Steve Reviews: Animal Farm

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  • Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
  • Today we look at another 'kids' film which really isn't a kids film. Though looking like something from the Disney studios, this little gem was actually part funded by the CIA to promote anti-communism. As a result it features a lot of dark themes and frequent animal violence, but is an interesting film none the less!
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  • @maxtheoutkast69
    @maxtheoutkast69 3 года назад +9739

    As soon as the hogfather pig died of a heart attack, I got an ad of someone flipping burgers and I lost my mind. I couldn't stop laughing.

    • @catandrobbyflores
      @catandrobbyflores 3 года назад +220

      I got lip gloss

    • @RaraZeCat
      @RaraZeCat 3 года назад +316

      I’m just waiting for an ad for pig skin boots, or candy that contians geletan.

    • @TheUnheardVoices_
      @TheUnheardVoices_ 3 года назад +64

      😂

    • @TheBatIsRad6436
      @TheBatIsRad6436 3 года назад +178

      If only it was bacon. That wounded been perfect

    • @KFrost-fx7dt
      @KFrost-fx7dt 3 года назад +48

      Are people still not using adblock these days?

  • @ivorymantis1026
    @ivorymantis1026 4 года назад +2906

    The good ending was...added.
    The original just has the abused citizens of animal farm looking over their new overlords remarking their resemblance to the old farmer in a way that "they couldn't tell the difference". The book ends there.

    • @bigboomer1013
      @bigboomer1013 4 года назад +127

      The live action movie ends the same way.

    • @snowy2747
      @snowy2747 4 года назад +407

      I preferred the book ending. It tells us that if you give into power and don’t fight back sooner, it could be too late. Just because someone is higher above you doesn’t make them right.

    • @rabbit8153
      @rabbit8153 4 года назад +136

      I kinda see the movie ending as an infinite cycle which makes it more sad than the book
      I might see it wrong but that how I imagine

    • @unsuspiciousdweller8967
      @unsuspiciousdweller8967 4 года назад +47

      Been years since I last saw the live action movie, but I could have sworn it ended with Napoleon dying of old age, and the other animals able to be free only then.

    • @pepticgloopys1013
      @pepticgloopys1013 4 года назад +47

      i personally think that's the most important line of the book

  • @kloverleavezisdeadlol
    @kloverleavezisdeadlol 5 лет назад +3756

    Fun Fact: Animal Farm is actually the first British animated film.
    *looks like the began on a dark note*

  • @madness_mania
    @madness_mania 2 года назад +302

    13:50 the pig really said 😭😭😒😭😭
    LIKE THAT WAS MY FAVORITE THING EVER

    • @Antonio-fj5gs
      @Antonio-fj5gs 2 года назад +24

      The beginning of that fake mourning moment
      Squealer: 😭I was with him right to the end 👀

    • @beastmaster0934
      @beastmaster0934 Месяц назад +2

      That’s Squealer, he’s pretty much Napoleon’s yes man and second in command.

  • @pacoramon9468
    @pacoramon9468 5 лет назад +2583

    The donkey gets thinner and thinner after Napoleon takes over, nice detail.

  • @thenecroticraptor8338
    @thenecroticraptor8338 5 лет назад +3732

    You know it's bad when the *_raven_* looks away.

    • @penguinw7
      @penguinw7 4 года назад +125

      his name is Moses

    • @a.k8185
      @a.k8185 4 года назад +55

      Actually .........*you are right*

    • @mediatorraptor3349
      @mediatorraptor3349 4 года назад +89

      It just witness some of his bird relative get torn into pieces. Of course it would look away.

    • @CAPTAPHOENIXF90
      @CAPTAPHOENIXF90 4 года назад +36

      Yup, that one of the clue context that my teacher taught me that horrific death of these animals

    • @shuliu4804
      @shuliu4804 4 года назад +21

      Poor berd.

  • @dshe8637
    @dshe8637 5 лет назад +2483

    This isn't a kid's film. The book (which is FAR more widely known and recognised than the films btw) is a political allegory of the Soviet system.
    George Orwell was always highly political in his writing; this isn't a children's story. Each of the characters represents an historical figure directly.

    • @trevor4212
      @trevor4212 5 лет назад +61

      He never said it was a kids movie. He said he watched it as a kid.

    • @zsuzsannamezey8361
      @zsuzsannamezey8361 5 лет назад +260

      @@trevor4212 the thumbnail literally says "DISTURBING KIDS FILM!" in bold yellow letters.

    • @hydroastral2830
      @hydroastral2830 5 лет назад +6

      woooosh

    • @Patrick61804
      @Patrick61804 5 лет назад +13

      D She they make all freshman read it in my school

    • @hellonokay1925
      @hellonokay1925 5 лет назад +5

      He knew that this was not a kids film he put a ' this on the word kids

  • @sadlittleghost8346
    @sadlittleghost8346 2 года назад +1139

    The ending of the book is extremely haunting. After seeing the pigs walking on two legs and wearing clothes, the other animals go back to check the rules because they were sure that wasn’t allowed. There they find “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others” which is the last line of the book.

    • @willphoenix5464
      @willphoenix5464 Год назад +336

      Don't forget the very last sentence
      "They looked at a pig, then at a man, and then at a pig, and they couldn't tell which was which"

    • @boi-op9lc
      @boi-op9lc Год назад +71

      @@willphoenix5464 what a way to end a book it left me with so many emotions

    • @thenosebud
      @thenosebud Год назад +52

      That’s not the last line of the book

    • @TheFawfulExpressMustardO-cx6mw
      @TheFawfulExpressMustardO-cx6mw Год назад +55

      "They looked from pig to man, then man to pig, then pig to man again, but already it was impossible to tell which was which.

    • @TheFawfulExpressMustardO-cx6mw
      @TheFawfulExpressMustardO-cx6mw Год назад +55

      Want to know the bets thing about the "some more equal than others" line. It's Benjamin, the donkey who has stayed apathetic and cryptic throughout the whole book, that reads it. Things have gotten so bad that even he can't ignore them anymore.

  • @NotVeryRandomDude
    @NotVeryRandomDude 5 лет назад +4531

    1945 - Manga
    1954 - Anime
    1999 - Netflix adaptation

    • @ooppetal2183
      @ooppetal2183 4 года назад +139

      that's almost exactly how Watership Down went :0

    • @shoozebelstar6664
      @shoozebelstar6664 4 года назад +24

      Also 1954 - Suitmation.

    • @myblueyoshi2967
      @myblueyoshi2967 4 года назад +45

      2021-Sony animation pictures

    • @Chuked
      @Chuked 4 года назад +4

      ThatRandomDude oh then I read the manga first👍

    • @oreo3740
      @oreo3740 4 года назад +6

      Correction: 1977: Netflix adaptation

  • @ploppman7524
    @ploppman7524 5 лет назад +557

    Based on a book by George Orwell? Oh I'm sure it's all sunshine and rainbows from the same author as 1984.

    • @thomaspatton926
      @thomaspatton926 5 лет назад +22

      Yeah anytime you are talking about communism it’s gonna be sunshine and rainbows

    • @thek2despot426
      @thek2despot426 5 лет назад +2

      @mary sunshine Things that look beautiful but are really just destructive and/or lies? I think maybe the "sunshine and rainbows" saying works even better thinking of it like *that* in the contexts it is often used; for example, in this case communism.

    • @Outlaw7263
      @Outlaw7263 5 лет назад +2

      Archer: Wait, there are animals?
      Lana: No, Animal Farm.
      Cyril: How do you not get that?
      Archer: No, I know what an animal farm is.
      Cyril: Not an animal farm.
      Archer: Maybe we can stampede a flock of goats down the hall.
      Lana: ANIMAL FARM IS A BOOK!
      Archer: No, it’s not Lana. It’s an allegorical novella about Stalinism by George Orwell, and spoiler alert, IT SUCKS!

    • @jessemcelroy2776
      @jessemcelroy2776 5 лет назад +2

      Censorship can be dangerous too.

    • @ballislife6034
      @ballislife6034 5 лет назад +1

      Outlaw7263 bro, you just posted *C R I N G E*

  • @santiagoboscan3277
    @santiagoboscan3277 5 лет назад +5330

    I didn’t know that Soviet Union got an anime adaptation

  • @bellarawding6470
    @bellarawding6470 2 года назад +1474

    The ending-
    In the book, the ending is literally that pretty much everyone is dead, now theres only really Benjamin, Clover (Another Horse), and a few others. Napoleon randomly goes dictator mode, along with another pig, Squealer (Squealer is Napoleons little, lets say, controller I guess. In the book, he is EXTREMALLY persuasive and is constantly convincing the animals that everything is a-okay.)
    Everyone is now miserable. They all understand whats going on, yet they have so little power, they have to just deal with it by now. The pigs break that whole moral conduct, and now Napoleon is drinking with other farmers, playing cards, showing his full dictator side by now and it's shown that the animals really are overworked, despite Squealer constantly saying they're doing way better than in Jones day.
    The book ends with the animals unable to tell whos who, human to pig, and an arguement breaking out about cards.
    The ending is sad. The ending is cruel and not happy at all. That's the point; the ending should not be happy out of a book based off of Dictators, Communism, and Oppression. The book was never supposed to have a happy ending as having one pretty much destroys the point of the plot; dictators are powerful and will silence you and force you into your place.
    Just my view on the book!

    • @milk-ub9zo
      @milk-ub9zo 2 года назад +100

      The point of the end of the book is that even the very ones who had sworn to never because like their enemies (humans) became just like them in front of the irresistible thirst for power.

    • @TheBeachBoysOfficial
      @TheBeachBoysOfficial 2 года назад

      @@milk-ub9zo *cough* Biden *cough* *cough* Democrats *cough* *cough*

    • @milk-ub9zo
      @milk-ub9zo 2 года назад +16

      @@TheBeachBoysOfficial what even are you talking about this book was released in 1945 it's about the russian revolution and afterwards

    • @Da.Liar-Pig
      @Da.Liar-Pig 2 года назад +13

      I just remembered that I watch the documentary about the production of this animated adaptation
      It was said that John Halas did not want to change the ending but it was said to do so

    • @koyomin241
      @koyomin241 2 года назад +23

      "they looked from man And pig, than pig to man. But saw no difference"

  • @ThatOneMan830
    @ThatOneMan830 5 лет назад +4849

    >Animal Farm
    >Kid’s film
    Pick one, you can’t have both.

