Animal Farm George Orwell (Macmillan Collector's Library)

So there's this scene in Animal Farm, it's the last scene in the novel, the famous George Orwell novel, the one less referred to than 1984, but in some ways a lot better. And there's this scene where the pigs and the men are playing cards at a table.

And in the final scene, the other animals are gathered outside the house, nose is pressed against the glass, and the pigs are sitting, basically partying with the men. And for a moment they become indistinguishable. You can't tell the pig from the man, they've melded into one.

George Orwell in the preface to Animal Farm wrote - actually it's 1984 - wrote an essay where he was essentially saying that overt totalitarianism of the kind that was taking place in the Soviet Union is repressive, but it's not nearly as effective as subtle repression.

It's a new film adaptation of George Orwell's amazing novel Animal Farm. 1984 gets all the attention, but Animal Farm is better.

The movie follows Lucky, a young pig whose curiosity encouraged guide viewers through the farm's rise and fall. We see hope, betrayal, and above all, the danger of totalitarian power.

the coolest movie we can imagine. It's a new film adaptation of George Orwell's amazing novel Animal Farm. 1984 gets all the attention but Animal Farm is better.

This is the last scene in Animal Farm where the farmers and the pigs are like getting together.

Every book we read in high school, college, Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, 1980, or Animal Farm, like The Giver, which we read in middle school.

These experiences led him to write his most famous novels Animal Farm and 1984 giving us enduring phrases like Big Brother is watching you.

These experiences led him to write his most famous novels Animal Farm and 1984 giving us enduring phrases like Big Brother is watching you.

Well with Animal Farm, they are two of the defining books of the 20th century.

He thought of Animal Farm when he was in Wellington and he saw a little boy whacking a shire horse... the book was a warning about revolutions in general rather than just the Soviet Union.

Orwell really warned about this about 100 years ago, right when he wrote "Animal Farm" in 1984, and he based those books are warnings. They're based on the totalitarian systems of Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.

And yet here we are. So what they do in this Orwellian twist is they completely upend the narrative and they completely upend the language. This is what all dictatorships do.

It took time it to me trusting what that meant was reading George Orwell's Animal Farm. That helped me to understand what happened to my country, what happened to my myself, why the country became that way.

Animal Farm? Napoleon? Is that the pig's name?

I would do it in a pig voice.

We're going to take over this farm.

i posted this video the other day and she's a defector from north korea and we went through her story and she wrote this book called uh um in order to live which is a harrowing book although i don't think it's as harrowing to read as it is harrowing to talk to her but in any case her book ends in 2016 so i asked her what did she do after 2016 and she went through high school and university in south korea high school and all the primary school in one year locked herself in a room basically and went through it all in one year and then went to a south korean university and they're hard to south korean universities and then after she wrote her book which was inspired by the way by george orwell's animal farm was very interesting she went to columbia to take humanities degree

I was reading this animal farm not even knowing what that is and it was I was seeing my grandmother in those all the pigs and these young pigs the when they like later when those young pigs born you don't even know what life was beforehand didn't even know the alternative life looks like right because the first biggest words of faith speak out.

That's when I realized oh everybody was responsible and that's when I started thinking about speaking out.

she was drastically affected by george orwell's night animal farm when she was in south korea

You know, it all kind of reminds me of the last few pages of George Orwell's book Animal Farm, which was obviously meant to be an allegory about communism, not artificial intelligence.

All people are equal, but some people are more equal than others, as George Orwell wrote in Animal Farm.

Even more so in my opinion in his allegory Animal Farm.

the other two are Harry Potter books. But the second reason is that so much of what we're experiencing today really was prophesied by Orwell in 1984 and even more so in my opinion in this allegory Animal Farm.

Animal Farm, another of Orwell's books, I think Animal Farm.

I see more of our current condition in Animal Farm even than I see in 1984.

Animal Farm. Animal Farm, which by the way, I think if we're looking for an Orwell comparison and everyone goes to 1984 and there's a lot, there's certainly a lot that's analogous there, many comparisons, but I think Animal Farm, more and more, is the better comparison.

