Zootopia is a children's movie that shows the society of animals living in a big city. It is a city with all different species of animals, with the surrounding suburbs containing different climates for the different species. The main character, Judy Hopps, follows her dreams of being the first rabbit police officer in the big city. Although she is optimistic and determined, she faces many challenges along the way, like how she had to move away from her home town that was filled with greenspace and agriculture, as well the difficulty she faced being the only rabbit to become a police officer. She faced a lot of prejudice from the larger animals, but she persevered and graduated from the police academy. Through this character, the city gives …show more content…
It is a city with all different species of animals, with the surrounding suburbs containing different climates for the different species. The main character, Judy Hopps, follows her dreams of being the first rabbit police officer in the big city. Although she is optimistic and determined, she faces many challenges along the way, like how she had to move away from her home town that was filled with greenspace and agriculture, as well the difficulty she faced being the only rabbit to become a police officer. She faced a lot of prejudice from the larger animals, but she persevered and graduated from the police academy. Through this character, the city gives social and geographical themes that align with the concepts in AP Human Geography specifically for Population and Migration, Cultural Patterns and Processes, Political Patterns and Processes and Urban Development and Land Use. Initially, Judy is given small tasks and she is not taken seriously. So, she volunteers for a high-profile assignment. Judy has to work with an uncooperative sly fox as they uncover and solve issues of their city, Zootopia, where Human Geography concepts are showcased and examined through the diverse settings and characters in the film which show the importance of these geographical concepts. Zootopia begins with migration, an important topic in Unit 2 about cultural patterns and processes. Where Judy was born, is considered agricultural land. Along with the surrounding suburbs, they all have their own culture patterns. Some of these cultures are how the animals may need to live in a specific area (e.g., polar bears live in the arctic, jaguars live in the jungle). Urbanization is shown in the city of Zootopia with the diverse suburbs like Tundratown, Sahara Square and The Rainforest District. Each area here is specific to the population that lives there. We can also see how different animals are treated,
Zootopia is a movie that was debuted in theaters on March 4, 2016. The movie “revolves around how a tiny rabbit, Judy Hopps, overcomes all the invisible social barriers of stereotypes and prejudices around her size and thus her perceived weakness, to become a top-notch police officer” (Tan). The story “follows anthropomorphic animals in a society where predators and prey have evolved and are living and working side-by-side with each other” (Thornbury). Later, as Judy moves to Zootopia and works as a police officer in Zootopia Police Department, she is tasked to find a missing otter, which leads her to investigate a “queer case of predators turning savages in Zootopia” (Tan). The animated film addresses
While for The Rabbit is Me the most concern is about how the socialist government is trying to push socialist beliefs to people. This movie was made after the Berlin wall and so the rules during that time were pretty strike. People who were traveling to west side were under watch, people who make comments about the government or socialist beliefs, could get arrested and end up in jail. For this movie the young generation wasn’t just the focus, but any person who was not really agree with socialism. Some of those people could even been good people, but they were just a little not too agree with all the
In Diane Ackerman’s book The Zookeeper’s Wife, the main characters, Jan and Antonina Żabiński, were zookeepers in Warsaw, Poland. Jan and Antonina Żabiński met at the College of Agriculture, where they bonded over their love for animals. A year later they are married and have a son named Ryszard which means lynx in Polish. After about eight years, the Żabiński’s dream of creating a natural habitat zoo has almost been accomplished. Antonina has a sixth sense for animals’ health, and uses it to cure sick animals until eventually they become healthy enough that they can live at the zoo. Although Jan and Antonina’s dreams seem to be coming true, Germany and the rest of Europe begin to have tumult. Antonina, trying to keep her son away from the
What do stereotypes add to a film? Are they for the best? Are they different than archetypes? Disney Pixar’s film Cars (John Lasseter, Joe Ranft, 2006) plays with both stereotypes and architypes. Though, this film has no humans it instills human ideals of gender, love, race, and even class into these characters. Lasseter and Ranft specifically make use of stereotyping and archetypes to bring these characters to life. Not only does the use of archetypes provide a personality within each of these characters but the stereotypes also connote negative traits as well.
There are many movies that people could label as their “favorite” although, “The Notebook” happens to be an all-time classic for people of all ages. The movie reflects back on a young couple, Allie and Noah’s love story. The movie is told by the older Noah, which he tells of how their love began and how it has changed over time. The movie is split up into times that have passed, when the couple was young, during the 1940’s, during the years when they had grown up and grown apart and during the present times while the couple has aged.
Animal farm showed me a lot about society. For example, the idea of communism. I don’t agree with communism because no matter what, people will still treat people differently. It’s impossible in this world for all humans to be equal. We can never get along. The United States Military, fights for our freedom every day. Most of society today is cruel. We think of someone being more important than someone else. Animal Farm shows us that this is true. Originally, the idea started out as everyone was equal but then it was changed to “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than
The movie that in my opinion sustains stereotypes is “Dangerous Minds”, which I’m pretty sure most of us have seen. White, novice teacher played by Michelle Pfeiffer meets an out-of-control class combined mostly of Latinos and African-Americans and tries different approaches to get through them. Karate, trip to an amusement park, dinner at a fancy restaurant are some of the prizes she offers to those who are willing to learn (most of them live in a poverty and can’t afford these treats). After some time the only reward they would obtain is the ability to read and think. This captures most of student’s attention, except for the Black males portrayed as class clowns or thugs. Students are portrayed as uneducated losers without future and goals.