    • @Bananappleboy
      @Bananappleboy 5 лет назад +62

      alex bajayo both

    • @Swock010
      @Swock010 5 лет назад +40

      @@Bananappleboy dam gottem 👌🏼😂👏🏼👍🏼

    • @mrheroprimes
      @mrheroprimes 5 лет назад +21

      i remeber this movie Scared the ever Living Daylights out of me as a kid, I think it's from one of those 5 dollar DVDs that were sold a alongside compilation dvds of old 1930/40's Warner Brothers cartoons and superman cartoons, also including two very badly dubbed South Korean anime films Diatron-5 and Defenders of space (it's main robot that appear in this film is basically Inferno from Transformers Generation 1),walmart in the early 2000's.

    • @sentinelnovelist
      @sentinelnovelist 5 лет назад +3

      alex bajayo
      Animal Farm
      Always

    • @bubblenugget1215
      @bubblenugget1215 5 лет назад +1

      How about neither

  • @AKIPOPOPOPOOON
    @AKIPOPOPOPOOON 5 лет назад +575

    *ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS*

  • @brandongonzalez_
    @brandongonzalez_ 3 года назад +3266

    I noticed something. As we first see the pups that Napoleon adopts, they are white, innocent pups that have pure souls. But as we see the pups grown up, their skin turns black and dark, corrupted by Napoleon’s dark intent, and the dogs are left to work for Napoleon not knowing of the pure life they could have had.

  • @BigBossMan538
    @BigBossMan538 Год назад +398

    Maybe I'm misremembering, but Snowball always seemed like he actually had good intentions for the farm and the animals. His mistake was not realizing what Napoleon was up to and how easily exploitable their system was

    • @TheCam920
      @TheCam920 6 месяцев назад +44

      Yep, if you remember, things were much more prosperous and happy under the democratic system where all animals could vote. It was after Napoleon's betrayal of animalism where life got much harder for the animals

    • @dylanpoynor2318
      @dylanpoynor2318 6 месяцев назад +45

      I just finished the book and that is true. When George Orwell wrote Snowball he based him off of Leon Trotsky, who he greatly admired.

    • @Octopugilist
      @Octopugilist 4 месяца назад +20

      Snowball truly wanted to help everyone, and while the farm he was building wouldn't have been perfect, he would never have screwed everyone over like Napoleon did

    • @JakiKang
      @JakiKang 3 месяца назад +7

      My interpretation of snowball atleast after reading the book was that while he may have seemed to have good intentions, he wasnt nessicarly any better than Napoleon. They were still both pigs and chances are if snowball would have stayed he would have become just as corrupt as Napoleon. Just my interpretation though

    • @gaudium-wille9470
      @gaudium-wille9470 3 месяца назад +7

      Wasn't snowball in with the pigs when they drank the milk from cows and got the apples, or wa sit just Napoleon and the otehr pigs? I'm asking about the book because in this movie it's Napolen and Squealer who drink from the milk

  • @LemonMelonShork
    @LemonMelonShork 5 лет назад +645

    "Oh GOD! Make it stop!"
    *Old Major dies*
    "Thank you."

    • @melodicmelody6730
      @melodicmelody6730 5 лет назад +5

      lmaoo

    • @itsmoe0043
      @itsmoe0043 5 лет назад +3

      We had to watch the film for class, and we may have laughed hysterically when Old Major died....

  • @deeznutz5825
    @deeznutz5825 4 года назад +3230

    The first pig was Carl Marx, snowball was Lenin, napoleon was Stalin, the farmer was the tsar, the neighbors were nazies, the banker was America and the west, the crow was the Russian Orthodox Church, the chickens were the rest of the Soviet blok, the dogs were the kgb, the windmill represented the same things as in the movie but mostly industrialization, the horse was the Russian people, the pigs were the bourgeoisie, all the alcohol represented Stalin’s vodka plants, and yes the book was a fairly comprehensive history of the Russian revolution.

    • @TheChaosDragoness
      @TheChaosDragoness 4 года назад +399

      I'd argue more that Snowball was Trotsky.

    • @faltanato6375
      @faltanato6375 4 года назад +36

      Xddss
      Nel bro, Stalin always have fighted for Revolution he never came to some highter position by brute force unlike Hitler or mussolini or even napoleon...
      He fighted since age of 17,in the small squirmishes againts Tsar secret police he played a big rol as info delivery, he assisted to the first illegal council of Russia in 1912 and he was a key part to win the Russian Civil war wich it was as bad as WW1 in terms of destruction...
      He commanded many operations and missions during the war, he commanded the assault to Tsaritsim and volga river wich were crucial to win the war, he save so many people from hunger and canibalism in rural areas that many of the troops screamed while in battle "FOR COMRADE STALIN!!! URAAAA"(well he was againt's culture to the leader, but well he did what he could)...
      Well,i know he is not an angel since he officially killed 90k persons during USSR, and did not bother to care about his daughter and son...but he was indeed a truly smart and comprensible man discribed by the generals and others(incluiding Kruschnev lol) "very smart and very capable person".
      He was electer by the communist party to lead USSR and he achive more than lenin(lol obviously),in 1928 he turned USSR more socialist marxis leninist(stalinism term does not exist since the only different action by stalin was to not continue militarising all communist partys know as "Socialism for one country" explaining the socialism most come supported by their people) than before.
      He also didn't rule during 1938-1945
      Also he wanted to leave his charge as chief secretary of Communist party becouse he was old...but communal elections(made by the people) force him to rule more years...well, they technically can force someone to lead em and to leave the charge.(wow is not dictadorship xd).

    • @faltanato6375
      @faltanato6375 4 года назад +23

      @@TheChaosDragoness lenin said that Trostky came to late to the revolution and had their own ideas, he was a infiltrator to deliver information outside the USSR...well something like a Spy...during a mission on Italy stalin got warn that a comrade has betray USSR in his mission and turned out to be Trostky when he was seen at the image of italian newspaper close to mussolini...this only means betrayal.
      (And you know what this means, death or deported)
      Trotsky was warned thay stalin will kill him for betrayal so,outside of USSR trotsky made the internationalle turn againts USSR, and spread anti communist propaganda.
      Trotsky death is well deserved.
      At least Stalin wasn't like churchill

    • @PHAToregon
      @PHAToregon 4 года назад +12

      Un nombre, Nada mas 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄😂😂🙄😂😂😂.

    • @PHAToregon
      @PHAToregon 4 года назад +68

      Un nombre, Nada mas official records of 799,455 executions (1921-1953), around 1.7 million deaths in the Gulag, some 390,000 deaths during the dekulakization forced resettlement, and up to 400,000 deaths of persons deported during the 1940s - with a total of about 3.3 million officially recorded victims in these categories. The deaths of at least 5.5 to 6.5 million persons in the famine of 1932-33 are sometimes, but not always, included with the victims of the Stalin era.
      Oof. How many millions did Churchill have?

  • @chronovac
    @chronovac 5 лет назад +1897

    It's almost like it's based on an Orwell novel

  • @Metalsluga_
    @Metalsluga_ Год назад +94

    Fun fact: Snowball didn't get killed, he just got chased off and when the windmill got blown down (not by dynamite, they left out the bit out in the film) they blame it on snowball

    • @basilcat3111
      @basilcat3111 9 месяцев назад +9

      In the animated version, he died.

    • @Metalsluga_
      @Metalsluga_ 9 месяцев назад +20

      @@basilcat3111 oh yeah, I meant in the book, I forgot to include that

    • @crimsondynamo615
      @crimsondynamo615 29 дней назад +1

      I heard Napoleon sent a weasel to drive a pickaxe through the back of snowball’s head

  • @aidanveldman1378
    @aidanveldman1378 5 лет назад +8791

    Don’t talk about the anime if you haven’t read the manga

    • @Ben-uc8ms
      @Ben-uc8ms 5 лет назад +298

      ^This

    • @theadamfriedlandshow4668
      @theadamfriedlandshow4668 5 лет назад +182

      Amen

    • @Zigtyr
      @Zigtyr 5 лет назад +70

      What sort of bad stuff happens in the manga?

    • @dutchvanderlinde5855
      @dutchvanderlinde5855 5 лет назад +510

      Sigtyr
      Well, the animals don’t win in the book. In fact, the animals don’t even revolt at all in the book. They just look at the pigs and humans and can’t tell the difference between them.

    • @slightlyistorical1776
      @slightlyistorical1776 5 лет назад +52

      Rancid Cheese don’t read Manga and don’t watch Anime

  • @Nukawin
    @Nukawin 5 лет назад +390

    The moment where the slaughter truck took Boxer away always left me in tears, he was my favourite character throughout the movie. :(

    • @ferrugemalemao
      @ferrugemalemao 5 лет назад +12

      That's when I stopped watching it as a kid. Never watched it again. The trauma was somehow "cured" when we read the book in English class when I was older.

    • @1945joshuaruiz
      @1945joshuaruiz 5 лет назад +14

      That how it was tho
      If you stopped working the state doesn’t see you as useful anymore . You no longer have purpose .
      Either you and your family die from starvation or simply “disappear “

    • @onyxsavior7179
      @onyxsavior7179 5 лет назад +11

      Napoleon the pig can go fuck himself

    • @Freefork
      @Freefork 5 лет назад +1

      Boxer is the best animal in media, HANDS/HOOFS DOWN!

    • @jeffjeff1445
      @jeffjeff1445 5 лет назад

      I've just finished reading the book for school it's really good

  • @kaywilliams7540
    @kaywilliams7540 5 лет назад +1417

    Steve: The animals begin to build Snowball's-
    Napoleon: *UNGODLY SCREAM*
    Steve: I mean, Napoleon's windmill
    Me: (○-○)

  • @kilssj2250
    @kilssj2250 2 года назад +260

    It's because they killed off the female dog. I don't remember her name, but she was the mother of the puppies that were taken and turned into soldiers.
    I feel like she played an integral role in the readers understanding throughout the book 📖.

    • @serenitythesiren5031
      @serenitythesiren5031 Год назад +68

      In the book, she was sort of divided into two dogs, one named Jessie, one named Bluebell. The saddest part is, neither of them die. Napoleon just takes the puppies to 'educate' them.

