ENG Assignment 1
- 1. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN THE DESIGN SCHOOL FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT NAME: TAN WEI ZHEN STUDENT ID NO: 0318560 FILMS SELECTED: FROZEN & TANGLED (MUSICAL) WORD COUNT: 805 ENGLISH 2 (ELG 30605) WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1: COMPARE – CONTRAST ESSAY LECTURER: CASSANDRA WIJESURIA SUBMISSION DATE: 19TH SEPTEMBER 2014
- 2. Prewriting Introduction The two English language musical movies chosen is “Frozen” and “Tangled”. This essay is about the contrast of differences between the two chosen movies. The aspects that contrast the two movies are theme, plot, setting and characters. Thesis statement There are several differences that could be contrast between the two chosen English language movies such as theme, plot, setting and characters. Body paragraph Paragraph 1: Contrast of themes Point 1: The movie “Tangled” contains a beautifully dazzling, charming and heart felt re-telling of a beloved fairytale where the movie “Frozen” creates a break of stereotypical mold by an adaptation of a fairy tale that has a different storyline and characters from past productions from Walt Disney Pictures. Point 2: The movie “Tangled” is about a young girl, Rapunzel who was kidnapped as a baby by a greedy woman. On the other hand, the movie “Frozen” is about a queen who rules over a mythical kingdom. Paragraph 2: Contrast of plot Point 1: The movie “Tangled” started from a drop of the sun fallen on earth and grows a magic golden flower but the movie “Frozen” started off in a kingdom and one of the princesses has the power of freezing and creating ice. Point 2: The long haired Rapunzel from the movie “Tangled” ended up reunion with her royal family members and get married. On the other hand, the princess with the power of creating ice from the movie “Frozen” ended up saving her own sister and got clarified that her power is a blessing but not a curse. Paragraph 3: Contrast of setting Point 1: The movie “Tangled” is a German fairytale and the architecture of it is based off that of the movie “Snow White” where the inspiration of the movie “Frozen” is the nature and culture of Norway. Paragraph 4: Contrast of characters Point 1: Rapunzel from the movie “Tangled” is a single child and does not has any siblings but Elsa from the movie “Frozen” has a younger sister. Point 2: Rapunzel from the movie “Tangled” has found a partner and get married at the end but Elsa from the movie “Frozen” stay single all the way. Conclusion The differences between the theme, plot, setting and characters of both the movies cause contrast between both of them.
- 3. In this modernized era, more films and movies with various types of genres are being produced compared to the past decades. The question is what makes similarities and differences between the films and movies? Eventually, the theme, plot, setting and characters of the movies do play their own roles which causes comparison and contrast between the films and movies. The two English language musical movies that I have chosen to complete the task given are “Frozen” and “Tangled”, both are produced by Walt Disney Pictures. This essay is about the contrast of differences between the two movies chosen as mentioned above. There are several differences that could be contrast between the two chosen English language movies such as theme, plot, setting and characters. First of all, the environment of the both movies are different. If noticed, the movie “Frozen” is having a winter landscape and the movie “Tangled” is having a summer landscape (Carvalho, 2014). Moving on to the theme, the movie “Tangled” contains a beautifully dazzling, charming and heart felt re-telling of a beloved fairytale (Paluso, 2011). The movie generally traces the traditional Rapunzel storyline, but this time with a few twists (Paluso, 2011). It is all about Rapunzel, a young girl kidnapped as a baby by a greedy woman who demands to look younger named Gothel (Paluso, 2011). On the other way round, the movie “Frozen” creates a break of stereotypical mold by an adaptation of a fairy tale that has a different storyline and characters from past productions from Walt Disney Pictures (Devlin, 2014). One of a very good example is that Elsa, the queen from the movie “Frozen” had never expresses an interest in marriage although she is a queen unlike the past movies produced by Walt Disney Production that marriage is one of the main concern for all the queens and princesses (Devlin, 2014). The movie is all about a queen named Elsa who rules over a mythical kingdom called Arendelle with her magical ability to create snow and ice (Devlin, 2014). Moreover, the plot of a movie does determine the movie’s genre. The movie “Tangled” is started from a drop of the sun fallen on earth and grows a magic golden flower with the ability to heal the sicknesses and injuries was found by an old woman named Gothel (Young, 2012). Gothel then kidnapped a young girl which is a princess named Rapunzel as a baby due to the eager to retrieved the flower after the king uses it to heal his wife which fall sick (Carvalho, 2014). At the end of the movie, the long haired Rapunzel reunion with her royal family members and get married (Young, 2012). On the other hand, the movie “Frozen” started off in a kingdom named Arendelle and one of the princesses has the power of freezing and creating ice (Wilson, 2014). Towards the end of the movie, the queen’s sister, Anna finally found her in the icy castle after her fled (Carvalho, 2014). The queen with the power of creating ice from the movie “Frozen” ended up saving her own sister from an accident with true love and got clarified that her power is a blessing but not a curse (Carvalho, 2014). Besides, setting of a film or movie is also one of the key points of causing similarities and differences between movies. The movie “Tangled” is a German influenced fairytale and the architecture of it is based off that of the movie “Snow White” (McCarthy, 2013). On the other hand, the inspiration of the movie “Frozen” is the nature and culture of Norway (McCarthy, 2013). The Norwegian influence is reflected not only in the wintery landscape but also in characteristics Norwegian elements such as ancient stave churches, traditional Norwegian folk costume and even the typi cal hairstyle (McCarthy, 2013).
- 4. Last but not least, the characters in a movie is also very important to determine the movie’s genre. In the movie “Tangled”, Rapunzel, which is the princess is a single child with parents, which is the king and the queen and does not has any siblings but at the very beginning she was kidnapped by a stranger name Gothel but the Gothel treat Rapunzel like a daughter (Paluso, 2011). Furthermore, Rapunzel has found a partner and get married to the guy that saved her, Flynn Rider at the end (Paluso, 2011). In the movie “Frozen”, the queen Elsa has a sister named Anna and parents but they had lose their parents due to a storm at a sea (Wilson, 2014). Anna has a husband named Hans and Elsa has a snowman and an ice creature named Olaf and Marshmallow respectively (Wilson, 2014). In conclusion, the differences between the theme, plot, setting and characters of both the movies cause contrast between both of them. It is very obvious that the movies are having similarities or differences by referring to the theme, plot, setting and characters. Besides, the theme, plot, setting and characters of a film or movie could determine which type of genres the movie are.
- 5. References Claudio Carvalho. (2014). Plot Summary. Retrieved September 17, 2014, from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294629/plotsummary Conor Devlin. (2014). Disney’s Frozen break the ice with progressive themes and characters. Retrieved September 18, 2014, from http://manitoumessenger.com/opinions/2014/03/09/disneys-frozen-breaks-the-ice-with-progressive- themes-and-characters/ DeAlan Wilson. (2014). Plot Summary. Retrieved September 17, 2014, from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294629/plotsummary Douglas Young. (2012). Plot Summary. Retrieved September 17, 2014, from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2294629/plotsummary Marianne Paluso. (2011). Spiritual themes to be found in Disney’s ‘Tangled’. Retrieved September 19, 2014, from http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/column.php?n=1449 Todd McCarthy. (2013). Frozen: Film Review. Retrieved September 19, 2014, from http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie/frozen/review/652699