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Animal Farm
Theatrical poster
Based on	Creature Farm past George Orwell
Written by	Alan Janes Martyn Shush (teleplay)
Directed by	John Stephenson
Starring	Kelsey Grammer Ian Holm Julia Louis-Dreyfus Patrick Stewart Julia Ormond Paul Scofield Pete Postlethwaite Peter Ustinov
Theme music composer	Richard Harvey
Country of origin	U.s.a. U.k.
Original language	English
Production
Producers	Greg Smith Robert Halmi
Cinematography	Mike Brewster
Editor	Colin Greenish
Running time	91 minutes
Distributor	Authentication Films
Budget	$23 million
Release
Original network	TNT
Original release	3 October 1999 (1999-10-03)

Animal Subcontract is a 1999 political comedy-drama television film directed by John Stephenson and written by Alan Janes. Based on the 1945 novel of the same name by George Orwell and serving as an apologue of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath, it features Kelsey Grammer, Ian Holm, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Patrick Stewart, Julia Ormond, Paul Scofield, Pete Postlethwaite and Peter Ustinov. In the movie, a grouping of anthropomorphic animals defection successfully against their own man owner, merely to slide into a more brutal tyranny among themselves.

Plot [edit]

Mr. Jones, the cruel and rarely sober owner of Manor Farm, invites the Pilkingtons to a gathering he is hosting, wishing to talk about the debts he owes with Pilkington. During the gathering, the animals get together in a meeting where Old Major, the prize Heart White boar, explains to the animals that humanity is their enemy, and while the animals sing a vocal, Jones accidentally shoots Major while investigating. When Jones goes into town for a drink without feeding the animals, Boxer, a strong and kind-hearted shire horse, leads the animals to break into the food shed to help themselves. When Jones and his cronies investigate, the animals insubordinate against him, causing Jones to flee with his married woman and men to the Reddish Lion Inn for refuge.

A boar named Snowball renames the place "Animal Farm" and puts down the Vii Commandments of "Animalism" which embody Erstwhile Major's feelings and ideas. Meanwhile, Napoleon, a Berkshire boar, calls for a secret meeting in which he has Pincher, one of the subcontract's dogs, swear loyalty to him and become part of the animal baby-sit earlier ordering him to sneak out Jessie's newborn puppies, claiming that it is best for them to receive an education from him, despite Jessie's reluctance. Pilkington leads an attack into Brute Subcontract with the help of other local farm workers led past Frederick, merely to lose. Though he is defeated, Pilkington considers working with the animals instead. During a meeting, Snowball's plans to build a windmill to better the animals' lives and improve their operations are opposed past Napoleon, who summons Jessie's puppies (who are at present grown up dogs working every bit his henchmen) to chase Snowball out of the farm. Napoleon decrees the pigs will decide the future and the animals begin the difficult piece of work of building the windmill with Boxer's help. Meanwhile, Pilkington hears over a microphone planted in the barn that the pigs can speak English and begins to trade with Napoleon. Later, Jessie reveals she saw the pigs living in the abandoned farmhouse and sleeping in the beds, though the commandment of sleeping in a bed being contradistinct to not sleeping in a bed with sheets.

Jones conspires with his wife to sabotage Animal Farm by bravado upwardly the almost-complete windmill with dynamite as revenge on the animals for taking his farm. Napoleon blames it on Snowball, pigs consume more food, and arraign Snowball for the food shortage and that the hens will accept to surrender their eggs to the market place. When the hens oppose, Napoleon makes feeding a hen punishable by expiry. Sus scrofa begins making propaganda films nigh Napoleon showing animals on trial for working with Snowball that are sentenced to death, equally well equally animals supposedly happy with Napoleon'due south rule. Information technology is revealed that the alcohol and killing commandments were altered as well. During the rebuilding of the windmill, Boxer is injured, and Jessie and Benjamin, a wise donkey, realize that the van taking Boxer is from the gum mill, causing everyone to unsuccessfully attempt to save him. Napoleon is paid by Pilkington for selling Boxer to the glue factory in exchange for more whiskey, and Hog'south latest propaganda film claims the van was previously the gum factory. That dark, Jessie watches through a warped drinking glass window as Pilkington and his married woman dine with the pigs in the farmhouse. Napoleon and so changes the farm's name dorsum to Estate Farm. The animals tin no longer tell the difference between them. Muriel the goat and Benjamin notice that the final commandment, "All animals are equal", has been extended to include "but some animals are more equal than others." Now seeing Napoleon and Squealer's evil nature, Jessie, Muriel, Benjamin and a few other animals sneak out the farm before things can get any worse, while Napoleon (who now "fully resembles a human") enslaves the rest of the farm past declaring all animals gratis.

