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The Next Picture Show

Boys Will Be Boys, Pt. 1 — Lord of the Flies (1963)

The Next Picture Show

Filmspotting

Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6858 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The fascinating new doc "Boys State" sends us back to Peter Brook's adaptation of the William Golding classic.

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0:00.0

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0:01.8

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0:26.4

It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

0:30.1

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

0:36.8

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

0:44.7

Welcome to the Next Picture Show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film

0:49.1

and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

0:51.5

I'm Keith Phipps here with...

0:53.0

Genevieve Kosky.

0:54.1

Scott Tobias. And Tasha Robinson. With American movie theaters still largely closed, we're continuing to focus on Quarantainment. Paring films you can find on VOD, cable television, or streaming services. For our next two episodes, we'll be discussing... Excuse me. Excuse me very much here. I have the conch. Um, huh? I have the conch. But the rules of this podcast, it's my tone to speak.

1:15.3

First of all, what are you talking about? And second of all, why are you speaking like a British schoolboy?

1:21.0

Whoever holds the conch is loud to speak. All others must listen.

1:25.3

Tasha, I'm looking at you now in the Zoom app, and I don't see, wait, there it is.

1:32.2

You're holding a large shell and, and blowing into it.

1:35.7

I don't think we've previously had a rule about conch holding and speaking, but if you want to go

1:40.9

with it, why don't you tell us about our next pairing?

1:44.0

All right, then. While you do have to listen to me speak, you don't you tell us about our next pairing? All right, then.

1:45.2

While you do have to listen to me speak, you don't have to listen to me speak in this accent. So there. Director Peter Brooke had enjoyed tremendous success on the stage and behind the camera when he decided to adopt William Golding's 1954 bestseller, The Lord of the Flies, as his third feature film. Working on remote locations in Puerto Rico, Brooke and his crew shepherded a group of young

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