When I read this in the book I was absolutely horrified. When he finally realized that he was being sent away to die it was too late, imagine the terror and the fear you would feel and being too helpless and weak to do anything about it.
And of course Orwell had to mention that even a few years ago Boxer could've kicked his way out of the wagon easily but that the wounds from the battles and the years of work had robbed him of the strength his limbs were once famous for.
@@liquidmark5081 Come on, you know Napoleon; he's a manipulative, tyrannical dictator. He sent Boxer away to his death to pay for a bottle of whiskey. I know that he didn't care that Boxer was going to die. He *really* is an asshole.
For people who haven't read the book. Boxer is a real hero who fights bravely in the early battles against humans. He is always hardest worker in the farm, yet all he wants to do is to live peacefully after retirement. However, he is never treated properly simply because of his affiliation with Snowball, the previous leader of revolution. It's rather heartbreaking to see the true heroes being mistreated, sent to death, or even stigmatized due to stupid political reasons.
It’s more malevolent than that. It’s nothing to do with an association with Snowball. Boxer is viewed as a commodity the moment he ceases to be productive. No sentiment is paid for his years of service despite his unwavering support and efforts. Animalism extracted his labour and now his body parts can be traded for cash or alcohol.
i think he was never treated properly because the pigs were greedy and lacked thankfulness. they didn't care about him anymore as soon as he had gotten weak and wasn't an asset anymore.
The working class are not dumb. They’re systemically oppressed- limited to access in resources including adequate education, housing, medical/disability services. They’re often more focused on surviving. And yet, many are still brilliant and creative enough to have the wealthy appropriate parts of their culture to profit off of it. That statement you made is dumb. It’s a cheap shot. You clearly can’t think critically enough to understand how systemic oppression works and you don’t know anything about how chronic stress and trauma affect the body and mind- especially when it comes to working class people. Seriously one of the dumbest things I’ve read on the Internet.
Boxer doesn't merely "die". It's far worse than that. He gets sent away to be expunged, exterminated, cast away, thrown away, converted. He is deemed worth more as the sum of the by-products (glue, etc.) than alive. I tear up every time I think too much about the interpretation of Boxer's end.
Just think about it No matter who you are . You’ll always been seen as disposable, expendable and always easily replaceable . No matter how hard you work . No matter how much dedication and no matter how much blood, sweat , and tears you pour . you’ll only been seen as cattle. You and me and everyone who is the common man . We’re all replaceable .
Brokenrain223 same. One of the things that shattered me was when benjamin was begging the other animals for help, and they just stood there. I also watched this scene in the 1999 live adaptation, and although jessie the dog is the one trying to save boxer (benjamin was too, but less so) it tore my heart into tiny pieces to hear her scream "boxer, get out! Get out boxer, they're taking you to your death! Boxer!" I think the voice actor for jessie was actually crying and genuinely wanted to save boxer, even though he's a fictional character. 😢 rip boxer
What gets me is in the book when they remind us that there was a time when it would only have taken a few kicks of those powerful hooves of his for Boxer to knock the door down. But now, though he's trying with all the strength he has left, he can't escape because he's worked too long and too hard.....
Brokenrain223 I'm so sorry for to cry when Benjamin's cries for Boxer being taken to the horse slaughterer and glue factory, but it wasn't the horse slaughter men's idea, it was Napoleon's.
@@solractm3468 You cannot blame Old Major, what Napoleon did wasn't what Major wanted. I truly liked Boxer, I just wished he knew what's coming up to him and the other animals after Napoleon got the leadership. But sadly he thought after the humans were gone they would be safe and didn't think that it might come back with the pigs. Major told him that he was replaceable to the humans and that he would be sent to death after his strength would leave him. That was one of the reasons why he was part of the rebellion just to be sent to death by the pigs later on.
Boxer served with his heart and every muscle of his body. He gave all he had for animal farm and more. He said “I will work harder”. To betray such as Boxer, it does a lot more than just tick me off. It fills me with, may I be allowed to say, righteous indignation.
I'm not sure what's worse: this version, where we have to hear Benjamin cry, or the live-action version, where Boxer just gives up the struggle as they pass the gates...
