By Olly Taylor
Lord of the Flies is considered a classic novel and is still read in classroom years after its publishing. Loved and disliked by many, obviously it would make a movie perfect to show after a reading of it. The plot of the film is generally straightforward: a class of boys from a military school are stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash and are faced with conflicts involving an unknown beast as well as conflicts between the boys themselves.
The movie, however, is a wildly flawed and inaccurate representation of the book itself. Originally, the boys are from an English boarding school. The characters in the movie are American military school boys, some of which have specific ranks at their school. The only rank mentioned in the book before the crash is a main character who leads the choir, whose leadership is temporarily dissolved. Another major inaccuracy is the time period: the book takes place around World War II, yet the movie is more modern. Yet another flaw within the movie is that the (spoiler alert) pilot survives long enough to be “the beast” that the boys are so terrified by. In the book, he is missing until he is later found dead. Additionally, certain events from the book are chronologically displaced.
Personally, I thought the movie was choppy and poorly executed. The aforementioned displacement of events was jarring, as were the sudden transitions from one scene to the next. The movie basically throws any sort of symbolism to the wind, which is especially upsetting from the view of a student currently taking English due to the fact we’ve had nothing but symbolism shoved down our throats since the semester began. It has been changed to be U.S. centric, which was an unneeded change. The characters would have still been “likable” and relatable even if they had been kept as English boarding school boys.
The special effects were not necessarily bad, which is pure speculation and not a redeeming quality. The only scene that was added that was an amusing touch was a part in which two characters find an accordion that washes up on shore and claim that it must be “from a Russian submarine full of Olympic athletes.” The movie had many anti-climactic scenes, among those being the death of a character that was meant to be upsetting but was almost painted more as humorous due to the abruptness of it.
Not to mention (an ABSOLUTELY MAJOR spoiler) the scene in which a character talks to the titular “Lord of the Flies” was left out… A scene that is a very important symbolic item in the book as it represents the boys’ consciousnesses and to leave it out is hogwash. So much was lost to poor screenwriting and the ignorance that caused a “relatable” American version to spark from a decent book.
I absolutely would not recommend this movie unless you either a) Have not read the book or b) Like watching utterly terrible movies.
Rating: 1/5
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The Lord of the Flies movie is about a group of British boys going on a trip with their boarding school who end up stranded on an island after their plane crashed in the middle of the ocean. There are fights and tragedies, and true colors are revealed. Starting out all as friends, they quickly turn against each other and it’s a fight until the end.
The Lord of the Flies movie doesn’t represent the book well. While they have some similarities, the movie left out a lot of the detailed, important parts included in the book. It showed everyone turning against each other, the fighting for food, the deaths; while they were inaccurate compared to the book. It showed the imagery of the island as it did in the book, how they slept, the shelters they built. It only briefly displayed the book overall.
Compared to the book, the movie was not good. It left out details included in the book, details that were very important to the theme and imagery of the book showed. The movie did an awful job at representing the deaths that occurred. The start of the movie and the book were completely different. In the book, the boys were alone because the pilot died in the accident, in the movie they saved him from the crash and took precautions the best the could to help him heal. However he ended running off and they thought he was a beast so they killed him. After all that they went on to say he was crazy, something that didn’t happen in the book. The book used detail to explain the deaths and included part of what happened after the deaths, such as where they ended up.
At the end the boys were rescued but the book, some of them actually were rescued and some were not and it explained they thoughts they had on the way back. In the movie the military officers found them but it never showed them actually being taken off the island, which I feel was a very important part of the movie. However both the book and the movie did a good job of showing character personalities, foreshadowing, and scenery. Reading the book first and then seeing the movie, the images created in the book as far as the island and the fires they built, what i thought of in the book is what I saw in the movie which was great.
Overall they represent each other decently, and I feel like if the Lord of the Flies movie were to be recreated, there is room for improvement, mostly they key things that occurred in the book would need to be included, more detail overall and detail of the deaths and the aftermath.
The endings need to be the same in both, if not have more detail to the afterthoughts and the boys feelings, because the end of the book the boys were all mostly upset they had lost some of their friends and I believe the movie needs to represent that better.
