And a true Patriot protects the people from its Government. Government is by definition an inherently inefficient, wasteful, and coercive territorial monopolist of ultimate decisionmaking & violence…Governments and everyone on their payroll live off the loot stolen from other people. They lead a parasitic existence at the expense of a subdued and “host” populace.
This was always my favorite book in school when I was a kid . It’s unfortunate there is so many kids who just care about their homework and not the meaning of the story . This movie has so much symbolism in the Russian revolution and how evil Stalin was .
As a czech, Stalin was a tyrannical dictator, evil is opinion, he did enslave many ethnic minorities, including the Czechs, and it is important to note that, not just "evil"
Says the person, who obviously doesn't know, that Wikipedia is an unreliable source. When you're too lazy, to pay attention, to where you're getting your information from, on the internet.
gangurogeisha no that’s wrong. Wikipedia isn’t what it used to be. Most edits need to be verified and usually are corrected within seconds. Plus you can always just look at their sources and decide from there
am i the only one who’s not here because of school? i just got bored and decided to read my dad’s copy of animal farm and loved it, but now i’m watching this and thinking, “why tf is major doing a backflip?”
billy gibb no you are wrong it’s talking about communism and the bad things that happened during that. You should how this book connects to communism and Joseph Stalin
The gaming channel RUclipsr your a tad bit stupid the Russian revolution is linked to communism and this story is about both the revolution and communism it’s basic history
HeBeHosmaHD Animations when he was supposed to die three days later I just don’t understand how this movie is an hour + long when it won’t even stick to what made the book good in the first place.
If you're here on a school assignment, make sure you put emphasis on: -how Old Major died -how Pilkington was still conscious when Jones was with his wife. -how the narrator dog is now blind and is recalling what happened years ago -how thin the windmill's walls were -how Jones' car was crushed and reused in the new structure -Pilkington's trade with Napoleon and most importantly: -how the farm can start anew in the end since the pigs have gone and how Animalism will be able to flourish once more.
Yeah but all theses are wrong if u study the book because they missed and got things wrong and the ending is totally off in the book even though they were trying to make it the same in the book so if u are studying this study the book and compare it to the movie trust me it’s really off in this movie
My good sir, the type of people who read the comments before watching the video are quite often the same type of people who would read the book before watching the movie! ;)
Thankfully this wasn't the babe you were watching this is something based off of antI Communist ideology!😉 I wonder how babe would react to this as well as the animals on the farm?
The woman thats talking for the main dog, she is so fantastic, her voice is just perfect. I cant even understand how is she doing it, transmiting all the feelings and emotions. I literally cried just because of how well can she talk with a timbre
Book: Napoleon is a cruel yet shrewd leader leading a successful farm Movie: Napoleon can't handle the whisky and neglects the farm until it gets wrecked
That's entirely incorrect. He keeps himself and the other pigs as humans eventually 'becoming' so one can't tell the difference between the two. Meanwhile, the farm is run ragged with the animals starving and a windmill that never works.
@@williamparis500 I did not write about the suffering of the rest of the other animals, for I thought that it was sorta obvious... I meant shrewd by the fact that he manipulates little by little each time the rules, until he reaches his peak when he teaches, and obligates the rest of the pigs to walk like humans and the ever so loud sheep to exclaim the famous "four legs good, two legs better". From what I figured out from the book, though, it seemed to me that the farm was much more successful financially (and not ending like it did here), by that meaning "successful farm"
@@thesnowfox7262 the Pigs (aka the Soviet leadership) asset stripped the farm: Destroying the workers which were the means for production, the hay lays in fields to rot, the chickens murdered so no eggs, the workhorse animals depleted to the point of death or sale to glue makers. I’m glad this version of the movie goes further than the book - because the conclusion of Stalinism was inevitable. I would argue that the farm before “Animal/Manor Farm” was as no worse and in many ways better (even for the pigs). It’s good to have these debates and discussions. It keeps the discussion alive about why we should resist any dictator and their syrupy sweet lies that lead to death and slaughter.
Very true the disgust in her choice is very potent and justified the crow is a con artist and sadist he doesn't know the pain any farm aniaml goes through
When the survivors returned to the ruins of Animal Farm after all these years of waiting, and the instrumentals reprising "Beasts of the World". Just sends chills down my spine. This may not be a faithful ending to the og book, but it's so damn effective.
@@Disneyfan82 Well ya, the movie was made after the fall of the Soviet Union, whereas the book wasn’t. The animators movie wasn’t either, but it could be argued that the ending of that movie is darker than the book. They tried to imply that democracy took hold (because of the focus on the Donkey and the Donkey being the symbol of the Democratic Party), but without knowing that context, it would be seen as history repeating itself and just a new class usurping the pigs position as rulers.
January Embers I agree with you. Jessie is so cute dog to my autistic son David, if you ask me personally. He will kissing Jessie on the lips of the doggy mouth.
1:22:23 I watched this movie alot as a kid over 20 yrs ago and although many parts of the movie stuck with me, the haunting yet incredibly catchy song at the end stuck with me the most.
politics aside - why doesn't the farmer's wife feed the animals? i mean seriously, i know she's probably got her own chores, but laundry and cooking shouldn't take priority over starving your source of income.
Do you? know the book an analogy for the political history of Russia and the soviet union? Stalin is Napoleon, Snowball is Trotsky, Major is Karl Marx, Mr. Federick is fascist Germany and Mr. Pikington is the allied nations. The betrayal Mr. Federick made relates to the battle of Stalingrad. The chickens represented collectivized farmers, and Boxer represented the worker who was used and thrown away to poverty in the Soviet Union. The way the pigs dress up relates to how Stalin dressed as the tzars after the revolution in Russia. He became the politician he deemed his foe. It's kind of impossible not to talk about politics with this book. I could probably go on for hundreds of lines with the symbolism.
Let's be honest if you asked me truly personally: Napoleon, Squealer, & The Pilkington Crime family idiots ought to be truly🔥in hell for imbecility greedily & selfishness!
Now with 2020 that wretched thing of a year of pure misery, pain, chaos and tragedy finally at its end we are now in the beginning of 2021 the next 11 months into this new year will be full of uncertainty with the COVID-19 Pandemic still going on, in what was supposed to be a wonderful new decade but instead we now are forced to face much darker times with politics in turmoil, discrimination rife in many states and the pure judgment that casts its ugly shadow onto the world we can only hope that 2021 brings us some sort of peace. 2020 has given us too much pain and death. 2021, I pray that America will heal from some of the scars that 2020 has utterly inflicted upon the country of democracy.
