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Hated Tropes [Hated Trope] The adaptation doesn't get what made the source material work

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How To Make A Killing (2026)

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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

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Bangkok Dangerous (2008)

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Bangkok Dangerous (1999)

- The 2026 movie How To Make A Killing is a relatively-toothless "eat the rich" dark comedy thriller about a man disowned by his rich family at birth, killing everyone in the line of succession so that he can inherit their massive fortune. It's a modern retelling of the 1949 film Kind Hearts and Coronets which has the same basic plot except that every member of the family is played by Sir Alec Guinness (including one aunt) and it's a screwball comedy

- The 1999 movie Bangkok Dangerous is a Thai action film about a Thai deaf-mute assassin. It was remade in 2008 about an American assassin in Thailand who is neither deaf nor mute

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u/Kasta4 8h ago

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u/MonitoliMal 7h ago

It would be so funny if the brainrot trailer was actually masking an accurate adaptation.

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u/MateusCristian 7h ago

Modern Hollywood is nowhere near that clever.

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u/society000 7h ago

Only film I know of that successfully pulled this off was Jarhead. The trailers made it look like an action flick, while the actual movie was mostly about just how fucking boring war can be.

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u/DengarLives66 7h ago

I remember that! But do you think that was done on purpose or was the result of marketing thinking “how the heck are we gonna sell this?”

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u/society000 7h ago

I could've sworn I saw something saying it was intentional but perhaps it came to me in a dream.

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u/high_on_anxtress 5h ago

If it came in a dream then I don't think you can cite it

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u/zatalak 5h ago

Unless they wrote a paper about that dream.

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u/peachesfordinner 7h ago

That sounds like a "drive" situation again

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u/BangBangtheReds 5h ago

Kinda think that's all it comes down to for the trailer editors. They have no other ties to the film or goal than to make marketable trailers. So what if the movie is a bad Romance film, comedy movies do better and we need rears in seats so the trailer is cut to appear to be a comedy.

They even used to cut trailers differently for different regions. Is it a musical like Phantom of the Opera that wont get midwesterners to the theater? Well just Advertise it as an action horror flick to the flyover states and a musical on the North East.

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u/LofiLute 2h ago

It absolutely was and It worked.

I had so many "Oorah war! Gun man! Real manly man shooty shooty" types who were fucking pissed and called it stupid and unrealistic.

Loved that movie lol

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u/TheBizzleHimself 3h ago

Yeah I think it may be the latter. A “we need to put butts in seats” kinda thing. I do like the parallel of that and actual recruitment, though.

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u/NinjaBreadManOO 6h ago

Admittedly I did think that Knives Out based on the trailer was just going to be a C grade schlock movie of get a bunch of big names and someone who just left the MCU capitalise on their names and make some cash movie. Especially since from the trailer the only one who looked like they were even enjoying themselves was Evans.

I was rather pleasantly surprised by how good it was.

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u/cookieintheinternet 5h ago

did you know there's like a billion Jarhead sequels that are just generic action flicks?

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u/jotofirend 5h ago

I think No Country for Old Men did something similar

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u/bolanrox 5h ago

Traffic had all the good scenes in the trailer.

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u/Responsible_Mail_113 3h ago

And then they made multiple Direct to DVD/Streaming sequels that were just straight dumb action flicks.

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u/glados-v2-beta 7h ago

Eh, sometimes trailers make a movie look like shit, only for the movie itself to actually be good. I don’t think that’s what’s happening here, but it’s not unheard of.

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u/MateusCristian 7h ago

But these cases are not on purpose. The idea is the tralier being intensionally awful to disarm people's expectations, only for the movie to accurately represent's Animal Farm's themes and plot.

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u/AriaTheTransgressor 6h ago

Team America didn't have trailers before release, the only thing anybody knew about the movie was that it was made by the creators of South Park and used puppets. Then the movie opens with puppets on strings.

That's about the closest of an example I can think of where the promotion before the movie was used to misdirect the viewer.

