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Lord Of The Flies [DVD] [1990]

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Balthazar Getty (Actor), Chris Furrh (Actor), Harry Hook (Director) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Balthazar Getty, Chris Furrh, Danuel Pipoly, James Badge Dale, Andrew Taft
  • Directors: Harry Hook
  • Writers: Jay Presson Allen, William Golding
  • Producers: David V. Lester, Jeffrey Bydalek, Lewis M. Allen, Lewis Newman, Peter Allen
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Portuguese
  • Dubbed: German
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English, German
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
  • DVD Release Date: 22 Sept. 2003
  • Run Time: 86 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (64 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000AQVLF
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,057 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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Close to a tropical island a plane carrying young military cadets crashes into the ocean. The surviving boys and a badly wounded adult make a camp on the island where they have to fend for themselves. Civilised behaviour gradually disintegrates and two camps emerge; one led by the sensible Ralph, the other by Jack who likes to hunt pigs, use brute force and revert to primal behaviour. An allegorical story that shows how uncivilised human beings can be.

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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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1.0 out of 5 starsAwful
By A Customer on 10 Mar. 2006
Format: DVD
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 changing from Head Chorister to The Chief of a tribe of savages, starts off as a delinquent and becomes...a delinquent. The character development is therefore omitted. The moral message becomes a conservative reinforcement of a good/evil division between people.
Golding would be mortified by this travesty of a film.
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1.0 out of 5 starsUtter Rubbish
By Matteo_B on 25 Feb. 2008
Format: DVD
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.
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4.0 out of 5 starsLords it over many other films
By E Hen. on 30 July 2007
Format: DVD
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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1.0 out of 5 starsBuy Peter Brook's film instead
By Tom Jenner on 9 Dec. 2007
Format: DVD
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 these film-makers has been to render Golding's parable completely anodyne. The music score's liberal (and often literal) borrowing from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is so cretinous it beggars belief.

Peter Brook's 1963 film, by contrast, is so powerful and disturbing you wonder why they bothered with a re-make. James Aubrey's portrayal of Ralph in Brook's film is astonishing - Robert de Niro could learn a lot from this performance. Brook's film has one of the most unforgettable and surreal sequences ever committed to celluloid: a line of fully robed choristers marching along the beach singing 'Kyrie Eleison'. The Hook film, on the other hand, has no striking image in it at all: the pig's head looks endearing rather than horrific.

So how could they have got it so wrong? Golding would probably know. So buy Peter Brook's film, and don't waste your money on this drivel.
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1.0 out of 5 starsAn Appalling Film of an Amazing Novel
By A Customer on 3 July 2004
Format: DVD
This is the most disappointing transfer of book-to-film I have seen. Ever. After reading the classic novel at my school we watched the film, and after merely an hour the teacher switched off the tv as it was that bad. The film makers have taken the story line of the book and they have changed it so that it is ludicrously unbelievable, and they have taken the magnificent language of the book and replaced it with swearing. This film disgraces the powerful, moving novel it is based on, and if you were disappointed after watching this film, then do not let it put you off reading the book.
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2.0 out of 5 starsNothing brilliant.....
By Louise Roberts on 9 Feb. 2011
Format: DVD
I watched this shortly after reading the book, and whilst I found the start of the film to be ok and watchable, the rest of the film was dreadful. For me they didn't quite cast the boys quite how I imaged them from the book. A little disappointing.
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1.0 out of 5 starsAnother viewer
By Christiana E. Hexter on 30 April 2007
Format: DVD
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.
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3.0 out of 5 starsA bit of a pig's ear
By Captain Pugwash on 8 May 2009
Format: DVD
Although more accessible to today's audiences than the 1963 black and white version, this 1990 film starring Balthazar Getty as heroic schoolboy Ralph is a bit of a mess. With wooden acting - espescially from the actor playing the psychotic 'Jack' - and a plot that strays too far from the source novel to be fully coherent, it's not really a very good film at all. Sadly, this and the aforementioned 1963 film are the only ones available to date; it's high time a decent director had a go...
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