The Suitability for Children of the Film Based on Orwell's Animal Farm

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The Suitability for Children of the Film Based on Orwell's Animal Farm The novel Animal Farm is written by George Orwell. This book is about how these innocent animals on Animal Farm rebel against Mr. Jones, the farmer. Mr. Jones is a cruel person who makes them work hard and ends up killing most of the animals for money. This novel is used as an extended metaphor for the Russian Revolution. It was the war that went wrong. Just like in this book, where the rebellion takes a wrong path and ends up in disaster. The film is a cheeky animated adaptation of George Orwell's novel for little children. Pleasant scenes of animal harmony avoid the political metaphor at times. In order to make the story more suitable for children the script is simplified and a lot of the atmosphere of the melancholy is ignored. The political issue like the cat who was meant to a traitor is not used in the film to make it less complicated for the kids. The struggle of building the windmill is not shown much in the film, as it could be too violent for the children. As in the fights of the windmill a lot of the animals are killed this will be too upsetting for the kids, so this fact is neglected. The hard times like the harsh, cold winters where the animals' food rations are reduced dramatically and they have to work extra hours for the windmill to be finished in time and not to be delayed any more, are also not included in the film. While the pigs are having a good time living in the house (even though this wasn't allowed) with enough food and all the luxuries in the world could have been shown more in detail in the film to show the real side of the pigs. Although the pigs do put the other animals to work (they sing the catchy "Work Is Freedom," its tune a clear echo of "Whistle While You Work"), the pig's dream of a Workers' perfect place is eventually

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