I got the vibe that Boxer passed away then and there, collapsing inside the waggon, dying of natural causes before he actually reached the slaughterhouse. In the cartooon version you actually realize that he is struggling but just can't get out.
There’s a fanfiction set after the novel, Snowball is still around, Benjamin, Clover, and the 4 hens have left, and... Boxer is also there, he escaped the cart.
man i remember seeing this as a child (i’m 24) and was absolutely heartbroken. When i saw the Pigs drinking whiskey with the money made off Boxer that’s when everything really hit me and i understood what was really going on.
This was my childhood, my father was an English teacher and taking the words of Orwell took this tale as a children's story. I always took this part to heart, to never break my back to make the millions of another because they will NEVER give it back once your useless to them.
@Alex Romeli The OP made a very broad statement. It reads like he's one of those assholes who only does the bare minimum to keep his job. As for the rest of your statement, fuck off. You don't know a damn thing about me. One, I can't be a employer, because I don't own a business. Two, you're only partially correct about me being inhuman. I can be a cold son-of-a-bitch when threatened. Three, I'm pretty far from being corrupt, or at least I am when it comes to subordinates. I'm a pretty chill supervisor. I never assign a task that I am not willing to do myself. None of the above means I can't be an asshole. Fuck off, you sensitive little bitch.
The way I looked in class while watching this: ... :I The way I acted when I got home: ... *flops on the bed* ... *starts whining and sobbing like a child*
What a horrible, evil person Napoleon is! I feel really bad for Benjamin, on losing his best friend! I like it when they get back at Napoleon in the end! Thank God for KARMA
Even now as an adult I still bawl my eyes out as they cart Boxer away. I know it's a cartoon but as lover of horses its extremely upsetting. Can't believe this is a children's cartoon, like Watership down is.
It's been decades ago I watched this scene the last time... Nothing has changed. Tears run immediately. The fright and despair in Benjamin's screams I still hardly can bear. Rest in Peace Boxer.
Yeah so so different to the kind and gentle business practices of Amazon and the like, or the makers of Baked Lays where workers went on strike in 2021 because certain co workers who'd died on shift they had to move and keep right on working in their place.
This is the most underated saddest scene in animated film history, deserves way more attention and questions us as humans of taking advantage of a poor animal's failing physicality.
It always stuck with me, besides the obvious sadness and despair of the scene, is how many wholehearted, hopeful but clueless russian peasants where discarded and looked over by the socalled "Revolution" PS: after I read the book the first time I felt like fly to russia and curse 1000 times and poop on Stalin's grave
@@datboi9539 not just Stalin, all who succeeded him as well. The Chernobyl liquidators were ignored after they saved Europe and Russian sailors were left to suffocate and burn inside the Kursk Submarine.
Boxer is an allegory for the working class in the Soviet Union. Animal farm is a criticism of communism. He was a loyal idealist who was murdered which happened plenty of times in the Soviet Union.
The donkey sounds make it worse. It sounds more like a panic attack full of sadness, anger, pain, and fear when you know a very best friend is going to get harmed very badly.
I was highly upset when this happened to Boxer, my favorite character in the whole movie and the book, he put in all the work into making the windmill and nobody thanked him for the hard worked he and Benjamin put in like the animal farm would be nothing without Boxer....😭😡😤😭😭😭😭
I'm so glad they changed the ending in this version, different from the book, in which Napoleon should have gotten instant karma for his evil ways and the animals finally seeking retribution.
When watching this, probably my favorite moments was that of the relation between Benjamin and Boxer, making me really pissed off at Napoleon when something terrible happens to them. My other favorite part is the ending. The one where Ben discovers that the divide between humanity and beasthood has become vague. Granted, the part where they intentionally stampede the pig was not in the book, but it is satisfying to see him get punishment for killing Boxer.
The first time I watch this was in English class in Middle School I think it was and I broke down in tears watching the scene and my classmates couldn't even laugh at me because they all did to even the boys
Boxer is the proletariat- Russian labour class- exploited by the pigs (Bolsheviks); also Alexey Stakhanov a model worker whom the Stalin Regime built a cult of personality around, and that rewarded workers who showed a similar heroic dedication and who supported Stalin.
