Quotes
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Dr. Ian Malcolm: Did you find him?
Roland Tembo: Just the parts they didn`t like.
Nick Van Owen: You seem like you have a shred of common sense, what the hell are you doing here?
Roland Tembo: Somewhere on this island is the greatest predator there ever lived. The second greatest predator must take him down.
[grins]
Nick Van Owen: [referring to Roland`s gun] You gonna use that?
Roland Tembo: If he doesn`t surrender, yes.
Nick Van Owen: [chuckles] The animal exists on the planet for the first time in tens of millions of years and the only way you can express yourself is to kill it.
Roland Tembo: Remember that chap about twenty years ago? I forget his name. Climbed Everest without any oxygen, came down nearly dead. When they asked him, they said why did you go up there to die? He said I didn`t, I went up there to live.
[about the poison on the darts in their guns]
Eddie Carr: The most powerful neurotoxin in the world. It works faster than the nerve conduction velocity, which means the animal`s down before it actually feels the - P! - prick of the dart.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Is there an antidote?
Eddie Carr: What, like if you shot yourself in the foot? Don`t do that, you would be dead before you even knew you had an accident.
Eddie Carr: Violence and technology... not good bedfellows!
Dr. Ian Malcolm: When you try to sound like Hammond, it comes off as a hustle. I mean, it`s not your fault. They say talent skips a generation. So, I`m sure your kids will be sharp as tacks.
Peter Ludlow: Hammond`s reach exceeded his grasp. Mine does not.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Taking dinosaurs off this island is the worst idea in the long, sad history of bad ideas. And I`m gonna be there when you learn that.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: What`s your background? Wildlife photography?
Nick Van Owen: Yeah. Wildlife, combat... you name it. When I was with Nightline, I was in Rwanda, Chechnya, all over Bosnia. Do some volunteer work for Greenpeace once in a while.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Greenpeace? What drew you there?
Nick Van Owen: Women. 80 percent female, Greenpeace.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: That`s noble.
Nick Van Owen: Yeah well, noble was last year. This year I`m getting paid. Hammond`s check cleared, or I wouldn`t be going on this wild goose chase...
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Uh, where your going is the only place in the world where the geese chase *you*!
Dr. Ian Malcolm: It`s fine if you wanna put your name on something but STOP putting it on other people`s headstones.
[searching the island for Sarah]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Sarah! Sarah!
Nick Van Owen: Sarah Harding!
Dr. Ian Malcolm: How many Sarahs you think are on this island? Sarah!
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that`s how it always starts. Then later there`s running and screaming.
[after re-capturing the baby T-Rex in San Diego]
Sarah Harding: How do we find the adult?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Just follow the screams.
Roland Tembo: The Rex just fed, so he won`t be hunting for a while.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Just fed? I assume you`re talking about Eddie? You might show a little more respect, the man saved our lives by giving his.
Roland Tembo: Then his problems are over. My point is, predators don`t hunt when they`re not hungry.
Nick Van Owen: Yeah, only humans do.
Roland Tembo: Oh, you`re breaking my heart. Come on! Saddle up, let`s get this moveable feast under way!
Sarah Harding: I love you. I just don`t... need you right now.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: I`ll tell you what you NEED, a good anti-psychotic!
Sarah Harding: I`ll be back in five or six days.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: No, you`ll be back in five or six PIECES!
John Hammond: Don`t worry, I`m not making the same mistakes again.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: No, you`re making all new ones.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Hang on, this is gonna be bad.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Mommy`s very angry.
Sarah Harding: You know, I have made a career out of waiting for you.
Kelly Malcolm: You know, Sarah does have a pretty good p...
Dr. Ian Malcolm: It`s so important to your future that you not finish that sentence.
[Eddie finds Ian, Sarah, and Nick trapped in a trailer hanging over a cliff]
Eddie Carr: What do you need?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Rope!
Eddie Carr: OK, rope! Anything else?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, three double cheeseburgers with everything!
Nick Van Owen: No onions on mine!