I'm so sorry to hear that cause jessie, Benjamin and Muriel knew that van isn't taking boxer to a horse hospital so he was taken to the horse slaughter for glue
I didn't really mind the ending much. The book ends with the humans and pigs beginning to look indistinguishable from each other. Here, the story is updated to include the eventual fall of the Soviet Union, with some of the animals choosing to do the smart thing and leave the farm, returning some time after Napoleon's reign collapses, as all empires inevitably do.
The ending literally switches the whole political message orwell intended it to convey. It‘s a rape of orwells masterpiece. It‘s a shame capitalist enterprises would turn his very anti-capitalistic book into a pro-capitalist movie. It‘s utter disrespect towards the author
Absolutely! Old Major was a visionary whose ideology was corrupted by the ones that were left after the ones that supported his ideas were killed in the multiple invasions aimed at keeping the status quo. Whatever your age remember this is your world.
Ah, now I always thought of old major as Marx, snowball as lenin and napoleon as stalin. But I could be wrong, quite possibly am. I'll have to see others opinions. Cheers
@@salfisher5312 Originally yes. Unfortunately it's a mirror of nearly every communist revolution since. There's even aspects of COVID and the great reset now.
@@sirellyn it's not unfortunate that we have warning signs and red flags. Now we must recognize those signs and strike down communism when it rears its ugly head.
For all the people that don’t understand the simple hidden meaning behind this, this movie has to do with the Russian revolution and Stalin’s rise to power.
The first few things I realised when watching this were these things: 1.Where was Clover the stout motherly mate (she was very important in the book) 2.Old major died of old age in the book, he wasn't shot. 3.Where the hell was Minimus (anyone remember him) 4.Where was Mr Fredrick of pinchfield farm, (I mean come on, if you're gonna put in Mr Pilkington then you may as well put in Mr Fredrick as well) 5.Mollie's betrayal was never mentioned or even hinted at in the movie 6.Napoleons dogs never slaughtered four of the pigs, a few of the chickens and some of the other animals 7.The ending was wrong I mean come on, if you're going to make a movie of a boon then you should at least read the book first.
wonder the same things but if they follow the book to exactly it can result in less viewers because if it is exactly like the book people don't watch it because they have already read the entire thing.
I like how the book says he dies peacefully in his sleep but in the movie he goes out like the animalist legend that he is and fricking backflips to his death.
Still can't believe that I couldn't recognize Patrick Stewart's voice right away! He was perfect as Napoleon. Also, this movie got me to read the book.
Well we know this about history Kings and tyrants will come and go but as the common folk have always known we will stay after any ruler has had their day
Don't know what I find more tragic. The mother dog dying in the animated version. Or here where she get to live and see her own pups turned into backstabbing minions :(
I am honestly glad Jessie was the main character, and lived until the end. She played such a tiny role in the book, and died like a try background character.
Has anyone else noticed that Clover and Jessie pretty much switched places? In the book Clover was the one who was suspicious and closest to Boxer, but in the movie it's Jessie. I'm not saying it in a bad way it's just something I noticed.
In the book it said how he tried kicking himself free but he was too weak and that when he was younger he’d be able to kick the door down with no problem😢
The film was an interesting adaption of the book. However, the interjection of hope undercuts the point of the book entirely. The uplifting message at the end (which is not in the book, for those who didn't read it.....the book ends at the dinner scene between Napoleon and the other farmers) trashes the entire message of the original book.
the 1954 technically did the same with Benjamin leading a second revolt, and is basically an anti-communist propaganda piece. While somewhat cornier, this film's ending was actually inspired by a post-soviet event idly enough.
@@MerryMohProductions While I do understand where the new ending came from, I do not think it fits the warning of the original book. This ending basically says "just go into hiding and let the government destroy itself, then wait for someone else to come along and rescue you."
@@WalkerRileyMC Interesting. However it makes sense for this movie's ending. Stalin eventually went out of power by dying due to a disease as symbolized in this movie. While your reply does make sense, you got to realize that the original intention of this book is not what happened in history. This book was published literally less than a month before WW2 ended. George Orwell had no idea what would have happened with communism, but he didn't create the book with a theme that communism itself will ruin the world. He did it to expose the giant flaws of communism as an ideology, which promoted "equality" as its central idea. However we all know how badly this turned out in the end. This movie was meant to add to the fact that while communism has done a large deed on the harming of people in Russia, it ended up creating a historical lesson for the Russians to remember. To not repeat the same mistake that has happened in history. Look now. Russia is technically a capitalist country now, just not from a western capitalist standpoint.
Book: Battle of Windmill, Clover cried for Boxer when taken to glue factory, ends at animals claiming no difference between pig and man Movie: Just Battle of Cowshed, Jesse cries for Boxer when taken to glue factory, ends at new farmer buys Jones land
Clover's role was replaced by Jessie the dog in this movie. Though, you can see a black horse that never speaks at several points in the movie, which should be Clover. You can clearly see that there are three horses in the scene with old major (Boxer is in a stall in the back)
The puppies should've been the Rottweiler dog breed, a lot more intimidating. The movie should've ended when we saw Napoleon on two legs. Other than that it was pretty entertaining, I rate this 3 1/2 hooves out of 5.
Careful all the guys that are watching this instead of reading the book for school, there are many changes. 1)the battle of the Cowshed (where Snowball receives a medal) is orchestred by Jones and his men (not Pilkington) 2)Friedrich (other farmer) represents Hitler, he trades with Napoleon, but finally attack Animal farm (battle of the Windmill=ww2) 3) the book ends BADLY Napoleon stays in power, and Manor farm represents modern Russia.
+Leurquin François I'm surprised someone would choose to watch a film adaptation of Animal Farm over reading the book itself. I read the book as a teen (even though youtube had existed by then lol) and never once did I feel like the writing was dated or boring. I actually blew right through it in two days. Eh, to each their own I guess.
+butterstix24 I think books are almost always better than movies but movies are just quicker and easier. Some kids don't have much attention span, especially in this day and age.
I also had to read it for school a couple of months ago, and honestly, it's a really good book, surely better than the film (although I like the songs).
Currently reading and annotating the end of the book and I am anxious as to why CLOVER IS NOT IN HERE. She was one of the most motherly and important characters in my point of view. Her calling for Boxer as he was being sent towards the factory broke my heart!
1:15:42 “Please do it for me. Do it for all of us.” Must be really hard later when you realised your words of encouragement led your friend to the slaughter...
My main issue with this adaptation is that it makes Jones more likable and causes us to have compassion for him...very different from the book. The animated version is closer to the book, but this is good regardless.