Not just the Russian labor class, but lower class people who are exploited by those in power (or by those who want to obtain power) and are then discarded once they give everything they have and their usefulness runs out. Orwell made it pretty clear the allegory was a direct reference to the Russian revolution but it was also a criticism of how power corrupts every political movement. Boxer was uneducated and had so much faith and he didnt think his leaders could ever be as corrupt as their former human master, and Benjamin had the experience to know the truth and was too cynical to share his knowledge until he was personally affected and by then it was too late to save anyone, which is a common criticism of the arm chair activism that many people have.
Boxer and Benjamin, my 2 favourite characters in the book. There was a 2 faced, fat little shit where I used to work (he was aunion rep, but was up the managements arses)... he was named squealer in honour of the pig in animal farm.
This book or movie goes beyond criticism to the Soviet Union. Just think about every hard-working person dismissed/fired after getting injured, sick, too old or stressed to continue working. We are just a replaceble pieze. I see them in Boxer 😢
Why doesn't Clover give a shit about Boxer in this movie? I mean, she doesn't seem to care about Boxer as much as Benjamin in this movie, but in the book they were strongly implied to be mates
it was so sad like he just obeyed every command from Napoleon and he worked so hard day to night and when he was too old to work Napoleon just killed him, sold his meat, and bought whiskey like…
I hate napoleon he is just like a devil ...he is sent the boxer for a butcher we should know he is so hardworking but his result is very cruel😢😢😢😢😢 Its a really political satire
If you think about it, this was the moment Napoleon signed his own death warrant. Boxer's murder is what made Benjamin snap, as well as all the other animals.
The real-life inspiration for Boxer was Soviet miner Alexei Stakhanov who was held up as a role model for other workers. He was actually treated fairly well by Stalin and was even offered a position as a government minister but he turned it down. He was treated worse by Khrushchev after Stalin’s death as he was sent away from his family in Moscow and became an alcoholic. He was later awarded several medals for his services and allowed to retire, unlike Boxer.
Believe it or not the entire farm animals could've overthrown Napoleon long before Boxer was kill. The only intelligent animal was Benjamin the donkey, Boxer the House, and you had a female goat who also intelligent. Beside the other animal the pig was the only animal that was also intelligent. Not only that Napoleon try to get Boxer killed in the story because he believed Boxer will conspiracy against him. When Napoleon sent his dog at the Boxer, Boxer killed one of those dogs. Boxer should have realized that Napoleon wasn't a real leader that he was a psychopath. The animals could easily overthrown Napoleon. The only animal Napoleon has on his side was a bunch of dogs. The farm animals could've used a bunch bulls and Boxer to overthrow Napoleon and ended his reagin.
No worries guys, maybe Napoleon was right! Maybe, uh… they found like, £50 lying about around the farm and used that to buy the beer! Boxer sure is fine… Oh who am I kidding, he’s definitely dead.
Its sad that people nowadays still trust so much in politicians (no matter what party), in the book right after Boxers death Squealer uses the same old phrase that EVERY politican uses "I heard rumors that bla bla, do not believe in those lies bla bla". I'm serious take any quote from squealer and put it next to a picture of any politician and you will not see the difference anymore. Or as the book says: “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
3:31 Boxer: Benjamin whats wrong? Benjamin: BOXER YOU'RE NOT BEING TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL YOUR BEING TAKEN TO A GLUE FACTORY GET OUT! Boxer: OH NO!!!! *Boxer began to kick rapidly to no avail* Benjamin BOXER KICK YOUR WAY OUT PLEASSEEE *Benjamin slows down saddened and watched his best friend is being taking to a glue factory*
Boxer! To the Glue Factory! HOW COULD YOU NAPOLEON!!!??? Lets just say it, It's animated, but its not a kids movie at all. I first saw this movie when I was in High School. I thought it was weird, until now these days, I understand why it was disturbing plot.
In junior high we saw this movie and this one kid named Jon started crying at this part--and I was laughing my ass off as the donkey was braying and running helpless at the glue factory wagon hauling the horse away.
Makaveli Yes it does my friend who is 13 stuck a needle through a pig i was dissecting in science class and they were laughing. They were doing awful things to the fetal pig.
When I read this in the book I was absolutely horrified. When he finally realized that he was being sent away to die it was too late, imagine the terror and the fear you would feel and being too helpless and weak to do anything about it.
