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The Lost World: Jurassic Park

1997129 minutesPG-13
8.1
Arcplot Score
💎 Masterclass
Unverified
6.6IMDb
🍅 57%Rotten Tomatoes
Ⓜ️ 59/100Metacritic
🎬 6.6TMDb
📊 0.4Popularity
🏆Nominated for 1 Oscar. 4 wins & 28 nominations total
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Written by: Michael Crichton, David Koepp
A research team is sent to an island eighty-seven miles away from the previous home of Jurassic Park, to document and photograph the now liberated dinosaurs. However, InGen the BioEngineering company has sent another larger team to the same island to catch, sedate, and transport some dinosaurs to San Diego where they will be used in a new Jurassic Park location. But life always finds a way. Will both teams return to the mainland with successful findings? Or will another tragedy occur?

Box Office

Budget:$73.0M
Revenue:$618.6M
Profit:$545.6M

Arcplot Score Breakdown

Beat Timing Precision8.8/10
Emotional Arc Impact5.5/10
Thematic Consistency10/10
Overall Score8.1/10

Beat Sheet

15 plot points

The Lost World: Jurassic Park Arcplot
1
Opening Image
1 min
2
Theme Stated
8 min
3
Set-Up
12 min
4
Catalyst
18 min
5
Debate
28 min
6
Break Into Two
38 min
7
B Story
48 min
8
Fun and Games
58 min
9
Midpoint
72 min
10
Bad Guys Close In
85 min
11
All Is Lost
98 min
12
Dark Night of the Soul
102 min
13
Break Into Three
108 min
14
Finale
120 min
15
Final Image
128 min

Emotional Arc

+100-10

Plot Points

#1

Opening Image

1 min

Isla Sorna, Site B. Family on yacht near shore. Little girl Cathy exploring beach alone. Attacked by Compsognathus swarm. Parents hear screams. Mystery island with dinosaurs still existing. Hammond experiments continue beyond Jurassic Park disaster.

#2

Theme Stated

8 min

Malcolm: "Life finds a way... to be exploited." Theme of nature cannot be controlled, corporate greed vs. conservation, and unintended consequences of meddling with natural order. Second chance to learn same lesson.

#3

Set-Up

12 min

Ian Malcolm four years after Jurassic Park. Career damaged, credibility destroyed. Hammond contacts him - Site B breeding facility island where dinosaurs still live. Hammond wants documentation to stop nephew Peter Ludlow from harvesting dinosaurs. Malcolm refuses - been there.

#4

Catalyst

18 min

Hammond reveals Sarah Harding, Malcolm girlfriend, already on island documenting! Malcolm horrified. Must rescue her. No choice now. Team: Nick photographer, Eddie equipment specialist. Malcolm joins. Complicated relationship with Sarah - passionate but reckless.

#5

Debate

28 min

Arrive at island. Find Sarah photographing Stegosaurus. She is thrilled, he is terrified. Should they document or leave immediately? Eddie wants to stay on path. Nick revealing himself as saboteur for Hammond. Kelly, Malcolm daughter, stowed away! Now must protect her too.

#6

Break Into Two

38 min

Ludlow team arrives! Heavily armed, capturing dinosaurs. Roland Tembo big game hunter wants to hunt T-Rex. Corporate exploitation vs. conservation clash. Nick sabotages equipment, frees dinosaurs. Entering world of corporate greed meeting nature fury. Two teams, different goals, same danger.

#7

B Story

48 min

Malcolm and Sarah relationship. She is scientist who takes risks, he is survivor who learned caution. Also Malcolm and Kelly father-daughter dynamic. Trying to protect both Sarah and Kelly. Learning to balance caution with trust in capable people.

#8

Fun and Games

58 min

Captured baby T-Rex with broken leg! Sarah and Malcolm take to trailer to set. Parents attack trailer, push it off cliff! Hanging over edge. Eddie tries to rescue - torn in half by T-Rexes! Promise: dinosaurs more dangerous, corporate hunters ruthless, survival harder.

#9

Midpoint

72 min

Both teams forced together for survival. Communication equipment destroyed. Raptors everywhere. Long grass scene - hunter becomes hunted. False defeat: people being picked off. Roland tranquilizes male T-Rex to capture. Ludlow winning but everyone in more danger. Stakes maximum.

#10

Bad Guys Close In

85 min

Trek through jungle to radio station. Raptors stalking. Kelly gymnastic escape in building. Team members killed. Roland respected hunter but working for wrong people. Ludlow plan: bring T-Rex to San Diego! Malcolm: "This will not end well." Disaster compounding.

#11

All Is Lost

98 min

Reach communications center but destroyed. Ship with captured T-Rex leaving. Helicopter rescues survivors. Ludlow has Rex. News of San Diego plan. Malcolm failed to stop corporate greed. Sarah: "We made it." Malcolm: "They made it." Others dead. Hollow victory.

#12

Dark Night of the Soul

102 min

Malcolm watching news. Ludlow press conference about Jurassic Park San Diego. T-Rex arriving. History repeating. Nobody learned. Exploitation continues. Malcolm powerless to stop. Cycle of human arrogance. How to break it? Cannot let this happen again.

#13

Break Into Three

108 min

T-REX LOOSE IN SAN DIEGO! Ship crew dead, Rex escaped. Chaos downtown. Ludlow panicking. Malcolm and Sarah must recapture Rex. Synthesis: use nature knowledge to return animal home, not kill it. Respect nature to control nature. Baby Rex as lure!

#14

Finale

120 min

Lead parent Rexes back to ship with baby. Rex eats Ludlow in cargo hold - poetic justice. Sarah tranquilizes Rex. Malcolm pilots ship back to island. Dinosaurs returned to Site B. Hammond ensures island protected as preserve. Nature preserved, not exploited. Lesson finally learned.

#15

Final Image

128 min

Malcolm, Sarah, Kelly watching TV. Hammond advocating for Site B protection. Dinosaurs on island living freely. "Life finds a way" - this time to survive human interference. Mirror of opening threat to balance with nature. Respect earned, not control. Cautiously hopeful.