The original book had a much darker ending. The human neighbors from varied farms came to marvel at what Napoleon had done and were praising him for it. In the end, in the eyes of the animals (especially the old mare, Clover) the pigs and men become indistinguishable.
@@marydeyoung7501 You are probably going to think I sound stupid but I hate the ending of the book as I think it makes no sense and George Orwell was writing about 2 things at once.
@@Madheim777Orwell is a socialist, Animal Farm is a critique of the Soviet Union, hell the ending condemns Napoleon for being indistinguishable from the humans, with the humans being a metaphor for capitalists. Thinking Animal Farm is an anti-socialist book is genuinely retarded
Snowball was a good pig, he couldn't handle the the pack of dogs raised by Napoleon so that's sad that he's banished. Napoleon was the most evil pig in the film.
It’s remarkable how this film was made by the literal CIA as propaganda and yet all they really had to change from the book was the final scene where the other animals attacked the pigs-in the book they just stare as realization mounts and their response isn’t shown.
@@Memelord1117In the book there is no secondary revolution the animals just watch and stare as they see man turn into pig and pig to man and they realise they have gone from one tyrannical regime to another even more tyrannical regime but there is nothing they can do they have already sacrificed their freedoms in a blind hope of the system
Napoleon went upon two legs Napoleon never went upon four legs or has wings Napoleon wore clothes Napoleon slept in a bed Napoleon drank alcohol Napoleon killed any other animals and Napoleon is NOT equal
Better outcome than in the book. In the book it just ended with the pigs getting into a fight with the other farmers acting just like them in a drunken stupor. while the mule laments that nothing has really changed.
@@robotlobster2197 I mean it is better. In the book The animals would just be worked to death with no uprising for Farmer bacon boys this is legitimately better for them at least for the moment. I'm sure it would circle about just like in the beginning and start all over again kind of the point of the book
What book are you reading? The end of Animal Farm is the pigs playing cards and drinking with the farmers and the other animals being unable to tell them apart from the humans. The point being that the metaphorically communist pigs are just the same as the Capitalist oppressors who preceded them and betrayed the socialist revolution.
@@robotlobster2197 Don't be a pessimistic, be an optimistic like me. I like happy endings better than sad endings and it has nothing to do with laziness and many happy endings do motivate some to do something with positivity.
It's hard to say which ending to this story I like the most. Both have their merits. I remember, as I was reading the book, waiting and hoping for the part of the story, when Snowball would come back to Animal Farm and set things right. From the moment the book implies he got away, I had that hope that he would come back. I had that hope all the way through the book, and it was only when I read the last page that I realized the truth. Snowball wasn't coming. It's only later that I realized why the book ended the way it did. There is no Snowball who will come and save you from tyranny, you must save yourselves from it. By having Napoleon win, Orwell was teaching his readers how to spot the signs of corruption, and to be prepared to stop it. The animals didn’t do anything about it until it was too late. The movie's ending has intrigue as well. The ending, though hopeful, still has a realistic take on the rise and fall of tyrannical governments. The Narrator admits that this newest revolution will probably not break the cycle, that the promise of Animal Farm may never truly come to pass. But regardless of that sad thought, we must still work towards that goal. We must keep fighting for it.
Can vision that before Napoleon's final judgment, that can he and his followers go the heavens; Old Major been the judge and him been: "You dared to take my vision of animal equality to satisfy your selfish hunger! You banished Snowball so you can take higher place in Animal Farm and twist the rules of the farm in your favor! By your own words 'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others' means that pigs are superior to other animals! For this, fiery pits of hell are waiting you!"
In the end, Napoleon wanted to be more like a man. The law had originally said no animal shall kill another animal, but now the law was gone, and he was no longer animal, and so he was killed by the animals he oppressed.
While the donkey was a good guy, do you think that it might have been a foreshadowing that he would be the next corrupt leader? After all he is in the center of the group at the end and shares the same 2 colours as napoleon.
@Notcreative6331 I feel like whichever leader you get there bounds to be a bad one. That's why you have to equal the power to everyone in society. If no one can oppose what the leader is doing, then that is just a recipe for disaster.
@@chrisvonsolomon3180 it's more they lose the idealistic leader who wants good for their people, because someone close in station to them will inevitably make a play for power and start the cycle over
Many people are not happy with the ending of the movie. Back in the 1980s this movie began circulating in pirated VHS tapes in Communist Romania. Everybody recognized the direct paralells with the Soviet Union and indirect parallels with how the monarchy was overthrown in Romania by force in 1947 and a new priviledged class of communists took over, keeping the population underfed, uneducated and disinformed. The idea of a revolution to take down the authoritarian autocratic regime was nothing short of fantasy until december 1989. And when it happened, it happened just like in the movie, with the dictator being rushed from his palace and ending in front of a firing squad while people burned his portraits in the streets. So we Romanians thoroughly enjoyed seeing this ending :) it gave us hope.
Yeah, i remember learning about the romanian revolution. It kinda showed how ceacescu was gonna hold on as long as possible. It was really short too, at only 16 days from the first riots organised by a hungarian priest in translyvania to ceacescus exection. I find it interesting they put him on trial. What was his defence? How do you explain basically genocide on romania?