You know, when people use the word Orwellian these days, they're normally referring to the book 1984 which was no doubt prophetic in many ways. But a book that seems even more relevant to our time is Orwell's Animal Farm, his allegorical satire of communism.

Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our whole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples, this has been proven by science comrades, contain substances absolutely necessary to the wellbeing of a pig. We pigs are brain workers. The whole management and organization of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples.

We hear about Orwell all the time, Orwellian, and we know what they're doing with Animal Farm. In fact, ironically, they're treating Animal Farm in a very Orwellian way with this cartoon adaptation we talked about.

I don't think I've ever seen a movie that so thoroughly fails to capture the tone and meaning of the original work that it's based on.

They've taken this masterpiece of literature, which was supposed to be a warning about communism, and they've turned it into this slapstick, kidfriendly, zootopia type of thing with pop music and fart jokes and worst of all, they've completely removed the core message, the point, about communism.

If you've never read the book or if it's been a long time, you read it in middle school or something, that villain is not in that book.

I guarantee there's a scene ... Napoleon ... and the other animal goes, he's right behind me, isn't he? I guarantee that's in the movie.

They completely removed the core message, the point, about communism, and apparently invented a new villain who is, of course, a rich white capitalist scheming to take over the farm.

If you wanna understand the collapse of Musk's free speech revolution, just go reread your copy of George Orwell's Animal Farm and remember how quickly the revolutionary animals reinstituted the old farms rules and hierarchies after they'd taken over and even invited the humans back on the farm.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man and from man to pig and from pig to man again but already it was impossible to say which was which.

If you wanna understand the collapse of Musk's free speech revolution, just go reread your copy of George Orwell's Animal Farm and remember how quickly the revolutionary animals reinstituted the old farms rules and hierarchies after they'd taken over and even invited the humans back on the farm.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man and from man to pig and from pig to man again but already it was impossible to say which was which.

He wrote Animal Farm. I see Animal Farm leading up to this 1984 situation where they say the final and most important command from the government was to ignore the truth of your eyes and ears. Some quote like that, like just ignore what's right in front of you.

Animal farm, right?

Animal farm, right?

Because in animal farm, it's like the farm is the model.

I was just being silly.

So my question is, in Orwell's Animal Farm, who do the farmers represent? What's the analogy we're supposed to be drawing?

So you think like the pigs that take over or also the original farmers?

In Animal Farm, I have no idea. It depends on what the Orwell intended with the writing of the book, I guess. I don't know.

But I don't think that's true. I think they're interpreted as different countries.

I think we're dealing with a Nietzschean God is dead situation.

Brazil is thus not just a dictatorship, but a lawless one its leaders are behaving like the hypocritical pigs in George Orwell's animal farm

And the reason I'm not surprised is because of the greatest novel ever written, which is Animal Farm, right? Animal Farm, George Orwell's work about a group of people represented by animals who start out as revolutionaries and become authoritarians and conservatives.

All pigs are equal. Some pigs are more equal than others. Animal farm.

I mean, this is very much a time when I think people could go back and read Orwell's Animal Farm, and they will understand the slogans.

It's really a biting satire of the Soviets.

If you're a communist and you've written a brilliant book like Animal Farm or 1984, do you really think you're going to be poisoning the brains of your children by introducing them to 1984? Good grief.

If you're a communist and you've written a brilliant book like Animal Farm or 1984, do you really think you're going to be poisoning the brains of your children by introducing them to 1984? Good grief.

it's like exactly the George Orers animal farm in the first generation they know they lived before the revolution they knew the time that was different but when you come to third ones the new animals they have no idea what the alternative life would be look like

I was educate I read books like Animal Farm in 1984 before I was in the cult but you suppress all of these things that do not compute to the narrative of what the ideal you want to believe the group is doing

it's like exactly the George Orers animal farm in the first generation they know they lived before the revolution they knew the time that was different but when you come to third ones the new animals they have no idea what the alternative life would be look like

I was educate I read books like Animal Farm in 1984 before I was in the cult but you suppress all of these things that do not compute to the narrative of what the ideal you want to believe the group is doing

Why are people reading Animal Farm and think that there's animals in it? I mean, why?