What's the Difference between Lost World the Book and The Lost Word: Jurassic Park the Movie?
In the Book |
In the Movie |
Dr. Ian Malcolm
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Dr. Ian Malcolm
Portrayed by: Jeff Goldblum
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Lewis Dodgson
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This Character does not appear.
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Richard Levine
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This Character does not appear.
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Sarah Harding
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Sarah Harding
Portrayed by: Julianne Moore
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Doc Thorne
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This Character does not appear.
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Eddie Carr
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Eddie Carr
Portrayed by: Richard Schiff
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This Character does not appear.
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Peter Ludlow
Portrayed by: Arliss Howard
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Kelly Curtis
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Kelly Curtis
Portrayed by: Vanessa Lee Chester
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This Character does not appear.
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Roland Tembo
Portrayed by: Pete Postlethwaite
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Danny Rosabal
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This Character does not appear.
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R.B. "Arby" Benton
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This Character does not appear.
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This Character does not appear.
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Dieter Stark
Portrayed by: Peter Stormare
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Howard King
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This Character does not appear.
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George Baselton
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This Character does not appear.
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This Character does not appear.
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Dr. Robert Burke
Portrayed by: Thomas F. Duffy
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This Character does not appear.
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Ajay Sidhu
Portrayed by: Harvey Jason
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This Character does not appear.
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Nick Van Owen
Portrayed by: Vince Vaughn
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The Lost Word: Jurassic Park Book vs Movie
In the Book |
In the Movie |
Donald Gennaro, who survived the first book, is mentioned to have died of dysentery prior to the book's events. |
Gennaro was killed by a T-Rex in the first film and is not mentioned. |
Ian Malcolm goes to Isla Sorna accompanied by a team consisting of Sarah Harding, Eddie Carr and Doc Thorne, and later encounters paleontologist Richard Levine. |
Malcolm is accompanied by Sarah Harding, Eddie Carr and Nick van Owen. Thorne and Levine do not appear.
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The book's introduction has Ian Malcolm teaching at a university before Richard Levine convinces him to investigate Costa Rica once more. |
The film opens with a rich family's boat stopping at a Costa Rican island and their daughter being attacked by compys, a scene taken from the first book. |
The book's main antagonist is Lewis Dodgson, a geneticist initially seen in the first book (and film) who works for rival genetics company Biosyn. |
The film's main antagonist is Peter Ludlow, a businessman and nephew of John Hammond who takes control of InGen.
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A pair of unusually intelligent kids named Kelly and Arby stow away on Malcolm's expedition. |
Only Kelly stows away. |
is seen with his girlfriend carolina figueroa in Cuba and go off to meet Ian Malcom before they left, danny goes alone without his girlfriend set to investigate the island after Ian and everyone left the island after his survival in the island he escapes with all documents by small boat arives after the accident of the t-rex in the city brings in the documents |
does not appear in movie
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It ends with Thorne, Malcolm, and company sailing away from the island. |
In the film, they have the incident with the Rex in San Diego, rampaging through the city. Doesn't happen in the book. |