Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LORD OF THE FLIES. With scarcely a nod to Novelist William Golding's chilling allegory of the essential evil in man's nature, the producers end up with little more for your money than a scary adventure story about a band of castaway boys on a desert island...
...varsity players on the line--Fred Akuffo, Azinna Nwafor, Morgan Hudson, and Hugh Polk--acquired needed experience to use this Saturday against Amherst, a perennially tough opponent. With inside John Thorndike off the sick list, the varsity has a good opportunity to avenge last year's defeat by the Lord Jeffs...
...novel Lord of the Flies attempts to interpret man, sin, and God. It succeeds. The movie Lord of the Flies presents only a few levels of Golding's interpretation. But what it does, it does well...
Editor Gerald Fiel and Director Peter Brook apparently recognized that they could not recreate many of the undertones produced by Golding's subtle style. The film barely suggests the identification of the devil with a boar's head--the Lord of the Flies. It scarcely explores the complex character of Simon--prophet and martyr--whose murder follows his dialogue with the Lord of the Flies. But it does capture the power of both Golding's story about boys and his philosophy about...
...well as photography to indicate some of Golding's varied tones. The choir's chant "Kyrie eleison" becomes first a march and then a primitive, frightening rhythm (but one hears a choir singing when Simon's body floats in the glowing sea). The buzzing of flies around the Lord of the Flies conveys the same overpowering, sickening fear as does Golding's description...