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FNBE 0413 Cheah Teck Wei 0315215 ENGL 0205

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN

THE DESIGN SCHOOL

FOUNDATION IN NATURAL AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT

NAME: CHEAH TECK WEI

STUDENT ID NO: 0315215

FILM SELECTED: “THE RANGO” & “FINDING NEMO”

WORD COUNT: 939

ENGLISH 2 (ENGL 0205)

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 2: COMPARE – CONTRAST ESSAY

LECTURER: CASSANDRA WIJESURIA

SUBMISSION DATE: 5th DECEMBER 2013

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Everyone has their own ways to spend their time during the school holidays. For

me, I would like to spend my time cuddling on my bed with my lovely blankets, with

some snacks along enjoying movies downloaded online as I hate the crowd in the

cinema. Lately I have been assigned for an assignment which required me to write a

compare and contrast essay about a romantic comedy or animated movie. It sounds so

challenging for me as watching movie is my all-time favourite! An animated movie was a

movie that individual drawings, paintings or illustrations were photographed frame by

frame, making them alive. This method had allowed movie directors creating more

phantasy movies such as fairy tales in an easier and cheaper way. The animated

movies were more likely appealed to children but it can also be enjoyed by all ages. I

have decided to write a contrast essay about two animated movies on top of my favorite

list, “The Rango” and “Finding Nemo”. They have many in differ but having a similarity

which is an adventurous movie.

Although they are both adventurous movies, but they have different reason of

going on to an adventure. “The Rango” is a movie about a chameleon named Rango

which is stranded in the Mojave Dessert when his terrarium falls from his owner’s car

during a car accident. The adventure started when Rango met an armadillo named

Roadkill which was seeking the Mystical Spirit of the West. Roadkill directed Rango to a

town nearby called Dirt to find water and there was some accidents happened on the

journey such as Rango being attacked by the red-tailed hawks. It was a narrow escape

as Rango was almost eaten by the hawks. For the movie “Finding Nemo”, it was a

movie about an over-protective clownfish named Marlin, searching for his abducted son,

Nemo during an attack from their predator with a regal tang named Dory all the way to

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Sydney Harbor. It was a great distance from where they live which is Great Barrier Reef

to Sydney. Undoubtedly it was a dangerous journey for the two fish in the lower level of

the food-chain. Although they were both adventurous movies, they still gave me

different level of excitement as the events happened was not the same.

Obviously, the both movie have divergent settings. First of all, “The Rango”

happens in Mojave Dessert which was a very deserted place. The characters in the

movie were all desert animals which can talk to communicate. The Dirt which was an

old west town, the people there was dressed in cowboy styles. The society emphasizes

the importance of water of a town in the middle of the desert and needing for a new

sheriff. For the movie “Finding Nemo”, the story happens in Great Barrier Reef all the

way to Sydney Harbor which is underwater. The characters in the story were also

creatures living underwater. Some of them could communicate by speaking whereas

some doesn’t. The movie also reveals some part of the mysterious ocean which we

might not know such as the creature living deep in the ocean, how to they catch prey

and so on. The divergent setting of these movies made it a significant contrast between

the two movies.

A main character was the center of attention of a movie. One determination of a

great movie was by its main character. Rango was the main character in the movie “The

Rango”. He was just an ordinary chameleon which was eccentric, imaginative, thespian

character that talks to inanimate objects rather than living things. Although he lied to the

villagers of the Dirt at first by using some fake stories as an adventurous drifter, but then

he was brave and honest to confess his mistakes. These characters had made Rango a

unique character in the movie. And you know what? Johnny Depp which was my

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favorite actor was the voice casting of Rango! Besides “The Rango”, the main character

in “Finding Nemo” was Marlin, which was a clownfish which lost his wife in the mouth of

predator. Marlin was an over-protective father as he lost all his children and left only

Nemo, his only son. He was in panic when Nemo was lost, captured by the scuba

divers. That was why the adventure begins. After Nemo was found, Marlin eventually

became no longer over-protective. As a result, the both main character shows different

personalities which carries different point of view.

Last but not least, there was one last thing that I find in every movie I have ever

watched, which was the moral value of the story. A great movie was not only a movie

that was interesting, fascinating, thrilling and so on. A great movie was a movie that you

can feel, gain and learns something from it. From “The Rango”, Rango was brave and

responsible to protect the town, Dirt although his identity was not his real identity, but

then he still helped the town to protect their water source. In the movie “Finding Nemo”,

I found love, the pure love from parent towards their children. Although Marlin was over-

protective towards Nemo, but still it was because that he was afraid of losing his loved

one again, like his wife and other children. It was such a throbbing scene when Marlin

finally found Nemo and I was deeply touched by it.

They were both awesome animated movies that won a lot of awards. I had a

great time watching both of the movies and I think that they really deserve it. If I were to

recommend some movies, they would be my first choice ever!

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Referencing

1. Animated. [ONLINE] Available at:

http://thescriptlab.com/screenplay/genre/animated. [Last Accessed 5/12/2013].

2. (2009). Animated Films. [ONLINE] Available at:

http://www.filmsite.org/animatedfilms.html. [Last Accessed 5/12/2013].

3. Disney Pixar (2003). Finding Nemo. [ONLINE] Available at:

http://www.disney.co.uk/finding-nemo/. [Last Accessed 3/12/2013].

4. iMDB (2011). Rango. [ONLINE] Available at:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1192628/. [Last Accessed 3/12/2013].

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