begin planning an expedition to
the island, Malcolm is actually stoked about this.
He sees this as an incredible opportunity to study the animals and
thinks he can prove some of his theories about extinction.
>> But when Levine jumps the gun and
heads down early by himself, of course, he gets attacked by dinosaurs.
And stranded on the island, forcing the rest of the expedition to hustle down
there and rescue his ass. >> The movie opens with a super rich
British family, yachting their way through the South American coast.
Their little girl goes off to explore, but instead finds a bunch of copies and
gets attacked.
This was actually, how the first novel opened.
So, John Hammond,
who totally didn't die in the first movie like he did in the first book.
Is now scrambling to keep control of Injun by sending Team Science down to Isla Sorna
to study the animals.
Hoping to sway public support, by showing the flourishing dinosaurs peacefully
living on their own. >> Malcolm,
of course thinks, this is dumb.
Which is a key difference between book and movie Malcolm.
While book Malcolm has denied the dinosaur thing for years and
is gung ho to study them again.
Movie Malcom was vocal about his experience in Jurassic Park.
To the point where his credibility has been shattered,
he's just that crazy dinosaur guy.
(Sound) >> It isn't until Malcom learns that team
science's resident paleontological behavior theorist.
Slash his girlfriend Sarah Harding is already on the island that he
agrees to go.
But only, if he gets to say this on his way out the door.
>> Its not a research expedition anymore,
its a rescue operation and
its leaving right now. >> And so
team science is forced to hustle down there to rescue Sarah.
So who else is going?
Along with Malcolm and Sarah, team science has Eddy Carr,
designer of all the rad fuel equipment.
Nick Van Owen, a roguish cameraman and activist.
And of course Kelly,
Ian's stow away teenage daughter. >> In the book it's Jack Thorne
that designed all the rad field equipment.
And Eddie Carr, described as a stocky young man in his 20 is his foreman.
They both make the traveling squad, along with Sarah Harding.
She's not quite Julianne Moore in the book, described as short, muscular and
compact with short black hair.
Book Sarah, specializes in predators and is off studying them in Africa.
When the call comes in to hustle to the island and rescue Levine.
>> They've also got not just one, but
two young stowaways.
Kelly and Arby, are two students who had struck a friendship with Dr. Levine.
Becoming his research assistants and little errand kids.
Learning that he had disappeared on the island,
they are determined to help get him back. >> Gee, I hope they're useful.
It'd be a drag, if all they were good for was timely gymnastics.
>> Yeah, I mean they're pretty sharp kids.
One of them is in the computer, so you know, yeah.
Probably better than the gymnastics.
(Noise) But, how about Team Money?
In the movie it's lead by Hannah's nephew Peter Ludlow,
who's taking charge of Injun, determined to salvage Injun's most bonkers assets.
Ludlow sends an enormous expedition to the island to capture as many live animals as
possible.
To bring them back to an almost finished zoo,
they apparently already own in San Diego. >> They've got this hilarious
dinosaur nerd stereotype in a cowboy hat, this awesome big game hunter stereotype,
Roland Timbo.
And a host of other colorful mercenary types that aren't in the book at all,
because in the book, team money is just three guys.
Lewis Dodgson, a corporate saboteur with Injun's rival who appears in both
the first book and the movie. >> Dodgson.
Dodgson, we've got Dodgson here. >> His plan is to steal the fertilized
eggs from site b.
He's not exactly a nice guy in the movie, but he's a real worm in the books.
He even tries to kill Sarah Harding,
by throwing her overboard on the way to the island.
But tagging along with him are his right hand man Howard King,
a researcher who does not feel good about working with Dodgson.
And Professor Baselton,
a celebrity biologist who's been the face of anti-dino PR.
Going on TV and denying everything anybody says about dinosaurs possibly existing.
Once they get to the island,
Team Science sets out to find the people they came there for.
In the movie, they find Sarah pretty quickly,
while the book takes almost as little time to find Levine.
Book Team Science, spends a lot more time discussing their finding.
Because again, all of them are super gun hoe to study up, while they're down there.
But once they're on the island, there's really only one thing that's similar.
The mom and pop T-Rexe's attacking the trailer.
Although, the set up is a little different.
>> In the movie, Sarah and
Nick release all the captured dinosaurs, ruining InGen's camp.
(Sound) >> On their way back,
they find a baby T-rex that big game tough guy Roland Tembo,
was using to lure a T-rex into his rifle sights.
Sarah and Nick rescue the baby and
bring it back to the trailer to mend its broken leg.
In the book, Team Money accidentally steps on the baby T-rex when they're stealing
eggs, leaving it helpless with a broken leg.
But when Team Science finds it, the baby manages to chomp down on Eddy's boot,
refusing to let go. >> Sarah and
Ian actually tell Eddy to shoot the thing, because it will be dead soon anyway.
Look at him, it's totally fuck.
