How do you produce a worse adaptation of animal farm than the one that was literally funded by the CIA during the red scare
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  • 2853 points DrTitanicua

    Me hooking up a generator next to Orwell’s coffin to generate infinite electricity.

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    639 points Brazilian_Hound

    Does it boil water? 

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    537 points -GLaDOS

    Actually no, what the steam is for in steam generators is spinning things. A naturally spinning power sources is the rare generator that does not involve a steam step. 

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    278 points Wk1360

    Actually we use the power generated by the spinning to boil water to spin a turbine

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    120 points RainbowDroidMan

    https://i.redd.it/w45b4gu0yu6g1.gif

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    83 points Brazilian_Hound

    I know, just memeing since IT ALWAYS BOILS DOWN TO BOILING WATER in most cases

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    57 points ESCF1F2F3F4F3F2F1ESC

    And despite living on top of a ball which is able to cleanly boil water as close to indefinitely as makes no odds, we still go to great pains to use the dirtiest, least sustainable alternative options. We're an odd species in some ways, aren't we?

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    20 points Warrior_of_Discord

    There's the understatement of the century

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    7 points the_milkman24

    Generally liquids boil upwards

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    18 points sonsofdurthu

    The problem being how are we going to glue all these magnets to his body when he is spinning so damn fast

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    12 points Yharon314

    By the way, do you know why water is boiled? Are there not liquids with lower boiling points, requiring less energy to be boiled? Or is water just cheaper?

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    9 points ArcFurnace

    Lower boiling points let you use lower-temperature heat sources, but actually reduce the overall efficiency of the heat engine at converting heat into work - you want as high of a temperature difference between the hot side and the cold side as possible. For the Rankine cycle (the standard "steam turbine" concept), you also need the working fluid to be liquid at ambient temperature so you can cool it with air and then get it up to high pressure as a liquid.

    You could try materials with higher boiling points that are still liquid at room temperature, but a lot of them are unpleasant in various ways (e.g. the mercury vapor turbine, which was used for a time but is no longer in use due to a combination of safety issues and improvements in steam turbines that reduced or eliminated its efficiency advantages).

    Water is cheap, non-toxic, non-flammable, and has generally good properties for use in the Rankine cycle.

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    4 points Character-Path-9638

    There are liquids with lower boiling points but they are much harder to make a cycle like we can with water while also generally being much more harmful and difficult to clean incase of a leak or something

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    8 points ollietron3

    All electrical generators use spinning because humans are a spiral race, solar power is an affront to this law

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    57 points monsnr

    Me hooking up with Orwell in his grave

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    82 points falkodalko

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    32 points strongspank

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  • 1144 points gilamasan_reddit

    Coming soon... 1984 directed by Adam Sandler and staring rob schneider!

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    395 points Aesenroug-Draconus

    And after that, The Diary of Anne Frank by Illumination.

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    168 points No-Indication5030

    Minions cameo?

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    148 points Aesenroug-Draconus

    It’s actually a Minions mid-quel, where the Minions are just following the most evil person around.

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    69 points Youistheclown

    at the post credits scene it reveals who truly killed Hitler (hint: they are yellow and like bananas)

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    46 points Aesenroug-Draconus

    During the credits we get to see the Minions teach Hitler how to do the Macarena.

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    28 points Youistheclown

    that’s how he died, doing dances before it was cool is a federal crime you know

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    11 points poolshark36

    Fuck, I'd kill myself too, if faced with that

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    27 points Impossible-Report797

    The fact that canonically they made the minions go into exile during the time of the world wars is the funniest shit to me

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    17 points Larry_Version_3

    Singing modern pop while leading the victims of the holocaust to their demise. Fart jokes while pulling the levers. The atrocities would be endless

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    14 points Aesenroug-Draconus

    They were too scared to be true to those yellow freaks.