@@CivilisedThwomp In short, The trial was a kangaroo court. Even his designated defence lawyer was accusing him. It lasted for about 20 minutes (the full tape is available online, including the execution) and the presidential couple was escorted outside and executed by a firing squad in the courtyard. This was done because the new government, made up of new generation party members and disgruntled staff wanted to evade a civil war with loyalist military branches and also because they didn't want their former boss to talk. In Romania it is called the Romanian Revolution, but it was more like a coup d'etat. Tomato / tomato :)) In long: - Yes. Ceausescu had gone mad with power. He was surrounded by yes-men who made him feel safe and think that the entire country loves him while plotting behind his back. (for reference he was 71 when this happened, Trump is 78) - It is pretty much agreed that Ceausescu's last way out would have been the 14th Communist Congress in November 1989, when could have just stepped down from his position as President and allow a peaceful transition of power. (for reference, the Berlin Wall fell on November 9th 1989, so the wind of change was already brewing in communist block) - it was short because it was organised in advance and most likely received help from the outside (CIA and KGB, backed by agreements between Reagan and Gorbachev) . The night that Ceausescu fled from the Palace, a Romanian high ranking general (General Militaru) is even seen on tape from the newly occupied Central Committee, discussing with Ion Iliescu (future president) and Petre Roman (future Prime Minister) about the name of the new party to take power. They couldn't decide on the name and Militaru said "Why change it now? We decided on National Salvation Front 6 months ago!" - How much was László Tőkés (the hungarian priest you mentioned) a pretext, I don't know. Some say the entire incident was orchestrated to spark the revolution (giving the army a reason for a bloody reprisal) some say it was a real local protest and the new branch of the Securitate (secret police) used it to activate their operation. - The entire Revolution was a mix of half-assed orchestrated plans and general confusion. Nobody knew what is going on, who to trust... a situation that the National Salvation Front fed and benefited from, creating a state of chaos and how swiftly they need to secure power (without elections) to prevent the country from falling into civil war. For a few weeks after Ceausescu's flee by helicopter there was a rumour that TERRORISTS loyal to the old regime have infiltrated the country and trying to gain power. This led to a lot of useless bloodshed between basically different branches of the military, secret police and police killing each other out of confusion and paranoia. - If you are passionate about the subject, I highly recommend the following award winning movies, with subtitles :D The Paper Will Be Blue (2006, by Radu Muntean) Freedom (Libertate) (2023, by Tudor Giurgiu) The New Year That Never Came (2024, Bogdan Muresanu)
@@gabrielleclennon6589 is even worse: the phrase "animals are equal between them" is modified at the end to become "animals are equal between them, but some animals are MORE EQUAL than others", as pigs using human clothes are playing cards and drinking with humans while the other animals are watching from outside the house.
I think the animated ending is better because it feeds into the American spirit. Like when the 13 colonies were paying taxes under the boot heel of the English empire, rose up to start a revolution, and earned their independence.
It strokes the american ego but its not what usually happends in such situations, after the soviet union fell it was replaced by the dictatorship of stalin. Revolution isnt common and often not organised by the common mam. I mean look at the american revolution. Each of the founding fathers would be at least a multi millionare and washington was arguably responsible for the start of the war that made the tax increase necesarry
@@Redkodiak1994 For all I know, this was a production made to foster unity among the West as the world entered the Cold War, and to expose Communism's evils.
The animated ending gets rid of the most poignant part of the entire novella and it does so because the original ending condemns Napoleon not because he’s uniquely evil but because his evilness has made him indistinguishable from the humans(who are a metaphor for capitalism). The entire point of the book is that Napoleon(a metaphor for Stalin) took power after a good revolution(the October revolution) and through oppressive means and corruption recreates the same conditions as experienced under the previous system.
You mean like when the animals rose up to Jones? Sure... Will the United states of America allow a sexist, simple minded populist despot “to turn this country into a dictatorship”? I can basicly see no difference between his tongue and Mussolini’s.
@@luisaugusto3991Not at all. Putin doesn't need to scheme or get over consumed by pride to get a hold on to power. He simply realised that Russia has the resources and power and he simply utilized them, thus making Russia a super power again despite your Americans number 1 fan (Yeltsin) literally selling off his country . And Russia has multiple political parties with vastly different ideals as opposed to the USs 2 party system which one of the said two parties are fascist and the other is hardcore capitalist /corpocrats. As of now this represents the political situation in the West more than anything
@@Minchken I don't think it's about socialism in general, but about Stalinism specifically. Orwell, who was a socialist, felt that Stalin betrayed socialism. Of course one can reinterpret Orwell's original meaning to apply to many other socialist regimes.
It's hard to make the distinction when people are too lazy to read the book and watch the film that was changed for the sake of propaganda. Or just recite memes they read online, ironically being manipulated by newspeak.
I like how some of the comments here just scream /r/imverysmart and yet also miss the point of a book that's studied at a high school level that warns of being influenced by newspeak and propaganda. Even if Orwell probably couldn't predict how the internet would make such a thing more suspectable, he would still happily point and laugh at some of you.