It isn't until later, it's revealed that Eddy didn't have the heart to do it.
So, he brought the baby back to the trailer instead.
You idiot!
Once mom and Dad T-Rex show up and start wrecking shop.
The trailer over the cliff sequence is probably the high watermark of the film.
Ian, Sarah and Nick get tossed around, rolled over and end up dangling on a rope.
They only make it out alive,
thanks to the help of Eddie Carr, who gets needlessly ripped in half.
Like, the dude did not deserve to die this brutally and man,
does no one shed a tear for him.
Ultimately, it's InGen's now-crippled expedition team that helps them back onto
solid ground. >> The book attack, finds just Ian and
Sarah in the trailer.
Ian gets crunched up pretty bad and
is completely helpless again, while Sarah gets him out with the help of Jack Thorne.
And while nobody gets eaten, bizarre,
Ian spent the rest of the book in a morphine induced fever dream.
Reduced to mumbling and being carried places.
After the trailer attack, Team Science and
Team Money were reluctantly join forces to make it off the island.
But boom, this guy dies, then bam, so his dinosaur nerd.
Then bam, bam lots of other guys get eaten by raptors.
And by the time the helicopters arrive, Ian and Sarah and
timely Gymnast Kelly have survived along with nick and no one.
But, so has Ludlow, Tembo and the male T-Rex that he took down with a high power
tranq rifle, all caged up and headed to the mainland.
But before we go back to movie mainland, we're staying on book island,
where T-Money just can't get those eggs.
Dodgson's plan involves a device that emits a high pitched frequency.
Which drives the parents away from the nest, while they sneak in and grab an egg.
But when the device shorts out on them in the T-Rex nest, Busselton gets eaten and
Papa T-Rex chases away Dodgson and King.
King gets eaten by raptors pretty quickly, but Dodgson is actually able to hunker
down in a shed for a while. >> Meanwhile, team science has their
own adventures with the raptors, when the dinosaurs attack them in the high hide.
Eddie gets knocked down to the ground and eaten.
Arby, meanwhile, gets himself stuck in an anti-predator cage at ground level.
While the raptors use it like a hamster ball,
kicking it back to their nest, one of them gets the key literally stuck in its teeth.
So Thorn and Levine take off with the cage,
while Sara and Kelly take off on a motorcycle
to bring down the raptor with the key. >> Wow,
that's sounds pretty exciting. >> It is.
Way more exciting in timely gymnastics.
(Sound) >> Ultimately,
team science holds up in the old workers compound.
Sarah finds Team Money's gas-powered jeep and tries to get it.
Only to have Dodgson and a T-Rex show up at the same time.
In a wicked, cold-blooded move that Dodgson totally had coming.
Sarah pushes him out from under the jeep, letting the T-Rex nobble him up.
Nobble him?
The dinosaur brings the asshole back to the nest,
where the baby T-Rexe's can learn how to kill.
Meanwhile, team science survives another encounter with raptors and
finds their way to a boat, where they make it off the island.
That's a still doped up Ian, Sarah, Thorn, Levine, Arby, and Kelly.
But in the movie, Team Money is just getting started.
Once back on the main land,
Ludlow is all set to introduce MGM's most amazing thing ever.
When instead, the T-Rex straight up King Kong's his way through San Diego.
Sarah and
Ian have to use the baby T-Rex once again to lure the big guy back onto the ship.
Where Ludlow, like Dodgson from the book, is used for baby T-Rex hunting practice.
The film wraps up with some sentimental thoughts from John Hammond about
preserving the island.
And a peaceful Norman Rockwell image of a family of T-Rexe's living happily side by
side with Stegosauruses and Pterodactyls.
So it would seem that Team Science has won.
>> The book meanwhile,
offers no such conclusion.
Malcolm even discovers that the whole trip down there was useless.
You see, it turns out that InGen fed some of the dinosaurs a bad
batch of sheep need.
That spread a degenerative condition, drastically shortening their lifespan and
dooming them to extinction, again.
So even the prospects of studying the Lost World became moot.
Team science doesn't get their data and team money, they're corpses.
So, I guess team dinosaur wins this one.
Point is, the book is about salvaging what's left from the original
Jurassic Park.
Team science looking to learn about extinction through this pristine
lost world.
And team money just looking to pick InGen bones clean.
>> The movie, on the other hand,
picks up the same themes as the original film.
Awe in the face of the creation of dinosaurs and the complete arrogance in
thinking we can control it. >> Ooh, that's how all we starts.
But then later there's running and
then screaming. >> That's it for The Lost World.
Let us know what you think about Falling Kingdom and if you're going to Tiran to
see it this weekend. >> Ooh, dude, put that away.
It's not even a pun. >> Yeah, okay, sorry.
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>> That was fucking stupid.
>> It was the first thing that popped into
my head, I didn't workshop it. >> Boo.