'Lord of the Flies – Hook or Brook? Essay\r'

'In my point of assimil consume one of the beat out novels you screw study for GCSE English is ‘ skipper of The wing’ by William Golding. But I’m not just talking about the book I’m going to talk about the submits, jibe suffer’s 1963 macabre and white photograph and Harry repeal’s American title hit made in 1994 and how they twain take issue from each other and the book.\r\nSir William Golding was an English grammar school male child who studied Natural Sciences for two years at Oxford University sooner transferring to English Literature. He enlisted in the navy blue to fight in World War II where he was involved in the pursuit of Germany’s mightiest battleship, the Bismarck and involved in D-Day domain of a functionings. When he came natural c everywhereing to the UK to write and to teach he had dramatic every(prenominal)y several(predicate) ideas of humanity. Many of his books contained the ideas that at that pl ace is no such amour as true innocence, most men be only concerned for their own well organism and that exclusively men argon evil at heart under pressure.\r\nHis freshman novel ‘Lord of the Flies’ is real(prenominal) much based on these ideas. Golding wrote many other books including: The Inheritors, Darkness Visible and To the Ends of the Earth. In 1979 Golding won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, in 1980 he won the Booker Prize, in 1983 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and was knighted by the Queen in 1988. Eventu each(prenominal)y he died of heart failure on June 19, 1993. In his lifetime he saw his superlative novel, ‘Lord of The Flies’ turned in to a dash in the 1960’s just now died to begin with he could see the second version of the aim released in 1994.\r\nThe initial images at the start of twain rents of ‘Lord of the flies’ are very eventful as they apportion stolon impressions of the film and stage the scene for what is to come. jut out’s film starts with a series of photographs exhibit collections of English grammar school boys in every day life, then being evacuated (for a reason that you endure’t know) and then the bed sheet crash on the island. As the images are a hymn snug in latin which, when translates operator god erupt us mercy.\r\nIn lot’s version the opening scene starts earpieceing up at the thrashing legs of the boys trying to move in the ocean nevertheless in nearly complete silence then the picture raises to a higher place the water to reveal the sight of all the boy affrightking and the sounds of screaming, the picture then sinks to show the pilot smorgasbord posture and a hand pulling him to the surface followed by the picture to show a life push- go through store opening. The break away of the two openings in my point of view is the later 1994 film beca lend oneself it draws you in to the film because you donâ₠¬â„¢t know what is going to happen.\r\nIn both(prenominal) Brook’s film and in abstract’s film the boys end up on a tropical island nearly were in the peaceful ocean as it is in the book, but the ship canal this is portrayed in the two films are very different giving the two openings to the films very different feelings. In Brook’s 1963 film you depression see the island during the day with a wide, long curving sandy beach laid out in front if you, backed with low tropical tone stretching into the distance with very shallow start coloured sea.\r\nThis gives a very light tranquillize atmosphere to the beginning of the film giving a sense of hopefulness. The film was filmed chief(prenominal)ly on the island of Vieques in Puerto Rico. In contrast Hooks 1994 adaptation has island is counterbalance seen at night as the boys give in a small sheltered bay, on a life raft, and are confronted with tiny beach with the black silhouette of the huge forests and m ountains looming over them shrouding every function with shadows this give a sense of little hope, danger, panic and fear because they don’t know what’s in the shadows. In my mind this sets the mood better for the moments afterwards a flat crash where you are completely lost, on one knows where you are, all the adults with you invite died, compared with the to the highest degree happy felling given in Brook’s film.\r\nAs in the book the first two character introduced in both films are Ralf and piglet. In Brook’s 63 films, as in the book, Ralf and Piggy have never met before and Piggy is the first person that Ralf lets after the skim off crash. Piggy in first film is a rather small, fat boy with glasses, from a dismantle class back ground who won’t do any physical work because he is over worried about his asthma and is very cautious about every issue. Ralf in this film is an comely grammar school boy although older than most of the boys, with a strong sense of loss leadership who later becomes leader of the children on the island because of his initial popularity with the younger members of the group.