1:21:34 is literally the end of the book. Why the movie goes on from there is beyond me. They skipped the parts where the pigs a) create a social structure where pigs are to be respected higher than any other animal b) walk on two legs and c) completely do away with all the commandments and replace them with one commandment, reading "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." The last commandment was added into the film, but the other laws remained, which was not in the book. The book had Napoleon do away with the other commandments as a way of demonstrating a complete turn around from Old Major's (Marx/Lenin) original dream of a republic of animals through an ideal called Animalism. All the original commandments were eventually altered, then determined to be no longer coinciding with Animalism because Napoleon was becoming more and more like the humans that Old Major believed to be the cause of misery for all animals. At the end, Napoleon and the humans were indistinguishable. Napoleon had become what he, Snowball, and Old Major had hated.
The ending is symbolic as the story itself. Animal Farm collapsing on itself after the tyrannical ruling of Napoleon is an allegory of how the soviet union ended up collapsing on itself during its dissolution. I'm glad they added that as the ending for this adaption because it adds to the story the source material was able to finish because of the time it was written.
+David Tang (FlameNGames) SPOILER ALERT (first 16 minutes) 1. That whole 5 minute or so intro doesn't happen in the book. it actually starts just before Mr. Jones goes to bed 2. Jessie isn't a main character in the book 3. the movie doesn't have Clover who is a main character in the book 4. the whole thing with Jones and that other guy's wife doesn't happen in the book 5. the song is completely different from the book. - the lyrics are different and it tells you that it sounds like a cross between Clementine and La Cucaracha 6. in the movie Major gets killed by a bullet. in the book he dies of old age
Having a protagonist (the dog that had the puppies that should become Napoleon's soldiers) goes against the theme that George Orwell wrote all the time in his works: people who do not protest against the world they live in. And the strange fixation on Farmer Jones and the humans makes it seem as though the production studio was afraid of having a movie that focused only on talking animals.
barbaro267 a decent point to be sure, the focus on the humans in this film often comes off as forced. But there is a protagonist in 1984, arguably his most popular work of fiction, in Winston Smith. In Animal Farm there are a myriad of characters the reader can mildly project themselves on in multiple chapters, for some it's Snowball, others it's Boxer, sometimes even Benjamin, etc. It's expertly written in that way, but that format does not always translate to film. A talented filmmaker could make it work with meticulous care, but my best bet is that a straight to TV hallmark movie didn't have the time, money, or patience to work with an idea so daunting. For what they have I think making Jessie the vehicle for the story was great, she's a perfect lens to view the rise and fall from, someone who's oppressed by the system enough but not overly victimized to the point of emotional disconnect. For all it's flaws I quite enjoy this movie, there's definitely a lot of fat to trim but if you know enough about screenwriting it would become very evident that Animal Farm is not prime for adaptation. It's my favorite book, I tried to adapt it myself thinking it would be easy, but it's structure is so foreign and unorthodox that it proved to be borderline impossible to remain accurate and cohesive. It's a miracle that Anthony Burgesses A Clockwork Orange can be brought to the silver screen rather accurately, the idea of doing Animal Farm to the letter is basically a fantasy.
Wasn't Clover supposed to be the protagonist? I mean she was one of the central characters in the book, yet for some reason both this and the animated version completely leave her out.
Orwell was a staunch anti-Stalinist and anti-authoritarian so i feel this is more a critique of Stalin and the dictatorship of the proletariat than anything else
F Gievski that’s true. Kinda sad that a tyrant person (Stalin) is the person that communist countries (North Korea and China) follows than Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, And Leon Trotsky..
People who upload full movies to RUclips are the best that humanity has to offer.
they are really the scum of the earth but i applaude them
will pierlot screw you they are not
Charlie ND true most idiots just care about being demonitzed
Hear hear!
No one is born cool
...
Apart from the people who upload whole movies on RUclips
Book: Old Major died peacefully in his sleep
Movie: Old major backflips out the window and dies
Lmaooooo that scene was hilarious
@@thegoldengamer9315 no it wasn’t it was terrifying for 6 year old me (I’m 15 now)
yea lol
@@nocturnaledits4067 Same here. I made sure I was vegetarian before watching this movie again. :P
lol
Snowball: *exists*
Napoleon: You are the enemy of the people
Its illegal to name a pig napoleon becuase he was fat
This is one of the greatest books ever
Janne Petersen thats no truth
Whom agrees napoleon is greedy and just turned like mr jones 🙋♀️
No. It was kinda bad
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
-Thomas Jefferson
And a true Patriot protects the people from its Government. Government is by definition an inherently inefficient, wasteful, and coercive territorial monopolist of ultimate decisionmaking & violence…Governments and everyone on their payroll live off the loot stolen from other people. They lead a parasitic existence at the expense of a subdued and “host” populace.
Benjamin Franklin said that
Tell that to the MAGA maniacs
@@AisForCat I think it's the democrats that are setting up a tyrannical government. Tyrants came from the left not the right.
@@AisForCat you mean democrats who are for statism
"Yeah Boi" - Napoleon 1999 (58:30)
XD Lmao
I hear the song was called home sweet Chicago by the end of this film, I bet this film has a happy ending were the new owners come
Best line
Best part of the movie.
*58:32
Snowball:
Napoleon: And I took that personally
lol
That’s communism for ya
@@alexreeves2686 snowball
Only the real get this joke lol
Poor trotsky
This episode of Back at the Barnyard is pretty deep...
Gibby from iCarly I agree
Haha!
I’m actually laughing so hard
LMAOOOOO
This is not an episode from Back at the Barnyard.
This was always my favorite book in school when I was a kid . It’s unfortunate there is so many kids who just care about their homework and not the meaning of the story . This movie has so much symbolism in the Russian revolution and how evil Stalin was .
Woah didn’t think I’d see you here, and yes excellent movie
As a czech, Stalin was a tyrannical dictator, evil is opinion, he did enslave many ethnic minorities, including the Czechs, and it is important to note that, not just "evil"
Bolshevik Revolution*
There was literally nothing Russian about it.
@@the_real_tabby me too
Same. I'm 15
When you think this is going to help with your exam but it's completely different from the book.
Watch the animated one
@ateb3 were not lazy dip shit. Some people like to watch the animated one before the book or vise versa
@ateb3 read Ephesians 4:29
@@candycane1744 read Ephesians 4:29
Yeah bro 😂😂😂 that’s what I said when I first saw this specific movie
when you're too lazy to read the Wikipedia article on the history of the Soviet Union
MrUberShark 👌👌👌
Says the person, who obviously doesn't know, that Wikipedia is an unreliable source. When you're too lazy, to pay attention, to where you're getting your information from, on the internet.
