Lord of the Flies | Balthazar Getty, Chris Furrh

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Lord of the Flies

	Lord of the Flies Balthazar Getty, Chris Furrh MGM (Video & DVD), 2001 average customer review:based on 141 reviews view larger image
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With 'sharply expressive performances (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone) by its young cast, this stunning adventure explores the deep dark corners of the human soul, as a group of adolescent castaways are thrust into an intense world where law and accountability are governed by the rules of survival. After a harrowing plane crash into the sea, a group of American military cadets finds itselfmarooned on a deserted island. Realizing the minimal chances of being rescued, the boys band together out of fear and desperation. But as the island paradise becomes their own, competition and power struggles split them into two packs. Ralph (Bathazar Getty) leads one group and preaches civilized ingenuity and togetherness, but Jack (Chris Furrh) wants nothing of it and builds a faction of barbaric hunters who ultimately go to war with Ralph. This powerful shift in conscience transforms ordinary kids into primal killers, setting off a devastating battle of good versus evil and presenting a haunting metaphor for the savage in us all.

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Brilliant

This is one of the best stories about primary school boys. It is a must see. Just show you how kids can be if they are left alone in the wild. Airplane crash ended their lives in a Second, all the boys came out the aircrash alive. After one boys took command. There were others that thought why do we have to obey his commands, they then divide them in two groups. Then the survival began, war was declared between the two groups, and they need to hunt for food. The island was devided into two areas. As the story goes along poeple started to die of stupid mistakes. This is really good please check it out, you will sit on the edge of your chair if the war starts. The worst death is the death of a boy called " Piggy " he was a chubby boy that is why his name is " Piggy ".

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Anton

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Great Teaching Tool

I purchased the movie as a supplement to the unit I taught on Anarchy. The stduents related to it and fully understood it. IT is important that we teach not only the fact that we have rules, but why they are so important and and what life would be like without rules. This movie did just that

An Important Exploration of Human Nature

I have seen both the 1963 movie and the 1990 movie, and have also read the book, so I may be able to shed some light on which movie is "truer" to the book.

When you're trying to bring to the screen a book that was written several decades ago, and which was set in the contemporary society and culture of its day, you have to choose between keeping its original setting (i.e., making it a period piece) or keeping it contemporary (which means updating the story). If you prefer the first choice, then the 1963 movie is unquestionably "truer" to the book. But I can't think of a story for which the first choice makes less sense.

Lord of the Flies is, to my way of thinking, not so much a story as a thought experiment: Imagine that a group of boys, much like boys we may know in real life, are stranded on an uninhabited island with no adult supervision. What happens?

If you simply told someone the outcome, I think they'd be incredulous. But Lord of the Flies takes you there step by step and incident by incident, with no step seeming improbable given what has gone before. And when you see where it ends, you find yourself thinking back over everything that happened, trying to figure out if there was a false step somewhere. And if there wasn't, what does it say about all of us?

Unfortunately, the thought experiment gets significantly distorted if the boys seem different from the boys that you encounter in real life. And the boys of the book, and of the 1963 movie, are different from the boys I encounter in real life! Because of this, I think the 1990 version of the movie does a better job, for modern day viewers, of preserving the thought experiment. The use of color film also allows the 1990 version to depict the way that the activities of the boys defaces the beauty of the island at times (which is definitely depicted in the book). And the character of Piggy (who in the book is both physically unattractive and poor at expressing himself) is also better depicted in the 1990 version, in my opinion.

Some parts of the story did have to be changed a bit because of the change from wartime British boys to peacetime American boys. (And, frankly, I think the story was changed a little more than was needed, which is why I only gave the movie a four star rating.) But the essence of the thought experiment is still very much intact!

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