Lord Of The Flies Book Vs Movie Analysis

As everyone know the books we read aren’t always the same as the films we watch and most of the time the book is said to be better than the movie but that isn’t always the case. The novel Lord of the Flies was written by William Golding and it was published September 17, 1954. Almost 40 years later a second movie was released on March 16, 1990 and was directed by Harry Hook. Both were extremely successful and will continue to be read and watched for many years to come as another timeless novel. Whether the movie mixed up these points on purpose or on accident is besides the point because the focus is the fact that the film and novel are in fact different. This story is absolutely astonishing on so many accounts and the events that take place are almost overwhelming to the reader. The story begins with a group of boys in a helicopter that goes down over a tropical island. The plane being filled with teenage boys it is up to them to learn how to survive and it doesn’t take …show more content…
The story is different in the beginning when you realize that in the novel the boys are ordinary British boys while in the move they are American military cadets. When they have the chance to be saved not too long after and fail due to the fire being extinguished the novel says that a boat passes by but the movie shows a plane flying across. Throughout the novel Ralph seems to depend more on Piggy’s outstanding intellect but still insults him while in the film Ralph doesn’t tend to rely on Piggy very much and he definitely insults Piggy a lot less. At the end a British war ship finds the boys on the island and when asked what happens Ralph tells the naval officer that Piggy was murdered and then all the boys begin to cry. In the movie when rescued by a U.S. Marine that comes to the island in a ship and asks the boys what happened Ralph says nothing at all but it still results with the boys