Arrmia Benton how is Wikipedia an unreliable source?
gangurogeisha no that’s wrong. Wikipedia isn’t what it used to be. Most edits need to be verified and usually are corrected within seconds. Plus you can always just look at their sources and decide from there
gangurogeisha did you read original post?
am i the only one who’s not here because of school? i just got bored and decided to read my dad’s copy of animal farm and loved it, but now i’m watching this and thinking, “why tf is major doing a backflip?”
@Tod i'm sorry, i'm not sure what you mean by this comment??
Same! I loved the book and then realized there was a movie so I came here.
@@rainatrujillo so you very obviously didn’t either.
@@cuddybud5316 didnt what
bruh i could have swore that the Animals overthrough napoleon but i guess not
Jessie's voice actress is incredible she's great at using emotion in her voice!
Julia Ormond
I cryed when Jessie and Benjamin called desperately for Boxer as he is being taken to the Glue Factory
We're all going to the glue factory under Farmer Trump.
James K what do you mean by that?
James K omg
Which minute was it?
spoilers
Boxers death was the saddest
I'm surprised that pig was talking to a human!
This film is based on the Russian revolution
billy gibb no you are wrong it’s talking about communism and the bad things that happened during that. You should how this book connects to communism and Joseph Stalin
The gaming channel RUclipsr your a tad bit stupid the Russian revolution is linked to communism and this story is about both the revolution and communism it’s basic history
@@michaelgoldsmith9359 lol were in 2018 and this was made in 2016
Comrades this is the greatest movie of all time.
Lol
Your plan wasn’t followed through tho
HeBeHosmaHD Animations when he was supposed to die three days later I just don’t understand how this movie is an hour + long when it won’t even stick to what made the book good in the first place.
That Rottweiler sounds crafty when he talks, in real life animals don't talk cause you imagine they do
the book is better, and has a deeper ending
“We cried out desperately…but we heard him give up the struggle.” That broke me 🥺🥺🥺
When the truck hits the sign and it falls, its symbolic in its own way. Without Boxer "ANIMAL FARM" was no more.
The way the actress screams "They're taking you to your death !", was chilling.
@@Shuffle-Major-Arcana yea
If you're here on a school assignment, make sure you put emphasis on:
-how Old Major died
-how Pilkington was still conscious when Jones was with his wife.
-how the narrator dog is now blind and is recalling what happened years ago
-how thin the windmill's walls were
-how Jones' car was crushed and reused in the new structure
-Pilkington's trade with Napoleon
and most importantly:
-how the farm can start anew in the end since the pigs have gone and how Animalism will be able to flourish once more.
Thank you kind sir.
Thank you for your wise words of wisdom.
THANK YOUUU
You sir are an evil genius
Yeah but all theses are wrong if u study the book because they missed and got things wrong and the ending is totally off in the book even though they were trying to make it the same in the book so if u are studying this study the book and compare it to the movie trust me it’s really off in this movie
Snowball:
Napoleon: so is that like a personal attack or something
**points** I understood that reference!
Napoleon needed someone to rack up all the blame on, so the pigs and dogs could do anything they wanted
I cried like a baby when Boxer was being transported to the horse slaughter 😭🐎💔
same :'(
31:32 is funny
38:48 is funny
50:50 is funny
1:07:35 is funny
Napoleon in real live wearing clothes and standing upright is cursed.
Exactly.
*NOTE*
*READ THE BOOK B4 WATCHING THIS MOVIE*
*THIS IS A MESSAGE TO THOSE WHO READ COMMENTS B4 WATCHING ANY RUclips VIDEO!*
WHY
ManOfEngland12 cuz if u read the book, then the movie wont be so bad cuz u know the story
JNRsteel squad I’m reading it in school in English
I read the book before watching the movie, too. This is my first time watching the movie. I figured there was a movie about this.
My good sir, the type of people who read the comments before watching the video are quite often the same type of people who would read the book before watching the movie! ;)
Babe is alot darker than i remembered.
Thankfully this wasn't the babe you were watching this is something based off of antI Communist ideology!😉 I wonder how babe would react to this as well as the animals on the farm?
The woman thats talking for the main dog, she is so fantastic, her voice is just perfect. I cant even understand how is she doing it, transmiting all the feelings and emotions. I literally cried just because of how well can she talk with a timbre
Her name is Julia Ormond. She also played Guinevere in the movie First Knight.
In every other version of this story the dog dies almost right at the beginning. That’s why this is my favorite version.
@@bloodmoon0205 And she was also major actress in Legend of Fall; along with Brad Pitt.
@@bloodmoon0205 she was also one of the main villains in The Baby of Macon (you think this movie is messed up? Ha!)
It Doesn't Suit The Charicter, But It's Also Not As Bad As Some Other Movies From The Late 20th Century.
Book: Napoleon is a cruel yet shrewd leader leading a successful farm
Movie: Napoleon can't handle the whisky and neglects the farm until it gets wrecked
Napoleon started out the former, but ended up the latter in book.
1954 Movie: Napoleon is a prideful asshole and gets his shit knocked in.
That's entirely incorrect. He keeps himself and the other pigs as humans eventually 'becoming' so one can't tell the difference between the two. Meanwhile, the farm is run ragged with the animals starving and a windmill that never works.
@@williamparis500 I did not write about the suffering of the rest of the other animals, for I thought that it was sorta obvious... I meant shrewd by the fact that he manipulates little by little each time the rules, until he reaches his peak when he teaches, and obligates the rest of the pigs to walk like humans and the ever so loud sheep to exclaim the famous "four legs good, two legs better". From what I figured out from the book, though, it seemed to me that the farm was much more successful financially (and not ending like it did here), by that meaning "successful farm"
@@thesnowfox7262 the Pigs (aka the Soviet leadership) asset stripped the farm: Destroying the workers which were the means for production, the hay lays in fields to rot, the chickens murdered so no eggs, the workhorse animals depleted to the point of death or sale to glue makers.
I’m glad this version of the movie goes further than the book - because the conclusion of Stalinism was inevitable. I would argue that the farm before “Animal/Manor Farm” was as no worse and in many ways better (even for the pigs).
It’s good to have these debates and discussions. It keeps the discussion alive about why we should resist any dictator and their syrupy sweet lies that lead to death and slaughter.