Then, the tiger reacts dramatically and apologizes. This also relates to modern society because the word “cute” is basically translated to the N-word. Also, stereotypes concerning both predator and prey are addressed in Zootopia through dialogue. For example, the moose, Judy, and Nick all believe that every elephant has intangible memory, until they meet one who literally has no memory. Another examples included a man named Mr. Big ,who is actually small, and that predators are instinctively dangerous, even though, they are cops and pastries men. Unfortunately, these stereotypes are places in movie to describe the various stereotypes we hear everyday, such as: “Asians are smart”, “Mexicans are rapists”, and “Black people are criminals”. This movie is trying to show society that these stereotypes are not only harmful and offensive but extremely
Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson’s blockbuster film “Shrek”, depicts a story of how fairy tale creatures live amongst humans. This society of humans and fairy tale creatures is disrupted by Lord Farquaad, who places wanted fairy tale creature signs and buys these creatures in order to resettle them away from human society. The scene of fairy tale creatures being sold commences with images of dwarves chained in a row one by one, and then carried off by horse in prison carriages. There is a table set up for Farquaad’s knights to examine these creatures as they are presented by their human masters, one after the other is sold for a price determined by his men. All is going according to plan for the humans until a donkey does not want to abide by
Animal Farm is a story of the struggle for freedom and power. It takes place on a farm in England called Manor Farm. There are many different kinds of animals on the farm; these animals include horses, geese, dogs, cats, sheep, and pigs, which are the most intelligent of all the animals. The story starts out when old Major, an old, wise pig, calls a meeting in the barn. He tells the animals about a dream he has. The dream was about how the animals should rebel against the leader of the farm, Mr. Jones. He tells them that in the dream he remembered a song called Beasts of England. The song is about how the animals should rebel against the humans. He teaches the animals the song and tells them that he is going to die soon. A few weeks later old Major dies. The animals hold secret meetings about the rebellion a couple times a week. None of the animals really expected the rebellion to happen any time soon, but it happened before anyone expected. Mr. Jones started to neglect the animals, and one day the animals decided that they had enough. A cow broke into the building where the food was kept, and all of the animals decided to get some food. Mr. Jones and some of his helpers came out with whips as started lashing the animals, but were caught by surprise when the animals started to fight back. The men fled in panic, and before anyone realized it, the rebellion had begun.
Eric Goldman from IGN news addressed the brilliance of Zootopia in a well written review. The article discusses several aspects of the film, but primarily focuses on how “heady” Zootopia truly is. Goldman supports this claim with the following statement “…this Disney movie reflects our current landscape and how political figures can push alarmist buttons and turn people against each other in the process.” In addition, the review concludes with this declaration: “…and also in its themes, which are meaningful and fascinatingly topical. It’s one of those movies that truly is able to entertain audiences of all ages, in different ways, and another big accomplishment in the Disney oeuvre.” Goldman’s statements just reiterate the idea that Zootopia is a one of a kind motion picture for parents just as much as it is for
Zootopia (Byron Howard Rich Moore 2016) is an extremely successful film about a bunny named Judy. Within the film there are many direct and obvious themes, but a more implicit theme that I found while watching was, Our preconceived fears about certain groups as a society are directly reflected in Zootopia. I will be using the formal elements: camera angle, camera distance, and sound to argue my point. In the scene I will be analyzing, Judy just finished her press conference and claimed that all predators were savages. She gets off the podium and has an encounter with her friend, Nick, who is a predator. He is mad that Judy made this general statement about predators. Nick scares Judy and acts as though he has
(4) Conventional is easy. Whenever an idea is generally perceived by society as standard or traditional it becomes very easy to display to the public without the raise of an eyebrow. This is the basis on which stereotypes appear in films. You’d think in the 21st century where what once were radical notions like same sex marriage and recreational drug use are being legalized that something uncalled for like the constant portrayal of character stereotyping would come to an end. Alas, stereotypical characters continue to emerge in film and unfortunately have become a staple of Hollywood because they’re simple and straightforward, requiring little effort on the part of the writers or thinking from the audience.
In conclusion, in the novel ‘Animal Farm’, the dream of animals to have a better or a more perfect society, transforms into a totalitarian nightmare mainly due to the actions of the pigs. Yet in a way, the other animals are also responsible for that as they could not stand consistently for their dream. Thus ultimately, they become the victims of the totalitarianism of the pigs and loose their freedom and happiness.
Animal Farm is about a group of animals taking over the farm in the search for freedom and equality, but over time with wrong decisions made one animal takes control of all. Animal Farm is an example of a dystopia because it is based on five out of the nine traits dystopias have these traits are restrictions, fear, dehumanization, conformity, and control.