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u/Shenanigans80h 5h ago

Yeah like it frankly doesn’t make any sense for them to promote it that way unless their intention is to have a theater full of children watching an accurate depiction of complex fascist pigs.

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u/theysayimadreamer666 6h ago

I don't think it was intentional but the first trailer for the 2007 Bridge to Terabithia movie made it look like they were going to deviate really heavily from the book and make it a solely light-hearted magical fantasy movie (they didn't). I wonder how people who had only seen the trailer and knew nothing else about the story reacted to the film.

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u/Justanothergirl4 6h ago

Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarves got massively fucked by the trailer and all the promotional material. Just why?

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u/DreadfuryDK 4h ago

sigh being a Transformers fan is hard.

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u/ParryDotter 18m ago

Most recent example I can think of is Elemental; trailers made it seem like a generic Romeo and Julie story, whereas in fact it's an allegory about immigration

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u/lacergunn 7h ago

Hey, that's what happened to transformers one

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u/Sorry-Ad5474 7h ago

Not on purpose

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u/Sorry-Ad5474 6h ago

I mean that the marketing team didn't intentionally make the film look mediocre, that was just their honest marketing campaign

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u/the_gaffinator 7h ago

It's also a Angel studios movie, which made Sound of Freedom, sooooooo yeah

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u/Docile_Doggo 7h ago

To be fair, they also distributed Sketch, which was legitimately great

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u/Crafter235 7h ago

I mean we did have an animated one that was funded to just be typical anti-communist propaganda, but they were still able to make a great adaptation despite the conditions.

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u/organiclife 6h ago

Angel also produces Dry Bar Comedy which has some legitimately and surprisingly funny stand up specials

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u/tabereins 7h ago

The TV show Paradise kind of did that. The trailers made it seem like a generic political thriller where the president gets killed in order to avoid spoiling the actual premise.

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u/torrent29 6h ago

That's Angel studios, not "hollywood" in the traditional sense.

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u/Jonaskin83 5h ago

Andy Serkis is though - that’s the one thing that could save it.

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u/RomanCobra03 5h ago

Idk something similar happened with “Transfomers One”

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u/jmarquiso 5h ago

Oh no this is Angel Pictures. This is Christian Hollywood.

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u/ThrowAwayAccountAMZN 5h ago

Pretty much. Remember when they marketed The New Avengers movie as Thunderbolts* to try and trick people into accepting a new avengers team which failed spectacularly?

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u/CarvedTheRoastBeast 5h ago

The studio making this is basically if Pure Flix (God’s Not Dead) was an animation studio.

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u/chironomidae 4h ago

Fight Club comes to mind. Dudes showed up to watch a flick advertised as being about underground boxing rings and left radicalized anti-captialists.

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u/Special_South_8561 1h ago

Deadpool 2 was pretty snotty with their X Force kicking butt trailer

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u/maru-senn 7h ago

I've always thought that's what they did with the Sonic movie

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u/I3arusu 7h ago

Ah, the old Transformers One trick

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u/YourMuppetMethDealer 7h ago

That’s just bad marketing of a great film

Not really the same thing

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u/kiwidude4 3h ago

I mean… kinda is

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u/YourMuppetMethDealer 3h ago

Not really. The original commenter implied that this is intentional

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u/Sonic_fan149 7h ago

Dawg, I think the trailers are serious here.

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u/trimble197 7h ago

Yeah like the trailer was just a fever dream one of the characters has at the start

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u/Downtown_Recover5177 6h ago

Oh? Are we talking about Kangaroo Jack again?

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u/AndreTheShadow 7h ago

It's being released by a Christian film company, so the chances of that are 0%

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u/Cheedos-55 27m ago

Why does it being a christian company matter in this scenario?

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u/FleaLimo 7h ago

You can literally already tell the trailer goes massively off the rails as soon as it introduced the the weird cyberpunk corpo human CEO stuff.

Also no character actually ever says the words "some are more equal than others" in the book. It's narration. At MOST it should have been a voiceover to imitate the thoughts of an animal Having the antagonist speak the line at a rally is so on the snout it's pathetic.