\r\nHowever in Hooks american 94 film all the children are all from the same military plebe school. As they are from the same school they already know each other so as Ralf was in a higher position than all the rest of the other boys in the school he was almost automatically elected the leader of the group. Piggy is a very fat child with over sized glasses and is very venerable and can be very annoying as he is in both films and the book. Also in maulers film Ralf is automatically is very protective of piggy all though in bear film and the book Ralf makes fun of piggy before befriending him and turn protective him from some of the other characters.\r\nThe other briny character that you are introduced to in the film is jackfruit tree. Jack in brooks film is the leader of a choir who end up on the island because of th e plane crash with his coir. He today tries to take picture of the group and is very aggressive towards Piggy and bullies him. When he fails to take construe of the group he immediately separates him self and the coir to become hunters for the group and become psychoneurotic with kill wild pigs. This is very similar with meat hooks film when Ralf wins declare of the group jack splits of and makes a group of hunters and becomes very violent and aggressive.\r\nSymbolism in many of Goldings book plays a big lift off and they have a big role in films of ‘The lord of the flies’. The conch shell that Ralf and Piggy find on the beach in one of the first sense is of order and that only the person memory the shell can speak. When the conch shell is blown for the first time by Ralf al the boys respond by coming to its source like answering to a school bell. This means that the conch shell in both films is a symbolization of order, respect and control. Piggy’s glas ses also become a symbol of release because the are the boys only source of fire on the island and however has the glasses is in control of fire which is vital for life on the island. The track down knife in hooks 94 film is a large symbol as it provides a source of food by killing the pigs on the island and a way to make weapons for the hunters.\r\nOne of the main themes in the book and films is of victimisation and domination inwardly the group. Almost as soon as the group is formed Ralf (in the book and in the 63 film) or Jack (in the 94 film) immediately torments piggy by giving him his name, and tries to put himself above everyone else and take control of the group. In hooks 94 film all the young members of the group call Jack and Ralf ‘Sir’ showing respect to the dominant people in the group.\r\nThe sound and music within the films are very consequential as they get the feeling of the situation. In brooks 63-film native pipe music is played as their children a re moving through the forest and this give of feeling of excitement, as they are moving through the forest. In both films the ambient sounds, like birds and frogs, give sense of alertness and can add to the strain of a seen.\r\nIn both films what the characters are eroding give a felling of how long the have been at that place and what they have been doing. In the 63 film ate the start all the boys have full ordered on, especially the coir how have gowns and hats one, to having very little ripped lacerate fragments of clothes on in Hooks 94 film the boys go from having full military supply to topless with ripped shorts on and war key fruit on there faces and chests. The length of boy’s hair in both films doesn’t change in either film implying that they aren’t there for a very long time. One thing that was over look in both films is that after the plane crash all the boys are utterly clean, tidy and well dressed.\r\nThe colours in the 94 film added to th e mood of the seen. When the boys are working unneurotic on the beach the colours are visible radiation adding to the felling of hopefulness. On the other hand the forest is almost always dark greens, browns and blacks and this helps to emphasise a electronegative mood. I think that Brooks 63 film is always let down by the point it is in black and white.\r\nI think the use of the tv camera is one other main thing that separates the two films. In hooks film the camera shots are used to help emphasise what’s is going on in the film, for example: shots where the camera is looking down on someone makes them line of work very venerable like when the boys first land on the beach, and when the camera is pointing up at some ones face makes you feel that there very regent(postnominal) or dominant. Partly because of this I feel that the 94 is better than the 64 films because it lacks the quality of camera shots.\r\nIn my mind they are both good films but the better of the two fil m is Harry Hook’s 1994 version because of the better quality of the film and definitely the acting which in Peter Brook’s 1964 film was very wooden but many people just thinks it was let down by the technology of the time and because it is much unaired to the book it is a much better film.\r\n'