Video Essay Explores Connections Between THE LOST WORLD and JURASSIC WORLD
For me, it was pretty obvious that Colin Trevorrow's Jurassic World was a meta-commentary on blockbuster film culture. But I haven't seen The Lost World: Jurassic Park in so long that I never really considered that film might also have had similar thematic undertones way back in 1997. Both movies live in the shadow of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park, and a pretty strong case could be made that neither of these sequels should exist. But since Universal couldn't resist the idea of capitalizing on the idea of making more movies set in that world, they do exist, and there's definitely some interesting subtext here that is worth diving into.
The team at Digging Deeper put together a video essay exploring the similarities between the two films, including comparisons to Spielberg's original and some interesting points about how the movies' storytelling includes some references to the home video market that I'd never thought about before. Check it out below if you have a few minutes to spare.