@@UndertakerU2ber Animal farm is fundamentally an incredibly flawed book that doesn't understand how Stalin took power and kind of implies he pulled a military coup
@@deeznoots6241 Yet…it actually is about the DNC lol > Biden yanks the troops out of Afghanistan > Biden then lies about how everything is fine and pretends to mourn over the deaths of the troops > A train derailment occurs in Ohio > Biden tells the public everything is fine, gets the EPA to forge test results to make it seem like the water is safe to drink, and officials pretend to drink the tap water as part of their coverup. > A recession is about to be declared the following day > Biden changes the definition of what a recession is to avoid having to declare what a recession is > Biden’s FBI reports crime is down in 2022 > Biden’s FBI quietly reveals the real data two years later that crime actually went up in 2022 Keep pretending the DNC hasn’t been running the U.S. like it’s an Animal Farm 🤡
I know the ending is different in the book, yet, I cannot help to think Benjamin the donkey will commit the same errors than Napoleon and make the Farm living conditions more favorable to equines than the rest of animals
Essnetially - We want a system where no one is better than anyone, all people are equal. Ok who is going to ensure that all people are equal? We'll have a system that prevents anyone from claiming ownership of anything under penalty of law. Whoever is in charge of protecting that law just became the most powerful person in your system. Wash, rinse, repeat.
It relies on a heavy amount of trust. A small community might be able to accomplish it, and it’s my understanding it WAS done as a protest in France, but again, small community. It’s the reliance on goodwill that the system relies on, and sadly, not everyone is willing to think of the whole instead of just themselves
90% of the comments: "Left wing governments be like; Right wing governments be like 🤖" 10% of the comments: Timestamps 1% of the comments: "Napoleon was a bad character and karma got the better of him"
@@xanxenon1934there’s a sort of weird meta commentary that my English teacher and a former Soviet citizen in my high school class had brought up, because it’s my understanding, despite the fact that Putin is in charge of post USSR and communism was defeated, like the book how they changed its name back to Manor Farm (this didn’t happen in the film) that even when they became Russia again, it’s still not much better off than when the Czar or the USSR were in power. Especially now with the whole thing that’s going on with Russia
27:05 - 27:06 this arguably makes this more accurate to the book as the film implies Boxer was injured, while in the book he collapsed from due to a cracked hoof and the fact he was over-working himself.
@@emiliopolanco8587that’s the sad truth in most dictatorships. Once you overthrow the current regime no matter how good intentions, there usually someone that will fill the power vacuum, just until they can restore order and have an election. But they never give up their newly acquired power.
I thought labour would do something after getting in, or at least say something about rejoining the EU after the right wing riots happened, but no, theyve done nothing.
I remember watching this film not knowing what in the world i was about to get into. I was just in the 6th grade, and after watching it, i basically decided what my political views would be from then on. Course, im not gonna say what exactly they are, but the point is, if i had never seen this movie, i probably would've never been involved with politics in the first place. So grateful i saw this film when I did
I hadn't read the Animal Farm until recently. Unfortunately for us, the scenario it paints endures till to this day. It is not just the Communist revolution that went the way it did, although Communism is still rubbish. Now, every community, every society, every cause, every ideology has been taken over by a small coterie of elites who say we know better and corner it for their own benefit.
And all the pigs were sent to hell, where they evolved more to survive the harsh environment, creating trading systems between each other and even bastions to live in.
The Last Scene in my opinion was different from the book to represent the fall of the Soviet union, with everything disintegrating and well system collapsing under its own weight.
IK the movie was made as anti-Soviet propaganda but “Some Animals are More Equal Than Others” is reminding me of the US founding fathers who wrote “All Men are Created Equal” but kept slavery legal. Lol
True, but it was mainly to keep the southern states happy, most of the founding fathers including Washington wanted to do away with it, in fact it's stated in his will that after his death and Martha's that all slaves at Mt Vernon were to be freed. His wife on the other hand didn't want that to happen, don't know why
@@kabuto23ful Maybe, but it was still a monumental hypocrisy and injustice at the very center of their supposed ideological reason for creating a state. They could have at least gestured towards that value by freeing their own personal slaves after declaring “all men are created equal” but they didn’t. It’s not like they NEEDED to keep slaves or they would evaporate into dust, they simply didn’t want to be inconvenienced or pay actual servants. And that was more important to them than the founding principles of the United States.
I mean I get it, this was to paint communism as bad. But it never struck me as only being communism. This is more what happens when corrupt leaders want power. We see the same situations in every dictatorship and totalitarian state.
To be honest if napoleon didnt killed snowball, animals would have the best lives under his control, he was being full honest about the ideas he has and saying we will need to work more and eat less, wich were awesomely good ideas if they want to improove and would relax, thats Untill communistic dictator with french name of napoleon setled his communism and became racist 😂
The original book had a much darker ending. The human neighbors from varied farms came to marvel at what Napoleon had done and were praising him for it. In the end, in the eyes of the animals (especially the old mare, Clover) the pigs and men become indistinguishable.
"animals are equal between them, but some animals ARE MORE EQUAL than others"
Orwell just destroyed socialism and communism with that phrase.
This was actually a children's movie. So having some happy ending was certainly for the best.
@@marydeyoung7501 You are probably going to think I sound stupid but I hate the ending of the book as I think it makes no sense and George Orwell was writing about 2 things at once.
@@Madheim777 You do know that Orwell was a socialist... Right?
@@Madheim777Orwell is a socialist, Animal Farm is a critique of the Soviet Union, hell the ending condemns Napoleon for being indistinguishable from the humans, with the humans being a metaphor for capitalists.
