Posted on 12/28/2013 12:45:25 PM PST by VR-21
Actor Andy Serkis is set to direct an upcoming movie adaptation of George Orwell’s classic novel Animal Farm. But there will be a slight deviation from the story’s original focus: rather than serve as a cautionary tale about Communist totalitarianism, this updated version will address Hollywood’s predictable, go-to embodiment of evil, the Darth Vader of our time: corporate greed.
Orwell’s brilliant allegory Animal Farm was written during World War II as a satire on Soviet Communism (and very nearly wasn’t published, critical as it was of our Russian ally). It has since been adapted to film twice, a British animated version in the mid-1950s, in which the ending was altered to be more upbeat for its young audience, and a “live-action” take in 1999 featuring talking animals with the voices of an all-star cast including Kelsey Grammer, Ian Holm, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Patrick Stewart.
Serkis, known primarily for his role as Golem in the epic Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, and as the ape Caesar in the Planet of the Apes reboots, announced that his version would address the political aspects of the novella, but not as overtly as the previous films: “First and foremost, we are not making a film about Communism and Stalinism because if Orwell was writing the story today, he would be talking about other relevant topics like globalization and corporate greed,” he explained.
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But, somehow, I doubt Serkis has Winston's grasp of the dialectic...
Who raised you, hippies? No corporation can lawfully make you patronize them. They can’t force you patronize, they can’t levy taxes or fines against you or deprive you of you liberty. A government can do all that.
Good post. The evil corporations guys look at the symptom, not the cause. Without an overweening government to make them huge and suppress competition, without an overweening government to provide guns and police support, without an overweening government to bail them out when they are going broke, they are just another corporation. If the government doesn’t have the power to make it worth buying them off, they don’t get bought off.
“Capitalism run amok can be criticized on this level.”
Capitalism has a hard time running amok without active participation from a government.
So Sméagol/Gollum supports Marxist-Leninism by rewriting one of its most devastating critiques.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIvQXiMVf-Q&t=0m15s
Yeah, let’s how those greedy Hollywood capitalists! Nobody go to their movies!! Nobody buy their DVDs or watch on Netflix. Crush the Hollywood capitalists!
Anyone who wishes to know what Animal Farm is about need only read it. There isn't anything ambiguous about it. And unless Serkis is channeling Orwell through a Ouija board he probably isn't the most reliable source on what Orwell would have written, especially in the face of what he did write. Idiot.
Good example.
“Anyone who wishes to know what Animal Farm is about need only read it. There isn’t anything ambiguous about it.”
Absolutely; it is written so a child could understand it.
One of the influences that is downplayed in Orwell’s writing is his personal experience in the Spanish Civil War. He supported the leftist government by joining the anarchists, and a year later watched them get murdered by their communist brothers in arms in the “civil war within a civil war”. He described the unreal propaganda of the left (describing victories where there hadn’t even been battles, and burying/omitting defeats that boded ill for the future of the left), and he quickly realized that they had no moral high ground in comparison to the military coup.
Individual Mandate.
bkmk
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