And of course Orwell had to mention that even a few years ago Boxer could've kicked his way out of the wagon easily but that the wounds from the battles and the years of work had robbed him of the strength his limbs were once famous for.
@@agenttheater5 meaning the fruit of his labour was his doom. It's really heartbreaking
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UA-cam has no respect for Boxer.
@Volgen The Person
I know, but I still miss him.
@@pikminfan6778 btw that wasn't UA-cam.. that was the guy himself/girl herself who uploaded this clip that put that category...
Agreed it was annoying when the donkey scream
What I want to know is: Has anyone even considered Napoleon’s feelings in all of this?
@@liquidmark5081 Come on, you know Napoleon; he's a manipulative, tyrannical dictator. He sent Boxer away to his death to pay for a bottle of whiskey. I know that he didn't care that Boxer was going to die. He *really* is an asshole.
For people who haven't read the book. Boxer is a real hero who fights bravely in the early battles against humans. He is always hardest worker in the farm, yet all he wants to do is to live peacefully after retirement. However, he is never treated properly simply because of his affiliation with Snowball, the previous leader of revolution. It's rather heartbreaking to see the true heroes being mistreated, sent to death, or even stigmatized due to stupid political reasons.
It’s more malevolent than that. It’s nothing to do with an association with Snowball. Boxer is viewed as a commodity the moment he ceases to be productive. No sentiment is paid for his years of service despite his unwavering support and efforts. Animalism extracted his labour and now his body parts can be traded for cash or alcohol.
i think he was never treated properly because the pigs were greedy and lacked thankfulness. they didn't care about him anymore as soon as he had gotten weak and wasn't an asset anymore.
@@CrayTom this. He represents the sucker or should I say the king of the suckers.
The working class are not dumb. They’re systemically oppressed- limited to access in resources including adequate education, housing, medical/disability services. They’re often more focused on surviving. And yet, many are still brilliant and creative enough to have the wealthy appropriate parts of their culture to profit off of it.
That statement you made is dumb. It’s a cheap shot. You clearly can’t think critically enough to understand how systemic oppression works and you don’t know anything about how chronic stress and trauma affect the body and mind- especially when it comes to working class people. Seriously one of the dumbest things I’ve read on the Internet.
Boxer stands for the workers and farmers. Animalfarm is an Analogy on Stalins regime. Many says on communism, but i think on all totalitarism.
Boxer doesn't merely "die". It's far worse than that. He gets sent away to be expunged, exterminated, cast away, thrown away, converted. He is deemed worth more as the sum of the by-products (glue, etc.) than alive. I tear up every time I think too much about the interpretation of Boxer's end.
In the book, he was traded to the knackers so that the pigs could have whiskey.
Wait like a slaughter farm?
@@UltimateDoomSoldier pretty much
Just think about it
No matter who you are . You’ll always been seen as disposable, expendable and always easily replaceable . No matter how hard you work . No matter how much dedication and no matter how much blood, sweat , and tears you pour . you’ll only been seen as cattle.
You and me and everyone who is the common man . We’re all replaceable .
Fodder for the cannons of war and the pistons of industry
Benjamin's pleading calls is what breaks my heart, and I'm still crying...
Brokenrain223 ...For me, it was when Boxer and Benjamin were looking at each other while he was being taken away...
same! X
Brokenrain223 same. One of the things that shattered me was when benjamin was begging the other animals for help, and they just stood there. I also watched this scene in the 1999 live adaptation, and although jessie the dog is the one trying to save boxer (benjamin was too, but less so) it tore my heart into tiny pieces to hear her scream "boxer, get out! Get out boxer, they're taking you to your death! Boxer!" I think the voice actor for jessie was actually crying and genuinely wanted to save boxer, even though he's a fictional character. 😢 rip boxer
What gets me is in the book when they remind us that there was a time when it would only have taken a few kicks of those powerful hooves of his for Boxer to knock the door down. But now, though he's trying with all the strength he has left, he can't escape because he's worked too long and too hard.....
Brokenrain223 I'm so sorry for to cry when Benjamin's cries for Boxer being taken to the horse slaughterer and glue factory, but it wasn't the horse slaughter men's idea, it was Napoleon's.
