O'Brien had worked as a sculptor and cartoonist before he entered the movies. His work made the 49 model dinosaurs of The Lost World (1925) live and breathe so convincingly that many audience members were convinced the filmmakers had discovered the real thing. But his story might never have made it to the screen - indeed, it had thwarted attempts to film it for over a decade - had it not been for the special-effects wizardry of Willis O'Brien. Leads an expedition to a lost mesa in South America where dinosaurs still rule at least a part of the Earth. Challenger, a character he modeled on himself, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle started it all in 1912 with his novella, The Lost World, in which the blustery Prof.
Ed Malone and Paula White are married.Īudiences who enjoyed the latest in dinosaur technology in such films as Jurassic Park (1993), they can thank two men for creating a genre that has become a literary and big-screen bonanza.
The beast breaks loose in London and creates havoc in the city until it falls through London Bridge and drifts down the Thames to freedom in the sea. The party finally escapes from the lost world and returns to London, taking a brontosaurus with them.
They are later beset by ape-men and a brontosaurus.
The party reaches the high plateau where the lost world begins, finds the remains of Paula's father, and witnesses a fight between two prehistoric animals. The Challenger party, leaving on its hard journey into the Amazon country, includes in its number: Paula White (Maple's daughter), Ed Malone (an intrepid Irish reporter), Sir John Roxton (one of Paula's suitors), an eminent expert on beetles, and Challenger's butler. Scorned by his peers, Challenger forms an expedition to return to South America with the dual purpose of validating his theory and rescuing Maple White, an explorer left behind on Challenger's last expedition. During the presentation of a paper to a scientific society, Professor Challenger claims to have discovered a lost world in South America, a world filled with prehistoric animals and ape-men.
0 kommentar(er)
