Lord of the Flies

Somebody help me! I can't swim!

Get the raft!

Somebody help me!

What is that?

It's a glow stick.

How does it work?

From some kind of chemical.

Do you think anybody else is here, sir?

It's just an island. There's nothing here.

- I'm thirsty. - Yeah, me too. I'm hungry.

What if there's no water?

We're all thirsty and we're all hungry.

We should just try and get some sleep.

And tomorrow we'll figure out what we're gonna do.

Water.

Water.

Sir. Sir.

I found water.

Well, that's it, Colonel.

What's that?

It's a conch.

My granny had one.

If it had a hole in it right there you could really blow it, like a trumpet.

Come on! Give us some.

Sh! Come on.

OK, listen up. Whoever holds the conch gets to speak. That's the rule.

Is this like assembly, sir?

Yeah. Except anybody who wants to speak gets to.

But not before they get the conch.

Right. There doesn't seem to be anybody here except us.

- And a pig. - It was a wild boar.

No, it was a regular pig. Big, but regular.

A regular pig must have got here from people.

Yeah. If there's pigs, there's people.

OK, cadets. Like I said, this island's probably uninhabited.

- We don't know. We've gotta explore. - There's a lot to do.

But the main thing is, we're not by ourselves. We got Captain Benson.

Can I speak?

The most important thing is, who knows we're here?

Nobody knows we're here. They know where we were going.

But they don't know where we are. We never got where we were going.

- Where were we going? - We were going home.

I'm sure they're looking.

We should set up some kind of steady signal, like a fire,

and keep it going all the time. And we're gonna have to have rules.

Can I have the conch?

Yes, Ralph's right. We've definitely gotta make a fire.

- Sir, are you the leader? - Jack's the oldest.

- But Ralph's the colonel. - I think it should be Ralph.

- I vote for Ralph. - Yeah, he's a colonel.

- Yeah, Ralph. - He's the colonel. Ralph.

- I guess you just won the election. - It doesn't matter who's in charge.

We've just gotta work together. First, we build a camp.

Be careful.

There's probably a lot of berries and things that look OK but are really poison.

I know what's poisonous or not.

My brother did Outward Bound, learned how to survive. He taught me.

Did he do Outward Bound in the tropics?

- Not exactly. - Then where?

Colorado.

There are totally different poison plants in Colorado than in this place.

So we've gotta take precautions or it won't matter.

- What won't matter? - Whether we get rescued.

Better learn to live with yourself, because we ain't gonna get rescued.

- What are you talking about? - Just being logical.

A plane goes down in the ocean, there's no wreckage - who's gonna find us?

- Why don't you just shut up? - Are you telling me to shut up?

What we need around here is positive people, not people trying to scare people.

What we don't need is you, shitbrain.

His name's not shitbrain. It's Piggy.

Yeah, Piggy! Yeah!

Shut up. Everybody just shut up.

- It's just cos you're new. - No, it's not. It's always this way.

Just cut it out, OK?

- Mama, mama, can't you see - Mama, mama, can't you see

- What the army's done to me? - What the army's done to me?

- They put me in a barber's chair. - They put me in a barber's chair.

- Spun me round, I had no hair. - Spun me round, I had no hair.

- I used to drive a Cadillac. - I used to drive a Cadillac.

- Now I'm marching in a pack. - Now I'm marching in a pack.

- I used to drive a Chevrolet. - I used to drive a Chevrolet.

- Now I'm marching for my pay. - Now I'm marching for my pay.

- They took away my TV. - They took away my TV.

- Got me doing IOT. - Got me doing IOT.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. - Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Whoa, oh, oh.

- Come on, let me try. - I got it, I got it.

Shit!

- Damn! Mother... - Swearing won't help.

- Listen, Piggy, shut your fat ass. - Hold it! Hold it!

Hey, wait a minute. Piggy, give me your glasses.

- Hey, give 'em back. - Trust me.

What are you doing?

- Fire! - Yeah!

Jesus, it's spreading! Put it out. Stomp on it.

Come on, run and stomp on it.

Beat it back. Use your jacket.