1:03:17 best editing and best scene hands down
Jimbo Bobbins HAHAHA
I see why people really like this movie
*H M? H M?*
*S N O W B A L L*
The best scene in any movie ever
*hM? hM?*
*sNoWbAlL*
Who else gets chills when the animal guard starts singing and the banners unfold around Napoleon?
every time. Richard Harvey did such a good job on the soundtrack
Richard Harvey will be the next John Williams. I guarantee it.
Rest in Peace. Boxer...
At least Napoleon got a well-deserved fate here
snowball: *exists*
napoleon: “and i took that personally”
dear god the cgi in this is scary.
Yeah, old major was supposed to die of an old age
Cgi on the rat is actual trash
It was of it's time. Remember, Hollywood's come a ways since such films as this and Jumanji.
What is cgi?
na na na thats becaus it ive action
This Is Why Cows Should Be In Charge Instead Of Pigs (Like Barnyard 2006)
Agreed
10/10 analysis
True that.
58:03 😨😨😨😨😨
But cows are less intelligent...
Jessie is such a Beautiful and kind hearted dog
Jaidy Bellet Yeah but...is she blind at the end? Her eyes are strange
kaio kaori at the beginning she said she was almost Blind
the whole movie was a flashback
the beginning and the end were the present day.
I I was a dog I'd wanna SMASH
She wasn’t in the book
She was in the book but she had only a minor role.
I watched this in 7th grade but rewatching it, hearing Jessie say ""no human should ever hurt an animal" @ 5:47 is just so powerful
Very true the disgust in her choice is very potent and justified the crow is a con artist and sadist he doesn't know the pain any farm aniaml goes through
We humans are animals my friend.
My class watched this version back in freshman year of high school 10 years ago and for some reason, we all cracked up at 8:54
😂😂😂🤣😂Nooo
Teacher: Class, we will have a quiz today.
The whole class: 8:54
blUEMaN9306 Lol i have quiz for this
XDEATHXPOP 21 feels bad man
Best comment I've seen on youtube!
Relate For this for every chapter *cries*
Plot twist, one of the kids actually clicks that very button to go to 8:54 right as the teacher says "pop quiz"
Aaw, talking animals! So cute, it's like Babe! Oh, wait...oh my god, it's really not like Babe.
It's more like Babe than the book, SMH
Goddamn communists
lmao
welcometomoonbar Have you read the book? Read the book first. The movie is inaccurate, not as accurate as the book.
HA!
When the survivors returned to the ruins of Animal Farm after all these years of waiting, and the instrumentals reprising "Beasts of the World". Just sends chills down my spine.
This may not be a faithful ending to the og book, but it's so damn effective.
But it seems like the ending completes the cliffhanger that was left unanswered in the book.
@@Disneyfan82 You have a point
@@Disneyfan82
Well ya, the movie was made after the fall of the Soviet Union, whereas the book wasn’t. The animators movie wasn’t either, but it could be argued that the ending of that movie is darker than the book. They tried to imply that democracy took hold (because of the focus on the Donkey and the Donkey being the symbol of the Democratic Party), but without knowing that context, it would be seen as history repeating itself and just a new class usurping the pigs position as rulers.
Poor Snowball. Squealer always said, "He is always right." And poor Boxer fell for it. Jessie is such a kind hearted dog.
January Embers I agree with you.
Jessie is so cute dog to my autistic son David, if you ask me personally.
He will kissing Jessie on the lips of the doggy mouth.
Sad this happened in real life.
@@engiethefriendlyengineerare you talking animals or Russia?
@@eleventh_chicken guess
When you're too lazy to read the book
yea same
*you're
Yes, because his misspelled word completely threw what he was trying to say off track. Thank you for translating this.
Actually, we read the book then watched this in high school.
I read the book I'm too lazy to watch the whole video
I was sad, when Napoleon turn Jessie's puppies into slaves literally slaughtering animals.
i agree, it's one of rarely mentioned but equally tragic parts of the story. I'm glad you pointed it out.
Abdullah M the dogs were the only other species in the book who were given any other superior treatment aside from the pigs
What about minimum wage people
Just going to use this to say they should have removed Jesse from the script and stuck to the book where she died, having a narrator ruins the story
41:55
41:54 funny
1:22:23 I watched this movie alot as a kid over 20 yrs ago and although many parts of the movie stuck with me, the haunting yet incredibly catchy song at the end stuck with me the most.
The revolution song gets stuck in my head as well
one of my favorite tracks, ngl
politics aside - why doesn't the farmer's wife feed the animals? i mean seriously, i know she's probably got her own chores, but laundry and cooking shouldn't take priority over starving your source of income.
i said "politics aside"
Do you? know the book an analogy for the political history of Russia and the soviet union? Stalin is Napoleon, Snowball is Trotsky, Major is Karl Marx, Mr. Federick is fascist Germany and Mr. Pikington is the allied nations. The betrayal Mr. Federick made relates to the battle of Stalingrad. The chickens represented collectivized farmers, and Boxer represented the worker who was used and thrown away to poverty in the Soviet Union. The way the pigs dress up relates to how Stalin dressed as the tzars after the revolution in Russia. He became the politician he deemed his foe. It's kind of impossible not to talk about politics with this book. I could probably go on for hundreds of lines with the symbolism.
Let's be honest if you asked me truly personally: Napoleon, Squealer, & The Pilkington Crime family idiots ought to be truly🔥in hell for imbecility greedily & selfishness!
The book was written in the 1940's. And im sure they didnt think it proper for women to get dirty doing a mans job.
from the animals' perspectives, the humans are cruel, terrible creatures, so that wouldn't really make sense.
16:00 Top 10 Saddest Anime Deaths
This 1999 live action movie is better than the 1954 cartoon movie
*AND THEN ALONG CAME ZESUS*
*HE HURRRLED HIS THUNDERBOLT*
*LOCKED THOSE SUCKAS IN A VAULT*
Devil on Ice Be Serious
welltoucansamatthatgame F
HE DIED PEACEFULLY IN HIS SLEEP THE BOOK SAID 😭😭😭
Anyone still watching in 2020?
I am
@@freedomstar3930 of course
Me for a project
Me - p
Now with 2020 that wretched thing of a year of pure misery, pain, chaos and tragedy finally at its end we are now in the beginning of 2021 the next 11 months into this new year will be full of uncertainty with the COVID-19 Pandemic still going on, in what was supposed to be a wonderful new decade but instead we now are forced to face much darker times with politics in turmoil, discrimination rife in many states and the pure judgment that casts its ugly shadow onto the world we can only hope that 2021 brings us some sort of peace.
2020 has given us too much pain and death.
2021, I pray that America will heal from some of the scars that 2020 has utterly inflicted upon the country of democracy.