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    30 points Fun_Month_6310

    They would characterize Anne as a dorky 2000s teeen for the plot and it would be the most disrespectful thing ever

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    27 points Past_Trouble

    The Snapchat Story of Anne Frank

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    17 points Fun_Month_6310

    Reading this sentence made me nauseous

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    13 points Past_Trouble

    I instantly regretted typing it out but something something "art is supposed to make you uncomfortable".

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    7 points Mallato22

    Can't wait for them to do, "The boy in the striped pajamas"

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    21 points Valarg

    At least Adam Sandler have some good movies

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    18 points KestrelQuillPen

    in the room 101 torture scene: “no no no, I feel no pain”

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    6 points _insideyourwalls_

    Holy shit its Baldur vs Big Brother

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    14 points rayofluck

    with jack black as o’brien

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    13 points Nowe_Melfyce

    "The thing that is in Room 6 7 is the worst thing in the world." Rob Schneider fart noises

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    7 points Ndmndh1016

    Rated PG-13!

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    6 points BirbInTF2

    Rob Schneider is..... [CENSORED]!

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    5 points Tight_Landscape1098

    Rob Schneider is,,, Big Brother!

    coming soon to theaters near you.

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    3 points Kaiser_Maximillian

    I trust Adam Sandler more than most directors these days

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  • 1328 points Atomatic13

    "Based on the masterpiece by george orwell"

    I do not think they know what based means

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    570 points KeeperOfWatersong

    "It's when you take an story and change 80% of it for marketability, right?"- Hollywood higher ups

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    141 points Luceo_Etzio

    Hollywood be like "wow, this property is well-loved for its story and literally just its story because it's a fucking book, let's make a movie out of it but make our own story instead"

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    36 points Dry_Coat_1837

    Sadly that mentality might have propped up more because there are successful and beloved movies that came from such a method. One of those movies is Shrek.

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    13 points Anonymouse_Art

    Yup. I was so disappointed when this happened to The Electric State. The book was SO good but of course they had to slap Chris Pratt in there and give the plot line a lobotomy so he could understand it. And that’s being generous. I’d argue the only similarities they really share are the name

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    6 points Luceo_Etzio

    Book adaptations are such a fucking crapshoot on whether they actually try or just fucking brainblend it.

    It's still baffling to me how there are some old books which are considered classics and have been adapted a bunch of times and every single one is terrible or completely different because the faithful ones were shit and the newer ones decide they have to do their own spin on it

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    65 points crepoef

    Cringe on the masterpiece by George Orwell

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    36 points lornlynx89

    "based on" can mean literally anything as long as there's a loose strand to it. You can write "based on history" on 100% of books.

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    8 points alkali112

    Yeah, O’ Brother Where Art Thou is based on The Odyssey, and it’s probably more adherent to the source material than Cinderella was.

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    9 points Drakkon2ZShadows

    Based the way a kids theme park's foundation is based upon ancient Aztec burial grounds, shits buried so far deep all you see at best are ghosts of what once was

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    4 points The-Bigger-Fish

    Andy Serkis, George Orwell, Seth Rogen, and ANGEL studios... What a strange combination of people.

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  • 1610 points ultimo293

    i watched it dear god how the fuck do you mess that up so bad

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    1031 points thefirstlaughingfool

    When you're losing critical understanding of a George Orwell book to Ben Shapiro, you have serious problems.

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    366 points Gavou

    Shit feels like one of those AI-generated Disney posters about offensive subjects people used to make. But they unironically made it into a real movie 😭

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    51 points Ellie7600

    Dagoth it's me Nerevar, please go back to Morrowind, we miss you, Tod Howard misses you please come back

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    8 points Nervous84

    You're 30 mins into look upon the heart and chill when he calls you sweet Nerevar, wyd

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    7 points Ellie7600

    I stop communing with the orb and kiss him on his hot mouth, I'm feeling romantical

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    5 points Nervous84

    He tells you to lay down your weapon yet he brandishes his and begins wielding it....