    • @featherybastard
      @featherybastard 4 месяца назад

      in the book she isn't all that important but her role is bumped up significantly in the 1999 film

    • @beastmaster0934
      @beastmaster0934 Месяц назад +1

      @@serenitythesiren5031
      That’s what happened in the 1999 live action version.
      Although in that one, Jessie was the only dog named.

  • @FiveOClockTea
    @FiveOClockTea 5 лет назад +1796

    Funnily enough in France it's illegal to name your pig Napoleon 🐷

    • @christinao9061
      @christinao9061 5 лет назад +175

      iirc in the French translation of Animal Farm they call the character Cesar

    • @hypnoticskull6342
      @hypnoticskull6342 4 года назад +53

      I wonder why! XD

    • @housel9352
      @housel9352 4 года назад +94

      They dont want to taint Napoleon's name with a communist swine

    • @girlhelp8364
      @girlhelp8364 4 года назад +21

      But is it illegal to name any other animal the name?

    • @crapaudbiscornu7941
      @crapaudbiscornu7941 4 года назад +7

      fullmetaljaco Why would anyone do that to begin with ? What would be the point ?

  • @__________5802
    @__________5802 5 лет назад +4730

    It is not your farm...
    IT IS *OUR* FARM

  • @roborabbit159
    @roborabbit159 5 лет назад +544

    Actually the creepy song is really them trying to sing " Beasts of England "

    • @autistichades5552
      @autistichades5552 5 лет назад +14

      Mades sense, The Russian Empire were allies with Britain(and France) until the blood covered their flag.

    • @mineboom7377
      @mineboom7377 5 лет назад +7

      It even said that in the book.

    • @ayhemsellami9912
      @ayhemsellami9912 5 лет назад +5

      Does anyone have the lyrics

    • @labellelace
      @labellelace 5 лет назад +3

      Extra Funny Meme it’s in the book. You can probably find them online.

    • @rhiannonderen1757
      @rhiannonderen1757 5 лет назад

      Duh..

  • @uyq5726
    @uyq5726 2 года назад +134

    I love how Steve forgets boxers name half way in and starts calling him buster.

  • @troglodyte4207
    @troglodyte4207 5 лет назад +692

    Not sure why’d you expect anything less from an adaptation of a George Orwell book

    • @BasicallyGoblin
      @BasicallyGoblin 5 лет назад +26

      Who was an anti authoritarian Brit, but he seemed to skim right the fuck over that shit

    • @hollingharris659
      @hollingharris659 5 лет назад +5

      thank you for saying the exact thing i was thinking but too lazy to comment myself

    • @datman2433
      @datman2433 5 лет назад +7

      I can't wait to see "My 1984 summer"

  • @robertlopez2052
    @robertlopez2052 5 лет назад +562

    Snowball was such a good guy. I genuinely loved him. He was so kind, and he genuinely wanted to help out the animals.

    • @elainefillname9856
      @elainefillname9856 5 лет назад +31

      can you say the same for Trotsky?

    • @The-kr9rb
      @The-kr9rb 5 лет назад +94

      I mean, more or less he was. Trotsky himself is a bit more complicated, because he isn't a pig.

    • @noneofyourbeeswax01
      @noneofyourbeeswax01 5 лет назад +11

      @@elainefillname9856 Wasn't he supposed to be Lenin?

    • @noneofyourbeeswax01
      @noneofyourbeeswax01 5 лет назад +71

      @@The-kr9rb : _" Trotsky himself is a bit more complicated, because _*_he isn't a pig_*_ "_
      Dude... Spoilers!

    • @The-kr9rb
      @The-kr9rb 5 лет назад +4

      @@noneofyourbeeswax01 lol

  • @isaaccrawford5108
    @isaaccrawford5108 5 лет назад +2092

    The book doesn't have a happy ending. It just ends all depressing with Napoleon as a horrible dictator. It's so depressing when it ends.
    Edit: I cant believe so many of you like this comment. You're welcome.

    • @Snowfang00andco
      @Snowfang00andco 5 лет назад +335

      But the ending of the book brings up the main idea behind the story. In the book, Napoleon and the other pigs are sitting with a group of humans. When the animals looked through the glass at them, they couldn't tell the difference between the two groups. Meaning that Napoleon had completely gone against what Old Major had told them years ago.

    • @yeethittter1285
      @yeethittter1285 5 лет назад +150

      @@Snowfang00andco and Napoleon convinces all animals throughout the book that they are equal, but it ends in a sort of loop when he ends up exactly like farmer joe

    • @CheshireCesare
      @CheshireCesare 5 лет назад +137

      @@Snowfang00andco Man, when the animals started walking upright in the book and essentially becoming "human"... even just reading that freeeaakeddd me out, it was somewhat expected and yet... *not* ...

    • @fatmanbatman9374
      @fatmanbatman9374 5 лет назад +39

      Thats how 1984 ended orwell had bad endings

    • @Rassilons-hand-me-downs
      @Rassilons-hand-me-downs 5 лет назад +31

      That’s why I love the book tbh

  • @The-Macdoo
    @The-Macdoo Год назад +105

    They actually explain the whole "wings count as legs" a lot better in the book.

    • @c.d.dailey8013
      @c.d.dailey8013 2 месяца назад +8

      Yeah. Wings are like legs in that they are both used purely for locomotion. By contrast, a human's arms are used for using tools.

    • @FayeLawnKrack3d
      @FayeLawnKrack3d Месяц назад +1

      Yeah, they’re basically evolved legs.

  • @ammarpratama1203
    @ammarpratama1203 4 года назад +982

    Random farmer: Uses a gun like a club
    Me: *He a little bit confused, but he got the spirit*

    • @unherolike
      @unherolike 4 года назад +48

      I think the idea is they were trying to take back control of the farm not kill all the animals.

    • @IAmTheStig32
      @IAmTheStig32 4 года назад +14

      [laughs in 18th century soldier when he's just fired his one bullet]

    • @soul6733
      @soul6733 4 года назад +10

      Laugh in WW2 soldiers who refused to shoot germans because afraid of them shooting back. In a war.

    • @YourMiddleBroPhil
      @YourMiddleBroPhil 4 года назад +3

      Brings a whole new meaning to the term "gun club"

  • @yeethittter1285
    @yeethittter1285 5 лет назад +227

    I actually very recently finished reading the original book. It's actually surprising how different it is. For example, the cat doesn't actually die I'm pretty sure, and the book actually ends on the much lower note of the farm having gone through a loop and the pigs being exactly like farmer Jones.
    By the way, the "creepy song" at the beginning is a very important song from the book called 'Beasts of England', they just used animal noises instead of english lyrics. The animals did speak.

    • @blod9862
      @blod9862 4 года назад +9

      The dog (mother of the puppies, tho technically there was two dogs who where mothers of the puppies) didn’t die in the battle, she died of old age in the last chapter

  • @TehBluPanda
    @TehBluPanda 5 лет назад +490

    I love how my high school decided it was a good idea to have us read Animal Farm without any sort of grasp on important concepts like... communism... and politics...

    • @Artizap_
      @Artizap_ 5 лет назад +12

      My 6th grade Middle School class thought it was a good idea as well...

    • @Chidera420
      @Chidera420 5 лет назад +2

      I also like how i have to waste my summer over this and fahrenheit 451

    • @dogecollection4519
      @dogecollection4519 5 лет назад +34

      The idea was that if you learn that absolute control and suppression of the people is bad as a child, you’re smart enough as you get older to understand why communism and fascism are bad. It sets a precedent

    • @hissanrach8797
      @hissanrach8797 5 лет назад +33

      @@dogecollection4519 Except it's an example of blatant dishonesty and ideological brainwashing in the education sector. Children are told to read stories which are literal propaganda before they have any understanding of what is even being portrayed specifically so it skews and warps their view of history, so they are conditioned to uncritically oppose something they don't understand, ie controlling what they think.

    • @SeruraRenge11
      @SeruraRenge11 5 лет назад

      I'm curious, what was their take on the book without understand the subtext?

  • @Miltypooh2001
    @Miltypooh2001 Год назад +53

    I love the fact that the pigs became the very thing they hated, and seeing the pups turn into huge hound dogs was pretty dark. Especially when the donkey in the movie looks at the window and sees the pigs wearing suits and walking on two legs

    • @hiddendesire3076
      @hiddendesire3076 8 месяцев назад +5

      It’s accurate as well politically speaking. Those who claimed to be anti-fascists and against central government have they themselves embraced fascist tactics, barbarism, and calls for totalitarian regimes where no criticism of their “glorious” ideology is allowed.

  • @HunhowsShadowStalker
    @HunhowsShadowStalker 5 лет назад +4114

    >Implying Animal Farm was ever meant for children.
    I'm so disappointed.

    • @bigmeknurgle
      @bigmeknurgle 5 лет назад +73

      It was a cartoon movie released in 1954. Two years later VHS was invented. You think parents, throughout the 60's, 70's and 80's, browsing through videos for low-effort childminding tools (a kid wont wander about or hurt himself if he's sat still watching a film for 2 hours) would look at the cover and think "CLEARLY this is not for children", and thus no child ever saw it?
      Also, your newfriend status is showing, ass. Such clever people in youtube comment sections. I'm so disappointed.

    • @srgtshocwave
      @srgtshocwave 5 лет назад +64

      bigmeknurgle I... I think he was joking bud...

    • @HunhowsShadowStalker
      @HunhowsShadowStalker 5 лет назад +111

      @@bigmeknurgle Wow, someone's in a bad mood. I was clearly joking and pointing out a mistake he made when he referred to the video as if it were a children's movie.
      You should probably develop a sense of humor, because you're acting like an asshole without one.

    • @thearchive792
      @thearchive792 5 лет назад +18

      @@bigmeknurgle Oh now that's E D G Y

    • @bigmeknurgle
      @bigmeknurgle 5 лет назад +9

      @??? It wasn't a mistake, the film was advertised and sold as a childrens movie. The content doesn't matter after mommy and daddy have spent their money and left junior in front of the TV for a few hours. So get over it? _Edit; comedy is subjective, and the OP wasn't funny. It was aloof bragging that came from the assumption of knowing-it-all._
      ​ @Ivan Jocic Lotsa butthurt wannabe commies, it seems. With the 10 global monopolies controlling every type of consumable, you think that's gonna happen anytime soon? You think your local government will allocate funds so you can have a chocolate bar or a can of energy drink in your monthly rations? Lol no

  • @T-minus-infinite
    @T-minus-infinite 3 года назад +668

    The creepy chanting is where the animals sing a song in the book
    Edit: In the book the animals justify wings counting as legs because wings are used for movement like legs but arms aren't used to walk

    • @testerwulf3357
      @testerwulf3357 3 года назад +33

      Anything used for travel is a leg to them basically.

