Thursday, 21 May 2015

Lord of the Flies... book to movie-GusM

Lord of the Flies, man what a great story. Seeing that it was written in 1954, I'd say that it was written in a bit of a past tense, that is, set in a time before the book was made. But I wonder if this will be mentioned in the movie version. As always in a book to movie scenario, a lot of things are cut from the book that would otherwise be in the movie.

Now things turn to custard when there is a second version of a movie made at a later date. The first Lord of the Flies movie came out in 1963, when swearing was a lot more relaxed in movies then it is nowdays. But a second version came out 27 years later, and a lot of things had changed in that time. For a start, movies in 1990 were in colour, not in unfassionable black and white. And swearing was a bit less relaxed. So I guess that watching the 60's version would mean people would hear a lot more colourful language, which is odd considering it's a black and white movie!

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