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    4 points Ellie7600

    Sounds very sus, I always thought Dagoth would be more of a submissive type of guy, well unless you come to him as an argonian, anyway I offer skooma of peace, it's just skooma but I added nimroot for...reasons

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    14 points gizamo

    It was made by Mormons. They are intentionally misrepresenting the plot. The LDS are fully MAGA, and undermining Orwell is inline with all of their propaganda and disinformation campaigns.

    I'm ashamed of all the actors who agreed to this trash. They read the script. They knew what this was going to be. I'm especially shocked by Rogan, Close, and Culkin. Lost so much respect for them.

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    183 points Audi_R8_Gaming

    Napoleon got stinking rich and decided to fund some propaganda

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    69 points TheBadHalfOfAFandom

    He probably just read only the first part of the book and decided he knew the entire rest of the plot and based the movie from how he thought the rest of the story went

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    50 points iseedeadllamas

    “Let’s see here… talking animals take over farm. Great throw that into chagpt and have it churn out a script”

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    50 points Alt-Tabris

    On purpose for engagement.

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    7 points Some-Cat8789

    And to get first mover advantage so that those who see your movie before they get to the book will find it more difficult to understand what the book was about.

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    18 points MIT_Engineer

    The old one isn't even that bad, they basically just added a happy ending at the end so that it didn't end on such a downer. Pretty standard Hollywoodization of a story.

    This one... hoo boy. I might have had a stroke halfway through the trailer. Does anyone else smell burnt toast?

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    14 points universal_century

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  • 382 points Groundbreaking_Arm77

    I can’t finish the trailer it’s so cookie cutter and a blatant bastardized version of the book.

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    314 points Audi_R8_Gaming

    One of my favorite details in the book is that the animals that we see at the end of the novel are mainly nameless outside of the animals we already saw at the beginning of the novel. It's easy to miss, but in my opinion, it solidifies how the animals were basically turned nameless and into tools.

    This new movie throws all of the subtlety and throws it in the garbage.

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    30 points i_dont_wash_my_hands

    Damn I'm gonna have to read it again cause I didn't catch that!

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    35 points Atlasreturns

    Just looking from the trailer and at the interviews this genuinely has very little to do with the actual Animal Farm novel in my eyes aside from using the names and certain known passages as weird catchphrases.

    The actual story is an allegory documenting the systematic decline into totalitarianism. The movie seems to be about the generic evil corporation being defeated by the power of friendship and beating up the bad guy.

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    6 points kUHASZ

    I can tell you the trailer gets more and more unhinged towards the end.

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  • 786 points Yggdrasylian

    All movie are equals, but some are more equals than others

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    99 points universal_century

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    14 points Game_DUMDUM

    Look on the bright side. You can't have good movies without bad movies as a bar

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  • 326 points Top_Reaction_2303

    wasnt the CIA-funded one mostly accurate to the story besides the ending?

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    243 points CowboyDespirocado

    And ironically with the fall of the Iron Curtain it's arguably the most accurate to IRL events at all.

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    19 points Alone-Middle-2547

    Ironically Iron Curtain.

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    85 points gliscornumber1

    As somebody who's read the book and seen both film adaptations. Yes. The CIA one is mostly accurate to the book, the only major change is with the ending

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    23 points Rorschach113

    I think I read somewhere they edited it to make Snowball a far less sympathetic character than the original script for the film or the novel called for, since he’s based on Trotsky. Unlike Orwell, who was a democratic socialist of sorts, the CIA wasn’t interested in painting any communist leaders in a decent light, even ones who were exiled and murdered by their tyrannical rival.