The Lord of the Flies begins with an aircraft carrying military school kids going home, then crashes into the ocean near an island. All of the survivors make it to the island, and later that night Simon (a main character) is introduced. He finds a river and him along with the other boys explore it and the rest of the island. Soon Piggy, another main character, finds a conch shell which later becomes a very key part of this story line. Jack and Ralph are introduced when they have a meeting and decide Ralph to be the leader.
Later on in the day they all start a fire with Piggy’s glasses so passing planes or helicopters would see them better. Later that night, Jack brings all of his hunters to the woods to go hunting and leaves no one where they started the fire. Whenever they all leave, the fire goes out and a helicopter passes by but can’t seem them. Ralph yells at Jack and says it’s his fault for letting the fire go out which makes Jack mad, and he leaves and starts his own camp. The boys later find their plane’s captain in a cave and mistake him for a monster.
The boys in Ralph’s group decide to make a permanent signal fire to catch attention to things in the air, so they won’t have to constantly make one. On the contrary, Jack’s more savage group decides to be the group of hunters who provide meat for both groups. When they eventually kill a wild pig, they split the meat, and leave the head on a stick in a cave for the “monster”. Finally, the last two people in the tribe (besides Ralph and Piggy) “SamnEric” leave the tribe. later that night, Jack and his group go over and steal Ralphs knife, in the process they step on Piggy’s glasses and break them.
On another night, Simon goes and finds the captain’s body in the cave and realizes that was what everyone must have been mistaking as the monster. On his way back to tell everyone, the boys see him from a distance and thinks he’s the monster so they all start stabbing him repeatedly. When they finish, they finally realize what they’ve done and run away. The next night or so, Ralph and Piggy go over to Jack’s camp and try to start a meeting with the conch and Jack’s boys don’t listen.
Piggy then tries to convince them to listen by grabbing the conch and speaking, a couple of Jack’s boys then push a boulder off the cliff which hits and kills Piggy. At the end Jack and his boys start setting the island on fire to try to kill him. Everyone gets outside the forest, and they come face to face with a Marine who calls the rest of his troops to take them all home, the movie ends with Ralph busting out in tears.
In my opinion, the movie does not represent the book well if at all. It doesn’t have the scene where the pigs head talked to Simon, and it did not include many other key parts of the book. I believe the movie was terrible. I give it a 1.5 out of 5 stars. The movie was very boring and I feel like they just jumped from scene to scene without anything connecting. I would not recommend this movie.
In the Lord of The Flies movie, you saw much conflict. Everyone could see that once the plane crashed, there was conflict. Once the plane crashed every boy on that plane was in a state of shock. After they realized what situation they were in they all tried to see what was the next step. Did others know that their plane crashed? Was there rescue coming? Does anyone know where they are located? While everyone gathered together on the island they decided to break apart and discover the island. While each and every child was discovering the island one of the young boys named Simon discovered a little pond that they could use to drink water. They had the clean water they could use to drink while being on the island so in that situation they were fine.
As for the movie of the book, the movie did not go as the book went. There were a various amount of differences. Differences including that one of the boys, one who died first in the book, with the birthmark was not included in the movie. When the books talk about a ship passing in the movie, it was not actually a ship it turned out to be it was a plane instead. The ship passing would have given the scene more emphasis of barley having some help and how rare it was to have seen some contact for rescue. As for the plane seemed more planned, where someone was purposely looking for them. Also in the book there was a fire that destroyed about half of the mountain and then they were forbidden to make fires unless it was on top of the mountain to prevent another fire like the one that occurred. As for Ralph, he was stabbed with a spear in the book, but in the movie he was not.
A major difference I saw with the movie was that there was a pilot alive on the island with the boys. In the book, there was no pilot that had survived-it was just the young boys. The object that was very important was the conch. In the novel, the conch was broken and shattered. In the movie, it was never broken, which makes the movie a very bad representation of the book.
The movie Lord of the Flies was not a very good film. Reason being, there were too many differences that were made between the book and the film. A various amount differences that the director made that caused the scene to be different and viewers look at differently. If it were very similar to the book, then it would be a lot better.
Overall, the description in the movie for the characters were very accurate. Ralph and Simon were very very well portrayed, because they both seemed like leaders and mature in different point of view of course. Piggy was also very well shown more than the other charters. Reason being that in the book Piggy was described as fat and stumpy like with glasses. In the movie, Piggy was seen as fat mature and very optimistic, and of course with glasses or he so calls specs in the book.
