Pourquoi Lord Of The Flies Critical Analysis

After watching a movie so underwhelming to it’s counterpart on paper you question why they ever bothered to turn such a literary classic into a screenplay. It is safe to assume even the French are saying, “Pourquoi Hollywood? Pourquoi?”. A book such as Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding, deserved more than selling out to a complete body of American directors, writers, and actors, who would disregard the important themes and meanings behind the book due to “time restraint”. Movies are adapted to bring books to life, but someone watching the movie Lord of the Flies (1990) directed by Harry Hook, would never quite understand the meaning behind the boys, their journey, and the question being answered about man versus nature presented by
Religious allegories watch over the boy's actions as the book progresses almost like a third person narrator. As Jack, still a jerk, and his group of savages sacrifice and place a pig’s head on a stick for the fictitious beast, they retreat back to their camp. Simon, curious, comes across the pig's head in a declining state of mind and believes the pig's head is conversing with him. Simon after his conversation with the head, learns the beast is actually within them all, and that they only need to fear themselves.. Then as his mental state worsens, “Simon was inside the mouth. He…”, falls down and loses “...consciousness” (Golding 144). He wakes and then returns to the camp knowing the truth but is mistaken for the beast and then killed by Jack. Much like the story of Jesus’s conversation with the devil in the garden of Gethsemane in which subsequently he is brought to the soldiers by Judas and then killed. In the movie no religious allegory is made, Simon only looks but does not speak at the pig's head (Beelzebub), and yet is still killed leaving a viewer of the movie very much confused at its lack of context. Even in the 1963 movie Simon does not talk to the pig's head and the symbolism is lost in the movies presentation, and Simon dies anyway. A second small but religious allegory is made when Piggy, in the book, sadly is met with a terrible fate of getting hit by a rock and falling 40 feet to his death. The original intent of travelling 40ft to his death was similar to that of the story of Jesus or Moses’s journey into the desert. While all three journey’s were difficult and hopeful outcomes were to follow, Piggy, Moses, and Jesus all met with death. Yet again in the movie no religious allegory was made and Piggy did not fall 40ft but only to the ground and died. A third allegory was made when the boys were rescued (or so it