OK, I know this sounds drastic, but someone should animate the ending of this film the way it should be, and offer it as an alternate ending when the DVD comes out... the movie is quite good, although I didn't like everything about it, but they had to give it a happy ending. Bastards.
shareIn this one? Are you sure? I thought in the one with real animals they gave it a happy ending but in this one they kept it the same as the book?
Every Jack has his Jill.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you're right, in the animated version the ending is the same as the book. I studied the book for GCSE and we watched the animated version at the same time.
shareNo, in the book it ends where the pigs and humans join forces. In the animated film it ends where the other animals rise up against the pigs and kill Napoleon. This didn't happen in the book.
sharein the animated one, the animals rebel against Nepoleon (Stalin) at the end. It's more happy than the 1999 animatronics film, but less happy than the original novel's ending, "the creatures 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."
sharethose effin butchers have completely corrupted the novel! George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' was a metaphor for the Russian revolution! When Napoleon (Stalin) inviting the humans (Churchill, etc) over for dinner, he was complimented on his efficiency (as was Stalin), and towards the end of the dinner there was arguing and fighting which supposedly foreshadowed the Cold War.
In the movie, Orwell's intentions have been completely over looked in favour of a more 'friendly' ending
total bastardization
this whole movie is a bastardization. one of the worst films i've ever seen.
cheers
KZ
I disagree - film is always going to be dreasticly different form the book, its a fact of life pals. As far as this one goes though, it remained close to the novel in everything but a few minutes tacked on at the end by the US government as anti communist propoganda. Even so, it remains partly pro communist anyway - everything was perfect untill Napolian manipulated the system into a dictatorship - the beginning of the revolution was a Utopia.
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"Even so, it remains partly pro communist anyway - everything was perfect untill Napolian manipulated the system into a dictatorship - the beginning of the revolution was a Utopia."
The POINT of the book and much of Orwell's other writings is that when a revolution is not based on democratic principals, it will ALWAYS fall into the hands of those who would betray it for their own selfish ends. Orwell believed in socialism to the end of his life but HATED Communism as the BETRAYER of his socialist beliefs.
Agreed, communism doesn't actually exist and is simply a thinly disguised dictatorship. A government can have a benevolent dictator for awhile but it's only a matter of time before the dictator becomes corrupted by power or another dictator takes power.
shareThis film stinks of propaganda which is partly the reason why people hate it. I actually think this film is trying to instill the idea that that a good,strong leader is needed to instill peace for the rabble who while having useful skills if guided by the right minds, will fall for those whoare of their own but corrupt,
Maybe in Orwell's day this may have been true, but in the modern day the leader just becomes a figure head for corporate interests running the show and helps justify advancing those interests.
no, the animated one is the different ending, when benjamin takes over, we just watched it today in English =)
shareRegardless of me reading the book or not, i can tell you that i have lived maybe the last days of comunism and this movie was the first ANIMATED movie i watched as a free man/kid (i was 10 yrs old then) and filled me up with fear. I feared the god damn black pig napoleon. Then my father explained to me what a metaphoar (please excuse my rusty english) is. I am from Romania and i watched it in 1991, 2 years after the Ceausescu regim has been overthrown and still managed to understand it and what it standed for. This is why i find the Brittish critics' evaluation very amateur-like. You do not have to learn history to understand comunism. You just know it...whether you lived it....like i did.......or wheter you feared it....like you probably did when it was explained to you......Think of me as the little yellow dukling who was in that farm.
Son of a free man from Romania:)
PS: My father fought in the 1989 Romanian revolution.
Just a simple man ? ;)
Your life and your father's life sounds awesomely interesting. :)
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Just finished the book, and wanted to see the movie, But learning that such a powerful ending was changed so drastically, makes me think i can skip the movie. Oh and just wanna mention Christopher Hitchens listing this book as one of his favorites, got me to seek it out
IT is a great book