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    15 points IndustryPast3336

    Yes and No:

    The CIA demanded changes to make Snowball's ideals more unrealistic (Orwell's version had a lot more nuance), Said that outside of the school house scene only the pigs should be allowed to speak (animals spoke throughout the book), and had a lot of the anti-capitalism messaging that Orwell, who was a socialist, had included scrubbed (He was for DEMOCRATIC socialism, where as Animal Farm is specifically about Stalin/Authoritarian Socialism), and of course had the animals rise up against Napoleon at the end (The USSR was still very much active. This was a threat)

    They also waited until Orwell was dead and then badgered his widow to sell the film rights to them under false pretenses.

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  • 260 points JuniorDoughnut3056

    Because the creators probably identify with the pigs 

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  • 255 points NoNotice2137

    Splendid news, George Orwell now joins J.R.R. Tolkien in the prestigious club of writers who are spinning in their graves so hard that they were hooked up to turbines to produce clean energy

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    92 points NoNotice2137

    Oh, yeah, I forgot that H.G. Wells is in this club too

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    30 points SpacefaringBanana

    What did H.G. Wells write that was adapted?

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    95 points NoNotice2137

    War of Worlds. It got a new adaptation this year and it was abysmal dogshit

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    48 points Whelp_of_Hurin

    The Time Machine, the Invisible Man, the Island of Doctor Moreau, War of the Worlds.

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    8 points wonkey_monkey

    Also [The Shape of] Things to Come

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    5 points oan124

    the new invisible man was pretty good

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    5 points ForgingIron

    War of the Worlds

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    9 points th4

    Isaac Asimov joins the chat

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    8 points gliscornumber1

    Dr. Seuss is also in this club

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  • 425 points GuardPhysical

    ORWELLS DEAD?!?!?!

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    497 points i_hate_reddit1442

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    107 points Aesenroug-Draconus

    He’s right, he is died

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    32 points OwlbertGaming

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    73 points Opposite_Pea_3249

    He made 1984 in 1944

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    40 points GuardPhysical

    He was too young to go man

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    17 points Hoenn_Horns

    How do you think people celebrated the 40th anniversary of 1984?

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    14 points Rockety521

    In 2024, duuh

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    65 points Square_Television892

    We are removing George Orwell. 

    Sincerely, the mod team

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    28 points FewExperience3559

    he made a story about the Dystopian future of 1984 be fr

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  • 120 points Oktavia-the-witch

    In the trailer one pig says the "some animals are more equal" line, which is so weird because the line is from the last page of the book and kinda the pointe of the book.

    Which is like putting O'brien saying "if you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever"

    Its not a funny punchline or a catchphrase. Its literally meant to be the carthasis of the story

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  • 240 points Ok-Tear7712

    Can’t wait for their adaptation of watership down

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    59 points KestrelQuillPen

    presumably all the rabbits are gonna do a choreographed dance to a Taylor Swift single

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    37 points leer0y_jenkins69

    i’ve never read the books, but i did see the netflix adaptation, is it sufficiently accurate

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    10 points OCD-but-dumb

    The graphic novel is actually really good

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  • 228 points mussokira

    bro, they spoiled the entire book and gave away the entire plot in the trailer. the fun part of it was seeing these small transformations in retoric and treatment by the pigs, little by little. how can you show the ending and the pigs plotting with the humans IN THEIR CITIES in the trailer already

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    127 points Wboy2006

    I fucking hate modern movie trailers, I feel like so many just show the entire thing nowadays

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    33 points hrdcrnwo

    Trailers have done that since the concept was invented, watch old trailers from the 30s/40s/50s and they give the whole movie away. Soylent Green, released in 1973, gives away the twist in the trailer. It's not at all "new" thing. If anything, most modern trailers don't give everything away.

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    7 points kuba_mar

    The plot is one thing, most people are probably gonna go in already knowing it, the thing they gave away is all of their spin on it, which is basically all they had to draw people in, cause again, an adaptation of an extremely well known story.

    And their spin is absolute shit, the only demographic for Animal Farm but generic children’s animated comedy is probably just youtubers who shit on movies.

