There are three main differences between Harry Hook’s 1990 movie Lord of the Flies, and the book written by William Golding. The differences are seen when they came to the island in the beginning of the book, how they saved the captain from drowning and then trying to heal him, and also that they all knew each other.
The first change was in the movie, when the kids arrived at the island on a raft, which caused the boys to be all together at the same time. This caused the story to have no chance for Piggy and Ralph to start knowing each other and developing a friendship. In the book, they got to the island when the plane crashed, which had them all separated and then coming together by the conch. This made them try to know each other and learn how to live together. Another change in the movie was of the conch—in which was known to have lots of symbolism, including power and leadership, which was present in the book—to lose some importance, and instead of it being the one thing that brought them all together, it was only something they used to call a meeting and to know who would speak next.
The second difference is how in the book, the boys are stranded on the island and, after the meeting, decided to have fun on the island since there was no adults and then later on, turning their focus to survival. In the movie—after they crashed into the sea—they brought the pilot off the plane onto their raft and took him with them, then, after the meeting, they began focusing more on surviving, and had to take care of the pilot in case he gets better so he could help them in survival, and getting them out of the island. This change took away the chance of them to learn that being stuck on an island is not only fun and games, and that they needed to start focusing on getting rescued, which was something Ralph did after the forest fire.
Furthermore, the last difference is how they all knew each other and all of them came from the same school. In the movie, when they are going to choose the leader, they already knew that Ralph was the colonel from their military school, and choose him anyway since they knew he was a good leader. In the book, Ralph was only chosen since he had the conch, which called everyone to come to make a meeting, and they had to trust Ralph to be a good leader. Also another thing that changed was the mystery inside the movie. In the book they had to figure out everyone’s characteristics and how to deal with them and to know how many there were in order to survive, while in the movie, they already knew almost everyone’s way of life, and how many were on the island—including some facts about them—removing the mystery from the movie. This absence of mystery in the story is important because it gives more detail into it.
In all, the movie was almost nothing like the book. The movie did include parts of the books chapters, but the story really changed adding the captain into the island and also making them know all of each other. The movie also didn’t show much symbolism and meaning like in the book, since Harry had actually only tried making his own version of the book, instead of copying the book to a movie. The movie got a 6.2 in IMDB, and by reading the reviews, this movie really disappointed some fans of the Goldens version, and that’s why book was better than the movie.
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