What did you like most? The movie Lord of the Flies or the book? and why?
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The book. Its hard to take a book and make it into a movie where you have such complex personalities and so much going on within the minds of the characters.  Its just easier to write about them and allow the reader to create their own idea of that person. Also since I read the book before the movie, I already had a "picture" of how the characters looked and then when the producers did not consult me to assist with the casting my images of the characters was destroyed.  Thinking about it, I can not remember a movie that ever turned out as well as  the book.  Can you? Remember Clan of the Cave Bear, one of my all time favorite books, and oh my God, need I say more?
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The Beach, it was made into a movie several years ago with Leonardo Dicaprio, but the book is so much better.  I wish I could remember the author for you.  \n\nAlso, I recommend The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime; A Seperate Peace; A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; and Catch-22.  \n\nThese are some of my personal favorites, I hope you like them too!
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I liked the movie.  (though I LOVE the book) You can never expect the book to match the movie.  I would have preferred a bit more of the book mixed in and more interaction with the sisters and Marius. And not having Tom Cruise play in it didn't bother me at all.
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I didn't think it was as good as the book at all. It was very good, and I imagine if you haven't read the book that it would be amazing. But still... it's not as good as the book.
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The Notebook, Serendipity, Just Like Heaven, Titanic, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, i could go and on. I love most of them . .\nbut out of ur choices, Id pick titanic. Romeo and juliet was good but the end annoys me. THey could have done things differently, where as in titanic he died to save her.
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Chapter 1\nSummary Lord of the Flies\nhttp://www.sparknotes.com/lit/flies/section1.html
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Lord Of The Flies: A number of boys crash land on a desert island, amid rumours of an atomic war. The first two characters to meet are the athletic, somewhat heroic Ralph and a bespectacled, fat boy known only as Piggy, who use a conch to call the other boys to them from across the island. One other potential leader arises from the boys - Jack, who had been leading a choir. Ralph, in fact, is elected as leader, and early on the book is full of optimism of what the boys expect to be fun. This is reflective of Ralph being a kind, democratic character, and Piggy his less popular, but intelligent back-up.\n\nHowever, early on there is talk of a "beastie" - scaring a lot of the boys. The boys' first attempt to work together towards being rescued ends up in them starting a signal fire (lit by Piggy's glasses) which goes out of control, scorching half of the island. The life on the island continues to be disorganised - the major players (Jack and Ralph) have differing aims for the island, and the only person willing to co-operate with the building of shelters is Simon - who is often seen as representing religion, goodwill and spiritualism in the novel.\n\nThe descent of the boys into chaos starts, ironically, with the potential for rescue, but Jack had led a group off hunting rather than tending to a signal fire, and the ship sails past. The ensuing argument sees Piggy's glasses broken. Jack continues through the book as a tyrant, as do other members of his choir - the irony of the way these angelic children change is no accident.\n\nA dead parachutist lands on the island, and the twins: Sam and Eric (Samneric, as they become known) assume it is the beast - causing mass panic. An expedition to investigate ends in Ralph, Jack and Roger (Jack's sadistic friend) ascending the mountain, and coming back down even quicker. The "beastie" now becomes known as a "beast". Jack denounces Ralph as a coward, and leaves his chiefdom to create a new tribe. This new tribe is quickly able to hunt down a pig, and they decide to host a feast. Before that, they sever the pig's head and place it on a stick as an offering to the "beast". Simon comes across it, seeing that it has been infested with flies, and it speaks to him, though it is through hallucination. Its messages foreshadow the fate of Simon and he faints after that. Jack's tribe hosts the feast and here, he also orders a ritualistic dance - and Simon, who has just run down from the mountain to break the news about the beast being a dead man and being talked to by the "Lord of the Flies", is mistaken as the beast and is beaten to death by the crazed boys, ultimately being drawn out to sea with the tide.\n\nRalph has seen his tribe dwindle in number. The larger, less civilized tribe of Jack, however, need to steal from them - Piggy's glasses allow them to light a fire. An overly optimistic Piggy demands them back, but is killed when Roger drops a strategically placed boulder on him. Jack fails to kill Ralph at this meeting, and the next day his tribe try to hunt him down. In doing this, they set up a forest fire, which is seen by a passing naval vessel - one of the ship's officers comes ashore and rescues the boys. Ralph's barely escape from death is tinged with irony, both since the forest fire started to flush him out alerts the passing ship and the boys are rescued by a ship of war, and as Ralph begins to weep for "the end of innocence", so do all the other boys. The rescue had come at an awful price.
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DaVinci Code\nAnd actually, yes, it's from the book.  The book is excellent, by the way..curious to see how the film turns out...
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I can't answer your question but I also loved the movies.Now I am very interested in the book and can't wait to read.
