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The Lost World: King Kong.

posted 6 months ago by MAGolding (1231)
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I rewatched The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) on May 27 2024 and noticed that parts of the plot are based on KIng Kong(1933).

The protagonists go to Isla Sorna to study the dinsaurs or in Malcolm's case to protect his girlfriend. But most of the men who travel to Isla Sorna are an InGen group coming to capture Dinosaurs for a theme park in San Diego. They capture a Tyrannosaurus and take it to San Diego, and it gets out and terrorizes the city for a while.

The scene when the InGen men run through a field and are attacked by dinosaurs and most of them killed seems based on the scene in KIng Kong(1933) when most of the rescue party are chased by a dinsoaur and then killed by KIng Kong.

And the Tyrannosaur getting loose in San Diego is clearly suggested by KIng Kong (1933) down to the ship carrying the dinosaur being named SS Venture. Of course a dinosaur or similar prehistoric terrorizing a modern city was used before in The Lost World (1925) and would be used again in The Beast from 20,000 fathoms (1953), Godzilla (1954), The Giant Behemoth (1959), and Gorgo (1961).

[–] Tam87 (1267) 6 months ago

I think I read somewhere that Spielberg was a fan of King Kong, so you're not wrong.

I can also see a lot of influence on this film from the likes of 'The Land That Time Forgot' and 'Journey to the Center of the Earth'.

Also the animated film The Land Before Time, with the T-rex pursing them across the island. I think Spielberg wrote or produced that one.