Forgotten world
Forgotten World (English original title The Lost World ) is the title of a novel by Michael Crichton from 1995. It served as a rough template for the film Forgotten World: Jurassic Park (1997), the sequel to the successful film Jurassic Park (1993) by Steven Spielberg. The novel is a sequel to Crichton's novel DinoPark (Jurassic Park, 1990).
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Dr. Richard Levine, a young and wealthy palaeontologist , is convinced of a “forgotten world”, as scientists call an unexplored population of extinct animals that survived in isolation, and believes that dinosaurs still exist today. In Santa Fé he meets the chaos theorist Ian Malcolm at a conference . He is not exactly convinced of Levine's theory, but seems to know more than he admits. When Levine learns of "abnormal shapes", more precisely small lizards off the coast of Costa Rica , he immediately rushes there. The government immediately destroys all carcasses, but Richard manages to secure a trailer like the one used in zoos. He sends him to Ian Malcolm.
He also receives it, as well as a tissue sample. At the San Francisco Zoo , he has his old friend Elizabeth Gelman analyze it. She states that it does not belong to any animal living today.
Meanwhile, the two students Kelly and Arby are worried about their teacher Richard Levine. This one left unexpectedly - somewhere in Costa Rica. With Doc Thorne and his assistant Eddie Carr, they discover clues for an island in his apartment. They turn on Malcolm and find out together that Levine has to be on Isla Sorna. They fly to the island to save Levine, with the children hiding in the caravan they have brought with them. In addition, the behavioral scientist and zoologist Dr. Sarah Harding join the team.
Their opponents Lewis Dodgson, Baselton and King also go to the island after learning that dinosaurs from the InGen company still exist there.
Malcolm and the team find out about Levine and some of the behavior of the dinosaurs. However, due to severe interference in the complex system of the island, they are attacked by tyrannosaurs and are trapped on the island. The raptors (species Velociraptor mongoliensis ) also give them difficulties. It seems impossible to escape from the island. But after a bloody finale, in which carnotaurs also appear, the group succeeds in at least partially escaping.
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Richard Levine
Dr. Richard Levine is a rich and spoiled paleontologist obsessed with the idea of a "forgotten world." He is an extremely stubborn person and opinionated. That's why he often argues with his "friend" Ian Malcolm.
Ian Malcolm
Ian is a chaos theorist at the Santa Fe Institute and a deeply pessimist. He dresses in only two colors: black or gray. In the first part of DinoPark he explains to Dr. Ellie Sattler, this is how he wants to avoid wasting valuable life on the daily selection of his outfit without risking clothing that does not match. His right leg has been crippled since what happened in Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar, so he uses a cane and pulls his leg.
Doc Thorne
The "Doc" is the oldest in the team. He used to be employed at the university and gave his students very difficult tasks. “There was the toilet paper disaster, for example. Thorne had asked the students to drop a box of eggs from the Hoover Tower without causing any damage. They were only allowed to use the cardboard tubes from the inside of toilet paper rolls as insulating material. After that, the whole place was covered with broken eggs ... ”(Excerpt from Michael Crichton: Forgotten World . Verlag Droemer Knaur, Munich 1996). Now he and his colleague Eddie Carr build vehicles for expeditions, including the caravan that was brought to the island.
Eddie Carr
Eddie is the youngest adult and very athletic. He works with heart and soul on the vehicles and thus improves the already perfect work of Doctor Thorne. He falls from the stand and is killed by the velociraptors.
Arby and Kelly
Arby and Kelly are two seventh grade students, but Arby is only eleven because he's a child prodigy. The two are the best in their class. They hide in the storage room of the caravan and so come to the island.
Sarah Harding
Sarah Harding is a zoologist from Africa who is currently studying hyenas after having previously devoted herself to lions. When she met Ian Malcolm - who was in the hospital because of his leg - she fell in love with him and the two had an affair. They later separated again. Sarah Harding is the daughter of the veterinarian Garry Harding from DinoPark from the first book, but doesn't seem to know anything about DinoPark and InGen.
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- Lost world: Roman . From the American. by Klaus Berr. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-426-19381-7 .
- Lost world: Roman . Unabridged book club license issue. Bertelsmann Club, Rheda-Wiedenbrück; Book club Donauland Kremayr and Scheriau, Vienna [u. a.] 1996 (license from Verl. Droemer Knaur, Munich).
- Forgotten World: Jurassic Park . Knaur, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-426-60684-4 .
- The Lost World: Forgotten World . Goldmann, Munich 2008, ISBN 3-442-46681-4 .
Others
The English original title The Lost World is a reference to the adventure novel of the same name by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from 1912, which was published in Germany as The Forgotten World and is a classic of the genre. A group of researchers is also trying to find a forgotten world in it. The setting, however, is South America. Doyle, who also invented detective Sherlock Holmes , is believed to have written the book because dinosaur footprints were found in a nearby forest.