Lord of the Flies
Evil is inherent in the human mind, whatever innocence may cloak it...
Country
Production
Budget
$250 000
Revenue
$0
Director
Actors
James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards, Roger Elwin, Tom Gaman, Roger Allan, David Brunjes, Peter Davy, Kent Fletcher, Nicholas Hammond
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Lewis M. Allen, Al Hine
Operator
Tom Hollyman
Composer
Raymond Leppard
Artist
Audition
Michael MacDonald, Terry Fay
Editing
Short description
Following a plane crash a group of schoolboys find themselves on a deserted island. They appoint a leader and attempt to create an organized society for the sake of their survival. Democracy and order soon begin to crumble when a breakaway faction regresses to savagery with horrifying consequences.
What's left behind the scenes
- The main part of the film was shot on the coast of the island of Puerto Rico and the nearby island of Vieques from April 17 to August 1961.
- The director shot over 60 hours of footage, from which the hour-and-a-half film was subsequently edited.
- Tom Chepin (Jack) completely lost his English accent within a year, and for this reason, another boy voiced some of Jack's lines.
- William Golding's "Lord of the Flies," upon which the film is based, was conceived as an ironic commentary on R.M. Ballantyne’s "The Coral Island" (1858) – an adventure story for young people that celebrates the optimistic imperial views of Victorian England.
- At the beginning of filming, Peter Brook largely did without a script, encouraging improvisation skills in his young actors.
- The majority of the filming took place on the coast of Puerto Rico and the nearby island of Vieques from April 17 to August 1961.
- The director shot over 60 hours of footage, from which the 90-minute film was subsequently edited.
- American distributors insisted on reducing the film's length to 90 minutes, and these demands had to be met. One episode with fire and several episodes developing Ralph's storyline were cut.
- The film received an X rating from British censors, according to which none of the child actors could attend its premiere, although they all participated in the filming and were, in one way or another, familiar with the footage.
- At the start of the filming period, Peter Brook largely did away with the script, encouraging his young actors' abilities to improvise.
- When casting the film, director Peter Brook reviewed more than 3,000 boys.
- 11-year-old Hugh Edwards landed the role of Piggy by writing a letter to the director, in which the director read: 'Dear Sir, I am fat and wear glasses.'
- While casting, director Peter Brook auditioned more than 3,000 boys.
- 11-year-old Hugh Edwards landed the role of Piggy by writing a letter to the director, which read: 'Dear Sir, I am fat and wear glasses.'
- In 1996, thirty-five years later, the BBC produced a documentary about the making of the film, reuniting all the key actors and crew members on the very same Caribbean beach where the filming took place. Among other things, it discussed the subsequent fates of the children who appeared in the movie—of all of them, only James Aubrey, who played Ralph, was tempted by an acting career.
- Over the course of a year, Tom Cheppin (Jack) completely lost his English accent, and for this reason, fragments of Jack's role were dubbed by another boy.
- The film received an X rating from British censors, meaning that none of the actors' children could attend its premiere, even though they had all participated in the filming and were familiar with the footage in one way or another.
- In 1996, thirty-five years later, the BBC television company filmed a documentary about the making of the film, reuniting all the key actors and crew members on the same beach on the Caribbean coast where filming took place. Among other things, it told about the subsequent fate of the child actors who starred in the film – of all of them, only James Aubrey, who played Ralph, was tempted by an acting career.
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