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Comparing Peter Brooke’s black and white, 1961 adaptation of Lord of the Flies with Harry Hook’s 1990 update
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Lord of the Flies Coursework In this essay I will be comparing Peter Brooke's black and white, 1961 adaptation of Lord of the Flies and comparing it to Harry Hook's 1990 update into colour, two media presentations of William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies. Peter Brooke's adaptation of Lord of the Flies has been hailed as one of those exceptional instances in which a film adaptation is as good as the book it is taken from. In comparison though, Harry Hook's attempt at updating this film did not provoke nearly as much media interest or controversy upon its release in 1990 as Peter Brooke's earlier version did in the 1960s. The background to Peter Brooke's adaptation was the Second World War. William Golding had also used this as well, the middle-upper class schoolboys becoming stranded on the island because of their evacuation from Britain during WWII. Indeed, the simple yet...
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