Critique of Animal Farm.

I believe the movie was a compact version of the book with simpliar dialogue but wtih the same story line. Both the film and the book in my opinion where adeguate but wether you read the book or watched the film was depending on the depth you wanted to view the story. With the book going into more depth while the movie more skimmed the surface. I thought the cartoon effect in the film took away from it in some senses as it made it more difficult for a viewer to make a comparison between animal farm and the russian revolution. It also made the story feel more like a cute animal cartoon then the cruelty of the russian revolution. Though the graphics of the movie in several occasions allowed you to feel more emotion as well as the fear and misunderstanding of the animals which wasn't seen in the book an example being when Boxer was being taken to the knackers.

The movie did miss out several major points or important details which added to the book. An example being when old major spoke to the animals he taught them the song "Beasts of England" which added to the excitment of the meeting while in the movie the animals already knew the song and the meeting was rather dull in comparison. An another example being when the seven commandments were written which in the book was strongly emphasised and before the battle of the cowshed while in the movie it was after the battle and it wasn't a large occasion. Thirdly the hoisting of the animal farm flag which had been a green table cloth in the story and was the first symbol of the united animals was in the movie a yellow shirt of one of the attackers from the battel of the cowshed. Forthly Benjamin throughout the book was portrayed as far more cynical character and was not boxers companion. This leads to my point of several characters not being included including Clover and Mollie. Lastly in the book the animals did not unite to over through Napolean but rather realized for the first time how life was no better than when they had been dictated by Mr Jones while in the movie the animals united and overthrowed Napolean to a sweet little ending.