Steve Reviews: Animal Farm

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  • čas přidán 6. 09. 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 Před 3 lety +9741

    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.

  • @ivorymantis1026
    @ivorymantis1026 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +127

      The live action movie ends the same way.

    • @snowy2747
      @snowy2747 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +47

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

  • @kloverleavezisdeadlol
    @kloverleavezisdeadlol Před 5 lety +3756

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

  • @madness_mania
    @madness_mania Před 2 lety +302

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

    • @Antonio-fj5gs
      @Antonio-fj5gs Před 2 lety +24

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

    • @beastmaster0934
      @beastmaster0934 Před měsícem +2

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

  • @pacoramon9468
    @pacoramon9468 Před 5 lety +2583

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

  • @thenecroticraptor8338
    @thenecroticraptor8338 Před 5 lety +3732

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

    • @penguinw7
      @penguinw7 Před 4 lety +125

      his name is Moses

    • @a.k8185
      @a.k8185 Před 4 lety +55

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

    • @mediatorraptor3349
      @mediatorraptor3349 Před 4 lety +89

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

    • @CAPTAPHOENIXF90
      @CAPTAPHOENIXF90 Před 4 lety +36

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

    • @shuliu4804
      @shuliu4804 Před 4 lety +21

      Poor berd.

  • @dshe8637
    @dshe8637 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +61

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

    • @zsuzsannamezey8361
      @zsuzsannamezey8361 Před 5 lety +260

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

    • @hydroastral2830
      @hydroastral2830 Před 5 lety +6

      woooosh

    • @Patrick61804
      @Patrick61804 Před 5 lety +13

      D She they make all freshman read it in my school

    • @hellonokay1925
      @hellonokay1925 Před 5 lety +5

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

  • @sadlittleghost8346
    @sadlittleghost8346 Před 2 lety +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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +71

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

    • @thenosebud
      @thenosebud Před rokem +52

      That’s not the last line of the book

    • @TheFawfulExpressMustardO-cx6mw
      @TheFawfulExpressMustardO-cx6mw Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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 Před 5 lety +4531

    1945 - Manga
    1954 - Anime
    1999 - Netflix adaptation

    • @ooppetal2183
      @ooppetal2183 Před 4 lety +139

      that's almost exactly how Watership Down went :0

    • @shoozebelstar6664
      @shoozebelstar6664 Před 4 lety +24

      Also 1954 - Suitmation.

    • @myblueyoshi2967
      @myblueyoshi2967 Před 4 lety +45

      2021-Sony animation pictures

    • @Chuked
      @Chuked Před 4 lety +4

      ThatRandomDude oh then I read the manga first👍

    • @oreo3740
      @oreo3740 Před 4 lety +6

      Correction: 1977: Netflix adaptation

  • @ploppman7524
    @ploppman7524 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +22

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

    • @thek2despot426
      @thek2despot426 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +2

      Censorship can be dangerous too.

    • @ballislife6034
      @ballislife6034 Před 5 lety +1

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

  • @santiagoboscan3277
    @santiagoboscan3277 Před 5 lety +5330

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

  • @bellarawding6470
    @bellarawding6470 Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety

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

    • @milk-ub9zo
      @milk-ub9zo Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +23

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

  • @ThatOneMan830
    @ThatOneMan830 Před 5 lety +4849

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

    • @Bananappleboy
      @Bananappleboy Před 5 lety +62

      alex bajayo both

    • @Swock010
      @Swock010 Před 5 lety +40

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

    • @mrheroprimes
      @mrheroprimes Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +3

      alex bajayo
      Animal Farm
      Always

    • @bubblenugget1215
      @bubblenugget1215 Před 5 lety +1

      How about neither

  • @AKIPOPOPOPOOON
    @AKIPOPOPOPOOON Před 5 lety +575

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

  • @brandongonzalez_
    @brandongonzalez_ Před 3 lety +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 Před rokem +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 Před 6 měsíci +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 Před 6 měsíci +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 Před 4 měsíci +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 Před 3 měsíci +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 Před 3 měsíci +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 Před 5 lety +645

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

    • @melodicmelody6730
      @melodicmelody6730 Před 5 lety +5

      lmaoo

    • @itsmoe0043
      @itsmoe0043 Před 5 lety +3

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

  • @chronovac
    @chronovac Před 5 lety +1897

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

  • @deeznutz5825
    @deeznutz5825 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +399

      I'd argue more that Snowball was Trotsky.

