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The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

★ 6.6 · 9,188 ratings on TMDB

Something has survived.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park poster★ 6.6

Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.

DirectorSteven Spielberg
CastArliss Howard, Harvey Jason, Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Peter Stormare
GenresAction, Adventure, Science Fiction
The emergence reading

The Lost World: Jurassic Park keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E4/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E4resurrectionextinct species can be cloned from ancient DNA, producing living dinosaurs (technology · local)
Also inFilms that alter a rule of reality
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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Also bends a rule of reality

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

Jurassic Park (1993)dir. Steven SpielbergMinority Report (2002)dir. Steven SpielbergAmistad (1997)dir. Steven SpielbergThe Big Lebowski (1998)Julianne MoorePsycho (1998)Julianne MooreNine Months (1995)Jeff Goldblum