Fun Orwell Trivia from the Cold War
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Real quick, I just thought I’d share one of my favorite factoids: the CIA bought the rights to Orwell’s Animal Farm from his wife shortly after Orwell died. And it had a hand in adapting the novel for the animated 1953-ish film version (full details, with de-classified evidence, available maybe at the Memory Hole website).
So, pop quiz: in light of this fact, what’s interesting about the film version of the novel’s ending? Here it is:
[Update: Interesting follow-up reading at The Guardian and The Memory Hole]
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There’s no human beings, representing capitalists,in this scene. In the actual book it’s written that the animals failed to distinguish between the pigs and the humans but in this video, there were only pigs. The CIA once again made communist look bad and the capitalist out of the picture.
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laneeuler
27 May 07 at 4:19 am