Beat it back. Come on, guys, beat it back.

About time you showed up. People ought to be fined for being late for fire watch.

Bullshit.

The forest was totally dark,

but he had to keep going because the thing was behind him.

The pus was everywhere.

He could feel it and, all the while, the thing behind him kept coming closer.

And then, suddenly,

he realized it wasn't any normal plants or bushes he was trying to run through.

It wasn't the leaves or plants brushing up against him,

touching his arms and face.

It was thousands of claws, long claws, grasping at him,

trying to stop him and hold him for the thing.

And he tried to get away, but they held on, choking him. He tried to scream. Argh!

It's only a story.

It's not real.

I don't know if he can hold up. What if he suddenly gets really sick?

Man, you gotta stop worrying so much. We got it made.

No parents, no teachers, no academy, no girls.

Of course, I wouldn't mind getting a little.

- Like you ever got any. - Well, I still wouldn't mind.

Oh! My arm.

You OK?

Psych!

Nearly got him. Next time.

Do you think it has any protein in it?

Here, give it here.

I heard they're supposed to taste like chicken.

Want some?

- Are you telling the truth? - Yeah.

- We don't believe you. - Yeah, you're lying.

Why aren't you getting ready?

Sir, is it really true?

You bet it is. Simon's right. We're gonna be rescued.

Get your things together, guys. We're going home.

I...

Beat it, you kids.

Come on. Why isn't anybody getting food or wood?

- Spit! Come on! - Come on! Spit!

- Spit! - Go on, spit!

- Spit. - I got it. There it is.

No, you're not gonna get out until I see it splash in the ocean.

- That made it. - No, I didn't see it splash.

- Ow! - See? It splashed again.

Ha! It's our turn to have fun.

Assembly!

What's going on?

The reason I'm calling this assembly is,

too many people are screwing around and not working. There's a bunch of things.

Some kids don't know when to use the bathroom.

There was this one kid the other day,

he took a shit in his pants and then sat in it.

I'm not naming names cos it's possible Mikey couldn't help it.

Was it green? Was it running down your legs?

Everybody shut their goddamn mouths!

Ralph's got the conch.

All I mean is, we have to have more discipline.

And more spearfishing. We've gotta have real food.

- We should be hunting pigs. - That's all I got to say.

- Anyone else want the conch? - Some jerk-off stole my pocketknife.

Yeah, things are disappearing all over.

- What are we gonna do with thieves? - Kick the shit out of them.

- Shove their dick in the conch! - Put a stick up their butt.

- Ram it in there! - OK, OK!

We can't have kids stealing and running wild.

We're gonna have to have stricter rules. And hand out demerits, I guess.

- Demerits! - Demerits?

Demerits for grand larceny?

- Eat shit and die. - Yeah!

Sir?

Are we ever going home?

Of course we are, as soon as they see our signal.

Jack says that we're never gonna be rescued.

No, you misunderstood him. That's not what he meant.

That's exactly what I meant. There's eight million islands out here.

Why should they find this one?

Don't listen to him. We will be rescued, Peter.

Honest.

Are you going hunting for pigs again? I wanna come next time.

Me too.

I don't know what I'm gonna do.

Hey, cut it out.

Are you crazy? Stop it.

You know why Jack got sent to military school?

- Because he was in trouble. - Who says?

Tony. Jack told him he took a car and drove it on the highway.

- He's a liar. He didn't steal a car. - He didn't say he stole it.

He borrowed it. It was a neighbor's.

And the neighbor was away and he just borrowed it and drove it on the highway.

He probably rode his dad's bicycle around the block.

- Then how come he got arrested? - Yeah, by the highway patrol.

They got him doing 80.

Ugh!

Ugh!

What time is it?

What difference does it make?

Well, if I knew what time it was I'd know what's on TV.

- I'm not even sure what day it is. - It's Monday.

- Are you sure? - I'm sure.

Mondays. Monday's ALF.

ALF comes on at eight o'clock. It's a lot later than eight.

Yeah. But I bet we're in a different time zone.

I bet it's really about eight o'clock and ALF's causing some trouble right now.