The CIA secretly purchased the film rights to several novels written by which author to alter their endings?
George Orwell
Ray Bradbury
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
Fact: The CIA was so concerned with George Orwell’s novels “Animal Farm” and “1984,” that it purchased the film rights to both novels in order to reshape their endings. In “Animal Farm,” the original ending found both the pigs (representing Communists) and humans (capitalists) equally villainous, but the CIA-produced animated version made the story more anti-Communist by showing only the pigs as corrupt. In “1984,” the book ends with the protagonist, Winston, submitting to Big Brother, however in the the film, he dies heroically shouting “down with Big Brother!”
Correct Answer: George Orwell