Thinking Animal Farm is an anti-socialist book is genuinely retarded
And so, by trying to keep all the power to himself and the pigs, Napoleon ending up losing all of it.
Snowball was a good pig, he couldn't handle the the pack of dogs raised by Napoleon so that's sad that he's banished. Napoleon was the most evil pig in the film.
And even his own life so karma just delivered and he died
@@taylorthompson9752 Yup, he's a bad, dead pork!
@@taylorthompson9752 Yup.
@@zealkurusuthegatorman5439 I don’t think Snowball got killed by pack of dogs he was banished.
It’s remarkable how this film was made by the literal CIA as propaganda and yet all they really had to change from the book was the final scene where the other animals attacked the pigs-in the book they just stare as realization mounts and their response isn’t shown.
You have to admit they hired very good animators.
Funny thing is, people at the time considered this anti-communism, when it was really anti-fascism. Communism, and Socialism, are both red herrings.
@@ScornedOne1080insert horseshoe theory
@@ScornedOne1080 this is pretty much what happened under every communist or socialist government and animal farm is about the soviet union
@@l.h.9747 Oh please, the US has its own pigs, the corporations. Theyre just slightly smarter about how they go about interfering.
Lets face it, even IF the dogs hadn't been drunk at the end all they could had done was slow that mob down and in the process ultimately get trampled.
Not even that, alcohol can be relatively safely be imbibed by humans, but too much and it's still dangerous, to dogs...
If boxer along was able to scare the dogs away in the book, then the animals banding together would mollywhop them.
Even one or two horses or cows could probably take on the entire pack of them. A kick or trample would do irreversible damage to a dog.
It was futile to stop the second revolution anyway.
@@Memelord1117In the book there is no secondary revolution the animals just watch and stare as they see man turn into pig and pig to man and they realise they have gone from one tyrannical regime to another even more tyrannical regime but there is nothing they can do they have already sacrificed their freedoms in a blind hope of the system
Napoleon went upon two legs
Napoleon never went upon four legs or has wings
Napoleon wore clothes
Napoleon slept in a bed
Napoleon drank alcohol
Napoleon killed any other animals
and Napoleon is NOT equal
That is excatly what happens in the book.
Four legs are good, but remember, two legs are always better.
Napoleon, not animal
@@boi7316 More like human.
@@eleanorhogan8643 I modified that one line Caeser said before letting Koba fall to his demise.
Better outcome than in the book. In the book it just ended with the pigs getting into a fight with the other farmers acting just like them in a drunken stupor. while the mule laments that nothing has really changed.
@@robotlobster2197 I mean it is better. In the book The animals would just be worked to death with no uprising for Farmer bacon boys this is legitimately better for them at least for the moment. I'm sure it would circle about just like in the beginning and start all over again kind of the point of the book
What book are you reading? The end of Animal Farm is the pigs playing cards and drinking with the farmers and the other animals being unable to tell them apart from the humans.
The point being that the metaphorically communist pigs are just the same as the Capitalist oppressors who preceded them and betrayed the socialist revolution.
@@robotlobster2197 Don't be a pessimistic, be an optimistic like me. I like happy endings better than sad endings and it has nothing to do with laziness and many happy endings do motivate some to do something with positivity.
They didn't form NATO in the book.
@@robotlobster2197 No worries it happens. Points of views and all that
I feel like “working harder eating less” is relatable to what we’re stuck with today.
Well, Kamala is promising to implement price controls which is communist.
All well and good to comment that on a TH-cam video.
Who wants to actually do something about it?
It’s good advice too
@@koholintisland2167 What are you doing about it?
@@prixe12 Same as you.
Waiting for *someone else* to fix my problems.
The difference is, I'm not larping as a freedom fighter.
It's hard to say which ending to this story I like the most. Both have their merits.
I remember, as I was reading the book, waiting and hoping for the part of the story, when Snowball would come back to Animal Farm and set things right. From the moment the book implies he got away, I had that hope that he would come back. I had that hope all the way through the book, and it was only when I read the last page that I realized the truth. Snowball wasn't coming.
It's only later that I realized why the book ended the way it did. There is no Snowball who will come and save you from tyranny, you must save yourselves from it. By having Napoleon win, Orwell was teaching his readers how to spot the signs of corruption, and to be prepared to stop it. The animals didn’t do anything about it until it was too late.
The movie's ending has intrigue as well. The ending, though hopeful, still has a realistic take on the rise and fall of tyrannical governments. The Narrator admits that this newest revolution will probably not break the cycle, that the promise of Animal Farm may never truly come to pass. But regardless of that sad thought, we must still work towards that goal. We must keep fighting for it.
@@kingcamelot1395 snowball is a metaphor for Trotsky, and in real life Trotsky never returned to the USSR to take down Stalin and save the revolution.
Those that rule through fear only hold power so long as those they rule over lack courage, it was the way for Jones and it was that way for Napoleon.
Can vision that before Napoleon's final judgment, that can he and his followers go the heavens; Old Major been the judge and him been:
"You dared to take my vision of animal equality to satisfy your selfish hunger! You banished Snowball so you can take higher place in Animal Farm and twist the rules of the farm in your favor! By your own words 'All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others' means that pigs are superior to other animals! For this, fiery pits of hell are waiting you!"
