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“Mom! Dad! You gotta come see this! I found something!”
Cathy Bowman (Camilla Belle)
Busy with the creation of Dreamworks, his own production studio, Steven Spielberg tries to optimize his travels as much as possible during the first weeks of shooting The Lost World: Jurassic Park. The first plan is to film in the Fiordland National Park in New Zealand. The director sees this as an opportunity to present a whole new environment on screen compared to the first part. Unfortunately, at the last minute, the trip was cancelled and the team chose to return to Hawaii, on the island of Kaua’i.
If he sometimes works by videoconference from his office in California, Steven Spielberg is indeed present on the beach of Kipu Kai Ranch to shoot the terrifying scene of the attack of the young Cathy Bowman (Camilla Belle) by the compsognathus. He also takes the opportunity to shoot some shots in the surroundings to integrate them in the final cut.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park is the third film in which Camilla Belle plays.
Kipu Kai Beach
Located between the Huleia River and Mount Haupu, the Kipu kai Ranch is now a must-see filming location for Hollywood studios.
A former sugar cane plantation and cattle operation, this ranch features a wide variety of spectacular sites. Home to a fauna and flora as rich as they are fascinating, between beaches, forests, waterfalls, rivers and mountains, this private property is open to visitors and is also known for having served as the backdrop for several films and series such as The Lost World : Jurassic Park.
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Jurassic Park - Novel
An island off Costa Rica will soon be the world’s most ambitious theme park–a dinosaur preserve. A visionary financier’s biotechnology company has succeeded in cloning these extinct reptiles. Fifteen different species, presumably incapable of breeding, are now placidly roaming around, but Jurassic Park’s resident mathematician, an expert in chaos theory, predicts that the animals’ behavior is inherently unstable. When a rival genetics firm attempts to steal frozen dinosaur embryos, things go haywire. Two cute American kids, eight-year-old Tina and 11-year-old Tim, a safari guide from Kenya and a Denver paleontologist set things aright–almost. Though the dinosaurs here are more interesting than the people, Crichton ( The Andromeda Strain ) ingeniously interweaves details of genetic engineering, computer wizardry and current scientific controversy over dinosaurs to fashion a scary, creepy, mesmerizing techno-thriller with teeth. It can be read as a thought-provoking fable about technological hubris and the hazards of bioengineering.
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By Gilles Rolland
Passionné de cinéma, de rock and roll, de séries TV et de littérature. Rédacteur de presse et auteur des livres Le Heavy Metal au cinéma, Paroles de fans Guns N' Roses, Paroles de fans Rammstein et Welcome to my Jungle : 100 albums rock et autres anecdotes dépareillées. Adore également voyager à la recherche des lieux les plus emblématiques de la pop culture.