Zootopia And Broken American Dream

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The core concept expressed in Zootopia is “try”. Rarely, the theme song “Try Everything” are played twice: when Judy takes the train heading to Zootopia and in the end of the movie. The overall experience of Judy from start to finish expresses the spirit of “never stop trying”. “Anyone could be anything in Zootopia”, this concept tells us that everyone should be brave in the attempt to become who you want to be. Moreover, Zootopia insinuates a lot of phenomenons and social ideologies in our real society: stereotypes, prejudice, discrimination, gender, race, collective behavior, deviance and labeling theory and so on. Zootopia is not a random collage of jokes and incidents, it’s a unique, insightful adult's fairy tale relevant to all our lives. …show more content…

Thus, when children taste this “try” soul candy, they’ve been imperceptibly fed a new idea—a sense that they are not yet able to understand, summarize and describe—what does our society looks like? And how we think about it? Zootopia and Broken American Dream The first group of metaphors related to American Dream. In the beginning of Zootopia, Judy says that she want to a police officer but she has been laughed at as a foolish dreamer: “stupidest thing I ever heard!” ,“it may seem impossible to small minds!” and “I'm looking at you, Gideon Grey”. Fox ridicules her “what crazy world are you living in where you think a bunny could be a cop?” and even her parents try to discouraged her: “Judy, you ever wonder how your mom and me got to be so darn happy? Well, we gave up on our dreams, and we settled…that’s the beauty of complacency, Jude. If you don't try anything new, you'll never fail”… “What your father means, is that it’s gonna be difficult, impossible even for you to become a police officer. There's never been a bunny cop. Bunnies don't do that. Never.” So Judy’s only hope of achieving her dream is to go to Zootopia, where declared that anyone can be anything. However, when the police chief assigns her to

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