Re: American Imperialism?

From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Sun Mar 19 2000 - 16:55:40 MST


Spike Jones wrote:
>
> Robert Owen wrote:
>
> > ment is perfectly correct when treated as legitimate hyperbole, or,
> > if that displeases you, then as a sort of allegorical character like the
> > figures in Orwell's "Animal Farm"...
>
> There was a big article in the local paper the San Jose Mercury
> this morning about an animated version of Animal Farm that
> was made in the 1950s, where the ending was changed by the
> CIA. The change altered the whole message Orwell was trying
> for. In the final scene where the animals are looking back and
> forth between the pigs and the humans it gets harder and harder
> to tell them apart. According to the article, the CIA arranged
> to alter that so it makes it clear that the pigs [commies] really
> are the bad guys. spike

I beleive it. Considering how much hollywood changes things in the other
direction, I don't see it as a totally bad thing.

Mike Lorrey



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