Movie Critique- Animal Farm

The book Animal farm and the Movie they made about it were both pretty good. They had close similarities but more differences in them. Some of the similarities between the two would include such things as the way that they made the animals. Like the fact that in both the book and the movie Boxer was a hard worker, Snowball, Napoleon, and the other pigs ruled over everyone else, Mr. Jones was the always-drunk farmer that the animals kicked out of his own house, and Napoleon's guard dogs followed him around everywhere. Other similarities would include the main story of both the book and the movie, because of-course the director had to keep the whole idea otherwise it would be a random film about animals living in a farm. Major events and other ideas that made up the story, such as 'The Battle of the Cowshed', the singing of 'Beasts of England', the Seven Commandments, the building of the windmill and its destruction, and basically most of the main points covered in the movie were taken from the book.
There are a few similarities between the book and the movie, but there are even more differences. For one, in the movie they never mentioned Clover, Boxer's close friend and companion throughout the whole book. Instead, the director wanted to make less characters which would make the film a little less complicated to understand, so he made Benjamin act as both himself and Clover. Also, at the end of the movie, the other animals broke into the farmhouse and killed all the pigs, but in the book they didn't do anything. They let Napoleon take over everything but had no power over what was happening. There was way too much killing in the movie, for example when they exiled Snowball in the book, they just threw him out of the farm, but they didn't harm him. In the movie they gave the impression that Napoleon's guard dogs tore him apart. Another difference was that they added two more characters to the movie that weren't in the book. The little duckling and the young sheep that appeared from time to time and had some of the funnier moments in the movie were not mentioned in the book. Overall, The movie had more differences that similarities, even if some points were missed in the paragraph above.




p.s- mr.coyle, because we started seeing the movie on Friday i forgot some of the things that happened in the beginning and my 'differences' paragraph is kinda short... :)