We ended up with 60 hours of unbroken screening-and a year's editing. This was not the ideal technique, but it was the only technique open to us, and in a sense it was our completion guarantee. I believed that the reason for translating Golding's very complete masterpiece into another form in the first place was that although the cinema lessens the magic, it introduces evidence. In the film on one can attribute the looks and gestures to tricks of direction. The violent gestures, the look of greed, and the faces of experience are all real.
People always ask whether the children understood, and what effect it had on the.
Many of their offscreen relationships completely paralleled the story. Even the wise and calm Piggy came to me one day close to tears. They're going to drop a stone on you. That scene on the schedule, Piggy's death. It's for real.