Something I’ll never understand in the lord of the flies fandom is how people criticise the bbc series for mischaracterising the books characters, yet say nothing about the 1990 movie?? this is what frustrates me the most about the 90s adaptation. Turning Golding’s private religious school choir boys, which is CLEARLY rooted in upper middle class british upbringing into american military cadets????
This isn’t to say that similar ideologies or allegories didn’t or currently do not exist in the usa, but for people who claim to be “very very knowledgeable” on the novel, but fail to gather the books central point………..smh. without going too off topic, if we’re REALLY out here judging realism and the thematics of lotf, the bbc series (IN MY OPINION, KEEP UR BLOODY SOCKS ON) portrays goldings ideas the best. ofc it can’t be 100% faithful to the book…cuz like…..trying to condense ≈200 pages into a four hour series makes that impossible.
Everything the series ‘makes up’ is logical. and i do understand those who dislike Jimon as a pairing and why it doesn’t appeal to you, but to claim it makes zero sense is so bloody STUPID!!!! there’s only so much information given in the original text regarding the boys backgrounds, + it’s also noticeable that the series gives the most depth to the characters who end up dead, specifically simon (through flashbacks) and to expand on him through a believable past closeness with jack as they had a similar upbringing.
(i am clearly a very big enthusiast of the 1963 adaptation so don’t flame me)
If you’ve read all of this i love you because this is a coke rant i wrote at 4am so it’s probably not even grammatically correct🐈
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