Otherwise fine, but I think it should be selfish hunger, not selfless...
Didn’t he kill snowball ?
@@stormbringer2840 only in this movie
Mmmmm.... Roast pork....
@@VitalityRichPlus I was going to say "But first, you will be marinated!"
Old major was just rolling in his grave after seeing what pigs started doing
Love how jones became a drunk demo man in the end
What makes me a good demoman? If i were a bad demoman... I wouldn't be here, discussing it now would I- *KABOOM*
or
*Silence*
-Farmer Jones
Good thing he didn’t lose an eye
In the end, Napoleon wanted to be more like a man. The law had originally said no animal shall kill another animal, but now the law was gone, and he was no longer animal, and so he was killed by the animals he oppressed.
Despite being different from the book, the ending of this movie is clever because at the end, we're doomed to repeat history over and over again.
While the donkey was a good guy, do you think that it might have been a foreshadowing that he would be the next corrupt leader? After all he is in the center of the group at the end and shares the same 2 colours as napoleon.
“Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.” by the 1900s Spanish-American philosopher and writer George Santayana
@@viduraherath4008no. The donkey would be a good leader but another donkey would take his place and he would be the evil one
@Notcreative6331 I feel like whichever leader you get there bounds to be a bad one. That's why you have to equal the power to everyone in society. If no one can oppose what the leader is doing, then that is just a recipe for disaster.
@@chrisvonsolomon3180 it's more they lose the idealistic leader who wants good for their people, because someone close in station to them will inevitably make a play for power and start the cycle over
Old Major=Marx
Snowball=Lenin
Napoleon=Stalin
I think Snowball is closer to Trodsky
@@JeSsE10mCcOy11 Yeah because Stalin betrayed him
@@sugarplumsoda and Trotsky ran away, just like Snowball in the book.
What about Squealer? Seems to be a typical keyboard warrior, supports anyone in power and says "ney" to all opposition.
@@Da1Dez he's a typical high ranking bootlicker and propaganda speaker
If i remember correctly, in the book Snowball was just chased out of Animals Farm…
Just like Trotsky. But Trotsky was later assassinated in mexico
Many people are not happy with the ending of the movie.
Back in the 1980s this movie began circulating in pirated VHS tapes in Communist Romania. Everybody recognized the direct paralells with the Soviet Union and indirect parallels with how the monarchy was overthrown in Romania by force in 1947 and a new priviledged class of communists took over, keeping the population underfed, uneducated and disinformed.
The idea of a revolution to take down the authoritarian autocratic regime was nothing short of fantasy until december 1989. And when it happened, it happened just like in the movie, with the dictator being rushed from his palace and ending in front of a firing squad while people burned his portraits in the streets.
So we Romanians thoroughly enjoyed seeing this ending :) it gave us hope.
Yeah, i remember learning about the romanian revolution. It kinda showed how ceacescu was gonna hold on as long as possible. It was really short too, at only 16 days from the first riots organised by a hungarian priest in translyvania to ceacescus exection.
I find it interesting they put him on trial. What was his defence? How do you explain basically genocide on romania?
@@CivilisedThwomp
In short,
The trial was a kangaroo court. Even his designated defence lawyer was accusing him. It lasted for about 20 minutes (the full tape is available online, including the execution) and the presidential couple was escorted outside and executed by a firing squad in the courtyard. This was done because the new government, made up of new generation party members and disgruntled staff wanted to evade a civil war with loyalist military branches and also because they didn't want their former boss to talk. In Romania it is called the Romanian Revolution, but it was more like a coup d'etat. Tomato / tomato :))
In long:
- Yes. Ceausescu had gone mad with power. He was surrounded by yes-men who made him feel safe and think that the entire country loves him while plotting behind his back. (for reference he was 71 when this happened, Trump is 78)
- It is pretty much agreed that Ceausescu's last way out would have been the 14th Communist Congress in November 1989, when could have just stepped down from his position as President and allow a peaceful transition of power. (for reference, the Berlin Wall fell on November 9th 1989, so the wind of change was already brewing in communist block)
- it was short because it was organised in advance and most likely received help from the outside (CIA and KGB, backed by agreements between Reagan and Gorbachev) . The night that Ceausescu fled from the Palace, a Romanian high ranking general (General Militaru) is even seen on tape from the newly occupied Central Committee, discussing with Ion Iliescu (future president) and Petre Roman (future Prime Minister) about the name of the new party to take power. They couldn't decide on the name and Militaru said "Why change it now? We decided on National Salvation Front 6 months ago!"
- How much was László Tőkés (the hungarian priest you mentioned) a pretext, I don't know. Some say the entire incident was orchestrated to spark the revolution (giving the army a reason for a bloody reprisal) some say it was a real local protest and the new branch of the Securitate (secret police) used it to activate their operation.
- The entire Revolution was a mix of half-assed orchestrated plans and general confusion. Nobody knew what is going on, who to trust... a situation that the National Salvation Front fed and benefited from, creating a state of chaos and how swiftly they need to secure power (without elections) to prevent the country from falling into civil war. For a few weeks after Ceausescu's flee by helicopter there was a rumour that TERRORISTS loyal to the old regime have infiltrated the country and trying to gain power. This led to a lot of useless bloodshed between basically different branches of the military, secret police and police killing each other out of confusion and paranoia.
