REMIXED & RESTORED: The Lost World: Jurassic Park

[Mr. Breathmask 572]

REMIXED & RESTORED: The Lost World: Jurassic Park

 

 

Quick links:

 

1. Universal Logo/The Island's Voice **

2. Revealing the Plans

3. To the Island **

4. The Stegosaurus, part 1

5. The Stegosaurus, part 2 *

6. Fire at Camp

7. Corporate Helicopters */The Hunt *

7a. The Hunt (alternate configurations) *

8. Big Feet *

9. Spilling Petrol and Horning In *

10. Up in a Basket */In the Trailer *

11. On the Glass/Rescuing Sarah **/Reading the Map */The Trek *

12. The Compys! part 1

13. The Compys! part 2/Ripples *

14. The Long Grass **/Finding Camp Jurassic *

15. The Raptors Appear */High Bar and Ceiling Tiles *

16. Heading North */Ludlow's Speech */The Wrecked Ship */Monster on the Loose */Visitor in San Diego, part 1 *

17. Visitor in San Diego, part 2 */Ludlow's End */Tranquilizer Dart */Jurassic Park Theme (End Credits) */The Lost World (alternate)

18. Visitor in San Diego, part 2 */Ludlow's End */Tranquilizer Dart */The Lost World (alternate)/Jurassic Park Theme (End Credits) *

 

Bonus tracks from the 2023 remaster:

11a. On the Glass (with alternate excerpt) */Rescuing Sarah (alternate) *

13a. The Compys! part 2/Ripples (film edit) **

15a. The Raptors Appear (alternate) */High Bar and Ceiling Tiles *

 

* contains unused music

** micro-edited in the film

 

 

Previous editions:

Jurassic Park

 

 

Introduction

 

Four years after Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg returned to the world of dinosaurs. The Lost World: Jurassic Park finds us not in another adventure-filled theme park, however, but on another island completely: Isla Sorna, a second InGen facility dubbed Site B. This island is where the real dinosaur research happened. Here, the animals were cloned and brought up, before being moved to Isla Nublar for park display. After a hurricane strikes Isla Sorna, the island is abandoned, leaving the animals to survive on their own. They flourish, and it creates what is known as a Lost World: a habitat stuck in prehistoric time, unlike any ecosystem anywhere in the world.

 

When the movie opens, the abandoned island is accidentally discovered by a British family on holiday. But when the young daughter encounters a group of small dinosaurs, she is attacked and subsequently hospitalized. Afraid of what this could mean for the animals living on the island, JOHN HAMMOND (Richard Attenborough), businessman turned environmentalist on his deathbed, tries to persuade IAN MALCOLM (Jeff Goldblum) to join an expedition to document the habitat to gather support for preservation. Malcolm, still shaken from his experience on Isla Nublar, rejects Hammond’s offer, but as it turns out, Hammond has already persuaded Malcolm’s girlfriend SARAH HARDING (Julianne Moore) to join the expedition. A strong and independent woman, Sarah jumped at the chance to study the extinct animals in the wild and has already departed to the island. So starts a rescue mission that will have to venture deep into dinosaur territory.

 

But there’s more trouble on the horizon. In an effort to recoup the losses InGen has suffered after the park incident and the hurricane, PETER LUDLOW (Arliss Howard), the new director of InGen and nephew of John Hammond, has decided to put in motion a plan to gather a bunch of animals off the island to display them in an amphitheater in San Diego. As if trying to navigate an island inhabited with dangerous prehistoric animals isn’t enough, Malcolm and his group now find themselves at odds with Ludlow’s team as well…

 

The sequel’s setting is much more primal and dangerous than that of its predecessor and harkens back to jungle adventure films of old. Similarly, where Jurassic Park felt like a Greatest Hits collection of Williams’ other works, The Lost World sees the composer venture into unique territory. This score is not anchored around a big, ballsy theme. You may remember the Lost World theme from the film, but in more than one occasion it replaced other original music written for the scene. Not counting the end credits, the theme only appears twice in the original score.  Instead, much of The Lost World is textural, with percussion being the driving force and a single four-note motif representing the island and its inhabitants making numerous appearances.

 

By the time The Lost World was scored, there was still some work to be done on the film’s picture editing. With Spielberg already off to work on Amistad, the score was recorded to the picture as it was at the time and then adapted in the editing bay to match a later cut. This meant The Lost World ended up with an unusual amount of music edits for a Spielberg film. Several scenes were edited after the scoring and because of the cue titles, we know of at least one scene that was scored and then deleted entirely. The dark tone of the film set by Williams’ music was also alleviated by tracking in the concert suite of the more adventurious Lost World theme at certain points in the film.