    • @faltanato6375
      @faltanato6375 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +12

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

    • @PHAToregon
      @PHAToregon Před 4 lety +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?

  • @Metalsluga_
    @Metalsluga_ Před rokem +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 Před 9 měsíci +9

      In the animated version, he died.

    • @Metalsluga_
      @Metalsluga_ Před 9 měsíci +20

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

    • @crimsondynamo615
      @crimsondynamo615 Před 29 dny +1

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

  • @aidanveldman1378
    @aidanveldman1378 Před 5 lety +8791

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

    • @Ben-uc8ms
      @Ben-uc8ms Před 5 lety +298

      ^This

    • @theadamfriedlandshow4668
      @theadamfriedlandshow4668 Před 5 lety +182

      Amen

    • @Zigtyr
      @Zigtyr Před 5 lety +70

      What sort of bad stuff happens in the manga?

    • @dutchvanderlinde5855
      @dutchvanderlinde5855 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +52

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

  • @Nukawin
    @Nukawin Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +11

      Napoleon the pig can go fuck himself

    • @Freefork
      @Freefork Před 5 lety +1

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

    • @jeffjeff1445
      @jeffjeff1445 Před 5 lety

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

  • @kaywilliams7540
    @kaywilliams7540 Před 5 lety +1417

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

  • @kilssj2250
    @kilssj2250 Před 2 lety +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 Před rokem +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 Před 4 měsíci

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

    • @beastmaster0934
      @beastmaster0934 Před měsícem +1

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

  • @FiveOClockTea
    @FiveOClockTea Před 5 lety +1796

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

    • @christinao9061
      @christinao9061 Před 5 lety +175

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

    • @hypnoticskull6342
      @hypnoticskull6342 Před 4 lety +53

      I wonder why! XD

    • @housel9352
      @housel9352 Před 4 lety +94

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

    • @girlhelp8364
      @girlhelp8364 Před 4 lety +21

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

    • @crapaudbiscornu7941
      @crapaudbiscornu7941 Před 4 lety +7

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

  • @__________5802
    @__________5802 Před 5 lety +4730

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

  • @roborabbit159
    @roborabbit159 Před 5 lety +544

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

    • @autistichades5552
      @autistichades5552 Před 5 lety +14

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

    • @mineboom7377
      @mineboom7377 Před 5 lety +7

      It even said that in the book.

    • @ayhemsellami9912
      @ayhemsellami9912 Před 5 lety +5

      Does anyone have the lyrics

    • @labellelace
      @labellelace Před 5 lety +3

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

    • @rhiannonderen1757
      @rhiannonderen1757 Před 5 lety

      Duh..

  • @uyq5726
    @uyq5726 Před 2 lety +134

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

  • @troglodyte4207
    @troglodyte4207 Před 5 lety +692

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

    • @BasicallyGoblin
      @BasicallyGoblin Před 5 lety +26

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

    • @hollingharris659
      @hollingharris659 Před 5 lety +5

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

    • @datman2433
      @datman2433 Před 5 lety +7

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

  • @robertlopez2052
    @robertlopez2052 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +31

      can you say the same for Trotsky?

    • @The-kr9rb
      @The-kr9rb Před 5 lety +94

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

    • @noneofyourbeeswax01
      @noneofyourbeeswax01 Před 5 lety +11

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

    • @noneofyourbeeswax01
      @noneofyourbeeswax01 Před 5 lety +71

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

    • @The-kr9rb
      @The-kr9rb Před 5 lety +4

      @@noneofyourbeeswax01 lol

  • @isaaccrawford5108
    @isaaccrawford5108 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +39

      Thats how 1984 ended orwell had bad endings

    • @Rassilons-hand-me-downs
      @Rassilons-hand-me-downs Před 5 lety +31

      That’s why I love the book tbh

  • @The-Macdoo
    @The-Macdoo Před rokem +105

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

    • @c.d.dailey8013
      @c.d.dailey8013 Před 2 měsíci +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 Před měsícem +1

      Yeah, they’re basically evolved legs.

