The book Lord of the Flies by William Golding and the movie directed by Harry Hook, differ because the movie skipped the scene where they vote chief. Also the movie includes a pilot in the story, and having the boys being American instead of British in the movie.
The movie skipped one of the most crucial scenes in the book. One of them is when Ralph is elected chief, the author means to say that the boys need parental guidance because they need order and they are stranded. Without the scene in the movie it doesn't show the rivalry between him and Jack as well as in the book. The rivalry between Ralph and Jack doesn't really develop in the movie, but in the book you can see that the tension gather until the groups separate.
Another character was added into the movie and made it different from the book; the movie added a pilot to the story. Having a pilot in the movie shows that there is an adult figure, but he isn’t acknowledged as a parental figure. The director kills the pilot off in the movie because it shows that when people are terrified they do crazy things. Adding the pilot and then killing him off shows their fear and the developing savagery.
The book has the boys being British but in the movie they are American. This changes the story because it takes away from the meaning of what the author was trying to say. In the book, the British boys were more civilized than the Americans. Changing their nationality took away from the significance of from being civilized to turning into savages. Because the movie changed their nationality to being American, you can’t see the development of the boys becoming savages.
The movie Lord of the Flies directed by Harry Hook is unlike the book by William Golding because of many reasons. In the book there was a scene where the boys elect the chief, but in the movie there was no election. In the movie there was another character added but not in the book and from the boys being British in the book the movie changed the boys to being American. Although the movie was acted well, I believe that the book was better than the movie because it had all the necessary scenes to make the story flow.
