Mostly we look at them, just as with Spielberg's dinosaur movie, to enter into that fantasy realm that science fiction historian Alexei Panshin calls "The World Beyond the Hill," a magical realm where the impossible briefly becomes real.Īfter all, as O'Brien, Harryhausen and now Stan Winston and his colleagues have all shown, it takes artistry to make a dinosaur walk.
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The new "Lost World" shouldn't be compared to Spielberg's "serious" Oscar-winning breakthrough, "Schindler's List," but, instead, to 1997's other big-budget movie adventures: films like "Anaconda," "Dante's Peak" and "Volcano." And to most of them, it is vastly superior.ĭo we watch "King Kong" and the first "Lost World" for their characters and drama? Partially - though, if we do, we're bound to be disappointed. So Spielberg, I think, is taking a bum rap from some of the critics on the current " World." A shallow movie but a highly entertaining one, it boasts the usual Spielberg technical finesse and the best and most realistic dinosaur effects on film so far. the Flying Saucers") and mythological adventures of the '60s and '70s ("Jason and the Argonauts"),that delighted a new generation of movie buffs and budding moviemakers - including the young Spielberg. It was Harryhausen's work, in '50s science fiction movies ("Earth Vs. In 1949, at 63, the dinosaur-maker passed the torch, on another Cooper-Schoedsack ape movie called "Mighty Joe Young," to a budding 29-year-old assistant named Ray Harryhausen. O'Brien never matched "Kong." And though a weak sequel called "Son of Kong" appeared that same year, Cooper and Schoedsack never did either. "Kong" is the great archetypal monster movie, copied endlessly ever since - not least by Spielberg himself in "Jaws" and "Jurassic Park." And, on it, O'Brien hit his apogee, creating a primeval jungle and rampaging beast who became a piece of imperishable movie mythology. Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack, a pair of daredevil movie documentarians whose personalities probably inspired "Kong's" reckless movie-maker Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong). Rexes.)Įight years after 1925's "Lost World," came "King Kong." It was conceived and co-directed by Merian C. (Admittedly, the one scene they have left from the novel becomes the movie's best and scariest sequence: the trailer cliffhanger where Julianne Moore dangles over a precipice during an attack by two T. Spielberg and screenwriter Koepp have been more cavalier with Crichton, actually junking most of the book, and their strategy works. Yet, though the 1925 movie (with Wallace Beery as Challenger and Lewis Stone as elegant "sportsman" John Roxton), follows Doyle's story fairly closely, it was so ruinously cut after its first release, and so blandly directed by Harry Hoyt (a journeyman who disappeared early in the talkie era), that the non-dinosaur stuff fails to evoke even a passing thrill. Doyle's fictional hero, Professor Challenger, is just as brainy, colorful, eccentric and arrogant as his more celebrated detective Sherlock Holmes. The current "Lost World" is the better of the two movies - even though Doyle's book is far superior to Michael Crichton's.Ĭharacters are minimal projects for Crichton. And by 1925, when the movie was complete, the public shared that astonishment. It is mandatory to enter at least one filter.When author Doyle showed a sample of O'Brien's test footage, a New York Times reporter covering the event was allegedly uncertain about whether the film showed actual dinosaurs.
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