The main difference I noted between the book and the movie ("The Lord of the Flies") was character appearances.
Piggy looks a bit different than how I imagined him, but I believe that he is one of the closest to being correct.
Ralph is good. I imagined him just like he is portrayed (but with smaller front teeth :) )
Jack needs to be bigger. He seems to small in the movie so far. Maybe it's just the angles, but in the book he is portrayed to be the biggest boy there. In the movie he is the biggest, yet somehow, he seems too small and too unimposing.
Simon's character in the movie is totally wrong. Well, maybe his face is correct (kind, simple, and watchful) but his hair? It's BLONDE! Bright, bleached, blonde! Check this out.
'Simon allowed his pace to slacken until he was walking side by side with Ralph and looking up at him through the coarse black hair that fell now to his eyes.' -pg. 113
You'd think the directors could have given Simon black hair, like he's supposed to have. There is a large difference between black and blonde. The black would make Simon look even more sick because his skin would appear very, very pale.
Samneric are perfect.
The movie has been good so far, however, in following book's plot. Some of the scripted lines are lines directly from the book, and are recognizable.
If you hadn't read the book yet, though, the movie would be very hard to follow. It will sometimes jump from scene to scene and you don't know what transpire inbetween because you don't know the thoughts of the seperate characters. I wonder how they're going to do Simon's epileptic fit scene with the Lord of the Flies, for a lot of it is in his head.
Other than that, I can't wait to see the rest of the movie. (Though I wish the music was better; I find it whiny and annoying).
Cheers.
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In general, I think the movie is pretty faithful to the book. However, there have been some things I've noticed that they've left out. For example, before Ralph called the huge assembly in... chapter five? ... he had this big long period of reflection. There wasn't any of that in the movie. I realize that since it was all in Ralph's head, it would be difficult to put on film, but that was important. It showed a lot of growth in Ralph. Couldn't they have made him talking to himself, or something?
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