Therefore, the book was good, but the movie was not a good representation of the book.
Rating: 1/5
The Lord Of the Flies movie begins with a military aircraft carrying boys home, when suddenly the aircraft crashes into a nearby island. They boys from the crash all made it out alive. Captain Benson was injured horribly, then soon died afterwards, leaving the boys on the island alone. One night, as the boys were sleeping, their confused pilot escapes from the boys into the jungle making his way to a cave deep in the island.
Jack brings all of his hunters into the jungle leaving no one watching the fire. The fire goes out, preventing a passing helicopter from noticing them. Ralph blames Jack for failing to keep it going. Jack got tired of listening to Ralph, and Piggy, leaves the camp and makes one of his own taking some of the boys with him.
One of the younger boys, Larry, finds Captain Benson in the cave and, without looking closely, mistakes him for a monster and stabs him, then tells the other boys that he had saw a “beastie.” Expecting to be rescued, Ralph’s leadership tells the boys to make a fire as a way to alert other ships and boats that they are on an island.They kill a wild pig and leave its head as an offering to the “beastie” that they believe is in the cave. Eventually, the boys are rescued by the Marines.
Seeing Piggy’s face when his glasses were stolen from Jack,and his tribe was pitiful and heart-breaking. In the movie, you really saw Jack’s character come out. Jack was aggressive, and was not human like. Jack stole knives, in hopes that once the boys had nothing to defend themselves with that they would turn to his side. Simon was killed by Jack and his tribe. To see the stabbing and how brutal it was made me cringe. Everyone from Ralph’s group left to be with Jack in fear that the beast would come for them. As Jack and his tribe pushed the rock onto Piggy’s head you saw how much he had meant to Ralph. When the rock started to fall, Ralph yelled and tried having Piggy move but he was too late.
My overall review on the movie is that I liked the movie. You were able to see a visual on what the book looked like in some scenes, but not every scene was shown in the movie. The movie was missing parts of the book. The book and the movie are similar and different. The book and the movie are similar in ways that they both tell how the human nature changes drastically once you experience lack of water, food, and social life. The movie represents more of the emotional aspect on how the characters are feeling. The book is different because when the plane crashed, the kids did not land in the water, they landed on the island itself. “The Lord of the Flies” movie keeps your mind running in all different directions. The “beastie” was not looked at as the pilot during the book.
Overall, I liked the book more than the movie.
In the fictional movie Lord of the Flies a group of boys in some kind of uniform arrive on an uninhabited island. Quickly, they band together and try to figure out how they’re going to get rescued off the island. They elect Ralph as the leader of the group because he was Colonel of whatever group they had beforehand (presumably a military school). He calls assemblies using a conch shell and they discuss rules and what’s best for the group. They decide to build a fire as a rescue signal but they lose control of it. As time progresses, Jack creates a new group and slowly but surely everyone leaves Ralph and joins the savages. As the end of the movie nears people die and things escalate to the point where the island is burning and everyone is on a manhunt for Ralph. As they close in on him, he finds himself right in front of a U.S. Marine and the others find themselves in the same predicament only realizing that their time on the island is over.
The movie wasn’t too great at representing the book. Things went differently in the book than portrayed in the movie. They way they elected Ralph and the way Jack left wasn’t accurate and was rather disappointing. They used a lot more vulgar language than I expected for 12 year olds, but didn’t necessarily take away from the movie. They didn’t follow the storyline in terms of how soon Samneric joined the others. They did portray the book well with how the boys adapted to living on the island and they also portrayed Piggy, Jack, Ralph, Simon, and Samneric perfectly. The big dramatic scenes in the book were portrayed poorly on the movie and were easy to look at non gracefully. The intensity of the book wasn’t shown well at all in the movie.
Overall I didn’t like the movie Lord of the Flies too much. I thought that they rushed through it way too fast and didn’t give scenes time to develop. I would’ve liked a bit of background information as to what kind of group they were prior to their arrival on the plane or the island. I also would’ve liked to see how the boys got home to their families and hometowns and they adjusted back to life as regular people. Though it was interesting they strayed too far from the book in my opinion.
