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* PerpetualFrowner: Napoleon is constantly depicted as such, even when startled he maintains a grimace. The only time his expression is completely widened is when [[spoiler: he realises the other animals are going to kill him]].
** Averted in the baby pigs scene (see AffablyEvil).
** Averted in the baby pigs scene (see AffablyEvil).
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* PerpetualFrowner: Napoleon is constantly depicted as such, even when startled he maintains a grimace. That said, he does chuckle while watching baby pigs playing in the front yard. The only time his expression is completely widened is when [[spoiler: he realises the other animals are going to kill him]].
** Averted in the baby pigs scene (see AffablyEvil).him]].
** Averted in the baby pigs scene (see AffablyEvil).
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I don't think it's meant to make him better.
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* AffablyEvil: In one scene, Napoleon chuckles heartily while watching baby pigs playing in the front yard.
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* TheNarrator: Gordon Heath who speaks more the animals themselves.
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* TheNarrator: Gordon Heath Heath, who speaks more than the animals themselves.
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* [[ContinuityTropes Continuity Gremlin]]: Napoleon "benevolently" rescues a litter of ''white'' puppies (or ''cream'' depending on the film quality) from Jones' house and spends months nurturing them; he later asserts his hegemony while flanked by a team of ''black'' guard dogs.
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** Averted in a restored version where the puppies are grey in all their scenes.
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* OffModel: Napoleon "benevolently" rescues a litter of ''white'' puppies (or ''cream'' depending on the film quality) from Jones' house and spends months nurturing them; he later asserts his hegemony while flanked by a team of ''black'' guard dogs. Averted in a restored version where the puppies are grey in all their scenes.
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* CreepyCircusMusic: Invoked. When the animals are exploring Mr. Jones' house, Benjamin accidentally starts up a record player that plays a loud, orchestral version of "Entry of the Gladiators." Benjamin is so frightened by the music that he kicks the record player with his donkey hooves, destroying it. Being a farm animal, Benjamin probably doesn't understand the concept of "circus music," but the music itself still sounded [[SensoryAbuse loud and hyperactive]] enough to scare him.
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The first screen adaptation of Creator/GeorgeOrwell's [[Literature/AnimalFarm classic satire]] released in 1954 and the first full-length animated film made by Great Britain to get a theatrical release (the actual first feature was a navy training film for sailors) by Halas and Batchelor, as well as [[AnimationAgeGhetto the first one to be aimed for adult audiences]]. The film has only two credited voice actors: Gordon Heath as the narrator and Maurice Denham, who voiced all the animals and humans!
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The first screen adaptation of Creator/GeorgeOrwell's [[Literature/AnimalFarm classic satire]] released in 1954 and the first full-length animated film made by Great Britain to get a theatrical release (the actual first feature was a navy training film for sailors) by Halas and Batchelor, as well as [[AnimationAgeGhetto the first one to be aimed for at adult audiences]]. The film has only two credited voice actors: Gordon Heath as the narrator and Maurice Denham, who voiced all the animals and humans!
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The first screen adaptation of Orwell's [[Literature/AnimalFarm classic satire]] released in 1954 and the first full-length animated film made by Great Britain to get a theatrical release (the actual first feature was a navy training film for sailors) by Halas and Batchelor, as well as [[AnimationAgeGhetto the first one to be aimed for adult audiences]]. The film has only two credited voice actors: Gordon Heath as the narrator and Maurice Denham, who voiced all the animals and humans!
The film's financing was done either in full or in part by the [=CIA=] -- and no, the filmmakers themselves were not aware of this fact. In addition to providing the money they also influenced the production: making Snowball less sympathetic and of course changing the ending to something more upbeat to inspire anti-communist resistance.
The film's financing was done either in full or in part by the [=CIA=] -- and no, the filmmakers themselves were not aware of this fact. In addition to providing the money they also influenced the production: making Snowball less sympathetic and of course changing the ending to something more upbeat to inspire anti-communist resistance.
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The first screen adaptation of Orwell's Creator/GeorgeOrwell's [[Literature/AnimalFarm classic satire]] released in 1954 and the first full-length animated film made by Great Britain to get a theatrical release (the actual first feature was a navy training film for sailors) by Halas and Batchelor, as well as [[AnimationAgeGhetto the first one to be aimed for adult audiences]]. The film has only two credited voice actors: Gordon Heath as the narrator and Maurice Denham, who voiced all the animals and humans!
The film's financing was done either in full or in part by the [=CIA=] -- and no, the filmmakers themselves were not aware of this fact. In addition to providing the money they also influenced the production: making Snowball less sympathetic and of course changing the ending to something more upbeat to inspire anti-communistresistance.
resistance. The CIA would provide similar influence for another Orwell adaptation, ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', a couple years later.