 

The original album assembly for The Lost World: Jurassic Park tried to recreate the kind of sequencing that worked so well for the original film’s album. Unfortunately, devoid of the individual melodies that made Jurassic Park such an interesting listen, the original Lost World album has a hard time matching its predecessor. As Williams develops the score’s sound over its running time, it’s important to hear certain moments before others. The album’s sequencing is all over the place and the score’s original development is lost. It also features one of the most infamously frustrating edits within a track of Williams’ entire discography.

 

Thanks to La La Land Records, we are now able to hear The Lost World: Jurassic Park in its entirety and in its proper order. The score’s designed progression has been restored, and previously unreleased and unused music has been unearthed. This release deserves all the praise it can get, because The Lost World, as it turns out, is not only a powerhouse action score with a unique sound for Williams, but also a far better work than the film and the original album made it seem.

 

As I did with Jurassic Park, I’ll be looking at the score restored to picture to see how it works in the film. I will be less analytical in a lot of my descriptions this time, because music theory isn’t my forte and there’s already an excellent analysis on these boards that you can read here. 

 

Expect to see a lot more edits and and unused music in this one compared to Jurassic Park. When all is said and done, Williams' version of The Lost World is quite different from the final film.

 

But of course we start at the beginning.

 

 

1. Universal Logo/The Island’s Voice **
Universal Logo

1M1 The Island's Voice

After Jerry Goldsmith’s Universal fanfare announces the start of the film, we are plunged into darkness. The sounds of wind and the deep rumble of the sea (or is it the sound of primordial forces awakening?) takes us into the film, already setting a darker and more ominous tone than the birds chirping over the company logo in the original.

 

Right away the film’s primary motif is introduced. Taking a cue from the trak's title, we’ll refer to it as the island's voice. It represents danger throughout the score. Already, the first track features some micro-editing in the film. These edits probably occurred because of picture edits made after the score was recorded, so restoration may not be entirely accurate and the music’s placement may not be as intended either. You’ll notice the music ends slightly earlier here than it does in the final scene. In the film, there is a small music loop during the scene’s final shot.

[Disco Stu 15,504]

Oh boy oh boy oh boy, this is what I've been waitin' on!  Nice one, including the Goldsmith fanfare

 

God I love the percussion in this score.  Those funky tribal drums at the end of the first cue are great, and only a hint of the coolness to come! 

[Jwfan2234 59]

Finally back, and I love this music

[Disco Stu 15,504]

Gasp!

 

[Mr. Breathmask 572]

23 minutes ago, Disco Stu said:

Nice one, including the Goldsmith fanfare

 

You can never have enough Goldsmith.

 

Also, The Lost World was actually the first Universal release to feature this track. So how could I not include it?

[BloodBoal 7,541]

3 minutes ago, Jwfan2234 said:

Finally back, and I love this music

 

[Brundlefly 2,399]

4 hours ago, Mr. Breathmask said:

You can never have enough Goldsmith.

 

This is a very wise message.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,488]

Sadly God disagreed.

[Jamie Dutton 7,668]

The best part of this entire score was composed for a brief series of images where a guy takes a tranquilizer dart out of a case and puts it in a gun.

[Mr. Breathmask 572]

 

2. Revealing the Plans
2M2 Revealing the Plans

A brief atmospheric cue for Malcolm's sinking realization that Sarah is already on the island ends with a reprise of the adventure theme from Jurassic Park. Apart from this brief "mission statement" rendition, the adventure theme is used exclusively for references to the old park or John Hammond throughout The Lost World. This cue plays in the film as written.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,488]

Very nice Marc!

 

i don't suppose you could do The Hunt next right? Because thats the one we are all waiting for.

[Incanus 5,831]

15 minutes ago, Stefancos said:

Very nice Marc!

 

i don't suppose you could do The Hunt next right? Because thats the one we are all waiting for.

True!

 

Let the Hunt begin!

[Mr. Breathmask 572]

Patience!

 

There's still some work to do on The Hunt, actually.

 

But hey, it's track 7, so it shouldn't take too long before you get to see it.

 

And to be honest, The Hunt isn't my favorite restored music at all. There's so much other really cool stuff.

[Disco Stu 15,504]

"The Hunt" remains my personal favorite cue of the score, even with all the amazing unreleased music we finally got last year.  I guess after 20 years I'm just attached to it.

[Mr. Breathmask 572]

It's a great track, but as far as impact on the scene, I can think of several examples that do more for the film when put back in than The Hunt.