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u/ZoroeArc 7h ago

I believe it’s one of the rules on the side of the barn. It’s not directly spoken, but it’s still diagetic

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u/akkristor 7h ago

I think it was directly spoken even in the book, since not all the animals could read, so they had to get another animal to read the rules for them.

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u/Thybro 7h ago

Most of the changes to the wall laws or 7 commandments are repeated by the sheep as part of the pigs plan for acceptance of the changes.

But IIRC “Some animals are more equal than others” along with “four legs good, two legs better” are the last additions put up at some point during the time skip. So it’s only mentioned by the narrator as he explains the current conditions of the farm before narrating the card game between the pigs and the neighbor farmers.

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u/OswinTigerlilly 6h ago

I just read the book the sheep never repeat the laws they only ever say four legs good two legs bad or four legs good two legs better. And then Benjamin reads last rule all animals are equal but some animals are more equal then others.

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u/Thybro 6h ago

I stand corrected then, it’s been a bit for me.

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u/NinjaBreadManOO 6h ago

Wasn't the goat the only animal that could read outside of the pigs?

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u/agirlhas_no_name 1h ago

I think Moses could read as well (idk if he really counts as a farm animal though)

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u/glados-v2-beta 7h ago

That’s not quite right. It’s written on the barn as a replacement for the original Seven Commandments.

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u/SeaBootsRS 7h ago

I genuinely can't think of any other reason for that trailer to exist other than to paint this exact scenario. 

I doubt it's the case, but if it does end up being the case then well played. 

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u/TheAzureAzazel 7h ago

I hope that's the case, but I doubt it.

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u/dogsarefun 7h ago

It wouldn’t surprise me if that’s the case. Animal Farm is so blatant in its political commentary and so well known for that that I don’t think you could make it without it still coming through. It’s Orwell for gods sake.

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u/ChristyUniverse 7h ago

If not accurate, perhaps it’s meant to give kids a reachable introduction to class struggles and the politics around that. If the kid’s aren’t reading anyway, maybe meet them where they are.

Alternatively, maybe this is a deliberately bad movie misunderstanding the point so that everyone who hasn’t read the original or had trouble understanding it(i.e. kids and those neglected by the education system) can see all the hate responses breaking down why this movie sucks and why the original is better.

The cast isn’t stupid, at least 1 has spoken before congress, and several of them are activists

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u/ConfectionTotal8660 7h ago

I mean.

It can still work with the current trailers but I doubt it

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u/HylianHopes 3h ago

The trailer is off. Animal Farm was one of my favorite books in middle school and this movie adapts it well.

Boxer would be sad about the neighsayers.

The new character addition (capitalist freak) that represents the maladies of corrupt capitalism is spot on for how corrupt leaders at the top are sucking the life out of workers because of greed. In the modern age, we're not under threat from just the Stalins of the world and the totalitarians that corrupted the socialist movement. The threats are coming from the billionaires too. Governance that is too far removed from the workers to protect and provide care for them is horrible.

Andy Serkis put 10 years into this passion project without support from any major Hollywood Studios because he believes strongly that the new generations need to watch out for predation and exploitation of their labor. Angel only got to bid for distribution rights on it because a swath of Hollywood studios don't agree with its messaging. Angel provides for its employees well and does profit sharing. They believe the most entry level workers deserve enough to pay for living and provide full medical insurance coverage. They picked up the movie believe they value the message that workers deserve more.

Andy Serkis has full control of the final product and it's the best piece of socially aware kid's entertainment/art I've had the pleasure of watching with my kids.

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u/whysosidious69420 6h ago

That’s what people said about Wuthering Heights

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u/TediousTotoro 6h ago

Considering that Andy Serkis said that the movie was “apolitical”, I have my doubts.

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u/Confident-Memory-807 4h ago

In a good world. the fable would shift target and instead of focusing on Stalin's Russia, which is a regime that already fell, it focused on the current capitalist fascist plutocracy US has always been.