Boxer is the best character of the whole book
Boxer is cool but my comrade Snowball deserves that title
@@fleshandblood5392 nah Benjamin is the true chad who just sits quietly the whole time despite knowing exactly what was happening 😎
@Brian Casteel all the shit is Old Major fault
@@solractm3468 You cannot blame Old Major, what Napoleon did wasn't what Major wanted.
I truly liked Boxer, I just wished he knew what's coming up to him and the other animals after Napoleon got the leadership. But sadly he thought after the humans were gone they would be safe and didn't think that it might come back with the pigs. Major told him that he was replaceable to the humans and that he would be sent to death after his strength would leave him. That was one of the reasons why he was part of the rebellion just to be sent to death by the pigs later on.
The author was fucked in the head
Boxer served with his heart and every muscle of his body. He gave all he had for animal farm and more. He said “I will work harder”. To betray such as Boxer, it does a lot more than just tick me off. It fills me with, may I be allowed to say, righteous indignation.
I'm not sure what's worse: this version, where we have to hear Benjamin cry, or the live-action version, where Boxer just gives up the struggle as they pass the gates...
Or in the book when we're reminded that there was once a time when a few kicks of his mighty hooves would've knocked the doors down, but now.......
I got the vibe that Boxer passed away then and there, collapsing inside the waggon, dying of natural causes before he actually reached the slaughterhouse.
In the cartooon version you actually realize that he is struggling but just can't get out.
There’s a fanfiction set after the novel, Snowball is still around, Benjamin, Clover, and the 4 hens have left, and...
Boxer is also there, he escaped the cart.
man i remember seeing this as a child (i’m 24) and was absolutely heartbroken. When i saw the Pigs drinking whiskey with the money made off Boxer that’s when everything really hit me and i understood what was really going on.
Same, I'm 41 now and I still find it sad
This was my childhood, my father was an English teacher and taking the words of Orwell took this tale as a children's story. I always took this part to heart, to never break my back to make the millions of another because they will NEVER give it back once your useless to them.
Knowledge is power
Knowledge is power
You missed the point of the story then, and you don't understand how businesses operate.
@Alex Romeli The OP made a very broad statement. It reads like he's one of those assholes who only does the bare minimum to keep his job.
As for the rest of your statement, fuck off. You don't know a damn thing about me. One, I can't be a employer, because I don't own a business. Two, you're only partially correct about me being inhuman. I can be a cold son-of-a-bitch when threatened. Three, I'm pretty far from being corrupt, or at least I am when it comes to subordinates. I'm a pretty chill supervisor. I never assign a task that I am not willing to do myself.
None of the above means I can't be an asshole. Fuck off, you sensitive little bitch.
@Alex Romeli Who did I treat poorly?
Edit: Fuck this. Momma always said to never argue with an idiot. You have a nice day now.
The way I looked in class while watching this: ... :I
The way I acted when I got home: ... *flops on the bed* ... *starts whining and sobbing like a child*
What a horrible, evil person Napoleon is! I feel really bad for Benjamin, on losing his best friend! I like it when they get back at Napoleon in the end! Thank God for KARMA
Darius Mazaheri in the book they don't get him back.
Silver Syaox I know! The author should've had it done like that in the book, in my opinion!
I agree.
But it is what it is.
Poor Boxer....he honestly he believed Napoleon had his best interests at heart...it cost him his life
Plus boxer never had any offspring as well
Even now as an adult I still bawl my eyes out as they cart Boxer away. I know it's a cartoon but as lover of horses its extremely upsetting. Can't believe this is a children's cartoon, like Watership down is.
greenkitty82 Well Animal Farm isn't really a children's story... it's supposed to parallel the brutality of Communism.
+Tyrone Niggah stalinism you mean, communism is a marx concept that never came about.
Lee Stephenson
It's all the same, tyranny is tyranny.
+Tyrone Niggah no it's not all the same
Lee Stephenson
No, it really is. You are delusional if you think otherwise.
It's been decades ago I watched this scene the last time... Nothing has changed. Tears run immediately. The fright and despair in Benjamin's screams I still hardly can bear. Rest in Peace Boxer.
Believe it or not this is something that would happen in the soviet union. Russian workers in the USSR were literally worked to death.