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The air battle and dead parachutist remind us of the larger setting of Lord of the Flies: though the boys lead an isolated life on the island, we know that a bloody war is being waged elsewhere in the world—a war that apparently is a terrible holocaust. All Golding tells us is that atom bombs have threatened England in a war against “the reds” and that the boys were evacuated just before the impending destruction of their civilization. The war is also responsible for the boys’ crash landing on the island in the first place, because an enemy aircraft gunned down their transport plane. Although the war remains in the background of Lord of the Flies, it is nevertheless an important extension of the main themes of the novel. Just as the boys struggle with the conflict between civilization and savagery on the island, the outside world is gripped in a similar conflict. War represents the savage outbursts of civilization, when the desire for violence and power overwhelms the desire for order and peace. Even though the outside world has bestowed upon the boys a sense of morality and order, the danger of savagery remains real even within the context of that seemingly civilized society that has nurtured them.
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hey! i'm with you. i saw the film last night and thoroughly anjoyed it - and Tom Hanks was great.\ni haven't read the book yet, i can't be disappointed..
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I think it's about abuse of power and similar - I read the book a couple of years ago, but I've repressed almost all memory of it; \n\nI think it's also about the consequences the absence of rules can have, about how people tend to revert to their basic instincts (survival of the toughest);\n\nlast but not least, it's also about how in the absece of any restraints people tend to become (unnecessary) cruel\n\nP.S.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_Flies is a really good link to start with \ngood luck!
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Definately the book, it is better. If you see the movie first, you will have preconceived notions of how things should be portrayed and it doesn't do the book justice.
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I think that Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire was better than The Prisoner of Azkaban. But thats only My opinion!!!
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This is a tough question with so many good answers.  I can't decide on just one however, so I'll give you two.  Casablanca (this movie is a classic, not matter what - one of the best movies EVER!) and Gone with the Wind (another classic, both the book and movie are wonderful).
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Lord of The Flies' plot overview\n**********************************\nIn the midst of a raging war, a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island. Two of the boys, Ralph and Piggy, discover a conch shell on the beach, and Piggy realizes it could be used as a horn to summon the other boys. Once assembled, the boys set about electing a leader and devising a way to be rescued. They choose Ralph as their leader, and Ralph appoints another boy, Jack, to be in charge of the boys who will hunt food for the entire group.\nRalph, Jack, and another boy, Simon, set off on an expedition to explore the island. When they return, Ralph declares that they must light a signal fire to attract the attention of passing ships. The boys succeed in igniting some dead wood by focusing sunlight through the lenses of Piggy’s eyeglasses. However, the boys pay more attention to playing than to monitoring the fire, and the flames quickly engulf the forest. A large swath of dead wood burns out of control, and one of the youngest boys in the group disappears, presumably having burned to death.\nAt first, the boys enjoy their life without grown-ups and spend much of their time splashing in the water and playing games. Ralph, however, complains that they should be maintaining the signal fire and building huts for shelter. The hunters fail in their attempt to catch a wild pig, but their leader, Jack, becomes increasingly preoccupied with the act of hunting.\nWhen a ship passes by on the horizon one day, Ralph and Piggy notice, to their horror, that the signal fire—which had been the hunters’ responsibility to maintain—has burned out. Furious, Ralph accosts Jack, but the hunter has just returned with his first kill, and all the hunters seem gripped with a strange frenzy, reenacting the chase in a kind of wild dance. Piggy criticizes Jack, who hits Piggy across the face. Ralph blows the conch shell and reprimands the boys in a speech intended to restore order. At the meeting, it quickly becomes clear that some of the boys have started to become afraid. The littlest boys, known as “littluns,” have been troubled by nightmares from the beginning, and more and more boys now believe that there is some sort of beast or monster lurking on the island. The older boys try to convince the others at the meeting to think rationally, asking where such a monster could possibly hide during the daytime. One of the littluns suggests that it hides in the sea—a proposition that terrifies the entire group.\nNot long after the meeting, some military planes engage in a battle high above the island. The boys, asleep below, do not notice the flashing lights and explosions in the clouds. A parachutist drifts to earth on the signal fire mountain, dead. Sam and Eric, the twins responsible for watching the fire at night, are asleep and do not see the parachutist land. When the twins wake up, they see the enormous silhouette of his parachute and hear the strange flapping noises it makes. Thinking the island beast is at hand, they rush back to the camp in terror and report that the beast has attacked them.\nThe boys organize a hunting expedition to search for the monster. Jack and Ralph, who are increasingly at odds, travel up the mountain. They see the silhouette of the parachute from a distance and think that it looks like a huge, deformed ape. The group holds a meeting at which Jack and Ralph tell the others of the sighting. Jack says that Ralph is a coward and that he should be removed from office, but the other boys refuse to vote Ralph out of power. Jack angrily runs away down the beach, calling all the hunters to join him. Ralph rallies the remaining boys to build a new signal fire, this time on the beach rather than on the mountain. They obey, but before they have finished the task, most of them have slipped away to join Jack.\n Jack declares himself the leader of the new tribe of hunters and organizes a hunt and a
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HI....I REALLY CAN'T PICK ONE.I LIKE ALOT OF HIS MOVIES AND BOOKS.HE HAS A GREAT IMAGINATOIN.I WISH,I COULD COME UP WITH SO GREAT STUFF.  \n  Clowmy