The Lost World: Jurassic Park

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

The Lost World: Jurassic Park is a 1997 American science fiction film and the second film in the Jurassic Park series. Something Has Survived

Year:
1997
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Something Has Survived

Peter Ludlow:
[walking downstairs in John Hammond's mansion] Well, Dr. Malcolm...Dr. Malcolm. [begins signing some paperwork] Here to trade campfire stories with my uncle?

Ian Malcolm:
You can convince the Washington Post and Sceptical Enquirer of what you want, but I was there. I know what happened, and so do you.

Peter Ludlow:
Do you actually believe that everyone who chose discretion did so for a nefarious motive? Even Lex and Tim?

Ian Malcolm:
Leave them out of it. It's not a game.

Peter Ludlow:
No, it isn't. You signed a nondisclosure agreement before you went to the island that expressely forbade you from discussing anything you saw. You violated that agreement.

Ian Malcolm:
Yeah, I did, and you lied. You twisted the facts surrounding the deaths of three people, and you stuff misinformation down the public's throat which made me look like a nut. It hasn't been so good for my livelyhood...

Peter Ludlow:
We made a generous compensatory offer for your injuries.

Ian Malcolm:
That was a payoff and an insult. When you spin reality, when you cover up evidence it hurts more than just my reputation, it hurts...

Peter Ludlow:
As I recall, your university revoked your tenure for your selling wild stories to the press.

Ian Malcolm:
I didn't sell anything, I never took a cent, and I told the truth.

Peter Ludlow:
Your version of it.

Ian Malcolm:
There are no versions of the truth. And I'll tell you something, InGen can't keep...

Peter Ludlow:
InGen is my responsibility now, Doctor, and I will jealously defend its interests.

Ian Malcolm:
Your responsibility? What about Mr. Hammond?

Peter Ludlow:
It is our board of directors that I must look in the eye, not my uncle. Really, you must trust me, these problems of yours are about to be rendered moot. In a few weeks time, they'll be long forgotten. [Pats him on the arm]

Ian Malcolm:
[Grips Ludlow's arm, threatening] Not by me.

Peter Ludlow:
Careful. This suit cost more than your education.

John Hammond:
Thank God for Site B.

Ian Malcom:
Site B?

John Hammond:
Isla Nublar was just the showroom, something for the tourists. Site B was the factory floor; that was on Isla Sorna, eighty miles from Nublar. We bred the animals there, and nurtured them for a few months and then moved them into the park.

Ian Malcom:
Really? I did not know that.

John Hammond:
Now, after the accident in the park, Hurricane Clarissa wiped out our facility on Site B; call it an act of God. We had to evacuate, of course, and the animals were released to mature on their own. "Life will find a way" as you once so eloquently put it. And by now, we have a complete ecological system on the island, with dozens of species living in their own social groups without fences, without boundaries, without constraining technology and for four years, I've tried to keep it safe from human interference.

Ian Malcolm:
[stammering] Well, that's right, that's right, hopefully you've kept this island quarantined and contained, but, er, I'm in shock about all this,I mean, that they're still alive. I mean, you bred them lysine-deficient. Shouldn't they have, er, kicked after seven days without supplemental enzymes?

John Hammond:
Yes, but by God, they're flourishing! That's one of a thousand questions I want the team to answer!

Ian Malcolm:
Team?!

John Hammond:
Yes. I've organised an expedition to go in and document them. To make the most spectacular living fossil record the world has ever seen.

Ian Malcolm:
Go in and document? What, you mean with people?

John Hammond:
Yes. The animals won't even know they're there. Very low impact. Strictly observation and documentation. Our satellite infareds show the animals are fiercely territorial. The carnivores are isolated in the interior of the island, so the team can stay on the outer rim. Don't worry, I'm not making the same mistakes again.

Ian Malcolm:
No, you're making all new ones. [exasperated] John...! So there's another island with dinosaurs-no fences this time!- and you want to send people in, very few people, on the ground?! And who are these four lunatics that you're trying to con into this?!

John Hammond:
Well, it was difficult to convince them as to what they were going to see and in the end I had to use my chequebook to get them there. [holds up four dossiers which he hands to Ian] But there's Nick van Owen who's a video documentarian, Eddie Carr who's a field equipment expert. We have our palaeontologist and I was hoping that perhaps you might be the fourth. [Ian rolls his eyes] We've been on the verge of Chapter 11 ever since the accident in the park and there are those in the company who wanted to exploit Site B in order to bail us out. They've been planning it for years, and I have been able to stop them up until now but a few weeks ago, a British family on a yacht cruise stumbled across the island and their wee girl was injured. Oh she's fine, she's fine, but the board has used the incident to take control of InGen from me, and now it's only a matter of time before this lost world is found and pillaged. Public opinion is the one thing I can use to preserve it, but in order to rally that kind of support, I need a complete photo record of those animals alive and in their natural habitat.

Ian Malcolm:
So you went from capitalist to naturalist in just four years. That's something.


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