Animal Farm

[GENERAL EYES]

No offense to the book, but from what I heard, they played fast and loose with the moral of the story.
In all my years on earth, I have not heard the book being called a COMEDY.

I became curious and looked into the trailer for the new version....it's geared toward family audiences and mainstreamed to the "sensitive" folk.

Heavy comedic elements, jokes and lighthearted portrayals and the introduction of things that stray so far from Orwell it's quite literally Newspeak.

[DontTreadOnMe]

I became curious and looked into the trailer for the new version....it's geared toward family audiences and mainstreamed to the "sensitive" folk.

Heavy comedic elements, jokes and lighthearted portrayals and the introduction of things that stray so far from Orwell it's quite literally Newspeak.

Yes, the perfect propaganda piece, as many today would rather watch a movie than read an actual book.
And they will never know of the author's intent.

[DBCowboy]

Animal Farm still matters because it shows how power can change people. It reminds us to stay alert, question our leaders, and protect what we believe in.

If we don't, even our best dreams can slowly disappear.

The animals didn't fail because they were stupid. They failed because they trusted the wrong leaders.

Their hope was taken advantage of.

We need honest, responsible leaders who truly care about others, or the same problems will keep happening.

I will never read an online version because I'm afraid the message will be that some animals ARE more equal than others.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Animal Farm still matters because it shows how power can change people. It reminds us to stay alert, question our leaders, and protect what we believe in.

If we don't, even our best dreams can slowly disappear.

The animals didn't fail because they were stupid. They failed because they trusted the wrong leaders.

Their hope was taken advantage of.

We need honest, responsible leaders who truly care about others, or the same problems will keep happening.

I think its use wants to be irony. 

[SteamyAmerican]

Excellent book!
That and 1984.

Love Animal Farm. And it’s prescient for sure.

ive thought for awhile now we’re in a Venn diagram of 1984, Brave New World, and Children of Men (a movie worth watching).

[SteamyAmerican]

I tried.   Read like 50 pages and thought ... WTF?
Gave up too.
Really thought it was dumb and confusing.

Had the same reaction to the Bible. Figured if it weren’t for me I probably wouldn’t enjoy the Koran nor the Torah/Talmud either.

*shrugs

[SomeStupidName]

Yes, the perfect propaganda piece, as many today would rather watch a movie than read an actual book.
And they will never know of the author's intent.

Especially because the new movie rewrites the original book. In the new movie Capitalism is the enemy of the people and Marxism is the hero. It's a complete and total fraud, but only people who have read the original will know. In a sense it's very 1984.

[Karl12]

Wasn't Orwell warning about Fabian socialists in his book '1984'.

It certainly looks like it.

[SomeStupidName]

Wasn't Orwell warning about Fabian socialists in his book '1984'.

It certainly looks like it.

I meant in the governments "big brother" messaging, but yes bloodless revolutions to install democratic socialism like what we are seeing in New York City, and I believe the rest of the world has already bent the knee to it.

[andy06shake]

I wouldn't call them stupid, they were more naive.

The book shows us that revolutions fail not when our ideals are wrong, but when our memory erodes.

They lose their freedom not because of force alone.

But because they forget what freedom once meant.