  • @ammarpratama1203
    @ammarpratama1203 Před 4 lety +982

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

    • @unherolike
      @unherolike Před 4 lety +48

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

    • @IAmTheStig32
      @IAmTheStig32 Před 4 lety +14

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

    • @soul6733
      @soul6733 Před 4 lety +10

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

    • @YourMiddleBroPhil
      @YourMiddleBroPhil Před 4 lety +3

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

  • @yeethittter1285
    @yeethittter1285 Před 5 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 5 lety +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_ Před 5 lety +12

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

    • @Chidera420
      @Chidera420 Před 5 lety +2

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

    • @dogecollection4519
      @dogecollection4519 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety

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

  • @Miltypooh2001
    @Miltypooh2001 Před rokem +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 Před 8 měsíci +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 Před 5 lety +4114

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

    • @bigmeknurgle
      @bigmeknurgle Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +64

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

    • @HunhowsShadowStalker
      @HunhowsShadowStalker Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +18

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

    • @bigmeknurgle
      @bigmeknurgle Před 5 lety +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 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +33

      Anything used for travel is a leg to them basically.

    • @seanmacguire3324
      @seanmacguire3324 Před 3 lety +20

      Beasts of England ,
      Beasts of Ireland,

    • @whitedragoness23
      @whitedragoness23 Před 3 lety +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 Před 2 lety +2

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

    • @T-minus-infinite
      @T-minus-infinite Před 2 lety

      @@seanmacguire3324 yes that was it

  • @alastair876
    @alastair876 Před 5 lety +1451

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

    • @natalijatheghost
      @natalijatheghost Před 4 lety +69

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

    • @alastair876
      @alastair876 Před 4 lety +8

      @@natalijatheghost same here tbh

    • @communisttrash8590
      @communisttrash8590 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +4

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

  • @ghostslayer1981
    @ghostslayer1981 Před rokem +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 Před rokem

      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 Před 5 lety +310

    wait, George Orwell, same one who made 1984?

    • @funnguis8163
      @funnguis8163 Před 5 lety +60

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

    • @IdiotPhD
      @IdiotPhD Před 5 lety +5

      Ye.

    • @dracocrusher
      @dracocrusher Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +1

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

    • @selkkie6691
      @selkkie6691 Před 5 lety

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

  • @JadeAnnabelArt
    @JadeAnnabelArt Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +4

      wait theres a live thing about this? huu

    • @AlarchyGaming
      @AlarchyGaming Před 3 lety +6

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

    • @saladasss2092
      @saladasss2092 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +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 Před 4 lety +739

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

  • @WillieManga
    @WillieManga Před 2 lety +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 Před 5 lety +1377

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

  • @RaeNapier64
    @RaeNapier64 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +22

      Rae Napier Ik

    • @cyperus4589
      @cyperus4589 Před 5 lety +196

      I REALLY HATE SHOUTING ONLINE!!!!

    • @jacobmorrison4480
      @jacobmorrison4480 Před 5 lety +14

      I’m doing the book for gcse

    • @Shift12
      @Shift12 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +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 Před 4 lety +690

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

  • @boop7405
    @boop7405 Před 2 lety +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 Před 6 měsíci +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 Před 4 měsíci +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 Před měsícem +1

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

  • @Iceclaw77
    @Iceclaw77 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety

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

    • @jerm70
      @jerm70 Před 5 lety

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

    • @garfieif8187
      @garfieif8187 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety

      Couldn't have said it better meself mate

  • @monikaradzaj7407
    @monikaradzaj7407 Před 5 lety +317

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

    • @damiancampbell7534
      @damiancampbell7534 Před 5 lety +10

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

    • @sem9165
      @sem9165 Před 5 lety +19

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

    • @MultiDiarmuid
      @MultiDiarmuid Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety

      I watched it in 5th grade, I disagree.