[Disco Stu 15,504]

Oh no!  Will "The Hunt" come down in my estimation after seeing restored to its scene?  Maybe I shouldn't watch.

 

(joking)

[Mr. Breathmask 572]

I doubt it will. But it's hard to restore it properly anyway, since the sequence was likely heavily restructured after scoring and any re-editing I do of the finished film to line it up to the score will be nothing more than my best guess.

[Disco Stu 15,504]

Yeah, what a mess that post-production must have been.

[Mr. Breathmask 572]

 

3. To the Island **
3M1 To the Island

This track features the first of two renditions of the Lost World theme. The theme was tracked into various places in the final film, but was written to play only on the heroes’ arrival and departure of the island. An edited version of this track plays in the film. It is likely the boat scene was slightly truncated after the score was recorded.

[Mr. Breathmask 572]

 

4. The Stegosaurus, part 1
3M2 The Stegosaurus

For the first appearance of these majestic herbivores, Williams employs a sound reminiscent of the wonder featured in My Friend, the Brachiosaurus (albeit with a slightly darker tone befitting the sequel score). This cue was coupled with the next cue on the original soundtrack album and the La-La Land release, but they’re actually two cues separated by a few minutes of musical silence in the film. This cue is used in its entirety.

 

Tomorrow, we get our first significant piece of dropped music!

[Mr. Breathmask 572]

 

5. The Stegosaurus, part 2 *
3M3 Finding the Baby

This cue features the first significant stretch of music that was dropped from the film in its entirety. The brief bit of action scoring that starts the cue was dropped in favor of silence. It amounts to about thirty seconds of unused music (and we're about to see much bigger pieces dropped).

 

The film picks up the music as Sarah starts taking pictures of the baby stegosaurus, again underscoring the wonder of nature. This particular sound and motif used for the encounter with the baby stegosaurus will return when we see the infant animals in captivity and will culminate in a piece of music for the baby T-Rex that was dropped from the film in its entirety. We’ll call this the infant motif. The cue continues as written, except for a small edit as the stegosauruses attack Sarah. It’s likely some last-minute trims were made to the effect shots. Notice how the percussion is present, but works in tandem with the orchestra, rather than driving the music forward. We won’t hear that until the film’s antagonist team arrives. The music then fades out slightly earlier than it does on album, leaving Nick’s speech about winning the Pullitzer Prize unscored.

[MedigoScan 339]

Yeah that opening music seems way too overbearing for the actual scene

 

and I love that infant theme

 

also I wondered if there was originally a scene that actually showed the stegosaurus leaving, rather than eddie just saying they are

[Mr. Breathmask 572]

Yes, the action music is too much. And it breaks the wondrous mood they had going up until then. You really don't want the danger to be underlined until the camera whirr goes off.

 

We know there was more to the end of this sequence. There's a script online that has a whole extended bit with a bunch of other dinosaurs appearing:

 

28	IN THE CLEARING,

	Sarah crawls free of the log and scrambles away on all fours
	as the stego herd darts away, disappearing into the brush,
	moving surprisingly quickly for animals their size.

	The team members run to Sarah, help her to her feet, and pull
	her back, against a massive tree trunk. But the tree trunk
	lifts right up off the ground.

	It’s no tree, it’s a DINOSAUR’S LEG, a massive one, six feet
	across, God knows how many feet high.

	The Group gasps and looks up as a MAMENCHIASAURUS, an
	enormous sauropod over a hundred feet from nose to tail,
	lumbers away from them. It stops and HONKS furtively, its
	long neck stretched out above them.

	Now a second mamenchiasaur neck cranes out of the surrounding
	forest trees and wraps around the first. The first
	mamenchiasaur THUNDERS around in a semi-circle, getting into
	position behind the second.

	Nick swings his video camera straight up as the group finds
	itself in the middle of a mamenchiasaur mating. The mighty
	tails swing and SNAP around them as the two animals come
	together. Trees start snapping and falling, CRASHING to the
	jungle floor.

	The noise and chaos is deafening, drowning out the LAUGHTER
	and SCREAMS of the fascinated and terrified group. There is a
	momentary lull and the group dashes out from underneath the
	animals, disappearing into the thick forest.


29	A SHORT DISTANCE AWAY,

	the Group collapses to the ground, breathless, chests heaving
	with wild, frightened laughter. Sarah dives to top of
	Malcolm, grabs his head, and kisses him again, exhilarated.

				SARAH 
		Isn’t it great!?

	Malcolm pulls out her satellite phone, and shows it to her
	angrily.

				MALCOLM
		When it RINGS -- you ANSWER it!

								CUT TO:

30	EXT. JUNGLE TRAIL - DAY

	NICK and EDDIE march quickly back toward their base camp,
	their energy and excitement palpable. MALCOLM is furious,
	however, and is in an argument with SARAH.

				MALCOLM
		When Hammond called you, why didn't
		you say something to me?!

 

I don't know if that was ever shot as scripted. For one thing, that start of scene 30 you see there was moved forward to come in between the first encounter and Sarah going up to the baby stegosaurus (the rest of scene 30 is Sarah berating Nick for lighting a cigarette and the ensuing conversation between Malcolm and Sarah, which is in the film in the same place it was in this script). There's more things in this version of the script that were possibly changed before shooting (like how Burke has a much larger role in this and some of the dialogue from the deleted board room scene was moved to Ludlow's pitch to the investors). I have seen no evidence of the Mamenchiasaurus scene ever being shot or even developed. It looks like quite a complicated scene that almost tells the same things as the stegosaurus scene, so I wouldn't be surprised if that was cut before filming.

 

But that bit with Sarah getting back to the group and calling out "isn't this great?" has been featured in behind the scenes footage and stills and was even in the original trailer. 

 

 

 

[crumbs 15,128]

I've always been curious about the deleted scenes from TLW; it feels like there were lots of them! That one in particular, as it's one of the few we have footage/photographic evidence of.

[Jay 40,321]

On 4/22/2017 at 3:26 AM, Mr. Breathmask said:

 

3. To the Island **
3M1 To the Island

This track features the first of two renditions of the Lost World theme. 

 

 

Three, actually:  In addition to its big "Isla Sorna Bookend" appearances in "To The Island" and "Heading North", it also appears in "Tranquilizer Dart" starting at 1:00ish.  Well, 4 cues including the end credits of course.

[Mr. Breathmask 572]

Right you are.

 

Still, the version in Tranquilizer Dart is much more subdued. This and the Heading North rendition are the only versions of the track that feature the same setting as the concert version.

[Jay 40,321]

Agreed!

 

Side note: This is a freaking brilliant score eh?

 

I love it more and more every day.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,488]

It's a top 10 Williams score!

[Mr. Breathmask 572]

1 hour ago, Jay said:

Side note: This is a freaking brilliant score eh?

 

Yes. Yes it is.

[Not Mr. Big 4,753]

2 hours ago, Jay said:

Agreed!

 

Side note: This is a freaking brilliant score eh?

 

I love it more and more every day.

It's ok

[Mr. Breathmask 572]

 

6. Fire at Camp
4M1 Fire at Camp

A very brief cue underscores the fire and the discovery of Kelly. It was paired wirh the next cue on the La-La Land set, but in the film there's several minutes of silence in between. This cue is used in its entirety.

 

The next two cues overlap, so tomorrow, we get to look at a whole bunch of unused music. Including... The Hunt!

[Incanus 5,831]

Hunt! Hunt! Show us the Hunt! Hunt! Hunt! Give us the Hunt!

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,488]

Finally!

[Mr. Breathmask 572]

Well, don't stop watching after that. There's better stuff than The Hunt!

[Jay 40,321]

Curious to hear how deftly you segued Corporate Choppers into The Hunt; I tried a bunch of times and could never get it to sound perfect.

[Disco Stu 15,504]

7 hours ago, Mr. Breathmask said:

Well, don't stop watching after that. There's better stuff than The Hunt!

 

It's the first truly substantial bit of unused music!  We're excited!

[Mr. Breathmask 572]

6 minutes ago, Jay said:

Curious to hear how deftly you segued Corporate Choppers into The Hunt; I tried a bunch of times and could never get it to sound perfect.

 

The roaring engines help a lot. 

[Disco Stu 15,504]

I really can't wait to see "The Trek" restored to picture, either.

[Mr. Breathmask 572]

It's good. The adventure theme statement in The Trek lines up perfectly with Malcolm pissing off Ludlow. Not quite done on videos that far off yet, though.

 

But we'll get to it soon.

[Jay 40,321]

I restored The Trek to picture back in 1998/9 (whenever the DVD came out) just by playing the CD and the DVD at the same time.  The cue works brilliantly to picture!!

[Disco Stu 15,504]

Oooooh and "Reading the Map" into "The Trek."  Such brilliant cues.

[Jay 40,321]

8 minutes ago, Mr. Breathmask said:

 

The roaring engines help a lot. 

 

For your videos, sure, but for your personal edit of the score, do you have them merged nicely?

[Amer 2,324]

Im looking forward to 'The Hunt' cue as I've always tried to sync my playback with the scene. Its quite good.