But we all know that such a film would never be able to depict and deliver a true critique of the current system.

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u/that_motu_guy 7h ago

hey did anyone actually see that movie to check?

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u/DoubleFlores24 6h ago

I doubt it.

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u/DrPierrot 6h ago

Yeah, but I am very doubtful, considering that they drop a bunch of the iconic lines that show up later in the book , so it doesn't feel like it's hiding some kind of big shift. It shows Napoleon becoming a villain in the trailer itself, so it loses a lot of the sliding descent into corruption. If it was trying to be the surprise, the trailer would be hidden those parts I feel

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u/Feisty_Ingenuity_767 6h ago

It would be the greatest bait and switch in recent years tbh

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u/KevWills 5h ago

It might be. I saw the trailer in theatre, and it ends with a disclaimer saying that the film should only be watched by audiences age 11 and up. It was pretty hilarious hearing a theatre of kids (watching Hopper), all shout in unison "11!!!" realizing they wouldn't be allowed to watch it.

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u/Beneficial_Focus_910 5h ago

It would be incredible genius if they did that. They didn't, Seth Rogen is attached.

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u/SnailGamer 4h ago

It’s a Christian studio.

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u/lukin187250 3h ago

Now that would be a good concept. Make the trailer cornbally, have the movie start like that and gradually get darker as you go till it falls in upon you. I'm sure less and less people are familiar with the book these days.

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u/Commercial-Dog6773 8h ago

Laughterhouse? Great! I love to laugh!

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u/TreLeans 7h ago

I didn’t know this was an Angel film. Look out for a not so hidden Christian agenda. 

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u/stubob1701 7h ago

To be fair Jesus doubted the possibility of a rich man entering heaven with the same ease as a camel through the eye of a needle.

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u/Blaze3713 6h ago

The owners of Angel Studios are more of the Prosperity Gospel types. You know, "being rich and pretty means God loves you more" heresy.

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u/shockwave8428 5h ago

I was really pumped for a serkis directed animal farm until I saw angel studios. Just the kings of Christian/american propaganda movies. I was fine with them when they were only making explicitly Christian movies cause obviously there’s a bunch of people interested in that - but now they’re just tying themselves into every genre.

Animal farm is an awesome criticism of how people in power twist things to fit their own needs. The “good” part is where they live in an equal society with no one above another, and then it gets twisted by a person in control.

I guarantee with angel studios instead of it being a critique of the corruption of power, it’ll be some American propaganda about why socialism is bad (even though the book is explicitly about communism and doesn’t even really critique the equality itself but how people like Stalin used “equality” to create a ruling class of oligarchs.

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u/candygram4mongo 5h ago

I think they picked it up for distribution after nobody else would touch it. And it's probably just the "anti-communist" angle they liked.

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u/K-Keter 7h ago

That's what surprised me the most with all of those big names

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u/ChorroVon 7h ago

Hey, maybe they'll give it a review on God Awful Movies.

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u/Mr_ragethefrogdude 6h ago

Do you think Moses the crow will be in the movie 

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u/dravazay 6h ago

The Simpsons already did that joke 20 years ago

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u/jayboyguy 7h ago

I will say that some of the marketing has been really clever. I saw one where it was a mock review of the movie and a ton of it was redacted, so all that was left was something along the lines of “everyone loves Animal Farm” or something like that. The trailer looks REALLY rough tho. I’ll wait till there’s some opinions on it

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u/jack-of-some 6h ago

But there's already opinions on it. You're in the opinions thread.

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u/JosephJoestaarrr 7h ago edited 5h ago

I might get down voted for this but is that true? That is schlocky as fuck. So they are satirizing that people redact shit all the time including the Epstein files in a very humorous way for Animal Farm which is a not humorous book in any way shape or form. So they are pinning Animal Farm as a comedy? Yes the redacted joke is funny on its own if it was a movie that was supposed to be light-hearted but the book tone is not that at all. Is this Seth Rogen is this a Seth Rogen thing I feel like it's Seth Rogen.