The Gulag Archipelago
Yeah so so different to the kind and gentle business practices of Amazon and the like, or the makers of Baked Lays where workers went on strike in 2021 because certain co workers who'd died on shift they had to move and keep right on working in their place.
I’m a horse person and am prone to overworking myself and Boxer just breaks my heart. Poor Benjamin too
Book or movie, this scene always broke my heart. Always has and always will
In the animated version, THIS is what drives Benjamin to ultimately lead the revolt against the pigs, IMO...
An enemy who has lost everything is the worst of all enemies
Traumatized me as a child.
This is the most underated saddest scene in animated film history, deserves way more attention and questions us as humans of taking advantage of a poor animal's failing physicality.
You gotta start watching some anime. Real tear jerkers in there.
@D F I remember one scene especially that still haunts me to this day that I can't even talk about it😪
had to read this book for middle school and boxer’s death broke me
It always stuck with me, besides the obvious sadness and despair of the scene, is how many wholehearted, hopeful but clueless russian peasants where discarded and looked over by the socalled "Revolution"
PS: after I read the book the first time I felt like fly to russia and curse 1000 times and poop on Stalin's grave
"But Stalin... had little need for "heroes"..." - Viktor Reznov
@@datboi9539 not just Stalin, all who succeeded him as well. The Chernobyl liquidators were ignored after they saved Europe and Russian sailors were left to suffocate and burn inside the Kursk Submarine.
@@jogingeorge4885 Gorbachev gave a chance but Yeltsin and putin reversed everything he did
Its been happening to USA citizens forever as well
When i read the book in my 8th grade class,it was heartbreaking.Some of my classmates were shocked and upset.Boxer deserved better
Shout out to everyone who watched this film as a kid and ended up clinical and empathetic
The historical reality is worse,so,here I am.
I can hear the pain, desperate, and despair in Benjamin's squeals
Boxer is an allegory for the working class in the Soviet Union. Animal farm is a criticism of communism. He was a loyal idealist who was murdered which happened plenty of times in the Soviet Union.
Reading this part in the book absolutely fuckin destroyed me
The most heartbreak scene that I ever watched.Boxer and Benjamin was both such good persons,yet they treated like trash.
You know what makes it sadder? Benjamin's pleading heehaws.
YES...I love donkeys so much 😢
The donkey sounds make it worse. It sounds more like a panic attack full of sadness, anger, pain, and fear when you know a very best friend is going to get harmed very badly.
I was highly upset when this happened to Boxer, my favorite character in the whole movie and the book, he put in all the work into making the windmill and nobody thanked him for the hard worked he and Benjamin put in like the animal farm would be nothing without Boxer....😭😡😤😭😭😭😭
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Boxer was a real one
I just watched this movie and this really broke my heart. Hearing Benjamin’s cries really tore my heart out. I wanted Napoleon to pay for this.
I'm so glad they changed the ending in this version, different from the book, in which Napoleon should have gotten instant karma for his evil ways and the animals finally seeking retribution.
I cried so much when I read the book. this work is a masterpiece.
All boxer wanted to do was learn the whole alphabet after retirement. 😞
:D Chapeau Mr. Strawberry. Your comment is awesome
Oh my gosh....everytime I watch this I just ball my eyes out!!!
Scarlett Wensley I'm sorry to hear that boxer was taken to the horse slaughterer and glue factory.
When watching this, probably my favorite moments was that of the relation between Benjamin and Boxer, making me really pissed off at Napoleon when something terrible happens to them. My other favorite part is the ending. The one where Ben discovers that the divide between humanity and beasthood has become vague. Granted, the part where they intentionally stampede the pig was not in the book, but it is satisfying to see him get punishment for killing Boxer.
The first time I watch this was in English class in Middle School I think it was and I broke down in tears watching the scene and my classmates couldn't even laugh at me because they all did to even the boys
i cried when i first watched this scene, if he wasn't injured and weak he'd have broken out
Was young when i watched this. My heart shattered.
My heart breaks for poor Boxer:(
he work so hard just to died the same way old major warned him
What did Stalin do with laborers that became disabled from work injury or old age in relation to the glue factory?
I think he just threw them in a mass grave. Don't quote me on that; even I'm not sure.
He killed them
Paul Bauman Horses back in the fay were killed to make glue out of their bones. Sad but true.
