CLICK HERE FOR BLOGGER TEMPLATES AND MYSPACE LAYOUTS

Friday, February 6, 2009

Animal Farm Movie Critique

The book Animal Farm and the animated movie of Animal Farm have many similarities and a few differences. First of all, one difference, that I thought was important, was that there was no Mollie. In the book Mollie had a minor role, but she represented the nobles, who were an important part of the Russian Revolution. The fact that Mollie is missing makes the movie different from the book and mostly different from the Russian Revolution. Also, there are a lot of minor changes. One of those small changes would be that Major dies three days later(page 11), not right after giving his speech and in the movie it seems like the Battle of The Cowshed was on the same day as the rebellion, but in the book it was a few days later. These small changes don't make a big difference, but they make the movie more inaccurate.
Another change was that the Seven Commandments were supposed to have mistakes in the spelling, but in the movie the Seven Commandments were spelled correctly. "It was very neatly written, and except that "friend" was written "freind" and one of the "S's" was the wrong way around, the spelling was correct all the way through." (page 18) Then, the rest was pretty much the same, Napoleon was the cruel leader, the animals his 'slaves'.
Another difference is that when Boxer was sent to the horse killer, Benjamin knew because is said so on the wagon and he read, in the book there was a sign and all of the animals knew. In the movie this resulted in a second rebellion, this time against Napoleon, which never happened.
Also, Farmer Jones broke the windmill, which was like it was in the book. In conclusion, these are the similarities and differences between the book Animal Farm and the movie Animal Farm and all in all they are quite similar, and the movie portraits the book well.
picture from: http://mrcoyle.edublogs.org/files/2007/02/af2.jpg

0 comments: