LORD OF THE FLIES - sun bbc1 9pm - TV PACE. NO SPOILERS

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A group of school boys are marooned on a desert island in an adaptation or William Golding‘s classic novel Lord of the flies

A plane transporting, schoolboy crushed lands on a remote island with no adults around supervise them their attempts to remain civilise soon descends into violence.

This four part series is a first television dictation of the classic 1954 novel each episode is shown from one of the main characters with the first one devoted to piggy.

Piggy is a responsible one who wants to keep everything calm. A lot of the boys go so when they’re stranded piggy tells everyone they have to have rules but the boys don’t act well to that.

Piggy initially be friends Ralph a boy who voted leader but Ralph‘s rival Jack taught piggy about his weight and poor eyesight

Jack judges PIGGY starts picking on him. He tries to be friends with Ralph when he knows that Ralph is PIGGY‘s only thread to hold onto they really don’t like each other.

not sure if I will watch as never like the book at school but doing thread incase I do and for others who may enjoy

The acting is superb.
Piggy is really excellent. Also whichever boy was singing with him.

Ralph I think

Wasn’t expecting to love it, but did! Absorbing, atmospheric, with a sense of foreboding, and the young actors are impressive. The soundtrack (is it all Peter Grimes by Britten?) is very evocative of the era.

Piggy was a super little actor

@tiptoptoemaytoeliterally says”NO SPOILERS “ in the title. Thanks for that post reported

I also hated it at GCSE. It was just too brutal. I remember at the time thinking it would have been very different if it had been girls stranded.

I think it's all Britten, but not all Peter Grimes.

I'm rethinking whether I want to watch now I know what happens

Thank you for reporting . I missed their reply /spoiler as must have posted same time as me

If you've read it you'll know the spoiler anyway

I hadn't read it so didn't know. But I think I'm just going to leave the rest now. I didn't find it very enjoyable watching anyway none of them were likeable at all apart from Piggy and it didn't seem like real life anyway..

I read the book but decades ago so had forgotten the details including the spoiler. The big giveaway has spoilt my enjoyment of the tv version as it will have for anyone who has heard of the book, but never read it and thought they would give the tv adaptation a try.

No Spoiler threads should only talk about events in episodes that have been broadcast. I think that posting major plot spoilers in a thread which has No Spoilers in the title is a really shitty thing to do.

Absolutely

There's a spoilers thread anyway

I love this book, but first read it as a teen through my own choice, it wasn't a GCSE option. Have reread it several times and seen it as a stage play. My 15yo has recently read it (through choice) and loves the previous films so has binge watched this today. I'm going at TV pace. I love the casting, especially Piggy. I'm enjoying it and not finding it slow at all.

It didn't seem slow to me no

I'll try another episode. I was expecting it to be Ralph, but it seems to be Jack. Not sure I can stand an hour of him but I'll give it a go! I do remember finding Piggy annoying when I read the book, so that much hasn't changed.

I thought the shots of the wildlife were lovely and the young actors are all very good. I just wonder if the book has four hours of screentime in it.

It didn't seem slow to me in the slightest. We thought it was excellent. The music was an unexpected bonus and I felt that worked very well. Britten is of the right period.

I read LOTF as an O level set book nearly 50 years ago (gulp) and have re-read it once or twice since. I feel sorry for the person who posted the spoiler. She probably thought, as I did, that there was nobody in the UK who hadn't read it at school. Clearly there are a few.

I'll just add that I'm delighted they've stuck to having a cast of just boys. As others have already said, this would be a totally different story if there were girls there. What an undertaking it must have been transporting all those boys with their family members, chaperones, tutors etc out to Malaysia. I believe filming hours are very limited for young children so they must have had to make the most of what they were allowed to do with the littl'uns, who are adorable.

I'm really impressed by the work of the costume department. I was born several years after the book was published and children were wearing rather different clothes by the time I was growing up, but having all the boys in grey flannel shorts, knee socks, knitted pullovers etc with short back and sides seems exactly right to me. Also having them all skinny by modern day standards except for Piggy. Brilliant casting.

What age is this suitable for please?

I'd hesitate to show it to a child under 13. It's being broadcast after the watershed for a reason, even though every single actor is 13 or under (so far).

Ah, thanks. I recognised the music and ‘shazamed’ it at one point to check, and it came up with ‘Peter Grimes’!

I also read this for O level 40
years ago!
I loved the black and white film version. We taped it from the tv and me and my brother would often quote from it!
Looking forward to seeing how this one shapes up.

There was an excerpt from one of the Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes at one point. Much of the choral stuff was also Britten.

Hated the book at school, I gave it a go last night but won’t be watching any more