Jesus Christ shooting boxer would be more humane than sending him off to the glue factory.
Boxer is the proletariat- Russian labour class- exploited by the pigs (Bolsheviks); also Alexey Stakhanov a model worker whom the Stalin Regime built a cult of personality around, and that rewarded workers who showed a similar heroic dedication and who supported Stalin.
Not just the Russian labor class, but lower class people who are exploited by those in power (or by those who want to obtain power) and are then discarded once they give everything they have and their usefulness runs out. Orwell made it pretty clear the allegory was a direct reference to the Russian revolution but it was also a criticism of how power corrupts every political movement. Boxer was uneducated and had so much faith and he didnt think his leaders could ever be as corrupt as their former human master, and Benjamin had the experience to know the truth and was too cynical to share his knowledge until he was personally affected and by then it was too late to save anyone, which is a common criticism of the arm chair activism that many people have.
@@aceb1195 - thoroughly insightful!
@@SeriousMoonlight666 thank you!!! Guess those courses came in handy (for once) lol
@@aceb1195 - Orwell has always been an interesting topic for me. Any knowledge is useful! We learn from eachother - thanks for sharing :-)
Boxer and Benjamin, my 2 favourite characters in the book. There was a 2 faced, fat little shit where I used to work (he was aunion rep, but was up the managements arses)... he was named squealer in honour of the pig in animal farm.
Could call him Beria too. That's how I saw Squealer if Napoleon is Stalin
This book or movie goes beyond criticism to the Soviet Union. Just think about every hard-working person dismissed/fired after getting injured, sick, too old or stressed to continue working. We are just a replaceble pieze. I see them in Boxer 😢
I named my Mudsdale in Pokemon Sun and Moon after Boxer.
Lesson to all work for yourself otherwise you’ll end up just like boxer.
Good to see lampwick got more roles especially after his unfortunate transformation
I watched this movie as a kid, I'll never forget the glue van scene... Thank God I'm vegan now.
but that means napoleon gets to survive that little bit longer
I read this and got depressed, so I'm reading Orwell's 1984 to lift my spirits up. I kinda like O' Brien. Looks like he can be Winston's ally.
I was so heartbroken when he died in the book. He was actually my favourite, too.
I remember seeing this as a kids and thought the pigs somehow got him there but now I know the truth
I watched this for history and this part was so sad 😭😭
Yeah look in the category, it says comedy like wtf?!
I thought that too but to be fair some things made me smile in it but in a overall sense ya wtf is right
Why doesn't Clover give a shit about Boxer in this movie? I mean, she doesn't seem to care about Boxer as much as Benjamin in this movie, but in the book they were strongly implied to be mates
And that...is why I no longer use PVC Glue
In the book he died from exhaustion but in this film he died by getting crushed by a stone. Coincidence?
Friendship in the book he was killed by the knacker...
I think Friendship meant he was "rendered unable to work" from exhaustion in the book, while here it was because he was crushed by a stone
Shizaaaaaaa
tripp cory he didnt die by the stone itself on here(though that made him unable to work) he died due to being sold off to the glue factory.
Pink Floyd were right
it was so sad like he just obeyed every command from Napoleon and he worked so hard day to night and when he was too old to work Napoleon just killed him, sold his meat, and bought whiskey like…
I hate napoleon he is just like a devil ...he is sent the boxer for a butcher we should know he is so hardworking but his result is very cruel😢😢😢😢😢
Its a really political satire
UA-cam: “comedy”
Also UA-cam: “gives me a gorilla glue company ad”
Nice one....
If you think about it, this was the moment Napoleon signed his own death warrant. Boxer's murder is what made Benjamin snap, as well as all the other animals.
The real-life inspiration for Boxer was Soviet miner Alexei Stakhanov who was held up as a role model for other workers. He was actually treated fairly well by Stalin and was even offered a position as a government minister but he turned it down. He was treated worse by Khrushchev after Stalin’s death as he was sent away from his family in Moscow and became an alcoholic. He was later awarded several medals for his services and allowed to retire, unlike Boxer.
Poor Benjamin lost his friend
saddest movie scene ever? no age restriction is enough for this film to not be horrifying
imagine living communism and having this happen to your parents, children, or friends
@@chickenzzzzzzzzz Stalinism*
Proceeds to 'accidentally' burn the pork roast.
