All Female Lord Of The Flies reboot is coming

*Powder* · 08-30-2017, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Redeemer

I feel bad for hardcore fans, bc I know how upset I get when the franchises I love make drastic changes like this.

How many hardcore fans could there really be? Most people who've read the book had it forced on them in Jr. High.

*Cure* · 08-30-2017, 08:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Powder

How many hardcore fans could there really be? Most people who've read the book had it forced on them in Jr. High.

Yeah, and the movie is kind of a bummer. It's good and all, one of those movies that stick with one, but it's not exactly a pleasant watch. I certainly wouldn't wanna sit through it again, different or no.

*ProphetofGanja* · 08-30-2017, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Powder

How many hardcore fans could there really be? Most people who've read the book had it forced on them in Jr. High.

What, you're telling me you're not a proud member of the Lord of the Flies fandom?? Where all my other flybabies at???

*TurtleTitan97* · 08-30-2017, 10:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Powder

How many hardcore fans could there really be? Most people who've read the book had it forced on them in Jr. High.

^ This. Book is decent, but I'm definitely in no hurry to read it again.

As for the movie, odd direction to go in but whatever. Doubt I'll see it.

*MsMarvelDuckie* · 08-30-2017, 10:13 PM

I'm probably one of the few who enjoyed reading it in middle school. But then I was in a gifted program for English lit and we did some really cool projects relating to it. This could be interesting if done right. I agree that it would need a bit of retooling for current audiences and updates to the story and characters to work but I think as students of an all girls school it could very well prove enlightening regarding how girls behave when left alone.

*ToTheNines* · 08-30-2017, 10:18 PM

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Originally Posted by plastroncafe

Faithful, yes. But a perfect transfer from one medium to another? Nah.

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Originally Posted by MsMarvelDuckie

I'm probably one of the few who enjoyed reading it in middle school. But then I was in a gifted program for English lit and we did some really cool projects relating to it. This could be interesting if done right. I agree that it would need a bit of retooling for current audiences and updates to the story and characters to work but I think as students of an all girls school it could very well prove enlightening regarding how girls behave when left alone.

Hard to not be gifted when you've been reincarnated 7 times, amirite?

*ProactiveMan* · 08-31-2017, 02:58 AM

It will have to be a period piece if it's going to work. In 2017, I don't buy a plane load of kids crashing on an inhabitable but uninhabited island and being lost for enough time to go feral.

*Powder* · 08-31-2017, 03:10 AM

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Originally Posted by ProactiveMan

It will have to be a period piece

I'm trying so hard to leave this alone.

*Utrommaniac* · 08-31-2017, 03:33 AM

You've actually got a point there.

A group of teenage girls would be less likely to slaughter one another while stranded on an island. Partly because they'd be helping each other to deal with their little monthly issues. Sure, in my high school experience, there were Girl!Fights harder to break up than Boy!Fights, but it was an exception to the rule.

If they have to turn against each other, they'd use psychological warfare, as is standard practice when women get aggressive towards other women (and I should know from my middle/high school years). When discussing the children replicating what adults do, girls don't usually see adult women be violent toward one another the way boys would see men. Well, that might depend on where they're from, but for the most part, girls would not go for violence. They'd go for aggressive suggestion.

And yeah, no way any Lord of the Flies situation would happen in the 2010's. Maybe not even the 90's.

*plastroncafe* · 08-31-2017, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Powder

I'm trying so hard to leave this alone.

Don't! It's glorious!
I'm only sorry I didn't catch it first!

*ProactiveMan* · 09-03-2017, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Powder

I'm trying so hard to leave this alone.

Believe it or not, that had occurred to me - but sometimes you just have to jump and not look back.

*Andrew NDB* · 09-04-2017, 02:38 AM

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Originally Posted by ProactiveMan

It will have to be a period piece if it's going to work. In 2017, I don't buy a plane load of kids crashing on an inhabitable but uninhabited island and being lost for enough time to go feral.

Maybe from another country. Which they won't do.

*plastroncafe* · 09-04-2017, 07:47 AM

Maybe it'll be like the Heathers reboot, and they'll make all of the evil girls women of color, in an effort to be inclusive, but then missing the point even more.

*Original TMNT Cartoon Fan* · 09-04-2017, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by ProactiveMan

It will have to be a period piece if it's going to work. In 2017, I don't buy a plane load of kids crashing on an inhabitable but uninhabited island and being lost for enough time to go feral.

Just make it set 25 years ago or something.

08-30-2017, 10:13 PM	#5
MsMarvelDuckie I Married a Duck! Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: The bowels of Hell, Texas(otherwise known as Decatur) Posts: 8,772	I'm probably one of the few who enjoyed reading it in middle school. But then I was in a gifted program for English lit and we did some really cool projects relating to it. This could be interesting if done right. I agree that it would need a bit of retooling for current audiences and updates to the story and characters to work but I think as students of an all girls school it could very well prove enlightening regarding how girls behave when left alone. __________________ "You IDIOTS! You've captured their STUNT doubles!" -from "Spaceballs" "Where Science ends, magic begins." -Spiral, Uncanny X-Men #491 My various stories and fan-fics are now here- https://m.fanfiction.net/u/4770494/#end

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ProactiveMan Spooky ghost Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Western Australia Posts: 2,266	It will have to be a period piece if it's going to work. In 2017, I don't buy a plane load of kids crashing on an inhabitable but uninhabited island and being lost for enough time to go feral. __________________ ProactiveMan!

08-31-2017, 03:33 AM	#9
Utrommaniac Resident overthinker Join Date: Nov 2015 Location: what is going on.......... Posts: 5,318	You've actually got a point there. A group of teenage girls would be less likely to slaughter one another while stranded on an island. Partly because they'd be helping each other to deal with their little monthly issues. Sure, in my high school experience, there were Girl!Fights harder to break up than Boy!Fights, but it was an exception to the rule. If they have to turn against each other, they'd use psychological warfare, as is standard practice when women get aggressive towards other women (and I should know from my middle/high school years). When discussing the children replicating what adults do, girls don't usually see adult women be violent toward one another the way boys would see men. Well, that might depend on where they're from, but for the most part, girls would not go for violence. They'd go for aggressive suggestion. And yeah, no way any Lord of the Flies situation would happen in the 2010's. Maybe not even the 90's. __________________ DeviantART