Jurassic Park

The Lost World

"John and haven´t made a movie like this since Jaws. And it was a lot of fun for us to revisit a genre that we got such a kick out of 18 years ago" – S. Spielberg

The majestic main theme of Jurassic Park (1992) is already integrated into the modern cinematic folklore, as well as the (ever-increasing) classics John Williams repertoire. Being the dinosaurs the real stars of the film, Williams wisely avoided the "monstrous" suggestion to ennoble the presence of antediluvian creatures with the appropriate musical support. The suite Journey to the Island suggests the essential adventurous wonder essential to the genre and presents the main tunes. In the same way the suite Welcome to Jurassic Park, features a beautiful resumption of the main motifs. Stands out as alternative climate the lightness of My Friend, the Brachiossaurus with its nightly calm. The track Dennis Steals the Embryo, which mixes electronic effects to the "primitive" percussion, is an antecedent to the next movie, The Lost World, where the atmosphere is quite different. In The Lost World (1997) the wonder of the previous soundtrack gives room to a horror climate more evident and threatening, as with the film itself. The highlight is the percussion instruments: drums, timpani and varied percussion make music constantly throb in a primitive tempo. Rescuing Sarah is one of the great moments with its constant and urgent tension, witn wind instruments having great function. The track The Hunt looks like an Henry Mancini´s Hatari version expanded to literally monstrous proportions. The quote is intentional because of the very clear link between the sequence of the hunt for dinosaurs with hunting rhinos of the Howard Hawks film (Hatari, 1962). The high point of Lost World´s score is really the Visitor in San Diego suite, which uses motifs from T-Rex Rescue, from the previous film, in a powerful suite of seven minutes. And there is still the great march theme The Lost World which naturally is already included in the series of notorious marches and fanfares in the composer´s repertoire. Special note should also be given to the solemn Finale which incorporates the two main themes of the previous film in a beautiful arrangement for the closing sequence. Likewise the movies Jurassic Park and Lost World meant a healthy "back to adolescent" move in Steven Spielberg´s work, the soundtracks of John Williams brought back the enchanting spirit of the great adventures that consecrated both artists.