Mister, would you please help my pony? I think it's his lung.
Poor Boxer, they really didn't had to do him like that :/
Real, bro literally carried the whole of Animal Farm and got turned into a glue stick
@@Saltwaterfrog Fr
@@Saltwaterfrog I think he's my favorite character
his crying sounds like a rusty bicycle... lol
Boxer is my favourite character
Believe it or not the entire farm animals could've overthrown Napoleon long before Boxer was kill. The only intelligent animal was Benjamin the donkey, Boxer the House, and you had a female goat who also intelligent.
Beside the other animal the pig was the only animal that was also intelligent. Not only that Napoleon try to get Boxer killed in the story because he believed Boxer will conspiracy against him. When Napoleon sent his dog at the Boxer, Boxer killed one of those dogs.
Boxer should have realized that Napoleon wasn't a real leader that he was a psychopath. The animals could easily overthrown Napoleon. The only animal Napoleon has on his side was a bunch of dogs. The farm animals could've used a bunch bulls and Boxer to overthrow Napoleon and ended his reagin.
Oh man poor boxer. He needs a doctor or a vet
No worries guys, maybe Napoleon was right! Maybe, uh… they found like, £50 lying about around the farm and used that to buy the beer! Boxer sure is fine…
Oh who am I kidding, he’s definitely dead.
That's... Was a saddest... Death.😭😭😭😭
Its sad that people nowadays still trust so much in politicians (no matter what party), in the book right after Boxers death Squealer uses the same old phrase that EVERY politican uses "I heard rumors that bla bla, do not believe in those lies bla bla".
I'm serious take any quote from squealer and put it next to a picture of any politician and you will not see the difference anymore.
Or as the book says:
“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
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Boxer: Benjamin whats wrong?
Benjamin: BOXER YOU'RE NOT BEING TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL YOUR BEING TAKEN TO A GLUE FACTORY GET OUT!
Boxer: OH NO!!!!
*Boxer began to kick rapidly to no avail*
Benjamin BOXER KICK YOUR WAY OUT PLEASSEEE
*Benjamin slows down saddened and watched his best friend is being taking to a glue factory*
my heart breaks every time 😢
Heartbreaking...!
Box's death literally broke my heart into millions of pieces.
Boxer! To the Glue Factory! HOW COULD YOU NAPOLEON!!!???
Lets just say it, It's animated, but its not a kids movie at all.
I first saw this movie when I was in High School. I thought it was weird, until now these days, I understand why it was disturbing plot.
Heartbreaking when Benjamin the Donkey cries out to his friend Boxer! 💔
🐎 I said it before: Disney would have ruined it! Thanks for posting this!
This scene gave me ptsd as a child
I know it was a lock wagon, but boxer was a cart horse...he could have easily kicked the door down
He couldn’t his foot was injured
he could have killed all those punk dogs easily
@@tyliekinc. he has three others lol
In the book, they actually say he would’ve been able to kick the door off back in the days - but that he was too weak and hurt now.
@@captaintomorrow6774 he was too weak because he gotten shot in the hoof
this makes me cry so hard.(
E.T. does that to me.
Did you do your homework?
Me 1:56
Rip boxer 😞😢🐴🕊❤🥺
He died for whiskey
In junior high we saw this movie and this one kid named Jon started crying at this part--and I was laughing my ass off as the donkey was braying and running helpless at the glue factory wagon hauling the horse away.
sums up how the government treats the working class regardless of what Ism is at the end.
So… anarchism, where there is no government?
I'm 46 and this has me traumatised since I was 6.
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Boy was my childhood fucked up.
Where`s All Might when you need him lol
Poor Benjamin...
THIS MOVIE IS GOOD DAMM SAD
im a 13 year old boy and even I cried
being 13 doesnt mean your hard to make cry..... -.-
Makaveli ...Seriously... I'm 14 and I still am crying...
My step-dad is real sensitive about what happens to horses.
Makaveli Yes it does my friend who is 13 stuck a needle through a pig i was dissecting in science class and they were laughing. They were doing awful things to the fetal pig.
Does it make me evil if I didn't cry?
Poor Boxer. :(
I'm glad horse are not going to the glue factory in the 1800 and 1900