- If you are passionate about the subject, I highly recommend the following award winning movies, with subtitles :D
The Paper Will Be Blue (2006, by Radu Muntean)
Freedom (Libertate) (2023, by Tudor Giurgiu)
The New Year That Never Came (2024, Bogdan Muresanu)
brutal what happened to boxer.
They killed him, chopped him to pieces and became glue. "Brutal" is an understatement
he was my favorite character, did him absolutely dirty
Cried after reading that in the book, deserved so much better
36:26 Napoleon realizing he’s not going to survive till the morning.
I have seen this before and I must admit that Napoleon was just not good at all. He was real bad and karma literally got him in the end
He doesn’t get that in the book
@@speedshoes29 Oh he doesn’t?
@@gabrielleclennon6589 The worst he got was a possible human enemy for arguing about cheating on a card game
@@speedshoes29 Oh wow 🤯
@@gabrielleclennon6589 is even worse: the phrase "animals are equal between them" is modified at the end to become "animals are equal between them, but some animals are MORE EQUAL than others", as pigs using human clothes are playing cards and drinking with humans while the other animals are watching from outside the house.
Should see the live action adaptation of the book, it was really good.
We can all agree everyone had to watch this and read the book version for a grade.
I wish. I had to watch the stinky live action version.
I think the animated ending is better because it feeds into the American spirit.
Like when the 13 colonies were paying taxes under the boot heel of the English empire, rose up to start a revolution, and earned their independence.
This is actually based on the Russian revolution
It strokes the american ego but its not what usually happends in such situations, after the soviet union fell it was replaced by the dictatorship of stalin.
Revolution isnt common and often not organised by the common mam.
I mean look at the american revolution. Each of the founding fathers would be at least a multi millionare and washington was arguably responsible for the start of the war that made the tax increase necesarry
@@Redkodiak1994 For all I know, this was a production made to foster unity among the West as the world entered the Cold War, and to expose Communism's evils.
The animated ending gets rid of the most poignant part of the entire novella and it does so because the original ending condemns Napoleon not because he’s uniquely evil but because his evilness has made him indistinguishable from the humans(who are a metaphor for capitalism). The entire point of the book is that Napoleon(a metaphor for Stalin) took power after a good revolution(the October revolution) and through oppressive means and corruption recreates the same conditions as experienced under the previous system.
You mean like when the animals rose up to Jones? Sure... Will the United states of America allow a sexist, simple minded populist despot “to turn this country into a dictatorship”?
I can basicly see no difference between his tongue and Mussolini’s.
Snowball: Napoleon! Brother! Help me!
Napoleon: Long live the king! *Squeals*
@@JeSsE10mCcOy11 (Snowball falling to death, screaming)
@@ericcook-g4bSquealer: "YEEEEESSS!!!"
@@Termina2018 Benjamin: (saw Napoleon killed Snowball, enraged) NOOOOOOO!!! (pounced on Napoleon) MURDERER!! (Boxer, Muriel and Clover shocked)
Brother may I have some of your oats
God the book was so much more brutal 😢
19:48 Oh the sound of the sheep and duck and chickens screaming, so horrible 😭
The irony of course is that the horses in this cartoon could win outright
Pigs are the smartest animals in the farm tho
@@baha3alshamari152 Smart does not always win. Otherwise, we would only send the smartest people to the Olympic games
@@baha3alshamari152yea but they aren’t the strongest, a horse’s kick is lethal, a pigs is definitely not
Well, at least Napoleon didn’t drop dead facedown in his own piss like the real Stalin.
He bared more resemblance to mussolini.
I mean, even if the dogs had come the larger animals would have just stomped them to death or impaled them on their horns.
Their drunkenness basically saved their lives
It's a good thing we treat animals nicely now so they don't have to revolt
I remember watching this at my class when I was younger
35:08 This is my favorite part.
The beginning of the rebellion
Same here
36:51: Happy trails, Napoleon!!
Napoleon represents the UK government at the moment.
And the US government.
Actually represents the Russian government very well.
He represents Putin and other conservative leaders very well
@@luisaugusto3991The only leaders taking away rights are liberal leaders, the proof is worldwide.
@@luisaugusto3991Not at all. Putin doesn't need to scheme or get over consumed by pride to get a hold on to power. He simply realised that Russia has the resources and power and he simply utilized them, thus making Russia a super power again despite your Americans number 1 fan (Yeltsin) literally selling off his country . And Russia has multiple political parties with vastly different ideals as opposed to the USs 2 party system which one of the said two parties are fascist and the other is hardcore capitalist /corpocrats. As of now this represents the political situation in the West more than anything
Animal Farm is an analogy of something, just can't put put my finger on it.
It's an analogy of the Russian Revolution and the manipulation of the people in general
I think most kids nowaday don't understand socialism.
@@Civsuccess2 Damn dirty, socialism
@@Minchken I don't think it's about socialism in general, but about Stalinism specifically. Orwell, who was a socialist, felt that Stalin betrayed socialism.
Of course one can reinterpret Orwell's original meaning to apply to many other socialist regimes.
Stalin’s Soviet Union
35:08 This is my favorite part.
The beginning of the rebellion!
People think Animal Farm shits on Marxism when it's literally just a Trotskyite criticism of the post Lenin USSR.