I honestly like this adaptation. It has it's own, modernized takes, but it stays true to the book at heart.
Ngl to you, I laughed at old majors death scene. I wasn’t expecting him to do a backflip out of a window, but hey!😂😂😂😂😂
Lol me too I thought he died in his sleep peacefully
I literally am laughing at that
He was supposed to die of old age lol
@@anuravi1413 Right 😂
The cartoon one killed me too 😂
boxer is so beautiful
and strong and has a good heart
I'm sad that he died
I'm so sorry to hear that cause jessie, Benjamin and Muriel knew that van isn't taking boxer to a horse hospital so he was taken to the horse slaughter for glue
Jaidy Bellet F
square up Jaidy
@@BlackoutZX true
Cheer up
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I didn't really mind the ending much. The book ends with the humans and pigs beginning to look indistinguishable from each other. Here, the story is updated to include the eventual fall of the Soviet Union, with some of the animals choosing to do the smart thing and leave the farm, returning some time after Napoleon's reign collapses, as all empires inevitably do.
And the 1954 ending saying that enough is enough and therefore killing the pigs right?
a little disappointed, i came to the movie to see how they adapted that scene
the book was written after ww2 but the film was made after the cold war and the fall of the USSR
The ending literally switches the whole political message orwell intended it to convey. It‘s a rape of orwells masterpiece. It‘s a shame capitalist enterprises would turn his very anti-capitalistic book into a pro-capitalist movie. It‘s utter disrespect towards the author
@@tschabow5608 Well if a bad adaptation makes someone seek out the original, is it such a crime in the end?
The mother dog and Snowball both survive in this version. This is by far my favorite version of the story.
I'm happy that her pups still lived. They didn't deserve to be corrupted by the evil Napoleon.
I wish Boxer lived
@@jurassicking112 sorry his death is a canon event
RIP Old Major, you were a true beast of the nation.
Phaazathon yes Animal Farm is an allegory to the Russian Revolution
The concepts, the characters and the plot is all based on the Russian Revolution
Absolutely! Old Major was a visionary whose ideology was corrupted by the ones that were left after the ones that supported his ideas were killed in the multiple invasions aimed at keeping the status quo. Whatever your age remember this is your world.
Taffy064 Replace old major with Lenin and Napoleon with Stalin
Ah, now I always thought of old major as Marx, snowball as lenin and napoleon as stalin. But I could be wrong, quite possibly am. I'll have to see others opinions. Cheers
Now that you mention it, Old major seems like Marx, but I've always seen snowball has Trotsky
When they played this at my school I didn't know wtf was going on.
It's about a Russian revolution in 1917.
@@salfisher5312 Originally yes. Unfortunately it's a mirror of nearly every communist revolution since. There's even aspects of COVID and the great reset now.
@@sirellyn it's not unfortunate that we have warning signs and red flags. Now we must recognize those signs and strike down communism when it rears its ugly head.
Communism vs capitalism
@Tod Lmao none of us were even paying attention but probably.
For all the people that don’t understand the simple hidden meaning behind this, this movie has to do with the Russian revolution and Stalin’s rise to power.
Me
Democratic Socialists (AOC, Bernie, etc)
@@davidnoelfranks1124 North Korea.
No shit, sherlock
No it's not we are the farm animals can't you see it???
snowball: maybe we sho-
napoleon: so i took that personally
the mucus on napoleons lip bothers me
Why? It's only special effects in this movie by Jim Henson's creature shop productions
too right mate
i want too slurp the wet juicy mucus up into my mouth and let it slide down my throat
antman spidey what the actual fuck
antman spidey wtf is wrong with you?
The first few things I realised when watching this were these things:
1.Where was Clover the stout motherly mate (she was very important in the book)
2.Old major died of old age in the book, he wasn't shot.
3.Where the hell was Minimus (anyone remember him)
4.Where was Mr Fredrick of pinchfield farm, (I mean come on, if you're gonna put in Mr Pilkington then you may as well put in Mr Fredrick as well)
5.Mollie's betrayal was never mentioned or even hinted at in the movie
6.Napoleons dogs never slaughtered four of the pigs, a few of the chickens and some of the other animals
7.The ending was wrong
I mean come on, if you're going to make a movie of a boon then you should at least read the book first.
Mr. Fredrick is in the movie
Honestly thank you so much for pointing this out, you're helpinng everyone with a project conserning Animal Farm
Did..did you make SEVEN points on purpose? Because of the seven commandments...? (And edit them btw :P)
wonder the same things but if they follow the book to exactly it can result in less viewers because if it is exactly like the book people don't watch it because they have already read the entire thing.
I thought Clover was the narrator..
My favorite is probably Clover and Boxer and Benjamin the donkey
Becky Tod Benjamin just wanted to Die and had no will to leave,at least in the book
Where’s my super Succc? Not true he wanted to live he was just cynical
R.I.P Old Major, the best backflipper pig ever
I like how the book says he dies peacefully in his sleep but in the movie he goes out like the animalist legend that he is and fricking backflips to his death.
THE MOST LEGENDARY BACKFLIPPER EVER
We are watching this movie after we finish the book lol seems interesting, boxer scene broke my heart.
Nerdy Mint my class just finished the book
Why can't anyone just sing Beasts of England the way it is in the book?!
What about the beasts of France? Are they not animals too?
I dont like Beasts of England in the book.
I came here because I couldn’t imagine it in the book. Like legit the only part I couldn’t get. I kept on singing it like La Cucaracha.
I sang it like Clementine instead it just seemed more... National? That way
I like how they made it sound like the soviot Union anthem. Very fitting
8:55
I'm dying 😆 😂😂😂
"Neoooooo!"
That face too
Still can't believe that I couldn't recognize Patrick Stewart's voice right away! He was perfect as Napoleon.
Also, this movie got me to read the book.
My homie major was gettin all the girls with a nose like that 🌚🐽😂
Desiree King
No
Just
No
I just realized this was my favorite movie when I was little, lol its so messed up for a 5 year old
Join the club
Wow
Im so glad it's not just me
Omg! U were just two years smarter than the average intelligence of a pig, which is an animal that typically has the iq of a three year old child
Lol that reminds me of when i saw son of the mask on tv and i liked it!
“And now at least we will be free”
Enter Vladimir Putin
Well we know this about history
Kings and tyrants will come and go but as the common folk have always known we will stay after any ruler has had their day
Putin make Russia is worster and worster
@@bapvinafree This is exactly what this comment was about. Putin is not restoring freedom in Russia at all.