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  • 50 points thefirstlaughingfool

    Coming next year, the feel good family film of the summer. Don't forget to Rope in your friends and family. Illumination's The Turner Diaries.

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  • 89 points Senor_Wah

    I must have missed the chapter where they drive a sports car into a pool

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    56 points the_other_brand

    Surprisingly this part does actually fit into the themes of the book. One of the pigs does get rich and flaunts it to the other animals.

    The parts where the animals have a farmers market or work together to stop an attack by a corporation are not even remotely related to the book.

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    28 points Unwept_Skate_8829

    Buddy does NOT remember the Battle of the Cowshed and the traitorous coward Snowball’s betrayal.

    Thank god we have such a strong leader in Napoleon to lead our farm in these tough economic times.

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    19 points Valarg

    Or the Chapter where an Evil Corporativist allies with Napoleon to install a Puppet Goverment in The Farm

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    18 points dunmer-is-stinky

    The moral of Animal Farm was always that problems only come from outside evil forces, of course! No good-seeming person would ever just turn evil, it must be that they're being manipulated by the bad guys

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  • 142 points anothershadowbann

    aaand its being made by a right-wing, christian distributor (angel). wtf happened to andy serkis, is he washed

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    42 points Kingfisher818

    Fuck he’s in this?

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    48 points anothershadowbann

    yeah hes directing it

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    10 points MrMangobrick

    Maybe he should stick to acting

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    29 points Dark_Crowe

    It was bought by. I bit of a distinction and should be a huge indication of how bad this is. No one else wanted it but Angel.

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    10 points yourlocaltouya

    Kieran Culkin is in it too :(

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    11 points KestrelQuillPen

    And Jim Parsons :(

    though that said if one of the pigs says “bazinga” I take back everything I said about this movie /s

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    7 points MrMangobrick

    "All animals are equal but some are more equal than others"

    "Bazinga!"

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    7 points nueonetwo

    I just looked at the IMDb and the cast is pretty staked ngl. Sad the movie is most likely going up be shit

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  • 85 points FewExperience3559

    context

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    231 points KeeperOfWatersong

    Apparently there's a new Animal Farm movie comming out and they're trying to make a kids comedy out of it judging by the trailer

    Edit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wLmj9SiKM

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    170 points Tasty_Ball_Hairs_69

    24 thousand views

    only 300 likes

    When will they learn

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    142 points 4599310887

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    How it looks rn

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    62 points The_Tank_Racer

    I am proud to be a part of the 3k, even if dislikes literally don't do anything anymore.

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    13 points jonyes_6

    how do you see dislikes

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    25 points SpacefaringBanana

    Chrome addon, called return youtube dislike. I believe it extrapolates from the people who use it, but I could be wrong

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    10 points Tasty_Ball_Hairs_69

    I’m pretty sure it’s with an extension. The number isn’t exact, since I think it has to guess based on algorithm stuff, but it gets it surprisingly close.

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    3 points Cylian91460

    More precisely they get the like to dislike ratio of the video of extension users and use the actual number of like predict the number of dislike. It's a simple cross product

    And since it's a prediction it can be incorrect depending on the ppl who watch the video

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    109 points Dainfintium

    I'm hoping it's a huge bait and switch where the actual movie is presented cutesy and finishes off just as brutal as the real story (coping)

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    58 points SnakesRock2004

    IF that happens, it will be absolutely legendary.

    But it won't.

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    41 points poppygumi

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    there's a pig in a fucking lamborghini it's already irredeemable

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    7 points Asdral24

    It's gonna be so fun to watch.

    Not because it's good, but because it will be a cluster fuck.

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    29 points Aesenroug-Draconus

    That would be so good, lol. But I doubt it.

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    8 points Blightwraith

    Reviews are out there, it has a happy ending.

