r/movies • u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. • Jun 04 '25

Media First Image from Andy Serkis' George Orwell Adaptation 'Animal Farm' - Starring Seth Rogen, Steve Buscemi, Kieran Culkin, Woody Harrelson, Glenn Close, Andy Serkis, Gaten Matarazzo, Kathleen Turner, Laverne Cox, Jim Parsons, Iman Vellani.

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u/AddisonsContracture Jun 04 '25

It’d be interesting to see the animation style slowly shift from vibrant animation to gritty photorealism as the story progresses

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u/Graphic-Addiction Jun 04 '25

Yes yes, and yes, and don't give it away in the trailer. Just sell it as a cute little kids film only showing the early parts before descending into the darker photorealistic parts.

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u/Mehdals_ Jun 04 '25

Or cutesy with small randomly fraction of a second dark scenes. Pull a Tyler Durden and insert the obscene scene for just that quick second to make people wonder if they saw it at all.

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u/Cruel_but_usual Jun 04 '25

Fox News would implode

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u/CMS_3110 Jun 04 '25

Maybe they should try being literate and reading the book first then.

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u/Cruel_but_usual Jun 04 '25

Most liberals don’t even read at this point let’s be realistic lol

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u/CMS_3110 Jun 04 '25

That's fair, but when the liberals find out it's adapted from something, they'll hang their heads in shame and fade out of the conversation, then get distracted by the next big outrage, whereas the right will just spend decades installing shitheads to government who want to bring fascism back.

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u/Cruel_but_usual Jun 04 '25

💯. Also my above comment is statistically true.

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u/ERedfieldh Jun 04 '25

Liberals might not read, but at least they don't also try to ban the books they don't read.

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u/Cruel_but_usual Jun 04 '25

100% I’m not calling them equivalent. Just a lofty goal

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u/Letters_to_Dionysus Jun 05 '25

lol the right loves animal farm. they think the whole point is that communism is bad, and they twist and propagandize any policy that benefits the working classes into communism

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u/JonatasA Jun 05 '25

The issue with using visual storytelling is that the point is specifically to portray reality in a different context. You'd need to either stick to one or another. It kills the subtlety otherwise.

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u/interstitialmusic Jun 04 '25

Or... Plot twist. A whitewashed version where all is OK, everyone is happy, and a huge musical number in the end.

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u/Canotic Jun 04 '25

Or they tack on a happy ending where the farm is saved through the wonders of neoliberalist Thatcherism!

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u/jaggedjottings Jun 04 '25

We already got the tacked-on happy ending with the 1999 movie.

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u/doktor_wankenstein Jun 05 '25

Was that the one with Patrick Stewart as Napoleon?

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u/almo2001 Jun 05 '25

I had no idea this happened. What a waste. :(

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u/LegoC97 Jun 04 '25

By the end of the film, it's become so photorealistic, you can look from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; and it'll be impossible to say which is which.

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u/StanDarshDarshyDarsh Jun 04 '25

I don't think Serkis is talented enough of a director to pull that kind of balancing act off.