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.
Just be sure to subscribe to CineFix for
more, What's the Difference.
>> That was fucking stupid.
>> It was the first thing that popped into
my head, I didn't workshop it.
>> Boo.