It's hard to make the distinction when people are too lazy to read the book and watch the film that was changed for the sake of propaganda. Or just recite memes they read online, ironically being manipulated by newspeak.
Let’s be real. Asking an anti-communist to distinguish Marxism from Leninism is like asking a shaved ape to do rocket surgery
Trotskyite criticism regurgitated by the CIA. Western leftism is used to conciliate the labor movement.
I like how some of the comments here just scream /r/imverysmart and yet also miss the point of a book that's studied at a high school level that warns of being influenced by newspeak and propaganda. Even if Orwell probably couldn't predict how the internet would make such a thing more suspectable, he would still happily point and laugh at some of you.
Animal Farm is about the modern Democrat Party, especially the likes of Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris 👍
@@UndertakerU2ber Animal farm is fundamentally an incredibly flawed book that doesn't understand how Stalin took power and kind of implies he pulled a military coup
@@UndertakerU2ber lmao no it isn’t, its an allegory about the Russian revolution and the early history of the USSR made to critique Stalin
@@deeznoots6241
Yet…it actually is about the DNC lol
> Biden yanks the troops out of Afghanistan
> Biden then lies about how everything is fine and pretends to mourn over the deaths of the troops
> A train derailment occurs in Ohio
> Biden tells the public everything is fine, gets the EPA to forge test results to make it seem like the water is safe to drink, and officials pretend to drink the tap water as part of their coverup.
> A recession is about to be declared the following day
> Biden changes the definition of what a recession is to avoid having to declare what a recession is
> Biden’s FBI reports crime is down in 2022
> Biden’s FBI quietly reveals the real data two years later that crime actually went up in 2022
Keep pretending the DNC hasn’t been running the U.S. like it’s an Animal Farm 🤡
Had the farmer been armed he would’ve been sufficiently able to resist and ultimately destroyed the animal uprising.
I know the ending is different in the book, yet, I cannot help to think Benjamin the donkey will commit the same errors than Napoleon and make the Farm living conditions more favorable to equines than the rest of animals
This will always be timeless... for better or worse.
The farmer was once a Tsar, now he takes the form of "president" of many countries...
7:11
I have to say, that was
_u d d e r l y_ shocking
And today he's known under the name Olaf Scholz.
Essnetially - We want a system where no one is better than anyone, all people are equal. Ok who is going to ensure that all people are equal? We'll have a system that prevents anyone from claiming ownership of anything under penalty of law. Whoever is in charge of protecting that law just became the most powerful person in your system. Wash, rinse, repeat.
It relies on a heavy amount of trust. A small community might be able to accomplish it, and it’s my understanding it WAS done as a protest in France, but again, small community. It’s the reliance on goodwill that the system relies on, and sadly, not everyone is willing to think of the whole instead of just themselves
I always dreaded having to read the book and watch the movies in school. They were so creepy and depressing.
You are right, most of the ones we read were kinda dark. Sus.
90% of the comments: "Left wing governments be like; Right wing governments be like 🤖"
10% of the comments: Timestamps
1% of the comments: "Napoleon was a bad character and karma got the better of him"
35:36 bro was super saiyan enough to destroy a brick wall it’s satisfying as well but it’s a bull i expect cartoon logic like that
They predicted the collapse of the soviet union perfectly in 36:10
Not quite. They were reborn in a different form, e.g. Putin's rule.
The man in charge of the USSR at the time barely put in any effort to save it.
@@xanxenon1934there’s a sort of weird meta commentary that my English teacher and a former Soviet citizen in my high school class had brought up, because it’s my understanding, despite the fact that Putin is in charge of post USSR and communism was defeated, like the book how they changed its name back to Manor Farm (this didn’t happen in the film) that even when they became Russia again, it’s still not much better off than when the Czar or the USSR were in power.
Especially now with the whole thing that’s going on with Russia
27:05 - 27:06 this arguably makes this more accurate to the book as the film implies Boxer was injured, while in the book he collapsed from due to a cracked hoof and the fact he was over-working himself.
37:07 what will they do now?
The cycle repeats itself
Nothing that how the cartoon ends
@@t00nverseYT oooooooooh.
@@Stefanthepanda ooooooooh.
@@emiliopolanco8587that’s the sad truth in most dictatorships. Once you overthrow the current regime no matter how good intentions, there usually someone that will fill the power vacuum, just until they can restore order and have an election. But they never give up their newly acquired power.
I can’t wait to see Andy Serkis’ version
Me too, I can hear his voice as Napoleon.
He’s gonna be Napoleon? I thought he was gonna be Benjamin
Dark?? I hadn't seen this in years and when I did, I forgot how much the animation scared me.
Huh.... Ganon really let himself go.
Keir Starmer’s Britain, and Mr Jones was Rishi Sunak.
Exactly! Glad someone thinks so like me.
I thought labour would do something after getting in, or at least say something about rejoining the EU after the right wing riots happened, but no, theyve done nothing.
কতটা বাস্তবের মত,, মনে হয়েছে আমাদের বাংলাদেশে এরকমই চলছিলো
Had no idea Napoleon had babies
The question is... who's the mother?
