All that boy nudity. The 1990 version kept the kids "all nice and covered up."
I understand its use for dramatic effect in the 1963 film, but, seriously, you gotta wonder what the director was thinking when he decided that he would take a bunch of boys down to Puerto Rico and then strip them down to nothing - and then film them...
"Don't call me 'honey', mac."
"Don't call me 'mac'... HONEY!"
Is there something wrong with you? Do you have any idea what the plot is about? Did you read the book?
The only thing amazing is how many perverts are obsessed with boys in an accident, stuck on an tropical island for God knows how long, wondering why they wind up wearing raggy clothing or no clothing. It's OBVIOUS, but some moron always has to make it sexual.
YES - I read the book. It has no visuals. It is descriptive without being overly-detailed. Whatever parts of boys' bodies are part of the literary experience are in the reader's mind.
Film, on the other hand...and the director in charge of a troop of boys in the "real world" on the other hand...
(Besides which: if the sexual organs of a human being are shown, well, then, "yes," it becomes implicitly sexual.)
"Don't call me 'honey', mac."
"Don't call me 'mac'... HONEY!"
Actually, the book does have visuals - it frequently references boys being nude other than paint or a belt.
Also, I don't believe genitals ever appear in this film. We see a couple of kids' butts - that's it.
Yes, genitals do appear (however briefly) near the end of the film when the boys gather together (about the last 10 minutes of the film). It was just shown on TCM.
shareEverything is sexual.
shareHad it been nude under age girls, there' be an outcry on behalf of indecency and perversion. But if we have a set of balls dangling in our face, the Hollywood liberals thinks it's "progressive".
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Umm, what would happened to your cloths if you were stranded on a deserted island? Do you really expect your clothes not to wear out and eventually come to tatters? Or would you keep the emaculate by not wearing them?
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Honestly, I don't think this movie could be made today because the way our kids are turning out and the way society is becoming, it would fly over a lot of people's heads.. a lot of people need straight up answers- they need to be told in a simple way what it happening; they don't want to have to think what the meaning of a movie is.. honestly, I don't think it could be made today because of that than the nudity. Just saying..
share"a lot of people need straight up answers- they need to be told in a simple way" <----There's nothing really wrong with that. Corporate Society (and such) likes to make a mountain-out-of-a-molehill when talking to the common person. That way people don't know what they are agreeing to.
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I'm just speaking from experience. In my English class, we had to read this book as a group. I enjoyed it and read and reread it again on my own in the time it took my class to get through it once. Every little bit of symbolism needed to be explained. They didn't understand that kids were killing each other or that the pig head wasn't the monster and that there was no monster. They didn't even understand that the pilot had hurt his head and that there were no people on the island except for themselves. It just kinda irked me that no one got it and then called it the dumbest book ever once they finally got an explanation. And, to top it off- the teach got mad at me for reading ahead and for explaining to people what the book was about instead of letting her do it.
shareIt just seemed natural to me - kids especially little ones will run around in the nude regardless
F--k it I would as an adult (if on my own on the island)