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Lord Of The Flies [1990]
starring: Balthazar Getty, Chris Furrh, Danuel Pipoly, James Badge Dale, Andrew Taft (II)
directed by: Harry Hook

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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0044008389231
Format: HiFi Sound, PAL
Label: 4 Front Video
Manufacturer: 4 Front Video
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 4 Front Video
Release Date: August 12, 1992
Running Time: 86 minutes
Studio: 4 Front Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 16, 1990
Sales Rank: 9694

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
Harry Hook's adaptation is not as faithful to the William Golding novel as you'd wish (they excised the "Lord of the Flies" dialogue with Simon!) and because of it, the movie is less allegorical and less resonant. A group of young men from a military academy are stranded on an island. The group quickly becomes fractious with a passive section led by Ralph, trying to get rescued, and a hunter faction, led by Jack, trying to procure meat and "have fun." Peter Brook's 1963 filming seemed to get closer to the Darwinist sense of this cultural disintegration. Here, the hunter faction seems more like Peter Pan's Lost Boys than the bloodthirsty murderers they are. The performances, particularly young Getty, don't quite carry the weight of the situation. It's still, however, sobering to slowly watch the school uniforms traded for war paint, and the little boys turn into little savages. --Keith Simanton

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Utter Rubbish
The other reviews say it all.Buy the orignal Peter Brook film which is faithful to the book. In fact seeing it acted out in the original film is even more chilling.

This is a shallow travesty which you should not waste your money on.

Rating:

- Buy Peter Brook's film instead
Golding's story is entirely misrepresented. The makers of this film think it's about 'civilised' youngsters reverting to 'savagery' when left to their own devices, when really it's about the 'civilised' education and conditioning we receive which de facto brings about such behaviour in any circumstance, not just a desert island. Golding would not have made any distinction between military uniforms, ruffs and cassocks or body paint.

The film by itself has no tension, no horror, no development, no resonance, and the child actors fail with the script because it doesn't match the way they think and speak. Instead they are made to say politically correct rubbish like 'We have to work togetherrrr!'

The major achievement of ... Read More:

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- Lords it over many other films
I really enjoyed the book, but I can't recall many fine details of the plot which some people argue the film doesn't abide by. However, when I first watched this film the book was still fresh in my mind. I don't think this version of the film is as bad as other people make out. I thought the child actors were some of the best I've ever seen, and they made this film as brutal and shocking as the book was. The killing scenes are particularly gripping; I remember being quite alarmed in parts, and I'm not normally disturbed by things like that. In short, I think it's well worth a watch.

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- Another viewer
I too am an English (Brit. Lit.) teacher. I agree with those who are disappointed by this adaptation of Golding's Lord of the Flies. The only reason I will be showing this version to my students is for the purposes of a Venn diagram (compare/contrast). The differences/inaccuracies are so innumerable, it will be blatantly obviously which students only viewed the film rather than reading the assigned literature.

Rating:

- Awful
I have taught this novel for 8 years. This film's glaring error is to ignore and often to reverse the harrowing moral message of the original novel.

The original locates the capacity for evil within all of us and portrays civilization as a fragile surface beneath which lurks 'the darkness of man's heart'. Golding chose public schoolboys to be isolated on his island so the very 'pinnacle' of innocence and civilization was subverted when they turned to murder, sacrifice, and idolatry.

In this disastrous adaptation, there is a simplistic divide of the boys into 'good guys' who remain untainted by evil and 'bad guys' Moreover, the boys start as military cadets; when they turn to hunting it hardly surprises us. Jack, instead of ... Read More:

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