In the present day, during a disastrous rainstorm, the others return and investigate the remains of the at present-destroyed Estate Farm. They find Napoleon and Squealer dead, though a few animals have survived the fall, a few of them being Jessie's puppies (who all recognize her every bit their mother). Jessie finds out a new family unit has purchased the subcontract (although the whereabouts of Jones and his wife is unknown), and vows to not allow them make the aforementioned mistakes as Jones and Napoleon.

Bandage [edit]

• Pete Postlethwaite as Jones, the original owner of Manor Farm who is overthrown by his own animals due to his abusive behaviour towards them, probable because of his drunkenness. He represents Czar Nicholas 2.
• Caroline Gray every bit Mrs. Jones, Jones' shrewish wife.
• Alan Stanford as Pilkington, the owner of Foxwood Subcontract and neighbor of Jones who later on works for Napoleon, thus is the only human who trades with him. He represents the British ruling class.
• Gail Fitzpatrick as Mrs. Pilkington, Pilkington's unfaithful married woman.
• Gerard Walsh as Frederick, the owner of Pinchfield Farm. He represents Adolf Hitler.

Voices [edit]

• Julia Ormond as Jessie, a wise and virtuous Border collie who serves every bit the narrator of the picture show. She represents one of the oppressed masses under Stalin or under whatsoever other dictator. She is similar to Clover from the book.
• Kelsey Grammar as Snowball, a noble domestic pig who is in charge of Animal Farm subsequently the exile of Mr. Jones until he is subsequently overthrown by Napoleon. He represents Leon Trotsky.
• Patrick Stewart as Napoleon, a greedy, sadistic Berkshire boar and the oppressive ruler of Animal Farm subsequently Snowball's banishment. He represents Joseph Stalin.
• Ian Holm as Squealer, a sinister and intelligent Tamworth squealer who is Napoleon'south assistant and acts equally the minister of propaganda. He represents Vyacheslav Molotov.
• Paul Scofield every bit Boxer, a kind-hearted shire equus caballus and the gentle giant of all the animals who serves as the strongest and is later taken away to a glue mill, where he would be made into glue. He represents Alexey Stakhanov.
• Pete Postlethwaite as Benjamin, a wise donkey and a friend of Boxer who is the oldest of all the animals. He represents the Menshevik intelligentsia. Postlethwaite also played Mr. Jones in the movie.
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus every bit Mollie, a young mare who is obsessed with ribbons. She represents the petit suburbia that fled from Russia a few years after the Russian Revolution.
• Peter Ustinov as Quondam Major, a chivalrous Center White boar who is the original master of Manor Farm until his death. He represents Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin.
• Charles Dale as Moses, a dim-witted raven with a sense of sense of humour and the former pet of Jones who is after a minion of Napoleon. He represents organized organized religion.
  • Dale also plays Pincher, a Rottweiler who serves as Napoleon's head of his personal baby-sit and chief enforcer, thus is responsible for taking away Jessie's puppies so that Napoleon tin raise them as his private security. He represents Lavrentiy Beria.
• Jean Beith equally Muriel, an elderly Saanen caprine animal.

Production [edit]

Filming began on 25 Baronial 1998 and ended on half-dozen Nov.^{[ citation needed ]} Because of the extensive CGI work and other post-production requirements, the picture was not delivered to TNT and Hallmark Entertainment until June 1999.^{[ citation needed ]}

Fourteen animals were built to represent the animals of Brute Farm at Jim Henson'south Creature Shop in London: iv pigs (Onetime Major, Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer), two horses (Boxer and Mollie), a sheepdog (Jessie), a ass (Benjamin), a raven (Moses), a goat (Muriel), a sheep, a rat, a chicken, a duck, a cat, and a pigeon.^[one]

Ten dogs were cast into the flick from Fircroft Kennels. Their Border collie, Spice, played the role of Jessie.^{[ citation needed ]}

In early screenplays done by Martyn Shush for this moving picture, Jessie was set to be a male character, rather than a female.^{[ citation needed ]}

Reception [edit]

The film received mixed reviews. It holds a 40% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on five reviews.^[two] It was criticized for its loose accommodation of the book, its simplicity and lack of subtlety, and for beingness besides dark and political for children while being also familiar and simplistic for adults.

The film won Best Special Effects and was nominated for all-time film in the 2000s Fantasporto International Fantasy Motion picture Award.^[3]

The film'due south director John Stephenson was nominated for Starboy Award in the 2000s Oulu International Children's and Youth Moving picture Festival.^[4]

References [edit]

1. ^ Production Facts Archived 13 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine. TNT. Retrieved 11 July 2010.
2. ^ Rotten Tomatoes – Beast Farm (1999 adaptation). Retrieved 26 October 2014
3. ^ "Fantasporto (2000)". IMDb.
4. ^ "Oulu International Children's Moving-picture show Festival (2000)". IMDb.

External links [edit]

• Brute Farm at IMDb

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm_%281999_film%29

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