Sarah Harding: And an apple turnover!
Roland Tembo: Peter, if you want me to run your little camping trip, there are two conditions: first, I`m in charge, and when I`m not around, Dieter is. All you have to do is sign the checks, tell us we`re doing a good job, and open your case of scotch when we have a good day. Second condition: my fee? You can keep it. All I want in return for my services is the right to hunt one of the tyrannosaurs. A male, a buck only. How and when is my business. Now if you don`t like either of those conditions, you`re on your own. So go ahead, set up base camp right here, or in a swamp, or in the middle of a Rex nest for all I care. But I`ve been on too many safaris with rich dentists to listen to any more suicidal ideas, OK?
Kelly Malcolm: [to Ian] You like to have kids but you don`t want to be with them, do you?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: [to Hammond] So you went from capitalist to naturalist in just 4 years. That`s something.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: You sent my girlfriend to this island alone?
John Hammond: Sent is hardly the word. She couldn`t be restrained.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: [to Kelly] Hey, you want some good parental advice? Don`t listen to me.
Nick Van Owen: [referring to Ian and Kelly] Do you see any family resemblance?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: I`ll be right back. I give you my word.
Kelly Malcolm: [pounds her fists on the railing] But you *never* keep your word!
Sarah Harding: [referring to the T-Rexes] This isn`t hunting, Ian, it`s searching. They`re looking for their infant.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Let`s not disappoint them.
Sarah Harding: What`s everybody looking at?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: [spots the T-Rex transfer ship speeding towards the harbor]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: We should`ve stayed in the damn car.
Harbor Officer: You okay, Mr. Ludlow?
Peter Ludlow: I don`t know, how do I look?
Peter Ludlow: Where`s the crew?
Harbor Officer: All over the place.
[to Ludlow as the T-Rex terrorizes San Diego]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Now you`re John Hammond.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: The school cut you from the team?
Kelly Malcolm: Boy she`s mad at you.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: I feel sorry for that guy Enrique.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: OK, so there is another island of dinosaurs, no fences this time and you wanna send people in, very few people, on the ground? Right?
Roland Tembo: [to Dieter, just after the base camp attack] That`s the last time I leave you in charge.
Nick Van Owen: You looking for a problem?
Dieter: And I found you, didn`t I?
Ajay Sidhu: Don`t go into the long grass!
Kelly Malcolm: She doesn`t even have Sega. She`s such a troglodyte.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Cruel, but good word use.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Why don`t people listen to me? I use plain and simple English, I don`t have any accent that I`m aware of...
Sarah Harding: Oh, shut up.
[why Sarah didn`t tell Ian about going to the island]
Sarah Harding: Because I knew you would have stopped me from coming.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: I would have tied you to the bed.
Sarah Harding: I figured out how the dinosaurs survived without lysine.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: I don`t care!
[about the high hide]
Eddie Carr: It keeps you out of harm`s way, away from the animals.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Actually, it would put them at very convenient biting height.
[to his daughter, Kelly]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: The queen, the goddess, my inspiration.
[while luring the T-rex to follow them to the docks]
Sarah Harding: Ian, slow down.
[Ian looks behind him and sees the T-rex coming]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Uh... I don`t think so.
Sarah Harding: [to Ian] I`ve worked around predators since I was 20 years old. Lions, jackals, hyenas... you.
[When Sara`s camera runs out of film and the baby dinosaur roars]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Oh, they get very angry when you run out of film.
Sarah Harding: [about the baby T-Rex] He`s too drugged.
Dr. Ian Malcolm: He`s never gonna know we have it if the thing doesn`t make some kind of sound.
Sarah Harding: Come on. Wake up. Come on. Come on. Wake up.
[baby T-rex growls. Adult T-Rex sniffs the air then roars in their direction]
Sarah Harding: He knows.
[after taking the baby T-Rex and putting it in the car]
InGen Guard: Hey! What the hell do you think you`re doing?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: I`m taking the kid. If you really want to stop us, shoot us.
