Board Thread:Movie discussion/@comment-26025032-20171017234314/@comment-2602:306:32D4:8130:2824:4B1C:8C48:7A6B-20171018002614

Animalman57 wrote: Elephant777 wrote: I recently watched and read several videos and blogs suggesting that Nick Van Owen was the real villain of the film, and that Roland Tembo was a well written lovable anti-hero, so I am curious if this was similar consensus among JP fan on the wiki.

Is Nick Van Owen a villain? What are your thoughts To me, the humans in The Lost World don't really have a villain cause they all had perfectly justified reasons for their actions. Ludlow wanted to help InGen after the JP incident bankrupted them. Tembo had run out of big game in the modern world and the best prize now would be a T. rex head. And Owen wanted the dinosaurs to be safe. The real antagonists of the film is the tyrannosaur family and the raptors. Actually, you are wrong about the T.Rex Family, because the humans have kidnapped the baby T.Rex so that they can start a park in San Diego, and the parents had perfectly justified reasons to attack the humans at times, especially the Father of the T.Rex Family, who, one would think would rampage to cause chaos, was just desperately (and violently) searching for his son (who is the Baby T.Rex).

For Roland Tembo... Nah. He was an anti-hero because he WAS bored of the modern world of hunting, and he wanted to hunt something new. However, his pal, Ajay Sidhu, died, thus making him choose wisely that he shouldn't stay in 'The company of death'. He did show respect throughout the film, despite being a hunter.

Peter Ludlow was the real villain here, other than the Velociraptors that did nothing but kill 75% of the hunters. Sure, he wanted to raise InGen, but he cruelly captured dinosaurs to start a theme park in San Diego.