Talk:Animal Farm (1999 film)

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[edit] The film's conclusion

As I recall, the filmmakers somehow got it backwards when they shot the film's ending. The humans came to resemble the pigs, rather than the other way around. Which is missing the whole point of the book, which is that the pigs had come to be just like the animals' human oppressors. Oddly, I've never heard anyone else comment on this. Am I mistaken? --Mr. Billion 21:28, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

You're not mistaken. In the book, the animals wind up just as bad off at the end as they were before, they have just traded one bad master for another. In the movie, all is made well by having new human owners taking over the farm. In essence, they get Mr. Jones back, and live happily ever after. The changes are, ironically enough, rather Orwellian.--RLent (talk) 06:56, 25 February 2008 (UTC)