The movie was maybe an hour and a half long, but it should’ve been two hours at least to get everything in. I also didn’t like how it was rated R, yet they were cautious on showing the more gory scenes. I did however like how they portrayed the characters they did an excellent job with that and the conflicts that each individual character had to face. The action scenes were just too disappointing to overlook which is why I give the movie a 3/5 stars. If you enjoyed the story line, I strongly recommend reading the book in addition to the movie.
In the movie Lord Of The Flies the boys get stranded on an island. They have to fend to themselves. They are scared of not getting rescued and of the beast. They end up killing Simon and Piggy. Then when they chase Ralph to kill him they get rescued.
The movie did not represent the book at all. The book and movie were polar opposites. The book was super detailed and was very interesting to read because it caught the reader’s attention and really brought suspense so the reader was engaged. The movie, however, did not go into detail and people just showed up out of nowhere and did not follow the plot of the book. It was almost like the director did not read the book. There was so much left out and it did not even kill one of the people that they did in the book. And how they killed piggy and the man did not even happen the way in the book. I think the director could have done much better if he would have made the movie how it was written. The actors did not even match the British description that was given to them in the book, the also did not match the general description given to them in the book.
I think that the movie was horrible. It did not match the book at all. I would not rate it it was so bad. I think the director needs to watch the movie and watch it again and then read the book a couple times. This movie was the worst movie I have ever watched by far. It did not follow any plot and does not even do anything that the book says. You can tell this movie was just thrown together. The director did not even match the descriptions that the book gave. This would have been nice if they would have at least included bits and pieces of the book.
I think the author tried way harder then the movie people did. The book was the best by far, it went into a lot of detail and made everything sound real. Not like a fantasy, like the movie made it seam. The movie people really took away from the main point of the book. They made Ralph sound and look like a nobody. This really made me mad because Ralph seemed like the main character to me. It seems like they emphasized Jack more than anyone. This whole movie did not make sense to me because it is like it just happened out of the middle of nowhere.
I think that you would be better off to read the book because it is very interesting and you can actually enjoy reading it then watching this horrible movie. This movie should have included how the got to the island in a scene before the floating in the ocean scene. Also it should have included all of the characters they were in the book. This movie was okay to watch but was not my favorite.
In The Lord of the Flies, the boys arrive on a island that is uninhabited and quickly go and try to find resources. They stumble across a pig which proves to be a very key role in the movie. Ralph and Piggy seem to be the only ones who have any sense about being rescued. Jack goes off and forms his own tribe and his main purpose is to hunt. Everyone then leaves Ralph and joined Jack’s tribe where they are given meat. When they are at the feast Simon dies and they pretend like they “killed” the beast. More conflict arises as they steal Piggy’s glasses. Ralph and Piggy try to go and get the glasses back and Piggy dies in the process. Then, they hunt Ralph and in the process catch the island on fire.
The movie is very different than the book in many ways that are good and bad at the same time. It has some great scenes that contribute greatly to the audience being able to foreshadow events from the book. In the book the beginning starts with them being in the island and Ralph and Piggy finding each other but in the movie they are in the water trying to rescue everyone from drowning. Also in the book, they are young British boys but in the movie they seem to be Americans. The vocabulary they use is extremely different and it plays a huge role in the understanding of the movie. Also, another character that plays a huge role in the book is completely used in the movie.
The beast is a major role in the book because the boys are very scared and their actions express it. In the movie, however, it seems like it’s not as important because they hardly mention it and don’t make it seem important. They speak of the beast being “something” that is dangling in the tree branches but in the film it’s the adult that has gone crazy. Also the dead pilot that was hanging on the tree branch is not shown but instead they use the adult that is dead. The beast speaking to Simon is also not shown and this was one of the most important part of the book because it showed the evil within them all and gave us the complete understanding of “the beast.” Although they used different ways to express the beast, there were many scenes that they did the same.
When they hunt Ralph down they show the similarities well to give the audience a perfect image of how it happened in the book. The way Ralph moves through the island and hides while they are looking for him is identical and I believe it does a great job. Also how Sam and Eric spot Ralph but don’t alert the others because they are still loyal to him. Ralph running away after he is spotted by roger is done great because it shows all the kids running after him exactly like in the book. When Ralph falls on the beach and sees the naval officer and starts crying is also a very dramatic scene that is well presented.
