SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN

THE DESIGN SCHOOL

FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT

NAME: LOW EN HUEY

STUDENT ID NO: 0317889

FILMS SELECTED: FROZEN AND TANGLED

WORD COUNT: 955 WORDS

ENGLISH 2 (ELG 30605)

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1: COMPARE – CONTRAST ESSAY

LECTURER: CASSANDRA WIJESURIA

SUBMISSION DATE: 19TH SEPTEMBER 2014

Pre-writing

Introduction

- Explanation about movie and the reason people watch movie.

- Explanation about film genre and musical genre

- The two films that I have chosen to compare are Frozen and Tangled.

Thesis Statement : These two films can be compared by their production

studios, character as well as the moral of the stories.

2nd Paragraph

- Details about the two films (Studios, Actors)

- Synopsis of the two films

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- The Production studio

- Comparison of the animation style

- The settings that took placed

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- The Character (Main protagonists: Anna and Rapunzel)

- The Personalities of both characters (justified by events)

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- The Moral of the stories and the impact to the audience.

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- Conclusion and the things that I learned from both movies

People love to watch movies and this is why a lot of movies had been

produced in the past years. Movies have become a form of entertainment for people

and because of this many film industries slowly evolve throughout the whole wide

world. Thus, movies have become so popular that people occasionally talk about

the recent movies that they watched, how good it was and how they anticipate for

the following movies. A movie genre is a category of movies that are made with a

similar style or similar subject. Movies can be in a number of genres such as comedy,

action, adventure, horror, musical based, romance and more. So, what is a musical

film? A musical film is a film genre in which songs are sung by the characters into

narrative, usually accompanied by dancing. Two musical films that I have chosen to

compare are Frozen and Tangled, both produced by The Walt Disney Studio. These

two films can be compared by their production studios, character as well as the

moral of the stories.

Frozen was directed and written by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee. It features

the voices of Kristen Bell as Anna and Idina Menzel as her older sister, Elsa the

Snow Queen. The movie, Frozen, is about an optimist princess, Anna who sets of on

a dangerous journey to bring back her sister, the Snow Queen Elsa who possesses

the magic power to turn things into ice. The story sets place at the kingdom of

Arendelle. Elsa who has the incredible power, loses control of her powers freezing

Arendelle. Later, Elsa fled to the mountain and Anna, her younger sister decided to

save the kingdom by bringing back Elsa. By accident, Anna was hit in the heart by

Elsa’s power, and only true love can save her. On the other hand, Tangled, originally

titled Rapunzel, was directed by Howard and Nathan Greno, starring Mandy Moore

and Zachary Levi. The story is about a lost princess with long magical hair,

Rapunzel, who yearns to leave her secluded tower after being held up by Mother

Gothel, her stepmother. On one occasion, a thief named Eugene broke into the

tower and met Rapunzel. They went on an adventure and in the end Rapunzel finally

got back to her real family.

Both movie, Frozen and Tangled , were produced by the Walt Disney

Animation Studio. These two movies are animated and as a means to retell classic

“Fairy tale” stories. Besides, both of the movies share the same animation style

especially for their female animated characters: big eyes, thin lips and small nose.

These features can be seen on Anna, Elsa and Rapunzel. The settings involved are

mostly similar , which is a kingdom and the jungle setting. Frozen and Tangled both

employed unique artistic style by blending together feature of both computer-

generated imagery and traditional hand-drawn animation.

Another similarity of Tangled and Frozen will from the aspect of characters.

Apart from physical appearance, both protagonists in the movies show similar

personalities. In Frozen, the movie’s main protagonist is Anna, she is a daring

person and act before she thinks. In the movie, during her sister’s coronation

ceremony, Anna met Prince Hans and she wanted to marry to him despite knowing

him for merely a day. In order to save her sister Elsa who ran away after freezing

Arandelle, Anna went on the journey by herself without thinking of the consequences

that she would face. She even pass the power to control Arandelle to Prince Hans

whom she has just met without knowing the bad intention of him. Similar to Anna,

Tangled’s main protagonist, Rapunzel also portrays daring personalities. Rapunzel

was held up in the tower by her stepmother, Mother Gothel for eighteen years. On

one occasion, Rapunzel mentioned that she wanted to leave the tower to see the

lights in the sky but the idea was rejected by Mother Gothel. When Eugene the thief

broke into the tower, Rapunzel requested him to bring her to see the lights in the sky.

Without thinking of the consequences, Rapunzel escaped from the tower together

with Eugene. Anna and Rapunzel are cheerful people. Both of them enjoy doing

things like speaking to paintings on the walls or animal and running throughout the

castle or tower due to having no one to communicate with.

Furthermore, both movies give great impact to the audience. Love takes time

and is built upon sacrifice and caring is shown in both movies. In Frozen, many

characters have portrayed the moral value of that. For example, when Anna was at

the brink of death, Olaf the snowman went to rescue by starting a fire to keep her

warm. Anna tells Olaf to leave, not wanting Olaf to melt because of the fire. Olaf

didn’t want to abandon his friends by telling Anna that love is putting someone eles

before yourself. Besides that, Kristoff put himself through danger to help Anna to

find Elsa and finding ways to save Anna from dying because he really loves her. On

the other hand, in Rapunzel, Eugene was willingly to sacrifice himself to rescue

Rapunzel even though he knew that he will die. From these events in both movies,

they show that love takes time and is built upon sacrifice and caring.

To conclude with, I have compared the similarities between the movies

Frozen and Tangled from the aspect of production , characters as well as moral

value of the stories. I think that Disney’s movies have given a lot of impact and

entertainment to us. After doing research on the two movies, I have learned that we

should never lose their dreams. We should work hard and strike for our dream just

like Anna and Rapunzel.

Reference

1. Steven D. Greydanus. Internet. Retrieved from :

http://www.decentfilms.com/reviews/frozen

2. Anna’s background. Internet. Retrieved 18 September 2014, from

http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Anna

3. Tangled’s Information. Internet. Retrieved 18 September 2014, from

http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Tangled

4. Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro . Tangled’s Review. Retrieved 18

5. September 2014, from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398286/plotsummary