    • @seanmacguire3324
      @seanmacguire3324 3 года назад +20

      Beasts of England ,
      Beasts of Ireland,

    • @whitedragoness23
      @whitedragoness23 3 года назад +11

      Eh, either way wings are features humans don’t have so I guess the wording animal characteristics wouldn’t have flowed nicely with the pigs transformation

    • @LocalIdiot388
      @LocalIdiot388 2 года назад +2

      They are probably singing (In My Opinion) "The Internationale"

    • @T-minus-infinite
      @T-minus-infinite 2 года назад

      @@seanmacguire3324 yes that was it

  • @alastair876
    @alastair876 5 лет назад +1451

    I remember reading this my freshman year of highschool-
    Even younger dumbass me knew how much this book screamed "COMMUNISM"

    • @natalijatheghost
      @natalijatheghost 4 года назад +69

      I loved this book as a freshman, and I still like it

    • @alastair876
      @alastair876 4 года назад +8

      @@natalijatheghost same here tbh

    • @communisttrash8590
      @communisttrash8590 4 года назад +116

      The best part is this is written by a socialist and is a critique on soviet communism but Orwell actually fought with communists and believed in communism he wrote a book on it called homage to Catalonia you should read it

    • @alastair876
      @alastair876 4 года назад +36

      @@communisttrash8590 huh, that is quite interesting tbh. It's interesting to know that the book was a critique of a certain method of it.

    • @kevinnigins9488
      @kevinnigins9488 4 года назад +4

      Alastair • Freshman? I was forced to read this book in 8th grade

  • @ghostslayer1981
    @ghostslayer1981 Год назад +118

    I always thought it was creepy how napoleon in the book was always able to keep the rest of the farm from overthrowing him and going back to snowball after he's kicked out. He keeps using him as a scapegoat for multiple misdeeds (which never happened) and slowly over the book change who snowball was from a true animal hero who attacked Jones and lead the animal charge to being a traitor to Jones and helping the humans fight, leading the human charge. It's creepy because he does it so well by slowly blurring that line with the animals forgetting all the specifics of the tale and eventually getting it warped due to that. And if anyone questioned it, like say Boxer? Death, as we see. Napoleon knows that to keep control, he needs to build trust and upkeep all his lies. And in the book and movie, he really does that well.

    • @meh8982
      @meh8982 Год назад

      Orwell does a similar thing in 1984 with "Goldstein" as the all-purpose scapegoat. I think in Animal Farm the Snowball role was inspired by Trotsky. It's typical of authoritarian regimes. You often see the same thing today.

  • @pepsidoggo1598
    @pepsidoggo1598 5 лет назад +310

    wait, George Orwell, same one who made 1984?

    • @funnguis8163
      @funnguis8163 5 лет назад +60

      Yep! He made 1984 as well. Some books of animal farm also have 1984 in the same book.

    • @IdiotPhD
      @IdiotPhD 5 лет назад +5

      Ye.

    • @dracocrusher
      @dracocrusher 5 лет назад +37

      Not really too surprising in hindsight, I think. The guy definitely seemed to have a strong desire to write stories based heavily around political ideologies and how they can become unfavorable for the common man.

    • @indisciipline
      @indisciipline 5 лет назад +1

      Damn, I didn't know he made 1984. I enjoyed Animal Farm, guess I should read that other book!

    • @selkkie6691
      @selkkie6691 5 лет назад

      @@indisciipline He's written more books, if you liked animal farm read his other books they're all really good.

  • @JadeAnnabelArt
    @JadeAnnabelArt 3 года назад +1639

    “They looked from man and pig, than from pig to man, and saw no difference.”
    I recently read the book myself and have been obsessed with everything surrounding it. I found that last line to be open ended, which helped the message. It offered a choice, it offered free thought. To come to your own conclusions.
    The animated version felt like what was expected. Starving animals don’t put up much of a fight, but a hundred of them will certainly take you down. A hundred starving slaves can kill a small group of slaves.
    The live action movie is the worst by far. It focused way too much on a single animal (Jessie), who (spoilers) dies of old age in the book without much fanfare. In the book, the puppies are take in plain sight, Napolean giving a half assed excuse, but the animals forget swiftly. In the movie Jessie constantly begs with them to no avail. She’s the main star and she won’t let you forget it. The ending is “Well we left and the elements took care of the pigs.” Which just suggests inaction is the answer.
    Animal Farm doesn’t need a main character. It’s not about the individuals, which is why the live action really rubbed me the wrong way. It’s about all the animals as a whole. The whole country/community.
    Anyway the animated movie gave the book justice. It gave the ending we expected the book to have after that chilling last line, and a satisfaction required of a visual media.

    • @mattoreo5854
      @mattoreo5854 3 года назад +69

      Nah imo the ending ruined it. Them winning defeated the point. It was supposed to be a cautionary tale, but because the CIA got involved with the movie, it became about overthrowing bad governments. The message of a cycle of revolutions and oppression was defeated by them seemingly defeating communism and bringing forth democracy. I think the book ended where it was supposed to. The story was meant to make you sad, felling hopeless, not overjoyed that democracy rules... But that's just my opinion

    • @sebulller
      @sebulller 3 года назад +4

      wait theres a live thing about this? huu

    • @AlarchyGaming
      @AlarchyGaming 3 года назад +6

      I literally only watched the live action for patrick stewart and thats it

    • @saladasss2092
      @saladasss2092 3 года назад +4

      why desn't the NK starving people do something about their situation? They are hundreds of starving people that are in that situation. Just, they don't have media.

    • @Billious
      @Billious 3 года назад +30

      The live action was actually directed by a man who escaped the Soviet Union and saw its fall. Which is why the ending is the way it is.

  • @sataniccat-girlwithagun3300
    @sataniccat-girlwithagun3300 4 года назад +739

    Steve: You sickos
    Me: *Hold on, this whole operation was your idea*

    • @herraskanki1756
      @herraskanki1756 4 года назад +4

      Allt í lagi.

    • @vibebk2174
      @vibebk2174 3 года назад +10

      Steve: *and?*

    • @onyxsavior7179
      @onyxsavior7179 3 года назад +2

      @@herraskanki1756 is this some foreign language I’m too American to understand?

    • @herraskanki1756
      @herraskanki1756 3 года назад +4

      @@onyxsavior7179 Yes its Icelandic.

    • @onyxsavior7179
      @onyxsavior7179 3 года назад +2

      @@herraskanki1756 oh thank you

  • @WillieManga
    @WillieManga 2 года назад +183

    I must say, the pigs slowly blurring the line between man and beast was essential and I am glad it was implemented in the movie.

  • @pugachan9928
    @pugachan9928 5 лет назад +1377

    Cant wait for Netflix live action adaptation starring Amy smucher as napoleon.

  • @RaeNapier64
    @RaeNapier64 5 лет назад +4155

    ANIMAL FARM WAS NEVER MEANT FOR CHILDREN!!!!! IT WAS BASED OFF A GEORGE ORWELL NOVEL. A TYPICALLY DARK ADULT CENTRIC AUTHOR WHO SPECIALIZED IN POLITICAL/SOCIAL COMMENTARY. IF YOU LET YOUR CHILD READ/ WATCH HIS WORK THEN THAT'S YOUR PROBLEM NOT OURS

    • @ammla8219
      @ammla8219 5 лет назад +22

      Rae Napier Ik

    • @cyperus4589
      @cyperus4589 5 лет назад +196

      I REALLY HATE SHOUTING ONLINE!!!!

    • @jacobmorrison4480
      @jacobmorrison4480 5 лет назад +14

      I’m doing the book for gcse

    • @Shift12
      @Shift12 5 лет назад +185

      Was looking to see if someone else had mentioned this fact. Just because its a cartoon that doesn't nesecarrily mean that it's for children, for an extreme comparison would you let a child watch Fritz the Cat? Or would you say Fritz is suitable for children?

    • @Purplefire0796
      @Purplefire0796 5 лет назад +53

      Rae Napier my high school made me read and watch Animal Farm. This was the first year of high school at least for me

  • @etps4444
    @etps4444 4 года назад +690

    11:18
    My initial thought was, "Where did they get the red paint?" and then, ".... Oh."

    • @andreac2698
      @andreac2698 4 года назад +42

      Jesus christ

    • @gayfurry76
      @gayfurry76 4 года назад +7

      Thats hot

    • @samsung4360
      @samsung4360 4 года назад +6

      Thanks😢 , i thought it was buyed 😥.

    • @iexistyes_
      @iexistyes_ 4 года назад +6

      Shit did you have to?

    • @sillysquee
      @sillysquee 4 года назад +3

      Nice luz pfp 👀

  • @boop7405
    @boop7405 2 года назад +132

    the boxer plotline disturbed me so much in both the book and movie but imo its worse in the movie cause you see it all happen and seeing boxer scream and cry while he’s getting pulled away to the glue factory. Absolutely traumatized me

    • @JeanMurray-wc2mr
      @JeanMurray-wc2mr 6 месяцев назад +1

      Same, I watched this when I was a kid and I never forgot about it..years later as an adult reading the book it had the same effect on me.

    • @jwebcoding7289
      @jwebcoding7289 4 месяца назад +3

      The most cynical part about it was that they used the money from selling him to the knacker to buy a whole case of booze so the pigs could get drunk.

    • @KyleEvra
      @KyleEvra Месяц назад +1

      Treated him like a piece of 🍖 ready to be Sold.

  • @Iceclaw77
    @Iceclaw77 5 лет назад +243

    I would say that while Animal Farm isn't supposed to be a children's book, I can understand why people would (at first glance) think that it is. The language and prose used in it (for the most part) is simple to understand, the plot is easy to follow, the book's length is short compared to most other novels, and even the title gives the impression that it is for a much younger audience.
    Tl;dr: Animal Farm is an allegory for the rise of the USSR disguised as a novel for adults disguised as a children's book.

