Animal Farm Movie Critique Part 1

As I started watching the movie version of "Animal Farm", I soon realized that the movie had skipped through a lot of the hard work in the beginning of the book. And even before that, the speech that Old Major had given seemed much smaller compared to the speech in the book (pg 5-10). Also, in the book, Old Major died shortly after the meeting (pg 11), while in the movie, Old Major died right at the end of the meeting. Another thing that attracted my attention was that the Battle of Cowshed walked in a little too fast. In fact, one of the students even said," Isn't the battle of Cowshed a little later on?". Let's move on to Napoleon ,up until the meeting for the windmill, Napoleon was a lot like a dormant fly, he wasn't a very big part of the decisions that were being made either . I think, the animators might have focused a little too much on Napoleon because he was going to be the dictator later on. Along with events, the movie also alters the side characters a little. For example, in the book, there is a index of all the characters (pg 4). Whereas in the movie, many of the characters such as Mollie and Muriel were missing. Along with that, Moses, the tame raven, was not even introduced so well, in fact, a person who hadn't read the book from before wouldn't be able to tell that the raven was even a part of the farm. Moses plays quite an important role in the book, and should get that much importance in the movie too. To conclude, I think most of these differences are excusable, this is because, if they had imitated the book word, to word than I fear the movie would have gotten a bit too long.