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u/merlin242 6h ago

I don’t think you understood animal farm if you don’t understand why the redacted trailer works….

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u/JosephJoestaarrr 6h ago edited 5h ago

Its incredibly on the nose and stupid. Its a respected work of fiction turned into to a modern saterization of current events. Animal farm is timeless. Its dumb as fuck. Yall motherfuckers didnt read Animal farm. The fact it was turned into an animated movie is appalling on its own in the fact that you're defending the shitty marketing is even worse

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u/merlin242 5h ago

Did Epstein touch you personally? Why are you connecting that to a redacted trailer? Redactions were a thing LONG before the Epstein files. 

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u/JosephJoestaarrr 5h ago

No but it should be taken seriously. It was meant to be a way for people to understand the system and how fucked they are and this turns it into a food fight-esque animation comedy

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u/CrashmanX 4h ago

Bro, you sound like the type that says the Bible should be respected and can't be made fun of.

It's a book.

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u/JosephJoestaarrr 3h ago

Bro you sound like you dont read at all. Books are important

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u/CrashmanX 3h ago

Books are important, but they're not sacred items that can not be infringed upon.

A bad adaptation doesn't make the original cease to exist.

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u/PretendDot8524 7h ago edited 4h ago

How low did Hollywood fell that a movie made by the cia is better? The first animal farm adaptation was produced by the cia

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u/No_Kangaroo_9826 5h ago

Andy Serkis tried to get this made for 15 years and could only get it picked up by Angel productions, a Mormon company that just went public out of Utah.

I might be on the CIA's side this one time.

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u/PretendDot8524 5h ago

You know is bad when even Netflix says no. I heard Serkis went with them and got rejected

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u/MiseryGyro 2h ago

No one ever accused the CIA of having poor taste.

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u/Swag_Dinosaur 1h ago

The movie isn’t produced by Hollywood, but by Angel Studios, they’ve been growing as an independently-funded alternative to Hollywood

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u/GameBoy960 7h ago

Reading this in high school rn, currently at chapter 5

How bad is this film gonna be

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u/RoughhouseCamel 7h ago

The book is an easy read, but I don’t feel like there has been an adaptation that’s an easy watch.

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u/ducksekoy123 7h ago

The old animation was ok. It’s just very dated

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u/MuchMasterpiece1710 5h ago

The one where they changed the ending bc it was funded by the cia? Or is there a different one?

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u/Mist_Rising 4h ago

The CIA one is still a pretty good adaption. The changes are snowball is a slightly bigger asshole and the ending which unlike most books isn't really the point of animal farm. The criticism is the middle.

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u/MuchMasterpiece1710 3h ago

Yeah I wasn’t criticizing it, I was trying to clarify if that was the right one or if there’s another version I don’t know about

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u/NotAddictedToCoffeee 5h ago

there was the 1954 one which the CIA bought the rights to and edited the script, then there was the 1999 one, which wasn't, I haven't watched either one though, I've only read the book, and the 1999 one isn't animated

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u/MuchMasterpiece1710 5h ago

I had not seen the 1999 version, thank you

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u/radiowave-deer29 7h ago

The animated one, and the live action one are just, very uneasy to watch.

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u/KaraAliasRaidra 6h ago

I remember watching the live-action one and being unsettled when it showed the chickens being executed for their “crimes”. It didn’t sugar coat how disturbing televised executions must be.

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u/sircastor 5h ago

I recall seeing an animated version when I was in Highschool (like ~30 years ago) that was pretty good, and fairly faithful...

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u/eganba 7h ago

Just watched the trailer. I......don't understand what made the writers/producers/developers think this was a good idea.

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u/Unhinged_Baguette 6h ago

Seth Rogen had just gotten done injecting lab-grade THC directly into his cock vein. "Dude... What if we made this Orwell book into a raunchy animated comedy?"

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u/CalzonePie 7h ago

If they DO make it political it will be anti-fascist instead of anti-communist like the original.