    • @jerm70
      @jerm70 5 лет назад +2

      Eh, its meant to be a kid's book, its just that the modern day standards of child's book is so skewed to where not even Peter Pan is a kid's book.

    • @honest_126
      @honest_126 5 лет назад

      @@jerm70 if it is, it's for children probably, PROBABLY, for kids in a middle school level on.

    • @jerm70
      @jerm70 5 лет назад

      @@honest_126 Instead of is replace it with was. Past tense. Kids are baby'd nowadays.

    • @garfieif8187
      @garfieif8187 5 лет назад +2

      It's for kids and adults alike. Kids deserve to read things with depth and meaning, too, and the value of thinking for yourself is one that isn't taught nearly enough.

    • @Da_Swifta
      @Da_Swifta 5 лет назад

      Couldn't have said it better meself mate

  • @monikaradzaj7407
    @monikaradzaj7407 5 лет назад +317

    Animal Farm isn't aimed at kids though. It's aimed to a more adult audience.

    • @damiancampbell7534
      @damiancampbell7534 5 лет назад +10

      Monika Radzaj That didnt stop me from reading the book in school when I was a kid.

    • @sem9165
      @sem9165 5 лет назад +19

      it’s anti communism. which means it’s for everyone.

    • @MultiDiarmuid
      @MultiDiarmuid 5 лет назад +17

      @@sem9165 It's Anti-Soviet, not anti-communist. There's a reason why Old Major and Snowball are portrayed sympathetically in the book.

    • @zladdykalash2125
      @zladdykalash2125 5 лет назад

      I watched it in 5th grade, I disagree.

    • @nomem_dubium
      @nomem_dubium 5 лет назад

      Well I saw it when I was 3
      Not a good idea , really

  • @cthulhufhtagn2483
    @cthulhufhtagn2483 5 лет назад +310

    7:08 The exact phrase the pig uses in the book is that the wing "is an organ of locomotion, rather than manipulation", which works well enough for me.

    • @darthvader2994
      @darthvader2994 4 года назад +8

      yea i don't get why they didn't just keep that in rather than just "wings = legs"

    • @rhiannonm6022
      @rhiannonm6022 4 года назад

      @@darthvader2994 because it's a 'kids' movie and that would be too confusing

  • @Floorbie_Nana
    @Floorbie_Nana 2 года назад +37

    Somewhat fun fact: George Orwell himself described his story as “an animal fable” as if it were just a fun fairytale

    • @sudokuacrobatics
      @sudokuacrobatics 9 месяцев назад +5

      Yeah, it is a fairy tale compared to 1984 😂

    • @bretonloveland
      @bretonloveland 24 дня назад

      All fables are dark. They have to be.

  • @chupacadabra5161
    @chupacadabra5161 5 лет назад +614

    Steve: So, the animals start to build Snowball's-
    Napolean: *REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
    Steve: I mean Napolean's windmill.

    • @ubdrift5904
      @ubdrift5904 5 лет назад +5

      LOL

    • @ubdrift5904
      @ubdrift5904 5 лет назад

      @LordDonut1122 I think it means 4 leg animals and 2 leg humans/farmers

    • @ubdrift5904
      @ubdrift5904 5 лет назад +1

      @LordDonut1122 thank you for knowing what they mean

    • @BrownGaijin
      @BrownGaijin 5 лет назад

      Nice!

  • @Mafon2
    @Mafon2 5 лет назад +261

    there's a joke in X-Men, where guards mocking Beast for reading kiddie book "Animal Farm".

  • @isamovies1192
    @isamovies1192 5 лет назад +692

    The book was way darker and more depressing

    • @froggyslap
      @froggyslap 5 лет назад +53

      Isa Movies
      of course, books usually have more detail and events that don’t get into the movies

    • @copperbunnies9849
      @copperbunnies9849 5 лет назад +8

      @@froggyslap yes yes I agree; I do prefer books over the film adaptation

    • @raviothethief8292
      @raviothethief8292 5 лет назад +3

      Isa Movies yup read it in 5th grade and my fucking God..

    • @noahbutler9180
      @noahbutler9180 5 лет назад +1

      It is a really good book though

    • @noahbutler9180
      @noahbutler9180 5 лет назад +4

      @@raviothethief8292 you read animal farm in 5th grade

  • @pyr821
    @pyr821 2 года назад +34

    10:07
    Chickens: Rebel against the pigs
    Napoleon: orders the dogs to kill the cat for no reason

    • @Antonio-fj5gs
      @Antonio-fj5gs 2 года назад +4

      Me: oh my god
      Ok lol.

    • @3D-6
      @3D-6 4 месяца назад +3

      It said that the innocent die with the guilty

    • @felipemontero1087
      @felipemontero1087 2 месяца назад

      Almost as if Communism kills everyone for no reason

    • @doublebubblebarb7606
      @doublebubblebarb7606 Месяц назад +1

      Right? I don’t understand that

  • @taliawtf6944
    @taliawtf6944 5 лет назад +444

    Always be extremely wary of people claiming they can make a utopia or perfect world or system. More often than not they mean it will be perfect for them and no one else.

    • @anon9579
      @anon9579 5 лет назад +18

      Utopia can never be

    • @rickmarr4478
      @rickmarr4478 5 лет назад +25

      One's Utopia is Another's Dystopia.

    • @littlemoth4956
      @littlemoth4956 5 лет назад +19

      Humanity is too vast of a species to be able to work together long enough to form a utopia.

    • @LazyPirate8
      @LazyPirate8 5 лет назад +5

      Utopia stands for me myself and I. Not you!

    • @littlemoth4956
      @littlemoth4956 5 лет назад

      @@LazyPirate8 But each person can call themselves "me myself and I."
      There are over 7 billion people in the world, you know.

  • @3digitsonthebac156
    @3digitsonthebac156 5 лет назад +846

    No-one:
    Any animal on Animal Farm:
    *C O M R A D E*

  • @aclown36
    @aclown36 4 года назад +1412

    *Animal Crossing: New Horizons,*
    *the Rated R version*

  • @MrAlmindore58
    @MrAlmindore58 3 года назад +72

    Can we take a moment to reflect that Steve's doctor is Dr. Jones, and the farmer ALSO has that surname?

  • @eggplantstevens43
    @eggplantstevens43 5 лет назад +1521

    Did you do any research for this video? In america, Animal Farm is required reading in most public schools. It's not somehow hidden or unrecognized and by far the most popular version IS the novel, because everyone and their mother has read it.

    • @eggplantstevens43
      @eggplantstevens43 5 лет назад +254

      Nor is the movie some hidden piece of propaganda, it was a novel written by a man who took part in a socialist revolt and basically spent his whole writing career bashing communism for screwing over the socialists.

    • @smileitsjustagame2937
      @smileitsjustagame2937 5 лет назад +160

      Honestly I'm glad that this is required reading because it urges young adults to question the status quo and their understanding of what equality really means.

    • @lucalinadreemur9448
      @lucalinadreemur9448 5 лет назад +52

      I never read this one in American schools

    • @lifespore
      @lifespore 5 лет назад +51

      I’m from England and we did animal farm analysis for our GCSEs, this guy just didn’t do his research

    • @lewisfell2714
      @lewisfell2714 5 лет назад

      odd elliot still have to do it, I’m in year 11 and we’re still doing it...

  • @ironybob
    @ironybob 4 года назад +815

    Fact : it’s illegal in France to call a pig Napoleon

    • @motherofdogs7980
      @motherofdogs7980 4 года назад +35

      LeRaptorFrançais
      I think it's because of this movie

    • @juliamavroidi8601
      @juliamavroidi8601 4 года назад +59

      That's why in the french version if the book Napoleon is called César

    • @CedricsSpecialLP
      @CedricsSpecialLP 4 года назад +4

      Julia Mavroidi I think that was what Orwell originally wanted to call him.

    • @anissayessaad4737
      @anissayessaad4737 4 года назад +1

      Ah bon?

    • @Thegamergabe4.0
      @Thegamergabe4.0 4 года назад +1

      Funny how Wario knows this. Love you Wah!!

  • @Fubukio
    @Fubukio 5 лет назад +2240

    Animal Farm is not all bad...
    It makes eating bacon much more satisfying.

    • @drik4107
      @drik4107 5 лет назад +67

      Truth is Truth

    • @Artizap_
      @Artizap_ 5 лет назад +74

      Yes I wanted to take that little bitch Squealer and turn him into bacon. Sadly, he’s just a fictional character.

    • @gameknight9956
      @gameknight9956 5 лет назад +8

      Dang you need more agreement

    • @Matkaizer08
      @Matkaizer08 5 лет назад +10

      And that's why pigs are for eating and nothing else!

    • @penguinhowser8459
      @penguinhowser8459 5 лет назад +23

      I want to eat Napoleon

  • @Ballin4Vengeance
    @Ballin4Vengeance 3 года назад +124

    7:57 replace “Napoleon” with “Stalin,” “Snowball” with “Trotsky” and You’ve got yourself a documentary

    • @Logan_but_not
      @Logan_but_not 2 года назад +38

      I mean that is the whole point. The original book was an allegory of the Russian revolution.

    • @justaguywhowatchesyoutube5588
      @justaguywhowatchesyoutube5588 8 месяцев назад

      Who’s Trotsky?

    • @pabloprieto3338
      @pabloprieto3338 7 месяцев назад +5

      @@justaguywhowatchesyoutube5588 he was an anti-stalinist communist

    • @kdcwilliams1839
      @kdcwilliams1839 7 месяцев назад +3

      Sometimes, I wonder, if Trotsky or “Snowball” would actually have been a good leader in the long run.

    • @pabloprieto3338
      @pabloprieto3338 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@kdcwilliams1839 well he only was in the story for a short period of time but his character seem to care for his comrades way more than napoleon

  • @insanemariobros4665
    @insanemariobros4665 3 года назад +2505

    We read this book in my freshman year and, I’m not gonna lie, I actually enjoyed it. Yes it’s dark, but George Orwell had a thing for historical satire, and I found that compelling myself!

    • @vortigan9068
      @vortigan9068 3 года назад +37

      ikr dark stuff is pretty interesting

    • @joeytofil2259
      @joeytofil2259 3 года назад +20

      You might enjoy Chuck Palahniuk, he wrote Fight Club and his genre is twisted satire

    • @gabrielcastillo7638
      @gabrielcastillo7638 2 года назад +6

      I read the book in my freshman year and it's great

    • @lukedanuser
      @lukedanuser 2 года назад +9

      Read it yesterday and it was fascinating, couldn’t put it down.

