![]() ![]() ![]() And, yet, for some reason Alf was the thing that bothered critics. There are much more significant changes to the source material made here, including changing the kids from British boarding school students to American military school cadets and the addition of the plane's pilot, who remains injured and less than lucid on the beach for a majority of the running time before escaping to the caves. This was all the evidence many of them needed that the attempts to "modernize" the movie - and, by extension, the movie itself - were terrible. When Lord of the Flies was originally released in 1990, I remember a lot of critics making a big deal out of the fact that the kids have a brief - brief - conversation about Alf. ![]() The second is led by Jack (Chris Furrh), who leads a group of boys who want to hunt, hurt one another and act like savages. Eventually, two factions split off: the first is led by sensible Ralph (Balthazar Getty), who wants to organize the boys and get them rescued. One of the pilot's is injured and is of no use, leaving the boys to fend for themselves as they attempt to survive in the wild. If nothing else, at least its heart is in the right place.īased on William Golding's 1954 novel and previously adapted as a critically acclaimed, stark black and white film in 1963, the 1990 Lord of the Flies opens immediately after a plane carrying a group of military school cadets has crashed into the ocean off the shore of a totally remote island in the Pacific. And yet it's also a little better than its reputation suggests, with two effective performances and some nice photography (itself a problem more on that in a second). Like so many remakes, it feels like an update with the interesting subtext removed - a copy of a copy. Older audiences raised on the book or previous film adaptation would likely find little to like in this glossier, dumbed-down version. Though it appears to be directed at younger viewers, they couldn't see the R-rated film. In 1990, a filmmaker with whom most people were not familiar (Harry Hook) took a cast of unknown young actors and remade the classic Lord of the Flies for an audience of seemingly no one. ![]()
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