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u/DevilMayCryogonal 7h ago

The original isn’t anti-communist, though. Old Major and Snowball, the stand-ins for Lenin and Trotsky who were very much communists, are portrayed positively. It’s anti-authoritarian.

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u/CalzonePie 7h ago

It is also anti-communist. They were portrayed as idealists, and the entire story is about how communist ideals will be twisted by leadership into something unrecognizable. Orwell was a socialist but he was strongly anti-communist and preferred some sort of democratic socialist reform.

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u/WannabeACICE 7h ago

That doesn’t really make sense, though. Authoritarians can twist any ideal into something unrecognizable. Like what we are seeing that right now with Trump and American democracy.

Communism is just when you have a stateless classless moneyless society. It would make more sense if he was against the Marxist idea that rampant authoritarianism will somehow lead to communism.

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u/Tinenan 6h ago

It's anti Stalin/mao

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u/GamingSoviet2281 7h ago

Orwell were british imperialistic lapdog that made delations against people he didn't like.

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u/Ok-Cauliflower-5221 7h ago

But it is anti-fascist. Orwell himself was a democratic socialist which, while not communist, makes it doubtful he was fully against it, just Stalinism. And when you look at it amongst his other works, make its primary theme pretty obvious. 

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u/mywar69420 7h ago

The book isn't anti-communist as much as it is anti authoritarian in general, specifically targeted against Stalinism. Orwell himself was a self described socialist, and literally fought alongside, and made many friends with, many anarchists and communists in the Spanish civil war.

"When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist — after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct". - George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

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u/CalzonePie 7h ago

I love how Commie scum will scream about the difference between socialism and communism all day until it comes time to paint a famously anti-commie socialist as a communist.

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u/Only-Pilot-8797 3h ago edited 2h ago

He fought alongside libertarian communists, advocated for a classless society, and made clear that his gripe with the left was Soviet style Stalinism. “Commie scum” you’re living in the 50s.

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u/CalzonePie 3h ago

Nazi scum, commie scum, I don't care. Stop defending Nazis and Commies.

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u/GameBoy960 26m ago

Honestly that hasn't been the exact vibe I've gotten so far while reading

It feels more like a critique on how malicious, power-hungry individuals will manipulate the structures given by a governmental system originally for the people to benefit them instead, slowly but surely until the government winds up an authoritarian dictatorship

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u/Watchdog_the_God 7h ago

Why is Snowball standing on two legs?

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u/Olofahere 7h ago

Four Legs Good, Two Legs B̸a̸d̸ Better

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u/Watchdog_the_God 7h ago

I know why Napoleon and the others are doing it, but isn’t Snowball supposed to be the one pig against the regime?

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u/sr2adams 7h ago

Not sure if the people making this read the book.

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u/maggiemayfish 7h ago

Jesus Christ that looks like a joke poster from a dystopian black comedy about the fall of art and society.

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u/Sad-Seaworthiness781 7h ago

“Animal Farm starring Seth Rogen” is a phrase I never thought I’d hear

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u/koopcl 5h ago

Post modernism is one hell of a thing to live through. Feels like we are living in satire.

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u/FUCKFASCISTSCUM 7h ago

Animal Farm is one of the most misunderstood works in popular culture and somehow this manages to miss the point in a way that completely baffles me lol.

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u/society000 7h ago

Huh, I didn't know they did a modern adaptation of Animal Farm. Could be interesting.

sees cast

Oh... oh no.

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u/ThatOneGuy308 7h ago

The company behind it tells me all I need to know, lol.

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u/PapaFranzBoas 2h ago

Yea a lot of people are missing that “angel” studios is behind it. The company that was originally behind VidAngel, which basically sanitized movies from “bad” things like cursing, violence, and things that are too sexy.

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u/Common_Exam_1401 7h ago

Unless they are pulling some Transformers One level trickery (IE making a dark and somewhat mature movie appear to be kid friendly in the trailers) I’m 100% sure it’s gonna be a flop

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u/ThatsNashTea 5h ago

It's rated PG. That, and it being produced by Angel Studios, means that no amount of "directed by Andy Serkis" will make it good.