[after the adult T-Rex has escaped into San Diego and found a pool to drink out of]
Benjamin: [to asleep parents] There`s a dinosaur in our backyard.
Roland Tembo: This is a game trail, Mr. Ludlow. Carnivors hunt on game trails. Do you want to set up base camp or a buffet?
Peter Ludlow: Roland, there`s a job for you in San Diego if you want it.
Roland Tembo: No thank you. I believe I`ve spent enough time in the company of death.
Peter Ludlow: Careful. This suit cost more than your education.
[first lines]
Mrs. Deirdre Bowman: I love you. Thank you so much. Fabulous!
[a glass of white wine is poured]
Mrs. Deirdre Bowman: Thank you, Geoffrey.
Geoffrey: You`re welcome.
Mrs. Deirdre Bowman: We`ll also take a bottle of red, as well. Thank you.
Geoffrey: Certainly.
Mrs. Deirdre Bowman: Right. Now... Oh!
Mr. Paul Bowman: [handed a glass of wine] Thank you, Bernard.
Bernard: You`re welcome.
Cathy Bowman: [takes sandwich from serving tray] Thank you.
Mrs. Deirdre Bowman: Wonderful. Beautiful day.
[to Cathy]
Mrs. Deirdre Bowman: Sweetie, where are you going?
Cathy Bowman: Eating my sandwich.
[last lines]
John Hammond: It is absolutely imperative that we work with the Costa Rican Department of Biological Preserves to establish a set of rules for the preservation and isolation of that island. These creatures require our absence to survive, not our help. And if we could only step aside and trust in nature, life will find a way.
[about the Compsognathus]
Dieter: It gives me the creeps, like it`s not scared.
Dr. Robert Burke: There haven`t been any visitors on this island. There`s no reason for it to fear man.
[Dieter touches a cattle prod to the dinosaur`s head, causing it to flee]
Dieter: Now it does.
Kelly Malcolm: Dad, are you mad?
Dr. Ian Malcolm: No, I`m not mad - I`m furious!
[Looks around the messy trailer]
Dr. Ian Malcolm: What is this? This looks like your room.
Dr. Robert Burke: [while a T-Rex is right outside the mouth of the cave they`re hiding in, Burke notices a snake crawling into his shirt] Oh, my God! AH! A snake! Help me!
Dr. Ian Malcolm: Eddie, is there any reason to think that the radio in the trailer might work?
Eddie Carr: If you feel at all qualified, try turning the switch to "on."
Nick Van Owen: [to Sarah as she`s trying to fix the baby T-Rex`s leg] Whenever you`re ready, he`s fighting here, Dr. Quinn.
Peter Ludlow: [discussing the building of a Jurrasic Park in San Diego] the city of San Diego is already famous for its animal attractions... The San Diego zoo... Sea World... The San Diego Chargers.
[Roland is sitting in a bar in Kenya. Ajay walks in behind him, and Roland turns around]
Roland Tembo: Ajay!
Ajay Sidhu: [laughing] How did you know?
[they hug]
Roland Tembo: That cheap aftershave I send you every Christmas, you actually wear it. I`m touched. Sit down. What on earth brings you to Mombassa?
[they sit]
Ajay Sidhu: You, my friend. I got a call from a man who`s going to Costa Rica, or thereabouts. And if I`m to be believed, its a most well-funded expedition.
Roland Tembo: Well, I`m a very well-funded old son of a bitch. You go.
Ajay Sidhu: What, alone? But we always had such great success together, you and I.
Roland Tembo: A little too great, don`t you think?
Ajay Sidhu: What do you mean?
Roland Tembo: A true hunter doesn`t mind if the animal wins. There weren`t enough escapes from you and me, Ajay. We were like a firing squad, don`t you think?
Ajay Sidhu: I have reason to believe you would find this expedition`s quarry most challenging.
Roland Tembo: Then it`s probably illegal. These days it`s a worse crime to shoot a tiger than to shoot your own parents...
