change of ending

2YsUR, I remember that the ending of the film was changed, compared with the book, but I don't remember the book being changed. But I found a good site via google: http://www.webenglishteacher.com/orwell.html. I haven't had time to read it for the answer to your original question yet.

Edit: Of course I just remembered there is a "new" film version as well as the "original" cartoon version.

Re-edit: from one of the links from above (http://pages.citenet.net/users/charles/links.html)

In the end, the wretched animals are looking in the window at an economic summit between Men and Pigs, "Looking from pig to man, and from man to pig they observe that there is no difference between them."

John Halas and Joy Batchelor, in their animated cartoon film of the book (1954), apparently could not bear this ending. In their version of the book, "the animals, united, came on relentlessly" and a brick was thrown through the window, "shattering Napoleon's magnificent portrait under the impact of yet another revolution." Understandably, students like this version better than the original.



Rod