This did not age well
Well then…
58:25
- Farmer that’s a tidy load of hay Mr Napoleon
Napoleon- Yeah Boi
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The animation is closer to the book except the animals themselves rise up and get rid of the pigs. Even that’s closer. Still good movies though
Don't know what I find more tragic. The mother dog dying in the animated version.
Or here where she get to live and see her own pups turned into backstabbing minions :(
Do you know the minute mark of that part so I can watch it??
I am honestly glad Jessie was the main character, and lived until the end. She played such a tiny role in the book, and died like a try background character.
I Swear, The Music In This Movie Is Better Than Movies Released Twenty Years Later.
I’m here b/c my school read the book and showed us half the movie so i came back to finish it lmao
Same lmfao. When all the animals went “nooo!” In the barn we were *crying* it was so funny
Me: *Expecting a million ads*
The ads: Adios
Me: Well then, would you look at that!
Still less ads than a morgz video lol
@@kyodairiker bruh 😂
Has anyone else noticed that Clover and Jessie pretty much switched places? In the book Clover was the one who was suspicious and closest to Boxer, but in the movie it's Jessie. I'm not saying it in a bad way it's just something I noticed.
Good for you 👍👏🏼🙌👌😉🙂👍👏🏼🙌👌
I noticed. I can understand why they did it. Still kind of disappointed she didn't get much of a role in the movie.
Clover is better
Snowball: *Exists*
Napoleon: 24:47
my heart breaks when Boxer was being taken to the Glue Factory
Sorry to hear that.
Horses Can Be Used To Make Glue?
Or Does It Represent The Gulag?
Irish Eggs their bones are melted to make glue
I think you misspelled gulag
When boxer died or when he was in the cart I started crying like crazy
Ashlyn Adame The Glue Factory 🔪🏭
In the book it said how he tried kicking himself free but he was too weak and that when he was younger he’d be able to kick the door down with no problem😢
Jessie: noooo! You can’t send one of our greatest friends to the glue factory!
Napoleon: ha, ha, Boxer goes glooop
does anyone else literally get chills when Jessie says ' Was our revaluation over before it even begun '?
On hold for 6 years💀 but yes
I can’t believe this was a TV movie for families lmao I miss the 90’s
There are some funny scenes in this
The cow saying " we need milking" makes me laugh
I will work harder
Napoleon is always right
Long live Napoleon.
Enderking hmm seems ligit
+Joseph stalin 😂
Have fun without any rights
Four legs good, two legs -badder- better
@Swifty Elsa Me 2 personally, I'd truly wish Napoleon will be BURNED IN HELL!!
The film was an interesting adaption of the book. However, the interjection of hope undercuts the point of the book entirely. The uplifting message at the end (which is not in the book, for those who didn't read it.....the book ends at the dinner scene between Napoleon and the other farmers) trashes the entire message of the original book.
the 1954 technically did the same with Benjamin leading a second revolt, and is basically an anti-communist propaganda piece. While somewhat cornier, this film's ending was actually inspired by a post-soviet event idly enough.
@@MerryMohProductions While I do understand where the new ending came from, I do not think it fits the warning of the original book. This ending basically says "just go into hiding and let the government destroy itself, then wait for someone else to come along and rescue you."
30:55 😱😱😱😱😱😱
@@WalkerRileyMC Interesting. However it makes sense for this movie's ending. Stalin eventually went out of power by dying due to a disease as symbolized in this movie.
While your reply does make sense, you got to realize that the original intention of this book is not what happened in history. This book was published literally less than a month before WW2 ended. George Orwell had no idea what would have happened with communism, but he didn't create the book with a theme that communism itself will ruin the world. He did it to expose the giant flaws of communism as an ideology, which promoted "equality" as its central idea. However we all know how badly this turned out in the end. This movie was meant to add to the fact that while communism has done a large deed on the harming of people in Russia, it ended up creating a historical lesson for the Russians to remember. To not repeat the same mistake that has happened in history. Look now. Russia is technically a capitalist country now, just not from a western capitalist standpoint.
I'll bet someone will probably make a fan edit that ends with the dinner scene between Napoleon and the farmers.
Book: Battle of Windmill, Clover cried for Boxer when taken to glue factory, ends at animals claiming no difference between pig and man
Movie: Just Battle of Cowshed, Jesse cries for Boxer when taken to glue factory, ends at new farmer buys Jones land
Y'all remember Clover? Well apparently movie producers said "SCREW HORSES! WE WANT DOGS!"
To be fair, horses cant really do much unless they are animated. Its easier to have a dog tell the story when they can do more tricks.
Clover's role was replaced by Jessie the dog in this movie. Though, you can see a black horse that never speaks at several points in the movie, which should be Clover. You can clearly see that there are three horses in the scene with old major (Boxer is in a stall in the back)
Yeah i feel bad thar they choce other animals over clover sence clover represent the working class that wasent that easy to manipulate
And Molly
The puppies should've been the Rottweiler dog breed, a lot more intimidating.
The movie should've ended when we saw Napoleon on two legs.
Other than that it was pretty entertaining, I rate this 3 1/2 hooves out of 5.
The movie would be a better ending if Benjamin recruited other animals of the surrounding areas and they overthrow the pigs
@@KCandFriendsUSA no, you need to read the book, it’s about stalin and communist russia, it’s not supposed to end well.
no, read the book, it doesn’t end there
@@KCandFriendsUSA thats not the point of the story
@@cjantoline1305 Napoleon is Stalin so...
Careful all the guys that are watching this instead of reading the book for school, there are many changes. 1)the battle of the Cowshed (where Snowball receives a medal) is orchestred by Jones and his men (not Pilkington) 2)Friedrich (other farmer) represents Hitler, he trades with Napoleon, but finally attack Animal farm (battle of the Windmill=ww2) 3) the book ends BADLY Napoleon stays in power, and Manor farm represents modern Russia.
+Leurquin François I'm surprised someone would choose to watch a film adaptation of Animal Farm over reading the book itself. I read the book as a teen (even though youtube had existed by then lol) and never once did I feel like the writing was dated or boring. I actually blew right through it in two days. Eh, to each their own I guess.
I did read the book back in 8th grade, and then watched this movie.
+butterstix24
I think books are almost always better than movies but movies are just quicker and easier. Some kids don't have much attention span, especially in this day and age.
I also had to read it for school a couple of months ago, and honestly, it's a really good book, surely better than the film (although I like the songs).
I read the book for school this year and watched this movie in class. I loved them both but the movie has many things missing
Book: old major dies naturally
Movie; old major gets no scoped
Cartoon: old major gets a heart attack
Currently reading and annotating the end of the book and I am anxious as to why CLOVER IS NOT IN HERE. She was one of the most motherly and important characters in my point of view. Her calling for Boxer as he was being sent towards the factory broke my heart!