[sees some American tourists causing trouble with a waitress]
Roland Tembo: Tigers have advocates...
[downs his drink]
Roland Tembo: Excuse me, would you?
[Chasing dinosaurs on the game trail]
Roland Tembo: You`re coming up on a...
[flips through his dinosaur guide]
Roland Tembo: A Pachy... a pachy... oh, hell. Uh, the fathead with the bald spot. Friar Tuck!
[On being invited on the Costa Rica expedition]
Roland Tembo: Ajay, go down to my ranch, take a look around the trophy room, and then tell me what kind of quarry is on this hunt that would interest me?
Sarah Harding: I need something pliable... Spit.
[Holds out her hand]
Nick Van Owen: [Spits saliva into her palm]
Sarah Harding: [Disgusted] Your *gum*!
Dr. Ian Malcolm: What are you talking about? Five years of work and a hundred miles of electrified fence couldn`t prepare the other island. And you think that, what? A couple dozen Marlboro men were going to make a difference here?
Dr. Robert Burke: [while they are hiding from a T-rex in a small cave, Burke notices a snake slithering into his shirt] Oh, my God! AAH! A snake! Help me!
Trivia
Director Steven Spielberg had to attend an early screening for Swingers (1996) in order to give approval for the use of the Jaws (1975) theme. There he was so impressed by Vince Vaughn that he offered him a part in this film.
The ship which crashes into the InGen quay at San Diego docks, travelling at 26 knots, is called "S.S. Venture". This the same name as the ship that brought the giant ape to Manhattan in _King Kong (1933)_ and _King Kong (2005)_.
In the San Diego video store, there is a poster advertising a movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger as King Lear. This is a reference to Schwarzenegger`s playing "Hamlet" in Last Action Hero (1993) - the movie that was practically wiped out at the box office by the first Jurassic Park (1993).
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* At least five scenes were cut from the film before release, and some appeared in the trailer: Peter Ludlow talking to the InGen committee about their expenses, Roland and Ajay talking in a bar, T-rexes trying to attack Kelly, who was left alone in the High Hide, The Raptors and T-rexes fighting in the rex`s nest, and Pteranodons attacking the rescue helicopter.
When the T-rex bites the traffic signal in San Diego, a street sign on the right edge of the screen reads in part "NO DINOSAURS".
The man that is eaten by the T-Rex next to the video store (in San Diego) is David Koepp, one of the writers of The Lost World. He is credited as "Unlucky Bastard".
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# Director Cameo: [Steven Spielberg] Reflected in the TV broadcasting the CNN story about the return of the dinosaurs, sitting on the couch next to Jeff Goldblum and eating popcorn.
Held the record for the biggest opening weekend ever for four and a half years, May 1997 to November 2001.
Steven Spielberg originally approached Juliette Binoche about playing the role of Sarah Harding. She supposedly replied that she would appear in the film only if she could "play the dinosaur". The part went to Julianne Moore instead.
The tyrannosaur scratching its head as it approaches the residential area of San Diego is a nod to King Kong (1933) in which the tyrannosaur makes the same gesture before encountering the ape.
In the San Diego video store, there is a window poster for Robin Williams in `Jack and the Beanstalks` using artwork from the Hook (1991) poster (also directed by Steven Spielberg). Further inside the store is a floor display for Tom Hanks in Tsunami Sunrise.
According to Michael Crichton`s Jurassic Park novels, Sarah Harding is the daughter of Gerry Harding, the vet who treated the sick triceratops in the first film. In the book, Sarah was a zoologist, not a paleontologist; the paleontologist who Malcolm went to Isla Sorna to save was a man named Richard Levine, a character who only made it to the film as certain aspects of the Sarah character.
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# Originally, Dr. Ian Malcolm`s team included a fifth member, a paleontologist named Dr. Juttson. He was obviously inspired by the character Richard Levine from the novel. Dr. Juttson was dropped due to an already overcrowded cast, and most of his lines were given to Dr. Sarah Harding.