    • @snakezlair6671
      @snakezlair6671 2 года назад +3

      Same with me

  • @simplychaff1875
    @simplychaff1875 5 лет назад +1370

    Did you really say that the movie is more well known than the book? The book has sold over 30 million copies dude.

    • @awolfnamedgarry8633
      @awolfnamedgarry8633 5 лет назад +202

      *(Didn't even know there was a movie, has done three essays on this and loves the book to death)*

    • @quantum6692
      @quantum6692 5 лет назад +17

      @@awolfnamedgarry8633 bold for attention and also is a furry. mental illness at its best

    • @tvoovm7254
      @tvoovm7254 5 лет назад +68

      @@quantum6692 trolling at its finest... for your dumbass.

    • @awolfnamedgarry8633
      @awolfnamedgarry8633 5 лет назад +56

      I was implying that I have researched this so many times and still didn't know there was an animated movie, showing how well known it was. @@quantum6692.

    • @juicyjuustar121
      @juicyjuustar121 5 лет назад +42

      Yeah, like wtf. I didn't know there was a movie of it until now.

  • @jacknewell1847
    @jacknewell1847 4 года назад +825

    as to his question on "Four legs good, Two legs bad", in the original novel by George Orwell, Snowball explained that the wings of the birds should be thought of as "an instrument of propulsion", and was considered a leg.
    also, the original book is a satire to the rise (and moral fall) of the Soviet Union. the "hog", or as he was called in the book, "Old Major" represented Vladimir Lenin, Snowball represented Leon Trotsky, while Napoleon represented Joseph Stalin. the reason all the animals just "go along with it" was because they were written to represent the ill-educated and leaderless Soviet Masses. The Russian people had for years suffered under the oppressive rule of the Tsars. For this reason, they would accept any situation that they believed to be superior to than what they had before
    (edit):
    I have been informed that my analysis does not cover enough content. I will now rectify this issue that has been brought to my attention. Ahem:
    The Nine Dogs in the book represent Stalin's boys, a mixture of the KGB and elements of the red army, beating down dissidents and suppressing "deviant opinions". They are comparable to the Thought Police in George Orwell's 1984.
    The Sheep, Fowl, Cows, and other assorted livestock are the Proletariat, the "proles", the Great Unwashed. Working class, blue collar people, common folk, the peasantry and factory workers that made up the actual labour force of the Soviet Union, who the revolution was initially intended to serve. However, they are too poorly educated, brainwashed and, due to short lifespans/generational gaps, did not understand that their situation was becoming rapidly more Authoritarian and that their conditions where not in fact improving. An excellent sequence in 1984 best portrays this, when Winston has to seek out an old man to learn about life before the revolution, because nearly everyone else is too caught up in the Party's propaganda to remember the truth.
    Benjamin represents the portion of the population made up of educated but nihilistic ageing middle class people, such as teachers, political thinkers, military officers and revolutionaries who survived Stalin's purges (represented by Napoleon chasing Snowball off the farm and intimidating animals into confessing to imaginary crimes), people who understand that their situation is worsening but feel powerless/indifferent too it. In the book, this is shown by his ability to read and remember the revisions made to the rules, but his inactivity.
    The Horses, particularly Boxer, represent the revolutionary loyalists, the leaders or organisations such as labour unions or weak-minded government officials. These people blindly believed the uplifting messages of Lenin, Trotsky and Marx, and put forward the enormous effort required to make them a reality, but where not intelligent enough to avoid their fates.
    The Men represent THEM. It doesn't really matter who THEY are, they are simply the Great, Evil, Opposing mass that wants to tear down the GLORIOUS REVOLUTION, and will succeed without your blind loyalty. They want to return things to the way they where, and have been called by many names, the Tsar's loyalists, Monarchists, Anarchists, Capitalists, Nazis, or the least popular minority of the week. While they do occasionally pose opposition to the Farm, their threat is exaggerated and conditions under the Tsars are made to seem untenable. This fear is used to keep the Proles in line, without the use of force. You must work harder Commrade, or Jones will come back. You dont want that, do you?
    The pigeons that fly to other farms are stand-ins for the Communists who scattered across the globe, intending to spread the revolution world-wide. Such political idealists appeared globally, and fought in conflicts such as The Spanish Civil War and WW2.
    I am too tired to think of any more right now, but if anyone wants to suggest any, I will take a stab at it. I really dont want to do the Generic "OMGthanks4AllDaLikesUGUYSLOL" thing, so I will instead say this: I find it genuinely uplifting, that in this age of mass media and fleeting trends, there are some people who still continue to discuss and converse about such amazing material as Animal Farm. I am honored that this post has garnered as much attention attention as it has, and would love to discuss this topic further. Vinaka VakaLevu Bosso Levu. Good evening ladies and gentlemen.
    (I am well aware that I just did the thing I said I didnt want to do, but I did it with a British Accent, so there. Your criticisms have been rendered meaningless by my expert rebuttal).

    • @ryuzakikurai711
      @ryuzakikurai711 3 года назад +10

      The animals being poorly educated sheeple doesn't fly when Benjamin demonstrated intelligence comparable to the pigs on several occasions. He was basically being set up as the solution only to be ignored at the tail end of the book for the sake of a tragic ending.

    • @night-seeker666
      @night-seeker666 3 года назад +49

      @@ryuzakikurai711 The reason Benjamin does nothing in the books has to do with his cynical attitude that the movie never explored.

    • @brandonlyon730
      @brandonlyon730 3 года назад +53

      @@ryuzakikurai711Benjamin was extremely cynical, he knew how everything really was but he knew he would never get anywhere explaining to a bunch of idiot animals. He knew the game was rigged from the start and pointing it out would do nothing but get him killed by the pigs.

    • @plugshirt1684
      @plugshirt1684 3 года назад +38

      @@ryuzakikurai711 one person with intelligence isn’t enough when everyone is brainwashed already and fearful plus if they tried anything they would most likely lose to the nine dogs. Funnily enough some of them are literal sheep

    • @plugshirt1684
      @plugshirt1684 3 года назад +5

      @@saberswordsmen1 to be fair though they did only do the allegories of four characters

  • @ThatOneKaijuFan
    @ThatOneKaijuFan Год назад +14

    When the hogfather pig died, i got an ad for the wendy’s baconator and couldn’t stop wheezing

  • @Tippex_Official
    @Tippex_Official 4 года назад +2312

    Steve: why when we brits get involved in animation, it’s always about animal cruelty?
    Me: well, when you consider that peppa pig is a psychopath, yeah.

    • @sillycat103
      @sillycat103 4 года назад +156

      I mean she DID eat bacon that one time

    • @AhmedEx1.
      @AhmedEx1. 3 года назад +94

      @@sillycat103 excuse me *what*

    • @ryuzakikurai711
      @ryuzakikurai711 3 года назад +51

      Tbf everyone in that universe is a psychopath

    • @mechagodzilla3674
      @mechagodzilla3674 3 года назад +9

      hey you plague doc too

    • @serenitythesiren5031
      @serenitythesiren5031 3 года назад +90

      My friend once told me about this episode of Peppa pig when Peppa was eating Sausages in the kitchen and Daddy pig came in and asked where George wasXD

  • @saturnalia3335
    @saturnalia3335 5 лет назад +524

    See but here’s the gag: they didn’t actually revolt in the original book so it was even more depressing

    • @benchmarking6875
      @benchmarking6875 5 лет назад +29

      That is because the book was made in 1945

    • @barrettfenwick8028
      @barrettfenwick8028 5 лет назад +57

      They couldn't show the Totalitarian Commie winning in the middle of the Cold War. The CIA actually had a decent amount of input on this film!

    • @monkofdarktimes
      @monkofdarktimes 5 лет назад +26

      Its the last 5 minutes of the first flim that the CIA affected

    • @Redbird-dh7mu
      @Redbird-dh7mu 5 лет назад +20

      Yeah, the point of the book is to not give away your freedoms because you might not get them back.

    • @Nyerguds
      @Nyerguds 5 лет назад +3

      Would be funnier if they were taken over by the cows and the whole cycle just started again :p

  • @bilbowagons7932
    @bilbowagons7932 5 лет назад +945

    Old Major = Karl Marx
    Napoleon = Joseph Stalin
    Snowball = Leon Trotsky
    Boxer = working middle class
    Squealer = Institutional Propaganda/managers
    Moses =Institutional Religion
    This whole movie has communism written all over it

    • @scarletshadow4548
      @scarletshadow4548 5 лет назад +55

      Snowball=Trotsky

    • @boistired6825
      @boistired6825 5 лет назад +33

      your phone isn't cracked Old Major: Lenin
      Farmer Jones: Nicolas II
      Boxer: the good worker

    • @natalijatheghost
      @natalijatheghost 5 лет назад +5

      That's what it was based on

    • @jacoba3422
      @jacoba3422 5 лет назад +16

      your phone isn't cracked Second war= more like the battle of Stalingrad

    • @sophiatalksmusic3588
      @sophiatalksmusic3588 5 лет назад +12

      Boxer= the working class, Moses the raven= religion, Mollie= the bourgeoisie

  • @felinoidrose
    @felinoidrose 2 года назад +41

    6:04 animals in minecraft taking damage

    • @floproro4
      @floproro4 Год назад

      Minecraft animals revolting against the players for attacking them:

  • @lordstumpy2945
    @lordstumpy2945 4 года назад +728

    Even as a kid though I feel like animal farm tells an especially important story, or moral rather, that should be taught more often to children as propaganda, though maybe not as harmful, is still very rife today and thinking for yourself in a world where everyone is more easily influenced by the media is still as important as it always was.

    • @Shlankyman545
      @Shlankyman545 3 года назад +11

      I love you and this comment

    • @jaskitstepkit7153
      @jaskitstepkit7153 3 года назад +43

      It's a warning about greed creating tyranny while undermining every noble cause

    • @elltheclown4285
      @elltheclown4285 2 года назад +6

      I agree, i was forced to read the book for school and i liked it my biggest complaint is how all the characters are one dimensional

    • @shannonmcelroy8454
      @shannonmcelroy8454 2 года назад +6

      @@elltheclown4285 I agree, I won't lie about the book's simplicity, and the characters being less developed. Although in the story's context, I feel it is justified given that it's more story focused than character focused. George Orwell often wrote because he wanted to give an important message, and in this case there are times where more developed characters can overwhelm the story and make the reader less inclined to listen when the characters are put through the wringer. By distancing the reader from the depths of character feelings, it helps them swallow the more unsavory features of the story.