I totally forgot about that character, it's been years since I read the book...
I haven’t seen Jessie in the book, so Jessie probably replaced clover.
Squealer: Clover? oh my dear comrades. according to recently acquired documents, Clover never existed! she must of been a figment of your imagination.
@@woops9076 Nice
They gave all of Clover's personality to Jessie haha
1:03:14 this has to be a meme
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HM?HM?
SNOWBALL!
*THE ARCH CRIMINAL AND TRAITOR HAVE DESTROYED OUR WORK FOR THE L A S T Y E A R*
@@TheJonjoe12
WTF is this star wars music
1:15:42 “Please do it for me. Do it for all of us.” Must be really hard later when you realised your words of encouragement led your friend to the slaughter...
Man poor Snowball... I cant get over what happened to him. Boxer too... no justice was ever served for either of them and it makes me angry.
It looked like Mr Jones Had More To Plow Than Just His Crops At 14:12
+BF MENACE haha
+BF MENACE Best comment I've seen on this whole video, GG M8 shots fired
LMAO
mIstEr J
OhHh mr J
when peta and Lenin have a love child
14:14 it's OK.... There just hugging and making the bed move...
Nothing that bad
I remember my teacher trying to skip that scene
Guys I know what’s going on in there
Just ummm bouncing in bed yep thats it
Just like my mummy and daddy :D they love wrestling and giving me $20 to for what ever I want 🥰
@@Sarah-jq7vv this was me today lolll
My main issue with this adaptation is that it makes Jones more likable and causes us to have compassion for him...very different from the book. The animated version is closer to the book, but this is good regardless.
1:21:34 is literally the end of the book. Why the movie goes on from there is beyond me. They skipped the parts where the pigs a) create a social structure where pigs are to be respected higher than any other animal b) walk on two legs and c) completely do away with all the commandments and replace them with one commandment, reading "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
The last commandment was added into the film, but the other laws remained, which was not in the book. The book had Napoleon do away with the other commandments as a way of demonstrating a complete turn around from Old Major's (Marx/Lenin) original dream of a republic of animals through an ideal called Animalism. All the original commandments were eventually altered, then determined to be no longer coinciding with Animalism because Napoleon was becoming more and more like the humans that Old Major believed to be the cause of misery for all animals. At the end, Napoleon and the humans were indistinguishable. Napoleon had become what he, Snowball, and Old Major had hated.
The way the 1954 versions ended was better
The ending is symbolic as the story itself. Animal Farm collapsing on itself after the tyrannical ruling of Napoleon is an allegory of how the soviet union ended up collapsing on itself during its dissolution. I'm glad they added that as the ending for this adaption because it adds to the story the source material was able to finish because of the time it was written.
they showed napoleon standing on two legs
You could have ended at the second sentence
should i need to read the book for me to understand the whole meaning of the movie? or no need..
What was the purpose of that scene near the beginning where Mr jones cheats on his wife?
sex sells
Idk maybe something Rasputin related
They were too busy porking to realize the pork was starting a revolution.
To makes jones look bad
I remember watching this movie as a kid and I was wtf is with this movie😂😂😂
16 minutes in and it's already so different from the book
+David Tang (FlameNGames) SPOILER ALERT (first 16 minutes)
1. That whole 5 minute or so intro doesn't happen in the book. it actually starts just before Mr. Jones goes to bed
2. Jessie isn't a main character in the book
3. the movie doesn't have Clover who is a main character in the book
4. the whole thing with Jones and that other guy's wife doesn't happen in the book
5. the song is completely different from the book.
- the lyrics are different and it tells you that it sounds like a cross between Clementine and La Cucaracha
6. in the movie Major gets killed by a bullet. in the book he dies of old age
Hannah Figaro Thanks
Hannah Figaro Seven minutes in, am I watching the right movie? 😂😂
It would be boring if it was 1 to 1.
You would need the perfect book to do that.
Thank you so much, George Orwell
This is VERY MUCH inaccurate to his book sadly :(
The 533 dislikes are Napoleons & Squelers descendants
And maybe students who were forced to watch this
@@Spactual same thing, am I right ? 🤣
Having a protagonist (the dog that had the puppies that should become Napoleon's soldiers) goes against the theme that George Orwell wrote all the time in his works: people who do not protest against the world they live in. And the strange fixation on Farmer Jones and the humans makes it seem as though the production studio was afraid of having a movie that focused only on talking animals.
Didn't Orwell's 1984 have a protagonist?
barbaro267 a decent point to be sure, the focus on the humans in this film often comes off as forced. But there is a protagonist in 1984, arguably his most popular work of fiction, in Winston Smith. In Animal Farm there are a myriad of characters the reader can mildly project themselves on in multiple chapters, for some it's Snowball, others it's Boxer, sometimes even Benjamin, etc. It's expertly written in that way, but that format does not always translate to film. A talented filmmaker could make it work with meticulous care, but my best bet is that a straight to TV hallmark movie didn't have the time, money, or patience to work with an idea so daunting. For what they have I think making Jessie the vehicle for the story was great, she's a perfect lens to view the rise and fall from, someone who's oppressed by the system enough but not overly victimized to the point of emotional disconnect. For all it's flaws I quite enjoy this movie, there's definitely a lot of fat to trim but if you know enough about screenwriting it would become very evident that Animal Farm is not prime for adaptation. It's my favorite book, I tried to adapt it myself thinking it would be easy, but it's structure is so foreign and unorthodox that it proved to be borderline impossible to remain accurate and cohesive. It's a miracle that Anthony Burgesses A Clockwork Orange can be brought to the silver screen rather accurately, the idea of doing Animal Farm to the letter is basically a fantasy.
Wasn't Clover supposed to be the protagonist? I mean she was one of the central characters in the book, yet for some reason both this and the animated version completely leave her out.
barbaro267 yeah Jessie pretty much absorbed clovers character and role
The protagonist shoukd've been Benjamin
Orwell was a staunch anti-Stalinist and anti-authoritarian so i feel this is more a critique of Stalin and the dictatorship of the proletariat than anything else
Yup. I️t says it in the preface of the book
Yup
Orwell has my respect as he was against the bureaucratic state the Soviet Union became under Stalin, though I think Socialism isn't great.
F Gievski that’s true. Kinda sad that a tyrant person (Stalin) is the person that communist countries (North Korea and China) follows than Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, And Leon Trotsky..
Oh lovely, here's a movie about talking animals! C'mon here kids, grab the popcorn and let's watch!