Lord of the Flies Remake Backlash (10 Viewers)

[guidomerkinsrules]

 

[Optimus Prime]

I am not surprised they rebooted Fresh Prince - I *am* surprised the reboot is not the 'Fresh Princess' with an all-female cast.

Sparkle reminded me of this

Anyone know what happened to this project?

 

[tenordas]

Sparkle reminded me of this

Anyone know what happened to this project?

I'm guessing either someone wised up to how stupid a notion it was or the writers gave up out of frustration while trying to rewrite the story from a feminine angst angle. That or they just couldn't find a producer who wouldn't laugh at them - er, I mean - who was willing to put money into it.

 

[Taurus]

I'm not saying in a Lord of the Flies scenario that if if was all females everything would be perfect, everyone getting along, no factions etc., but it does seem that makes would be more likely to get violent, attack another "clan", etc. Of course women are capable of that, but what happened in the book/movie seems more likely with males.

They come to worship a rotting pig head. It's where the name of the book comes from FFS. Are we really supposed to believe that a group of young ladies from a British school will go that far off the rails?
Conflict, viciousness, violence, sure girls are capable of these things but the way they get there will be different than with boys and if you're true to that methodology, why call it Lord of the Flies? You're just trading on name recognition to tell a totally different story at that point.

 

[HoustonSaint68]

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[Boy_of_wonder75]

All female Ghostbusters worked good right? Nope.

Stop remaking films. The End.

Why? Here's a list of great films which are re-makes:

Scarface
The Departed
Oceans Eleven
The Fly
The Thing
Little Shop of Horrors
The Birdcage
A Star is Born (twice)
Cape Fear
The Ring
Nosferatu
Insomnia
True Grit
Dawn of the Dead
True Lies
12 Monkeys

And that's just a sampling.

 

[Saintman2884]

12 Monkeys already had a remake, of sorts. In some respects, the 4-season TV series was better and explained the post-apocalyptic world, its main and secondary supporting arcs more thoroughly than the movie did.

Oceans Eleven already had an all-female movie version and it was acted and did well.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Guessing this all girl remake was never made

Doing a straight 4 hour mini series instead

Hans Zimmer to score BBC’s Lord Of The Flies as cast announced

Some of the cast have no professional experience.

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Mr. Sparkle]

Middle school teacher here. The notion that it couldn't or wouldn't happen with females is nonsense, but it WOULD be very different. In many cases our girls treat other significantly worse than the boys do. Boys are more likely to *immediately* resort to fighting over something, but girls are significantly more likely to lie, manipulate social situations, exclude, shame, and just do generally underhanded devious **** to each other than boys in a slow burn fashion. The things our female students do to each other are often of the "Holy crap, that's almost sociopathic" variety whereas with boys it's generally an immediate jump to fists.

This narrative that women are wise and conflict free and whatever is just about the biggest load of social ******** being shoveled in the 21st century. They're *******s just like everyone else.

8th grade girls are the purest expression of evil I’ve ever encountered in 53 years of life on earth.

 

[Sun Wukong]

8th grade girls are the purest expression of evil I’ve ever encountered in 53 years of life on earth.

They are, unquestionably. Little psychopaths.

 

[Sailorsaint]

8th grade girls are the purest expression of evil I’ve ever encountered in 53 years of life on earth.

Especially if you are in the 7th grade.

 

[Consigliere]

Three thoughts.

(1) I thought they had LOTF for girls and it was called Yellowjackets?

(2) He's right that boys-only is more like plain society than girls-only, because plain society is male-dominated anyway.

(3) How do you "stick piggie" with girls?

 

[Hedon James]

Weird thing about Golding's argument is that he says he couldn't do justice to writing from a girl's pov bc he doesn't have one
then he pivots and says why it wouldn't work because of his insights into girls in society
pick one

hadn't thought of it that way, but you saw something in that statement I missed, or just interpreted differently. I just read that the 2nd statement (the insights into girls in society) was a logical extension of his first statement that he had never been a girl and therefore, couldn't proffer credible insights into an all-girl society. I don't know if you're reading more into it, or if I just missed something that you picked up on. But assuming the latter, good catch and good call.

I'd be interested in watching a re-interpretation of Lord of the Flies, and an all-girl storyline could be an interesting twist. If it's just a stolen plot story-line with nothing more than a different cast, I'll pass. I've already seen that movie, and if it offers nothing new, it's just a Hollywood studio "money grab" project, IMO. Not sure exactly how to explain it, other than providing an example: I watched the Adam Sandler remake of The Longest Yard with my kids. They thought it was hilariously funny. I find it quite boring and predictable, as it followed the original almost to the point of identical dialogue. And I consider myself a fan of Adam Sandler and his quirky humor. Later in the week, the kids & I watched the original with Burt Reynolds. THEY thought the original was boring and predictable. I found that interesting. I think there's some kind of "familiarity bias" in play. I guess we gravitate towards familiarity that helped establish our tastes. Kinda of like what we see in musical tastes between generations. We gravitate to "OUR" original version, regardless of which version is truly THE original.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Middle school teacher here. The notion that it couldn't or wouldn't happen with females is nonsense, but it WOULD be very different. In many cases our girls treat other significantly worse than the boys do. Boys are more likely to *immediately* resort to fighting over something, but girls are significantly more likely to lie, manipulate social situations, exclude, shame, and just do generally underhanded devious **** to each other than boys in a slow burn fashion. The things our female students do to each other are often of the "Holy crap, that's almost sociopathic" variety whereas with boys it's generally an immediate jump to fists.

This narrative that women are wise and conflict free and whatever is just about the biggest load of social ******** being shoveled in the 21st century. They're *******s just like everyone else.

This is why a female lord off the flies would be fascinating to watch

as to the bolded part - and the boys are often cool again in a day or two (sometimes later that same day)

 

[Sun Wukong]

This is why a female lord off the flies would be fascinating to watch

as to the bolded part - and the boys are often cool again in a day or two (sometimes later that same day)

I've had boys beat the hell out of each other and when they got back from suspension act like nothing ever happened.

I'm teaching high school now and literally have girls that are juniors plotting the downfall of classmates because of something that happened years ago.