  • @dr.bright6272
    @dr.bright6272 5 лет назад +340

    Man: *okay I have this loaded gun, what can I use it for? Oh I know, a bat!*

    • @justmetal227
      @justmetal227 5 лет назад +9

      you can see that with each confrontation also the force escalates more and more

    • @SangerZonvolt
      @SangerZonvolt 5 лет назад +4

      "They won´t see it coming!"

    • @parrot1442
      @parrot1442 5 лет назад

      This mans a Genius..... I like using my gun like how I use my guitar.... LIKE A BAT

  • @oakleyjacket7922
    @oakleyjacket7922 5 лет назад +250

    6:57 “Seven Commandments could be in effect reduced to a single maxim, namely “four legs good, two legs bad” This, he (snowball) said contained the essential principle of Animalism. Whoever had throughly grasped it would be safe from human influences. The birds at first objected, since it seemed that they also had two legs, but snowball proved to them that this was not so
    “A bird’s wing, comrades,” he said, “is an organ of propulsion and not of manipulation. It should therefore be regarded as a leg. The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief”
    -Animal farm book by George Orwell, page 34, paragraphs 1 and 2

  • @b_crystals
    @b_crystals 9 месяцев назад +11

    “The animals looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again, but it was already impossible to tell which was which” I GASPED AT THAT

  • @Ludovicus1769
    @Ludovicus1769 3 года назад +780

    When you said that the CIA funded it, I couldn’t stop laughing, I knew what the book was about.

    • @Iamjustthatguy
      @Iamjustthatguy 2 года назад +46

      When he was taking about the part of how napoleon controlled the animals in the farm it reminds me of the book 1984

    • @vin5486
      @vin5486 2 года назад +58

      @@Iamjustthatguy they were written by same authors too

    • @Sumautisticguy
      @Sumautisticguy 2 года назад +31

      The CIA made sure the ending was changed so napoleon was overthrown

    • @kaisaleh7268
      @kaisaleh7268 Год назад +1

      Right???

    • @lunablanca4784
      @lunablanca4784 Год назад +19

      For more context: Orwell supported Spain's Republic (this means there was no king, it not the same meaning the US gave to the word Republican). This didn't mean Spain was becoming a communist country, just that there was no king. No country supported this republic as much as some (in that moment) fascist countries supported the rebels. Ironically enough, the US negotiated with Spain's former dictator when they considered the country an ally to stop communism.

  • @JetSetWave
    @JetSetWave 4 года назад +213

    You know its bad when even the Crow turns its head in horror.

  • @butlerstarheart9679
    @butlerstarheart9679 5 лет назад +316

    99% This film isn't meant for kids. Just because it look like a Disney's movie cloned.
    99% The same time when Disney release Sleeping Beauty and Lady and the Tramp one year before, or after. Even the birth of Saturday Moarning Cartoons. How weird & obscured for animation's that decade

    • @jessebrown1996
      @jessebrown1996 5 лет назад +1

      It was literally rated G on release................

    • @izzycrybaby1164
      @izzycrybaby1164 5 лет назад +1

      All of Disney's movies themselves are spin-offs of dark stories. Google "Brothers Grimm". And the movies that weren't inspired by those dark tales often had racist undertones in them back in the old days.

  • @ming-tachang988
    @ming-tachang988 2 года назад +32

    I remember watched this film on Taiwan's TV once about 1989-90. I was shocked when Boxer was taken and Benjamin chasing the wagon part, I was hoping that something would happen to save that poor horse as what would happened in most Disney's films. Few years later I had chance to read the book in 9th grade literature and suddenly remembered the film I watched as kid. Great book and film, too bad that is not well known in Asia.

  • @rbswords2353
    @rbswords2353 4 года назад +398

    Differences are: no Molly,the carthorse,Moses the raven isn't there to tell them of Sugar Hill Mountain, the animals are ignorant to "Boxer's" demise,Boxer never says"I will work harder."No name of the mother dog Jessie,no show trials of many animals,Snowball doesn't die,he just flees,a dog attacks Boxer,Old Major dies later on after their meeting,no Mrs Jones here,Squealer isn't mentioned,obviously the pigs aren't taken down at the end.They don't even call each other "comrade" like in the book.

    • @night-seeker666
      @night-seeker666 3 года назад +48

      First of all, it's Sugarcandy Mountain, not Sugar Hill Mountain, that's just ridiculous.
      Second of all, I think its implied that Snowball is killed.
      Third, Squealer is mentioned and appears in the film.
      Finally, the pigs DO refer to each other as comrade.

    • @lambadajewo.4143
      @lambadajewo.4143 3 года назад +51

      In the book it was said that nobody has ever seen Snowball again after he's been banished, but it's never said that he died.

    • @vivaciousmyosotis
      @vivaciousmyosotis 3 года назад +11

      Also Boxer has said I will work harder

    • @vivaciousmyosotis
      @vivaciousmyosotis 3 года назад +6

      Also the ribbons were pink in the movie and green in the book

    • @lambadajewo.4143
      @lambadajewo.4143 3 года назад +9

      @@vivaciousmyosotis If I remember correctly, they were red. People used to put the red ribbons in manes of biting horses.

  • @theraginginfernape9496
    @theraginginfernape9496 5 лет назад +212

    **animal screeching**
    Steve: Someone PLEASE make it stop!
    **Old Major fucking dies**
    Steve: THANK you!

  • @lurch1628
    @lurch1628 5 лет назад +529

    Steve’s childhood: *exists*
    Animal farm:I’m about to end this man’s whole career.

    • @mohify2174
      @mohify2174 4 года назад +1

      I'm you're 100 like I'm excepting a thank you

    • @lurch1628
      @lurch1628 4 года назад

      Mr. Chap thank you.

    • @mohify2174
      @mohify2174 4 года назад

      @@lurch1628 :3

    • @AriaCodfish
      @AriaCodfish 4 года назад +5

      Plague dogs: Aww! That’s cute.

    • @Akeboun
      @Akeboun 4 года назад

      One could argue it started it...

  • @CJ-hp6fb
    @CJ-hp6fb 2 года назад +14

    Fun fact: Orwell's real name is Eric- the reason why he changed his name is that he didn't want ppl to know his true name or identity and he also wanted to start fresh when he started writing articles.

  • @quirkykirkplays
    @quirkykirkplays 4 года назад +166

    7:08 I seem to recall in the novel this was explained by saying that wings are a limb of locomotion rather than manipulation, so they did count as legs. It's been a few years since I read the book though

    • @Bbillnyethe
      @Bbillnyethe 4 года назад +1

      I believe you are on the money

    • @mckaylamarille8630
      @mckaylamarille8630 4 года назад +1

      That sounds pretty accurate

    • @samirjohnson4524
      @samirjohnson4524 4 года назад +2

      I am currently reading the book for a book review, and I can confirm that this is indeed accurate to the novel.

  • @yoursexualizedgrandparents6929
    @yoursexualizedgrandparents6929 5 лет назад +325

    One thing I never understood was how Napoleon was so smart. Like, did the alcohol increase their brain size?

    • @noneofyourbeeswax01
      @noneofyourbeeswax01 5 лет назад +115

      No, pigs are smarter than other farmyard animals, just as chickens would be the dumbest. Snowball was smarter than Napoleon, the latter was simply more ruthless, more cunning and more selfish.

    • @noneofyourbeeswax01
      @noneofyourbeeswax01 5 лет назад

      No, pigs are smarter than other farmyard animals, just as chickens would be the dumbest. Snowball was smarter than Napoleon, the latter was simply more ruthless, more cunning and more selfish.

    • @yoursexualizedgrandparents6929
      @yoursexualizedgrandparents6929 4 года назад +11

      @@noneofyourbeeswax01 That's not what I mean. The movie doesn't work as propaganda against communism, just propaganda against alcohol or addictive consumables (not including the _happy_ ending, that shit is just bad). Alcohol being the reasoning for Napoleon's ruthlessness and unapologetic behavior. So it doesn't make sense for him to be so intelligent. Snowball may have been smarter, I mean he did design a windmill. But Napoleon was already ahead of the situation. If Napoleon was maybe the farmers favorite pig, or maybe he read a book about ruling a country or something like that, then it would make sense. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I just find it ridiculous.

    • @BigBeerus
      @BigBeerus 4 года назад +34

      @@yoursexualizedgrandparents6929 your just dumb. Even the movie is obviously about communism, the alcohol is to show that the powerful grow lazy and weak, very far from their revolutionary views. Its also something deemed evil in the book the pigs adopt as a status thing proclaiming the other animals are too dumb for alcohol. Its a nod to the book

    • @terrorthefearsomedragon1502
      @terrorthefearsomedragon1502 4 года назад +3

      @@BigBeerus It's you're* not your, also you used the wrong It's.You sure they're dumb? You can't even get your grammar right.

  • @safiramisantrop8263
    @safiramisantrop8263 5 лет назад +468

    Animal Farm... from George Orwell... author of the 1984... for kids. Right :D
    Someone needs a little lesson from history of literature :D

    • @bigmeknurgle
      @bigmeknurgle 5 лет назад +18

      animated movies featuring talking animals aren't normally bought by adults for adults to watch. But yes, you know the origin, mad props. Shame you're not clever enough to realise that it ended up in many children's video libraries because of the visuals, not the subject matter.
      _You'll laugh! You'll cry a little! At the antics of the animals on Animal Farm! The wonder-full length technicolour cartoon!_ - on the front cover of the VHS case
      "Yeah, that'll keep little Timmy quiet for an hour or two, into the shopping basket it goes."
      Aaaaand that's why it's always been referred to as a kids movie. Yeah, 54 years later you're so smart for catching on. Gimme a fucking break, lady. Learn your own damn history.

