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14 years to completely miss the assignment: Hollywood's Animal Farm strawman speedrun
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14 years to completely miss the assignment: Hollywood's Animal Farm strawman speedrun

By Mario Nawfal (via @wttp3)
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HOLLYWOOD TAKES ORWELL'S ANTI-COMMUNIST MASTERPIECE - MAKES IT ANTI-CAPITALIST AND WOKE INSTEAD Andy Serkis spent 14 years adapting Animal Farm. Added a billionaire villain not in the book. Made her the main threat. Napoleon - Orwell's Stalin stand-in - gets downgraded to supporting antagonist voiced by Seth Rogen. The new villain drives a Cybertruck knockoff. Producers claim resemblance to Elon is "unintentional." Sure. Then Serkis rewrote the ending. Orwell's original: pigs become indistinguishable from humans, revolution betrayed, totalitarianism wins. His version: animals overthrow pigs, plan "brighter future." Director's explanation: "We wanted some hope." Here's the problem: Animal Farm wasn't about capitalism. Orwell wrote it as a direct allegory for Soviet Russia - how revolutionary ideals get corrupted by power-hungry authoritarians. The pigs ARE the communists. That's the entire point. Hollywood just inverted the message. Took a socialist's warning about socialism becoming tyranny and turned it into "corporations bad." Added an outside capitalist villain so the animals' internal corruption - the actual story - becomes secondary... Orwell spent his life warning about totalitarianism from the left. Now Seth Rogen voices Napoleon like it's a buddy comedy while the real villain is tech billionaires. 14 years to completely miss the assignment. F. Source: GB News
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