The film's financing was done either in full or in part by the [=CIA=] -- and no, the filmmakers themselves were not aware of this fact. In addition to providing the money they also influenced the production: making Snowball less sympathetic and of course changing the ending to something more upbeat to inspire anti-communist
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The first screen adaptation of Orwell's [[Literature/AnimalFarm classic satire]] released in 1954 and the first full-length animated film made by Great Britain to get a theatrical release (the actual first feature was a navy training film for sailors) by Halas and Batchelor, as well as [[AnimatedAgeGhetto [[AnimationAgeGhetto the first one to be aimed for adult audiences]]. The film has only two credited voice actors: Gordon Heath as the narrator and Maurice Denham, who voiced all the animals and humans!
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The first screen adaptation of Orwell's [[Literature/AnimalFarm classic satire]] released in 1954 and the first full-length animated film made by Great Britain to get a theatrical release (the actual first feature was a navy training film for sailors) by Halas and Batchelor.Batchelor, as well as [[AnimatedAgeGhetto the first one to be aimed for adult audiences]]. The film has only two credited voice actors: Gordon Heath as the narrator and Maurice Denham, who voiced all the animals and humans!
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* SchrodingersCast: In the book, Old Major dies peacefully a few days after the first animal meeting. In the film, he suffers a fatal heart attack mid-song during that same meeting.
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* [[ContinuityTropes Continuity Gremlin]]: Napoleon "benevolently" rescues a litter of ''white'' puppies from Jones' house and spends months nurturing them; he later asserts his hegemony while flanked by a team of ''black'' guard dogs.
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* CrocodileTears: Squealer does this when "mourning" the loss of [[spoiler:Boxer]].
* [[ContinuityTropes Continuity Gremlin]]: Napoleon "benevolently" rescues a litter of ''white'' puppies (or ''cream'' depending on the film quality) from Jones' house and spends months nurturing them; he later asserts his hegemony while flanked by a team of ''black'' guarddogs.dogs.
** Averted in a restored version where the puppies are grey in all their scenes.
* [[ContinuityTropes Continuity Gremlin]]: Napoleon "benevolently" rescues a litter of ''white'' puppies (or ''cream'' depending on the film quality) from Jones' house and spends months nurturing them; he later asserts his hegemony while flanked by a team of ''black'' guard
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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Jones died in a drunkards' home in the book, but here he blows himself up while sabotaging the windmill.
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** Old Major died quietly in the book, while in the film he suffered a sudden fatal heart attack in front of the other animals.
** Jones died in a drunkards' home in the book, but here he blows himself up while sabotaging the windmill.
** Old Major died quietly in the book, while in the film he suffered a sudden fatal heart attack in front of the other animals.
** Jones died in a drunkards' home in the book, but here he blows himself up while sabotaging the windmill.
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* MoodWhiplash: Occurs twice in one scene when Old Major suffers a fatal heart attack while leading the animals in song, [[EverybodyCries resulting in all the animals mourning his death]]. The mourning is short-lived when [[ShutUpGunshot Mr. Jones fires his shotgun in the air after being woken up by the animals' cries.]]
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** Occurs twice inone an early scene when Old Major suffers a fatal heart attack while leading the animals in song, [[EverybodyCries resulting in all the animals mourning his death]]. The mourning is short-lived when [[ShutUpGunshot Mr. Jones fires his shotgun in the air after being woken up by the animals' cries.]]]]
** Also occurs when the windmill blows up immediately after Napoleon awards himself a medal for the animals' second battle against the humans.
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** Also occurs when the windmill blows up immediately after Napoleon awards himself a medal for the animals' second battle against the humans.
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* AffablyEvil: In one scene, Napoleon chuckles heartily while watching baby pigs playing in the front yard.
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* ScarySymbolicShapeshifting: The film ends with a conference of pig delegates from other farms across the country, which a work-fatigued Benjamin decides to spy on; halfway through, Benjamin is so exhausted that he briefly hallucinates that Napoleon and his cronies are transforming into doubles of the tyrannical Farmer Jones - as with the original novel, a sign that the pigs have become indistinguishable from their former oppressors.
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* MirrorCharacter: Snowball and Napoleon. When the first winter after the rebellion comes there are shortages due to the pigs' inexperience. But both pigs only throw themselves into their own ambitions rather than work to solve the immediate hunger problem: Snowball and his windmill, Napoleon and his plans for a coup. This was done at the request of the [=CIA=] who were worried that Snowball would come off too sympathetically to audiences.
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* NotSoDifferent: Snowball and Napoleon. When the first winter after the rebellion comes there are shortages due to the pigs' inexperience. But both pigs only throw themselves into their own ambitions rather than work to solve the immediate hunger problem: Snowball and his windmill, Napoleon and his plans for a coup. This was done at the request of the [=CIA=] who were worried that Snowball would come off too sympathetically to audiences.