He did in both this version and book, with multiple sows actually. He was the only intact male pig, so they’re weren’t really options
Starmers Britain 2024
I remember watching this film not knowing what in the world i was about to get into. I was just in the 6th grade, and after watching it, i basically decided what my political views would be from then on. Course, im not gonna say what exactly they are, but the point is, if i had never seen this movie, i probably would've never been involved with politics in the first place. So grateful i saw this film when I did
Now who would of thought that Napoleon would be by far the most darkest, the most cruelest, and the most evilest pig to ever existed?
This film somehow reminds me of c■■■■nism. Idk why tho, it's just a feeling.
Indeed, colonialism is terrible.
25:32
Bruh Napoleon's reaction was absolute shocked because this is his first time see a explosion
I hadn't read the Animal Farm until recently. Unfortunately for us, the scenario it paints endures till to this day. It is not just the Communist revolution that went the way it did, although Communism is still rubbish. Now, every community, every society, every cause, every ideology has been taken over by a small coterie of elites who say we know better and corner it for their own benefit.
I liked this film :-)
I'm showing this to high school students
might want to mention the fact that it was made with help from the CIA, for context
@@IAmNumber4000 already knew that since I was in 5th grade, anything else?
Reminds me a little of Aardman's Chicken Run, thought of course this film's book came first
36:45 “Wallah I’m cooked” ahh face
Where’s the rest of the movie?
Had this on headphones at start, almost lost hearing...
10:25 napoleon: fine have it your way
And all the pigs were sent to hell, where they evolved more to survive the harsh environment, creating trading systems between each other and even bastions to live in.
29:46 He is a liar
That Sus LOOK! It's as suspicious at his Latin name
I didn’t even know that this was a cartoon. I saw the live action when I was young. It looked really creepy and gave me nightmares for days.
25:19 When we celebrating the birth of my daughter and we see bro setting an 18 year timer on his phone:
The Last Scene in my opinion was different from the book to represent the fall of the Soviet union, with everything disintegrating and well system collapsing under its own weight.
The screaming was so horrifying and pitiful 😢😢😢
IK the movie was made as anti-Soviet propaganda but “Some Animals are More Equal Than Others” is reminding me of the US founding fathers who wrote “All Men are Created Equal” but kept slavery legal. Lol
True, but it was mainly to keep the southern states happy, most of the founding fathers including Washington wanted to do away with it, in fact it's stated in his will that after his death and Martha's that all slaves at Mt Vernon were to be freed. His wife on the other hand didn't want that to happen, don't know why
@@kabuto23ful Maybe, but it was still a monumental hypocrisy and injustice at the very center of their supposed ideological reason for creating a state.
They could have at least gestured towards that value by freeing their own personal slaves after declaring “all men are created equal” but they didn’t. It’s not like they NEEDED to keep slaves or they would evaporate into dust, they simply didn’t want to be inconvenienced or pay actual servants. And that was more important to them than the founding principles of the United States.
@@IAmNumber4000 I'm not gonna argue because it's in the past learn from it and move on
@@kabuto23ful Only thing you can learn from it is that the founding fathers lied about their motivations and their values
🥱
Brother! May i have some oats!
Oil up lil bro
Looks like Napoleon... just met his Waterloo.
11:07
Napoleon: Is it done Yuri?
*Attack Dog nods to Napoleon*
Yuri: No Comrade Preimer....it has only begun.
Napoleon: 😈😈😈😈
35:00 fall of napoleon
Because animals are taking revenge
Anyone else cried when boxer died in the book?
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The moral of animal farm is that is easy to replace one tyrant with a another
I love how they're trashing the Soviet national anthem
And then the animals sold Napoleon and his followers corpses to a butcher
I mean I get it, this was to paint communism as bad. But it never struck me as only being communism. This is more what happens when corrupt leaders want power. We see the same situations in every dictatorship and totalitarian state.
Exactly the us seems to be dangerously close to going this way
People can't be trusted to do the right thing. They just can't. Which is why those systems will always fail and/or lead to tyranny.
Eins og rússland, norður kórea og fleiri lönd!!!
This is just like (insert modern day government that’s nothing like this movie).
11:11 I think they killed him here
yes, snowball dies in the movie while in the book his whereabouts are unknown
To be honest if napoleon didnt killed snowball, animals would have the best lives under his control, he was being full honest about the ideas he has and saying we will need to work more and eat less, wich were awesomely good ideas if they want to improove and would relax, thats Untill communistic dictator with french name of napoleon setled his communism and became racist 😂
Actually Napoleon is not communist, he is just an example of a conservative dictator, like Putin...
@@luisaugusto3991napoleon is literally a representation of Stalin.
And Stalin is one representation of communism under his rule, not exactly communism itself @@ulikemykungfu3995
@@luisaugusto3991 and kamala Harris :>
@@luisaugusto3991 Conservative does not equate to evil. Nor does Progressive equate to good.
I like to think the ending of this movie represents the forming of NATO.
Damn, the opening music already feel profoundly sad.
Please I wanted to be a g rated with softer and lighter instead
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Would you look at that. They anticipated the late 1980s.
Now the Donkeys are the Pigs.
So like… just the whole film would be more apt yeah?
Why do we let this happen in are own work because we to afraid to stand up to the dogs and punish the pigs
I'm not very knowledgeable on solviet history, I know napolian is stalin, but who is spealer?
Trotzky
Oof, this is quite a chilling reflection of the Democratic Party.
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