    • @nomem_dubium
      @nomem_dubium Před 5 lety

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

  • @cthulhufhtagn2483
    @cthulhufhtagn2483 Před 5 lety +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 Před 4 lety +8

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

    • @rhiannonm6022
      @rhiannonm6022 Před 4 lety

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

  • @Floorbie_Nana
    @Floorbie_Nana Před 2 lety +37

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

  • @chupacadabra5161
    @chupacadabra5161 Před 5 lety +614

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

    • @ubdrift5904
      @ubdrift5904 Před 5 lety +5

      LOL

    • @ubdrift5904
      @ubdrift5904 Před 5 lety

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

    • @ubdrift5904
      @ubdrift5904 Před 5 lety +1

      @LordDonut1122 thank you for knowing what they mean

    • @BrownGaijin
      @BrownGaijin Před 5 lety

      Nice!

  • @Mafon2
    @Mafon2 Před 5 lety +261

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

  • @isamovies1192
    @isamovies1192 Před 5 lety +692

    The book was way darker and more depressing

    • @froggyslap
      @froggyslap Před 5 lety +53

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

    • @copperbunnies9849
      @copperbunnies9849 Před 5 lety +8

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

    • @raviothethief8292
      @raviothethief8292 Před 5 lety +3

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

    • @noahbutler9180
      @noahbutler9180 Před 5 lety +1

      It is a really good book though

    • @noahbutler9180
      @noahbutler9180 Před 5 lety +4

      @@raviothethief8292 you read animal farm in 5th grade

  • @pyr821
    @pyr821 Před 2 lety +34

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

  • @taliawtf6944
    @taliawtf6944 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +18

      Utopia can never be

    • @rickmarr4478
      @rickmarr4478 Před 5 lety +25

      One's Utopia is Another's Dystopia.

    • @littlemoth4956
      @littlemoth4956 Před 5 lety +19

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

    • @LazyPirate8
      @LazyPirate8 Před 5 lety +5

      Utopia stands for me myself and I. Not you!

    • @littlemoth4956
      @littlemoth4956 Před 5 lety

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

  • @3digitsonthebac156
    @3digitsonthebac156 Před 5 lety +846

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

  • @aclown36
    @aclown36 Před 4 lety +1412

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

  • @MrAlmindore58
    @MrAlmindore58 Před 3 lety +72

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

  • @eggplantstevens43
    @eggplantstevens43 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +52

      I never read this one in American schools

    • @lifespore
      @lifespore Před 5 lety +51

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

    • @lewisfell2714
      @lewisfell2714 Před 5 lety

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

  • @ironybob
    @ironybob Před 4 lety +815

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

  • @Fubukio
    @Fubukio Před 5 lety +2240

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

    • @drik4107
      @drik4107 Před 5 lety +67

      Truth is Truth

    • @Artizap_
      @Artizap_ Před 5 lety +74

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

    • @gameknight9956
      @gameknight9956 Před 5 lety +8

      Dang you need more agreement

    • @Matkaizer08
      @Matkaizer08 Před 5 lety +10

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

    • @penguinhowser8459
      @penguinhowser8459 Před 5 lety +23

      I want to eat Napoleon

  • @Ballin4Vengeance
    @Ballin4Vengeance Před 3 lety +124

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

    • @Logan_but_not
      @Logan_but_not Před 2 lety +38

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

    • @justaguywhowatchesyoutube5588
      @justaguywhowatchesyoutube5588 Před 8 měsíci

      Who’s Trotsky?

    • @pabloprieto3338
      @pabloprieto3338 Před 7 měsíci +5

      @@justaguywhowatchesyoutube5588 he was an anti-stalinist communist

    • @kdcwilliams1839
      @kdcwilliams1839 Před 7 měsíci +3

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

    • @pabloprieto3338
      @pabloprieto3338 Před 7 měsíci +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 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +37

      ikr dark stuff is pretty interesting

    • @joeytofil2259
      @joeytofil2259 Před 3 lety +20

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

    • @gabrielcastillo7638
      @gabrielcastillo7638 Před 2 lety +6

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

    • @lukedanuser
      @lukedanuser Před 2 lety +9

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

    • @snakezlair6671
      @snakezlair6671 Před 2 lety +3

      Same with me

  • @simplychaff1875
    @simplychaff1875 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +202

