SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN
THE ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL
FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT
NAME: GOH JENG JHIEH
STUDENT ID NO: 0315080
FILMS SELECTED: RIO & KUNGFU PANDA
WORD COUNT: 701
ENGLISH 2 (ENGL 0205)
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 2: COMPARE OR CONTRAST ESSAY
LECTURER: Ms. CASSANDRA WIJESURIA
SUBMISSION DATE: 12nd DECEMBER 2013
Nowadays, animated movies are no longer fancied by only kids but adult or
even the old-aged ones. These different groups are more likely enjoying the plots
of movies, but always miss the part where the movie itself also conveying some
hidden messages or values. To bring up the values and things that should be
concerned and avoided, I have picked 2 different animated movies which are
“Rio” and “Kungfu Panda” for comparison.
First and foremost, some movies that needed parent’s guidance and
accompany are having violence and nudity or sex. In movie “Rio”, violence and
cruelty can be found on the nasty bird named Nigel. Nigel terrorizes the other
birds in the cages by snapping at them and pushing their cages, he also shows
the aggressive attitude to the innocent ones. Besides, Nigel bullies the monkey
into what he wants by picking one up and dropping him, catching before the
monkey hit on the ground and threatening over and over again. On the other
hand, Tai Lung in the movie “Kungfu Panda”, a very vengeful and aggressive
character that was prisoned because he breaks the law. In the scene he tries to
escape, he caused a lot of damage to the guards, he scurries up one stalactite
after another until reaching the top level. In addition, he clears the guards out of
his way by scattering them and breaks the gate door.
Secondly, transformative relationship is found in both movies that attracted me
the most. Shifu doesn’t recognize Po as the chosen “Dragon Warrior” but then he
has talked to Grand Master Oogway before his nirvana. He was convinced to
give a chance to Po. Their relationship gets better when Shifu teaches Po at
mountain, Po himself also getting stronger and ability to fight. In movie “Rio”, Blu,
the main character and the only male of his kind. His first meet with Jewel, also
the only female of the kind in a bad greeting way. Jewel attacks Blu because she
thinks that Blu is there to reproduce more offspring only but in fact he was
brought by his owner. Jewel starts to fall in love with Blu as he ventures and goes
after her because she was kidnapped. Lastly, they get along and reproduce a lot
of babies.
Believe in oneself in both movies are also very inspiring. Po, a low self-esteem
panda always dreams of himself as a great warrior. Shifu is strongly disagreed
that Po as “Dragon Warrior” because one of his favorite student, Tigress is not
the chosen one. Po is later on inspired by Grand Master Oogway and learnt
martial arts from Master Shifu. Lastly, he defeats the great enemy, Tai Lung and
becomes the “Dragon Warrior”. Back to “Rio”, Blu” cannot fly because his fears
and has a mind that he cannot do it. In the ending of the movie, to save Jewel
from getting hurt, he tries to fly and he does and managed to save his lover.
Power of love always makes someone to achieve higher as Po was strongly
disagreed by his own father to be the chosen one. As the learning process of Po,
his father starts to change his attitude and eventually by his side. Before going to
fight Tai Lung, his father says that he is proud to have him as a son, Po is greatly
inspired and able to fight Tai Lung with no worries. In the other movie “Rio”, Blu’s
owner, Linda shows her love towards Blu by providing nice place and food to Blu.
Even Blu himself feels that her house is a paradise. After Blu’s missing because
he goes to save Jewel, Linda has so much worries and keep looking for Blu by
pasting a lot of papers on walls and waiting until late night.
In conclusion, these values are very encouraged to learn by the children and as
parent’s guidance to kids. The violent should not be applied in solving problems
in families. This will cause oneself even more aggressive and the kids also
learning the same way as it is a psychology method so called, observational
learning. A family should be full of love so that everyone is happy and solving in
peace way.
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