The final half of the movie was actually pretty intense. I found it very appropriate while comparing it to the. Although, there were some parts that were inaccurate.
Pages 158-9 of the book had the Lord of the Flies talking with Simon. He said some deep things like how "the beast is in all of us." The whole reason Simon dies is because the beast tells him what the beast truly is. In the end, I would think that if you hadn't read the book before hand, then you have no idea why half of these things happened. If you did read the book, then it really illustrates the pictures in your mind. It may ruin your thought of the book, but it really puts things in place if you haven't seen it before.
If I was living the time when this movie first came out, I would've thought that these effects were really awesome. When you look back at it now...yeah...I thought it was a really good movie though. I doubt it will be better than the 80's version. Anything new sucks. Old movies rule. The effects are bad, but they don't have the same kind of feel as they did back then. In the 60's, you were seeing everything for the first time. Now, you've seen everything and all the movies seem the same.
The LOTF movie was pretty good. I would give it a 7.5/10. There were a lot of differences, but that shouldn't get in the way of seeing a good movie.
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One thing that everyone keeps saying that I don't understand is that Simon had to die because he knew the truth. Why? Simon died because of the beast, true, but the actual beast (which was the boys) didn't know that he knew this. They killed him because they got carried away. So why did they have to kill him? Maybe I'm just being ignorant to something, but I don't see the connection.
I don't think Simon was killed because he knew about the beast as something inside them but instead as the dead parachutist. When he came out of the dark forest yelling about a dead man it startled the boys. It didn't help that they were already in a frenzy and carried away. I think the reason they killed Simon is because they didn't realize what they were doing and didn't think of stopping. Thats what I love about this book, it's so full of symbolism and meaning that you could look at this over and over again and find different reasons/symbolism every time. Great website by the way! =B
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