Animal Farm Critique

The movie of Animal Farm seemed to me like a fairly accurate representation of the book. Although it seemed a bit abridged and shortened, all of the main ideas were pretty well covered and there were only a few changes from the book. These changes included making Benjamin Boxers friend and making him seem more active and less cynical. In the book, Benjamin wasn't Boxer's friend, he never worked, and he was much more negative and cynical. Also, the end of the movie where the animals revolted was not shown in the book. However, if the book was to be an accurate representation of Russia in the twentieth century, and if it continued on a bit more, it would have shown something like that because something along those lines ended up happening in real life.

Although it covered most things well, it really lacked the slogans showed in Animal farm. Boxer's slogans, the sheep's slogan, and the lyrics that are important to the beasts of England are all missing. All of these are fairly important to the book. Blaming Snowball for everything and threatening the animals with Jones coming back which saves the the fat pigs' butts from being over-ruled was also missing from the movie. Alot of this could have been solved if the movie had more speaking. All in all, I think that this is a pretty good representation of the book though.