Animal Farm, a movie starring the voices of Kelsey Grammer, Ian Holm, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Julia Ormond, Pete Postlethwaite, Paul Scofield, Patrick Stewart, and Peter Ustinov, is directed by John Stephenson. Although the movie was very well put together, it leaves out several different aspects of the book. Stephenson uses settings, events, and characters to bring the book to life.
The setting in the movie is somewhat different than what is portrayed in the book. The movie is set in the English countryside in the early 1900’s and is somewhat altered in from the books point of view. Some of these different scenes are the statue of Napoleon, the windmill, and the ending. Some of the settings are drastically different from the book and give you a feeling that you were watching a movie on something completely different from the book. One of the most drastic changes that were made was, the way the animals revolted against the humans in order to gain their independence from the farmers.
The events that took place during the movie were somewhat different from the book. In the beginning of the movie Animal Farm, the animals were all meeting in the barn to here what old Major had to say about the bream that he had the night before. During the meeting the animals start to sing and wakeup Mr. Jones. Jones gets up and instead of shooting six times out the window at the barn, like in the book, he goes outside and walks to the barn, but on his way falls down and the gun goes off and kills old Major. This is just one of the many differences between the movie and the book.
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Have you ever witnessed a well-adapted animal thriving in its environment? Well similarly when a book is transformed into a movie or play it needs to be adapted so that it can thrive in its environment. For example if you read a great book and when you watch the movie you see every scene that you read in the book, the movie won’t be so good. There are many examples in which we see a movie or play ...
The characters in the move are somewhat different from the book. Some of the characters are not even in the story. In the movie Animal Farm, the character Mr. Whymper is not even in the story, but the role he plays as the trader between the humans and the animals is taken over by Mr. Pilkington. Another character change is that of Jessie, one of Mr. Jones dogs. In the movie Jessie has a very important role as the friend to Mollie and Boxer. Also in the movie they replace the role of Clover, with Jessie. This drastically changes the character setting of the story.
The settings, events, and the characters were all a major factor in the movie. Stephenson was able to take a great book and turn it around into a crappy movie. Animal Farm the book was full of great details and was very pleasant to read. The movie on the other hand was not a good representation or Animal Farm at all, and I would be inclined to say It was a waste of time to even watch.