When Dieter Stark, played by Peter Stormare, is first attacked by the Compys (Compsognathus), he starts yelling and throwing stones at them, then he mumbles parts of various curses in Swedish, however he doesn`t complete any of them. Steven Spielberg thought it was excellent and kept the take in the final cut.
The Japanese tourists running from the rampaging T-Rex in the San Diego scene (an obvious homage to "Godzilla" movies) are saying in Japanese: "I left Japan to get away from this?!"
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# As T-rex turns to walk between houses in residential San Diego, he glances at the basketball hoop in the driveway, then makes a distinct dribbling motion with his right arm as he passes behind the house.
In Early Drafts of the Script, Lex and Tim were kept in for much longer. Some even had the kids going back to the park and encountering the dinosaurs again.
The alpinist Tembo mentions as the first man to climb the Mt. Everest without oxygen bottles is Reinhold Messner
The five islands in Las Cinco Muertes are: Isla Matanceros, Isla Muerte, Isla Sorna, Isla Tacano, and Isla Pena.
The name "The Lost Island" was originally considered for The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), with the studio thinking the public may confuse it with the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle classic.
Thirteen stunt performers worked on Jurassic Park (1993), while 50 were used for this sequel.
The film introduced the new Universal Logo.
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# Initially, three Mercedes ML-320s were modified for the trip to Isla Sorna. The third SUV, built as a "mobile observatory," is currently on display at the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart.
Art Malik turned down the role of Harvey Jason.
Joe Johnston lobbied for the director`s job but schedule problems during the post-production of Jumanji (1995) forced him out.
Director Trademark: [Steven Spielberg] [father] Malcolm admits he`s a bad father.
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# Writer David Koepp said that when he was writing the script to this movie, he taped a fan letter next to his computer screen. The letter was from a viewer of the original Jurassic Park (1993) film who complained he "waited too long" to show the dinosaurs in that film.
The baby stegosaurus Sarah interacts with was named Claire on set.
Like the first Jurassic Park (1993), this shoot finished before the scheduled 74 days. It was completed in 69 days.
The two models of the T-Rex each weighed 9 tons. Due to their weight, the crew constructed sets around them, rather than moving them onto sets.
The cliff side set was built on to the side of a parking building.
The paleontologist "Dr. Burke" is an affectionate caricature of real-life paleontologist Robert Bakker.
Steven Spielberg wanted to work with Indian actor M.R. Gopakumar in the movie, but due to his passport traveling issues he was unable accept that offer.
Director Trademark: [Steven Spielberg] [Signs] Using a sign with directions or instructions as a joke. In this case, the T-Rex crosses the pier at the San Diego port bearing a sign that reads, "No animals or vegetables beyond this point."
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# Malcolm remarks that Hammond went from "industrialist to naturalist in four years." Richard Attenborough`s brother is naturalist David Attenborough.
SPOILER: The prop used as a tranquilizing gun at the end of the movie was originally used as a high powered weapon by Michael Gross in Tremors II: Aftershocks (1996) (V).
SPOILER: The script called for a scene where the Velociraptors got on board the Venture as it was about to set sail. As chaos ensued, the T-Rex also got loose, and killed everything else aboard. This explains why many of the crew members are dead in places the Rex cannot reach. The scene was never filmed.
SPOILER: WILHELM SCREAM: Not the classic Wilhelm, but "the second scream" is heard as Eddie is being eaten by the Mother and Father Tyrannosaurs.
SPOILER: There are 13 on camera deaths, 10 on the island and 3 in the city, the most of all three films.
SPOILER: David Koepp lifted several set pieces from the original Jurassic Park novel for use in this sequel. These include: The procompsognathus attacking the young girl; hiding from the Tyrannosaur behind a waterfall, while the creature tries to find them using its tongue; Dieter Stark being killed by Procompsognathids (Hammond in the novel); Roland Tembo tranquilizing the Tyrannosaur (Robert Muldoon in the novel).
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