The dystopian and allegorical novel, Animal Farm was written by author George Orwell in 1945 says basically that every government once they assume power turn corrupt. According to Orwell himself the book was intended as a criticism or satire of the Russian revolution:
"Of course I intended it primarily as a satire on
the Russian revolution...[and] that kind of revolution (violent conspiratorial
revolution, led by unconsciously power hungry people) can only lead to a change
of masters revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are
alert." In a preface for a 1947 Ukrainian edition, he stated, "...
for the past ten years I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet
myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement. On my
return from Spain [in 1937] I thought of exposing the Soviet myth in a story
that could be easily understood by almost anyone and which could be easily
translated into other languages."
The book allegorical satire comes in place when a
group of animals led by two pigs set out to revolt and kick out farmer Mr.
Jones from the farm and gain power so all animals live in peace. The plan works
but little by little both pigs, Napoleon and Snowball start getting greedy and
start changing the rules they created for the so call animal utopia. Snowball
gets kicked out of the farm and Napoleon changes the power structure and
organizes a pig committee to run the farm. Ultimately all pigs get corrupt and
begin walking on two legs and metamorphosis into Humans.
Now with the news. Speaking with SD, actor and
director Andy Serkis announced that he will begin shooting Animal Farm late
next year and that they will use motion capture to create the animals’
expressions and mannerisms.
“What we’re trying to do is fairly unique. It’s going
to be entirely performance captured, so rather than photographing real animals
and showing them with talking mouths, it will all be generated by the interaction
between the actors playing those roles…the physicality and facial expressions
of all the animals will come directly from actors’ performances.”
Let’s hope that the satire and political views of the
book don’t fall short in comparison to the book.
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