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Originally Posted by mszee
Interesting take...you're not THAT FAR OFF...the song does have something of George Orwell in it...hmmm....
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There was a movie made of Animal Farm a schoolfriend told me about a while ago, all star cast voicing, Kelsey Grammer as Snowball etc.
http://www.us.imdb.com/title/tt0204824/
I later found it in The Works shop for £1.50 or something, and in it is a scene where the animals are singing in homage to Napoleon, it's sort of like when you see pictures of China or North Korea in the news with all the marching soldiers passing underneath their leader. It just puts me in mind of
Can't you hear the choir now?
Listen to the animals (anthems we) sing.
It's literal in that way that the animals are singing, yet it seems to invite both admiration yet scorn on the whole scene, poignance even. They're singing for us because we're great. But you shouldn't be singing for them, they're not great! My goodness, this is hard to explain! If I can find a more coherent way of expressing it, I'll post again!
On a simpler note
Can't you hear the slaughterhouse bells
makes me think of the slaughterhouse bells ringing for poor Boxer.
I want to read Animal Farm again now!
