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'Lord of the Flies' all-girl remake sparks backlash
Topic Started: Sep 1 2017, 10:26 AM (139 Views)
Copper
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Gee, the controversy isn't very progressive.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/01/entertainment/lord-flies-girl-remake/index.html

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'Lord of the Flies' all-girl remake sparks backlash

(CNN)A planned remake of "Lord of the Flies" reimagined with an all-female cast has stirred controversy.

Deadline reported that Scott McGehee and David Siegel will write and direct a new version of "Lord Of The Flies," based on the iconic 1954 William Golding novel about a group of boys stranded on a deserted island.
Once there, the group tries to govern themselves with disastrous results.
Siegel told Deadline the plan is to be faithful to the book, which spawned films in 1963 and 1990, but with a contemporary twist of using girls instead of boys.
"It is a timeless story that is especially relevant today, with the interpersonal conflicts and bullying, and the idea of children forming a society and replicating the behavior they saw in grownups before they were marooned," he said.
McGehee said the plot "is aggressively suspenseful, and taking the opportunity to tell it in a way it hasn't been told before, with girls rather than boys, is that it shifts things in a way that might help people see the story anew."
But the idea almost immediately sparked a backlash online with many questioning the project and the wisdom of having two men helm it.
"An all women remake of Lord of the Flies makes no sense because... the plot of that book wouldn't happen with all women," writer Roxane Gay tweeted.


Idiots

The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Frank_W
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How thoroughly stupid. Christ almighty..... /smdh
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Chocolate doesn't ask silly questions. Chocolate understands.
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Aqua Letifer
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See, okay...

The idea could work. It makes sense. All-male and all-female boarding schools were very much a thing in the 50s and aren't completely unheard of now. The premise is okay, but what they're going to have to do is change the dynamics of the group entirely; girls and boys are different, people. You're going to have to stray from the book significantly if you expect to get the social interaction right. But that's all they have to do to make this legit.

As for Ghostbusters—that was just stupid. Gender-swapping for its own sake.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Copper
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I expect that they will preach that girls are from Venus.

Or maybe that girls can be just as bloodthirsty as boys.

I'm not sure if I could stand either.
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Aqua Letifer
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Copper
Sep 1 2017, 11:14 AM
I expect that they will preach that girls are from Venus.

Or maybe that girls can be just as bloodthirsty as boys.

I'm not sure if I could stand either.
Yep, that's the problem. Ask any Romero fan who's honest with himself: every time you place your politics in front of the story, you lose.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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Axtremus
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Instead of girls, just use women, and make a women prison movie, with the island being the metaphorical prison. Ok?
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Mikhailoh
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Aqua Letifer
Sep 1 2017, 11:18 AM
Copper
Sep 1 2017, 11:14 AM
I expect that they will preach that girls are from Venus.

Or maybe that girls can be just as bloodthirsty as boys.

I'm not sure if I could stand either.
Yep, that's the problem. Ask any Romero fan who's honest with himself: every time you place your politics in front of the story, you lose.
It would be so bloodthirsty as to defy any known rating. If it were realistic, that is.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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Copper
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Hmmmm, maybe starring Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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jon-nyc
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I wonder if at the end when the British navy rescues them it becomes a remake of Lolita.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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Frank_W
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No... Then it segues into "Snow White & The 7 Sailors." :devilgrin:
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Davis
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The article is an amazing play on all the meanings of contrived.
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