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    51 points The_Tank_Racer

    https://i.redd.it/sihrfb7zvt6g1.gif

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    39 points BalefulOfMonkeys

    I refuse to believe people purposefully made this movie. It’s slightly piss-tinted and sucks so bad that not even boardroom meddling really explains its existence. This movie is the product of the SAG strikes, and the fact it’s this miserable as a trailer is the whole reason why they happened to begin with

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    40 points FewExperience3559

    Jesus Christ what

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    16 points KeeperOfWatersong

    I don't get it either 

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    20 points Promethium-146

    I couldn’t make it even a minute through, as someone who has recently read animal farm for the first time, this is just… what the fuck?

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    26 points KeeperOfWatersong

    To be honest I genuinely don't get who this is for or what's the point- kids aren't really into Animal Farm and people into the book (presumably) don't want a  Illumination-esque version of the story. 

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    7 points GabeFoxIX

    Well given it's from the people who made Tuttle twins, it's for conservatives to drag their children to

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    11 points Thomas_314

    I can finally relate to the people who say the book is better than the movie adaptation 🥖🥖🥖

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    11 points Sioscottecs23

    Why did they use the fuckass lyrics video font

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    9 points SaroFireX

    https://preview.redd.it/61r7ulr14u6g1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3d99697f33355b93dc11759d470828eb69be6f30

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    7 points LilianaLucifer

    This is the worst thing ever

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    6 points GoldenMayhem

    "Angel Studios" yeah that explains it

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  • 43 points Impossible_Leader_80

    2 legs bad! 4 legs good!

    Future adaptation bad! CIA adaptation Better!

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  • 78 points Salty8675

    The fucking cia adaptation is more faithful

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    38 points In_Pursuit_of_Fire

    I too read trailer comment sections and the title of OP’s post. 

    Are you a bot?

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    24 points Salty8675

    No just very unoriginal

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    10 points MethMouthMichelle

    We’re being brigaded by CIA bots trying to convince us their adaptation was better

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  • 16 points CitizenHuman

    Just because it involves anthropomorphic animals, doesn't mean it should be a PG movie.

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  • 14 points DonSaintBernard

    Geniunely why you would do it like this. 

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  • 14 points Battleaxejax

    Fuck it I'm snailing again

    https://preview.redd.it/j8ykx2mgfu6g1.jpeg?width=2503&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ab8612863d01b1fab10cbd7d6befba13158ab831

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    3 points Hour_Establishment_1

    Feed it for good luck

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  • 14 points Carthage_ishere

    Wait there making one

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  • 13 points FRAaaa1

    The disrespect to source material is like burning the book and defecating on its ashes

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  • 14 points Comfortable_Bird_340

    The Jim Henson version, had the corniest ending ever.

    At the last minute everything turns bright and sunny and a new human family straight from a 1950s sitcom drives up in a convertible with "Blueberry Hill" playing!

    "We have new owners!"

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  • 13 points Kagamime1

    Implying this one isn't also funded by the CIA

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    3 points MotherBaerd

    I know its a baseless conspiracy but it is a great timing for slandering of anti-authoritarian pieces

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  • 13 points Cod3broken

    it reminds me of The Lorax (2012) in that it was a good book with an important message and it gets turned into overproduced, marketable slop, probably because the company working on it saw themselves in the antagonist(s) too much, despite the fact that someone else did it infinitely better a long time ago

    can't wait for it to become the next Morbius or Tron: Ares

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  • 26 points Aiden624

    Who is this made for. No genuinely who’s the audience because I can’t fucking see them

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    16 points Valarg

    I don’t think that the families want to do the “Sausage Party mistake” twice

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    6 points Aiden624

    Is it? What children even read animal farm today?

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    6 points Sendhentaiandyiff

    I'm a zoomer and we still read it when I was in HS

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    4 points gliscornumber1

    It feels like the studio is trying to dumb down the story for children because the actual book is too dark for them

    Granted, I don't know why they would take a book that's not for children and try to make it for them.

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    3 points Aardvark_Man

    It has talking animals, of course it's for kids!
    There's no way it could be an allegory or anything, just pure kids stuff.