[Mr. Breathmask 572]

2 minutes ago, Jay said:

 

For your videos, sure, but for your personal edit of the score, do you have them merged nicely?

 

Nope. I don't have a personal edit. The La-La Land release is perfect as it is.

[Disco Stu 15,504]

Just now, Mr. Breathmask said:

The La-La Land release is perfect as it is.

 

All hail St. Mattessino the Infallible!

[Brundlefly 2,399]

I'm looking forward to "The Wrecked Ship" which wasn't even mentioned yet. But well, it is one of the least interesting cues of the score, which raises the question why it was included on the OST unlike, for example, "In the Trailer".

9 hours ago, Mr. Breathmask said:

It was paired wirh the next cue on the La-La Land set, but in the film there's several minutes of silence in between.

The only thing that bothers me with the new set.

[Mr. Breathmask 572]

51 minutes ago, Disco Stu said:

All hail St. Mattessino the Infallible!

 

[Mr. Breathmask 572]

7. Corporate Helicopters */The Hunt *
4M2 Corporate Choppers
4M3/5M1 The Round Up

So now we get to... The Hunt. Or The Round Up as it was originally called. It took a lot of experimenting and I think I still haven't gotten quite as close to what it was originally like as I'd want to. This time, rather than posting just one video, I'll try to take you through the process and show some different results. The final video featuring both The Round Up and the overlapping preceding cue is at the very bottom of this post.

 

But we start off with Corporate Choppers.

 

 

In the film, the music doesn’t start until we actually see the choppers, but by then we’re already a few seconds into the cue. As you can see, the score now starts right when Kelly first notices the distant sounds of the choppers. The arrival of this other team also signals a significant change in the score's sound: as the already dubious tranquility of the island is about to be brutally disturbed, the percussion becomes the driving factor in the music. This percussive drive will become the signature sound of The Lost World.

 

The first part of Corporate Choppers is heavily edited in the film, with large chunks lifted out. It’s likely we originally saw more of Ludlow’s crew landing and unloading and the team's reactions to their arrival. Now, we simply cut from approaching helicopters to the all-terrain vehicles racing across the island. The Island’s voice is featured prominently throughout the cue as the motif is repeated and swells over the arrival of the antagonists.

 

There is some looped music in the conversation between Ludlow and Roland, as the scene is longer than what we hear on album. I’ve synced the end of the track to the film, so when we first cut to Roland and Ludlow, the music isn’t quite the same as what we hear in the picture.

 

When Corporate Choppers ends, The Round Up is supposed to begin right away. This track is really hard to sync up. The Round Up is particularly difficult to edit back into the picture, as the cue is entirely unused, likely written for an alternate edit of the sequence and features very few possible sync points. For my first attempt, I simply started the track The Hunt right where Corprorate Choppers ends and let it play as is:

 

 

As you can see, it doesn’t quite sync up. So I started tinkering about and ended up with some alternate versions that might represent the original sequence better.

 

By experiment, I started by removing a few shots that I felt where out of place. I have cut the shot of Ludlow racing the camouflage as he watches the motorcycle race amongst the dinosaurs, as well as the shot of Nick placing his long-range microphone on the edge of the cliff. This seemed to solve some minor syncing issues, but still felt off (if you really want to, you can view this version here).

 

Then, in addition to cutting the aforementioned shots, I rearranged some of the scenes, basically switching the introduction of Burke with the capture of the infant Pachysephalosaurus. Musically, this seemed to make slightly more sense. Of course, all this still doesn't account for other possible edits. For one thing, I have only moved entire shots around, while some of this might have been trimmed or extended after Williams scored the sequence. And this version sort of hinges on me removing the right bits. But what you see here is probably my best guess at this point:

 

 

And finally, here is the entire thing, with Corporate Choppers leading into The Hunt set to the re-edited sequence:

 

[Amer 2,324]

Nice work. 'The Hunt' sequence is rather tricky but I think you managed to sync the music quite well. 

[Luke Skywalker 2,016]

I think i prefer the unedited version Marc. As the hunt was written i dont really hear music that is composed with sync points, aside from the opening mix. I think that maybe the only shot that could be changed is nick puting the camera earlier on (it seems the good guys see the cars pursuing the herd... while we were shown earlier that the cars are already catched up the herd)

 

In your edited version, the pachycephalosaurus scenes dont make sense, as the one captured by the truck is the one that attacks burke previously. (Roland says "Snagger, Friar tuck's on the loose")

 

Maybe the lack of mickey mousing is what put spielberg off and didnt like it so he tracked in the music....

 

I just noticed that rolands dialogue about elvis...meant that the parasaurolophus was really going to be a corythosaurus (seen in JPIII)