Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

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One problem with Animal Farm is that it's simply not much of a very compelling story. It's literally just an allegory of the actual Soviet history, and actual Soviet history is just a bunch of mass murder, deliberate poverty/famines and social jockeying among losers.

It gets worse than the trailer:

The book isn't even that fucking long

how did you miss the point that god damn bad

holy shit

The number of people who miss the point of that book is absurd and will make you cry...

Oh, know anyone like that?  

Nevermind she was in the thread:

.... What the fuck is with the sci-fi turn?

Nah playa, I'm out.

anti communism but with a future punk twist

Hey, at least he's not being faithful to the book in that way!

https://www.moviemaker.com/heart-and-soul-an-interview-with-andy-serkis/
MM: What can you tell me about your version of Animal Farm, the politics, and the relevance in today's world?

AS: "Well, I've always wanted to make a version of Animal Farm. It's going to be completely performance capture driven. Every single character is driven by an actor. It will be authored by those actors on a stage with a director. And we have a clear idea of the politics. First and foremost, we are not making a film about Communism and Stalinism because if Orwell was writing the story today, he would be talking about other relevant topics like globalization and corporate greed. We're investigating that world – the world of the overarching ego that corrupts the innocence of the potential utopia that the animals create. So, if you like the archetypes, all the characters are exactly the same and will represent the same as the book. It's just that we're not pinning them down to specific political targets, i.e. Napoleonism, Stalinism, Trotskyism, etc. We're making a family film and it will be viewed from a position of innocence, which is what makes it so powerful. The message can resonate on so many different levels – it will really hit you emotionally."

So the movie literally is about capitalism bad?

If it gets an important message across to kids then fine.

This is where I'm at. They are at least using the words, so if it can get the idea across of socialist revolution being corrupted by opportunists betraying the values of the movement for personal gain and totalitarian control in a way that is digestible for children, I don't see harm in this.

Introducing human subterfuge into the plot goes against the main idea of the book that all revolutionary structures succumb under their own weight due to factional infighting. I guess you can make it a story about counterrevolution menaces, but I don't know if I gel with that vibe.

Orwell knew about the Soviets unlike you guys. There was no "corruption" or "factional infighting" that doomed it to totalitarianism. Animal Farm literally has no factional infighting in it, they just purge Snowball.

edit: Also Snowball is Trotsky, one of the most violent of the totalitarians.

I watched that trailer then read the Serkis response to the interview question and just knew once those retards cottoned on to the fact that it was now a critique of capitalism, their opinions would immediately change.