The film was very different to the book, alot of the key points of the book were changed in the film to make it better, but then it changed the story, and made the story have a different outcome.
The following things were changed in the movie:
- The beast of england song, was different
- The song was called beasts of the world
- Old major died at the meeting
- Old major was chopped up and feed to Jessie
- The flag was different in the movie
- There was a film shown to the animals every evening
- The wind mill was blown up, instead of being ruined by a storm
- Mr Jones slept with a lady, at the begining of the film
- The farmers attacked the farm at night
- The farmers put a microphone in the barn yard
- The animals entered the house noisily, and found dead animals inside
- The animals put old majors head on a stick
- Boxers quote, "I will work harder" was changed to "I must do this"
- There was a song made by the ducks about Napolean
- There was a new owner of the farm at the end
- There was a hide out in the farm yard
- In the book the story was told in third person, but in the movie it was shown in 1st person by the dog, Jessie
- In the movie Boxer didn't hurt his foot in the movie
- Molly didn't run away, she just wasn't in the movie any more
- Moses didn't run away, he just flew, and wasn't shown in the movie anymore.