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* TooDumbToLive: In the book, Jones dies in home for alcoholics. Here he fills the windmill with dynamite but is too busy drinking to leave before the fuse goes off, although it's up to interpretation if that ''was'' the case or [[DrivenToSuicide his plan all along]] since he was just shunned to join the attack on the farm because of his drunkenness.
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* TooDumbToLive: In the book, Jones dies in a home for alcoholics. Here he fills the windmill with dynamite but is too busy drinking to leave before the fuse goes off, although it's up to interpretation if that ''was'' the case or [[DrivenToSuicide his plan all along]] since he was just shunned to join the attack on the farm because of his drunkenness.
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The main diversion from the book. In the film pig delegates from other farms arrive to see Napoleon unveil the revised commandment: "All animals are equal but some animal are more equal than others". This is the final straw and that night while the pigs are toasting to their success, Benjamin briefly hallucinates that the pigs have Jones' face (as opposed to becoming humans as in the book) then leads a revolt against them with an army of animals from farms all over --- the dogs are too drunk to do their job and Napoleon is quickly stomped to death.
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The main diversion from the book. In the film pig delegates from other farms arrive to see Napoleon unveil the revised commandment: "All animals are equal but some animal are more equal than others". This is the final straw and that night while the pigs are toasting to their success, Benjamin briefly hallucinates that the pigs have Jones' face (as opposed to becoming humans as in the book) then leads a revolt against them with an army of animals from farms all over --- -- the dogs are too drunk to do their job and Napoleon is quickly stomped to death.
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* AdaptationalKarma: The ending sees Benjamin lead an uprising which quickly removes the pigs from power, and Napoleon is presumably killed by them offscreen as they storm the house.
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* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: The dogs' decadent lifestyle resulted in them all being too intoxicated to respond to a crucial summon, leaving Napoleon helpless to the rebel assault on his headquarters.
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* [[ContinuityTropes Continuity Gremlin]]: Napoleon "benevolently" rescues a litter of ''white'' puppies from Jones' house and spends nonths nurturing them; he later asserts his hegemony while flanked by a team of ''black'' guard dogs.
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The main diversion from the book. In the film pig delegates from other farms arrive to see Napoleon unveil the revised commandment: "all animals are equal but some animal are more equal then others". This is the final straw and that night while the pigs are toasting to their success, Benjamin briefly hallucinates that the pigs have Jones' face (as opposed to becoming humans as in the book) then leads a revolt against them with an army of animals from farms all over --- the dogs are too drunk to do their job and Napoleon is quickly stomped to death.
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: The main diversion from the book. In the film pig delegates from other farms arrive to see Napoleon unveil the revised commandment: "all "All animals are equal but some animal are more equal then than others". This is the final straw and that night while the pigs are toasting to their success, Benjamin briefly hallucinates that the pigs have Jones' face (as opposed to becoming humans as in the book) then leads a revolt against them with an army of animals from farms all over --- the dogs are too drunk to do their job and Napoleon is quickly stomped to death.
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** Napoleon himself at the end by hoards of very angry and vindictive animals.
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* PerpetualFrowner: Napoleon is constantly depicted as such, even when startled he maintains a grimace. The only time his expression is completely widened is when [[spoiler: he realises the other animals are going to kill him]].
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* TooDumbToLive: In the book, Jones dies in home for alcoholics. Here he fills the windmill with dynamite but is too busy drinking to leave before the fuse goes off, although it's up to interpretation if that ''was'' the case or [[DrivenToSuicide his plan all along]] since he was just shunned to join the farmer's revolt because of his drunkenness.
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* TooDumbToLive: In the book, Jones dies in home for alcoholics. Here he fills the windmill with dynamite but is too busy drinking to leave before the fuse goes off, although it's up to interpretation if that ''was'' the case or [[DrivenToSuicide his plan all along]] since he was just shunned to join the farmer's revolt attack on the farm because of his drunkenness.
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* TooDumbToLive: In the book, Jones dies in home for alcoholics. Here he fills the windmill with dynamite but is too busy drinking to leave before the fuse goes off, although it's up to interpretation if that *was* ''was'' the case or [[DrivenToSuicide his plan all along]] since he was just shunned to join the farmer's revolt because of his drunkenness.
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* TooDumbToLive: In the book, Jones dies in home for alcoholics. Here he fills the windmill with dynamite but is too busy drinking to leave before the fuse goes off.off, although it's up to interpretation if that *was* the case or [[DrivenToSuicide his plan all along]] since he was just shunned to join the farmer's revolt because of his drunkenness.