Lord of the Flies Movie Review

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Lord of The Flies Movie Review The 1963 production, Lord of the Flies is a British film adaptation of William Golding's novel of the same name. Directed by Peter Brook and produced by Lewis M. Allen. In this dramatic adventure we see a group of English schoolchildren, whose airliner is shot down by fighter planes and crashes near a remote island (Puerto Rico) as they evacuated from England where they were living in the middle of a war. Starring James Aubrey as Ralph, Tom Chapin as Jack and Hugh Edwards as Piggy. Culture created by man fails, when British schoolboys stranded on a Pacific island after their plane crash. set up a mock democratic government with Ralph as leader in order to keep a civilzed organization. They try to govern themselves with disastrous results as the saavage ways of human nature take over their actions.A signal fire is kindled with Piggy's glasses on the mountain to call passing ships to their rescue while shelters are constructed. Jack, soon becomes obsessed with hunting the pigs of the island and loses sight of Ralph's democratic vision. Further discord results with an increasing fear of a supposed "beast" on the island. Upon discovering the beast the boys had all feared on the mountain is only the rotting corpse of a pilot whose plane had been shot down near the island, Simon runs down from the mountain to share this happy news. However the boys (including Ralph, Piggy, and Samneric) are all, following Jack's example, caught up in a primal ritual celebrating the murder of a pig they have just eaten and Simon runs into the midst of this. Mistaken to be the beast, Simon is killed by the boys' spears. Ralph, Piggy, and Samneric remain resistant to joining Jack's tribe. They attempt to cling to the democracy they had set up, still using the conch to call an assembly and struggling to keep a signal fire burning on the beach. Piggy is

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