AF movie blog post

Even though the book and the movie have the same basic idea, there are a lot of details that aren’t the same. For instance:

1. Old Major died peacefully in the book; in the movie he was shot.
   
2. The song “Beasts of England” is called “Beasts of the world” in the movie, with different text.
   
3. The animals use more human equipment in the movie than in the book. For example they put a TV in the barn and they used binoculars to see if the humans were coming.
   
4. Old Major was buried in the backyard, not put in a storage cupboard.
   
5. In the book, none of the animals except Benjamin, the donkey, seemed to understand what was happening to Animal Farm. In the movie, however, the only animal that understood what was going on was Jessie the dog.
   
6. The windmill was made out of stone in the book, not wood as in the movie.
   
7. In the book, the pigs never filmed news clips of what they wanted to say to the other animals on the farm while in the movie, they did. If the pigs wanted to say something to the other animals on the farm, Squealer was usually the one to announce it in person.
   
8. Mr. Pilkington didn’t help the pigs with the trade in the book, it was Mr. Whymper.
   
9. The ending of the film was different than the book. At the end of the book, the animals did not escape then return to the farm a few years later after Napoleon had died but just kept on working on the farm
   

All in all, I liked the book more than the movie because the movie wasn’t really that good and the book gives you a better idea of how the Russian revolution went.