Animal Farm vs. Hollywood
...e sense that we’ve been cheated… that the whole world which this movie is available to is being cheated also, even. “They took out so much of the good stuff and added irrelevant scenes” is the comment heard most. Did we learn from this movie at all?.. No. Did it add any depth to our understanding?.. No. Did we even particularly like it?.. No. Do we feel like we just wasted 2 hours of our time?.. Yes. We feel like Hollywood took a great literary art and turned it into crap that doesn’t teach and that has none of the same effect that the book gives. But then we have to think… what is Hollywood’s job anyway? Hollywood was never created to teach people about historical events. It was created, on the other hand, to provide people with entertainment. When Hollywood takes events like: the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the story of Animal Farm, or the sinking of the Titanic, and turns them into movies, they aren’t doing it to teach the general audience (us namely) about that event. They’re doing it to entertain us. In a way they’re almost making it more interesting by adding a sense of personal ness to it. Youngens such as myself will go see a ‘historical fiction’ movie and we’ll be able to relate to the event easier because of the love theme throughout the story, or the animation that draws us in. Then maybe we’ll be more interested in the actual event and go research it o...