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

    • @quantum6692
      @quantum6692 Před 5 lety +17

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

    • @tvoovm7254
      @tvoovm7254 Před 5 lety +68

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

    • @awolfnamedgarry8633
      @awolfnamedgarry8633 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +42

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

  • @jacknewell1847
    @jacknewell1847 Před 4 lety +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 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +49

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

    • @brandonlyon730
      @brandonlyon730 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +5

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

  • @ThatOneKaijuFan
    @ThatOneKaijuFan Před rokem +14

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

  • @Tippex_Official
    @Tippex_Official Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +156

      I mean she DID eat bacon that one time

    • @AhmedEx1.
      @AhmedEx1. Před 3 lety +94

      @@sillycat103 excuse me *what*

    • @ryuzakikurai711
      @ryuzakikurai711 Před 3 lety +51

      Tbf everyone in that universe is a psychopath

    • @mechagodzilla3674
      @mechagodzilla3674 Před 3 lety +9

      hey you plague doc too

    • @serenitythesiren5031
      @serenitythesiren5031 Před 3 lety +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 Před 5 lety +524

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

    • @benchmarking6875
      @benchmarking6875 Před 5 lety +29

      That is because the book was made in 1945

    • @barrettfenwick8028
      @barrettfenwick8028 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +26

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

    • @Redbird-dh7mu
      @Redbird-dh7mu Před 5 lety +20

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

    • @Nyerguds
      @Nyerguds Před 5 lety +3

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

  • @bilbowagons7932
    @bilbowagons7932 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +55

      Snowball=Trotsky

    • @boistired6825
      @boistired6825 Před 5 lety +33

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

    • @natalijatheghost
      @natalijatheghost Před 5 lety +5

      That's what it was based on

    • @jacoba3422
      @jacoba3422 Před 5 lety +16

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

    • @sophiatalksmusic3588
      @sophiatalksmusic3588 Před 5 lety +12

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

  • @felinoidrose
    @felinoidrose Před 2 lety +41

    6:04 animals in minecraft taking damage

    • @floproro4
      @floproro4 Před rokem

      Minecraft animals revolting against the players for attacking them:

  • @lordstumpy2945
    @lordstumpy2945 Před 4 lety +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 Před 3 lety +11

      I love you and this comment

    • @jaskitstepkit7153
      @jaskitstepkit7153 Před 3 lety +43

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

    • @elltheclown4285
      @elltheclown4285 Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +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 Před 5 lety +340

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

    • @justmetal227
      @justmetal227 Před 5 lety +9

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

    • @SangerZonvolt
      @SangerZonvolt Před 5 lety +4

      "They won´t see it coming!"

    • @parrot1442
      @parrot1442 Před 5 lety

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

  • @oakleyjacket7922
    @oakleyjacket7922 Před 5 lety +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 Před 9 měsíci +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 Před 3 lety +780

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

    • @Iamjustthatguy
      @Iamjustthatguy Před 2 lety +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 Před 2 lety +58

      @@Iamjustthatguy they were written by same authors too

    • @Sumautisticguy
      @Sumautisticguy Před 2 lety +31

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

    • @kaisaleh7268
      @kaisaleh7268 Před rokem +1

      Right???

    • @lunablanca4784
      @lunablanca4784 Před rokem +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 Před 4 lety +213

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

  • @butlerstarheart9679
    @butlerstarheart9679 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +1

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

    • @izzycrybaby1164
      @izzycrybaby1164 Před 5 lety +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 Před 2 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +11

      Also Boxer has said I will work harder

    • @vivaciousmyosotis
      @vivaciousmyosotis Před 3 lety +6

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

    • @lambadajewo.4143
      @lambadajewo.4143 Před 3 lety +9

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

  • @theraginginfernape9496
    @theraginginfernape9496 Před 5 lety +212

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

  • @lurch1628
    @lurch1628 Před 5 lety +529

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

    • @mohify2174
      @mohify2174 Před 4 lety +1

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

    • @lurch1628
      @lurch1628 Před 4 lety

      Mr. Chap thank you.