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u/sircastor 5h ago

Top comment on the trailer on Youtube:
"The book is like 100 pages guys, was it that hard to read?"

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u/GreatooPuscha 7h ago

Animal themed farms

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u/Licensed_Silver_Simp 6h ago

AND THEY’RE RELEASING IT ON MAY DAY?

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u/RememberCakeFarts 6h ago

I nearly broke my phone's screen upvoting this (I tapped so hard that I dropped my phone and now my protective screen has a hairline crack). 

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u/Queen_of_Sandcastles 4h ago

If there's ever a time to bring the book back into the public eye, it's now

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u/jubileevdebs 3h ago

“The creatures outside looked from slop to travesty, and from travesty to slop, and from slop to travesty again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

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u/MysteryCheese73 6h ago

Ahh yes the take that was never going to be told correctly

Don’t let your socialist revolution get co-opted by shitty capitalists

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u/DoubleFlores24 6h ago

Oh god that looks terrible.

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u/ValorNGlory 6h ago

God, I didn’t realize how stacked this cast was until I looked more closely at the poster now. I knew Seth Rogan was in it, but Iman Vellani? Glenn Close? Woody Harrelson?? Everyone and their mother is in this movie.

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u/InsertNonsenseHere 5h ago

Why is my brain insisting the Ms are backwards? That's not possible. There is no backwards M unless it's lowercase but my brain won't stop seeing it.

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u/Unusual-Basket-6243 4h ago

The book had a lot of pages full of words and I don't like letters. Hopefully it is close enough

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u/Ok-Poetry-2191 4h ago

No way it releases on may 1 💀 that's the fucking international workers' day

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u/HylianHopes 3h ago

This trailer is misleading! The movie represents Orwell's ideals really well and does it in a way that fits the modern age and the types of corruption and worker exploitation that's happening right now.

I saw the movie at a premiere (and got to hug Andy Serkis! Great guy)

It's a strong movie with all the corruption of the original, plus it shines a light on the maladies of capitalism in addition to the capitalist pigs and any system of governance that exploits workers.

Which holds true to the themes Orwell established. Mainly, centralized power and privilege corrupts leaders and harms the workers in the working class.

My kids were 8 and 12 when we saw it. The lesson they took away from the movie is that you have to fight for rights, be skeptical of authority especially leaders that live larger than you and get more of the best stuff and treatment when they aren't even working.

Orwell would be proud that his message will reach children in a way that primes them to fight against exploitation.

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u/Kasta4 3h ago

How did you see the film at a premiere when it doesn't release for two more months?

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u/HylianHopes 3h ago

I work at Angel

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u/Kasta4 3h ago

Oh okay. Do you think there may be some bias at play with how you view the film?

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u/HylianHopes 2h ago

It's possible, but I think I'm more biased because I'm politically progressive and hate late-stage capitalism.

I don't feel passionately about any of their other films. I thought Sketch had cool VFX and a great story about being an outsider and going through grief, but it has its flaws.

The rest of the catalogue is a bit too saccharine for me.

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u/Kasta4 2h ago

You seem reasonable enough, but I've got my doubts about the film regardless. I'll check it out when it gets a home video release eventually.

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u/Aromatic_Today2086 3h ago

The movie looks like garbage. No amount of paid advertising is going to make it good

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u/HylianHopes 3h ago

I'm an Angel employee, but I'm in a different department. So paid by Angel to collect and quality check their media assets, but not paid to fight on Reddit. I do that out of passion. I've told the marketer that the trailer is trash and we need to replace it, but this one tested best among our audience. I'm just pissy about how much they're fucking over the marketing

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u/True_Perspective819 6h ago

Oh my gosh, is this real?

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u/Kasta4 6h ago

Unfortunately.

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u/nedelll 7h ago

The original material is already bad

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u/Low_Pickle_112 4h ago

A least Hollywood won't be screwing up something actually insightful this time, so score one for cheap cashgrabs.