The movie might have had its ups and downs but it did its job in giving a image to the audience of how the young boys lived in the island. If i had to rate it I would give it a three out of five stars because, although it did great at demonstrating the scenes in the book, it also missed many parts that were very significant in the book that were not mentioned in the movie.
Rating: 3/5
The movie of the Lord of the Flies is about a group of pubescent boys who crash and land on an inhabitant island with no one to look after them but themselves. They eventually come to the realization that they need food and shelter so they begin to hunt and create, shelter. Near the end the egos of the boys get the best of them and they start turning against each other and turn toward savage behavior. Two of the characters die and finally someone comes and rescues them.
I believe that the movie was a terrible representation of the book. There were so many add ins and missing key points that were in the movie that needed to be in the book. In the book there weren’t any adults with them on the island and in the movie there was one and it honestly just botched the whole relationship between the book and the movie. I wouldn’t recommend watching the movie if you’ve read the book, because the representation of the book is absolutely horrible. The producers and directors left so many good key points out that the movie just seemed like all of the bad things that happened in the book were simultaneously back to back and that’s not how it happened. There was so much detail in the book that it seemed that the movie would be at least 2 hours long, but in reality, the movie was barely that because they left so many things out from the book.
For example, in the book there were two fire outbreaks and in the movie there was only one. In the book at the beginning, Jack was supposed to be watching the fire to make sure it didn’t go out. Well, instead of it going out it breaks out into a blaze that spreads and in the movie the fire just goes out. In the book there was no sign of a helicopter flying around the island and in the beginning of the movie after the fire went out a helicopter flies around the island. And the way it was flying the pilot was most likely able to see Ralph flailing his hands in the air trying to get attention. Also in the book there was no source of light for them to use in the dark and in the movie, Simon uses a glow stick and goes into the cave that samneric found, and in the book there wasn’t even a cave. After Simon comes from the cave that’s when he dies.
After Simon’s death, no one but Ralph acknowledges it and you can tell on Jack’s face that he had no sympathy for killing. Jack knew who it was but just wanted to have the joy of actually killing someone. At the end, in the book, the men come and take away Jack, but the movie ends as soon as the rescue people come. Also the men that rescue them in the book are in the British Navy but in the movie they’re U.S. Marines. I would definitely not recommend watching the Lord of the Flies because it does not represent the movie well at all.
I give the movie two and a half stars because it just didn’t show how the book. I had high hopes for the movie because of how good the book was but it wasn’t very good.
The movie, Lord of the Flies, was based on a plane crash and the oldest survivor was probably about 15 years old. Unfortunately with the survivors young age comes their immaturity, they just wanted to have fun on the island since there were no adults to tell them what to do. However, they soon discovered that they needed order in their lives, leading to the survivors forming two groups, the savages and the ordinary. On the island, there soon came talk about a monster. However, they later discover the only monster was the one inside of them.
Following the monster, a feud developed between the two groups leading to a couple of deaths among them. At the end of the movie, there was a man hunt to destroy the last survivor who still had his humanity intact. During the manhunt, the island caught on fire which resulted in a huge signal to a bypassing boat, leading to the rescue of the remaining survivors.
Originating from a person who has read the book and watched the movie, I would say the book was much better. The movie was simply lacking some details that the book contained. For example, the movie did not show the conversation that occurred between Simon and the Boar’s head (also known as the Lord of the Flies) which I felt was a very important scene. Another example that shows the movie lacking some details include, when the boys forgot to keep the fire lit. In the book it was a boat, meanwhile, it was an airplane that passed in the movie.
For the final example, the book described the conch being shattered when Piggy died, however; in the movie it did not show the conch getting destroyed. I felt the conch being destroyed is a detail the movie should have been included because the moment the conch was destroyed is the same moment order was shattered. I felt that some of the details should have stayed the same in the movie as the book included. However, I do feel the need to let you know that the movie was based on the same plot and it still included the scenes that the book contained so that was a plus.
Personally I did not like the movie. I felt that the movie poorly represented the book. The movie also included unnecessary cussing. I thought since the movie was based on a couple of teenagers and little boys getting stranded on an island they should not have included cussing. I mean think about it, would you want your kid cussing? The correct answer to that question is a big no, however, if you answered yes to that question you should probably question your morals. Another reason I did not like the book was because it showed some really graphic scenes. For example, the scene where Piggy dies should have not shown the rock smashing him to death. Simple scenes like that should have been altered. Overall I thought the movie was a bit too much for me.
Rating: 2/5
Lord of the Flies is about these boys who were on their way home in an airplane. The airplane did not make it to its destination; instead, the airplane crashed on an island in the middle of the ocean. No adults survived, so there was just a bunch of boys on the island trying to survive hoping that one day they will get rescued and go home. The boys end up having to wait a while and some start to think they will never get rescued. Some boys will start to act more savage and some boys will stay true to who they are and wait patiently to be rescued.
The movie was not a good representation of the book. The movie was seemingly short and did not include a lot of the good details that the book offered while reading. The merit of the movie would probably be a 2 out 10. The movie skipped a lot and did not go in the order that the book did. For example early in the movie, Jack created his own group but that did not happen until later on in the book. Another example would be that Jack and his crew did not show as much abuse besides the cussing part toward Jack that was portrayed in the book. Jack and his crew threw sharpened sticks and rocks in the book when Ralph ran away after Piggy died. Another part of the movie that was not greatly shown was the scene where Piggy died. In the movie, Piggy just fell over after the rock hit him in the head. In the book, Piggy’s death was very graphic and spelled out better.
The movie also did not do a very good job at making Piggy look like the voice of reason. Ralph did not seem like a good leader in the beginning as he did in the book. Although the book and the movie did not match up to events as well as hoped, the characters’ personalities did. When the movie started out, we got to meet Piggy and Ralph, which are two of the main characters in the movie and book. Jack’s personality was seen very well throughout the movie considering how many times he cursed at people and said mean/ hurtful things.
Personally, I enjoyed the book a lot more than I enjoyed the movie. The movie was filmed in the olden days so it was not as up to date as I would have thought or liked it to be. Although the book is also a little older, it was very interesting and each chapter made me want to come back and read more. The book leaves more room for imagination. The Lord of the Flies book has a lot more description that makes it easier to understand what the boys are going though. All in all in my opinion, the book is so much better than the movie and I would recommend reading the book before watching the movie to anyone.
In the movie Lord of the Flies a bunch of adolescent boys are involved in a plane crash on a deserted island. The boys have to learn to adapt to survive and work together in order to survive without any adults. Without the supervision of any adults on the island, the boys are living in a world without rules or order. Boys will be boys, but in this case the boys will become savage. This is a movie about a grudge match between savage and sanity. It’s also a power struggle between Jack and his tribe (the savages), and Ralph and his tribe. There is a a lot of symbolism in the movie. Like the boys in Jack’s tribe all wore paint and the paint represents savagery. Piggy’s character represented sanity and good reason. Simon wrongly being brutally killed and is symbolic of Jesus Christ to many people. The entire movie is symbolic of something.
The movie and the book are very different. In the book the boys were all by themselves on the island, there were no grown ups. In the movie, the pilot survived the crash but was in critical condition, so it’s not like the pilot was an important character but his presence in the movie makes it different from the book. In the book the boys were British. In the movie the boys were American and again it’s a very small detail but, it makes it different from the book. In the movie before Simon was brutally killed. He went into a cave and saw the boar’s head and talked to it thinking it was the “beastie.”
In the movie when Simon went into the cave he found the pilot in there and thought it was the “beastie” and killed the pilot and he didn’t even talk to the “beastie”, so another small detail makes the movie different from the book. In the beginning of the book, a little boy with a birthmark on his face disappeared and was never found and that was a slightly significant part to the beginning to the book but, it wasn’t even in the movie. The boys in the movie were cursing and talking about sex and women and none of that talk was ever mentioned in the book. I understand “hollywooding” things to making it to where today’s people will find the movie entertaining but, it was never in the book. The movie overall is nothing like the book.
The Lord of the Flies movie was not good at all in my book. To me there were a lot of things wrong with it. It would just jump into scenes and not work you up to it like it did in the book. The movie was ninety minutes long but, because it jumped into scenes the way it did, the movie felt like it was twenty minutes long. The movie was absolutely nothing like the book in my opinion, and to me that’s a very important thing when making a movie based on a book. The movie was very boring and very inaccurate.
Overall I give this movie a 1.5 out of 5 stars, and I don’t suggest it to anyone.