    • @mohify2174
      @mohify2174 Před 4 lety

      @@lurch1628 :3

    • @AriaCodfish
      @AriaCodfish Před 4 lety +5

      Plague dogs: Aww! That’s cute.

    • @Akeboun
      @Akeboun Před 4 lety

      One could argue it started it...

  • @CJ-hp6fb
    @CJ-hp6fb Před 2 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +1

      I believe you are on the money

    • @mckaylamarille8630
      @mckaylamarille8630 Před 4 lety +1

      That sounds pretty accurate

    • @samirjohnson4524
      @samirjohnson4524 Před 4 lety +2

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

  • @safiramisantrop8263
    @safiramisantrop8263 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +5

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

    • @therecklessabandable
      @therecklessabandable Před 5 lety +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

  • @yoursexualizedgrandparents6929

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

    • @noneofyourbeeswax01
      @noneofyourbeeswax01 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety

      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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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.

  • @LOLPot24
    @LOLPot24 Před 8 měsíci +9

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

  • @alchemistfightinggunupstv5991

    If Peppa Pig was communist

    • @The8bitdin0
      @The8bitdin0 Před 4 lety +29

      Profile picture checks out

    • @nalaprodd
      @nalaprodd Před 3 lety +3

      Lol

    • @plaguebringer7865
      @plaguebringer7865 Před 3 lety +4

      Crap I can see It in my mind now

    • @dez1989
      @dez1989 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +1

      YES

  • @jebcoe
    @jebcoe Před 5 lety +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.

  • @MyUniqueBeauty
    @MyUniqueBeauty Před 5 lety +445

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

  • @alwaysconfused1641
    @alwaysconfused1641 Před 7 měsíci +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 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +158

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

    • @VergilDarkslayer
      @VergilDarkslayer Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +40

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

    • @VergilDarkslayer
      @VergilDarkslayer Před 3 lety +30

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

    • @Ballin4Vengeance
      @Ballin4Vengeance Před 3 lety +3

      @@VergilDarkslayer European history 1700’s-present

  • @supernovatv9514
    @supernovatv9514 Před 5 lety +230

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

    • @samishes1434
      @samishes1434 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +1

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

    • @someman66
      @someman66 Před 5 lety +11

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

    • @westonkouryfan69
      @westonkouryfan69 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +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 Před 5 lety +7

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

    • @khldwb1425
      @khldwb1425 Před 5 lety

      Hobo same

    • @Anthony-hi7bw
      @Anthony-hi7bw Před 5 lety

      jandm600 yeah it is and our teacher told us that.

    • @toastedpigs4552
      @toastedpigs4552 Před 5 lety

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

    • @Anthony-hi7bw
      @Anthony-hi7bw Před 5 lety +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 Před rokem +6

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

  • @Greggers1516
    @Greggers1516 Před 4 lety +521

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

    • @thatsalotofsodiumcoins1615
      @thatsalotofsodiumcoins1615 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +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 Před 3 lety +5

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

    • @bruhmoment6204
      @bruhmoment6204 Před 3 lety +2

      @@gravediggey6016 what happened during the end ?

    • @jacknewell1847
      @jacknewell1847 Před 2 lety +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 Před 5 lety +161

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

    • @DPryce
      @DPryce Před 4 lety +1

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

    • @tvjam428
      @tvjam428 Před 4 lety

      sqel

    • @terrorthefearsomedragon1502
      @terrorthefearsomedragon1502 Před 4 lety

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

  • @KonjakTheSober
    @KonjakTheSober Před 5 lety +257

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

    • @anon9579
      @anon9579 Před 5 lety +35

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

    • @johnnyjoestar6478
      @johnnyjoestar6478 Před 5 lety +2

      KonjakTheSober because wings are a tool of propulsion and not manipulation

    • @videohistory722
      @videohistory722 Před 5 lety +4

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

    • @Spoonable
      @Spoonable Před 5 lety +2

      videohistory722 cause the pigs started walking in two legs I think

  • @petsnrocks
    @petsnrocks Před 2 lety +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.