    • @safiramisantrop8263
      @safiramisantrop8263 5 лет назад +4

      @@bigmeknurgle
      I remember writting this, bud I didn't know it sound that stupid.
      Anyway, I know that it ended up in children's hands because of visuals. Every animated movie is for kids, right. And I also find that stupid cover. It took me a little time, but I find it, and it's stupid, bud the adults should known better, bud I can understand they need break, so the people should let known better, that Animal farm is not for kids.

    • @notaseagull3320
      @notaseagull3320 5 лет назад +5

      I think the real problem is the marketing and/or making an animated film that looked just like classic Disney movies.

    • @therecklessabandable
      @therecklessabandable 5 лет назад +8

      @@safiramisantrop8263 He's not talking about the book though. He's talking about a film funded by the CIA to be marketed to children so that they are indoctrinated against communism before they can understand what it is.
      The film just happens to be an adaptation of a book that wasn't meant for children

  • @LOLPot24
    @LOLPot24 8 месяцев назад +9

    "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."

  • @alchemistfightinggunupstv5991
    @alchemistfightinggunupstv5991 4 года назад +804

    If Peppa Pig was communist

    • @The8bitdin0
      @The8bitdin0 4 года назад +29

      Profile picture checks out

    • @nalaprodd
      @nalaprodd 3 года назад +3

      Lol

    • @plaguebringer7865
      @plaguebringer7865 3 года назад +4

      Crap I can see It in my mind now

    • @dez1989
      @dez1989 3 года назад +8

      If you can't tell, you are blind. Hitler, Uncle Joe, in the end they are all the same except for who they allow in their exclusive club...

    • @charlezjenkinz9918
      @charlezjenkinz9918 3 года назад +1

      YES

  • @jebcoe
    @jebcoe 5 лет назад +189

    Snowballs reasoning of Wings are legs goes like this. (From book btw) Wings are limbs of propulsion, as are legs, while arms are limbs of manipulation. Four Limbs of Propulsion good, two limbs of manipulation bad.

    • @burntbacn
      @burntbacn 5 лет назад +15

      That... actually does make sense.

    • @TheLuigiBrother77
      @TheLuigiBrother77 5 лет назад +2

      @@burntbacn its not meant to make sense

    • @littlemoth4956
      @littlemoth4956 5 лет назад

      @@TheLuigiBrother77 What?

    • @TheLuigiBrother77
      @TheLuigiBrother77 5 лет назад

      @@littlemoth4956 snowballs reasoning isnt meant to make sense

    • @Jordan-wc6nh
      @Jordan-wc6nh 5 лет назад

      TheLuigiBrother77 but it does make sense

  • @MyUniqueBeauty
    @MyUniqueBeauty 5 лет назад +445

    Four legs good, two legs bad!
    Four legs good, two legs bad!
    Four legs good, two legs bad!

    • @reese1719
      @reese1719 5 лет назад +56

      Four legs good, two legs better!
      Four legs good, two legs better!
      Four legs good, two legs better!

    • @CarlosAugusto-rv6op
      @CarlosAugusto-rv6op 5 лет назад +29

      Orange man bad

    • @raynova8055
      @raynova8055 5 лет назад +6

      But... the geese...

    • @harlanrichards4765
      @harlanrichards4765 5 лет назад +3

      @@reese1719 fuck he beat me to it

    • @justinalder954
      @justinalder954 5 лет назад +2

      Birds dude (We all read the book)

  • @alwaysconfused1641
    @alwaysconfused1641 7 месяцев назад +5

    I will say, the book does a wonderful job showing how Napoleon and Squealer (his right-hand) use propoganda to get the animals to believe everything they say. The animals don't just accept it; they are threatened by the dogs, given the idea of the old farmer coming back if they don't listen, and are blatantly gaslit over, and over, and over again. It's also noted that the large majority of animals can't read, and don't have good memory - which is why Squealer's gaslighting works so well.
    In the book, Squealer also trains the lesser educated, blindly loyal sheep to bleat "Four legs good, two legs bad!" every time someone wants to disagree with Napoleon, ensuring that his opposition's voices are literally never heard. By the end of the book, they are taught to bleat "four legs good, two legs BETTER!" as the pigs start walking on their hind legs.
    But this is comparing two completely different mediums. I think the movie loses the layers of symbolism the book has, but it still gets the message across. Plus all these extra details would have likely driven the movie way over budget.

  • @iapetusmccool
    @iapetusmccool 3 года назад +1361

    The live-action version has a happy ending where the farm gets taken over by good farmers who treat the animals well.
    I don't know if that means the producers completely missed the allegory, or if they were making pro-monarchist propaganda.

    • @muhammadfarhan3341
      @muhammadfarhan3341 3 года назад +158

      They were indeed pushing the pro-monarchist propaganda. Ain't no happy ending in this story :/

    • @VergilDarkslayer
      @VergilDarkslayer 3 года назад +93

      The film was in 1990 when the soviet union got oofed the ending was the encouragment that even though the soviet union was in rumbles they can rebuild for a new tommorow

    • @iapetusmccool
      @iapetusmccool 3 года назад +40

      @@VergilDarkslayer no, it was 1999, so well after the USSR ended.

    • @VergilDarkslayer
      @VergilDarkslayer 3 года назад +30

      @@iapetusmccool yeah but still my point stands all the eastern countries where in terrible shape

    • @Ballin4Vengeance
      @Ballin4Vengeance 3 года назад +3

      @@VergilDarkslayer European history 1700’s-present

  • @supernovatv9514
    @supernovatv9514 5 лет назад +230

    8:03 in the book, Snowball never actually dies; I don’t think we ever learn what actually happens to Snowball.

    • @samishes1434
      @samishes1434 5 лет назад +46

      What we know though is that Trotsky dies in Mexico 1940 from mysterious circumstances and since Snowball is based on him, we can presume that he died in the book as well.

    • @supernovatv9514
      @supernovatv9514 5 лет назад +34

      Mr Universe
      ...yeah, Snowball most likely died at some point in the book, but I’m pretty sure he wasn’t killed immediately after being driven out of the farm, as it was implied in the video. We’re never explicitly told either way, but in the book, it’s at least implied that he makes it out successfully. Hence why Napoleon blames him for the destruction of the first windmill they try to build.

    • @samishes1434
      @samishes1434 5 лет назад +1

      @@supernovatv9514 yeah sure, but Trotsky didn't die till years later too

    • @someman66
      @someman66 5 лет назад +11

      Actually, I think that the book says that he died, but in "another farm".

    • @westonkouryfan69
      @westonkouryfan69 5 лет назад +2

      It doesnt say whether he lived or not, but it does say he lives at a neighboring farm then napoleon just uses this to say he has been spreading the wrong message?? Its been a while since ive read it but i think thats it

  • @Anthony-hi7bw
    @Anthony-hi7bw 5 лет назад +232

    Had to watch it in 7th grade, we knew it was violent, we watched it because we were learning about communism and soviet Russia and North Korea. I remember “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” written on the barn by the pigs, dark movie.

    • @SwedishEmpire1700
      @SwedishEmpire1700 5 лет назад +7

      As it should be, but i doubt they show this at all anymore since it would upset the commie kids.

    • @khldwb1425
      @khldwb1425 5 лет назад

      Hobo same

    • @Anthony-hi7bw
      @Anthony-hi7bw 5 лет назад

      jandm600 yeah it is and our teacher told us that.

    • @toastedpigs4552
      @toastedpigs4552 5 лет назад

      Hobo I’m in grade 7 rn and my teacher made us watch it because we were learning about communism

    • @Anthony-hi7bw
      @Anthony-hi7bw 5 лет назад +1

      Krmet its all propaganda, the American school system hasn’t been updated since the industrial revolution, so grade 7 social studies is learning about hostile nations and rogue countries. You might learn about North Korea as well.

  • @ushankabg
    @ushankabg Год назад +6

    Did you know?
    In France is illegal to name your pig Napoleon.

  • @Greggers1516
    @Greggers1516 4 года назад +521

    The movie definitely isn’t as notorious as the book. Don’t see how you reached that conclusion

    • @thatsalotofsodiumcoins1615
      @thatsalotofsodiumcoins1615 3 года назад +72

      I didn’t know that there was a movie lol and this definitely was never meant to be a kids book/movie

    • @luigi7834
      @luigi7834 3 года назад +7

      I have read the book and heard about the live action movie but I've never seen this one until this video

    • @gravediggey6016
      @gravediggey6016 3 года назад +5

      The movie didn't have as much of a dark ending as the book.

    • @bruhmoment6204
      @bruhmoment6204 3 года назад +2

      @@gravediggey6016 what happened during the end ?

    • @jacknewell1847
      @jacknewell1847 2 года назад +1

      @@bruhmoment6204 In the end, the animals watch the Pigs and Men playing cards, congratulating each other on how well they had tricked the animals into working for their benefit. The last paragraph shows that they where no longer able to tell the cruelty of the Pigs from the cruelty of the Men, saying: “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

  • @thebluegoblin8939
    @thebluegoblin8939 5 лет назад +161

    As they began to build snowballs-
    Nepolian: * SQUEL*
    I mean napoleon's

    • @DPryce
      @DPryce 4 года назад +1

      How did you manage to misspell 'Napoleon' so badly the first time but get it right the second time?

    • @tvjam428
      @tvjam428 4 года назад

      sqel

    • @terrorthefearsomedragon1502
      @terrorthefearsomedragon1502 4 года назад

      @@DPryce Jeez, maybe English isn't their first language.

  • @KonjakTheSober
    @KonjakTheSober 5 лет назад +257

    In the book they say that fourlegs are good and two legs are okay if you also have wings

    • @anon9579
      @anon9579 5 лет назад +35

      They declare that because wings are a means of propulsion not manipulation thats what the book says

    • @johnnyjoestar6478
      @johnnyjoestar6478 5 лет назад +2

      KonjakTheSober because wings are a tool of propulsion and not manipulation

    • @videohistory722
      @videohistory722 5 лет назад +4

      Then towards the end, it's changed to four legs good, two legs BETTER.

    • @Spoonable
      @Spoonable 5 лет назад +2

      videohistory722 cause the pigs started walking in two legs I think

  • @petsnrocks
    @petsnrocks 2 года назад +3

    Orwell was a Socialist. The book wasn't so much a critique of Communist principles so much as the Soviet's corruption of Marx's writings for the interests of the elites. But clearly at a surface level it could be seen as strictly anti-communist, which I assume the CIA was banking on when funding the film.