An adaptation completely botches the original theme and message

[u/Morr4Seiya]

Mulan(2020)-They give Mulan superpowers which is not only lame it goes against the message of the original about equality and struggle,plus they removes Shang because apparently having Mulan date her superior was "problematic" even though Shang genuienely respected Mulan and their rank was never brought up

I am Legend(2007)-You know why the story is called "I am legend"? SPOILER ALERT the protagonist is the actual monster,humanity is gone and the vampires have a actual society and the protagonist kills and terrorize them

Animal Farm(2026)-On the very slim chance that Andy Serkis ever sees this,here's the thing Andy,Animal Farm was not a children work it was not supposed to have a happy ending,you never heard of cautionary tales before?

[u/NoChairGaming]

Did you mean... nah, that's been done already.

But was the book really that fascist? It was a military society but from what I remember from almost twenty years ago: they only discriminate against people who didn't serve by not letting them run for office (and voting?) while also not really showing the society as some wonderful utopia. And having politicians actually participate in the society before running it instead of professional broilers is a discussion we can all have.

[u/SomeKindofTreeWizard → u/NoChairGaming]

I'd make the case that it's not PRO fascist, since Heinlein was ... kind of an iconoclastic libertarian nutjob. But the book is demonstrably fascist. The marines are psychologically and hypnotically conditioned to do unquestioning genocide.

If you can program them to do atrocities while they sleep, I don't think they're going to be a bunch of independent thinkers when they run for office...

[u/AgathysAllAlong → u/SomeKindofTreeWizard]

That's not what fascism is. It's about how the military is definitely authoritarian, but fascism isn't just "war crimes".

[u/SomeKindofTreeWizard → u/AgathysAllAlong]

Neat. When did I say it was?