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    4 points kuba_mar

    Youtubers who cover bad movies, thats the only real demographic i see for this movie.

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  • 10 points MysticSquiddy

    One of the lines said was "I'd rather gouge my eyes out" and it's the perfect description to what I want to do after seeing that shit.

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  • 9 points UnderteamFCA

    I need that cat spinning gif

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    11 points ArcaneWyverian

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  • 10 points winter-ocean

    Wait did they like somehow manage to remove the Stalinism metaphors?

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  • 19 points passwordworkplease

    Deadass feels like they were scared to go with the book’s original messages out of fear of the current US administration

    The more likely answer is that execs think this slop will make more money but still

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  • 8 points SunderedValley

    Apparently there's people glazing it because "it's a kid's movie".

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  • 8 points GeorgeOrwell1984Real

    Yeah I can confirm that this trailer is awful and deserves to die in the bottom pit of Hell

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  • 7 points iguanacatgirl

    Ok I haven't seen the trailer, and he learned this animal farm adaptation exist quite literally 5 minutes ago through reddit memes.

    But let's be honest, I'm 80% sure that part of the reason anyone thought this was a good idea was exactly because of this "all publicity is good publicity" mindset, now everyone has a take on how this butchers the original or not, and a lot more people will at least be curious enough to go watch it in theaters.

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  • 6 points crocodus

    I was wondering why is everyone so upset. And then I searched the trailer… oh my

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  • 6 points CCCyanide

    This movie will end with the small pig kicking the older pig out (I forgot their names, I guess the one leading the revolt is called Napoleon in the book but they don't name him there), become the new ruler of the farm, and the animals will live happily ever after.

    i.e every talking animals kids' movie ever.

    There will almost certainly not be famines, any of the main characters dying to the hands of the pigs, more than a week's worth of work done by the animals, or basically anything that gave the original novel its weight.

    The CIA version was, well, CIA-funded, but it is mostly accurate to the novel aside from the second revolution they add to the ending.

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  • 3 points KomisktEfterbliven

    Andy Serkis really out here doing anything but releasing tintin 2

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  • 3 points D-boi_vids

    https://preview.redd.it/w15gv6sqmu6g1.png?width=270&format=png&auto=webp&s=314d6c8e08433a61843f1405b6fe83f05ffeadce

    H.g Wells:

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  • 5 points annieisapeaperson

    how did they make a fucking marvel quip movie about a book about authoritarianism. i think ol' georgey will have lots of material for his novels if he could foresee anything like this happening.

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  • 4 points gliscornumber1

    Ah yes, this dark, authoritarian dictator character that's meant to be a reflection of Stalin himself......yeah let's get Seth Rogan to voice him

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  • 3 points -Depressed_Potato-

    Orwell's been spinning in his grave this whole century

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  • 8 points -TheManInTheChair

    Okay so,

    Going to be controversial. Before I start that, yes, the trailer is shit. It's awful.

    That being said, I'm not against the idea of a new version of Animal Farm updated to the modern day with modern fascists and big tech as the villains. My only hope is that this a psyop. That Angel will take down the trailer soon and put up a new one that's a lot grimmer, or when the film releases, it keeps the modern spin but its very brutal and otherwise faithful to the original.

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    9 points Gamingmemes0

    this movie actually already premiered a teaser trailer and even had a premier a couple months back

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  • 3 points Herc_Hansen_

    Name of the gif? Pleeeeeeeease

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  • 3 points Key_Benefit_6505

    Man you know. If it was ACTUALLY based on the book it would have been an amazing education movie for teens/kids, now its just one of those that your 6 year old will beg you to go to the theatre one more times because it has colours and explosions.

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  • 3 points _Fraudster_

    So this post made we watch the trailer...

    Chat it's so fucking bad

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  • 3 points IAmSixSyllables

    literally 1984

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