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Just "many Slight Differences"? What about the ending?

The section about the differnces betweeen the novel and the movie is missing THE main difference. The Ending of the movie is not only totally different, it is also missing the whole point of the book. They replaced Orwells criticism of the real socialism with a "more modest" point of view. Spreewriter (talk) 13:46, 30 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The film's conclusion

As I recall, the filmmakers somehow got it backwards when they shot the film's ending. The humans came to resemble the pigs, rather than the other way around. Which is missing the whole point of the book, which is that the pigs had come to be just like the animals' human oppressors. Oddly, I've never heard anyone else comment on this. Am I mistaken? --Mr. Billion 21:28, 13 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You're not mistaken. In the book, the animals wind up just as bad off at the end as they were before, they have just traded one bad master for another. In the movie, all is made well by having new human owners taking over the farm. In essence, they get Mr. Jones back, and live happily ever after. The changes are, ironically enough, rather Orwellian.--RLent (talk) 06:56, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Co-produced by CIA?

After the CIA purchased the film rights to Animal Farm from the Orwell estate prior to the 1954 version's production by siphoning money intended for the Marshall Plan through Operation Mockingbird, and subsequently altered the screenplay to emphasize anti-communist points - would it be obtuse to suggest that these same film rights might have applied to the 1999 version as well? I've seen both several times, and clearly this version is more 'kid-friendly'... but it is quite plausible that the ownership rights were sold sometime later during the Cold War. I haven't done research on it, but I'm quite sure that The Office of Policy Coordination no longer exists. Anyone know who owns the film rights to Animal Farm now? 24.118.109.199 (talk) 19:20, 6 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Napoleon a traitor?

There is no logic in the statement that "Napoleon declares Snowball a "traitor and a criminal," and Squealer claims that the windmill was Napoleon's plan all along (leaving the animals unaware that Napoleon and Squealer are evil and they are the real traitors)". How did declaring Snowball a traitor result in the animals being unaware that Napoleon and Squealer were evil - and how were they traitors for expelling Snowball?Royalcourtier (talk) 10:10, 4 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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