Stereotypes In The Movie Zootopia

Animals are a great allegory for real life, it allows the storyteller to get to its main point quickly. The movie Zootopia starts off with a dream, where the main character Judy Hopps wanted to become the first rabbit cop. Throughout the story, Judy faced many difficulties and prejudices while accomplishing her dream, yet Judy managed to achieve her final success. Despite the stereotypes and prejudices people encounter while achieving their dreams, in the movie Zootopia, directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore, successfully conveys the message that judgements are not there to break people down but are actually there to encourage people to move towards their final success or their dream.
To start off, Judy grew up with her parents and hundreds

of brothers and sisters in a small town called Bunnyburrow. Since little, Judy was bullied by a fox named Gideon Grey, and from that point on, he goal had became to make the world a better place. Judy was also the only one in town who had a big dream of moving away and becoming the first rabbit police. Though such dream should be encouraged, many people had actually suggested Hopps to stay and be a carrot farmer like most of her family. The reason that caused their worries is that being a police is dangerous, but Judy rejected, because she thinks that “anyone can be anything” and won’t let anything come in her way of achieving her dream (dev). Judy proves her ability as she graduated as a valedictorian of her class at the Zootopia Police Academy where she then left for Zootopia.
When Judy had finally arrived at Zootopia, the scene starts off with different animals walking in separate groups, this is the opposite of what Judy had thought, how everyone lives together happily, but she is not scared because she also mentions that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself (Zootopia). Her first day at the new department did not went as well, where though there is an emergency in finding the missing animals, Judy was only assigned as a meter maid. The reason that resulted in this is due to the Chief Bogo’s lack of confident in Judy. Chief Bogo thinks Judy as a typical rabbit, incapable to do things. The day after, Judy met a fox named Nick Wilde, where Nick tells her that everyone comes to Zootopia thinking they can be anything they want, but you can’t. You can only be what you are, sly fox and dumb bunny (Zootopia).
The highlight of the movie was when Nick and Judy work together to find the missing animals.

Though at first, they were trying to find Emmitt Otterton only, but they work had done solved the entire case of the missing animals. The case was handled by Judy, as Otterton’s wife came in desperately to know what had happened to his husband, while Chief Bogo was careless, Judy wanted to help, and that made Chief Bogo very unhappy. Chief Bogo then forced Judy that if Judy were to take the case, she would have 48 hours, but if she failed to find Mr. Otterton, she would quit the job. This seem normal at first, but it seemed that Chief Bogo was only trying to get rid of Judy, because she is small and weak. In the process, Judy got Nick to help her, and when there’s finally some lead in the case, they found the driver for the day Mr. Otterton went missing, and not long after, the driver went crazing and attacked, and then the Police Force arrived. Even though Judy had made a big progress without support from the Department, Chief Bogo is still unhappy and wanted Judy to return her badge. This is where Chief Bogo’s prejudice came in, when the force arrived and the driver escaped, Chief Bogo thinks that a weak rabbit police only makes things worse, and will not believe a fox though Nick was a key witness. Such prejudice was not reasonable as Nick point out, that Judy was forced to solve a case in two days that the Department wasn’t able to solve in two weeks. Chief Bogo was only trying to get Judy to quit, but Judy’s strong faith helped her achieve her final

success.