Friday, June 27, 2008

The 1990 Lord of the Flies movie.

Warning! Do not, under any circumstances watch this movie!
I am one of those people who hate it when a movie based on the book differs too much from the original story. Seeing the Harry Potter films with me is not a good experience. It goes something like this: "WHAT?!", "Yeah, right...", "Oh, come on!!", "WHAT?!?!?". I hate them. "The Perfume" by Patrick Süzkind actually made a good movie, and so did "Bridget Jones". But the worst thing I've ever seen is the 1990 Lord of the Flies film.

The things I recognized from the book:
-The title
-The names of some of the boys
-Some of the lines
-That Ralph was made cheif
-That Jack made himself cheif of another tribe
-That the same people died
-That there existed a pig's head on a stick
-That Ralph started to cry when he saw the Navy guy.

The things I missed the most:
-That the boys were English
-That Jack had red hair and Ralph blonde
-Ralph's and Piggy's personalitys
-Simon's talk with the Lord of the Flies
-The parachuter
-The war, the atom bomb, and the reason the boys landed on the island
-The meaning of the plot

I just... argh.. What a waste of time!

The reason I saw it: I downloaded the wrong one, and thought I'd just see it because I was looking so forward to seeing the movie. FAIL! But now I hope the one from 1963 is a little bit better.

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